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Speaker 2: That seems like pretty clear Trump style, no hiding, direct ultimatum.

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Speaker 3: However, the world does not need another war.

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Speaker 5: What Trump has really struggled on with this talk of

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Speaker 1: Now is the time for Iran to join us on

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and Trump has won so far during this second

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Speaker 5: This is totally different. Iran for decades has patrolled the

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Speaker 2: So when he was on Air Force One, Donald Trump said,

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Speaker 2: Indianapolis wants to laugh and now we have a data

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Speaker 2: He had an evening show which sold out, and then

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Speaker 2: Big Dumb Eyes World tour. They celebrated by giving him

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was pretty cool. There were some pictures of

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Speaker 5: one of his big selling points. He is absolutely one

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Speaker 5: Everybody is going to enjoy it because he is so clean,

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, filling arenas with clean, fun comedy, And honestly,

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Speaker 2: I just want to do this story because it's Friday

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Speaker 3: So here is.

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Speaker 2: It's one of my all time favorite skits. This is

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Speaker 2: Washington's Dream. It's from Saturday Night Live. You probably remember it.

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Speaker 2: The funniest history, lesson You'll ever get dead, and genius,

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Speaker 2: Confused Troops, revolutionary mic drop.

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 8: I dream of that one day our proud nation will

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Speaker 5: What would one thousand pounds be called.

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Speaker 8: Sir, nothing, because we will have no word for that.

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Speaker 5: It seems like we should have a word for one

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Speaker 9: Sir, And yet we won't, because we are free men,

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Speaker 8: But not all liquids, only soda, wine and alcohol only those, sir, Yes,

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Speaker 5: God will how many leaders are in a gallon?

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Speaker 10: Nobody knows, sir, in this new country, what plans are

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Speaker 5: Distance we measured an inches? See y, so twelve inches

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Speaker 8: Nobody knows.

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Speaker 2: It really does nail our crazy unit system, our measurement system.

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Speaker 5: Right, You don't think about it very much. It's just

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Speaker 5: kind of the way we've always done it. But when

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Speaker 2: Sure, a lot of people saying that they should make

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Speaker 5: Well, that's been the classic Saturday Night Live move. Let's

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Speaker 5: that ninety minute movie was funny for the three minutes

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Speaker 2: So Zillo has ranked Indianapolis as the top US market

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Speaker 3: We're number one, Yeah, a number one.

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Speaker 2: Buyers and indian likely to find homes that fit their

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Speaker 3: That's a bummer when you get into the bidding war.

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Speaker 5: So, I mean, we've looked at the you know, Zillo.

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Speaker 5: It's a lot of people use it as a hobby

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of its aspirational shopping.

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Speaker 5: Of course, you're just having fun you're looking at it.

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Speaker 5: But I go through Zillo and I look at these

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Speaker 5: to be. But what Zillo is telling us is Indianapolis

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Speaker 5: can't imagine what it's like to be in San Francisco,

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Speaker 5: forget sometimes we're kind of insulated here, and we talk

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Speaker 2: So you've got a list of the top ten remote

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Speaker 2: work cities nationwide, and a new study from Coworking Cafe,

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Speaker 2: they said that Karmel is number six and Fishures is

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Speaker 2: and they said that twenty seven percent of Fisher's residents

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Speaker 3: And that's based on.

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Speaker 2: Strong internet and infrastructure. Why do you need strong infrastructure

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Speaker 5: Just strong internet, right, strong internet I guess I need electricity.

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Speaker 5: Is that part of the infrastructure. There are a lot

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Speaker 3: And I thought that we were doing away with the

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Speaker 5: Now they are still keeping track of that. And you know,

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Speaker 5: it's a declining process. So the numbers that you just

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Speaker 3: You're listening to ninety three WYBC Good Morning.

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Speaker 4: And so to have a statement put out by the Bears.

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Speaker 4: Now they're saying to us that that statement is not

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Speaker 4: some confirmation that they're moving to Indiana, but rather that

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Speaker 4: Indiana had asked them to say that, you know, they're

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Speaker 4: going to move forward with the negotiations in Indiana. But

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Speaker 4: I have to say it's very disappointed to hear that

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Speaker 4: But you know, we're waiting to hear from the Bears

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Speaker 2: So he's surprised, dismayed, disappointing, waiting to see what the

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Speaker 3: Dude, you have three years.

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Speaker 2: I'm about to say something nice about the Indiana legislature.

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Speaker 3: What it took them two months to move this needle.

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Speaker 2: Now, whether the needle should be moved, that's a whole

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Speaker 2: different conversation, but the Illinois legislature been been fumbling this

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Speaker 5: Look, well, you think that it's nice that the Indiana

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Speaker 5: so if you really want something, you can get it

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Speaker 5: And guess what they really want more than anything to

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Speaker 5: spend your money. Oh you mean we could spend billions

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Speaker 5: of taxpayer dollars. Sign me up for that. We'll leave it.

