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is unite the party. I think you should start by apologies, apologizing to the Jewish people, especially of your state. Sometimes, you know, intra-family squabbles are the biggest ones. But we all know that when we walk out the house, we stand united. I mean, 312, 642-560, alpha wealth group. Call and text line is now open. Do you believe that? Because I recall. Mayor Brandon Johnson, after he defeated Paul Vallis and the runoff said, I'm now going to reach across to the other side and bring us together so we could work as one. And that was another big, ginormous lie coming from that man's mouth. Because he did the exact opposite. Of course. He shamed Republicans. He shamed Trump supporters. And still to this day, he shames Trump. And what could we agree upon now? When you look at what they run on, defunding the police, socialism, there's nothing to compromise on any longer. By the way, something I've said a bunch of times is that we, over the last six years, the K-shaped recovery, the K-shaped economy is what has caused this burn it all down attitude where they elect these clowns. And this is something we should not. be sleeping on because it's a big deal. Well, here's the thing. So, yeah, Medicare for all. Of course. He wants to cut off all foreign aid to Israel. Basically hates Jewish people. I don't even know if he likes America. He wants to abolish ICE. His wife is a psychiatrist in Ann Arbor. She only takes cash. So Medicaid and Medicare do not apply to her. They make $618,000. They live in Ann Arbor. Give some of that money back. James Comey, I mean, if you're going to be a true communist, you've got to share with the people. Oh, no, it's just us. We're supposed to be the ones who share stuff. The people who administer the, and again, you know, I have. Tons of study. I figured out what the difference between socialism and communism is, is that socialism, the perpetrators who are pushing it upon, you do it with a smile on their face. And in communism, the smile disappears. That's the only difference I can figure out. Well, the most egregious part of this campaign, though, is that he's aligned himself with Hasan Piker. He's a podcaster. Right. Left of the left. He hates America. He says that we deserve 9-11. Yes, you can't hear it enough. America deserved 9-11, dude. I'm saying it. It doesn't even matter. None of this justifies that Palestinians have a right to dignity, a right to emancipation, a right to live free lives, free from this occupation. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if rapes happen on October 7. Like, that doesn't change the dynamic for me even this much. So he campaigned with Hasan Piker, even on Election Day, Jim, they had an Election Day pool party in Detroit. Yeah, he went to that. I don't know if his wife could go because she wears a hijab. But he campaigned with Hasan Piker. He says he disagrees with that statement that America deserved 9-11. But he won't disavow.

Hasan Piker or Hasan Piker's views. Again, it's the crazy is what's in right now. I can't believe the world we live in right now that he won't even say that that's the wrong thing to say and that that means he's an awful dude. So I'm sorry. Yeah. Well, U.S. Senate candidate on the Republican side, Mike Rogers, he got the nomination. Easy peasy. He's got to start. right now coming out with campaign ads. And he spoke to the media yesterday. I have never seen someone so radical, so extreme, get nominated by a political party. The Democrat Party is lost to this hardcore socialist attitude. 31264560. Let's go to, oh, Verlon, in the state of Michigan. Verlon, you've got boots on the ground there. Yeah, I heard you talking about my state, so I had to call in. I predicted that he was going to win the primary, but he's not going to beat Mike Rogers. Mike Rogers is talking common sense, and I predicted a couple of years ago before I moved down here, that Michigan will turn red. Don't even worry about it. People out here, they just don't like to confront people. They're not in your face like we are, but they're talking about they're going to vote for Mike Rogers. Don't worry about it. But here's the thing. Some, you know, moderate Democrats, do you think, going to vote for Rogers? I think they're going to stay home. See, I'm going to tell you something. The DSA, they have already won because they're taking over the Democrat Party. But I'm cool with that. They can destroy their party all they want. It's just going to make it better for us. Don't worry about it, Amy. Everything is easy-peasy. You're telling us to not worry about it, but I'm still worried about it. Well, did you vote, Verlon? Oh, yes, I voted. And I voted for John Jay Jones. Yep. Because I was going to go for Mike Cox. But I went, but since he pulled out, I went for John Jay Jones. So don't worry about it. We're going to have a Republican governor. We're going to have Republican Senate. We'll be good. We'll be good. All right. I love your confidence. I thank you. And he said my state of Michigan. That makes me sad because Verlon used to be. One of us stuck here in Illinois. Let's go to Hoffman Estates, Mr. Joe. Hi, Joe. Hey, Amy, good to hear you. I was wondering, do you think a lot of young people are voting socialist at this point because they're playing by the rules? They're doing everything they're supposed to, and they just really can't get ahead. They're living in one-bedroom apartments or they're in their parents' basement. They can't afford a new car anymore. They're just... It seems like you can't beat them, join them. It's almost their mentality. But we all did that. I mean, I lived in a tough shed in Tucson and made $15,000 a year. Thanks, Joe, for the phone call. It's going to be a rare time when you were and I disagree, Amy, because I agree with you. The life in the 70s, these people have no idea what it was like. However, it's a real thing that they have $50,000 worth of student loans that the government's pushed on them, that housing has gone through the roof. It's a real thing that they're disappointed. But the odd thing is that they're planning on giving more power.

to the political party that caused most of these problems, but it's a real problem. All right. Let's go to Rick in Disciplines. Hi, Rick. How are you? Hi, Amy. I'm always on there. I'm always listening. You know that. I just want to welcome you back to the morning show. Ed Berlon, he's a smart man, except for moving to Michigan, but then again, my cousin did the same thing. But he's right, you know, that... People are, people are starting to, you know, come around. They're starting to figure out that, you know, this is our country, not theirs. You can come here all you want, but assimilate. Yes, that's true. But that's one thing about the Muslim religion. And I know, thanks, Rick, for the phone call. You know, part of it is conform or die. Yeah. That's part of it. And death to America, death to Israel. That doesn't sit well with a lot of people. But there are some Muslims that are wonderful people that have assimilated. Sure, sure. But it's just when you hit, like Abdul El-Sayed, he's going to a little. Listen to this. This guy's popping off here on Mike Rogers. Are you ready? My name is not raising your gas prices. Accusing Rogers of using his Arabic name as a line of attack. They think that you want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen, man, if you can't say the name, it's Abdurrahman. Keep the name out your damn mouth. We're starting that again? Keep it out your mouth? Yeah, no is my answer to that. I'll say whatever name I want. That started with Will Smith. Exactly. Keep your name up with like who you think you are. Some authority you have. Chris Rock was up there saying his wife. Keep my wise name out your mouth. Yeah, it's not proper English. It's, it's, I do not like, yeah, there's nothing. But that translated into Illinois politicians who have somebody. was living in a different state and still a Republican still cared about the state of Illinois. They'd say, keep Chicago out your mouth. No. I will complain about what I want to complain, when I want to complain about it. And I shouldn't even have brought it up. Let's go to Craig and Mount Greenwood. Good morning. Craig. How are you? Hey, good morning, Amy and Jim. It's good to hear you guys. Hey, listen, this is like way beyond what most people think about it. It's beyond the Democrat, Democrat Republican political stuff in it. It's good against evil. And. In 1962 is when they basically ended prayer and school and all that. And basically, the devil's been on the move all through history and all that. And we're at a point in history where you can see how just the anti-God, the immorality, the injustice, the just unbelievable corruption everywhere in the government and everywhere you look and that. And so biblical, like in biblical history,

