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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the John Jay and Rich Christmas Wish. What oh
four to seven kiss f I met John Jay and Rich.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is Christmas Wish, first one of twenty twenty five. Jody,
good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Tell us a little bit about the people that we're
going to grant this wish for.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
They are wonderful people. It's Josh and Mandy and they
have four kids. Mandy actually just gave birth on December
first with a newborn baby, and she was six pounds
two ounces. They've got a two year old boy, Nate.
They have Charlotte and Violet, violets eight and Charlotte's eleven.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But what are they going through? So you don't, I mean,
don't read the letter. Just tell us like just I mean,
you read the letter to them, But I just wanted
to talk to you about them.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
They are so Josh was on family medical leave for
about six or seven months, so his pay was cut drastically.
Mandy had lost her job for a little bit and
then started working weekends only sometimes Thursdays or Fridays.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
How do you know them?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I've known them a long time. My kids grew up
with their family. I've known them for a long time,
Like literally, my son was best friends with Mandy's brother Cody.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So we're gonna call Mandy. Where's she right now?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
She's had her mom's she went to her moms because
of the scyrian that she had.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
She's still recovering.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
She's still in December for only a couple of days ago. Yeah,
and she's got the four kids, so.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, and she has no idea when you call her. Okay,
all right, we're gonna get her. We're gonna call her
right now.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Okay, Hi, if you record your name and reason for calling,
I'll see if this person is available.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's John Jay and Rich from iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Thanks John Jay, please stay on the line.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Hello Mandy. Yes, Hey, it's John Jay and Rich. Can
we put you on the radio with us for just
a minute please? Oh yeah, sure? Hey you know Jody.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, she wrote us a letter about you, okay, and
we asked her to come in.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The studio and read the letter to you live on
the air.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Do you have a second, Yeah, okay, Jody, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Dare John Jay and Rich. I'm nominating Josh and Mandy.
They've been having some very difficult times with no light
at the end of the tunnel. Josh had to take
Family Medical Leave ACT time off for months due to
medical issues, and Mandy was working weekends sometimes Thursdays and
Fridays as a beer cart girl up until the day
she gave birth. They fell behind on all their bills
(02:51):
and payments. They have a beautiful family, four kids ages
two to eleven, with their latest baby joining their family
on December first. Their months on their rent electric and
must get sometimes food from food banks weekly. Josh is
back to work but trying to get caught up from
being on leave and is over and it's very overwhelming
for them. They also have major problems with both of
(03:13):
their vehicles. They're trying to stay afloat and are worried
they're never going to dig themselves out of this hole
they are in. Not to mention, Christmas will be so
very hard on them. I'm praying for them. It would
be so grateful if you could grant this very much
needed Christmas wish.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, we'd like to grant you a Christmas wish.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Thank you, Joy, You're welcome, I love you girls.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Thank our friends at United Food Bank are going to
make sure you have all you need for hot a meal,
so You're gonna get turkey, rolls, stuffing, canned goods, all
the fixes for the whole family. You're also to get
a family sized farm box of vegetables grown in an
Agritopia farm in Gilbert, courtesy the Arizona Urban Agricultural Foundation.
(04:20):
Our friends at Kroger they've donated for you a two
hundred and fifty dollars Fries gift card.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Uh huh good.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And for you and Josh one hundred dollars gift card
just supercuts because your hairs needs your hair needs some work.
We're also going to give you a bunch of Pampers, Huggies,
white bourbon cloth, security blankets, teethirsts, everything.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
For the new baby.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Oh so cool, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
We got some stuff for Charlotte. We got our a
seven piece comforter set that's so cool, pony beads, bracelet kit,
Betty Boop dance collection, figuring mannequin artist, wooden doll set, roadblocks,
gift card, some self care stuff like a face mask,
bath bomb, lip oils, gloss, headband, eye roller, body spray.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Wow, she's gonna be so excited.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
We got her a six color temporary hair color wax
Crayola Artists Series color book and a fifty dollars gift
card to DSW.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Was cool for Violet.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
A five piece purple microfiber bedding, Hello Kitty, Squish Mollow Mollow,
Hello Kitty lip Bombs, nail art, polished kit Roadblocks gift card,
one hundred and forty Krayola inspiration art case, a girl's
diary with lock and stationary set of Friendship bracelet set
and fifty bucks at DSW.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
So cool.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
She's gonna be excited, you see, Jody. Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
For Nate, we got him a Max Action Construction toy set,
a pillowfort soft blanket, Miss Rachel, Big Feelings, Wooden puzzles,
pop It Sensory toy, Monster jam Grave Digger Plush toy,
a fifty nine piece Stem Construction Kids tool set, a
Sonic Hedgehot Ordering color set, a good Night Moon numbers
(06:20):
book and fifty bucks to DSW.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
So cool. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You got it all right, So Merry Christmas to you guys.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You guys have some car issues too.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Right, yeah, big time?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Like what you got some? Do you need tires? Oh gosh,
there's check ins and life on and both vehicles and
the one vehicle.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Is shutting off every time I'm driving it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, all right, so let me walk you through a
couple things to do for your car. Oh, we have
this amazing friend. His name's Tony Williams.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He owns Big O' tires.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He has offered to give you two sets of new
tires for both your cars.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Does that help, Jody?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Also, car Life out of Repairs? Car Life out of Repair.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Scott Still has graciously donate one thousand dollars to diagnose
and fix the issues with your twenty fourteen Chevy Tahoe.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Awesome, thank you, that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The Love Up Foundation is going to cover one month
of your electric bill.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
How much is that electric?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Jeez, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The electric just shut off this morning.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Actually, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, all right, we'll get that back on for you.
