Speaker 1: It's time for another Dave Ryan show for Christmas Wish.
Speaker 1: We have a very different Christmas Wish today and we're
Speaker 1: so happy to do this. One. One of our big
Speaker 1: sponsors partners on Christmas Wish is Youth Link because we've
Speaker 1: been working with youth Link for like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: ten years or so. Co Quay is on the phone.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Co, Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you guys doing that?
Speaker 1: You are the headhun show? Is that right over at Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't know about all that, but I am part
Speaker 2: of leadership team.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Co.
Speaker 1: We've been working with you. We've been working with you
Speaker 1: guys for a long time, and we want to do
Speaker 1: a wish for youth Link. So will you take a minute,
Speaker 1: Co and tell us what youth Link does. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people know, but a lot of people
Speaker 1: might need a little familiarization for sure. For sure.
Speaker 2: So we're a nonprofit who serves young people experiencing homelessness
Speaker 2: and crisis. So we are our demographic that we serve
Speaker 2: our youth that are sixteen or twenty four, and so
Speaker 2: we have a drop incenter and we also have housing services.
Speaker 2: So young people come into our space to acquire basic needs,
Speaker 2: have a safe place to be, create community, food, work
Speaker 2: with case managers, and also build community. And so our
Speaker 2: space is multifaceted, and we do we do a lot.
Speaker 2: We do a lot in our space. So a lot
Speaker 2: of it is around providing those services, those case management
Speaker 2: services for those young people that we serve.
Speaker 1: And you know what I've got. I've got a twenty
Speaker 1: four year old son, and you just can't imagine a
Speaker 1: twenty four year old or a sixteen year old or
Speaker 1: a twenty year old, you know, homeless. But a lot
Speaker 1: of them leave home because it is no longer a
Speaker 1: tenable situation for them to stay at home right Coe for.
Speaker 2: Sure, for sure, And young people that walk through our doors,
Speaker 2: everybody that walk through our doors has a different reason
Speaker 2: of why they're walking through the doors. It's housing needs,
Speaker 2: or it's just to you know, get them, get them
Speaker 2: on the right path to resilience and independence and being
Speaker 2: able to provide that with our case managers and our
Speaker 2: staff within our space.
Speaker 1: How do your about your people, the people to come
Speaker 1: to you, how do they find out about Youthlink Because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people find themselves suddenly. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm going to guess they find themselves
Speaker 1: suddenly homeless where they just cannot stay at home anymore
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. How do kids young people find out about?
Speaker 2: You think for sure? For sure mainly community based right
Speaker 2: and so young people who are navigating these these these circumstances,
Speaker 2: they have networks and communities that also provide the resource.
Speaker 2: We do a lot of outreach, So we're at schools,
Speaker 2: we're at the libraries, we're at encampments, we're out on
Speaker 2: the streets looking for young people, actually meeting them where
Speaker 2: they are physically and being able to provide those resources
Speaker 2: and bring them back to Youth Flam to be able
Speaker 2: to access more resources. Our overreach team does a lot
Speaker 2: in community providing resources on the spot, but the majority
Speaker 2: of the resources are in houses so we can get
Speaker 2: them in house and get them connected to case management
Speaker 2: that the opportunity to grow is a lot higher.
Speaker 1: I think that's so wonderful because you know, you think
Speaker 1: about I'm not sure what you know, your situation code
Speaker 1: when you were growing up. My kid's situation they never
Speaker 1: they were never threatened with anything other than you know,
Speaker 1: just a regular ordinary kind of a Christmas. Most people listening,
Speaker 1: So you really can't imagine yourself at sixteen years old
Speaker 1: kind of trying to find your own way and you
Speaker 1: really it's got to be very difficult to do. So
Speaker 1: thankful for youth Link and all the work that you
Speaker 1: people do over at youth Link as you know, as
Speaker 1: helping people out that are homeless, that are young. So
Speaker 1: we want to we want to give you some things
Speaker 1: to help make it easier for you and your team
Speaker 1: and the and the youth who go to youth Link.
