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Speaker 1: little pledge of allegiance here, Grayson with the pledge this morning,

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Speaker 1: Grayson has business to do, man, he is on his

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Speaker 1: Nick right over there, arm Ray. We're glad you're here.

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Speaker 1: I want to remind you that our road to Rosemunt

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Speaker 1: Not have heavily travel today because a lot of people

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Speaker 1: follow Nick, follow me at ramblet Ray and we'll give

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Speaker 1: the next seventy days. This kind of reminds me Nick

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Speaker 1: of the eighty nine Days of Summer's got a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff, the winnings just beginning. Oh yeah, you know,

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Speaker 5: Give me the propane here, Thomas, So the propane propane

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Speaker 4: Why are public libraries closed today? There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: but the polar plunge for tomorrow has been canceled. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: So do we still call it the polar plunge or

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Speaker 1: is it the not so polar plunge or the sort

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Speaker 1: of polar plunge. Why don't we just change it to

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Speaker 1: You want to jump in Lake Michigan? What were you thinking?

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Speaker 1: Nick Nudge Nudge, wink wink, You and I could get

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Speaker 1: Policy Institute. Voters are going to get a saying Illinois

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Speaker 1: Illinois Policy Institute. Nick. Donald Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill,

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Speaker 1: good morning. See that good to have you here. Tell

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Speaker 8: Yes, so this federal scholarship tax credit is really a

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Speaker 8: it provides privately donated funding, so that's important, privately donated

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Speaker 1: Why would he? Why would demand in question of whether

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Speaker 1: So this Miley, and this is Miley Smith from Illinois

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Speaker 1: Policy and Nick, this is interesting to you because you've

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Speaker 8: Tutoring, additional educational classes, books, things like fees for dual enrollment,

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Speaker 1: And tell me how this works, because I know that

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Speaker 8: Exactly so because of this catch, because Governor Pittsford must

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Speaker 1: Do we know how's this been received? If it has

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Speaker 8: So they can't do it yet just because the program

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Speaker 1: This sounds better than what I've been donating too recently.

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Speaker 8: Well, we know that where there is pushback from the

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Speaker 1: Students get well, I tell you, you know, it's amazing,

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Speaker 1: Nick and I talk about this. We met a family

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Speaker 1: south side of Chicago, Hispanic family. Guy and his wife

431
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Speaker 1: were working four jobs, maybe even five, just to get

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Speaker 1: their kid into a private school. And you know, you

433
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Speaker 1: have to ask yourself, how are you helping your constituents

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Speaker 1: if you're not helping out folks like that that are

435
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Speaker 1: you know, trying, you know, with the best intentions to

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Speaker 1: do the best for their kids. And listen, I'm sure

437
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Speaker 1: there's great teachers within the Chicago public teacher public school system,

438
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Speaker 1: but it's such an organization run on with political political

439
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Speaker 1: bent and I don't know how that helps kids. Well,

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Speaker 1: this will be on the ballot. What is it? Is

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Speaker 1: it March seventeenth? Is that correct? On the primary ballot?

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Speaker 8: Okay, it'll be on ballot in March. Yeah, And we

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Speaker 8: do have a map on our website onlois policy dot org.

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Speaker 8: You click on that education pad and we have a

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Speaker 8: number of articles about this, including the map where you

446
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Speaker 8: can see who's on the ballot. We also have a

447
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Speaker 8: calculator in our articles that helps you understand if your

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Speaker 8: child would be eligible.

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Speaker 3: To receive fin Well.

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Speaker 1: I have fun see if your kid knows how to

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Speaker 1: use that calculator. Miley Smith Illinois Policy in Illinois policy

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Speaker 1: dot org. That's where you go and you can find

453
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Speaker 1: out a lot of good stuff, including the latest here

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Speaker 1: and make sure you know what's on the ballot coming

455
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Speaker 1: up in March. Because this seems to me like a

456
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Speaker 1: like a win for kids. Appreciate you always, nice to

457
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Speaker 1: have you on. Thank you, Miley Smith around the Magina

458
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Speaker 1: nine w LS. I mean, Nick, I mean you know,

459
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Speaker 1: once you're in the suburbs, you know schools are going

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Speaker 1: to be what schools are going to be and my

461
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 1: kids went and went through the Batavia district, and I'm

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Speaker 1: told about how liberal and how indoctrinating it is, But

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Speaker 1: I will be very clear, I've had a great experience

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Speaker 1: with that school system out there. Some of the teachers

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Speaker 1: I know, we didn't see eye to eye on politics

466
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Speaker 1: with and became friends. But it wasn't to the point of, well,

467
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Speaker 1: you can't get along and you can't have a give

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Speaker 1: and take. But here in Chicago it's decidedly different. But

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're probably pretty happy with what you've got

470
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Speaker 1: out where you are. Oh, yeah, for sure. I think

471
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Speaker 1: times have changed. Though your youngest was in school a

472
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Speaker 1: while back, eighteen. Yeah, it's a long time ago.

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Speaker 4: So between now and then ago, Nick, things have probably

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Speaker 4: gotten even more liberally.

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Speaker 1: Five years. Yeah, she was there with COVID, and COVID

476
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Speaker 1: changed a lot of things for a lot of kids,

477
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Speaker 1: So it was tough. When we come back, we'll talk

478
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Speaker 1: about the road to Rosemont wants you to win today.

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Speaker 1: I mean, be a good day to win a staycation

480
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Speaker 1: next week because as you look at this weather and

481
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Speaker 1: now we're talking with Jeff Martin from the Weather Channel

482
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Speaker 1: at six fifty this morning, it's going to stay cold

483
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Speaker 1: for the next six months. Knots pretty interesting. I noticed

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Speaker 1: a lot of businesses are closed in Minneapolis this morning,

485
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Speaker 1: Saint Paul. Some businesses closed in Chicago. A lot of

486
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Speaker 1: folks think that's due to the cold, but really what

487
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Speaker 1: they're doing is they're getting ready to to join the

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Speaker 1: fifty third annual March for Life going on in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. Today. I noticed there's not a lot of

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Speaker 1: liberal news networks that are covering that march, but good

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Speaker 1: stuff for them. This is the fifty third annual March

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Speaker 1: for Life to speak up for those that don't have

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Speaker 1: a voice. And boy, you think this is another one

494
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Speaker 1: of those things that you may want to do when

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Speaker 1: the trees are in bloom. Yeah, And this brings me

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Speaker 1: back to the polar Plunge. We were going to do

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Speaker 1: the polar Plunge. We talked with the polar Plungers polar

498
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Speaker 1: Plungers earlier. It was one of social Stephanie's things she

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Speaker 1: wanted to do for the socials kid and I knew

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Speaker 1: that when we brought this up, this is one of

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Speaker 1: those things that she would have dipped her toe in

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Speaker 1: the water. You know, I've been on some of these

503
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Speaker 1: charity runs with her. I know how she operates. We

504
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Speaker 1: get it for the socials and then you know, I

505
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Speaker 1: carry her the rest of the way in a wagon.

506
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Speaker 1: But the polar plunge, it's supposed to be cold, and

507
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Speaker 1: I get it. But tomorrow it's not going to be

508
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Speaker 1: too too bad. And here's what I say. And I

509
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Speaker 1: want to say hi to our friend. To Jim, who

510
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Speaker 1: Texan quite frequently here on a WLSA eight ninety, he

511
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Speaker 1: said to me, he says, Ray, come on, you have

512
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Speaker 1: to admit. You have to be happy it's canceled, because

513
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Speaker 1: that would be bone chilling cold. And I remember doing

514
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Speaker 1: the polar Plunge for Angel on my Shoulder. Angel on

515
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Speaker 1: my Shoulder was a charity out of northern Wisconsin, I

516
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Speaker 1: believe they were. They're headquartered in Saint Germain, where my

517
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Speaker 1: mom and I have our little hamlet up there in

518
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Speaker 1: the woods. And I don't want to sound like it's

519
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Speaker 1: my mom and like we have our own places. You're

520
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: not staying with mom now, I'm not staying with mom.

521
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Speaker 1: I'm not staying in the basement playing on my computer

522
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Speaker 1: saying you should have run the polar plunge. Listen, I

523
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Speaker 1: know you got to keep people safe. I understand that,

524
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Speaker 1: and I would also think that there has to be

525
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Speaker 1: some kind of an ice shelf on the lake right

526
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Speaker 1: now that would probably keep you from being able to

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Speaker 1: get right in at the beach. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: haven't driven the lake Shore Lakeshore Drive lately to see it.

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Speaker 1: But last week what they do in Wisconsin is they

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Speaker 1: cut open a hole in the ice and you jump in.

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Speaker 1: And last week there were seventy one plus including thirty

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Speaker 1: five first first timers that jumped into the water, raised

533
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Speaker 1: about forty one thousand dollars for Angel on my Shoulder,

534
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Speaker 1: and forty thousand dollars in a community that small and

535
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Speaker 1: goes a long long way, and it was six degrees

536
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Speaker 1: when they went in. So just saying, and I did it,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't do it as Race Stevens or Ramwin

538
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Speaker 1: Ray from Chicago. I would go up there as Race

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Speaker 1: Day School and I would jump in at Fibbers which

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Speaker 1: was on Big Saint Germain Lake. And I think the

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Speaker 1: coldest I ever did it then was thirteen. Make no mistake,

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Speaker 1: it's cold, and you know, maybe at this advanced age, Nick,

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Speaker 1: it's not so smart anymore. But how flipping long do

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Speaker 1: I want to lift well he from the cold water.

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Speaker 1: Be careful or it could shock you back in the rhythm,

546
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. So there's this story I

547
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: see yesterday and I love it. There's a water main

548
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: break and you're going to get a lot of these today,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine, right, God bless the men and women

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Speaker 1: working those And if you're out there working in the

551
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Speaker 1: elements today, you can certainly give us a jingle three

552
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: because people have to work in this weather. And you're

553
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: gonna see him today, and there'll be men and women

554
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: work in construction jobs today, but everybody else will be

555
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: moaning and complaining about it. Hell man, I got an

556
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Speaker 1: electric vest and I'm in a studio West bron Moore

557
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Speaker 1: Avenue and North California Avenue yesterday morning, and uh, there's

558
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Speaker 1: kids that are trying to get to school in this

559
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: crossing guard. If anybody knows who this guy is, I'd

560
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: love to be able to talk to him at some

561
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Speaker 1: point today and make him our WLSA eight ninety everyday hero.

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Speaker 1: But his name is joe Sas Sass, nice Sass. He

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Speaker 1: is nice, yo, Joey says, as Tommy the Mule would say, Whyo,

564
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: why o Joey? So Joey is helping kids cross the intersection,

565
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: and and earlier I joked and said, yeah, they're tenny.

566
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Speaker 1: Their Tenney runners didn't get wet. No, the water was

567
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Speaker 1: deeper than that. And really what happens is one kid

568
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Speaker 1: is standing there and he's like, he's looking at he's

569
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Speaker 1: looking across the street, and he's perplexed because he said

570
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Speaker 1: he didn't want to get his Jordan's in his pants room.

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Speaker 1: So the crossing guard said, if you don't mind asking permission,

572
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Speaker 1: because that's what you have to do these days. You

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Speaker 1: don't want to get in trouble with the kids or

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Speaker 1: with the parents, which is worse. The kids are better

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Speaker 1: than the parents. The parents are the problem. He says,

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Speaker 1: if you don't mind, I'll throw you across my back.

577
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: I'll carry across that torrent of rain or water that's

578
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: rushing through the intersection. And the kids said, sure, pick

579
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Speaker 1: some kids up, get him around the corner, and help

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Speaker 1: moms and strollers and things like that. You see, it's

581
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Speaker 1: craze of the stories I love because those are the

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Speaker 1: stories you never hear about.

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Speaker 4: See, if you would Nick Gale, the crossing guard, I

584
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Speaker 4: would have pulled out some wonder bred sacks and say here,

585
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Speaker 4: put these on your gym shoes.

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Speaker 1: How many times did you do you have to do

587
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: that when you were a kids.

588
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Speaker 4: All the time we didn't have boots in our gym shoes.

589
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Speaker 1: With the bread sacks. You stop and think about the

590
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: makeshift crap that you know goes on to this day.

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Speaker 1: You know what's your what's your hack when it comes

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Speaker 1: to staying warm or protecting your feet. I remember one time, Nick,

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Speaker 1: you bring up you bring up good memories there because

594
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Speaker 1: I was up with my cousin Joey, my twin sister Patty.

595
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Joey Phasio. They were the Phasios back then.

