September 11, 2025 • 33 mins
We're rounding out a day of donating to Children's with Dave doing some acrobatic acts!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Her mission today for Children's Minnesota. And now I'm going
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to guilt you into donating, because I'll do whatever desperate
measures I get to take. We are desperately behind on
our donations, and we thought by now that we'd be
like forty to fifty thousand dollars. We are at about
twelve or fourteen thousand dollars right now. Not really sure
what the reason is, but maybe I've just not done
a good enough job of guilting you into it. But
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we need to get to twenty five thousand to get
a match from Prime Therapeutics that'll jump us up immediately
to fifty thousand dollars and we'll be happy with that.
But to help inspire you to donate to these great
kids and their family and the great work that they
do here at Children's. We're having conversations with different people.
Matter of fact, Jody is listening to the show. Jody
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called in and has her own story to share about
her experience with Children's Minnesota. Hi, Jody, Hello, tell me
a little bit about what your experience has been.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So, my wife and I had a rough pregnant see
in twenty eleven, we were told to expect kind of
the worst case possible outcome that we know our son
probably wasn't going to make it. Sorry, I get emotional.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's okay, take your time.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And we got put on badrast at like fourteen weeks,
and he came at twenty eight weeks and he was
less than a pound. He weighed fourteen ounces, and he
spent six months, had children in the nique, and he's
going to be fourteen Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You know what, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
When I heard you get emotional, I wasn't sure what
the outcome of this story was going to be. I
want you to stop and think for a second. Fourteen ounces.
That's the size, that's palm of your hand, size.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Smaller, yep, yep. Less than a pound.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Amazing, amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
He spent the first six months of his life here.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And then he came home and he was on oxygen
until he was probably about two. Because of his high
risk status, he couldn't go, you know, into daycare, so
we had to kind of modify all of our you know,
our life to be able to stay home with him
and have family help and just all the therapies and
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all the doctors.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But with all the therapies and all the doctors and
now here he is fourteen years old because principally mainly
because of all the work and the people here at
Children's Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yep, absolutely just amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Jody, that's priceless. I mean, obviously that's priceless. And for
those of us and you are you were like me,
You're like anybody the other parent. You never thought that
it would turn out like this, right, You never thought
that you would experience all these years of you know,
wondering and sleepless nights. You never thought that would happen, right, right,
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And most.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
People never most people never do.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So if you are one of those people that have
never had to experience that, please feel how blessed you
are and maybe recognize that with a donation to Children's Jody,
God bless you and your kid and your wife.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And thanks for being on KATWB. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Thanks Gay, Yeah you been thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh donate that we got lesson no ur and we're
way behind, so we need to get those donations.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Thank you to everyone who has donated as well.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, for sure, got so many.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
And if you want to donate, you want just like
the direct link you can text us at five three
nine two one. That's KATIEWB one and I will send
you directly the donation link.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes, we're hanging out with Alicia and Gavin.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Alicia, Hi, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Gavin?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So Gavin is how old are you? Gavin Ken? You've
seen this place before. You've been here in Children's Minnesota before, right, Yes, Okay,
Now I'm gonna have your mom talk a little bit
about your journey. But I'm looking at you now and
you're like a healthy, strapping young man and you do
like American ninja warrior stuff and like climb walls and
jump over stuff and all that.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, okay, So where did this journey start? Because it
says here that you're basically your treatment was ended in
twenty twenty three and now you're healthy as a horse.
From what I can tell, Alicia, tell me what happened
and how the journey started.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Yeah, So Gavin was diagnosed with leukemia about two weeks
after he turned six years old.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How did this come about?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
That?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Did he seem weak and tired and sick or what happened?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Shockingly?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I mean I will say I look back in photos
and I think oh gosh, he was pale, you know,
and you just don't notice those things when they're subtle
at first. But he suddenly had bone pain that was
excruciating in his hips.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So that prompted us to go to.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
The doctor, and we drew some labs, and very shortly
thereafter we were brought to Children's with a diagnosis of leukemia.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Now you were probably thinking it's probably just like muscular pain,
or he fell on a side in the playground or
something like that, and I'm going to guess you probably
to rationalize that it was nothing, no big deal.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I will say it was definitely out of my comfort zone.
I mean, I've never seen him scream in pain like
that before, sing okay, So that definitely was prompted me
to do something quickly. Yeah, but then we were here
at Children's, then got wonderful care while we were here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And the treatment probably started right away. They didn't say, hey,
we're going to get you in middle of November. They
probably said, hey, be back here tomorrow at three something
like that.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Yeah, I mean, it was an odd situation that we
were even diagnosed in the clinic. I think most of
the time kids are so sick that they're diagnosed in
the hospital already, So we're basically told, you know, you
can go home, pack your bags, and we'll see you
tomorrow and we're going to have a surgery where replace
the central line and we'll start treatment the next day.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Now, for you, that had to be as Gavin's parent,
that had to be terrifying and upsetting in sleepless nights
and lots of worrying and wondering.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Absolutely, I mean tunnel vision.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
And I've just never had such crazy tunnel vision of
nothing else.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Everything else dropped? What else drops?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So like work didn't matter, and your hobbies didn't matter,
and your car needed a tune up, It didn't matter
anymore exactly.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
It was just we're here in the hospital and we're
making sure that Gavin's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What did they do that stood out that made you
realize this is the place that I'm glad Gavin is.
What do you remember so much about Children's Minnesota?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Oh, I mean, every single person we interacted with was
just an amazing person. I mean, there's nobody that does
it better than Children's Minnesota. Even when we were first admitted,
they took the time to have child Life come and
talk to Gavin about this central line that he was
going to have placed in his body. And just to
watch this person talk to Gavin in six year old
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language so accurately and so helpfully, Gavin was comfortable.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
He felt okay with what was about to happen to him.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
And even ten minutes later, the surgeon came by and
told me that her daughter all So has a port
and every time she puts a port in a child,
she donates an adaptive shirt for that child so that
he can have regular clothes on instead of a hospital
gown when he's getting treatment.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Gavin, what do you does anything stand out? Is a
you know when when you were here at Children's is
there any stand out memory? Whether it was the dude
or music therapy or the wonderful food? So was there
anything that stood out Gavin?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
To you?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I really like the child life. They were really nice.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
What is that? What is child life?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They were helping me when I was getting my port,
and and I was really sad when Sam left, but
Jody was nice as well.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, Jody's okay, yeahhi gotcha. And so now you're back
to doing things that for a while you couldn't do.