We're really late in time here. We're in these, like, end times of where stuff is messed up. And so that's why you see this stuff that you would never, ever expect in our country, these Muslims and anti-Americans and just anti-Semite. Everything's to such a high degree, and they're winning elections, and it's because it is, just like the Bible talked about in the end times, like good against evil. And that's what we're seeing and experiencing. All right. Thanks, Craig, for the phone call. Let's go to Ed in Elmer's. Hi, Ed. Good morning. Hello. Hello. How do you defeat the power of entitlements? And economy is promise of entitlement. And next was government workers. So that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I know. I mean, at the voting body, it didn't work in Michigan. And they had another congressional candidate in Michigan 7th congressional district that's also, you know, a self-proclaimed socialist slash communist. One was taken down. One was elevated. So let's go to Marvin in Burlington, Wisconsin. Marvin, you're going to be listening at 635 because Senator Ron Johnson's coming on. Yeah, I vote for them twice. The question I have for Jim, you mentioned the 70s and the difficulties we had in the economy then. Do you think it's the level of taxes that we're paying in today's world, or today's times versus back then? And the extremely... elevated cost of higher education that was nowhere near what it cost today if you look at the percentages and do you think that is stifling the opportunities for young folks today and isn't that sort of where the blame is every time we turn around there's a fee or a tax for And they're very high. So I just wanted your thoughts on that. Yeah, what you said about the cost of college education, I think that's embedded in the dissatisfaction with the young community. And again, you know, I've been saying this since 2010 when the government took over the student loan program, they were going to push out loans to people to gender interpretive dance and value that degree the same as an electoral engineering degree. And where was that going to lead us? It was going to lead us to people who were unemployable with $50,000 with the debt. And that's where we are now. For them to be disappointed about that, yes. But for them to, I think it's so myopic to look at the world we grew up in now. And I know there's extreme poverty in a lot of places, even within our own country. But everybody was impoverished in the 70s. We had four cars. But none of them actually worked. You just have to take parts from one to the other and put it together with duct tape to try to take your date out. So it was a crazy time in the 70s. And we were fine. The stories you need to know to start your day. This is Chicago's morning answer. On AM 560, the answer. Signature, a division of Esquire Bank, offers Chicago businesses relationship first banking. Signature knows your name and your story because personalized banking still matters. I'm Dan Proft, and I know this because Signature is where I do my business banking.

in Chicago. So let's welcome to the program, Sam Sanchez. I do believe this is your first time on the morning answer. Good morning, Mr. Sanchez. How are you? Good morning, Amy. I'm fine. How are you? Thank you. Yeah, we're doing great. So tell us what happened that night in July outside your bar. Well, Amy, it's been going on for about two years, a little bit longer than two years. We've been reporting that to the city, city officials, Alderman Andrew Vasquez, who's in charge of the immigration committee on these children that they're out there until 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock in the morning. Not one, but multiple children, one adult, or sometimes, these adults, they don't know if they're not their children, and some how many children don't even know their parents are. And we know that because, I mean, we did talk to them. We try to help them out more in the wintertime. You know, they're out freezing. And, you know, they're down below zero. They have the children working trying to sell candy, chocolate, and the summertime flowers. I mean, they used to do this in El Paso and then they'd run across the border when police came. Are police aware of the situation? They do. We call 911. The police shows up. I mean, we're short police. We really are. I mean, we don't have enough police. I mean, there's violent crime out there. So the category, things on what's emergency. And the pedaling on the street is not one of the top priorities. But they do show up. And the children run. The same thing is how possible. They'll run and they'll run to a dark street, dark alley. I mean, they're very well trained. They know what to do. They turn their face when you've got a camera. They hide their face. They know how to ask for money. They got a cell phone. And it could be an iPhone. I mean, most of them have iPhones, and they're walking up to people that are intoxicated and ask them to them to them. This is like third world stuff. This is so staggering to most people and how the system completely lets these kids down. I mean, these kids there, we know they're there. Look, you're saying this is not a mystery. The whole neighborhood knows it. But for some odd reason, the system can't fix this problem, which it seems like an easy problem to fix. Why? And here's the thing. And the children are in danger. I mean, I think last year, there was, they extradited a child predator from somewhere on Clark Street, you know, busy street. The children are not just in River North. People see them on. And anywhere there's traffic, there's people, concerts, you'll see the children where there's a massive amount of people, entertainment, West Loop, Northside, Regalville, front of bars, restaurants. And I want to get back to this child because, I mean, she's still out there. And actually, she hasn't been out there in a week, but she was out there after the incident happened. Well, can you remind, let's take a step back here. Just tell us what happened in July with this nine-year-old girl. Yeah, I apologize. I'm sorry. So, yeah, so they stayed right by the door. They blocked the doors when people are coming in. And I did.

