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Nolan's Gift of Giving From December 18th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Look, we got a guest here. It is our our
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  Speaker 1: fine friend, Nolan John. Good morning, Nolan.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm well, thank you Nolan? And he's here with his
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  Speaker 1: dad Phil. Uh Nolan. Hey, first of all, do you
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  Speaker 1: have any idea why your name is Nolan?
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  Speaker 2: I think after the baseball player?
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  Speaker 3: Oh Nolan?
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  Speaker 1: Ryot really really is after? Is that the case? After Nolan?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Phil?
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  Speaker 4: Phil's just kind of shrugging his shoulders and saying, sure, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 4: that sounds good to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, Uh Nolan me three years ago, it
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  Speaker 1: was yeah, how old were you?
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 1: In the third grade, in the third grade, Nolan came
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  Speaker 1: here to the road home and he I guess you'd
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  Speaker 1: heard us talking on the radio about this?
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  Speaker 2: Is that in third grade?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys are just packing up? I got a
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  Speaker 2: chance to talk to you guys. Yeah, and that and
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  Speaker 2: then you Bill you called me home, and then which
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  Speaker 2: I spark seaching, and then I just started doing this.
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  Speaker 1: You started, you started gathering stuff of the road home.
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  Speaker 1: And you've been doing that, uh on a small scale
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  Speaker 1: until this year. And then what you decided you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it even bigger? What did you do?
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  Speaker 2: So what I did, Well, what you mean Mark Faye
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  Speaker 2: gave her from Canyons Canyon real Estate. Uh donated us
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  Speaker 2: like a truck that we feel filled it up.
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  Speaker 1: With like a lot of like stuff.
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  Speaker 4: We went to.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so you got him to donate a truck. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then you then you couldn't drive it. No one,
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  Speaker 1: You're no, I'm not sixteen, you're you know? So so
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  Speaker 1: you you, you and your dad went driving and you
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  Speaker 1: set up some drop off points for people to put
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  Speaker 1: stuff of the road home, right, uh huh yeah? And
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  Speaker 1: and and what how did you fill the truck up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: We actually over filled it a little wow. I like
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  Speaker 1: but I think we have a picture maybe of Nolan
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  Speaker 1: standing in the back of the truck if you go
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  Speaker 1: to x ninety six dot com slash live and probably
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  Speaker 1: we'll be able to see that. They're they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be showing out here any Dawson had that. How much
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  Speaker 1: stuff do you think you got? And where is the truck?
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  Speaker 2: It's like outside of the back.
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  Speaker 1: Okay right here, you're already.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so great, Nolan. We are just so proud
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  Speaker 3: of you for taking that. Dad must be so proud
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  Speaker 3: to you taking that. Initiative here.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, so, do you you have some idea Nolan that
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  Speaker 1: you want to make a career out of helping people
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  Speaker 1: like this sort of? I don't want to become famous,
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  Speaker 1: but other kids that the same thing, Well, other kids.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there it is X ninety six dot com slash live.
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  Speaker 1: It's a picture of Nolan standing in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the truck that full of stuff. It's a remarkable accomplishment, Nolan.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, will you do it again next year?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're you're a terrific person. What school do you
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  Speaker 1: go to? Out of you? Out of you? And you
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  Speaker 1: get good grades?
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  Speaker 2: Math, not really but reading everything else?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, huh yeah. Your parents ought to be very proud
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  Speaker 1: of you. I'm sure you're just and sort of blown
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  Speaker 1: away by you as well. I would think. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: doing it, and uh, we'll see you next year. Okay, yeah, thanks, no,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Nolan. It's Nolan and his dad Phil.
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  Speaker 3: He's in sixth grade and did all that. And if
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  Speaker 3: he can do that, the very least you can do
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  Speaker 3: is call right now eight on one event three hundred
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  Speaker 3: or go to the roadhome dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Is that mom? Is that the mother? What's your what's
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  Speaker 1: your mother? I can't bridge it. Okay, Bridget you you
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  Speaker 1: have some something to do with this as well. Thanks Bridget,
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  Speaker 1: she helped me out. Yeah. Yeah, what a great family. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she did help you out in more ways than one.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and Nolan, you may not be good at math.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't when I was your age as well. And
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  Speaker 4: my teacher said the same thing to me.
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 4: Carrie, You're gonna have a calculator in your pocket.
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  Speaker 1: All your life.
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  Speaker 4: I said, well, it's small, but guess what now we
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  Speaker 4: have a calculator, So don't worry about being bad at math.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, get bad grades.
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  Speaker 2: The thing with school is that, like twenty years from
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  Speaker 2: like now, you're gonna just forget about all you really learned.
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  Speaker 3: Job.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, he's learn so much.
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  Speaker 2: Just why don't we just choose a job and then
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  Speaker 2: we just stick to that for our whole lives and
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  Speaker 2: then if we change your job, then just go back
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  Speaker 2: to school for like another one year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you fitting well. In some totalitarian societies, we
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  Speaker 1: have signed your jobs when you are school. You sign
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  Speaker 1: your jobs when your babies, and then you stay in
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  Speaker 1: that job until you're dead. Yeah, that's right, Nolan, thanks again,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I hope Santa Claus is good
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 3: Eight oh one eight one nine seventy three hundred or
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  Speaker 3: the road Home dot org or venmo and PayPal at
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  Speaker 3: the road Home.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a Texter.
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  Speaker 4: This twelve year old has more compassion for those less
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  Speaker 4: fortunate than thirty percent of this country.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. It's not wrong.
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  Speaker 3: It is true, and I love that he has parents
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  Speaker 3: that embraced it and support supported it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Phil. I talked to Phil on the
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  Speaker 1: phone a lot the dad and he just said, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. This is all him. I don't know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't encourage him to do it.
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  Speaker 4: So eight oh one, eight one, nine seventy three hundred
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  Speaker 4: for the fun Bank. The Roadhome dot org is your website.
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  Speaker 4: To donate on venmo or PayPal at the road Home.
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  Speaker 3: So we are station because it's a media though there's
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of different radio and TV stations here. Our
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  Speaker 3: station is currently at twenty three thousand, five hundred and
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  Speaker 3: seventy five dollars. Our closest competitor is eleven nine hundred
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  Speaker 3: and sixty eight dollars Go Go, but we we are
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  Speaker 3: only at eleven percent of the of the goal. So
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  Speaker 3: we're a long way from where we need to be.
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  Speaker 3: So you can do your part. I mean, maybe you're
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  Speaker 3: you can't do as much as Nolan did filling up
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  Speaker 3: a big truck and bringing it down here. Maybe you're
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  Speaker 3: like our listener who had eight bucks in their Venmo
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  Speaker 3: and sent that into us. Well, every little bit helps