Speaker 1: So one of the things we first heard about was
Speaker 1: the community room could use a gaming area just to
Speaker 1: kind of get together and whether it's like you know,
Speaker 1: video games or TV or whatever, they're like a gaming
Speaker 1: areas for people to come to and kind of congregate
Speaker 1: and form community.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, for sure, definitely it's not all about
Speaker 2: the resources. Like a lot of young people come into
Speaker 2: our space, like I said, because of that community, because
Speaker 2: of the safe space, because of the place where you know,
Speaker 2: they feel comfortable, they feel heard, they feel seen. So
Speaker 2: if navigating homeless stense and housing is a big piece
Speaker 2: for them, a lot of their a lot of their
Speaker 2: hours throughout the day are spent you know, in our
Speaker 2: dropping center.
Speaker 1: So here's some of the things we have for for
Speaker 1: your community area, the gaming area. We got a Nintendo
Speaker 1: Switch with four controllers in some games. Now here's the
Speaker 1: thing about a Nintendo Switch. It's a it's a handheld
Speaker 1: gaming device, but you can't just play. You can play
Speaker 1: it handheld, but when you got fifteen kids all watching
Speaker 1: you play Animal Crossing or you know, Mario Kart, you
Speaker 1: got to put it on a big old TV. So
Speaker 1: we got a brand new fifty inch TV to go
Speaker 1: along with the Nintendo Switch. Okay, amazing. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: we got a coffee table to put in the room too.
Speaker 1: But then we heard some you need some furniture for
Speaker 1: the waiting room. The chairs are kind of the chairs
Speaker 1: have seen better days, Is that right?
Speaker 2: Definitely, they get a lot of they get a lot
Speaker 2: of usage.
Speaker 1: So yes, I'm sure. So we got a three thousand
Speaker 1: dollars Slumberland Furniture gift card to help you get some
Speaker 1: new furniture so people have a comfortable place to wait
Speaker 1: when they arrive at Youth Link for the very first time.
Speaker 1: So three thousand dollars over at Slumberland, we hope will
Speaker 1: help you guys out. There's a lot of people who
Speaker 1: and and we really hope you can use this. Basically,
Speaker 1: we got a Melbourne Clothing company in St. Melbourne Clothing
Speaker 1: in Saint Paul send us a thousand dollars gift card.
Speaker 1: Now they specialize in men's clothing and suits and pants
Speaker 1: and jackets, and we're helping that maybe some of the
Speaker 1: young people that you start serving, they're maybe getting ready
Speaker 1: for interviews or they need to dress up to go
Speaker 1: to this or whatever. So Milbourne Clothing is providing a
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars gift card and you can spend it
Speaker 1: on forever you want, whatever you want over there. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Melbourne Clothing, they did this unsolicited men's quality brand
Speaker 1: name in private label clothing at everyday value prices. Check
Speaker 1: out Melbourne m I, L, B, E r N dot
Speaker 1: com And just a big shout out to those guys
Speaker 1: because they texted a couple of weeks ago and they said, hey,
Speaker 1: can you use this? They said absolutely, and so unsolicited
Speaker 1: they send over a gift card.
Speaker 4: Something you don't usually think about, so it's nice they
Speaker 4: thought about it for.
Speaker 1: You, right, one hundred and one dollars holiday gas card.
Speaker 1: You can use that for whatever you want, for staff
Speaker 1: or for people who come to youth Link three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars High V gift card to keep the fridges stocked
Speaker 1: because I'm going to guess people come in and want
Speaker 1: pizza rolls and you know, diet doctor Pepper and things
Speaker 1: like that, so high Vs provide that and then everybody
Speaker 1: loves pizza. Everybody loves pizza. Broadway Pizza Company is going
Speaker 1: to give you an entire office pizza party. Two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars in Broadway pizza gift cards for you and everybody
Speaker 1: over there at youth Link Co.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's amazing time for a pizza party, for sure.