After the incident, I was going through the cameras, and I noticed that there was this one woman intoxicated following the little girl and arguing with her. Approached her and tried to go through her pocket, looking for something. And she picked up the little girl, and the child was a child, and body slammed there and jumped on top of her. And at that time, the other lady who saw her was trying to stop about one hand. And some other young lady got involved, and that's where the altercation happened. But, yeah, she was attacked by this other woman. I mean, she's not small. I mean, she's a tall girl. I mean, she's very... You know, powerful. She could have hurt a little child and very aggressively attacked those. She was intoxicated. So one of the biggest fears is that these children are going to get hurt. Either they're going to get picked up, they're going to be taken. They're going to be, I mean, they're going to get trampled on. Because there's children that are three years old or younger walking on the sidewalk at that hour. And we all know. I mean, I mean, the bar scene sometimes people, you know, they're going to talk to them. And when they fight, I mean, they're not looking who's around them. I mean, we asked the mayor many times, the mayor's office, I'm sorry, not directly to the mayor, but the mayor's office, and we did ask Andrew Voskis, and he sent a team out about two years ago. We came out one time to talk to us, the chamber at Lake Beach Chamber of Commerce also talked to the city about it. So we've been reporting this over and over and over. We're worried about the children. Well, what about this nine-year-old girl? Tell me about her. Well, she was assaulted. But I didn't realize she was assaulted two days after, because I was reviewing the videos. So I went that weekend to look for the child, and she was there, and I talked to her, and she wouldn't talk to me. And I asked her, this is your parents? Where's your parents? She goes, I don't know. I don't know. And they do have their own dialogue. They're Ecuadorian, I believe. That's what the association of the vendors, street vendors said. And they have a dialogue, but they do understand Spanish. And they did talk to the lady that was... next to her when she got assaulted. And I said, is that your daughter? She goes, no, I'm not my dog. I said, well, where's the parent? She goes, I don't know. So, so nobody, somebody needs to investigate. Are these the children that are missing? I mean, are the parents abusing them or are they being trafficked? We don't know, but someone needs to do something. It's been two years. Amy, it's been two years. Not, I'm... Every restaurant owner and bar owner that sees them complain about it and call the police, not because we don't want them to make a living. We know they're in danger. Right. And you don't know if they're being, you know, trafficked sexually as well. And it's so disturbed. Do you know where they're staying at night? Has anybody been able to follow these young children to see if they're in a shelter, if they're in a homeless encampment? No, we don't know. We don't know. I mean, we see the children. I mean, during occasions, you'll see a minivan drop them off, like part of the corner away, drop off people. And here's the thing. If you look at the children with the flowers, it's the same bucket, same bouquets, same flowers. Everything is identical from the south side to the west side to the lakefront.

and River North, no matter where you go, it's all unified. They're not, it's organized. And I mean, people know it's organized. I mean, you can tell, I mean, the police know it's organized. I mean, I've been investigated. I mean, I heard the city is doing something now. The advice might be out there looking for somebody. I don't know. I mean, and I mean, the police, we're short-handed. I mean, we need help. I mean, we need to get involved. The state should have an apartment of the federal government needs to help out too. We're looking for these children. They're right here. Here's a bunch of children. Come and help them, please. This is a crazy story, and this is really so sobering. But you think about four years of the southern border just kicked wide open, and everybody said, you'll surge the border, words of Joe Biden himself, so whatever. So these kind of downstream things that happen are staggering. But... Do you have any idea? Like, what is your idea how to solve this? Does it happen? Because we obviously can't rely on the system. The system is failing them. What can we do? Is citizens? I mean, we should, I mean, keep calling 911 and reporting it. I mean, we have to. I mean, we have to. I mean, we're always, in our caps meetings, we talk about it, just to keep reporting that because all this is documented. And eventually. When some adults take this office, and I know, I mean, I don't care what administration does it, but somebody mentioned it's going to have to fix this problem. But if we don't report it and we ignore it, and she's going to go, the landscape of the city of Chicago has changed since, yes, since the mass migration, we all chipped in. I mean, when Mary Laurie Lightfoot was in office. when the buses started to arrive. And we, as restaurant owners, donated hundreds of thousands of meals, donated, then sell. Everybody, we got together. Same thing as COVID. We just gave food away. I mean, myself gave away over 100,000 individual meals. I mean, to help the children, help the family. You know, we thought it was a temporary thing. They... took them in and they talked about protecting the migrants, and we're like, okay, so, you know, they're human. We have to take care of them. We can't abandon the children on the street. But what happens after that? They took them into shelters, and then they shut down the shelter. They moved them out. They shut down the hotels, and they put them in front of our restaurants. That is not the right thing to do. Either if you're going to stand there and talk about how great a mayor you are or older men and you want to do the human thing and then do it. But don't dump them on the street. Be responsible. Be responsible elected officials. And take care of the people you took on. Well, according to the, excuse me, Department of Homeland Security, 450,000 kids, they believe were illegally smuggled across the U.S.-Mexican border. Again, 146,000 in counting, have been reunited.

But this is just a stark reminder of how politicians' policies can ruin children's lives. And if you're not taking care of the children, like, what is the even point of all this? That's the tip of the spear. This is amazing to me. So Sam Sanchez, owner of Moes Cantina, you're having a fundraiser. God bless you for Chicago Police Officer Crespo. And let me say his name again, Officer Crespo. He was injured at Swedish Covenant Hospital. His partner, Officer John Bartholomew was killed by a man seven-time convicted felon who cut off his ankle monitor, should have been behind bars in the first place. Do you know, I mean, I've heard good news that he's in rehab. He can raise one of his arms. He could speak. He's a wheelchair in that he's possibly going to be at this event. Could you tell us where it is and when it is? Yeah. So we're doing the event that Old Crow Smokehouse restaurant at the country and barbecue restaurant at 3506 North Clark Street. Just a blog from Wrigley Field. It's on Friday, September 18th. We're going to have barbecue food dreams live band by Scott DeBose. A great, great country band. It's amazing. They play about us a lot. They play all over the city. They're well-known. You're going to really have it. I mean, there's going to be raffles, light music, prices, auctions. I mean, we're encouraging everybody. to join and chip. I mean, we've done this many times, and a lot of people participate, we have to help our police officers. Our police officers are being so disrespectful. They are being abandoned. They don't have the support. What we could do is go moral support. Give the family financial support. It's so important that every police officer out there get the support. I mean, if you see an officer on the street, say hello and say thank you. Say thank you. Thank you. They don't run away. They run right in front of a danger to protect us. And we all, I mean, I have children, and my friends have children, and our biggest fear is then getting hurt on the street. We rely on the police. Even a bad person, a Conan I won't when he's in trouble. We need our police officers to be respected. All right. So this fundraiser is really important. I'm asking everyone, please help us raise some money and pray for him. As well-being, I mean, he is in a wheelchair right now, and we're hoping for a better recovery. All right. Sam Sanchez, we're going to have to leave it there, owner of Moes Cantina. The event for Officer Crespo again is Friday, September 18th at the Old Crow Smokehouse on 3,500 North Clark Street. We will be there. Thank you so much, Mr. Sanchez, and have a great day. Thank you, Amy. Have a great thing. And he joined us on our Alpha Wealth Group answer line. There's only one radio show in Chicago talking about today's biggest stories and telling you what they really mean. That show is this one. Chicago's Morning Answer, an AM 560, The Answer. Signature, a division of Esquire Bank, offers Chicago businesses' relationship-first banking. Signature knows your name and your story because personalized banking still matters.