How much is your rent? Just over two thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, Love Up will pay one month's rent for you
to get started.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So Merry Christmas, Thank you, Mary, Christmas, Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
If you open your door, we have a little Christmas elf.
Her name is Jess. Jess is outside right now. With
everything we just talked about, Oh great, if you open
those door. Jesse, are you there outside the house?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We've got Hi everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Miranda's with us, Reunited Food Bank, and we've got Lashonda
from Arizona Urban Agriculture Foundation.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Ry Christmas, Happy always.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh, we're so happy to do this for you and
your family. We have all of the goodies for you
as far.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We've got some coming via Amazon.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
The Amazon elves are already working hard this year. Oh
my gosh.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Of course, we're so happy to.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Do this for you, Mandy. Mandy.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
One more thing we haven't This is unexpected, but have
you ever heard of a learner in Row.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The law firm. That's the way to go. Yeah. Uh,
if you ever get to a car accident. No, Kevin Row.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Kevin Row is actually here in the studio and he
was He's just walked into our studio.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
He was listening. What's up, Kevin? Hi?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
John Jay him, Mandy. I wanted to say happy holidays
and congratulations.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So on behalf of learning Row gives back.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I would like to help you and your family out
and give you one thousand dollars in Target gift cards.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's awesome, Thank you, I know.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
There's a lot of needs with baby and new baby,
and obviously a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Of your kids.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You can get gifts there as well too, so hopefully
this will help you out during this I.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Thank you, Mandy.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Jody said you were a If I heard this correctly,
you're nine months pregidant and a beer card girl.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, I mean that should have been awesome. I think
holy smokes. Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, Learner Row would like to invite you to the
next Learner Row golf cart golf turn.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Twenty four. Put you to work. I would love to
Merry Christmas Mandy from all less.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Thank you so much. Note I love you too.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
M hm hm
It's the John Jay and Rich Christmas Wish. What oh
four to seven kiss f I met John Jay and Rich.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is Christmas Wish, first one of twenty twenty five. Jody,
good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Tell us a little bit about the people that we're
going to grant this wish for.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
They are wonderful people. It's Josh and Mandy and they
have four kids. Mandy actually just gave birth on December
first with a newborn baby, and she was six pounds
two ounces. They've got a two year old boy, Nate.
They have Charlotte and Violet, violets eight and Charlotte's eleven.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But what are they going through? So you don't, I mean,
don't read the letter. Just tell us like just I mean,
you read the letter to them, But I just wanted
to talk to you about them.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
They are so Josh was on family medical leave for
about six or seven months, so his pay was cut drastically.
Mandy had lost her job for a little bit and
then started working weekends only sometimes Thursdays or Fridays.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
How do you know them?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I've known them a long time. My kids grew up
with their family. I've known them for a long time,
Like literally, my son was best friends with Mandy's brother Cody.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So we're gonna call Mandy. Where's she right now?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
She's had her mom's she went to her moms because
of the scyrian that she had.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
She's still recovering.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
She's still in December for only a couple of days ago. Yeah,
and she's got the four kids, so.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, and she has no idea when you call her. Okay,
all right, we're gonna get her. We're gonna call her
right now.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Okay, Hi, if you record your name and reason for calling,
I'll see if this person is available.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's John Jay and Rich from iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Thanks John Jay, please stay on the line.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Hello Mandy. Yes, Hey, it's John Jay and Rich. Can
we put you on the radio with us for just
a minute please? Oh yeah, sure? Hey you know Jody.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, she wrote us a letter about you, okay, and
we asked her to come in.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The studio and read the letter to you live on
the air.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Do you have a second, Yeah, okay, Jody, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Dare John Jay and Rich. I'm nominating Josh and Mandy.