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Speaker 5: We'll come into work early, we'll stay late, we'll work

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Speaker 5: and spend your money. Keep in mind here. Yeah, and

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Speaker 5: here's my impression of JB. Pritzker right there.

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Speaker 2: What he's not having a good week because the announcement

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Speaker 3: Pritzker's not looking good right now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he wins the award for Loser of the Week

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Speaker 5: because he's just getting his brains bashed in over there.

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Speaker 5: So keep in mind, and let's take a step back here.

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Speaker 5: In all of this, there's a Bears play at Soldier

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Speaker 5: over it. They're just a renter there. Essentially, the stadium

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Speaker 5: And the Bear said, look, we'll put in two billion

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Speaker 5: But City of Chicago, Illinois, you got a pony up

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Speaker 5: some and there were these beautist, beautiful artist renderings drawn,

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Speaker 5: well buy this property in Arlington Heights. It has been

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Speaker 5: So you can imagine how frustrated the Bears are. They

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Speaker 5: buy this property out in Arlington Heights and it looks great,

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Speaker 5: It's being reported everywhere the Bears were looking at having

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Speaker 5: that's really what it's all come down to because the

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Speaker 5: you want to do it in Indiana. We got two billion.

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Speaker 5: We got two billion. Now we're going to need your

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Speaker 2: So yeah, the Chicago Bear is going to put up

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Speaker 2: I mentioned, in two months, oh, they found a billion dollars. Interesting,

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Speaker 2: the stadium Authority would own the stadium and then lease

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Speaker 3: But you've got comments on both sides.

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Speaker 2: More from Governor Pritzker, he was talking to reporters and

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Speaker 4: Look, I've set out some principles. I want to protect

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Speaker 4: would need, both in Indiana they would need it, but

438
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Speaker 4: here in Illinois. And also that we need to make

439
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Speaker 4: sure that we're building into this affordability for people so

440
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Speaker 4: that they can maybe afford to go to a game

441
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 4: or afford to pay for things at the game. We

442
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Speaker 4: want to make sure that we're protecting the consumers and

443
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Speaker 4: taxpayers of the state. So those are just some of

444
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Speaker 4: the principles that I've laid out. We have made a

445
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Speaker 4: lot of advancement in that conversation with them. So again

446
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Speaker 4: I'm surprised, dismayed, very disappointed at what I saw in

447
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 4: a statement. Again, the Bears post that have said, well,

448
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Speaker 4: we didn't really mean that they're moving to Indiana, which

449
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 4: is kind of the implication of it, but it's apparently

450
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Speaker 4: not true.

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Speaker 2: So are they gonna take the football away? Like you know,

452
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Speaker 2: Charlie Brown, Lucy and Charlie.

453
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Speaker 5: Brown I'm gonna give you my prediction on all of this. Yeah,

454
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,120
Speaker 5: when all the dust settles, the Bears go to Arlington

455
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 5: Heights and the Okay, in the state of Illinois, this

456
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,679
Speaker 5: is this is still all negotiations. Now the negotiations are

457
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 5: getting nasty. I mean, because that's what this is. So

458
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 5: think about this. Think what the Bears happened. They had

459
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 5: a meeting with Bear staff members and the legislature in Illinois.

460
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 5: They met on Wednesday, and supposedly it was a good meeting,

461
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 5: and then the Illinois legislature was scheduled to have another

462
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 5: meeting with just the legislators on Thursday. We all know

463
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 5: in Indiana, we had the vote here to get that

464
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 5: bill out of committee. And then the Bears called the

465
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 5: Illinois legislators and said, hey, cancel that committee meeting that

466
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Speaker 5: you're going to have on Thursday, because we got a

467
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 5: better deal over here. This is the equivalent of like

468
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 5: sitting in a big board room and two sides are

469
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Speaker 5: negotiating over something and the one side, who is the

470
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 5: Chicago Bears, basically just stood up and walked out of

471
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 5: the room and said, what are you going to do

472
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 5: about it? We got a better offer over here in Indiana,

473
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 5: And ultimately, what I think the Bears are going to

474
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,439
Speaker 5: do is now that things look much more firm and

475
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 5: there's actually specificity on the mechanics of how Indiana is

476
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 5: going to pay for this. A food and beverage tax

477
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 5: in northwest Indiana, a hotel tax, and other funding mechanisms.

478
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 5: There's more details. It looks more firm. What the Bears

479
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 5: are likely going to do is they're going to take

480
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 5: that piece of paper and they're going to go back

481
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 5: to the Illinois legislature and go here, what are you

482
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 5: going to do about it?

483
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Speaker 4: Right?

484
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Speaker 3: This is what they're doing. What are you guys going

485
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Speaker 3: to do?