596
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: But once he started buying banks, it was Fazzio. I'm like, okay,

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00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: whatever whatever, goomba and uh and and we go up

598
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Speaker 1: to uh, we go up to Port Washington. That's where

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Speaker 1: I was telling you about the Smith's Fish. Wonderful, wonderful

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Speaker 1: childhood memories up there. But I had these two older

601
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Speaker 1: sisters and I still do, Sheryland Debbie, and they're considerably

602
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Speaker 1: older than my sister and I and uh, and they

603
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: always hated us for being born, which was always problematic

604
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: it's it's stuff when your when your sisters hate you

605
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Speaker 1: just for being born. And they locked us out of

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Speaker 1: a house, uh and and left us in the cold.

607
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Speaker 1: And I remember seeking shelter in a culvert up in

608
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Speaker 1: Port Washington, Wisconsin with wonderbread, wonderbread, uh uh bread uh

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Speaker 1: plastic on my feet.

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Speaker 2: Did you write any letters back home, dearest mother?

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Speaker 1: I did.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I will survive the wind too.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make it back. But I want you

614
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Speaker 1: to know thanks for bringing me up here with the

615
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Speaker 1: two sisters that hate me. Uh. Well, I tell you

616
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Speaker 1: you don't know how blessed you are if you're able

617
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Speaker 1: to afford clothing and things like that and to make

618
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Speaker 1: it through weather like this.

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Speaker 4: So let me tell you something here, because they've identified

620
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Speaker 4: this guys you said as Joe sas right, the Crosston Guard,

621
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Speaker 4: and they say multiple CPS families have commented across the

622
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Speaker 4: social media platform singing his praises.

623
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Speaker 1: He knows many of the kids and their families by name. Yeah,

624
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: he says, a really good guy. So he works for

625
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: a Jamison Shot Elementary School. Nice, what kind of name

626
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Speaker 1: is that? Though Jamison Shot isn't it shouldn't it just

627
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Speaker 1: be Jamison.

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Speaker 2: Well you take a shot at James, right.

629
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Speaker 1: I know, I get it. I get it. Uh and

630
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: the Three Wise Men, and there's and there's somebody like

631
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Speaker 1: this in every school that you remember from being back

632
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: in the day.

633
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Speaker 9: I was.

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Speaker 1: I stopped and had dinner. The other night, Nick, we

635
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: were out at the Foxfire, the Bello, Gina and and me,

636
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: and the owner was telling me they're taking the artwork

637
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: out of the building and the new artwork that's coming

638
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: in has all been painted by my former high school principal,

639
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: John Hyland.

640
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 2: I'm like, what that's great?

641
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: And John Hyland, this was my principal. And if I'd

642
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: get in trouble, because I'd got in trouble in high school,

643
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: not a lot. But when you'd get in trouble, you

644
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: go to mister Hyland's office. Speaking of people that have

645
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: made an impact in your life, right, educators that you

646
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: remember listening. It's not the Chicago schools or the Chicago

647
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: teachers we have an issue with. It's the union. Just

648
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: to be clear, you know, and we understand there's good

649
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: and bad and everything, but you get in trouble, you

650
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: go to mister Hyland's office. Mister Hyland's wife was a

651
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: smoke show and you would just look at the picture

652
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: and you would tell mister Hyland, Man, I tell you,

653
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: mister Hyland, that wife of years, well you did well.

654
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: Get out of here, stays. He played for the Chicago Blitz.

655
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: He was a quarterback for the Chicago Blitz really, which

656
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: was the old USFL team. So yeah, guy was stud

657
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,719
Speaker 1: and you know, and I just love that that you

658
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: can take memories of educators like that. And these kids

659
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: are going to remember this guy. This Joe sas forever

660
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: and so are the parents. So if you know Joe,

661
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: I want to know, if you know Joe three one

662
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: two eighty nine hundred, let us know. We've got to

663
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: make him our WLSAM eight ninety every day hero because

664
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: he certainly is all right. Yesterday here on a fun

665
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: freedom Phone Friday, we started talking about exploding trees. What

666
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: is the phenomenon? What is it? Let's talk to the

667
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: plant knowledge specialists at Morton Arboretam. Can extreme cold make

668
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: trees explode? It would seem to me that if trees

669
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: are wet, they expand and maybe they crack, but they

670
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: don't explode. How do we lose Nick? He was over

671
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: by the old tree. Jesus bundon love babies. She's a

672
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: cold out there, but it is a beautiful morning. Nick.

673
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: If you look right over there, right across the lake,

674
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: it looks like they're getting hammered with snow over on

675
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: the Michigan side. We might have to take the wls

676
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: AMA ninety ski do over there and make some tracks. Baby,

677
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: you and me, Me and you. My name is Ray Stevens.

678
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: That's Nick Kale. You're welcoming. Three one, two five nine

679
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:14,240
Speaker 1: one eighty nine hundred. The road to Rosemont. Seventy years,

680
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: very cool, seventy years since they incorporated as a village.

681
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: And we've got a nice little staycation vacation vacation for you.

682
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: You have to be calling number seven, caller seven right now.

683
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: Two three one two five nine one eighty nine hundred.

684
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: You win if you're caller seven. We've got that hotel

685
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: stay for you at the Embassy suites. We've got tickets

686
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: to go to the boat so you can go and

687
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: you can dream about floating around on the tune with

688
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: the power pole in the water as we like to

689
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: call it around here. And we've got a gift card

690
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: for you at Cruss brewing in Rosemont. But caller seven

691
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: chew three one two five nine one eighty nine hundred.

692
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: That will warm you up this morning when we have

693
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: temperatures hovering right around will it's very cold depending on

694
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: where you are, two below in some instances. If you're

695
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: out in Aurora, probably thirty two below zero this morning,

696
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: it's nine below right now. Oh here, Okay, it's cold.

697
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: It's cold out there. Sharon Yisley, Sharon the Eisley is

698
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: with the Morton Arboretum. So you know, Nick, you think

699
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: about the things that not only the roads and the

700
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: buildings and the woods and the trees have to go

701
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: through around here. Right We've got drought, heat, cicadas, longhorned beetles,

702
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: We've got steel thirty six inch farm thirty six inch

703
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: farm boss chainsaws, all wreaking havoc on the forest. There's

704
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: on rest in the forest. And Nick, there's trouble with

705
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: the trees. Are trees exploding? And the answer to that,

706
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: I think is sort of But I'm going to let

707
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: the expert here tell us about it. Sharon, thank you

708
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 1: very much for taking time in joining us this morning.

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00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 10: Hi, good morning.

710
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: How things out at the Morton Arboretum cold. Can I

711
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: just tell you I can I just tell you. You know,

712
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: we come out to the lights festival that you do.

713
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: We're there every December, and you guys do such a

714
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: wonderful job with that. If you haven't been to the

715
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: Morton Arboretam lately, go, if it's just for a stroll.

716
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: You folks do such a nice job curating and taking

717
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: care of that piece of land. It's absolutely fabulous.

718
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're having for those kind of things on the

719
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 10: public loves it and it's just a great opportunity for

720
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 10: people to come out and enjoy the arbreedom in a

721
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 10: lot of different ways.

722
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: Although I do get a little concerned when I'm walking

723
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: through there during the holiday festival and you guys are

724
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: having fires, and I'm thinking, okay, that's it's like going

725
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: to the It's like going to the to the aquarium,

726
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: Nick and having fish. You know, they're burning the wood. Sharon,

727
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: please tell me, if you will, about this phenomenon of

728
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 1: exploding trees. Can you explain it? Because I told my guys,

729
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 1: I've been in the I've been in areas at my

730
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: place in northern Wisconsin today it's twenty six below zero.

731
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,959
Speaker 1: I've never been hit with shrapnel from an exploding tree.

732
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: Can you shed some light on this?

733
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 10: Yeah, I can. I think, you know, some of this

734
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 10: is you know, it's a real thing, but I think

735
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 10: it's kind of being blown out of proportion a little bit, gotcha,

736
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 10: you know, I mean trees. You know, this does happen.

737
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 10: I'm not expecting to see it happen in a widespread manner.

738
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 10: You may not see it at all. There may be

739
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 10: isolated instance around the really cold areas. But you know,

740
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 10: I've been heard of cultures for forty years and I've

741
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 10: never experienced it myself, and I've obviously lived in Northern States,

742
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 10: so it's out there. It could happen, but you know,

743
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 10: I don't I don't really want people to panic about

744
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 10: it or just be worried about it, because there's so

745
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 10: many other things during the cold spell that you have

746
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 10: to worry about. So, you know, the trees are the

747
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 10: trees are tough. You know, they're they've gone dormant in

748
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 10: the winter. That's in their favor, and you know, if

749
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 10: any kind of damage does happen, they're also very resilient,

750
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 10: you know, and they often can recover from any kind

751
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 10: of cold damage.

752
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: So would this be. I mean, I've heard of frost

753
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: cracks before. Is this something along those lines.

754
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a different kind of a different form of

755
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 10: that sort of damage. Uh, And frost cracks that's what

756
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 10: we would more likely be seeing in this area for

757
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 10: the whole temperatures we're having. You know, on a day

758
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 10: like this where it's just brutally cold, and then you know,

759
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 10: we get a really bright sunny day, the sunshine warms

760
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 10: up a tree and it's warming up not only the

761
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 10: outer bark, it's warming up the interior wood, and so

762
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 10: the tree is expanding a little bit. And then you know,

763
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 10: when nightfall comes, and of course the temperatures are still cold,

764
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 10: the tree starts to cool off, and the outer bark

765
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 10: cools quickly, the inside wood cools off slowly, so that

766
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 10: bark is kind of being stretched, just trying to contract,

767
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 10: and the pear tree isn't. Then that's when we just

768
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 10: get that long vertical crack in the trunk because the

769
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 10: bark just has to give. And so that's the thing

770
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 10: we're probably going to see more up here, is that

771
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 10: frost cracking. And luckily, trees often can heal from that.

772
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 10: I mean, you can find a lot of trees up

773
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 10: there that have frost cracks and are still living year

774
00:38:58,920 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 10: after year after year.

775
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: Sharing the eisley from the Morton Arboretum. Will will are

776
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: you guys open to take in the beauty of the

777
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: arboretum in the winter? Is this cold going to affect

778
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: you tomorrow or the the way you guys operate well

779
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:15,240
Speaker 1: for today?

780
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 10: I know that we scheduled a late opening, you know,

781
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 10: to get past the worst of the cold weather. So

782
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 10: I believe the Ugbream will open today at noon, you know,

783
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 10: try to get past this really cold morning where the

784
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 10: windshills are terrible, you know, So we're always watching the

785
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 10: weather because we want to make sure, you know that,

786
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 10: I mean, we're an outdoor facility for the most part,

787
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 10: and we want to make sure that people are safe.

788
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 10: So you know, they're always checking on the weather at

789
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 10: the Arboretum. And I receieved an email last night that

790
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 10: said we would have a late opening today, so you know,

791
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 10: people can come out when the weather's a little better,

792
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 10: you which hopefully we'll just moderate in a day or two.

793
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 10: And because there's so much to there's so much to

794
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 10: enjoy at.

795
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: The Augream weather, certainly you really do if you've never

796
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: been there for the holiday thing. It's just so good Sharon.

797
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: We appreciate you. Thank you for clearing it up. I

798
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: know that a lot of these social media sites, you know,

799
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,919
Speaker 1: everybody wants hits and clicks, and it's exciting to say

800
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: trees are exploding. For the love of God, don't go

801
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: into the woods. We appreciate your expertise. Thank you.

802
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 10: You're very welcome.

803
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: Have a good thank you too, Sharing Asley from the

804
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:16,280
Speaker 1: Morton armorytum.

805
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 4: The only time I've seen a tree explode is my

806
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 4: brother packed a hollow spot full of tannerite.

807
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: It took a shot from about fifteen yards. Oh my gosh,

808
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: Hillbilly's with hamdguns known as the gael family. That you

809
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: can't you you.

810
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 2: Know, do you imagine?

811
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 4: I bet there is a phobia of like exploding trees,

812
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 4: that you know.

813
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: People avoid trees in the winter at all costs. The

814
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: cross to the other side of the parkway from a tree.

815
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: People are so afraid of everything anyway, right, let's see here,

816
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: I think I have Christian on the line out in Aurora. Christian.

817
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: Welcome to WLS. Good morning, good morning, We're well man.

818
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 1: Be careful exploding trees and Aurora. No, that was that

819
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: was actually a shooting on Town and Aurora, but we'll

820
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: leave that out of it. Yeah, well, Jessica on the

821
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: not Jessica, I'm looking at the wrong thing here, Christian

822
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: onto a better on news here. We're going to make

823
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: you the winner this morning. You were the correct caller

824
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: through on our road to Rosemont. We've got you all

825
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 1: set up. We're going to get you an overnight stay

826
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: at the Embassy suite, get you some tickets at the

827
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: boat shows. Would you want to go? And we've got

828
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: the dinner thrown in as well. Nice hundred dollars gift

829
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: card to Cruss Brewing. It's part of our road to

830
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: Rosemand as they celebrate this seventy years. Bring them a

831
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: card and send it to the mayor. Okay, we'll do.

