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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for another Dave Ryan Show Christmas Wish, and.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Here we are live with Christmas Wish on Tuesday at
eight o nine. In case you're wondering some of the ought,
to be honest with you, sometimes we replay these because
not everybody gets to listen when we're doing a wish live,
So sometimes we replay them and you can watch the
wish and actually see our wisher and everything happen on
YouTube on the Dave Ryan Show channel, So go check
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that out. I got to do a couple of We've
got a pre game a little bit here, prap up
for this because we've got to make sure everything's set
to go. First of all, from College Muscle Movers, Brandon,
are you in position?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I am?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Indeed, there he is, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm picturing you in a big, giant moving truck with
a picture of you carrying a couch on the side.
Am I close to this at all?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
All?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Right, sometime.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Brandon and College Muscle Movers, thank you for helping out.
If you're moving, whether it's soon or next year or anytime,
remember the moving company that helps out with Christmas Wish
and really loves to give back to the community College
muscle movers, Brandon, thanks for all you do and stand
by in case we need you.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay, okay, thank you, my friend. Please hold here in
the studio. Is Katie.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Good morning, Katie, Good morning, Katie's been listening to Katie
WB for a very long time, my entire life. And
you want to give a shout out to before we
get started, because you have a lot of your people
are listening this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I got to say how to my girls. Good morning,
Fiona and Addison and Aurora.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Have a good day.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Earle is love you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay, so we're going to make the phone call to
your friend who is getting the Christmas wish this morning?
Who is your friend? And tell me just a little
bit without reading the whole letter, tell me a little
bit about mel It's mouth.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
She is my coworker.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I've known her for about two and a half years,
and she is the type of person who takes care
of everybody else everybody, I mean her entire family or sister.
She's always looking out for us everybody and no one
you know, doesn't have anyone to look out for her.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And a lot of people are like that. They're like
they put themselves last all the time, and then sometimes
it's like, hey, you need a little something, a little assistance,
a little help, a little support, And so that's where
you nominated her for Christmas wish. All right, we're gonna
call her right now. She probably has no idea that
we're calling. No, she does, an emotional young lady.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So we're gonna call mel right now. And by the way,
Brandon is outside of her house to deliver this wish
and also kind of be our backup in case she
doesn't answer, because we never know what's going to happen
on Christmas wish. But we're gonna make that phone call
right now.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Any of the long have you worked with me? About
two and a half years?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Nice, and you get do you have to work closely
with her?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
We are about as far as we are right, yes,
super close.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You know people have their work like best friends their
work wives.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I work.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I spend probably more time with her than anyone. So
it's hard keeping the cigarette. I feel that about Dave. Wait,
he's your work mom?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Hi is this mail?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yes, Hi Mail, It's Dave Ryan from k d w
B Radio.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
How are you, Good morning, Ryan, How.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Are you would you have any idea at all, Mail
why we might be calling you on the radio this morning.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, well, I think we have some good news for you.
First of all, say hi to your friend Katie, who
is standing here, sitting here in the KATBB studio.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Good morning, Matt, Katie. When I saw that, I'm like
a little suspicions. Only one person I know that knows
Dave Ryan.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We're pretty we met at the mall four months ago.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Let's hurt thank you, good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Now what we do in Merry Christmas? We do this
every year on Katie. Would you be and maybe you're familiar.
Some people are, some people aren't. His Christmas wish and
what Katie has done is written in a nomination for
you to me help out with your Christmas a little
bit this year. So let's get started, Katie, if you will,
Katie's going to read the letter that she wrote to
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us about you.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I am nominating my coworker mel for Christmas Wish. Mela
is one of the most caring, patient, for giving, and
kind hearted people I've ever met. She fiercely loves her
family and friends and works incredibly hard to make sure
they are all taken care of. When Mala was a teenager,
her sister suffered from a brain aneurysm, resulting in a
permanent traumatic brain injury. Mel has helped her with day
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to day life ever since. When she married Jeff, she
took on his three children who have lost their mother,
as her own. She and Jeff have one child together
named Kylie. Kylie and Kylie and her son Emmet live
with Jeff and Mouth Altogether at Mel and Jeff have
nine grandkids. Five years ago, Jeff was in a motorcycle
accident that he almost did not survive. The accident left
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him with a traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, and the
inability to work. This left Mel and Kylie as the
only source of income for the household. In early October,
Kylie fell out of a golf cart. She was severely
injured and had to be rushed to the hospital. She
broke her ankle, nose and suffered a head injury. This
has left her unable to work for the foreseeable future.
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Mel is now the only source of income for the
household and is unable to work her full hours due
to bringing Emmett two and from school and Kylie to
and from all of her physical therapy and doctor's appointments.
The financial strain is causing her stress that she does
not need right now. However, you would never know it.
With all this going on, she still shows up every
day with a positive attitude and goes out of her
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way to help others. She never complains and always finds
good in everyone and everything. I truly don't know anyone
who deserves this more. I am beyond grateful that Keith W.
B Chose to help this amazing lady and her family.
I just want her to have the amazing Christmas she deserves.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Wow, I love you. I love you too.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So many things, so many things.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I mean, first of all, your your sister that you
have taken care of with her aneurysm, and she still
she still lives with you.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
No, she actually is able to live on her own.
So she's you know, she she's survived pretty well. She's
has issues, but don't we.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
All Okay, So then let's move on to Jeff was
in a motorcycle accident and he is unable to work.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah. Yeah, he actually had two back surgeries five years apart.