What what do you like to do now that you're
like healthy as a horse.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Again, like the mountain biking and the.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You do mountain biking, that's dangerous, You're going to fall
off and bonk your head. So mountain biking. You're a
pretty active kid, now, okay, gotcha?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
And the American and jaw Warrior cool.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So you're like climbing walls and jumping over sharks and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
No, not though, are you good at it? Though?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Don't be modest, just say yeah, you know what, matter
of fact. Matter of fact, I am so glad to
see you doing so well. Is there any message that
you want to share that you know to the people, Like,
would you if you had a chance to say something
to the staff here at Children's as a whole?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
What would you say to the staff here?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I really liked them. They were super nice and helped
me through my hard times. And I'm just happy whenever
I get to say hi to them.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, that's great, Thank you, Gavin, Thank you. Well, you
have one more thing you wanted to bring up.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Try to have a bit of a platform to help
your donations.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Please do Yeah, we're babe high.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Yes, all I can say to anybody that's hesitating is
that every little thing matters, even something as simple as
I forgot a stuffed animal one day before Gavin was
going to have a procedure, and the fact that child
Life had an animal that Gavin specifically wanted ready in
the back room for him to still be comfortable during
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his treatment, to things as a parent that I didn't
have to pay for parking. You have no idea how
much that can add up over two and a half
years of treatment, the parking bills alone. I'm still realizing
just now that I didn't pay for that because of donations.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
For other people.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I never knew that they paid for parking. So that
is I mean, you think it's something as trivial as parking,
but you're right. If that adds up, it's like eight
dollars a day, twelve dollars a day or whatever. Over
men need, men need days. Absolutely, that's going to be
something you never got a bill for, you never had
to worry about.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Yeah, and things like the dude. I mean, I can't
say enough good things about the dude. Gavin still has
his hat, his little beanie hat they got when he
won Bingo, and that memory has stayed with him forever.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The dude has his own lego. Now did you hear
about that?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
No, but we need to find out about this.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Look at this, look at this. You can see it
on my story on Instagram. The dude teamed up with
Lego and they made his own lego. So go see
that and donate on Dave Ryan, Katie WB. Thank you, Alicia,
Thank you Gavin right keep killing it. We appreciate you
and thanks for coming by. Please donate. If you heard
the story of Gavin, and you've heard stories from Alicia
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and anybody else here, whatever inspires you to donate, please
do that again. We are desperately behind, and I'm not
really sure why that is, but I know it's not
because of lack of generosity. Maybe it's a lack of urgency.
It is urgent because we're done here in forty five
minutes and we aren't going to do this again for
another year.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
And we just want to reiterate that we do have
an awesome company that's going to match us once we
get to twenty five thousand dollars, so Prime Therapeutics is
going to match that, and then we'll be at fifty.
But realistically, we would love to just keep going beyond that,
whatever we can get, we we just really want to
beat and blow that out of the water.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Really donate on day ryanshow dot com. We'll have a
link there and then also or you can go on
childrensmn dot org if you want, you can just text
us at five three nine two one and I will
send you the link directly with a little kiss from me.
So please text us or just go to our website
Dave ryanshow dot com to donate. Okay, thank you very much.
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We appreciate it. Please donate and we will be here
until ten o'clock. We do this one time a year,
so this is our time to raise as much as
we possibly can. Thanks for all the donations. We appreciate it,
and we are one to one point three kd WB
you b somebody, this is what we were talking about,
Like when you're spending a little bit money on luxury
and fun stuff, then hopefully you'll be like, well, wait,
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I can donate. Somebody said via text, I was listening
this morning in line at Walgreens Impulse buying my former
nick baby a beanie baby, and I thought, geez, Louise,
I'm buying a beanie baby.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
At nine am, I have to donate.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Thank you Dave Ryan Show for using a platform for
something so meaningful. And there's so many people who have stories.
And here's what I donated. I had an emergency C
section and my son gone was rushed to Children's. They
saved his life. So I got to read this text too.
This says your donations means so much. My daughter had
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leukemia when she was two three years old and was
an impatient for nine months straight. All major holidays were
completely impatient, and Children's really makes you feel comfortable. They
provided free Thanksgiving dinner in room for my entire family,
presents and decorations for a room on Christmas, visits from
Santa with treats, and free family photography, photoshoots from memories
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you all off. That is from your donations, and it
is from donations, and that's why it's so important. And
I think that, you know, when I heard about freak
parking a little while ago, I chuckled, like freak parking,
Well that it adds up and you think about things
that because you know, for us, the uninitiated, we don't
realize that there's so much more to treatment than just
the shots and the ivs and the procedures and the
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diagnosis and the surgeries.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
There's so much more to.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
The treatment with the play area and the family room
and the dude and TV stations and music therapy, and
that's what your donations go for. And we do this
once a year. We again are way behind on donations.
I think we have this tendency as humans to be like,
that's cool what they're doing over at KWB. I hope
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they raise a lot of money and then you go
on with your day without even thinking about you're the
one who makes us raise the money. So if you
hear the message and then don't donate, then it's not working.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So we need you to donate.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And obviously, if you're driving right now, do not do that?
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Do I say, do it at the moment? Oh, let
me finish my thoughts. Let me if you mentioned my thought.
But you can text us in and we'll text you
the link directly once you finished driving. If you have
forgotten all this information that we have sent you.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
But also just.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
I know you have your phone in your hand right now.
You don't need to go onto a computer to donate anymore.
You can do it right on your phone. It's so simple.
You probably have your credit card also signed up to
your phone.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It's saved on there.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
It'll be just a couple little quick clicks and then
you've done it.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
It took twenty seconds of your day to do it.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
And you can text us at five three ninety two
one and I will send you the link directly, or
you can go on Dave ryanshow dot com and we
have the link posted there as well.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Now, what bad influence do you want to be?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I was gonna say, I mean, challenge yourself a little bit.
Try to donate while you're driving. There's no law against it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, it's not this traction. Try to donate while you're driving.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
If you're gonna donate and drive, drive real fast, jaw fast.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You can get it up to you. I bet you
can push ninety while you're donating. Just trying to make
it interesting regardless.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Use those cell phones that are attached to your hip
and get online to Children's Men dot org to donate.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Do you want me to do a headstave?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
If I I do a headstand for sixty seconds, do
you think it will inspire maybe somebody to be like, wow,
Dave can do a headstand shot, then then maybe I
can donate one hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
If we could do that, I'll take a video of
it so that people know that you actually did it,
like I am going to hold you accountable. We're not
just going to pretend because they can't see you doing it.
I am going to need to take actual fretage of it.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Okay, find me a pillow to put my head on,
and I will do a headstand for sixty seconds. If
that will be another way, I don't care. I'm not
above anything. Seriously, I don't care. Jenny's gonna jump rope
in a little while here.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I could do that if someone brought me a jump rope.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Jenny's gonna show her feet. Jenny will show her jump feet,
Yes you will.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You don't want to.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Show your feet on camera.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
People are gonna stop donating if I threaten to.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Show my feet. Okay, fine, I'm gonna threaten to show
my feet. All right, We'll be back in a second
and I will do the headstand. So get your credit
card out, get ready to go. We'll do that within
a couple of minutes to raise money because we got
to get to twenty five thousand or we have not
done a good job today. I'll be honest with you,
We're I don't know what we're at right now. Actually,
what are we at right now? Do you have a
new total for US thirteen five hundred, which is half
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of what we need to get to get to our
our match goals. So now fourteen now fourteen seven, so
we're getting closer. Let's try to get I mean, ten
thousand dollars in the next thirty minute sounds actually totally doable. Yeah,
it does, totally doable, but only if you do your part.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Keep texting in five three, nine to one and I'll
send you the link.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, and we'll do that. We'll do the headstand,
we'll do whatever it takes. Next on Katie, WB are
looking for donations four Children's Minnesota, and I just donated.