832
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,760
Speaker 1: Appreciate you being there, Thank you for listening.

833
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 10: Thanks guys, great date.

834
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: You know I was talking you're speaking of the colts

835
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: and so they did cancel the not so Polar Plunge.

836
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: I said to Stephanie, I go, I know you wanted

837
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: to do this and we need to raise money for

838
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: this organization. Can I hose you down like we discussed

839
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: in the yard and She's like, no, and you're not

840
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: going to brand me either, and you're not and you

841
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: and Nick are not going to shoot me. I'm like, well,

842
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: then what fun are you really?

843
00:41:58,680 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 4: God?

844
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: Remember when she was fun? Because we're talking about our boss.

845
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: You guys cannot have fun with Tanner, right, we're not

846
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: doing that on the morning show.

847
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 4: What if we got him as an advertiser, Well then

848
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 4: all bets off. Here comes Dandy running down the hall.

849
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: Baw some stuff up, guys coming up this morning in

850
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: seven thirty five, we are talking about the Board of

851
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: Peace with our friend from Jessica, Jessica Rosenthal. Jessica runs

852
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: the Fox News Rundown podcast. Who's on the Board. Maybe

853
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: she can shed some light as to why Trump just

854
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: said to Canada listen, you're out. I think that his

855
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: personal little tay today with Prime Minister Carney up there,

856
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: and these guys don't like each other, but still it's Canada,

857
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: do you think Nick? You know there's a lot of

858
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: stuff going on right now in the NFL. Coaches are

859
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: getting fired. You know I've said this before. You know

860
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: you could be an ardent packer and bear, but you're

861
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: charing for laundry. Al Harris is leaving the Bears and

862
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,919
Speaker 1: going back to the Packers. Do you think we could

863
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: do some kind of a swap with Canada all of

864
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: the way that the NFL works in free season, in

865
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: in in there, you know when they trade people around

866
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: like this, where we could trade Minnesota maybe for Calgary Calgary. Yeah,

867
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: that was because Calgary would be more along the lines

868
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: Northwest territories. Maybe that would Calgary that you know, you've

869
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: got the Stampede, You've got the Canadian Rockies.

870
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 2: We don't want back No, I want Newfoundland. No, you

871
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 2: don't want the New Feast.

872
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: No, man Nick said he wants the Cowboys, whatever that means.

873
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 1: Jessica Rosenthal at seven thirty five this morning, and next

874
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this extreme cold how it might affect you.

875
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: And then at seven fifty this morning, we'll take it

876
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: to our friend Jeff mar at the Weather Channel as well.

877
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: I know that it sounds Listen, we're not your parents

878
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: here were No, you're smart, you're adults. But it is

879
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: pretty cold out there. So just be ready for it,

880
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: you know, no matter how you're getting around today. A

881
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: couple of text messages this morning, earlier today, we asked

882
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: you just to give us. Your dad jokes, how cold

883
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 1: is it? And this is an oldie, but goody, it's

884
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: so cold that we saw a democrat in Chicago with

885
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: his hands in his own pockets. That one's been around

886
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 1: a while. But three win, two, five, nine, one eighty

887
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: nine hundred. Hey, Nick and Ray tell me this. On

888
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: a very cold day, I get loud booms from the attic. Yeah,

889
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 1: so do I. That's my sister I was talking about earlier,

890
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 1: the older one tied up up there. Every now and

891
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: then she'll hit the duck work and make a boom.

892
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: Just I know she's still alive. It's from the wood

893
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: popping and splitting in the attic. It's just yeah, it's

894
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: expanding and contracting, just as our friend from the Morton

895
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: Arboretam talked about with their trees, their expansion and contraction,

896
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: thermal contraction. Thomas and I have known that at our

897
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: waist this post holiday season, and we've both been hitting

898
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: the gym. I go for you yesterday. I see you

899
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: were heading out the door and on your way to

900
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 1: you're hitting the gym other than the one here in

901
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 1: the building. Yeah.

902
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 5: I go to Planet Fitness, okay, because there's one close

903
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 5: to my house. And there's one here, so I can

904
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 5: go to both of them depending on what's easier.

905
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: Can I ask you when you go to the gym,

906
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: because I have not belonged the last big gym I

907
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: belong to. I belong to a big gym. Hi, my

908
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: name is big Jim Well, Hi, big gym.

909
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 2: Is a bullshooting son of a gun.

910
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: The last gym I belonged to, Well, I was in

911
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: two page County lockup. His name was Jim. I belonged

912
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: to No. I was a lifetime fitness But this was

913
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: before like the craze of everybody being in the gym

914
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: with their cameras. Oh God, is that going on by you?

915
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: Uh more?

916
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 5: Not really, but I will say not yesterday, but last week.

917
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 5: There is some chick just set up on one of

918
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 5: the machines. She's got like a big tripiphone, Yeah, tripod stand.

919
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 5: She's like filming yourself and I'm like, guys, we're here

920
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 5: to get fit. There's people here are really working hard.

921
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 5: It's planted fitness. These are average Joe's. These are not bodybuilders.

922
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 5: These are people just trying to be healthy and you're

923
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 5: turning it into Instagram content. They're in the background without

924
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 5: their success, their consent, sweaty. Maybe they're like not looking

925
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 5: their best, they're trying to lose weight, trying to be better,

926
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:05,760
Speaker 5: and you're turning this into content.

927
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 4: Well, and that's the planet fitness. You're really not impressing anybody.

928
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 4: Take that over to the East Bank Club, you know.

929
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I just wonder because my son works

930
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: out at a gym in Saint Charles. And my kid's

931
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: a beast, right, he's at like a legit gym. That's no,

932
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: but no, but it's it's not because you know, he's

933
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: he's making his way in the world and he's still

934
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: very budget conscious, so he has to belong to a

935
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: it's a gym factory. But the amount of crap that

936
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: he sees, not only with people and their selfies, but

937
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 1: people walking around like they're tough and uh and and

938
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: and this kid isn't he's not big big, but I

939
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: mean he moves a lot of weight and and uh,

940
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: I mean it's just I'm there to get work done.

941
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: But I hate that culture. I hate that culture of

942
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: look at me, look what I'm doing, you know. And

943
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: and uh, that's why I've got a gym in my house.

944
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: And and that's where Gena and I work out and

945
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: she's she's training me man and this this woman in shape.

946
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 1: Did you hear that this Lulu Lemon. Lulu Lemon today

947
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: says that they're coming back out with their workout wear

948
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: nick their workout weear that they had to take off

949
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: the market because as you bent over, whether you were

950
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: at the gym or at it, because this is the

951
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: this is the workout weear of Suburbia moms, you know,

952
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: I mean and not just moms, but I mean women

953
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: that some of these joga pants are.

954
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: Like okay, it's like rice paper.

955
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: But the Lulu Lemons, when you would bend over, you

956
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: could see everything. You get a full moon. And Lulu

957
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: Lemon came out with a statement today as they put

958
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 1: these back on the market, is that if you aren't

959
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: going to wear these, maybe wear some beige undergarments that

960
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: you can wear under so that the entire gym doesn't

961
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: get a show. But more and more, I'm convinced that

962
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: people are there for the show.

963
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 5: It's sad too, because again, I think there's a lot

964
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 5: of men and women there who are really positive people.

965
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 5: If they see you struggling, if they know someone's new,

966
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 5: they'll come over and they'll help you if they think

967
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 5: your form is a little off. They don't want you

968
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 5: to get injured. There's a great community at gyms that

969
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 5: can really help you feel better about yourself elf, get

970
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 5: in good shape. And these like influencers are want to

971
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 5: be influencers.

972
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 2: Just make it weird.

973
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 1: You know. I was at my gym yesterday and the

974
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,479
Speaker 1: young lady there that was working on said, hey, fat ass,

975
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: you've had that same amount of weight on your uh

976
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:16,479
Speaker 1: on your uh, your press bar for the last five years.

977
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: You're gonna put some more on there. And that was

978
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: that was Gina. I'm like, I do not need this here.

979
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: You need to stop. You know, we have got to do.

980
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 1: I think there might be a sales pitching here. Nick.

981
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: That basement of mine, it's it's nasty, and we're down

982
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: there a lot. I mean, we do have equipment on there,

983
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: because this woman does not mess around.

984
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 5: Bowflex Uh yeah, yeah, We've got Chuck Norris.

985
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: We've got a bowflex and and uh and we've got

986
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: that uh. Well, you know what I've got right here

987
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: underneath the the the console A w it's a thigh mass. Yeah.

988
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 2: You should try that weighted underwear.

989
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, you know what. That's not a wait, brother,

990
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 1: thanks for noticing my man, mister Italy's go to anytime

991
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: Fitness sixty bucks a month, mister Italy. I used to think,

992
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: who's this guy that calls himself mister Italy? He was

993
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: mister Day Yeah, sends us pictures mister Gotti. Yeah, good guy. Yeah.

994
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: I've never belonged to a gym, so I really can't

995
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: speak to y'all. Well, no, that's yeah, you know what.

996
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: I might weigh fifteen pounds, but I gotta think you

997
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: might not be heart healthy. Just a crazy guess. I

998
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 1: have Dan texting this morning three one two talking about

999
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 1: exploding wood.

1000
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 2: Come on, I can't do that.

1001
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: I can't ready, I can't do that.

1002
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, that'll be on Nick and Ray after dark.

1003
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: Two six two. Way too many commercials, Hey, you know

1004
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: what to your response, this is not a hobby. We

1005
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: are here to make money.

1006
00:49:57,920 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1007
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 2: Sorry, your free radio show has a few commercials.

1008
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: What do you want for nothing? Your money back? Just

1009
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Yeah, you give us, give us

1010
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 1: the time you want, and we will take you at

1011
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: any at any juncture. We appreciate you. What's the stock

1012
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: up on Nick for over and as over forty states.

1013
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: Brace for a winter storm. This is from Fox Business.

1014
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: Patriots supply flashlights and extra batteries. Extra batteries, like the

1015
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: time I had to tell Connor he found something with

1016
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: I go, that's a flashlight. Extra food and water, Uh huh,

1017
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: granola bars, nuts and dried fruit. What do they think

1018
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: we're going through? I think this is nuclear fallout here.

1019
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: It's a couple of days it's going to be cold.

1020
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: For God's sake.

1021
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 2: I mean, I've already got my trip to the liquor

1022
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 2: store planned.

1023
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: Oh man, thanks for the remind Nick, which is good.

1024
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: Which is good, buddy, because you know one of my

1025
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: New Year's resolutions was to only drink on the weekends. God,

1026
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: I gang some glass.

1027
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 2: For I'm shaking.

1028
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: I made it a battery powered Noah Weather Radio. We

1029
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: don't need that. You've got us. We've got Jeff mar

1030
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: from the Weather Channel coming up at seven fifty just

1031
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: to talk about who's affected, what this is gonna do.

1032
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: Let's face it, it's gonna affect the metra's Nick likes to

1033
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: call it. It's gonna affect a lot of flights throughout

1034
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 1: the US. And then when the snow happens from a

1035
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: Dallas on up to Baltimore. It's gonna get nasty and

1036
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: that will have a lingering effect and everything else. Extra

1037
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: prescription medications, Nick, I'll go to you for that. Thank you.

1038
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: Heating fuel.

1039
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 4: Sure, I've got ten gallons of kerosene in my garage

1040
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 4: right now.

1041
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: You know you should keep the gas tank on the

1042
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: vehicle filled up to the top. Just make sure that

1043
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: when you're pumping that fuel early in the morning, you're

1044
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: paying attention because sometimes it doesn't click off AUTOMATICA doesn't

1045
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: click off the cup overfloweth there might be a biohazard

1046
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: at the Thornton's on twenty fifth this morning. I wonder

1047
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: how much diesel I left there. I should have probably

1048
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: told somebody before I drove off. My God, this has

1049
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: taken along. Tell me throw down some oil dry or something.

1050
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: If you guys come in the studio this morning and

1051
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 1: it smells like a like the truck of mat I

1052
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: apologize that diesel has permeated my boots. Seven fifty This morning,

1053
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 1: Jeff Martin from the Weather Channel joins us to talk

1054
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: about this dangerous cold that we have here. Now. Listen,

1055
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: if you get out and you're going, you're ready for it.

1056
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: You're going to be just fine. But she is a

1057
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: chili and that wind is a whipping. I'm looking at

1058
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: the river and uh, there's a one guy coming across

1059
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: the bridge on Columbus and it is I mean, it

1060
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: is whipping out of the west, coming down the cavernous

1061
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,919
Speaker 1: mountains of buildings. But that that river doesn't freeze when

1062
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 1: it's three four below zero, that gives me pause to

1063
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: swim in it.