Speaker 1: For sure, it is for sure. So CO, thanks for
Speaker 1: all you do. We appreciate you and we just hope
Speaker 1: you have the best possible Christmas. And thanks for continuing
Speaker 1: to provide services for homeless youth over at youth Link Co.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You have no TIBN. Appreciate you all. This means a
Speaker 2: lot more than you guys can CO.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad we partnered with you. Guys. We really
Speaker 1: appreciate the partnership and we'll see you again next year.
Speaker 4: CO.
Speaker 1: All right for holiday, Yes, happy holidays, And that is
Speaker 1: one of those wishes where it's just different, and we're
Speaker 1: just happy to help people that again, you'll never meet them,
Speaker 1: you'll never see them. They will be thank without even
Speaker 1: knowing about you. But we appreciate all that we are
Speaker 1: able to do for Youth Link and for being a
Speaker 1: great partner for the past. My god, it's been ten
Speaker 1: years already. That's crazy. Little Christmas music for Christmas wish
Speaker 1: on Katie w b yan on Katie wb Well, we're
Speaker 1: just kind of screwing around this morning. We play a
Speaker 1: little game called the Fa La La La La Game,
Speaker 1: and you can play this the home version available at
Speaker 1: Games by James. But basically, you're going to call anybody
Speaker 1: on your in your contacts and you're gonna say deck
Speaker 1: the halls with thousand of Holly, and you're going to
Speaker 1: see whether they answer correctly. Fa La la la la,
Speaker 1: la la la La. I call my daughter Alison right now, Okay,
Speaker 1: and here we go. Well, yep, she's back at work,
Speaker 1: though that she may be at work, or she may
Speaker 1: be working from whom, but she'll play. She'll get it,
Speaker 1: she'll will get it. She'll play a lot answers if
Speaker 1: she answers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be your big debut since the Hollister song.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, I'm gonna say no answer on all right, Jenny.
Speaker 5: You're up next, calling my mother because you know that's
Speaker 5: my mother. Yeah, she loves her play stuff to this.
Speaker 6: I get you.
Speaker 5: Deck the halls with bows of holly.
Speaker 1: There's our girl. Good good, good good good.
Speaker 3: Okay that she keeps going, Mom, that's all.
Speaker 6: We need us all get out of here.
Speaker 3: He took it too far, like I do all the time.
Speaker 3: All right, by mom, love you.
Speaker 6: Okay. I'm gonna just see if my sister answers. I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 4: I called my mom and I know she would, but
Speaker 4: I feel like it's cheating at this point.
Speaker 6: My sister's a teacher. She's not gonna answer. Dad. I
Speaker 6: don't know anybody who doesn't work.
Speaker 7: Hell.
Speaker 8: Deck the halls with bows of holly.
Speaker 6: She got it and you under water?
Speaker 8: No, I was just giving a voice.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you. I appreciate you playing.
Speaker 8: All right, you won bye bye bye.
Speaker 9: All right, I'm gonna call I'll keep the theme. I'll
Speaker 9: call my mother. She's probably at work, but we'll see
Speaker 9: what happens.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Deck the halls with bowels of holly. You see, like
Speaker 6: you questioned it for two seconds.
Speaker 9: You were like, awesome, I love you.
Speaker 3: Everyone's like, okay, that's a lot.
Speaker 6: You guys have really scraping the bucket with the continent.
Speaker 6: At the end of the year, I.
Speaker 1: Can call intern shown.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they would be off because they're an hour ahead
Speaker 5: of us. Okay, all right, gonna call. We're going running
Speaker 5: a circle. We're going around again. All right, Let's see
Speaker 5: if this lady answers, it's fally fally be. She might
Speaker 5: be at the Jason Show already. Hello, tack the house
Speaker 5: with bows of holly.
Speaker 1: You are so hot.
Speaker 3: Thank you for.
Speaker 4: Jenny doesn't other words. Okay, I'm gonna call Katie Cap.
Speaker 4: We'll see if Katie Cap responds here.
Speaker 3: She works from home.
Speaker 8: Al all right, we'll tack the halls with bows of holly.
Speaker 6: Mouth lord, when.
Speaker 1: Bye, Katie?
Speaker 6: You think our boss Rich would answer the phone.
Speaker 9: Let's see. Let's call him. You think you'd play along?