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The speaker has spoken. Good morning, Amy Jacobson here. Jim Muriel, we are in for Dan Paroft. He's playing golf, I assume. You know, assumptions are the mother of all screw-ups, but I would probably say yes. Yeah, sometimes they were. Maybe in some club tournament somewhere. That's what I would guess. Yes. But yesterday, Speaker Welch finally came out of the closet. He's on an apology tour, don't you know? Well, like, come out of the closet is not. We don't use it as much anymore. I know what you mean. He's addressing an issue at hand. He's desperately trying to keep his job. This after a number of Republicans and one Democrat, Crespo out of the suburbs, said that he should resign his speakership after he botched this three-year-old report. about Representative Harry Benton. Now, Harry Benton has since resigned, but Harry Benton was inappropriate with an employee, one of his, you know, underlings. He told her, first of all, the reason I ran for office was to get away from my wife. I don't really find that too egregious, but he went on in February 2023. He said, to his employee following dress attire comments, quote, make sure you don't forget to wear something underneath that. I mean, it's just inappropriate. There's no touching or anything like that, but just comments that made her feel uncomfortable. So she filed a report while she filled out a report, but she didn't officially turn it in. So this is weird because watching this, he went on with Taman Bradley on WGN, Marianne Ahern on Channel 5. To me, it felt like they were making the, they're victimizing the victim all over again. That formal complaint could have helped bring about a different situation. But we had to respect the wishes of the survivor. Even though she didn't want to go through a formal complaint process, we did do an informal investigation, and we still documented Representative Benton because of the information that was brought forward. And it was that information that we documented that allowed me to move swiftly when things came forward in 2026. Anybody buying this? 312-642-560. That is our Alpha Wealth Group call in text line. I mean, he was very serious. Yeah. Let's gather around him. Well, they act like documenting it does something. You didn't do anything. You documented it. It's absurd to think that that somehow. stops the problem. And again, these people covering for each other, this is a story oldest time. Yeah, not only covering for each other, but he gave him $1.4 million for his reelection campaign. Great, great. Yeah. So he sent her, I mean, besides making these comments over the year.

He sent her a picture of an only fan's model. He says by accident. And so he was asked about that. Let me ask you about that because why did you wait until this February to file the formal complaint? You were aware of what she had enumerated in the email that he had sent her an only fan's picture, for example. You knew about all that, right? So why didn't you act until February? We adhere to her wishes. She did not want to file a formal complaint. Every. lawyer and advocate that I talked to say, we always follow the wishes of the survivor. That's what we did here. And that was paramount. And the priority was given to the survivor. What we did do was take the documentation that she wanted us to have for the future. We documented it, made it a part of a file. And in 2026, when new allegations came forward, we made those. issues from 2023, a part of the complaint that my office filed with the legislative inspector general's office. So since this woman filled out of sheet but didn't officially file it, two other women were allegedly harassed in his office. And that's the takeaway from the whole thing is that they could have prevented. this sort of weird behavior, and they didn't. They chose not to. Instead, they documented it. I don't even know what the heck that means. Well, here's the problem, too, though. Welsh is in a little bit of a sticky wicket himself because this same woman used to. intern with him, although he said she was never an intern of mine. She was an intern of the state. Let's let him explain. First of all, let me say she was never a staff or a mine at any point. She wasn't an intern. She was not an intern in my office. She interned for the Paul Simon intern program at the SIU Carbondale, which takes place in the capital. But she was never an employee of the Speaker's office. Every year, I sit down with those interns in that program and I talk to them and I give them, I say, if you ever need advice, please feel free to reach out. And certainly, I followed her on social media. She reached out for advice. Is that fair game? I mean, a lot of people like people's pictures, but... You're the leader and, you know, heart shape. She says it made her feel uncomfortable. Would you say anything to her about that? Absolutely. I would say the first time that I learned that I made her feel uncomfortable was when I read it in the Chicago Tribune. And I felt terrible. I really did. And honestly... I'm going to own that. I regret it. And I want to apologize to her. I sincerely want to apologize to her because it was never my intent to make her or anyone feel uncomfortable. I mean, you're a grown man. You're speaker of the House, the state of Illinois. And you are liking social media posts from women who may or may not have worked for you, but I think she was an intern in Springfield.

And these women put pictures of themselves, as young girls, young women do, in bikinis or on the beach. And he emojied. Yeah. And then one emoji is drooling. I mean, what does your wife think about that? Okay. Yeah. Three one, two, six, four, two, five, six, zero zero. The drooling one, I mean, you be. Are you kidding me? You don't do that. No. So what have you learned? Mr. Welch. I certainly have learned a lot from this situation. Certainly have changed already my social media behavior because I don't want to make another person feel uncomfortable as I did in this situation. And I'm going to own that. I mean, they're not even my pictures, and I feel uncomfortable watching them or looking at them. And he's acting like he, you know, was liking a picture of her dinner picture on social media. No, these are not the pictures you're supposed to be liking and not a droly face ever. Well, speaking of dinner, Jim Muriel. He called her and asked her out to dinner during all of this. We know what this is about then. You know what I mean? Just don't be chasing tail. Right, exactly. You reportedly wanted to meet her at a bar. What was that all about? something very boring. Gibson's and Oak Brook is a place that I have a whole lot of meetings. I meet in the same place. I have the same table, a lot of meetings. And I was offering the young lady who had reached out for advice, a place in time to meet in the middle of the day, in a place that I meet several people. And the meeting never took place. I know I gave her advice. Then and a couple years later I gave her more advice, but I understand the optics of that. And again, I'm going to apologize for making her feel uncomfortable. Yeah, you were trying to get with the young girl, and it didn't work out. But there's no doubt, like any idiot can look at this whole fact pattern and know exactly what's happening here. I know it's where, by the way, we just sat there. Oh, for Gibson's. It's a nice place. But anyway, so I was not meeting any young girls who worked for me. But as a married man with children, because he's a married man with children and he's in a very high position of power, you don't. Do that. It's ridiculous. And it's so obvious what's going on. And they made her uncomfortable because they were both figuring she was an easy mark. These guys are just powerful people who want to use that power. You know, I mean, we've seen it a million times. And we're playing this because these people cannot be ridiculed enough. And here's the best. He throws J.B. Pritzker under a brother. Does J.B. Pritzker know that he said this comment to Taman Bradley on WGN? The governor is someone that I've kept a prize of this situation.