1064
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 4: This summer amounts of runoff tells me. The streets in there,

1065
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 4: what you know what that is? It's Donald Trump's building.

1066
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 4: The river water in there.

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Speaker 1: It might be a good day to go fish over there.

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Speaker 1: And oh yeah, Donald Trump is a rescinded Canada's Board

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Speaker 1: of Peace invitation. I want to ask our next guest,

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Speaker 1: Jessica Rosenthal, what the buy in was on this because

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Speaker 1: I know the buy in was actually a very very

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Speaker 1: large at large. Jessica Rosenthal is from the Fox News

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Speaker 1: Rundown podcast. They do a lot of good stuff there.

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Speaker 1: So Jessica, welcome to WLS, Good.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me what the buy in was for

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Speaker 1: these countries on the board a piece? It was a

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Speaker 1: large amount of.

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Speaker 3: Money, So if you want to be a permanent member,

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Speaker 3: so longer than a three year term. It was a

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Speaker 3: billion dollars. We'll see who who ends up working got

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Speaker 3: over for that longer period of time to be a member.

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Speaker 3: We do know that Russia's president Vladimir Putin had said,

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Speaker 3: because he's invited, he had said, maybe if the US

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Speaker 3: would allow us to use frozen assets in the United

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Speaker 3: States and put it towards that billion dollars, that maybe

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Speaker 3: they would be interested. We'll see if anybody, you know,

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Speaker 3: ponies up that level of cash to be a permanent member.

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Speaker 3: But at this point, there is a large group of

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Speaker 3: countries that have opted to join in to this Board

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Speaker 3: of Peace, including a lot of those countries in the

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Speaker 3: Middle East, the Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, Kassa, Turkey, Egypt.

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Speaker 3: This stemmed from the peace plan regarding Gaza and ending

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Speaker 3: the war between Israel and Hamas. The board's charter, if

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Speaker 3: you read it, doesn't really mention the Middle East or

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Speaker 3: Israel or Gaza. It's much broader than that. But the

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Speaker 3: origination was in overseeing a lot of the rebuild of Gaza,

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Speaker 3: so it would maybe seem natural that countries like Egypt

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Speaker 3: and Saudi Arabian Cutre and Turkey would be signing on

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Speaker 3: to that as that was the initial goal.

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Speaker 8: We'll see if.

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Speaker 3: Anybody else ends up joining. But a lot of our

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Speaker 3: long standing allies have said no or just not right now.

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Speaker 3: The French Foreign minister said, this sounds like you guys

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Speaker 3: are trying to replace the un right and UK's UK

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Speaker 3: officials said, if you're going to invite Vladimir Putin to

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Speaker 3: this board, we need to see peace in Ukraine before

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Speaker 3: we see him care about peace and other places.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned how odd it was, Yeah, we mentioned how

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Speaker 1: odd it was. And this is Jessica Rosenthal from the

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Speaker 1: Fox knewest Rundown podcast, and I'm sure you're going to

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Speaker 1: cover a lot of this on your podcast as well

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Speaker 1: as Greenland. I mean, there's a big dust up about Greenland,

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Speaker 1: how it's going to be a pivotal and much needed

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Speaker 1: point of the Golden Dome Defense Network. Yet we're building

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Speaker 1: this Golden Dome Defense Network obstensibly to save us from

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Speaker 1: the Great Ruskies of Russia. Yet he invites Russia to

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Speaker 1: this board. It's kind of confusing to me.

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Speaker 3: Well, and it sounds like that's in the same vein

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Speaker 3: as what the President's been talking about even before he

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Speaker 3: took on his second term, right, he imagined that his

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Speaker 3: easiest conflict to solve would be Russia and Ukraine. And

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Speaker 3: this is president who is very realistic and very pragmatic

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Speaker 3: about the need to talk even to your adversaries. And

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Speaker 3: while diplomacy might look different under President Trump, it's clear

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Speaker 3: he still believes in it, even if he is a

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Speaker 3: little rough around the edges when it comes to those

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Speaker 3: kinds of talks, it's still clear that he sees a

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Speaker 3: place for diplomacy and for discussion and actually thinks that

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Speaker 3: when he is primarily involved in those discussions that he

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Speaker 3: can get things done. He's cited his use and his

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Speaker 3: wielding of tariff power in calming tensions and several conflicts

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Speaker 3: around the world. Obviously, we've heard him lament that he

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Speaker 3: couldn't do that yet in Russia and with Ukraine. But

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Speaker 3: it doesn't sound like many countries are off the table.

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Speaker 3: In fact, one country that is off the table who

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Speaker 3: has been disinvited is Canada. After Prime Minister Carney's remarks

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Speaker 3: at Davos. If you read the charter, it really does

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Speaker 3: seem that the power is consolidated with President Trump, who

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Speaker 3: serves as its inaugural chairman. It sounds like he has

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Speaker 3: full v toe power over any board decision.

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Speaker 1: I think it goes without saying that this guy in

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Speaker 1: power based on what we saw with the last administration. One.

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Speaker 1: I think, listen, there might be some people that disagree

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Speaker 1: with the way he works. As you said, he's a

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Speaker 1: little rough around the edges, but you can't argue one

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Speaker 1: with the tariffs, the economy and what that's done for

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Speaker 1: the country and what it will do for the country

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Speaker 1: in this coming year. But he really has brought peace

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Speaker 1: to regions that have not seen peace in a long time.

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Speaker 1: What that looks like going forward, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how sustainable it is, but man, he's out

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Speaker 1: there working it.

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Speaker 3: You can't deny that, no, And I think it's really

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Speaker 3: important to note that the initial countries that are signing

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Speaker 3: on to this Board of Peace are the specific countries

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Speaker 3: largely that have been in talks with Steve Wikoff and

1158
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Speaker 3: Jared Kushner to settle the war between Israel and HIMAF.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's been a whirlwind year, but let's not

1160
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Speaker 3: forget all the remaining hostages came home because of President Trump.

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Speaker 3: And he really did with his sort of forceful way

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Speaker 3: gropple and with these Middle Eastern countries and kind of

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Speaker 3: put them in their place. It was a long time

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Speaker 3: in coming and it was a real slog of an effort.

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Speaker 3: And it's still very tentative. I mean, Hamas has not disarmed.

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Speaker 3: There is still much to be done with regards to

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Speaker 3: Phase two, even before we really get to phase two

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Speaker 3: of Gaza, which the administration proclaims we are now in.

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Speaker 3: But to see all these countries, including Katar and Egypt

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Speaker 3: and Turkey on this board, even to the dismay of

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Speaker 3: Israel for example, who doesn't want to see such countries

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Speaker 3: necessarily cooperating. To see them all on this board after

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Speaker 3: the tensions that are you know, that really erupted well

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Speaker 3: before Chober sevenths between Qatar and the other Gulf countries,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty significant.

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Speaker 1: Tell us where we find the Fox News News Rundown

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Speaker 1: podcast and what are some of the things you're going

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Speaker 1: to cover this weekend?

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Speaker 3: Well, of course you can find the podcast anywhere.

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Speaker 9: It's on.

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Speaker 3: You know, you go to the button on your phone

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Speaker 3: look for podcasts Foxings run Down. It's it's everywhere. You

1183
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 3: can just listen to it online too if you want,

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Speaker 3: which is what that kind of do when I want

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Speaker 3: to listen to other Pew segments. But we're really focused

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Speaker 3: on lawmakers, what they're doing. We're really focused on cariffs.

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Speaker 3: Anything having to do with the economy will of course

1188
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Speaker 3: track anything happening with the storm if anything relevant comes

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Speaker 3: of this. A lot of southern states feel very ill

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Speaker 3: equipped and ill prepared to deal with such freezing weather,

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Speaker 3: so we track all of that. And I'm in particular

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Speaker 3: very interested in covering anything related to healthcare. We've some

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Speaker 3: really interesting we've had some really interesting hearings as of

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Speaker 3: late trying to tackle healthcare and those healthcare cost.

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Speaker 1: What does a healthcare thing? Where does that end up?

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Speaker 1: We know we're going to come to a budget, you

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Speaker 1: know conclusion here at the end of the month. Is

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Speaker 1: there some headway within the GOP to find something that

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Speaker 1: works better than this subsidized you know joke of an

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Speaker 1: Obamacare system that we have. It needs to get better,

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Speaker 1: but we need to see a better plan. And I've heard,

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Speaker 1: you know, rumblings out there about you know, forty nine

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Speaker 1: dollars a month plans that are kind of based on

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Speaker 1: corn healthcare places that might be able to help you,

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Speaker 1: you know, talking about that within legislation and lawmakers, that

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Speaker 1: seems to be a pretty good plan. It's just a

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Speaker 1: matter of what if you can get it to work,

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Speaker 1: and then, you know, boy, you better have good security

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Speaker 1: guards because the insurance companies will certainly come after you.

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Speaker 3: It's so true. It sounds like it's a sticky and

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Speaker 3: a thorny issue and they're still grappling with it. I

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Speaker 3: don't see any legislation passing imminently that will dramatically reshape

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Speaker 3: the healthcare landscape. But I will encourage anybody, including you,

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Speaker 3: including your listeners. They're a congressman out of North Carolina,

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Speaker 3: Greg Murphy. He is a physician, and he just went

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Speaker 3: on full blast. I mean, it's a straight fire injected

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Speaker 3: into your veins, ripping the health insurance companies, telling them

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Speaker 3: about patients crying in his office. This is out a

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Speaker 3: hearing this week, So it sounds like there is some

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Speaker 3: real drive from both sides of the aisle to tackle this,

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Speaker 3: and each side will accused the other of failing to

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Speaker 3: do enough on healthcare right. This is a big mid

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Speaker 3: term issue for the Democrats who feel that the last

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Speaker 3: subsidies falls squarely on the you know, blame fall squarely

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Speaker 3: on Republicans. Republicans say Obamacare was you guys. So this

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Speaker 3: issue is still a political fight, but it does sound

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Speaker 3: like there's some big rumblings of bipartisanship and a willingness possibly.

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Speaker 3: I'm really hopeful that they're going to tackle this. And

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Speaker 3: if you want to watch somebody really just destroy the

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Speaker 3: health insurance companies. Greg Murphy from North Carolina really takes

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Speaker 3: those insurance companies to tasks, looks them straight in the

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Speaker 3: face that it's hearing, and tells them that they are

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Speaker 3: failing patient.

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Speaker 1: It's about time. You know, everybody wants to talk about

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Speaker 1: healthcare and who pays for it, but nobody ever goes

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Speaker 1: after the damn insurance companies. Greg Murphy, we will look

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Speaker 1: him up. Jessica, always great to talk to. You have

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Speaker 1: a wonderful weekend. Stay warm, stay dry, stay inside, make

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Speaker 1: a fire man. I used to hate it when the

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Speaker 1: guy on the radio would tell me how cold it

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Speaker 1: was when I was working construction outside. Yet here I am,

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Speaker 1: I'm that guy. It as cold as ice out there.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Maher from the Weather Channel is here. Jeff, tell

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Speaker 1: us about this this weather, how long Is it going

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Speaker 1: to impact us and all of that.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Unfortunately, this cold air is going to stick around

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Speaker 11: a while, even as we had through most of next week.

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Speaker 11: Right now, we're starting off with sub zero winchills. How

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Speaker 11: about a winchill up in International Falls in Minnesota fifty

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Speaker 11: five below right now. So yeah, very cold air mass

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Speaker 11: and it surges down to the south and meets up

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Speaker 11: with Gulf moisture. And that's why we're going to have

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Speaker 11: an ice storm that extends from Texas all the way

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Speaker 11: across portions of the Tennessee Valley to the southeast, covering

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Speaker 11: the Carolina southern Virginia on the northern part. A lot

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Speaker 11: of snows have it heavy from Kansas eastward through Indiana,

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Speaker 11: Ohio into Pennsylvania. Eventually the northeast from New York City

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Speaker 11: up the Boston gets buried with over a foot of

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Speaker 11: snow as we make our way from Sunday to the

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Speaker 11: start of the week on Monday. So big impacts. Already

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Speaker 11: over four hundred flight cancelations today and more than that

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Speaker 11: as far as delays, and those vers will only snowball

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Speaker 11: no pun intended. As we make our way through Saturday

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Speaker 11: n into Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Why do you just put a ball on that. Thanks

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Speaker 1: very much, Jeff mar the Weather Channel with just kind

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Speaker 1: of a synopsis of what is going to be going

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Speaker 1: on here in Chicago, in the mid Atlantic States, Dallas.