They've been having some very difficult times with no light
at the end of the tunnel. Josh had to take
Family Medical Leave ACT time off for months due to
medical issues, and Mandy was working weekends sometimes Thursdays and
Fridays as a beer cart girl up until the day
she gave birth. They fell behind on all their bills
(02:51):
and payments. They have a beautiful family, four kids ages
two to eleven, with their latest baby joining their family
on December first. Their months on their rent electric and
must get sometimes food from food banks weekly. Josh is
back to work but trying to get caught up from
being on leave and is over and it's very overwhelming
for them. They also have major problems with both of
(03:13):
their vehicles. They're trying to stay afloat and are worried
they're never going to dig themselves out of this hole
they are in. Not to mention, Christmas will be so
very hard on them. I'm praying for them. It would
be so grateful if you could grant this very much
needed Christmas wish.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, we'd like to grant you a Christmas wish.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Thank you, Joy, You're welcome, I love you girls.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Thank our friends at United Food Bank are going to
make sure you have all you need for hot a meal,
so You're gonna get turkey, rolls, stuffing, canned goods, all
the fixes for the whole family. You're also to get
a family sized farm box of vegetables grown in an
Agritopia farm in Gilbert, courtesy the Arizona Urban Agricultural Foundation.
(04:20):
Our friends at Kroger they've donated for you a two
hundred and fifty dollars Fries gift card.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Uh huh good.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And for you and Josh one hundred dollars gift card
just supercuts because your hairs needs your hair needs some work.
We're also going to give you a bunch of Pampers, Huggies,
white bourbon cloth, security blankets, teethirsts, everything.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
For the new baby.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Oh so cool, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
We got some stuff for Charlotte. We got our a
seven piece comforter set that's so cool, pony beads, bracelet kit,
Betty Boop dance collection, figuring mannequin artist, wooden doll set, roadblocks,
gift card, some self care stuff like a face mask,
bath bomb, lip oils, gloss, headband, eye roller, body spray.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Wow, she's gonna be so excited.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
We got her a six color temporary hair color wax
Crayola Artists Series color book and a fifty dollars gift
card to DSW.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Was cool for Violet.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
A five piece purple microfiber bedding, Hello Kitty, Squish Mollow Mollow,
Hello Kitty lip Bombs, nail art, polished kit Roadblocks gift card,
one hundred and forty Krayola inspiration art case, a girl's
diary with lock and stationary set of Friendship bracelet set
and fifty bucks at DSW.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
So cool.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
She's gonna be excited, you see, Jody. Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
For Nate, we got him a Max Action Construction toy set,
a pillowfort soft blanket, Miss Rachel, Big Feelings, Wooden puzzles,
pop It Sensory toy, Monster jam Grave Digger Plush toy,
a fifty nine piece Stem Construction Kids tool set, a
Sonic Hedgehot Ordering color set, a good Night Moon numbers
(06:20):
book and fifty bucks to DSW.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
So cool. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You got it all right, So Merry Christmas to you guys.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You guys have some car issues too.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Right, yeah, big time?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Like what you got some? Do you need tires? Oh gosh,
there's check ins and life on and both vehicles and
the one vehicle.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Is shutting off every time I'm driving it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, all right, so let me walk you through a
couple things to do for your car. Oh, we have
this amazing friend. His name's Tony Williams.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He owns Big O' tires.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He has offered to give you two sets of new
tires for both your cars.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Does that help, Jody?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Also, car Life out of Repairs? Car Life out of Repair.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Scott Still has graciously donate one thousand dollars to diagnose
and fix the issues with your twenty fourteen Chevy Tahoe.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Awesome, thank you, that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The Love Up Foundation is going to cover one month
of your electric bill.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
How much is that electric?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Jeez, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The electric just shut off this morning.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Actually, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, all right, we'll get that back on for you.
How much is your rent? Just over two thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, Love Up will pay one month's rent for you
to get started.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So Merry Christmas, Thank you, Mary, Christmas, Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
If you open your door, we have a little Christmas elf.
Her name is Jess. Jess is outside right now. With
everything we just talked about, Oh great, if you open
those door. Jesse, are you there outside the house?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We've got Hi everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Miranda's with us, Reunited Food Bank, and we've got Lashonda
from Arizona Urban Agriculture Foundation.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Ry Christmas, Happy always.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh, we're so happy to do this for you and
your family. We have all of the goodies for you
as far.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We've got some coming via Amazon.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
The Amazon elves are already working hard this year. Oh
my gosh.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Of course, we're so happy to.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Do this for you, Mandy. Mandy.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
One more thing we haven't This is unexpected, but have
you ever heard of a learner in Row.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The law firm. That's the way to go. Yeah. Uh,
if you ever get to a car accident. No, Kevin Row.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Kevin Row is actually here in the studio and he
was He's just walked into our studio.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
He was listening. What's up, Kevin? Hi?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
John Jay him, Mandy. I wanted to say happy holidays
and congratulations.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So on behalf of learning Row gives back.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I would like to help you and your family out
and give you one thousand dollars in Target gift cards.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's awesome, Thank you, I know.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
There's a lot of needs with baby and new baby,
and obviously a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Of your kids.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You can get gifts there as well too, so hopefully
this will help you out during this I.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Thank you, Mandy.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Jody said you were a If I heard this correctly,
you're nine months pregidant and a beer card girl.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, I mean that should have been awesome. I think
holy smokes. Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, Learner Row would like to invite you to the
next Learner Row golf cart golf turn.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Twenty four. Put you to work. I would love to
Merry Christmas Mandy from all less.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Thank you so much. Note I love you too.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
M hm hm
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