Dave Ryan's Christmas Wish - 2023 - #11 Aubri Phillips

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Episode Transcript

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Believe in the magic of the holidays. Dave Ryan's Christmas Wish. Christmas Wish
in the year number my gosh,like year number thirty one, and we've
been doing this for many, many, many years. Kyle is here.
You've been listening to Katie with yoube for a long time. Kyle,
am I right, Yes, sir, since you were a little kid.

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Yes, okay, thanks for beinghere. You're nominating somebody for Christmas Wish,
and we'll get to that in justa moment. But before we do,
how do you know this person thatyou were nominating for Christmas Wish?
She is my granddaughter's mother, yourgranddaughter's mother. Okay, gotcha. And
a lot of time, the waythis works is people go through life and

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they never know somebody who they wantto nominate for Christmas Wish. But this
year you said, oh, mygosh, definitely want to nominate her for
Christmas Wish. Yes, okay,So we'll get to that in a second.
We got some people to thank inadvance, and we got to thank
Treasure Island Resort and Casino. Theyhave helped us so much to extend Christmas
Wish, which was going to stoptoday or tomorrow. He will now go

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all the way through this Friday thanksto the generosity from Christmas Wish and also
holiday station stores and College Muscle Movers. Brandon is our representative, our partner,
our buddy from College muscle Movers.Good morning, Brandon, Good morning.
Thanks for doing this, Brandon.We appreciate that this. Brandon.

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We're all curious. What do youwant for Christmas? Do you want your
own moving truck? Do you wantyour own Dolly? What do you want
Brandon for Christmas? I wouldn't beagainst Dolly. Get your own Dolly.
Yeah, I'd be like that way, you don't have to borrow somebody else's
done. Yeah, what a lovelygift. Thank you so much, Brandon,
seriously, thanks for doing what youdo. We appreciate it. Brandon

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not only delivers the wish, butalso Brandon make sure that if they don't
answer the phone, then he goesto the doors. So Brandon, God
love you for thanks for doing this, and thanks for doing this, and
we'll talk to you a little bitlater or tomorrow. Oh okay, Brandon,
absolutely, thank you. Brandon fromCollege Muscle Movers. Let's make the
phone call to what is your friend'sfirst name? Aubrey, Aubrey and they

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are in Savage. Yes, let'scall Aubrey and Savage right now. We're
doing this live, so let's seeif she answers the phone. Your call
cannot be completed. Let's try itthis way. Okay. Oh no,

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that's not a good time. Okay, do you want to write write down
the number that you have for her, just in case I've got a wrong
number, because sometimes in the transcription, and this is all live, sometimes
we get the wrong number. Kyleis writing down a number for Christmas wish

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to call down to Savage. Okay, here we go. Let's try it
again. Okay, so the firstthere was a wrong number in there.
Okay, I'll take that. Herewe go, hopefully crossing my fingers.

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Get a hold of my news.That's a good sign. Hello, I'm
calling for Aubrey, Please, Aubrey. I hate to bother you this early
in the morning. It's Dave Ryanover at KDWB Radio. I am here
with Kyle. Say Hi, Kyle, Hi Abba Hi. Do you have

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any idea why a radio station andyour friend Kyle would be calling you this
morning? Yeah, have some ideas? Okay, well we do. Christmas
Wish here on KATWB and that iswhere we ask people who listen to the
show to tell us about somebody who'sstruggled a little bit this year, either
health wise, financially wise, familywise, something that happened. And so

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Kyle wrote in to tell us alittle bit about your story. If you've
got a minute, Aubrey, thisis Christmas Wish, and this is her
Christmas wish for you. And rightnow Kyle is going to read the letter
that she wrote to us. KyleKyle, good morning Abba Tano, and

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nice Christmas wish for you is letme start. It's okay. It's okay
because Kyle said a little while agoshe said I might get emotional. I
said, well, you would notbe the first to get emotional on Christmas
Wish. It's totally fine. I'mjust going to read what I wrote and
go from there. Sure, goahead, of course. Good morning Abba
Tano, and nice Christmas wish isfor you. My granddaughter's mother and your