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Speaker 1: It's going to get nasty now. Water main breaks happen,

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Speaker 1: especially in this kind of weather, and they're going to

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Speaker 1: be coming to a neighborhood near you. We've got a

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Speaker 1: little bit of an infrastructure problem, but let that not

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Speaker 1: be a deterrent for everyday heroes, as we like to

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Speaker 1: call him here on wls AM eight ninety. Let me

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Speaker 1: set this up for you, Nick Northside, Thursday morning, commuters

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Speaker 1: wading through frigid waters, kids trying to get to a school.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is right around a West Brenmar and

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Speaker 1: the North California and along you know, there's vehicles in water,

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Speaker 1: there's kids that are in water. There's a crossing guard

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Speaker 1: of trying to get these kids to the Jamison Elementary

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Speaker 1: and he's carrying he's putting these kids on his back

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Speaker 1: like a mother turtle, sometimes with fifteen or sixteen kids

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Speaker 1: on them. And we needed to find this guy. His

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Speaker 1: name is Joe Sas. What a wonderful human being. Joe,

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Speaker 1: welcome to WLS. Good morning, Oh, good morning guys, Joe, Joe.

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Speaker 1: I know you're you're gonna say that. Yeah, you know what.

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Speaker 1: I know these kids, I know these families. This is

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Speaker 1: my corner, these are my people. Tell us. You know

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Speaker 1: what was it like when the first kid says, hey,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to walk through that water. I got

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Speaker 1: my Jordans on and then you just say, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. It's like it's like something you'd

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Speaker 1: read out of the Bible. Joe was there to carry

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Speaker 1: the kids. How did that? I mean, you know you

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Speaker 1: can't lay a hand on kids like you're throwing them

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Speaker 1: over your back and carry them to safety. I love this,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 12: I I he's one of my you know, I've known

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Speaker 12: him for years and I knew he didn't want to

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Speaker 12: get his MIC's wet. And I told him, I'm like,

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Speaker 12: I like, how what do you weigh? Like eighty pounds?

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Speaker 12: He's like about sixty.

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Speaker 13: I'm like, all right, can I pick.

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Speaker 12: You up and like that, I'll just.

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Speaker 13: Carry it to the other corner.

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Speaker 12: And he was like, yeah, we could do that.

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Speaker 1: I love it. I mean, and now you're like a

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Speaker 1: you're like a media and internet sensation right now, because

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Speaker 1: you did you carry anybody else across other than the

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Speaker 1: young man with the MIC's on.

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Speaker 12: I helped a couple other uh, like preschool kids across

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Speaker 12: kind of get onto the corner on the other side

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Speaker 12: of the sidewalk. Uh, while their moms kind of helped

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Speaker 12: with like with a stroller. Another parent was there to

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Speaker 12: kind of help with a couple of strollers.

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Speaker 14: Uh.

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Speaker 12: It was just kind of a nightmare of a day.

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Speaker 12: But once I kind of figured out my routine, I

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Speaker 12: was able to kind of like tell some people to

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Speaker 12: cut through the alley and go up the black to

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Speaker 12: the next crossing guard and just try and keep as

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Speaker 12: many like feet stry.

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Speaker 1: As I could. Yeah. And you did it, man, you

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Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, we we first learned about

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Speaker 1: you yesterday that that guy with the goofy hair that

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Speaker 1: works for w g N, he's uh he's our boss's

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Speaker 1: husband and uh and we saw you and we're like,

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Speaker 1: we got to have this guy on the on the radio.

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Speaker 1: And then we had a caller call in and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I know Joe, and that's how we got in touch

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Speaker 1: with you. So what do you do today, Joe? I mean,

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Speaker 1: school is canceled these do you do you do? You

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Speaker 1: do you go help these moms and dads out at home?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're the hero in the neighborhood. What what

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Speaker 1: what are you doing with that cape you're wearing today?

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Speaker 12: I think I think today we're gonna probably have a

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Speaker 12: movie day be my daughter. Yeah, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 12: hopefully no one's out about.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this, and I don't mean

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Speaker 1: the Pride and this is our everyday hero on wls

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Speaker 1: A eight ninety Joe Sas. I know you work there

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Speaker 1: at Jamison Elementary School or just a close to Jamison

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Speaker 1: Elementary School. Could we maybe buy you a bottle of

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Speaker 1: Jamison for your work?

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Speaker 12: You know, probably a couple of hot dogs.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know what we'll do, We'll we'll I'm a

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Speaker 1: simple guy. We will get you a couple of hot

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Speaker 1: dogs for your work. You know what, Thomas, our producer,

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Speaker 1: is going to hold on and we'll send you a

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Speaker 1: little WLSA eate ninety prize pack and maybe we can

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Speaker 1: send some in cased meats as well. Uh, you know

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Speaker 1: for the work that you did. You know, listen, we

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Speaker 1: know that this town has some problems and every now

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Speaker 1: and then, just the simplest form of letting somebody know

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Speaker 1: that you care about them and you're there to help

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Speaker 1: them out. It can it can move mountains. It really can't.

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Speaker 1: And I know that might sound goofy to some people,

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Speaker 1: but yesterday, to that kid wearing his cool Nike shoes,

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Speaker 1: that probably mean a lot to him. You were there

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Speaker 1: to save the day, and I just wanted to give

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Speaker 1: you a little pat on the back.

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Speaker 12: Oh thanks, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: You made it, baby, You made it to a Friday

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Speaker 1: here on the big eighty nine w LASS. It is

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Speaker 1: cold out there, you know that. Just be ready for it.

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Speaker 1: Two of our big shots just walked in the WLSAM

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Speaker 1: eight ninety Cumulus Broadcast Complex. That would be Jeff Hill

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Speaker 1: and the big guy, Marv Nyron. Both of those guys

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Speaker 1: came in here like men, and of course they brought

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Speaker 1: their big body benzes right into the parking garage located

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Speaker 1: in the building right. But I guess Marv took his

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Speaker 1: big dog for a Walkie walks his dog every morning.

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Speaker 1: At four thirty. He was out there. Baby. I just

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Speaker 1: got a text message from the Bella Geina Marie there

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Speaker 1: in Aurora telling me that it's a screenshot it's eight

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Speaker 1: degrees and you wonder why I hate winner, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: it's not my fault. That's this cold. You were free

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Speaker 1: to go wherever you want. I am not holding you

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Speaker 1: as a captive in Aurora, ILLINOIL. I'm not. But you know,

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Speaker 1: these dogs, they don't want to go outside. She's got

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Speaker 1: to put their little booties on them and dress them.

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Speaker 1: It's just a cold snap, that's all, you know. I

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Speaker 1: put on my social media and you can follow Ramblin

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Speaker 1: Ray on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Grinder, everything else. Twitter. It

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Speaker 1: was about three years ago. I was still underemployed, as

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Speaker 1: we like to say on the beach here in the business,

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Speaker 1: and my son and I were racing snummobiles in the

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Speaker 1: Core Racing Series in Northern Michigan. It would have been

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Speaker 1: three years ago this weekend. When we went out to race.

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Speaker 1: It was twenty two bulow zero race time temperature, and

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Speaker 1: my kid came back and his beard was frozen. The

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Speaker 1: old man I told him, I said, son, I'm rolling

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Speaker 1: mine right back in the trailer. I've done this enough.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing I can do today that I haven't already done.

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Speaker 1: It's like, well, I'm going I'm like, you have fun

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Speaker 1: with that, and he did. Like a madman and his

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Speaker 1: buddy Parker Crumb. They went out there and raced as

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Speaker 1: a couple of kids representing southern Wisconsin in you know,

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Speaker 1: the Chicagoland area, and did pretty darn well. I might say.

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Speaker 1: It's a Jeff Minasso from Fox News Radio talking about

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Speaker 1: the Northland, talking about what might be going on in

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Speaker 1: those crazy twin cities in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. It

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Speaker 1: nobody wants anymore. If we could just get Canada to

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Speaker 1: trade us Alberta and Calgary maybe for Minneapolis and the

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Speaker 1: state of Minnesota, I think we'd be all right. This

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Speaker 1: is why I'm not buying a player of stumbobil right here,

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01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: because what's going on in Minnesota neck or a player's

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Speaker 1: foot TV or anything else, but vance is on the

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Speaker 1: ground of Minneapolis. What does that mean, how does it look?

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Speaker 1: And what does he think about whether or not the

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Speaker 1: Feds and the local guys can coalesce and work together.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the guy that's in the know, Jeff Monasso. Hey, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, sir.

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Speaker 6: Hey buddy, I hope you're staying warm.

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Speaker 1: Oh please, this is nothing I'm in a nice heated studio.

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Speaker 13: Well.

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Speaker 14: The Vice president stopped in Minneapolis yesterday. It was as

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Speaker 14: part of a roundtable discussion with talking about federal efforts

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Speaker 14: at the Twin Cities. He met with ICE agents, border

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Speaker 14: patrol agents, business leaders, expressing support for the surge of

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Speaker 14: federal officials and the Twin Cities not just for immigration

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Speaker 14: action but also for the the massive investigation into into

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Speaker 14: fraud in the state. But he focused on immigration, and

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Speaker 14: during his speek he criticized the opposition from UH, the

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Speaker 14: ICE protesters, from local leaders, calling both the lower the

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Speaker 14: temperatures and the ICE agents are doing an incredible job

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Speaker 14: with a lot of the media by lying about the

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Speaker 14: job they do every day. The big story now is

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Speaker 14: a five year old is detained and and I used

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Speaker 14: to say, and let us know his father was arrested

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Speaker 14: because he was illegal and and and and and so

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Speaker 14: this boy obviously we had to take the boy because

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Speaker 14: we're not going to leave a five year old boy

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Speaker 14: behind UH and and so so, so that's the narrative

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Speaker 14: that's playing out now. It's it's headline news on all

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Speaker 14: the locals in Minneapolis. But but Vance is putting the

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Speaker 14: chaos as a result of Minnesota Governor Tom Walls and

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01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:07,639
Speaker 14: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fryes' lack of cooperation, saying we're doing

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Speaker 14: this in other Blue cities and other Blue states, and

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Speaker 14: we're not seeing the pushback like this, that this is

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Speaker 14: unique to Minneapolis, and that it's it's especially saying that

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Speaker 14: local authorities have been told not to cooperate by Vance,

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Speaker 14: by Walls, by others, that they're creating chaos, so they

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Speaker 14: should just assist with ICE.

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Speaker 6: You know. The other other doing is his words, all

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01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 6: the doing is asking for to cooperate entertainers. We want

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Speaker 6: these rapists and murderers and drug dealers that you've gotten

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Speaker 6: your jails. We want them out, uh and we want

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Speaker 6: to take them in, stand them out of the country,

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01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 6: but they refuse to, so they're forced to go out

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Speaker 6: of the neighborhood and put people at a risk to

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Speaker 6: go get them once they're released. So that the number

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Speaker 6: one thing that he's learned is that the best way

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Speaker 6: to facilitate the law, but before stayed and local officials

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Speaker 6: to cooperate with US vents as he hopes for cooperation

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Speaker 6: in the weeks and months to come, ICE Border Patrol,

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Speaker 6: both saying they're not going anywhere. They'll ramp up if

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Speaker 6: they have to. They're going to get the job done.

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Speaker 6: And so that's what they're doing. Protests today, the Day

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Speaker 6: of Action in Minnesota of networks of activist groups urging

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Speaker 6: Minnesotans to stay home, stay away from work, stay away

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Speaker 6: from schools.

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Speaker 1: Story we're looking at, Jeff. I've got the monitors on.

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Speaker 1: I'm watching your network here on TV. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: Those Minnesotas are a hardy bunch. But there's not a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of people outside protesting today. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you're going to protest, you got to be out there

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Speaker 1: when it's twenty below, right, I mean, put on that

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Speaker 1: car art and go.

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Speaker 6: But watching our cameras and we've seen like three or.

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Speaker 1: Four Yeah, you know, here's what I don't understand. And

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Speaker 1: Governor J. B. Prisker and Illinois pushed back yesterday saying again, well,

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Speaker 1: this is just nothing but a witch hint by the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration. And listen, he can come look at Illinois

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Speaker 1: because you know that if you know that this fraud

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Speaker 1: is rampant, and they're going to look everywhere. But it

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Speaker 1: would certainly seemed to me that the hesitancy that Jacob

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Speaker 1: Fry and Tim Wall show to help anybody within ice

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Speaker 1: or calm down. The situation is just to throw people

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Speaker 1: off track about what's going on with all this Minneapolis

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01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:16,360
Speaker 1: and Saint Paul and Minnesota fraud. I mean, they're caught,

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01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:18,519
Speaker 1: their hands are in the cookie jar, but they keep

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Speaker 1: pushing back. It would be nice to hear somebody say,

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Speaker 1: you know what we see and we understand that this

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01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:26,720
Speaker 1: appears this way and there has to be an investigation

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: to find out how rampant this is. But nobody wants

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Speaker 1: to admit this. And to me, it's just let's not

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Speaker 1: pay attention to this. Let's make this shiny thing over

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01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 1: here just be the biggest diversion that Minnesota's ever seen.