I showed everybody to the donation confirmation screen, so you
wouldn't think that I was, like, you know, trying to
pull a fast one of Yeah, we.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Did see it. I did see the confirmation. You actually
did donate. Congress, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
We are talking to some more people who had experience
here with Children's Minnesota as just kind of a way
to maybe if that's what it takes to motivate you
to donate.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Hello, we have a lovely couple here. What is your name?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Wait, wait to turn Amanda's microphone on. Here it comes, here,
it comes, Hi, Amanda, Hi, there we are. Who'd you
bring with you today?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Amanda?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
My husband?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Derek?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Hi Derek? How are you good? How are you no good?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You said that you're gonna let a man do most
of the talking because you tend to get emotional.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Yeah, yep, she can take it away, understandable.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Can help me your experience here for anybody listening has
no idea what your experience here?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Tell me what happened? What's gone on?
Speaker 9 (17:27):
My daughter, Willow, she was too After what seemed like
a routine pediatrician appointment, we had some lab work done,
but within an hour of the lab work being complete,
we got a phone call saying she was referring us
to Children's. The lab work is a little concerning, and
we got to the emergency room here at Children's and
that's where Willow was diagnosed with all or a cute
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lymphoblastic leukemia.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
At two years old.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Two years old, and this was just one of those
that you take him in and they check their temperature
and they take their heartbeat and all that stuff, and
it always to me and you, it's always fine, and
you're gonna go home and things are going to go
on as normal.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You know, not so much.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
We had many months leading up to this appointment where
we were concerned. There was times where we thought she
was having a neurotic episode, almost like a seizure.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Come to find out that was because leukemia was suppressing
her oxygen levels, so she wasn't getting oh.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
My god, wow, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Okay, very sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
We started to notice things and then you get were
you in the car when you got the phone call?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, Well we were in the car.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
We were actually picking up our other daughter from daycare
when we got the news, and all just came flooding
in and we didn't, you know, at the moment, we
weren't grasping everything that we were hearing, and we didn't
hear the words, hey, your daughter has leukemia. And unfortunately
we didn't find out until later here until children.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
My gosh, So then what happened? So you immediately come
to Children's.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Yes, we get admitted to the emergency room. Then we
were transported up to the seventh floor where will immediately
began treatment, she got her port placed, and then treatment
began money right away, pretty much within twenty four hours.
I got some blood transfusions, I think three or four
blood transfusions within the first day or two, just to
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get her stabilized.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Okay. How long was Willow here at Children's.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
She was here for about a week okay, And.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Then you go home and then tell me a little
bit more about your journey with Willow.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
After our treatment's been going on for two years now.
The first year was so intense. I think Derrick and
I we had no idea what we were getting into.
Our future change overnight, and it was so hard. Our
friends and family, Thank God for them, because they just
rallied around us, and without them, I don't think we
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would be here where we are today.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
How old is Willow now? She's four, Okay, and how's
she doing.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
She's doing great. She just started preschool. Okay. She still
loves getting on the bus, so I'll take that win.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, ta good, good.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
She is so spunky, she's thriving. She she's just doing
great at that age.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Did they really have any concept that, like, you know,
they probably do to some extent, like things are not
quite like my friends or my cousin Emma or whatever.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
She At times she got very upset with us, so
she couldn't do the things her sister was doing.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I see, okay, gotcha. So what is the future hold?
I mean, she's coming back for treatments periodically, going in
for doctor's appointments, but for the most part she's doing
very well.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
She is doing great. We're going in for monthly appointments.
We finally got her end dates of February twenty twenty six,
God willing we can hear this. Yeah, but we are excited.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
What would you want to tell people who are listening
that are like, you know, because most of us, you know,
we don't have any experience with anything more than a
common cold or pink eye or whatever. What would you
tell parents that might inspire them to say, Hey, you
know what, I really want to donate to Children's.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
You know, with the advancement and treatment and where what
Willow received as part of her treatment plan, the odds
of her staying in a remission after her treatment has
been completed has been, you know, greatly increased. We are
so thankful that Children's gave her and us the opportunity
to keep our kiddo, happy, healthy, moving forward, and I
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want that for every kiddo. I think every kiddo deserves
a cure. And without you and your donations, we would
not be here today.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Derek, what do you want to add?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I know your burst into the scene to say something,
So Derek, what do you want to add?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
H I just sorry. I just want to say thanks
to Children's. I mean for all the hard work that
they put in here, all the research that's done.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I mean, thanks to them.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
I get to give my daughter a kiss good night
every night she's still with us, So that is Sowice.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I think, thank you, my friend, thank you. We appreciate you.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This is just another family who was, you know, like,
had a baby, had a kid, had a big sit
exist and then things were going along until all of
a sudden they were not. Thank goodness for Children's Minnesota.
So this is the work you're supporting with your donations.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Yes, and I think it's time to kick up the
gear bit. I know we've been kicking it up, but
we really really want to get to our match amount,
which is twenty five thousand dollars, and then Prime Therapeutics
is going to match that with another twenty five thousand dollars.
Just imagine how much fifty k could get here at
Children's Minnesota. But we can't do that without the help
from you. So please, whether you're getting a coffee today
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that costs a little bit too much money, or you
have some errands you need to run, just think about
maybe one less thing that you don't need to buy,
and you could donate that instead.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
That would be so helpful. Baily got I need to Yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
I got a text me just says just donate it
an honor and memory of our daughter Lilyana, Shine Bright
and live like Lily. She was at Children's the end
of February, although she didn't get to come home. They
took the greatest care of her there and we are
forever grateful to them. And if you want to text
us like we'd love to hear your stories, you can
also text if you want the link to donate, which
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is five three nine two one. Just text that and
I will send you the link directly to show you
exactly where you can donate. This text says I donated
in honor of my healthy, beautiful boy Maddox. I'm so
sorry for all the pain that families feel thank you
KATIEWB for what you're doing, and thanks to Childrens for
helping all of our littles.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It's one of those things where I think that, you know,
we always know that Children's is here, but we don't
always think about it until God forbid, we need Children's Minnesota.
So I know you've got all your other things going on.
You've got lunch, and you've got to go down to
cub and you've got to go to the dentist, and
I know you've got all these things going on, But
just to assure that Children's is here and able to
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give all the services God forbid, if you ever need
these services, or for the people who do need them,
then make that donation. I don't know how many different
ways we can ask without sounding like a broken record
and repetitive, but that's what we're here for for today only.
So go to day ryanshow dot com and we will
get the link that's right there on there, or you
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can text us at KDWB one and we'd be happy
to send you the link. I did it right for
my phone.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, you did it really quickly. And I know
Vaughn's back at the studio. He's been answering calls all
morning and v Why don't you take the lead on
this one because you're the one who is talking to Jordan.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
So Jordan works with She says she does a golf
tournament every single year. Jordan with four Children's Foundation. So
every year they do this golf tournament where they help
raise money that goes straight towards Children's Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Jordan's actually on the phone. Hi, Jordan, Hello, good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 11 (24:34):
Tell Jordan, go ahead, tell Dave, Jenny Bailey and everyone listening,
how you guys foundation and about the tournament, how it
helps childrens every year.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
So I started this golf tournament six years ago when
my son was highly sold He was diagnosed with RSB
and as first time parents, it was a whirlwind of emotions.
We were sent up to Children's and when we got discharged,
I told my husband at the time that I wanted
to give back. We didn't have a whole lot of money,
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but yeah, so I started this golf tournament and we
had a goal of raising three thousand dollars with golfers,
maybe fifty golfers. COVID happened and we raised over eighteen
thousand dollars. Wow, the golf tournament.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yep.