I would call and give him updates. I called and let him know that I was going to call for Representative Benton's resignation. So he was aware of, when did you first start telling him about all this? I can't remember when, but I do know that I would call the governor and say. Governor, I'm going to call for Representative Ben's resignation. I want to give you a heads up. I don't want you to see it in a press release first. It's just a common courtesy that I like to give the governor. But I will tell you. I have wanted to talk about this from the very beginning. But I have been handcuffed by confidentiality. Now I'm a victim because I've been handcuffed by confidentiality. But the one good thing that could possibly come of this if he does throw J.B. Pritzker into the bus and it actually sticks. Yes, but nothing ever sticks to J.B. Pritzker. Like he's every clown movie's ever done in the time he's been in office, nobody ever seems to care. If you can get something that resonates, perhaps this is it. 312-642-2-5-6-00 or Alpha Wealth Group. Call and text line. Let's go to Steve in Orland Park. You're on Chicago's morning answer. Hi, Steve. Hi, Amy. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Good, good. So I just recently completed, again, my annual state of Illinois sexual harassment training for three hours. I just want to say that once again this underscores the complete hypocrisy of our scumbag Democrat. representatives in this state. Everything is for thee, but not for me. And I love how they use the term survivor. Look, this isn't a plane crash. Sexual harassment training. It's the oppressor and the oppressor, right? Don't say that. So I think it's very interesting. Classic Democrat hypocrisy. Thank you, Steve, for the phone call. Appreciate it. Yeah, and so here's, and now his wag the dog moment. Don't, don't look over here. Look at this shiny bright object. He is promising. to work with CTU and CPS to get $150 million that they so desperately need to make payroll in September. And I love Marian Ahern. My girl, she knew. She confronted them. We know exactly what this is.

Why now have you promised the CTO? The timing of promising the CTO, you would consider the $150 million that they're looking for. At the time of you're facing your own sort of crisis, it gives the appearance of, you support me, I'll support you. Everything I said to the IFT and to the CTO when I went in for a pre-scheduled meeting with the executive board. was I'm promising to do what I've been doing, fighting for school funding, not just for CPS, but for everyone. And the number 150 million dollars never came up with me. I was talking in general that I'm going to go to Springfield and do what I do and lead that fight and fight for more funding for every school district. So he says he's going to continue what he's doing. He also talking about hitting on. the young vulnerable interns, too, because what you're doing isn't working all that great. Yeah, I think he's going to have to take a break from social media, if you know what I mean. Speaker Welch did tell Marian Ahern that there will not be a special session called on school funding or the Chicago Bears. Forget about them. Remember, there was supposed to be a special session in the summertime. And they're not now? Yeah, that went by the wayside, too. Let's quickly go to Bob in Edison Park. Good morning, Bob. How are you? Hey, guys, I'm doing good. You know, this is just a pattern of the powerful, the politically connected, using and abusing young girls often, but oftentimes young males, too. I mean, and if we're going to point the finger at the Democrats on this one, what about the Trump administration totally blob, stonewalling the Epstein files, which he promised? And this is a picture. It goes to Hollywood. It goes to rich corporations. This is a pattern of abuse of young people, and the sexual deviance is ruining. I mean, this is worse than any Islamo terror, what's going on in our own country by our own powerful. Thanks. Thanks, Bob. Appreciate that. Let's go to George in Naperville. Good morning, George. Good morning. I think what Welsh has learned is that wishing on a star, hoping everything goes away, doesn't work. Can you elaborate on that? Well, my point is, is these guys want to do these little things that they think are going to cover up their, you know what. Yeah. And instead of doing the right thing, they choose to hide. Yep. It's a good old boys network. And document. Yeah, and they don't care about women. No. There were just sexual objects to them. This is the morning show. More Chicago radio listeners are choosing. This is Chicago's morning answer. An AM 560. The answer.

All right. Welcome back to Chicago's Morning Answer. We should have played that right away. That gets you going, doesn't it? Yes, every day. Jim Uriel and I end for Dan Prop. We have a new Laverne and Shirley riding around Chicago stopping crime. And it is Eileen Burke. You know, she's our Cook County State's attorney. And CTA President Nora Learson, they are trying to stop crime on the CTA. With signs. Oh, that'll work. Seven thousand signs. We are putting out of these signs as an indication of what the consequence is really a very careful actions on the CTA. We are hoping to deserve crime and to encourage people to move forward in their witnesses. These signs are a message to all of our riders and employees that we are working together with the county state's attorney's office to take action and insurer and promote a safe ride on the CTA. So that's going to win. sure the safe. Yes, these new signs are putting up 7,000 signs on buses and trains that highlights the state's attorney's office policy of seeking pretrial detention for violent felonies giving it on public transit. Oh, yeah. Nothing, nothing stops a mugger quicker than a strongly worded post-it note. You take the train, don't you? I did. My wife, finally, she begged me to stop it because I was harassed literally. probably every other day on average for five years because I would go take the blue line from Cumberland in because it dropped me off right at my office. It's like Zombiland at 445 in the morning. It's just a moving homeless encampment. I've written about it extensively. I've stepped over, like passed out people who look to be overdosing. The whole thing was a, I can't think of any word that I can say in the radio. But, by the way, I knew, Aline and I knew, Aline and I were friends back in college. I don't know if you remember, Aline, but I knew you hung out with all the Beverly crowd, which I hung out with two. and I remember liking you and thinking you, I get no pleasure in bashing here, but this is absurd that your step would be to put up a sign instead of actually enforcing laws. The sign reads, violence on the CTA will not be tolerated. Oh, that's it then. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office will prosecute and seek pretrial detention for all violent offenses on public transit. Ooh, did she pre-trial detention? Yeah. That's against the Safety Act. Oh, is it really? I mean, there should be no pre-trial. The snake is eating itself. Yeah, there should never be that, of course. It's up to the judge to decide. Or how about they just didn't let the blue line become just this roving crime homeless encampment? Oh, the last time I took the blue line was the last time I took the blue line. And I tweeted it out to a picture of people were sleeping. everywhere. It's a moving homeless shelter. But it smelled like marijuana. It smelled like urine. Oh, they smoked out right in front of you, right? Yeah. I would have to like air out my jacket when I would get out in the fall just because it smelled like cigarette smoke and pot. I mean, she's doing something, but I don't know if this is the answer because I don't think they're going to stop. And before they mug somebody, look up and read that side. Oh, you know what? I'm having second thoughts. Remember those things that say no guns in the public buildings, too? And I always in my head, my comedy's kit would be the guys coming to rob it going, crap, we can't bring our guns in there. It's against the rules. We're going to have to rob it another way. This is the morning show. More Chicago radio listeners are choosing. This is Chicago's morning answer. An AM 560, the answer.