Speaker 9: He says, you're fired. Don't feel me now, Rich, deck.
Speaker 6: The halls with bows of holly. That's richest wife and
Speaker 6: his daughter. Thank you, guys, I win, thank you.
Speaker 1: By hey, I'm calling a powerful attorney, Jonathan Fogel Family Law.
Speaker 1: Let me see if you.
Speaker 6: Can get on the board here, Dave. Yeah, again, I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I got to get a win here.
Speaker 6: Ye keeps losing, We'll keep playing to he wins.
Speaker 1: Okay, then.
Speaker 6: Nobody loves you.
Speaker 3: Sorry, everyone's busy. They work. Apparently nobody that we know work.
Speaker 4: No, I'll call someone who I know is going to answer.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 6: Deck the halls with.
Speaker 1: Bows fall he didd you guys, play your own version
Speaker 1: of this one. Call friends at random, co workers, whatever God.
Speaker 9: Forbid in an emergent see because no one will ever
Speaker 9: pick up the phone.
Speaker 1: God no kidding. We'll come back. We'll do Dave's dirt
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Speaker 1: What do you got, Jenny.
Speaker 5: So there's some drama going on in the Beckham family. Basically,
Speaker 5: it came out that David Beckham and Victoria Beckham stopped
Speaker 5: following their their older son Brooklyn. But then the other son, Cruise,
Speaker 5: came to the rescue and said, uh huh, Mom and
Speaker 5: dad didn't stop following their son. Literally, Brooklyn blocked all
Speaker 5: of us, like they all spoke up one morning and
Speaker 5: Brooklyn went in blocked them. There's a lot of drama
Speaker 5: with Brooklyn and his wife and Victoria and David, just
Speaker 5: some stuff that happened at the wedding and stuff, and
Speaker 5: it sounds very petty. And I'm sure I don't know
Speaker 5: whose side to take because we really don't have a
Speaker 5: ton of information, but clearly that family doesn't get along.
Speaker 6: How like, uh, we have family beef. He had followed me.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying it like, it's weird what's
Speaker 6: going on here? Yeah? Very weird in general.
Speaker 4: Timothy Chalome is now featured on sd Kids track. There
Speaker 4: was a lot of talk going on about him being
Speaker 4: this guy that was kind of famous on TikTok for
Speaker 4: being a rapper who only ever shows his eyes, and
Speaker 4: his eyes matched Timothy Shalomy's eyes, so rumor went around
Speaker 4: that he was the same guy.
Speaker 6: They are not, so now they have been featured together.
Speaker 6: And here's the track for Misty Kids shall ceiling trying
Speaker 6: to stack a hundred million girls got a ballion with a.
Speaker 9: Little wonderful finline hinted a ceiling hinted Swincerland scene I'm
Speaker 9: living a dream getting the cream.
Speaker 1: I'm living on them.
Speaker 6: I'm doing them. Over the weekend, there was a boxing match.
Speaker 9: It was Anthony Joshua versus Jake Paul and here is
Speaker 9: I guess they call it the final call of Anthony
Speaker 9: Joshua knocking Jake Paul.
Speaker 1: F out man.
Speaker 6: I've already won in every single way.
Speaker 1: And here you go.
Speaker 6: Shot knows that much he's gonna puts all right now.
Speaker 6: Jenny is tall, Davis twenty one, hitch biceps. But if
Speaker 6: they did a boxing match, Bailey, who do you think
Speaker 6: would win of David?
Speaker 1: Jenny?
Speaker 6: Yes, Jenny really?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jenny could Like I feel like Jenny's legs are
Speaker 4: kind of like anaconda's where if they squeeze you too
Speaker 4: hard you will explode.
Speaker 1: Well, we're talking about boxing, not MMA.
Speaker 6: Well, she would find a way. Okay, she'd find a way.
Speaker 6: Bailey versus me, who do you think is winning?
Speaker 1: You are wiry and she is lazy? Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: would say you would win.
Speaker 3: Fink, you would win?
Speaker 6: Why I could tell you that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Does that mean wirey? You're quick? You're nimble?