Speaker 12 (25:25):
So we knew we couldn't stop there. So we started
this nonprofit called four Children's Foundation, and over the last
six years, with our golfers, our sponsors, our volunteers, we
have raised over one hundred thousand dollars with this golf tournament.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Oh wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Wow, that is really impressive. Thank you. I really appreciate that. One.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I want to call out local rich people who live
on Lake Minataka, local rich people who live over on
Lake Minnetaka. If you live in Wyzetta, if you have
a house where you can see a lake on prior
Lake Medicine lake rich people driving either I would say
either a cyber truck, a Lamborghini Ferrari, Mercedes BMW range Rover.
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You need to donate because you're doing quite well and
you should donate to people who are struggling lean a
little bit more. So, I'm calling out rich people, yes,
and I like that you know a lot of them too, Jordan, you.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
Guys had the golf tournament I'm sorry last month, right, yep.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
So we had our sixth annual golf tournament August twenty
third of this year and how.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Much go ahead?
Speaker 11 (26:34):
What was that I was to say, how much did
you guys raise this year to go towards children?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yep?
Speaker 12 (26:39):
So with the tournament itself, I just donated seven thousand
dollars just now, just now yep, well, just now, yep.
Through our children's site. We almost hit four thousand dollars.
And that's with like our local sponsors. They go on
to that site and donate.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
So you do that or seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Wow, that's awesome, crazy, Thank you so much, yo, Ashley.
Speaker 12 (27:05):
From everybody that has been a part of this golf tournament,
especially this year, that seven grand was from all of
our amazing golfers that we had.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's incredible. Thank you. Jordan appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, so now we are up to we for how
do we do that all of a sudden? Well, because
it's now twenty seven and ninety three dollars, So we
beat our match level and that probably came from Jordan
and the golf tournament. Yeah, so we've got another five
ish minutes until we are we have to leave. Yeah,
but we we made that goal. But you don't want
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to get to a goal and say, you know what,
it's not like losing weight, like I hit heed one
hundred and eighty pounds.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I'm going to stop right now, not at all. No,
it's I'm going to keep going. You know what it means.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
We're going to keep going and see if we can
just surpass that. Just to show off. Now, we just
want to show off a little bit.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
Yes, I like that. I like to show off. We
like to be glissy and glamorous over here. But we
don't need to be glissy and glamorous. We just want
your money, that's all we want.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
We want your money.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
We want you to put it in our hands, but
not actually our hands, just the hypothetical hands that we
are going to give two Children's Minnesota, which you can
do online at Children's and mendstand or okay, we're going
to do headstand.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Bailey record him, can you require sure? All right? Dave
is walking to a wall.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Well, he's tucking his shirt in first because nobody wants
to see that.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I literally thought you were taking off your pants day.
I did too. I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
And he was like, he's stuck in his shirt and
he's trying to find you.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
He says he doesn't need a spotter.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
He's trying to find an empty wall right now to
go up against and he's going to do a heads
You're doing a headstand, not against a wall, he says.
He doesn't need a wall, is what he says. Okay,
this is Dave. You don't do yoga.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
What how are you doing that? Oh my god, when
can you do that?
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Dave Ryan is doing a headstand, not even against a
wall or anything, right now, to get you to donate
to Children's Minnesota. Dave is bright red in the face.
This is the things that Dave does because we want
to help out children's But he's also staggering around back
to his seat. But oh my gosh, we're gonna post
that video and regardless of if you see the video
or not, he did that to help raise money for
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children's of men, So please go online.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Well, Derek, I feel dizzy. Oh wow, oh man.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yeah, that's gonna be that you learned to do that.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I've never seen you do anything like that in my life.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
God blessed me with great athleticism.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
You literally walked on the hall of your current the frog.
I honestly never even know what's happening with you half
the time. And he's like, oh my bag, my leg
and now you just did a headstand?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
What wow, world class athlete.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
I posted that video on our Instagram stories at Dave
Ryan Show on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
You can say, now that should be worth five bucks.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You watch this guy that you've listened to since you
were in elementary school do a headstand?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Who Jenny about it? Rest? I know you, So then
go ahead and donate. That's worth five or ten.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Seeing all the coins falling out of pocket too, a
lot of coin BILLI and.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
I want to scrap that up like Corbridge McDuck over here,
we are.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Taking that cash to donate to Children's office.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
We did get a.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Text message thing that they would donate fifty dollars if
Bernie called in. Well, Bertie, Bernie came right. He then
actually just text me, Bernie, did let me read this text?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
That's my dog. That's my dog.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Yeah, that's a Dave's dog. Bernie just texted me and
he said, oh hey Dad.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
It's me Bernard.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
I wanted to know that I love dogs, and I
hear they bring dogs to children's every show. Afting and
I would donate olive de bones in my little hole
outside in the backyard to go to children so that
more dogs can come in.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
That just came from Bernie.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Wow, I love Bernie. Listen.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Yeah, I hope he can donate online at childrensmn dot
org or he can text us again at five three
nine two one and I will send him the link
directly to donate.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
We get a big spike in donations. Actually since that
headstand bit, we get big spike in donations. We up
to seventy five dollars. Not quite okay there yet? Where
can you watch the headstand video on our Instagram Dave
Ryan's Show. It's on the stories. Okay, here's the thing.
If you're driving right now and you can't donate, but
you want to donate when you get to work or
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when you get to wherever you're going, go ahead and donate.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It's easy to do.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's an easy website and there's a couple of different
ways you can find it.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Well, the website itself has Children's MN dot org and
there's going to be a pop up right when you
go to that website.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
So it's very simple.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
But if it's easier for you, you can go to
any of our Day Ryan Show accounts, whether it's Instagram, Facebook,
davebryanshow dot com. We have everything linked on there, or
you can continue to text Bailey if you'd like to
KTIWB one and Bailey will send you the link and
that's going to go right to your phone and you
can do it on your phone. You don't need a
laptop to donate. You can do it right on your phone.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Thanks to Prime Therapeutics for helping us out today with
the match. And we'll get a total for you for
sure for the whole thing tomorrow morning on the show,
because it will grow through the day. It's Give to
Kids Day today all day, so we'll take donations all
day today and we'll get your total tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
So if you're listening on the podcast right now and
it's three pm on Thursday, we still are taking donations.
We still have matches going on, so please feel free
to donate even if you didn't listen during the actual
morning show hours and you're a podcast listener, because I
know so many people can actually listen because you know,
they got to do their actual job at work or
something and then they listen later on. So feel free
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to donate all day today.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
We got to wrap up but I want to say
thanks to Ashley and everybody here and Nick at Children's
for all the help that you guys give us and
the honor and the opportunity to come by and help
raise money. We appreciate you. Amanda and Derek, Derek, I'll
see at the gym.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
We're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
We're working on twenty seven inch biceps.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Oh nice, right, good luck for on.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
So yeah, we're getting real close. And then of course
thanks to Vaunt back to the station and Jenny and
Bailey and.