If you're looking for the latest news, insight into what it means, and the sharpest opinion. There's only one station in Chicago where you can turn, and it's this one. We're AM 560. The answer. Lies and damn lies. That's what we heard. During the COVID era, which still, I feel is front and center as you walk down the street in Chicago and people are still wearing masks. Idiots. But here's the thing. We all know that he pled the fifth 111 times during his Senate committee hearing. lied about the origin of COVID, the efficiency of masks, the efficiencies of vaccine, and just seemed to make up that six-foot rule, which kept businesses closed, schools, closed, churches closed, you name it, it was shut down. Six-foot rule, the social distancing, which you said sort of just appeared. The six-fold rule... You know, it's almost irrelevant, almost irrelevant. Almost irrelevant? Not to me. Yeah. You're a business owner, restaurant owner. We are, yes, part owner of Branson Palatine with my old, old friend Walt. And, yeah, we, those rules were just so detrimental to family businesses, particularly restaurants, obviously, which are about social gatherings. The fact that they just pulled that out of a hat and said, you can't be within six feet of each other is completely agree. Everything was arbitrary. Of course. Don't forget. Oh, let's scare people and tell them. Millions and millions of Americans are going to die. Let's lie about the mortality rate, shall we? The mortality for seasonal flu is 0.1. The mortality for this is about 2, 2.5%. It's probably lower than that. It's probably closer to 1. But even if it's 1, it's 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu. You've got to make sure that people understand. So that's the most important thing that he just said there because the diary, and I want to... talked to Ron Johnson about this. The diary said that he knew that that was not true when he said it already. He knew that it was a 0.2% fatality rate. And for him to have policy crafted by him exaggerating it by 5x, that's the part that's really we should focus on, in my opinion. Well, let's, without further ado, welcome back to the program, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. Good morning, Senator. How are you?

I'm doing well, and by the way, I congratulate you guys for really pointing out, I think the most significant revelation from those diaries was just that. You know, we had, and I was tracking the information from the Oxford Center for Evidence-based Medicine, I mean, highly respected the organization very early in the pandemic. They were calculating that the case fatality rate would be about 0.2.23. And that's what it ended up being long term. I think Johnny Anitais actually shows it's going to be less. He did the analysis of the Princess Cruz. And if you're elderly, you need to be concerned, certain comorbidities, but for the rest of us. So Anthony Fauci was admitting, again, I'm not going to downplay a bad flu season, but double that would not justify all the measures, the destruction of people's lives and businesses by shutting down our economy. And I had a number of run-ins with Anthony Fauci during that period. I made the analogy early on saying, listen, we tragically lose tens of thousands of people on the highway a year, but we don't shut down our highways. And so then he was asked at the podium in the White House. He goes, oh, that comment, that's way out. On a conference call in the Senate about that same time period is Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're recommending shutting down the economy. Are you? Are you contemplating? Are you taking into account that the human toll, the economic devastation of that recommendation? And he just, you know, very blithely said, Andrew, that's somebody else's department. This is a guy who lied to the American public, used his sainthood, you know, bestowed upon him by the media, to destroy people's lives. It destroyed people's lives. He funded gain of function research. That probably led to the creation of the coronavirus, caused the pandemic. Then he helped sabotage early treatment with cheap generic drugs, pushed a experimental therapy called remdesivir. Nurses call it run deafness near. And then, of course, pushed the experimental gene therapy injection, which we now know. Within three months, they were given the safety signals of sudden cardiac death, formerly infarction, which he suffered, by the way, and told no one. I could go on and on and on. But Anthony Fauci, his accountability began last Wednesday. Well, Senator Johnson, we do appreciate that you've been one of Dr. Anthony Fauci's. Dr. Anthony Fauci's most outspoken critics, but I want to talk about ivermectin because you, one time, I saw you and I thought, oh my God, his blood pressure is getting higher and higher. You're holding a stack of information that's proved ivermectin could help get over COVID. And this is you from that Senate committee hearing. You had a interview on CNN in August 29th of 2021. Where, again, I just don't want to take time to find the exact quote, but you know, said there's no evidence. There's no evidence that Ivermectin is helpful on that exact same day. And I've got the, I've got the studies right here. There was a website that was tracking the random controlled studies. Here they are, showing 60, 70% efficacy of Ivermectin.