486
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 2: The Indiana would back bonds just like they did with

487
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 2: the Lucas Oil Stadium for the colts, and taxes around

488
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Speaker 2: the stadium would help pay for it. As you mentioned,

489
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 2: the one percent food and beverage tax and porter in

490
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Speaker 2: Lake Counties, also a twelve percent admissions tax in Hammond,

491
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Speaker 2: and potentially doubled hotel taxes in Lake Countis.

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Speaker 3: So you had Rod Blagoyevitch.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Rod, former Illinois govern Rob Belgoyevich.

494
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Speaker 2: He said, we need a new quarterback in Illinois. Governor Pritzker,

495
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 2: who eats like a bear, but throws like a girl.

496
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Speaker 2: Just turn the ball over outplayed by the governor ne Store,

497
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: our beloved Chicago Bears are about to move into Indiana.

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Speaker 3: This would have never happened when I was governor.

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Speaker 5: Oh, okay, okay, you remember Rod Bogoievich, don't you What

500
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 5: did happen when he was governor? So let's go all

501
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 5: the way back to two thousand and eight and a

502
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 5: young Illinois senator named Barack Obama gets elected presidents. So

503
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 5: what happens. That means there's a Senate seat in the

504
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 5: state of Illinois that's got to be filled. And the

505
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 5: way the state of Illinois does things is the governor

506
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Speaker 5: of Illinois select somebody to fill that Senate vacancy. And

507
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Speaker 5: Rod Blagoyevitch was caught on the telephone telling people, I've

508
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 5: got this thing that is gold where I get to

509
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 5: pick a US senator and I want something in exchange

510
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 5: for it. I'm summarizing there. And then of course there

511
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 5: was a big trial and he went to prison over it.

512
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 5: So he's out of prison now and looking, I guess

513
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 5: to inject himself back into Illinois politics here and given

514
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 5: Mayor Ron Johnson and Governor Pritzker a couple of noogies

515
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Speaker 5: on the head with this as they're dealing with the Bears.

516
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 2: So you've got some people saying that this trade deal

517
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 2: is great for Indiana because Indiana will get the Chicago

518
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: Bears with this new billion dollar stadium, which will be

519
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 2: great for tourism in the economy. Meanwhile, Chicago gets Obama's

520
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 2: DEI garbage. Can you had the Mayor of Hammond, He

521
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 2: says he believes that the Chicago Bears will ultimately.

522
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Speaker 3: Choose Indiana over Illinois.

523
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Speaker 2: The Mayor of Chicago not real happy about this. Here

524
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 2: is Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is upset about the Chicago

525
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 2: Bears potentially leaving Chicago for Indiana.

526
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Speaker 11: The Bears belong in the city of Chicago. The Chicago

527
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 11: Bears belong in the city of Chicago, right, And I've

528
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 11: said repeatedly that the door is always open for conversations,

529
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 11: you know. And you know what, you know, Kevin Warren,

530
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Speaker 11: did you call me yesterday? We didn't get a chance

531
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Speaker 11: to connect, you know. And I still firmly believe that

532
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 11: their best position is in Chicago. And it's evidence. The

533
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 11: evidence is clearly speaking for itself.

534
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 2: Nothing is ever their own fault about how they run

535
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 2: this city. But wait, I think we're getting word here. Oh, yes,

536
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 2: here it is. This is a live look of the

537
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 2: mayor of Chicago.

538
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 3: Don't go, please, don't go.

539
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 5: But did you hear him in that way?

540
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 3: I hate that to happen under his watch.

541
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 5: Look, the guys losing the Chicago Bears all the prestige

542
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 5: and revenue that comes with it. This is a big deal.

543
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 5: Everybody's talking about it. And he just admitted right there.

544
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 5: Kevin Warren from the Bears called me, but I didn't

545
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 5: take his phone call right.

546
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 3: But then he's to say, why are you doing this?

547
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 5: Why are you doing this to me? Well, let's call

548
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 5: and talk about it. No, no, no, I'm too busy. Here's

549
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 5: the other key point in all of this. And I

550
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 5: think this is why one of the big reasons why

551
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 5: I think ultimately the Bears are going to stay in

552
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 5: Illinois and end up in Arlington Heights. The Indiana legislature

553
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 5: wraps up in the next week or two. Here, the

554
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 5: Illinois legislature is until.

555
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 3: The end of May, So keep wheeling a dealing.

556
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 5: Illinois's good End's gonna have to finalize whatever we've got.

557
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 5: Give it to the Bears, and then Illinois is gonna

558
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 5: have three more months to try and beat it.

559
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 2: You're listening to ninety three WYBC, the Raymond of him.

560
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 3: Did you catch the Olympics last night?

561
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 5: Yesterday? The Olympics were so good all day yesterday, so good.

562
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 3: Especially that gold medal winning.