Speaker 8 (32:54):
Jarret our engineer who helps us to be able to
broadcast every year.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yep, Jared. I appreciate you, Jared.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And then mostly thanks to you if you donated the
special thank you, but if you just listened and weren't
able to donate, A thank you to you two for
at least creating awareness of the wonderful work that Children's
Minnesota does. Hey, shout out to all the kids and
doctors here too, and all the staff and people who
like her rolling a cart by.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I don't know what you're doing with the cart. She
might have stolen it for all I know, but thanks
for rolling it by. Have a great day. Thank you
for listening. It's kd WB
Her mission today for Children's Minnesota. And now I'm going
(00:02):
to guilt you into donating, because I'll do whatever desperate
measures I get to take. We are desperately behind on
our donations, and we thought by now that we'd be
like forty to fifty thousand dollars. We are at about
twelve or fourteen thousand dollars right now. Not really sure
what the reason is, but maybe I've just not done
a good enough job of guilting you into it. But
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we need to get to twenty five thousand to get
a match from Prime Therapeutics that'll jump us up immediately
to fifty thousand dollars and we'll be happy with that.
But to help inspire you to donate to these great
kids and their family and the great work that they
do here at Children's. We're having conversations with different people.
Matter of fact, Jody is listening to the show. Jody
(00:44):
called in and has her own story to share about
her experience with Children's Minnesota. Hi, Jody, Hello, tell me
a little bit about what your experience has been.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So, my wife and I had a rough pregnant see
in twenty eleven, we were told to expect kind of
the worst case possible outcome that we know our son
probably wasn't going to make it. Sorry, I get emotional.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's okay, take your time.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And we got put on badrast at like fourteen weeks,
and he came at twenty eight weeks and he was
less than a pound. He weighed fourteen ounces, and he
spent six months, had children in the nique, and he's
going to be fourteen Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You know what, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
When I heard you get emotional, I wasn't sure what
the outcome of this story was going to be. I
want you to stop and think for a second. Fourteen ounces.
That's the size, that's palm of your hand, size.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Smaller, yep, yep. Less than a pound.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Amazing, amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
He spent the first six months of his life here.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And then he came home and he was on oxygen
until he was probably about two. Because of his high
risk status, he couldn't go, you know, into daycare, so
we had to kind of modify all of our you know,
our life to be able to stay home with him
and have family help and just all the therapies and
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all the doctors.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But with all the therapies and all the doctors and
now here he is fourteen years old because principally mainly
because of all the work and the people here at
Children's Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yep, absolutely just amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Jody, that's priceless. I mean, obviously that's priceless. And for
those of us and you are you were like me,
You're like anybody the other parent. You never thought that
it would turn out like this, right, You never thought
that you would experience all these years of you know,
wondering and sleepless nights. You never thought that would happen, right, right,
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And most.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
People never most people never do.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So if you are one of those people that have
never had to experience that, please feel how blessed you
are and maybe recognize that with a donation to Children's Jody,
God bless you and your kid and your wife.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And thanks for being on KATWB. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Thanks Gay, Yeah you been thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh donate that we got lesson no ur and we're
way behind, so we need to get those donations.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Thank you to everyone who has donated as well.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, for sure, got so many.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
And if you want to donate, you want just like
the direct link you can text us at five three
nine two one. That's KATIEWB one and I will send
you directly the donation link.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes, we're hanging out with Alicia and Gavin.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Alicia, Hi, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Gavin?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So Gavin is how old are you? Gavin Ken? You've
seen this place before. You've been here in Children's Minnesota before, right, Yes, Okay,
Now I'm gonna have your mom talk a little bit
about your journey. But I'm looking at you now and
you're like a healthy, strapping young man and you do
like American ninja warrior stuff and like climb walls and
jump over stuff and all that.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, okay, So where did this journey start? Because it
says here that you're basically your treatment was ended in
twenty twenty three and now you're healthy as a horse.
From what I can tell, Alicia, tell me what happened
and how the journey started.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Yeah, So Gavin was diagnosed with leukemia about two weeks
after he turned six years old.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How did this come about?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
That?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Did he seem weak and tired and sick or what happened?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Shockingly?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I mean I will say I look back in photos
and I think oh gosh, he was pale, you know,
and you just don't notice those things when they're subtle
at first. But he suddenly had bone pain that was
excruciating in his hips.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So that prompted us to go to.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
The doctor, and we drew some labs, and very shortly
thereafter we were brought to Children's with a diagnosis of leukemia.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Now you were probably thinking it's probably just like muscular pain,
or he fell on a side in the playground or
something like that, and I'm going to guess you probably
to rationalize that it was nothing, no big deal.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I will say it was definitely out of my comfort zone.
I mean, I've never seen him scream in pain like
that before, sing okay, So that definitely was prompted me
to do something quickly. Yeah, but then we were here
at Children's, then got wonderful care while we were here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And the treatment probably started right away. They didn't say, hey,
we're going to get you in middle of November. They
probably said, hey, be back here tomorrow at three something
like that.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Yeah, I mean, it was an odd situation that we
were even diagnosed in the clinic. I think most of
the time kids are so sick that they're diagnosed in
the hospital already, So we're basically told, you know, you
can go home, pack your bags, and we'll see you
tomorrow and we're going to have a surgery where replace
the central line and we'll start treatment the next day.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Now, for you, that had to be as Gavin's parent,
that had to be terrifying and upsetting in sleepless nights
and lots of worrying and wondering.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Absolutely, I mean tunnel vision.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
And I've just never had such crazy tunnel vision of
nothing else.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Everything else dropped? What else drops?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So like work didn't matter, and your hobbies didn't matter,
and your car needed a tune up, It didn't matter
anymore exactly.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
It was just we're here in the hospital and we're
making sure that Gavin's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What did they do that stood out that made you
realize this is the place that I'm glad Gavin is.
What do you remember so much about Children's Minnesota?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Oh, I mean, every single person we interacted with was
just an amazing person. I mean, there's nobody that does
it better than Children's Minnesota. Even when we were first admitted,
they took the time to have child Life come and
talk to Gavin about this central line that he was
going to have placed in his body. And just to
watch this person talk to Gavin in six year old
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language so accurately and so helpfully, Gavin was comfortable.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
He felt okay with what was about to happen to him.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
And even ten minutes later, the surgeon came by and
told me that her daughter all So has a port
and every time she puts a port in a child,
she donates an adaptive shirt for that child so that
he can have regular clothes on instead of a hospital
gown when he's getting treatment.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Gavin, what do you does anything stand out? Is a
you know when when you were here at Children's is
there any stand out memory? Whether it was the dude
or music therapy or the wonderful food? So was there
anything that stood out Gavin?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
To you?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I really like the child life. They were really nice.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
What is that? What is child life?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They were helping me when I was getting my port,
and and I was really sad when Sam left, but
Jody was nice as well.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, Jody's okay, yeahhi gotcha. And so now you're back
to doing things that for a while you couldn't do.