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01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:39,639
Speaker 1: There's got to be some of that at play here.

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01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I would. I would think you're right

1492
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:48,120
Speaker 6: for sure. I mean, we're not talking as much about

1493
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 6: the fraud as we were prior to the chaos, that's for.

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01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 1: Sure, because the fraud, you know, that doesn't sell well

1495
01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:00,120
Speaker 1: for TV shows like The View. But I'm telling you

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01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 1: you got guys like Tom Emmer, House Majority Whipping and

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01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:08,360
Speaker 1: Minnesota Representative keeping an eye this. As a matter of fact,

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01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 1: he broke news with us the day that he We

1499
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: had it before anybody that Walls would not run for reelection.

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01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,880
Speaker 1: That is a telling tale right there. Well, buddy, you

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01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: stay warm yourself. We appreciate it, and if anything happens,

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01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: you certainly let us know.

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01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll do Thanks for.

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01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 1: Jeff Bonosso Fox News Radio. We tell you something right now.

1505
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:30,320
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk in the This is the way

1506
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:33,400
Speaker 1: I hear the WLSA eight to ninety listeners. Back in

1507
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: the sixties sugar Grove, we didn't get no days off

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01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 1: for a little cold. And if our bus got stuck,

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01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 1: the boys got out and pushed, and so did the

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01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:46,160
Speaker 1: girls because the girls had foreheads locked the bumpers of

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01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: a Chevy. That's a text message. Wow, yeah, I'll read

1512
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,599
Speaker 1: them the way you said them. I will I swear

1513
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 1: Becuz is here. He's a text this morning he said,

1514
01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:58,840
Speaker 1: you know what this media propaganda about. I think we

1515
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:03,800
Speaker 1: were talking about how you know the reason why VANCE

1516
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 1: is in Minneapolis this morning is because you're not seeing

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01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: the whole story. Right. Everybody wants to cover all the

1518
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 1: sensationalism because that's what your eyes want to see. That's

1519
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 1: what these news organizations want you to see when you

1520
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:18,320
Speaker 1: turn on the TV. Here, I'll just give you an example.

1521
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:20,439
Speaker 1: Right now, I've got the Fox up here, I've got

1522
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,280
Speaker 1: a winter storm forecast in the bottom. Then i've got

1523
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: to Lara Trump on the screen. We've got to crawl

1524
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 1: on the bottom. You've got the very attractive Lara Trump.

1525
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:30,760
Speaker 1: And then you've got what's going on in Minneapolis to

1526
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,080
Speaker 1: the right. There's so many things going on that they

1527
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 1: want to, you know, satiate your brain overload that they

1528
01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: that's what they want to do to to sort of

1529
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: program you every now and then put it down and

1530
01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: then come back to it. And that could go for

1531
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:46,519
Speaker 1: a lot of things when it comes to media and

1532
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 1: nick Ale and and social media and things like that.

1533
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: I want to read another text message here. I have

1534
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 1: to find this because this guy worked very hard on

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01:15:55,920 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: this text correct as well.

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01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 6: Well.

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01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 1: I have to find it because I promised I might

1538
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: read it. Can I just say something about cold days?

1539
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: We never had that either. When I was a kid.

1540
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 4: The only times schools canceled was because there was so

1541
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 4: much snow the plows are inundated and could couldn't get

1542
01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 4: it moving.

1543
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: Well, you're kind of a hill rod too, did I

1544
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 1: hear you pronounce Lafayette Lafayette Lafay is it? What are

1545
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:24,639
Speaker 1: we dealing with a Cajun Nikkelee this morning? Hey, it's

1546
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:27,519
Speaker 1: a baton rouge Nick Kelee on the Big eighty nine WLS. Well,

1547
01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: he can't talk about Missouri, that's right. I got scolded

1548
01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:36,679
Speaker 1: one time. Mark Lucas is our friend from Pause Chicago,

1549
01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:39,640
Speaker 1: and we always love to talk about the pets and

1550
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 1: what's going on at Pause, the dogs, the dogs and

1551
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: the other dogs. Mark, welcome back, buddy. How are you sir?

1552
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:49,599
Speaker 13: Hey, good morning. I was waiting for you to open

1553
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:51,880
Speaker 13: me up with Christapleton's cold this morning?

1554
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's cold. You know what? Would you please? Would

1555
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: you please go on to my social media and I

1556
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 1: know you do follow. Look at the lovely video I

1557
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: posted of a snoring Olga. It's the Olga update here

1558
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:08,439
Speaker 1: on WLS. She's so cute. When would you please take

1559
01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: her from me?

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01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 9: Yeah?

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01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:16,320
Speaker 1: She only bit me once yesterday, which is a breakthrough. Wow.

1562
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 13: Yeah, you're moving along well, by friend.

1563
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm moving along all right.

1564
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know what, I'm not even gonna goe.

1565
01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:29,360
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what I've given away houses before? Ginas

1566
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 1: do Hey? Mark? You know, before we get to talking

1567
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 1: about what you might have going on at pause this week.

1568
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 1: And I know that we laugh and joke about the

1569
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: weather a lot. But you know what, people, Uh, you

1570
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,639
Speaker 1: get busy, you forget what's going on. Uh, just make

1571
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 1: sure that when you let the dog out in the backyard,

1572
01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 1: if it's unattended, that you don't forget to let Fido in,

1573
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 1: because this is dangerous cold for for kids and dogs alone.

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01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, you know, if you're doing that, stay by

1575
01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 13: the slider and keep an eye on them. I mean,

1576
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:00,720
Speaker 13: you know what, You've got to be real careful. This

1577
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 13: is just stupid outside. And I think that's something that

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01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:04,439
Speaker 13: people need to remember.

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01:18:04,479 --> 01:18:04,600
Speaker 4: You know.

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01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 13: I've got a dog I got to walk and he

1581
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 13: made it seven minutes this morning. I don't think we're

1582
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:10,959
Speaker 13: going to see a poop for about thirty six.

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01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: Hours, you know, you know, and I get it. I

1584
01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 1: know some people like to use like like those peapads

1585
01:18:19,880 --> 01:18:22,439
Speaker 1: and stuff in their house. I can't do that, you know.

1586
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:24,840
Speaker 1: I sometimes I can't make it to the bathroom and

1587
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to use the peapad. And they

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01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: use them for their dogs as well.

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01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 9: So I see you.

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01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,920
Speaker 13: You shovel your your backyard, you know you make a

1591
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 13: landing strip back there.

1592
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, what I'll do. What I'll do is

1593
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:39,640
Speaker 1: I'll take the leaf flower this time of year and

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01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:41,600
Speaker 1: I'll fire it up if there's a light snow, and

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01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: I'll i'll clean it so my dogs can at least

1596
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: touch the touch the grass, because I don't want their

1597
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:49,000
Speaker 1: their little feet getting cold. Right, there's some dogs that

1598
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:53,719
Speaker 1: are better suited for this than my boutique boutique mutch

1599
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,559
Speaker 1: you know that get treated better than any human being.

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01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: I'll h bella Jeana Marine. So Mar, tell me what's

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01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 1: going on with a pause this week and how can

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01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: we help the homeless pet population here in town.

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01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 13: Well, you know, I want to kick it off. We

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01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 13: got a really great adoption event Saturday. It's at the

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01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 13: Soho House, which is in the West Loop. It's inside

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01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 13: the restaurant on the ground floor. It's called the Alice.

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01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 13: It's a Lli not al Ice. I don't know why.

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01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:23,439
Speaker 13: We're going to be there from noon to three with

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01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 13: a bunch of adoptables. And that's at one twenty five

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01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 13: North Green Street. We've got some really great fundraising opportunities

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01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:34,959
Speaker 13: going on. I know fitness is on top of everybody's

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01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:38,640
Speaker 13: mind except for maybe Nick and myself included. In February,

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01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 13: a lot of people are thinking about getting in shape

1614
01:19:41,120 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 13: Team Pause, which is our fundraising arm at Pause, they

1615
01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 13: run those crazy marathons that we love them. They're teaming

1616
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,879
Speaker 13: up with a lot of local fitness centers throughout Chicago

1617
01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 13: land offering some pretty unique classes, stuff like Ploate's Spins,

1618
01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:57,679
Speaker 13: StairMaster workouts, and no matter what your fitness level, there's

1619
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:00,640
Speaker 13: something for everybody. And the great thing about this is

1620
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 13: each one of these classes, one hundred percent of the

1621
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 13: proceeds goes back to PAU Chicago, and they're, like I said,

1622
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 13: at local fitness centers all around the city. You don't

1623
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 13: have to necessarily be on the North side. If you're

1624
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 13: interested in looking at something like that, visit our website

1625
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 13: pas Chicago dot org. Forward Slash Fitness February and then

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01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 13: I got an event that you know, maybe you and

1627
01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:25,080
Speaker 13: Nick should be thinking about. Animal Magnetism is coming up.

1628
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 13: We've got some early bird tickets going on sale. Animal

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01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 13: Magnetism is April tenth. It happens at Morgan Manufacturing, which

1630
01:20:32,439 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 13: is this crazy old hip manufacturing converted. Yeah, it's been

1631
01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 13: converted to just an awesome space for having parties. We

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01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 13: have about six hundred and fifty animal loving attendees. I

1633
01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 13: know you and I have talked about this before. This

1634
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:49,880
Speaker 13: is definitely a young man and young ladies event. A

1635
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:52,799
Speaker 13: lot of fun happens downtown Chicago.

1636
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 1: Now let me let me just stop you there for

1637
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:56,640
Speaker 1: a second. You see what he's saying. See what he's

1638
01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:59,679
Speaker 1: saying there, Nick, it's a young man and young ladies event.

1639
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: So what I do is listen. I take you there,

1640
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:06,640
Speaker 1: I put a puppy in your hands, and brother, you're in.

1641
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:10,360
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is it. You want to meet people?

1642
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:15,080
Speaker 1: And I know you don't because you you'd rather be

1643
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 1: miserable by yourself, which is good because then you're not

1644
01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 1: making somebody else out on that fields. But it really

1645
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:22,760
Speaker 1: is a good event to go to and it and

1646
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:24,960
Speaker 1: it means a lot for the for the shelters in

1647
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:28,400
Speaker 1: and around Chicago and little magnetism and we can find that.

1648
01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:32,360
Speaker 13: One forts of the early bird price and Nick, for that,

1649
01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 13: you could bring your chicken.

1650
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:37,800
Speaker 1: There you go, mother Clucker. Yeah, young lady comes up

1651
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:39,640
Speaker 1: to you. Who's this? Well, this is mother Clucker. How

1652
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:51,280
Speaker 1: you bol Mark always appreciate talk hanging Mark pas Chicaga

1653
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:53,679
Speaker 1: dot org. We always appreciate the visiness. Thank you so much.

1654
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: Uh you know that that's an organization that does a

1655
01:21:56,439 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: lot of great things, but honestly, you're one of the

1656
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: best pet advocates in the town and that goes above

1657
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:03,599
Speaker 1: and beyond what goes on at that shelter. I appreciate you.

1658
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:06,200
Speaker 6: We love you guys so much. Brother, Thank you, guys.

1659
01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:06,759
Speaker 13: Stay warmed.

1660
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:09,360
Speaker 1: Okay, be well man. That's our friend, Mark Lucas pause.

1661
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:12,080
Speaker 1: Pets are worth saving here in Chicago. I found that

1662
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: text and Nick, all right, here it is. This is

1663
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:17,320
Speaker 1: we asked earlier this morning if you had a joke

1664
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 1: you wanted to send in about the cold, go ahead

1665
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: and do so. So this is from a glen Ellen

1666
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: texter ed. He said, Ray, if a H two O

1667
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:29,600
Speaker 1: is on the inside of a fire hydrant, what's on

1668
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 1: the outside A K nine P. That's pretty good, he said,

1669
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 1: And he sent that to me earlier and he's like,

1670
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 1: come on, Ray, that's a good one. I'm like, all right,

1671
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: I'll get to it. I promise you'll like get do it.

1672
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 1: And I did. Thank you. If you have a it's

1673
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:47,639
Speaker 1: so cold joke, you go ahead and send it to us. Hey,

1674
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: Ray and Nick, did you see that Cascade movie theater

1675
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:52,639
Speaker 1: A lot is for sale out there off Prince Crossing

1676
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:56,040
Speaker 1: Road in North Avenue in West Chicago. It's been for

1677
01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:59,880
Speaker 1: sale for some time. That might be a deal for

1678
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:01,840
Speaker 1: you and I could open up a drive in theater.