The same thing you say there's no evidence, there was all kinds of evidence. So just respond to that because he knew it worked, but he hid the truth. Why? Because it would take away from people getting vaccinated. Yeah, again, in October 2019, appearance was Rick Bright, who was one of the guys who tanked Hydrox Chloricin, by the way, working for the FDA. They would be more than the fact that we don't have a universal vaccination program. But, you know, flu season just doesn't do it. People aren't getting the flu vaccine. We need a pandemic. Well, you know, three months later, he got his pandemic. And then he was able to push what he always wanted was the universal vaccination program. That's just trying to do with AIDS. Again, this guy is a vaccinologist. That's his whole mindset together with Bill Gates. They want vaccines. Don't take a look at any studies that maybe show the danger of messing with the person's immune system. So he knew that if you had the effective treatment for a particular illness-like. the coronavirus, like COVID, you would not get an emergency use authorization for his experimental genetic therapy, which is what it is. I mean, they changed the definition of vaccine. You know, this was not a vaccine. It truly was genetic therapy. They pulled tools out of the two kits from their genetic therapy labs in these companies. And again, they just, the lies told during COVID are just innumerable. And yet the media continues to cover it up. I've got to. I've got to point out, what's frustrating to me is I revealed in an April 29th this year report and a hearing that Peter Marks, the head of FDA's division that improves vaccines and supposed to surveil for safeties, was warned their algorithm analyzing various was going to hide safety signals. FDA officials were shown for months in a row dozens of safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, bells, pals, different types of strokes. And they kept it hidden. It's still hidden today. They won't admit it. And not one major news outlets, not one broadcast station, not one major news story, newspaper has covered it as a news story. I've been on shows and I've been interviewed, but it's never been the largest government scandal in my lifetime, the cover up of the safety signals, the dangers, the people being killed in named by that injection. Hasn't made news. It's unbelievably frustrating to me. And so many people don't realize, and again, I was in Legacy Media or worked at one of the outlets for 18 years, people don't realize that their advertising budgets were mostly made up for pharma companies to the tune of about 75%. Now, the Abermectin thing, like the response to it when we've... figured out that it had some efficacy was so coordinated that I immediately took it. I wasn't even particularly scared of COVID, but the second I got COVID, I took Ivermectin just because of the coordinated response from these legacy medias who I already had worked for and I know what their game is and did not trust them at all. But do you think anyone's ever going to be prosecuted for perhaps pushing away the studies in Ivermectin that it could possibly be helpful? Is anyone going to suffer for that or we just got to forget about it?

I, you know, I sure hope so, but again, it's, you know, pulling the information out of HHS is like pulling teeth. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is his dedicated radical transparency forced the agency to just dump 11 million pages. That's where he came out with that revelation. But we know that Tom Schumbeckor, the head of safety surveillance at CDC, leave his emails. We also know they went to the next step. They deleted those emails off the server, so it may be impossible to recover them. That's a violation of the Federal Records Act, from my standpoint. And again, we're just finding this stuff out. I mean... Is the FBI going to go in there and investigate that? They're going to prosecute? Are they going to get forensic scientists to, computer scientists, to recover those emails? No, no, I mean, my investigation, quite honestly has only just begun, even though I've been doing oversight for over five years. I finally got documents. We're finding out all these missing emails. I mean, obviously, there's incriminating things that they were right at each other. They try to delete it. That's why they're... prosecuting David Morins. It was my staff who found that email that said he's got a foil lady that shows you how to make emails disappear. They all knew it. Okay, so no, this has to be investigated. People have to be prosecuted. And again, I'm... Unfortunately, I'm about the only guy really pushing across all fronts of all the lies told. I appreciate Chairman Paul did. This is extremely important on the COVID origins gain function. But like nobody else is really looking into, again, just the. How many people died because they weren't given access to ivermectin, which worked? We're going to hold a public event. The hospital protocols. I mean, I'm getting testimonies. They are just heartbreaking and heart wrenching of how. how people were treated by a medical establishment. It is a scam. Somewhere held kidnapped. I mean, they're held hostage. If you didn't want to do their protocol, if you're asking for ivervectin, they wouldn't give it to you because the media displayed it is, oh, no, that's for horses. And hospitals wouldn't give it. So the one question that everyone wants to know, is there any hope at all that Dr. Anthony Fauci can be charged with a crime in the future? Yes, because I just met with the Florida Attorney General. They're looking at different ways of prosecuting. Tommy Tuberville would probably be the next governor of Alabama. I think he stated that he wants to make sure that Anthony Fauci is in court for the rest of his life every day. So, no, there are people to be looking at this. We just got access to a copy of his phone. Just got that, I think, yesterday. That's going to take time to download all that information, protect people's.

personal information, you know, innocent victims. So that's going to take some time to go through that. But I don't know, I don't know what revelations you're going to find in his text messages and that type of thing on his phone. So stay tuned. Again, my investigation literally has just begun. So Senator Johnson, one last question from me is that what was his motivation? Was he just a narcissist, self-important? Or is there more? Well, yes. You know, I think every, every vaccination just wants to be the next Jonah Salk, right? Right. You know, the vaccine that cures all disease. But at the same time, we also know, he was, you know, money grudder. He used government employees to get awards worth over a million dollars while millions of people were dying. So I think he's probably both. Money grabbing, you know, whatever he could get. But I think it's mainly he's a megal maniacal narcissist. And he loved the media attention. He wanted to be known as the father of. You know, the vaccine that saves the world. He's science. Who knows what happens with this level of narcissism is hard to comprehend. And who writes a diary? I mean, the man's 80 plus years old. Dear diary. I mean, his entries, he was such a star chaser and he just loved it. Oh, Julia John Roberts, she gets so nervous when she has to speak with me. She has to run to her kitchen and get a glass of water. I mean, don't you think it's how humiliating?

Yeah, I mean, his accountability started last run. I've seen some of these internet themes where he's on a bed with little pink slippers or running deer diary. That's what he deserves. He deserves that kind of ridicule. Yeah. All right. Well, let's quickly move on before we let you go to your primary, which is next Tuesday, August 11th. And what is going on with Francesca Hong? Is she for sure going to win the Democratic nod for governor? It looks that way. Again, this is, it may help us win elections, but this is a really bad sign that these avowed socialist communists now are, it's in your face. In the past, I think a lot of Democrats were closet, socialist and communists. They just couldn't talk about it because they knew the American public didn't support that. In fact, now that they're out front and in your face about their socialist ideas, first of all, it's an indictment on our legacy media. education system that we're not educating the public. Okay, this fails. I'm sorry, I understand after, you know, the Great Depression, why people would look for other economic models, but, you know, every place has been tried. It's destroyed economies, destroyed nations, produced dictatorial monarchy or dictatorial tyrannies that murdered tens of millions of the citizens of the Soviet Union, Venezuela, Cuba. How can this be on the rise? It's not a good sign in America that these people are winning elections. And I mean, it's scary stuff, but hopefully. Tom Tiffany will be able to take her out in the general election in November if she does, in fact, win on Tuesday. So, all right, Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, always a pleasure to have you on. And thank you so much, honestly. I cannot, on behalf of my children and on behalf of people of the state of Illinois, thank you for holding Anthony Fauci's feet to the fire and continuing this quest. I'll be interesting to see what happens with his cell phone.