What what do you like to do now that you're
like healthy as a horse.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Again, like the mountain biking and the.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You do mountain biking, that's dangerous, You're going to fall
off and bonk your head. So mountain biking. You're a
pretty active kid, now, okay, gotcha?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
And the American and jaw Warrior cool.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So you're like climbing walls and jumping over sharks and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
No, not though, are you good at it? Though?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Don't be modest, just say yeah, you know what, matter
of fact. Matter of fact, I am so glad to
see you doing so well. Is there any message that
you want to share that you know to the people, Like,
would you if you had a chance to say something
to the staff here at Children's as a whole?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
What would you say to the staff here?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I really liked them. They were super nice and helped
me through my hard times. And I'm just happy whenever
I get to say hi to them.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, that's great, Thank you, Gavin, Thank you. Well, you
have one more thing you wanted to bring up.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Try to have a bit of a platform to help
your donations.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Please do Yeah, we're babe high.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Yes, all I can say to anybody that's hesitating is
that every little thing matters, even something as simple as
I forgot a stuffed animal one day before Gavin was
going to have a procedure, and the fact that child
Life had an animal that Gavin specifically wanted ready in
the back room for him to still be comfortable during
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his treatment, to things as a parent that I didn't
have to pay for parking. You have no idea how
much that can add up over two and a half
years of treatment, the parking bills alone. I'm still realizing
just now that I didn't pay for that because of donations.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
For other people.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I never knew that they paid for parking. So that
is I mean, you think it's something as trivial as parking,
but you're right. If that adds up, it's like eight
dollars a day, twelve dollars a day or whatever. Over
men need, men need days. Absolutely, that's going to be
something you never got a bill for, you never had
to worry about.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Yeah, and things like the dude. I mean, I can't
say enough good things about the dude. Gavin still has
his hat, his little beanie hat they got when he
won Bingo, and that memory has stayed with him forever.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The dude has his own lego. Now did you hear
about that?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
No, but we need to find out about this.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Look at this, look at this. You can see it
on my story on Instagram. The dude teamed up with
Lego and they made his own lego. So go see
that and donate on Dave Ryan, Katie WB. Thank you, Alicia,
Thank you Gavin right keep killing it. We appreciate you
and thanks for coming by. Please donate. If you heard
the story of Gavin, and you've heard stories from Alicia
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and anybody else here, whatever inspires you to donate, please
do that again. We are desperately behind, and I'm not
really sure why that is, but I know it's not
because of lack of generosity. Maybe it's a lack of urgency.
It is urgent because we're done here in forty five
minutes and we aren't going to do this again for
another year.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
And we just want to reiterate that we do have
an awesome company that's going to match us once we
get to twenty five thousand dollars, so Prime Therapeutics is
going to match that, and then we'll be at fifty.
But realistically, we would love to just keep going beyond that,
whatever we can get, we we just really want to
beat and blow that out of the water.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Really donate on day ryanshow dot com. We'll have a
link there and then also or you can go on
childrensmn dot org if you want, you can just text
us at five three nine two one and I will
send you the link directly with a little kiss from me.
So please text us or just go to our website
Dave ryanshow dot com to donate. Okay, thank you very much.
(11:27):
We appreciate it. Please donate and we will be here
until ten o'clock. We do this one time a year,
so this is our time to raise as much as
we possibly can. Thanks for all the donations. We appreciate it,
and we are one to one point three kd WB
you b somebody, this is what we were talking about,
Like when you're spending a little bit money on luxury
and fun stuff, then hopefully you'll be like, well, wait,
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I can donate. Somebody said via text, I was listening
this morning in line at Walgreens Impulse buying my former
nick baby a beanie baby, and I thought, geez, Louise,
I'm buying a beanie baby.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
At nine am, I have to donate.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Thank you Dave Ryan Show for using a platform for
something so meaningful. And there's so many people who have stories.
And here's what I donated. I had an emergency C
section and my son gone was rushed to Children's. They
saved his life. So I got to read this text too.
This says your donations means so much. My daughter had
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leukemia when she was two three years old and was
an impatient for nine months straight. All major holidays were
completely impatient, and Children's really makes you feel comfortable. They
provided free Thanksgiving dinner in room for my entire family,
presents and decorations for a room on Christmas, visits from
Santa with treats, and free family photography, photoshoots from memories
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you all off. That is from your donations, and it
is from donations, and that's why it's so important. And
I think that, you know, when I heard about freak
parking a little while ago, I chuckled, like freak parking,
Well that it adds up and you think about things
that because you know, for us, the uninitiated, we don't
realize that there's so much more to treatment than just
the shots and the ivs and the procedures and the
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diagnosis and the surgeries.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
There's so much more to.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
The treatment with the play area and the family room
and the dude and TV stations and music therapy, and
that's what your donations go for. And we do this
once a year. We again are way behind on donations.
I think we have this tendency as humans to be like,
that's cool what they're doing over at KWB. I hope
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they raise a lot of money and then you go
on with your day without even thinking about you're the
one who makes us raise the money. So if you
hear the message and then don't donate, then it's not working.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So we need you to donate.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And obviously, if you're driving right now, do not do that?
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Do I say, do it at the moment? Oh, let
me finish my thoughts. Let me if you mentioned my thought.
But you can text us in and we'll text you
the link directly once you finished driving. If you have
forgotten all this information that we have sent you.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
But also just.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
I know you have your phone in your hand right now.
You don't need to go onto a computer to donate anymore.
You can do it right on your phone. It's so simple.
You probably have your credit card also signed up to
your phone.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It's saved on there.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
It'll be just a couple little quick clicks and then
you've done it.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
It took twenty seconds of your day to do it.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
And you can text us at five three ninety two
one and I will send you the link directly, or
you can go on Dave ryanshow dot com and we
have the link posted there as well.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Now, what bad influence do you want to be?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I was gonna say, I mean, challenge yourself a little bit.
Try to donate while you're driving. There's no law against it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, it's not this traction. Try to donate while you're driving.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
If you're gonna donate and drive, drive real fast, jaw fast.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You can get it up to you. I bet you
can push ninety while you're donating. Just trying to make
it interesting regardless.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Use those cell phones that are attached to your hip
and get online to Children's Men dot org to donate.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Do you want me to do a headstave?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
If I I do a headstand for sixty seconds, do
you think it will inspire maybe somebody to be like, wow,
Dave can do a headstand shot, then then maybe I
can donate one hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
If we could do that, I'll take a video of
it so that people know that you actually did it,
like I am going to hold you accountable. We're not
just going to pretend because they can't see you doing it.
I am going to need to take actual fretage of it.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Okay, find me a pillow to put my head on,
and I will do a headstand for sixty seconds. If
that will be another way, I don't care. I'm not
above anything. Seriously, I don't care. Jenny's gonna jump rope
in a little while here.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I could do that if someone brought me a jump rope.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Jenny's gonna show her feet. Jenny will show her jump feet,
Yes you will.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You don't want to.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Show your feet on camera.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
People are gonna stop donating if I threaten to.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Show my feet. Okay, fine, I'm gonna threaten to show
my feet. All right, We'll be back in a second
and I will do the headstand. So get your credit
card out, get ready to go. We'll do that within
a couple of minutes to raise money because we got
to get to twenty five thousand or we have not
done a good job today. I'll be honest with you,
We're I don't know what we're at right now. Actually,
what are we at right now? Do you have a
new total for US thirteen five hundred, which is half
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of what we need to get to get to our
our match goals. So now fourteen now fourteen seven, so
we're getting closer. Let's try to get I mean, ten
thousand dollars in the next thirty minute sounds actually totally doable. Yeah,
it does, totally doable, but only if you do your part.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Keep texting in five three, nine to one and I'll
send you the link.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, and we'll do that. We'll do the headstand,
we'll do whatever it takes. Next on Katie, WB are
looking for donations four Children's Minnesota, and I just donated.
I showed everybody to the donation confirmation screen, so you
wouldn't think that I was, like, you know, trying to
pull a fast one of Yeah, we.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Did see it. I did see the confirmation. You actually
did donate. Congress, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
We are talking to some more people who had experience
here with Children's Minnesota as just kind of a way
to maybe if that's what it takes to motivate you
to donate.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Hello, we have a lovely couple here. What is your name?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Wait, wait to turn Amanda's microphone on. Here it comes, here,
it comes, Hi, Amanda, Hi, there we are. Who'd you
bring with you today?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Amanda?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
My husband?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Derek?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Hi Derek? How are you good? How are you no good?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You said that you're gonna let a man do most
of the talking because you tend to get emotional.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Yeah, yep, she can take it away, understandable.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Can help me your experience here for anybody listening has
no idea what your experience here?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Tell me what happened? What's gone on?