1679
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: That way, you won't get kicked out of that one

1680
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:05,639
Speaker 1: like you got to skipped out of the other one.

1681
01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: So we open up the old Cascade what we call it,

1682
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 1: Ray and Nix movie theater, gun range and liquor store

1683
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:16,519
Speaker 1: and porium. It might be something that can beat that'll

1684
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:18,960
Speaker 1: beat the market, I'll tell you right now, speaking of

1685
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 1: the markets, Nick, that guy laughing in the background, that's

1686
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: our friend Jonathan honingg from Capital Is Pig. You're gonna

1687
01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:27,400
Speaker 1: see him on Fox News here in just a little bit.

1688
01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 1: Good morning, Jonathan.

1689
01:23:28,960 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 9: Great to be with Ray and Nick and say that

1690
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:33,720
Speaker 9: you can't buy ice futures.

1691
01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: It's this freezing cold, Jonathan. I'm gonna have to I'm

1692
01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to ask you to maybe move a ninety

1693
01:23:39,400 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 1: degrees to the west because the phone is very sketchy,

1694
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:43,480
Speaker 1: very sketchy.

1695
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 9: For sure. Maybe this is a little bit better.

1696
01:23:45,240 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: Ye's a little better. Yeah, there you go.

1697
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:47,120
Speaker 10: Good.

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Speaker 9: I was just gonna can't buy icicle futures. But natural

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01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 9: gas prices are up almost forty in five days. So

1700
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:58,639
Speaker 9: the cold we're feeling this morning is impacting you everything

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01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 9: from our homes to Wall Street. But you know, the

1702
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 9: market's actually been up for two days in a row.

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01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:05,960
Speaker 9: Rayon Nick was almost as if once President Trump took

1704
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,800
Speaker 9: the terri fights off the table once again, you saw

1705
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 9: the market shoot up once again. Off a little bit

1706
01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:14,120
Speaker 9: this morning, but generally not too far from all time highs.

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01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:17,479
Speaker 9: What has been shooting higher is gold. You know, it

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01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:21,120
Speaker 9: topped forty nine hundred for the first time yesterday. All

1709
01:24:21,160 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 9: the fact says they think it's going even higher. They

1710
01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 9: think it's going to go about five thousand dollars an ounce.

1711
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 9: It is up over seventy percent in just the last

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01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:29,559
Speaker 9: year alone.

1713
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 1: Tommy, how much is that little gold necklace you're wearing?

1714
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:33,919
Speaker 1: There is that announce?

1715
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 2: I think it's not real gold?

1716
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 11: Yeah?

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01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:41,639
Speaker 1: Sorry, oh, why oh? That is a party follow right there?

1718
01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:43,599
Speaker 1: I was going to rip that necklace right off his neck.

1719
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 4: Well, in Jonathan two, I mean the price of silver,

1720
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 4: an ounce of silver spot price, right now is one

1721
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:50,519
Speaker 4: hundred bucks aus.

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01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, also all new all time highs. And you know,

1723
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:56,400
Speaker 9: we've seen these trends that continue, and it does kind

1724
01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:59,519
Speaker 9: of put a little bit of a perhaps question into

1725
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 9: the president in assertations that inflation is defeated. Even the

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01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 9: ray of inflation going along about two point seven percent,

1727
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:09,479
Speaker 9: it's still almost thirty percent higher, thirty three percent higher

1728
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:12,800
Speaker 9: from that Fed's goal of two percent. So inflation not

1729
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:15,679
Speaker 9: running hot like it did under President Biden, but still

1730
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:20,200
Speaker 9: running hot. In fact, Amazon ceo Amazon CEO gave it

1731
01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 9: an interview to CNBC this week. He says that prices

1732
01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:25,400
Speaker 9: have gone up because of tariffs and a lot of

1733
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 9: that pre purchased inventory that sellers had bought before the

1734
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 9: tariffs went into effect, that's exhausted and you're starting to

1735
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 9: see prices right.

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01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:35,880
Speaker 1: Of course, Amazon's going to moan about that. It's all

1737
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 1: China junk. I'm a Biden American. I'm you know what

1738
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:42,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm going to go I'm I'm bullish

1739
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:44,800
Speaker 1: on the economy. We've got a new sponsor on the

1740
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: show coming up in February, Lake County water Sports. I'm

1741
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: going to go invest in a pontoon boat.

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01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 9: Well, that's awesome, Ray, I mean hope you I hope

1743
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,040
Speaker 9: you don't take out a loan on that though.

1744
01:25:57,320 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: That's what I want to talk to you about. We're

1745
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 1: going to cover this tomorrow on Drive Chicago, you know,

1746
01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:03,240
Speaker 1: our little show we do every morning at eight o'clock.

1747
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about what you're going to talk

1748
01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:08,360
Speaker 1: about next. Talk to me about Americans being underwater on

1749
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 1: their car loans.

1750
01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:13,599
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean almost thirty percent of new car buyers

1751
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 9: now are underwater on those loans. They have a trade

1752
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:19,880
Speaker 9: in and they're underwater, Honey, order of seven thousand dollars.

1753
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:22,679
Speaker 9: That's the highest level ever. A lot of it goes

1754
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 9: to those purchases that were made during the pandemic, Ray,

1755
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:27,000
Speaker 9: A lot of people bought more car, frankly than they

1756
01:26:27,040 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 9: could afford. And of course, the price of new cars

1757
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:33,160
Speaker 9: has continued to rise. The average new car price is

1758
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 9: now over fifty thousand dollars a car. This is according

1759
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 9: to Kelly Blue Book. And it seems like not too

1760
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:40,880
Speaker 9: long ago that was what maybe a luxury car might cost.

1761
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:43,400
Speaker 9: But now this is the average new car price, fifty

1762
01:26:43,439 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 9: thousand dollars. And you know, Ray, it's it's not a

1763
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:48,840
Speaker 9: great sign necessariity for the average consumer if he or

1764
01:26:48,920 --> 01:26:52,160
Speaker 9: she is that underwater on the car loan and can't

1765
01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 9: make up the difference. So a little bit of the

1766
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:57,599
Speaker 9: war some sign coming into the auto market automotive market

1767
01:26:57,640 --> 01:27:00,639
Speaker 9: as well, but just astonishing given the cost of what

1768
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 9: a car costs today.

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01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: Before we worry about rising costs in the auto industry,

1770
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 1: I just want to remind people what drove costs of

1771
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:11,599
Speaker 1: manufacturers in their increases. Nick, remember when there was this

1772
01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:14,200
Speaker 1: guy that was in office's name was Joe Biden, And

1773
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:16,639
Speaker 1: what did that What did the Democrats in Biden wanted

1774
01:27:16,680 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: to They want everybody driving around in electric cars EV EV's,

1775
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:23,880
Speaker 1: They traded and changed their tooling, And now all of

1776
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:26,560
Speaker 1: a sudden you're finding out that the market in America.

1777
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:28,799
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong and Euro up, the EV market's

1778
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:31,360
Speaker 1: pretty strong, but in America people don't want them. And

1779
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:34,840
Speaker 1: guess who's paying the price car buyers right now. And man,

1780
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:36,640
Speaker 1: when you start kicking the can down the road and

1781
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 1: rolling seventy two hundred dollars back into another car loan,

1782
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:41,320
Speaker 1: guess what when the time comes up for you to

1783
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:44,280
Speaker 1: trade in again, you're going to be upside down again,

1784
01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 1: and that is no gouda. As we like to say,

1785
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:51,440
Speaker 1: we're talking to our friend Jonathan Hoenig here on WLSAM

1786
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:54,360
Speaker 1: eight ninety. Bezos is making news again with Blue Origin.

1787
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 1: Is he sending his girlfriend back up in his space?

1788
01:27:57,880 --> 01:27:59,559
Speaker 9: I don't know, Ryan. What are the ways they're making

1789
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 9: money now? Are these you know, space adventure tourists trips

1790
01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 9: in fact? But Jeff Bezos, you know he's no longer

1791
01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 9: CEO of Amazon. He's got this space space venture Blue Origin.

1792
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:13,639
Speaker 9: He actually has predicted that this is one day going

1793
01:28:13,680 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 9: to be a bigger company than Amazon. And the goal

1794
01:28:16,479 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 9: is to deploy satellites, lots of them, the company saying

1795
01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 9: yesterday they planned to deploy five thousand, four hundred and

1796
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 9: eight satellites for an entire communication network, basically going to

1797
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:31,400
Speaker 9: take on SpaceX, going to take on the domination that

1798
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 9: Elon Musk has achieved. So you know a lot of people,

1799
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:36,720
Speaker 9: you know, they roll their eyes when they hear about

1800
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 9: Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. But look, these are the

1801
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:43,919
Speaker 9: competitors that are truly creating the next final, the next frontier,

1802
01:28:43,960 --> 01:28:46,800
Speaker 9: the new frontier. And they're doing it in competition, not

1803
01:28:46,920 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 9: because of a government edict or a government bureaucracy.

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01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:53,760
Speaker 1: Say what you want about Elon Musk and Starlink. If

1805
01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:55,880
Speaker 1: it wasn't for Starlink, all that stuff that was going

1806
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:59,120
Speaker 1: on in Iran with the recent uprising when they decided

1807
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:00,599
Speaker 1: they were going to shut down, I heard about you.

1808
01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 1: I had have never known about that if it wasn't

1809
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 1: for Elon Musk. And those are the innovators that will

1810
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,400
Speaker 1: keep pushing the market and money in the in the

1811
01:29:08,439 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 1: near future. You know, we see these rides, Jonathan, and

1812
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:14,559
Speaker 1: I know that you're a guy that invests money for people.

1813
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:18,000
Speaker 1: You're what they call a high wealth invisor or you know,

1814
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: an investor. You're you're a guy that knows what's going on.

1815
01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:24,000
Speaker 1: How long can this run with the stock market go?

1816
01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:27,519
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's not an incredible tear right now,

1817
01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: and it has been since the beginning of the year,

1818
01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:31,480
Speaker 1: really since Trump got back into office.

1819
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean really it's still quite well. We're about

1820
01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:37,160
Speaker 9: break even for the year. Ray And that's that's a

1821
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 9: real interesting question mark. There's an old saying that says

1822
01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 9: as January goes, so goes the rest of the year.

1823
01:29:43,439 --> 01:29:45,680
Speaker 9: So the market's a a little bit of a you know,

1824
01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:47,560
Speaker 9: deciding point. Now we're gonna have to see how the

1825
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:49,639
Speaker 9: rest of the couple of days. What I am seeing

1826
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:52,599
Speaker 9: is a rotation out of some of those glamour stocks

1827
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 9: that we've talked about, the AI names, if you will,

1828
01:29:55,360 --> 01:29:59,559
Speaker 9: in the more value stocks, cheaper valuations, international small stocks.

1829
01:29:59,720 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 9: So you want to still cheap that long term focus.

1830
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:03,400
Speaker 9: You know, you don't want to be a day trader

1831
01:30:03,439 --> 01:30:05,880
Speaker 9: jumping in and out, but perhaps consider some of the

1832
01:30:05,880 --> 01:30:08,759
Speaker 9: airs of the market that haven't participated, as I said,

1833
01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:12,519
Speaker 9: small value, international. There what's really working now underneath the

1834
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:15,080
Speaker 9: radar screen outperforming even the big taxs.

1835
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:17,280
Speaker 1: That we know in Love, you know, in LUA and

1836
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 1: and kind of as a side and I know it

1837
01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter what I invest in. You know that

1838
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 1: pontoon boat is going to be one, but I've also

1839
01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:26,720
Speaker 1: been investing in old fashioned smokers, which you know's that

1840
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:29,120
Speaker 1: can be problematic at times. My friend, where do I

1841
01:30:29,120 --> 01:30:30,519
Speaker 1: see you next? You're going to be on with Stuart

1842
01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:31,800
Speaker 1: Varney there on Fox this.

1843
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:35,439
Speaker 9: Morning, indeed with Stewart at ten am and always opened

1844
01:30:35,479 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 9: at Capitalistpaig dot com. Stay warm, Ray and stay warm Chicago.

1845
01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:41,480
Speaker 1: But he always great to talk to you. Appreciate your expertise,

1846
01:30:42,400 --> 01:30:44,160
Speaker 1: best to you invest for you as well. It's always

1847
01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:47,000
Speaker 1: fun to talk to Jonathan because that guy knows everything

1848
01:30:47,439 --> 01:30:50,440
Speaker 1: that's going on. And I wanted to get to the

1849
01:30:50,479 --> 01:30:53,479
Speaker 1: fact that if you're a Costco member, they've secretly done

1850
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:56,800
Speaker 1: something with gas prices where you can save a little

1851
01:30:56,800 --> 01:30:59,280
Speaker 1: more money. And you know what I noticed my insurance

1852
01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:04,599
Speaker 1: company I do my insurance with American Family that if

1853
01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm a Costco member, I get a pretty good discounts.