Speaker 6: Oh to climb something tall?
Speaker 1: And then so it turns out that Matt Damon claims
Speaker 1: that he was offered a role in Avatar for two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars. That seems excessive to me,
Speaker 1: even for a Matt Damon role. James Cameron says, uh,
Speaker 1: not true. We talked about if the offer was never
Speaker 1: even made. So I still love James Cameron, mostly because
Speaker 1: he did Titanic, but because he just seems like so
Speaker 1: amazingly creative. And he did Avatar, which I've never seen before,
Speaker 1: but I know it's like one of the biggest hits ever.
Speaker 1: So Matt Damon lied about being offered a role in
Speaker 1: Avatar safe face.
Speaker 6: I guess.
Speaker 5: Tom Brady shared something over the weekend that was kind
Speaker 5: of cryptic because his ex wife Giselle got married or
Speaker 5: at least showed her wedding ring or something to the
Speaker 5: new guy that she's been with. And Tom posted a
Speaker 5: photo of him in like some sweatsh that said Forever
Speaker 5: Young on it, and then he attached the logic song
Speaker 5: that has the mental health awareness. I think it's a
Speaker 5: suicide prevention specifically line to it, and that's what the
Speaker 5: song is called.
Speaker 3: So it was a weird song choice. After Jazelle for
Speaker 3: the first time posted.
Speaker 5: Something like that, and then he went ahead and he
Speaker 5: posted a song like that.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, it doesn't seem like he I think there
Speaker 5: were rumors that he dated Kim Kardashian since him and
Speaker 5: Gazelle broke up. But outside of that, it doesn't seem
Speaker 5: like he's been out there. He's decided to sit back
Speaker 5: and reflect my stead. Yeah, I like to sit. I
Speaker 5: can get deals from Holiday station stores personally, Yeah, seven
Speaker 5: dollars meal deal. It's a personal pizza and a drink
Speaker 5: for seven bucks. So go ahead and get that today.
Speaker 5: If you're hungry and you need something quick. You know
Speaker 5: what self care? Self care.
Speaker 4: Bon Yang is getting emotional because Yester or Not yesterday
Speaker 4: Saturday Night Live episode This past Saturday was his last episode.
Speaker 7: I just feel so lucky that I ever got to
Speaker 7: work here, and I just wanted to enjoy for a
Speaker 7: little bit longer.
Speaker 6: Especially the people.
Speaker 7: I've loved, every single person works here because they've done
Speaker 7: so much to me, especially my boss.
Speaker 5: Oh she is.
Speaker 8: Before I go, do you have any feedbacks for me?
Speaker 6: Well, everyone thought you were a little bit too gay.
Speaker 1: Do you know what? You're perfect from me?
Speaker 6: And that's all Ryegrata and share, by the way, cute.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Kate Winslet is looking back at a difficult chapter
Speaker 1: of her life. She said, I was a little bit stocky,
Speaker 1: and when I did start taking it much more seriously
Speaker 1: and I got a child agent. I remember vividly, a
Speaker 1: drama teacher. She said, well, darling, you'll have a career
Speaker 1: if you're ready to settle for fat little girl parts.
Speaker 1: She says, look at me. Now. That wasn't very nice,
Speaker 1: was it. It's appalling the things people say to kids.
Speaker 1: She made her acting debut at the age of fifteen.
Speaker 1: Is the fat girl. That's a joke. No laughs in
Speaker 1: the studio, but you know whatever, I take a chance
Speaker 1: here and there. She said that she barely ate from
Speaker 1: fifteen to nineteen years old, which is kind of scary.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I feel like that time too.
Speaker 4: I mean, Jenny and I grew up during that time,
Speaker 4: and that was rough because they were out here like saying,
Speaker 4: Jessica Simpson and Renee Zellweger.
Speaker 6: Were fat and they were not at all whatsoever. So
Speaker 6: that was yeah, weird to be alive, all right.
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Speaker 1: And we'll be back for another one tomorrow. Check out
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Speaker 1: has a rant today on the Minnesota Goodbye. Just look
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