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fiance, Zach. The two ofyou are raising my granddaughter Nyla and your
daughter Lyra, along with your twoyounger sisters. I've known you since you
were sixteen yearsyears old. I've watchedyou grow and become a strong young woman
as well as a wonderful mother.You were a single mom at eighteen and
have made it happen ever since sincethen. You have met Zach when Nyla
was ten months old. I'm happythat you found each other and making it

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happen for your little family. Abry, you have a heart of gold.
You're hardworking, loving, and alwayshelping people at trying times, even when
you are in trying times yourself.I have never heard you say no to
anyone that asks for help. Zachhas been an amazing partner for you and
your family. He is hardworking,kind, and also willing to do what
he can to keep things afloat.Recently, Abba, you and Zach made

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an addition to your family with babyZaiah. Zaiah was born on October fifth,
and sadly, Ziah suddenly passed awayin the morning of November twenty fifth,
at just fifty one days into herbirth. This is a heartbreaking loss
for the both of you, asI never imagined you would experience such a
thing just two days after Thanksgiving andright before Christmas. I couldn't imagine having

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to put aside the grief as wellas put on a smile and keep moving
to prepare for Christmas for the youngerkids and your sisters, at the same
time planning a funeral and having tolay your baby girl to rest, not
to mention to juggle all these expenses. Aubrey and Zach have had financial issues
as they recently moved into their homethat accommodates their new little family. Zach
has had to return back to workjust after week of losing Zia to make

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sure all the bills are paid andstill trying to provide for the family as
making as well as pay and payfor funeral and making Christmas happen for everyone.
Aubrey, he has been your rockthrough all this, and I'm so
happy he's there to go through thatwith you. While Aubrey, you are
trying to keep a normal schedule withgetting all the girls to where they need
to be, putting on a smile, and still preparing yourself to go back
to work, I'm not sure whenyou too will have time to properly grieve

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the loss of your daughter, asyou all had to jump right back into
everyday life so quickly. Our wishis to hope you relieve some Our hope
is to relieve some stress on youfor this Christmas as your eyes are only
twenty three years old and having todo all this at such a young age.
Aubrey, I'm so sorry to hearabout Zia. And she was only
Ziah and Saiah was only fifty onedays old. My gosh, I can't

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even imagine. And now you've,while grieving the loss of your little baby,
you need to make Christmas Christmas foryour other kids. That's got to
be tough, right, the hardestthing I've ever gone through. We can't

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even imagine. I mean, nearlyall of us have babies, and if
they have like a little you know, a little problem or whatever, they
usually do just fine. And weraise them until they're adults and they go
off and do their own thing.And it makes me so sad that that
is something that you won't get toexperience with her, and that she won't
get to experience. But you haveto. You have to go through.

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You have to keep you have tokeep doing it. How are the other
kids doing? All this? Isstarting to act up a little bit.
I think she's really missing her sister. Yeah, my second oldest. She's
still just happy and chippers. Shedoesn't really understand, like what happened.

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She's only one, so she doesn'tsure of course, no, she you
know, knows that one day herbaby wasn't there. And on top of
all this, I mean, whilethere's grieving, Hey, let's face it,
you're a young couple, you're ayoung family, and with a lot
of young people, you don't reallyhave a lot of extra money and finances
have been kind of a struggle forthe last few months or so. Yeah,

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okay, Well there is something wecan do to help, and that
is financially and make things a littlebit easier. So that's why we do
Christmas wish. Let's start off withsome things for the family and the things,
some things for the kids. Olivia, tell me about Olivia. How
old is Olivia? Olivia? Okay? And Olivia is to Who is Olivia

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to you? That is your Yeah, she's my younger sister. Okay,
gotcha? And does she live therewith you? Partially? She goes back
and forth between my house and mymom's for school. Okay, gotcha.
Well we're gonna help out Olivia,because what a thirteen year olds want?
They want to shut off the world. We got her Apple AirPods, for
that, we got a fifty dollarsfive below gift card and Alta Beauty hair