1854
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 1: So now I got to go do that. But if

1855
01:31:09,439 --> 01:31:14,200
Speaker 1: you are getting gas at Costco, they've given you back

1856
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:18,719
Speaker 1: high rewards and now you can save five percent instead

1857
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:22,519
Speaker 1: of the four percent cash back, which if you travel

1858
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:24,120
Speaker 1: as much as you and I do going back and

1859
01:31:24,120 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 1: forth at the end of the year, that could be

1860
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:29,559
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Have a text message here from

1861
01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 1: a seven to six y five texture, Hey, I heard

1862
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 1: that Saturday night barn dance thing you guys played. Does

1863
01:31:35,280 --> 01:31:37,479
Speaker 1: that mean that I get something to listen to on

1864
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:42,599
Speaker 1: Saturday nights? We'll see. Maybe we're working on something around

1865
01:31:42,640 --> 01:31:44,840
Speaker 1: here with a Nick and Ray. We got nothing else

1866
01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:46,439
Speaker 1: to do on the weekend with the heck, why not

1867
01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:49,479
Speaker 1: they tell us that we can record that kind of

1868
01:31:49,479 --> 01:31:51,639
Speaker 1: stuff out, but that's not how it works in my world.

1869
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:54,479
Speaker 1: Just like the guys on the radio that are doing

1870
01:31:54,479 --> 01:31:57,599
Speaker 1: their shows this morning from Florida, La. Yeah, that's BS

1871
01:31:57,600 --> 01:31:59,559
Speaker 1: and they're gonna sound like they're hair. Oh boy, it's

1872
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:01,960
Speaker 1: cold and Chicago. And let me just tell you over

1873
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:06,200
Speaker 1: there on Soros Radio that is owned by George Sos

1874
01:32:06,240 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 1: and that other greatest newspaper place there in Florida this morning, BSD,

1875
01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 1: they all worn't from home. How can you do a

1876
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:15,840
Speaker 1: job and talk about Chicago if you're working at home

1877
01:32:15,840 --> 01:32:20,519
Speaker 1: in Ottawa or Florida. Huh Yeah. I like being here.

1878
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:23,320
Speaker 1: I like it. I mean I like it better if

1879
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:28,719
Speaker 1: you weren't here. Nick. So you know, when your kids

1880
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:30,880
Speaker 1: have popcorn to sell, we all, you know, we put

1881
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:33,000
Speaker 1: the screws to people and we're like, you will buy

1882
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:35,559
Speaker 1: this popcorn from Nick's kids or some bad's gonna happen,

1883
01:32:35,640 --> 01:32:39,720
Speaker 1: right and Nick, Nick, here's Nick selling popcorn to the

1884
01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:42,800
Speaker 1: WLS sales staff last year. You only exist out here

1885
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 1: because of me. You're born. Don't ever go over my

1886
01:32:46,320 --> 01:32:50,479
Speaker 1: daddy again. So I'm you know, the new way for

1887
01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:52,920
Speaker 1: kids to sell is online. And I've got this friend,

1888
01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:54,760
Speaker 1: of mine. Dear friend of mine, Kyle Kate, his little

1889
01:32:54,760 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 1: girl is selling girls call cookies. So what I do

1890
01:32:58,040 --> 01:33:01,160
Speaker 1: with her is I buy a hundred bucks worth of cookies.

1891
01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:03,120
Speaker 1: And then what I do is I send her to

1892
01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:06,600
Speaker 1: the police station where she lives up in Nina, Wisconsin,

1893
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:08,960
Speaker 1: and she then gives the boxes of the cookies to

1894
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 1: the police, and I make her do a nice social

1895
01:33:11,080 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 1: post to say that we appreciate law enforcement. And it's

1896
01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 1: kind of a feel good because I don't think they

1897
01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 1: really teach kids how to interact with the public anymore.

1898
01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:20,559
Speaker 1: It's moms and dads selling online, just like it's always

1899
01:33:20,560 --> 01:33:23,080
Speaker 1: been moms and dads, you know, pressuring people like you

1900
01:33:23,120 --> 01:33:27,519
Speaker 1: do with your gestapo tactics. You're worse than an ice officer.

1901
01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 1: And I order online last night and it says it

1902
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:35,759
Speaker 1: keeps rejecting my card because I'm ordering one hundred dollars

1903
01:33:35,840 --> 01:33:39,160
Speaker 1: of cookies for the family and then one hundred dollars

1904
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:42,040
Speaker 1: of cookies for the police. Wake up this morning and

1905
01:33:42,080 --> 01:33:44,040
Speaker 1: I noticed, well, last night, I noticed that the card

1906
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:47,000
Speaker 1: kept getting declined. But yet I look at my bank statement,

1907
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 1: it says that the card went through. So I called

1908
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 1: a virtual assistant and I'm like, hey, this isn't right.

1909
01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:55,040
Speaker 1: Don't worry. We've taken care of it. Virtual assistant has

1910
01:33:55,080 --> 01:33:57,559
Speaker 1: this all cleared out. This morning, I wake up and

1911
01:33:57,640 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 1: my bank account's been drained by the girl Scotts of

1912
01:33:59,880 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 1: a America to the tune of six hundred dollars. That's

1913
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:07,680
Speaker 1: a lot of thin mints. I'll tell you. If you

1914
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:10,439
Speaker 1: take that thin mint and you crack it open after

1915
01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:12,719
Speaker 1: it's been in the fridge and you dip it into

1916
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: a PBR, that's good living there. And that gets us

1917
01:34:17,160 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 1: to Tom on the Town.

1918
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:25,800
Speaker 5: Why well, Tommy, good morning, ray welcome into the show.

1919
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:28,880
Speaker 2: Yeah A fifty seven. Finally get things.

1920
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:31,080
Speaker 1: Going, get this thing started, all right, let's.

1921
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:31,600
Speaker 2: Get it starting now.

1922
01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 5: I know it's cold out there, Chicago is very very cold,

1923
01:34:34,120 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 5: but that's not going to stop you from going out.

1924
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:37,920
Speaker 5: One of the coolest events that they got going on

1925
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:40,439
Speaker 5: this weekend is over at our our friends at CANTEENI.

1926
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:42,960
Speaker 5: They got a great park there, a great museum, they

1927
01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:45,880
Speaker 5: got an ice rink, and coco cabanas.

1928
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:51,479
Speaker 2: At the Coco Coco Cabana. His name is a Raymond.

1929
01:34:52,280 --> 01:34:54,840
Speaker 1: He loves this show girl. You know, they had those

1930
01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:58,120
Speaker 1: cabanas set up when we were there for the holiday festival.

1931
01:34:58,320 --> 01:35:00,840
Speaker 1: Very cools. It really is cool. Well it's neat, so

1932
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:02,759
Speaker 1: we call them what do they call them? Yurts?

1933
01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:04,320
Speaker 4: Utes?

1934
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:08,120
Speaker 5: Utes, Utes, and the utes will all be out there

1935
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:11,360
Speaker 5: after taking into sites, enjoy some ice skating at the

1936
01:35:11,400 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 5: cozy cocoa cabanas, perfect for creating cherished moments. While this

1937
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:17,920
Speaker 5: weather is cold, stay awhile to relax and indulge in

1938
01:35:17,960 --> 01:35:20,599
Speaker 5: some favorites of the winter season. Cozy up by the

1939
01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:23,520
Speaker 5: fire pits. They got s'mores and sip on some specialty

1940
01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:26,080
Speaker 5: drinks which you will need to keep you warm in

1941
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:27,960
Speaker 5: this very, very chilly weather.

1942
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:30,639
Speaker 1: But be careful. As you heard earlier on the Big

1943
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: eighty nine, the exploding trees.

1944
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:39,400
Speaker 2: And if you get hurt by an exploding tree, you

1945
01:35:39,439 --> 01:35:40,559
Speaker 2: need to drown your sorrows.

1946
01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:42,320
Speaker 5: Head on over to a Fighting a line I watch

1947
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:45,599
Speaker 5: party over at Joe's on Weed Street. Yes, the Fighting

1948
01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:48,559
Speaker 5: a Lini playing a little bit of basketball this weekend.

1949
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:53,040
Speaker 5: They've got some really cool game day specials orange crush

1950
01:35:53,360 --> 01:35:56,760
Speaker 5: for ten dollars, surfside iced ty and lemonade plus vodka for.

1951
01:35:56,760 --> 01:36:00,040
Speaker 2: Eight bucks, and an A Linei Bomb for seven.

1952
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 1: You know why there's such a big a Lini bar

1953
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:05,719
Speaker 1: as Tommy DeSanto. Tommy DeSanto's the owner and at the

1954
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:08,400
Speaker 1: place over there, he's a line alum. They do great

1955
01:36:08,439 --> 01:36:10,599
Speaker 1: stuff and they bring in some good mans too.

1956
01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:13,479
Speaker 5: So support those fighting a Linei fans. They're playing Purdue

1957
01:36:13,520 --> 01:36:17,840
Speaker 5: at two pm. That's tomorrow, tomorrow at Joe's on Weed.

1958
01:36:18,320 --> 01:36:20,720
Speaker 5: And just in case you want to do something that

1959
01:36:20,800 --> 01:36:23,640
Speaker 5: social Stephanie might be at, check out the Chicago International

1960
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:27,040
Speaker 5: Puppet Theater Festival, where he can watch a bunch of

1961
01:36:27,120 --> 01:36:30,320
Speaker 5: kids who spend a lot of time inside play with

1962
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 5: their little dolls and marionettes.

1963
01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:34,400
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Nick, we should go there and trip them.

1964
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:40,360
Speaker 5: And finally, the best part of the day, it's the

1965
01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:42,280
Speaker 5: tavern of the week. I'm gonna take you all the

1966
01:36:42,280 --> 01:36:46,360
Speaker 5: way over to Hell, Michigan nice where he can sip

1967
01:36:46,439 --> 01:36:48,679
Speaker 5: on some drinks at Smitty's Hell's Saloon.

1968
01:36:49,080 --> 01:36:51,080
Speaker 1: Hell has frozen over this morning, Yes, and.

1969
01:36:51,040 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 2: When Hell is frozen over, you need to warm up

1970
01:36:52,960 --> 01:36:53,639
Speaker 2: over at.

1971
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:58,040
Speaker 5: Hell's Saloon in Hell, Michigan, nestled in the heart of Hell,

1972
01:36:58,280 --> 01:37:01,640
Speaker 5: Smitty's Saloon is more than just a restaurant, It's an experience.

1973
01:37:02,080 --> 01:37:04,760
Speaker 5: The ones known as the Damn Site in Their establishment

1974
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 5: has been a local favor for decades, offering great food,

1975
01:37:07,160 --> 01:37:09,600
Speaker 5: live music, and one of a kind of atmosphere and

1976
01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:11,479
Speaker 5: the only place where you can find all of your

1977
01:37:11,479 --> 01:37:15,719
Speaker 5: ex girlfriends at House Saloon in Hell, Michigan.

1978
01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:18,120
Speaker 1: Nick, you could saunter through there with a cocktail in

1979
01:37:18,160 --> 01:37:19,720
Speaker 1: your hand and I could say, how you doing it?

1980
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:24,360
Speaker 1: You could say, I'm going through Hell. Be the truth. Hey,

1981
01:37:24,400 --> 01:37:26,360
Speaker 1: before we get out of here, I just want a

1982
01:37:26,400 --> 01:37:28,559
Speaker 1: note to you, Nick, because last week, at this time

1983
01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:31,680
Speaker 1: you were getting a pettied and mannied. I just want

1984
01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:34,600
Speaker 1: to let you know that the Bears versus Rams, a

1985
01:37:34,680 --> 01:37:36,880
Speaker 1: game that was played last week here in Chicago when

1986
01:37:36,880 --> 01:37:39,920
Speaker 1: it was cold, boil Boy, it was hit a new

1987
01:37:40,160 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 1: NBC sports broadcast record with forty five point four million

1988
01:37:45,400 --> 01:37:48,880
Speaker 1: viewers a week. Don't have any Bears this week, but

1989
01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:52,040
Speaker 1: they are America's team and good things lie ahead. You

1990
01:37:52,080 --> 01:37:54,040
Speaker 1: have a wonderful weekend. I know that you've got to

1991
01:37:54,080 --> 01:37:55,680
Speaker 1: stay shaped from thish cold, but I'm going to head

1992
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:59,479
Speaker 1: up north and settle up on a snowmobile. We'll see

1993
01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:01,200
Speaker 1: you day. I have to let us back and we

1994
01:38:01,240 --> 01:38:03,120
Speaker 1: appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot for listening to

1995
01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:03,920
Speaker 1: the Big eighty nine,