So that loved them having to go pretty much forced
for retires.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So yeah, and then Kylie fell out as a golf
cart and.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
So it's not as it's not as fun as it's
no sounds fun.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
At all, and she's not able to work for the
foreseeable future. So you are the source of income for
how many people that are you, like, are living.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Your home right now?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Four of us?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, four of you, but you've got nine grandkids I have. Okay, Well,
we wanted to help make Christmas a little bit brighter
for you and your family. And I will tell you
just a tip of the hat to you for being
one of those wonderful people that puts yourself after everybody else.
And that's one of the first things that Katie said
is that you just it's your nature to think about
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how everybody else is doing.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We want to help you have a little bit brighter
and easier of a Christmas with Christmas Wish. So Christmas
Wish is basically going to gift you and your family
with stuff things for Christmas. Let's talk about we're gonna
go through like first of all, for the family. We're
just going to dive right in for your family. We
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got a two hundred dollar cub Foods gift card that
is yours and I love this part. Nine grandkids for
each one of them from Grandma Mel. Each one is
going to get a one hundred dollars Target gift card
for Christmas. For each of the grandkids, a one hundred
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dollars gift card from Target. While you're driving around appointments, work, whatever.
We got a one hundred and one dollar gas card
from Holiday Station Stores. That's for you. And then Broadway
Pizza chipped in one hundred dollars gift card. Everybody who
gets a wish this year gets a gift card from
Broadway Pizza. So whenever you get a chance, one hundred
dollars over a Broadway Pizza. Let's talk about Jeff. We've
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got some really cool thing. He's into baseball, Is that true?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah? He likes babs of baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
We got. We got even more. We got even more.
Check this out.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
We got the Tops twenty twenty four Stadium Club Baseball
Factory sealed Value you box. Don't let him open it
or it's going to lose its value, but that's for him.
And then the twenty twenty four Tops Heritage Baseball Retail
Value box with seventy two cards and then a sports
card binder collectible trading card album that holds nine hundred cards.
They've been ordered there on the way to the house.
Check the mailbox later today.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Okay, he'll be sitting there for four hours, which is
fine because his brain, his brain enjoys that.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
We've got some other things for him too, with like
a three hundred dollars We got a three hundred dollars
Home Depot gift card because a lot of people love.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
To go down to Home Depot and buy stuff. Yeah,
dropping down the asand drill.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Kylie is the one that fell out of a golf
card and we're not making light of that at all.
But we've got heard some things too. We got her
some clothing and some pj's and super comfy throw blanket,
one hundred dollars Uber Eats gift card for Kylie and
one hundred dollars Target gift card for Kylie too.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, you guys, And then.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Is Emmitt emmittt lives with you? Is that right? And
he's eight?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
He's eight.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Okay. I wanted to get him a drum set. Nobody
would let me do that.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate. I appreciate that thing.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
They wouldn't let me do it, but we got him.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
A bunch of woul drive me over the edge, I know.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We got a fifty dollars v Bucks gift card, a
Roebucks gift card, Lego Motorsports, sets, hot wheels, eight pack,
just some cool stuff for Emmett.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And then we don't want to do something. We want
to do something for you as well.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So we've got you some clothing and some shoes and
one hundred dollars Target gift card. You're an Usher fan,
is this true?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yes, we got for.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You an Usher Past Present Future tour hoodie. It's going
to be ordered and shipped to your home. So that
we've got that for you.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Oh Jesus, that's a good.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And then we've got also, this is really cool. It
is a one hundred dollars gift card to Woodhouse Spa.
So they got three locations and whenever you get a chance,
you can go to Woodhouse Spaw and just have a spa.
DA thanks to Woodhouse Spa for a generous donation. If
you're looking for a holiday gift idea, check out Woodhouse Spas.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I think that's right, Woodhouse. Yes, Woodhouse spas dot com.
It's misspelled on my little So that's okay. So we
got all these things for you and the family just
to make make things a little bit easier because you
have been through a lot.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You're so welcome. How's Jeff doing this morning? Okay?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Good, okay, that's good. Well, we're so happy we could
grant Katie's Christmas wish for you mail with Treasure Island
Resort and Casino. They're a big help. Got to give
them a shout out. Holiday station stores. And if you're
listening to this right now, if you're listening now and
you're going, wow, I would love to help out a
family too. You can make a donation on katiewb dot
com slash wish and today until ten o'clock, every donation
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will be matched dollar for dollar from Treasure Island. Have
the best possible Christmas, and I hope that God is
going to stop dealing you like and things will get
better from here.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
That would be great, It really would all right.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Thank you mail, Okay, I'll see you out.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Thank you, mil.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Love you, love you, Merry Christmas. I want to do
some quick thank yous again. Treasure Island and Youth Link.
The part of what you donate goes to youth Link
to help homeless youth. Uh and that makes it all
tax deductible. People don't donate because it's tax deductible, but
if you want to know, it is tax deductible. Choice
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Bank is helping us out with all the financing and
making sure that everything is kept safe. College muscle Movers,
thank you so much for that one, for all the
assistants to Brandon and everybody there, and they are pulling
up the Basically, they're providing fifteen free muscle boxes and
an on time guarantee with every move so you don't
have to wait fourteen days for your stuff to get there.
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They will do an on time guarantee. So that is
Christmas wish and we appreciate you listening. Thank you Katie.
Thanks it's one on one point three k d WB