563
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 2: Ice skater Alyssa lou Her story is absolutely incredible. I

564
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 2: don't know if you're familiar with everything about this young woman.

565
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 2: She was a prodigy, was a world champion, was an Olympian,

566
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Speaker 2: and at the age of sixteen, said.

567
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 3: This is too much for me.

568
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 2: I am retiring from the world of skating, went on

569
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 2: a few vacations, said she wanted to actually just be

570
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: a teenager, enjoy.

571
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 3: Her life and be a kid again and not have

572
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 3: all of the pressure.

573
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 2: And then went on a ski trip and realized that

574
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 2: she kind of liked the competition and wanted to go

575
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 2: back to ice skating, but this time she wanted to.

576
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 3: Do it under her rules.

577
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 2: She wanted her dad to not pick the music, not decide.

578
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 3: Everything for her.

579
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: She wanted to be in control of her own destiny

580
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: and ended up, you know, finding the joy in the competition, and.

581
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 3: You could clearly see it last night on her performance.

582
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 5: Yes, there's a lot of aspects to her story. So

583
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 5: let's go back and talk about her dad again, because

584
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 5: her uh, her father immigrated to this country. So her

585
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 5: father was part of the Tienamen Square protests in China

586
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 5: back in the eighties, and then obviously China cracked down

587
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 5: hard on those they were looking for all the protest organizers.

588
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 5: So he leaves China, immigrates legally to the United States,

589
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 5: ends up having six kids here, becomes a lawyer, very

590
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 5: successful attorney, four kids, okay, but has an whole passel

591
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 5: full of kids. Comes here as a very successful attorney,

592
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 5: and then you know, sees this talent in his daughter

593
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 5: and you know, encourages her to become a figure skater.

594
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 5: And now here she is, all these years later and

595
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 5: a gold medal winner for the United States of America.

596
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 2: It was also reported that they were spying on them

597
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 2: and they were trying to get her to represent China

598
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 2: in the Olympics. Prompted an FBI intervention, and they wanted

599
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: to pay her to skate for China, and her and

600
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 2: her family said no, we're skating for America. And then

601
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,239
Speaker 2: she became the first American in twenty years to win

602
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 2: the Olympic gold medal and I skating.

603
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, so there's a contrasts very much with

604
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 5: Eileen gru who is the American born and you know,

605
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 5: went to American universities and she's a downhill skier and

606
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 5: she's an American citizen. But in the last two Winter

607
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 5: Olympics she's been competing for the Chinese and it finally

608
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 5: came out she's making fifteen to twenty million dollars a

609
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 5: year from China and that's why she competed with for

610
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 5: the Chinese the last two Winter Olympics, despite the fact

611
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 5: that she's an American citizen. And so they Chinese basically

612
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 5: tried to do the same thing to this ice skater

613
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 5: here and basically tried to recruit her and get her

614
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 5: to come and you know, compete for China and give

615
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 5: her millions and millions of dollars. So you've got this

616
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 5: real contrast here of the downhill skier that took China

617
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 5: up on the offer and took all the money, and

618
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,959
Speaker 5: then you've got the American figure skater that didn't who

619
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 5: ended up winning gold.

620
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful skating routine, and her father persecuted by the

621
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 2: CCP fled to America. Her daughter wins Olympic gold for

622
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: the United States of America. Just a great American story.

623
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 2: She was asked if she felt the pressure, and she said,

624
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 2: you know, no, man, I just want to have fun.

625
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 10: Do you feel any kind of pressure that now I've

626
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 10: got it to the Olympics and I need to win gold.

627
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 2: No.

628
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 7: Actually, I'm really excited because my goal, honestly, is just

629
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 7: to hype people up, give them an experience, whether it's

630
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 7: negative or positive. As long as people are feeling some

631
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 7: strong emotions and anticipation, I'm fine with that.

632
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 3: I think people did feel some strong emotions.

633
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 2: She did you see when they were doing the metal

634
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: ceremony playing the national anthem, and at one point she

635
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: was which which.

636
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 3: Hand do I put over my heart?

637
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 2: Like she was going to lift the wrong hand, and nope,

638
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 2: that's not right, and she ended up placing her hand

639
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 2: over the heart during the national anthem.

640
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 3: Now, don't get it wrong, don't get it twisted.

641
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 2: She has very progressive views, however, proud to be in America.

642
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 5: Very proud to be an American, and very proud to

643
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 5: represent the United States of America. And she's talked about

644
00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 5: that it is also the first women's individual limpic ice

645
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 5: skating gold medal since the Salt Lake City Olympics in

646
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 5: two thousand and two, so twenty four years since an

647
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 5: individual woman has won gold medal for the United States

648
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 5: in ice skating.

649
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 2: She stopped the drought on that for sure. You're listening

650
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 2: to ninety three WIBC.

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00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 3: Good morning,