Speaker 9 (17:27):
My daughter, Willow, she was too After what seemed like
a routine pediatrician appointment, we had some lab work done,
but within an hour of the lab work being complete,
we got a phone call saying she was referring us
to Children's. The lab work is a little concerning, and
we got to the emergency room here at Children's and
that's where Willow was diagnosed with all or a cute
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lymphoblastic leukemia.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
At two years old.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Two years old, and this was just one of those
that you take him in and they check their temperature
and they take their heartbeat and all that stuff, and
it always to me and you, it's always fine, and
you're gonna go home and things are going to go
on as normal.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You know, not so much.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
We had many months leading up to this appointment where
we were concerned. There was times where we thought she
was having a neurotic episode, almost like a seizure.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Come to find out that was because leukemia was suppressing
her oxygen levels, so she wasn't getting oh.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
My god, wow, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Okay, very sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
We started to notice things and then you get were
you in the car when you got the phone call?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, Well we were in the car.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
We were actually picking up our other daughter from daycare
when we got the news, and all just came flooding
in and we didn't, you know, at the moment, we
weren't grasping everything that we were hearing, and we didn't
hear the words, hey, your daughter has leukemia. And unfortunately
we didn't find out until later here until children.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
My gosh, So then what happened? So you immediately come
to Children's.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Yes, we get admitted to the emergency room. Then we
were transported up to the seventh floor where will immediately
began treatment, she got her port placed, and then treatment
began money right away, pretty much within twenty four hours.
I got some blood transfusions, I think three or four
blood transfusions within the first day or two, just to
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get her stabilized.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Okay. How long was Willow here at Children's.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
She was here for about a week okay, And.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Then you go home and then tell me a little
bit more about your journey with Willow.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
After our treatment's been going on for two years now.
The first year was so intense. I think Derrick and
I we had no idea what we were getting into.
Our future change overnight, and it was so hard. Our
friends and family, Thank God for them, because they just
rallied around us, and without them, I don't think we
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would be here where we are today.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
How old is Willow now? She's four, Okay, and how's
she doing.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
She's doing great. She just started preschool. Okay. She still
loves getting on the bus, so I'll take that win.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, ta good, good.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
She is so spunky, she's thriving. She she's just doing
great at that age.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Did they really have any concept that, like, you know,
they probably do to some extent, like things are not
quite like my friends or my cousin Emma or whatever.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
She At times she got very upset with us, so
she couldn't do the things her sister was doing.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I see, okay, gotcha. So what is the future hold?
I mean, she's coming back for treatments periodically, going in
for doctor's appointments, but for the most part she's doing
very well.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
She is doing great. We're going in for monthly appointments.
We finally got her end dates of February twenty twenty six,
God willing we can hear this. Yeah, but we are excited.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
What would you want to tell people who are listening
that are like, you know, because most of us, you know,
we don't have any experience with anything more than a
common cold or pink eye or whatever. What would you
tell parents that might inspire them to say, Hey, you
know what, I really want to donate to Children's.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
You know, with the advancement and treatment and where what
Willow received as part of her treatment plan, the odds
of her staying in a remission after her treatment has
been completed has been, you know, greatly increased. We are
so thankful that Children's gave her and us the opportunity
to keep our kiddo, happy, healthy, moving forward, and I
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want that for every kiddo. I think every kiddo deserves
a cure. And without you and your donations, we would
not be here today.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Derek, what do you want to add?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I know your burst into the scene to say something,
So Derek, what do you want to add?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
H I just sorry. I just want to say thanks
to Children's. I mean for all the hard work that
they put in here, all the research that's done.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I mean, thanks to them.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
I get to give my daughter a kiss good night
every night she's still with us, So that is Sowice.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I think, thank you, my friend, thank you. We appreciate you.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This is just another family who was, you know, like,
had a baby, had a kid, had a big sit
exist and then things were going along until all of
a sudden they were not. Thank goodness for Children's Minnesota.
So this is the work you're supporting with your donations.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Yes, and I think it's time to kick up the
gear bit. I know we've been kicking it up, but
we really really want to get to our match amount,
which is twenty five thousand dollars, and then Prime Therapeutics
is going to match that with another twenty five thousand dollars.
Just imagine how much fifty k could get here at
Children's Minnesota. But we can't do that without the help
from you. So please, whether you're getting a coffee today
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that costs a little bit too much money, or you
have some errands you need to run, just think about
maybe one less thing that you don't need to buy,
and you could donate that instead.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
That would be so helpful. Baily got I need to Yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
I got a text me just says just donate it
an honor and memory of our daughter Lilyana, Shine Bright
and live like Lily. She was at Children's the end
of February, although she didn't get to come home. They
took the greatest care of her there and we are
forever grateful to them. And if you want to text
us like we'd love to hear your stories, you can
also text if you want the link to donate, which
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is five three nine two one. Just text that and
I will send you the link directly to show you
exactly where you can donate. This text says I donated
in honor of my healthy, beautiful boy Maddox. I'm so
sorry for all the pain that families feel thank you
KATIEWB for what you're doing, and thanks to Childrens for
helping all of our littles.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It's one of those things where I think that, you know,
we always know that Children's is here, but we don't
always think about it until God forbid, we need Children's Minnesota.
So I know you've got all your other things going on.
You've got lunch, and you've got to go down to
cub and you've got to go to the dentist, and
I know you've got all these things going on, But
just to assure that Children's is here and able to
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give all the services God forbid, if you ever need
these services, or for the people who do need them,
then make that donation. I don't know how many different
ways we can ask without sounding like a broken record
and repetitive, but that's what we're here for for today only.
So go to day ryanshow dot com and we will
get the link that's right there on there, or you
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can text us at KDWB one and we'd be happy
to send you the link. I did it right for
my phone.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, you did it really quickly. And I know
Vaughn's back at the studio. He's been answering calls all
morning and v Why don't you take the lead on
this one because you're the one who is talking to Jordan.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
So Jordan works with She says she does a golf
tournament every single year. Jordan with four Children's Foundation. So
every year they do this golf tournament where they help
raise money that goes straight towards Children's Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Jordan's actually on the phone. Hi, Jordan, Hello, good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 11 (24:34):
Tell Jordan, go ahead, tell Dave, Jenny Bailey and everyone listening,
how you guys foundation and about the tournament, how it
helps childrens every year.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
So I started this golf tournament six years ago when
my son was highly sold He was diagnosed with RSB
and as first time parents, it was a whirlwind of emotions.
We were sent up to Children's and when we got discharged,
I told my husband at the time that I wanted
to give back. We didn't have a whole lot of money,
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but yeah, so I started this golf tournament and we
had a goal of raising three thousand dollars with golfers,
maybe fifty golfers. COVID happened and we raised over eighteen
thousand dollars. Wow, the golf tournament.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yep.