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care set. Does she love topaint? We heard she loves to paint.
Yeah, she does. We gother paint and paint brushes and five
canvases for who is Isabella that isalso your sister? She is? Okay?
For her again? We got herHeyday wireless headphones, journal, some

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clothes, some fuzzy socks and slippers, just so she'll have something from you.
Lea, is it Lira or Lyra? Lyra? Lyra is your year
and a half old baby. Wegot her some things to everything from sippy
cups to some toys, to aradio flyer tricycle, some activity sets,
things like that. Tell me aboutNyla Nilo. She's the sassiest four year

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old you'll ever meet. I thinkyou're talking to a teenager when you talk
to her. Oh is that right? She's four? Okay, Well,
we want to get her. Wewant to get her something too. We
got her a kid's bike, Wegot her a bracelet making kid, a
Crayola Imagination art set. And theseare all just things so the kids will
have things. But that doesn't solveyour financial problems. That doesn't help your

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financial problems. It helps a littlebit, add some cheer in that type
of thing. But we want tohelp for you and Zach. Here's where
the big stuff comes in, andlet's get started with a five hundred dollars
Cub Foods gift card. Do youthink that will help out around the house.
Five hundred dollars some Cub Foods.Yeah, I haven't gone grocery shopping
yet, so that definitely helped.We got a two hundred dollars Target gift

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card, a two hundred dollars HolidayStation Stores gas card so you won't have
to worry about gas for a coupleof months. We've got if you can
use it. We got a sixmonth YMCA membership pass with the family,
gets out of the house, godown and do something fun and like active
for free. We got a fivepack of drive through tickets to Miracle at
b Big Rock for the family.We heard somebody needs a mattress. Is

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there a need for a mattress inthe family. Yeah, Me and Jack
had to get rid of our mattressbecause it was where we found babies.
Yah. Oh my gosh, Okay, totally understandable. You've got a brand
new mattress, King size mattress.We got a living room sofa. It

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is at seats three. So didyou need a new living room sofa?
Yeah? Okay, we got Wegot some more stuff here. We got
everything from some lamps to some housewaresto bath and kitchen towels. Is Zach
a Denver Broncos fan? Yeah?Okay, because we got him at Denver

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Broncos Jersey. This got the biggestreaction out of you so far was the
Denver Broncos jersey. So that mustmean a lot. And then Zach needs
new work boots. Is that right? Okay? Well, this is all
part of your Christmas wish from Katiew b and from your friend Kyle.
And also here what's your son's name? Again? Tano wants to add something

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to say, Hi, Tano,Hi? How old are you? Tano
nine? What did you want tosay to Aubrey this morning? Aubrey and
Zach, we love you and youare doing an amazing job with maintaining and
trying to get through all of this. Thank you. No, it does

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happen. I'm so glad we foundyou. You know, there's just certain
things that are just we can't evenwrap our minds around and losing a baby
anytime, and around Christmas is andwhen you've got other kids you had to
take care of and make happy,and also make yourself happy and take care
of yourself and take care of Zachtoo. And I hope this Christmas Wish

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helps you out a little bit,hope a lot. Thank you guys,
you're so welcome. I'm so sorryfor your loss. And Kyle, I'll
let you say goodbye now bye,Abba, have a great day at your
first day back to work. Ilove you, Thank you, You're welcome.
And that is Christmas Wish, andthat's how it works. We've got

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three more of these to do Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Thanks to Treasure
Island Resort and Casino. Thanks toCollege Muscle Movers, thanks to Holiday Station
Stores. Thanks to Youth Link andChoice Bank for helping us out, but
especially thanks to you for supporting ChristmasWish over the years. We appreciate it.
We could not do it without yourgenerosity. And if you've sin in

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a Christmas wish, we have lookedat every single one. We wish we
could, we wish we could grantthem all.