Speaker 12 (25:25):
So we knew we couldn't stop there. So we started
this nonprofit called four Children's Foundation, and over the last
six years, with our golfers, our sponsors, our volunteers, we
have raised over one hundred thousand dollars with this golf tournament.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Oh wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Wow, that is really impressive. Thank you. I really appreciate that. One.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I want to call out local rich people who live
on Lake Minataka, local rich people who live over on
Lake Minnetaka. If you live in Wyzetta, if you have
a house where you can see a lake on prior
Lake Medicine lake rich people driving either I would say
either a cyber truck, a Lamborghini Ferrari, Mercedes BMW range Rover.
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You need to donate because you're doing quite well and
you should donate to people who are struggling lean a
little bit more. So, I'm calling out rich people, yes,
and I like that you know a lot of them too, Jordan, you.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
Guys had the golf tournament I'm sorry last month, right, yep.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
So we had our sixth annual golf tournament August twenty
third of this year and how.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Much go ahead?
Speaker 11 (26:34):
What was that I was to say, how much did
you guys raise this year to go towards children?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yep?
Speaker 12 (26:39):
So with the tournament itself, I just donated seven thousand
dollars just now, just now yep, well, just now, yep.
Through our children's site. We almost hit four thousand dollars.
And that's with like our local sponsors. They go on
to that site and donate.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
So you do that or seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Wow, that's awesome, crazy, Thank you so much, yo, Ashley.
Speaker 12 (27:05):
From everybody that has been a part of this golf tournament,
especially this year, that seven grand was from all of
our amazing golfers that we had.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's incredible. Thank you. Jordan appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, so now we are up to we for how
do we do that all of a sudden? Well, because
it's now twenty seven and ninety three dollars, So we
beat our match level and that probably came from Jordan
and the golf tournament. Yeah, so we've got another five
ish minutes until we are we have to leave. Yeah,
but we we made that goal. But you don't want
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to get to a goal and say, you know what,
it's not like losing weight, like I hit heed one
hundred and eighty pounds.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I'm going to stop right now, not at all. No,
it's I'm going to keep going. You know what it means.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
We're going to keep going and see if we can
just surpass that. Just to show off. Now, we just
want to show off a little bit.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
Yes, I like that. I like to show off. We
like to be glissy and glamorous over here. But we
don't need to be glissy and glamorous. We just want
your money, that's all we want.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
We want your money.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
We want you to put it in our hands, but
not actually our hands, just the hypothetical hands that we
are going to give two Children's Minnesota, which you can
do online at Children's and mendstand or okay, we're going
to do headstand.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Bailey record him, can you require sure? All right? Dave
is walking to a wall.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Well, he's tucking his shirt in first because nobody wants
to see that.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I literally thought you were taking off your pants day.
I did too. I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
And he was like, he's stuck in his shirt and
he's trying to find you.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
He says he doesn't need a spotter.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
He's trying to find an empty wall right now to
go up against and he's going to do a heads
You're doing a headstand, not against a wall, he says.
He doesn't need a wall, is what he says. Okay,
this is Dave. You don't do yoga.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
What how are you doing that? Oh my god, when
can you do that?
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Dave Ryan is doing a headstand, not even against a
wall or anything, right now, to get you to donate
to Children's Minnesota. Dave is bright red in the face.
This is the things that Dave does because we want
to help out children's But he's also staggering around back
to his seat. But oh my gosh, we're gonna post
that video and regardless of if you see the video
or not, he did that to help raise money for
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children's of men, So please go online.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Well, Derek, I feel dizzy. Oh wow, oh man.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yeah, that's gonna be that you learned to do that.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I've never seen you do anything like that in my life.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
God blessed me with great athleticism.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
You literally walked on the hall of your current the frog.
I honestly never even know what's happening with you half
the time. And he's like, oh my bag, my leg
and now you just did a headstand?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
What wow, world class athlete.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
I posted that video on our Instagram stories at Dave
Ryan Show on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
You can say, now that should be worth five bucks.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You watch this guy that you've listened to since you
were in elementary school do a headstand?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Who Jenny about it? Rest? I know you, So then
go ahead and donate. That's worth five or ten.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Seeing all the coins falling out of pocket too, a
lot of coin BILLI and.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
I want to scrap that up like Corbridge McDuck over here,
we are.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Taking that cash to donate to Children's office.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
We did get a.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Text message thing that they would donate fifty dollars if
Bernie called in. Well, Bertie, Bernie came right. He then
actually just text me, Bernie, did let me read this text?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
That's my dog. That's my dog.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Yeah, that's a Dave's dog. Bernie just texted me and
he said, oh hey Dad.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
It's me Bernard.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
I wanted to know that I love dogs, and I
hear they bring dogs to children's every show. Afting and
I would donate olive de bones in my little hole
outside in the backyard to go to children so that
more dogs can come in.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
That just came from Bernie.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Wow, I love Bernie. Listen.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Yeah, I hope he can donate online at childrensmn dot
org or he can text us again at five three
nine two one and I will send him the link
directly to donate.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
We get a big spike in donations. Actually since that
headstand bit, we get big spike in donations. We up
to seventy five dollars. Not quite okay there yet? Where
can you watch the headstand video on our Instagram Dave
Ryan's Show. It's on the stories. Okay, here's the thing.
If you're driving right now and you can't donate, but
you want to donate when you get to work or
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when you get to wherever you're going, go ahead and donate.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It's easy to do.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's an easy website and there's a couple of different
ways you can find it.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Well, the website itself has Children's MN dot org and
there's going to be a pop up right when you
go to that website.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
So it's very simple.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
But if it's easier for you, you can go to
any of our Day Ryan Show accounts, whether it's Instagram, Facebook,
davebryanshow dot com. We have everything linked on there, or
you can continue to text Bailey if you'd like to
KTIWB one and Bailey will send you the link and
that's going to go right to your phone and you
can do it on your phone. You don't need a
laptop to donate. You can do it right on your phone.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Thanks to Prime Therapeutics for helping us out today with
the match. And we'll get a total for you for
sure for the whole thing tomorrow morning on the show,
because it will grow through the day. It's Give to
Kids Day today all day, so we'll take donations all
day today and we'll get your total tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
So if you're listening on the podcast right now and
it's three pm on Thursday, we still are taking donations.
We still have matches going on, so please feel free
to donate even if you didn't listen during the actual
morning show hours and you're a podcast listener, because I
know so many people can actually listen because you know,
they got to do their actual job at work or
something and then they listen later on. So feel free
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to donate all day today.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
We got to wrap up but I want to say
thanks to Ashley and everybody here and Nick at Children's
for all the help that you guys give us and
the honor and the opportunity to come by and help
raise money. We appreciate you. Amanda and Derek, Derek, I'll
see at the gym.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
We're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
We're working on twenty seven inch biceps.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Oh nice, right, good luck for on.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
So yeah, we're getting real close. And then of course
thanks to Vaunt back to the station and Jenny and
Bailey and.
Speaker 8 (32:54):
Jarret our engineer who helps us to be able to
broadcast every year.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yep, Jared. I appreciate you, Jared.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And then mostly thanks to you if you donated the
special thank you, but if you just listened and weren't
able to donate, A thank you to you two for
at least creating awareness of the wonderful work that Children's
Minnesota does. Hey, shout out to all the kids and
doctors here too, and all the staff and people who
like her rolling a cart by.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I don't know what you're doing with the cart. She
might have stolen it for all I know, but thanks
for rolling it by. Have a great day. Thank you
for listening. It's kd WB
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