Stay tuned. Have a great day. All right, you too. Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, and he joined us on our Alpha Wealth Group answer line. This is Chicago's morning answer. Your show keeps me alive during the week. There's nobody I'd rather listen to between 5 and 9 in the morning than you guys. On AM 560, The Answer. This is Chicago's morning answer with Dan Proft on AM 560. The answer. Welcome back to Chicago's Morning Answer. Amy Jacobson here, Jim Murillo, both in for Dan Proff. Because it takes two men to do this job. Yes. Thank you so much for joining us. And I'm being very formal. Very much fun. Thank you. Yeah. You're a basketball coach. I am. Girls basketball coach. Yeah. I shot the rock back in the day. Did you really? At Hersey High School. Nice. Scored 34 points in my senior year. That's fantastic. No, but I didn't start. I was not a starter. How'd you get up? Come off the bench to score 34. Who were you playing? No, no, no, not during one game. I'm talking the entire season. Thanks, Jim. Okay, for bringing that up. Appreciate you. Okay. It's better than no points. Okay. So Caitlin Clark, we've all seen her get poked in the eye, thrown to the ground, choked. And when the WNBA All-Star Game was here in Chicago. NBC Nightly News did a piece. It's Caitlin's. Of course it is. It's Caitlin's fault, Jim. Sure, not the other players. After controversies on and off the court, WNBA star Caitlin Clark now speaking out. There's obviously a lot of people that like to comment on my character and think that they know me. The Indiana Fever Guard facing criticism for her fouls and aggressive play, now leaving her one incident away from a single game suspension. That intensity and that fire is what makes me me. Fever coach Stephanie White. She knows. She has awareness. But Clark was the subject of recent headlines last month when Phoenix Mercury player Alyssa Thomas received a one-game penalty and fine for appearing to put her fist over Clark's throat after she fell to the floor. The flagrant foul imposed after the game following a review by the league. Thomas getting death threats in the aftermath, Clark condemning the calls for violence. It should have been dealt with in the moment. And after a recent USA Today opinion piece described Clark's behavior on the court when fouls aren't called on her opponents as histrionics and a sign of her flopping, Clark fighting back. I think there's just like a false characterization of who I am. And hearing these encouraging words from a famous fan during the WNBA All-Star Weekend practice in Chicago. Obama was there because he let them practice at the Obama presidential center. And he was so demeaning. I hate when men say, hey, you got a nice little game there. You got a nice swing there, honey. Stop it. Oh, hey. Caleb, how are you? Really nice to meet you. You're great. You're fantastic. Don't let all this nonsense get you down. You know, I always say one of the things that was luckiest for me was I didn't get famous until I was like 45. So I was an old.

Man. I mean, you're my daughter's age. They're not to have that much, you know, person and nonsense. So don't lose that joint. The game's like the game. And you're a hooper. I try. Sometimes. No, you're always hooper. And you're on a nice little run right now. Nice. You're on a nice little run, condescending. egotistic male chauvinist. Yeah. Although, by the way, I think there's some growth from the far left is that they're blaming Caitlin Clark. Normally, the knee jerk is just to blame Trump. I just don't think they could figure out how to blame him for this. It's unbelievable. With more on this, let's welcome back to the program. Jennifer Say from the Say Anything substack, which is a must read, former Levi's exec, Olympic gymnast. And she made news recently in Minnesota. outside a WNBA game. Good morning. Jennifer, how are you? Hi. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for having me. Yes, so what's your reaction to that? Now the mainstream media is painting it that it's Caitlin Clark's fault. Everything happening in this league right now is so stupid between, you know, blaming her. I mean, it's like complete business malpractice. You know, they have this star in Caitlin Clark that they refuse to lead with in marketing. You know, she's not on any of the fever marketing materials. She's not on the WNBA marketing materials. They have this golden goose. People are coming to games just for her. And they refuse to. to capitalize on that, a league that has lost money, done nothing but lose money since its inception. And I will tell you I was at the game. This past Saturday in Minneapolis, it was packed. And apparently, from what I understand, any game that Caitlin is playing in is packed. I mean, it was crazy in there. The stadium was so full. There were so many fever fans in Minneapolis, so many fever fans. I was seated next to on either side fever fans. But beyond the, you know, the Caitlin malpractice, you know, what's going on with Sophie. Cunningham is also crazy. And, you know, another, she's a star in the WNBA, not necessarily because of her play, but because now what she's saying. And she's like a social media star. She's a great personality. She has so much fun out there. She's a great three-point shooter. But it's kind of the whole package with Sophie, like her whole personality. She's, you know. She's not, she's been. She goes in second. But she's amazing. And she's so fun to watch. She just has a great time out there. And as everybody at this point knows, she said something in an ESPN interview. basically very straightforward, just saying, I think girls deserve their own sports and spaces. Now, it's important to note she said this in February. The interview was in February. It just published about a week and a half, two weeks ago. She was answering a question. She didn't make a decision to kind of take a stand. You know, they're all calling her Maga Barbie and all this. She just answered the question asked to her, you know. But the real, I think, remarkable thing happened the next day after the interview published when she was challenged by the New York Times Athletic.

about what she said. And she just said very simply, I said what I said. So she didn't take it back. She didn't walk it back. She's standing firm. And the league, I mean, she's just getting attacked from every angle. The league won't stand with her. Her teammates won't support her. Coaches from the other team are wearing shirts that are clearly meant to be a disc. She gets booed every time she's out on the court, but she's standing. She's standing strong. Yeah, what teacher did the Minneapolis coach have on? Transkids matter? Transkids belong. Trans kids belong. Yeah, which my understanding is she would have had to get approved through the WNBA to wear. So she was either asked to do it or she got approved to do it. And, you know, in the stadium, I was there in the arena and there were a lot of people wearing shirts like that. But there were a lot of people wearing our shirts, too, from XXXY. And the way the broadcast was constructed, they only showed, you would have thought every single person in the crowd was wearing trans kids belong shirt. Like they want you to think that's the dominant opinion. And it's not. There were so many people in our teas. There were so many people cheering for Sophie with Sophie signs, but they don't want you to know that. So, you know, they're trying to continue to manufacture this consensus around. you know, this trans ideology, but it's not working anymore because people aren't afraid anymore to speak up. Jennifer, like, to me, there's something, I don't know, do you remember me? We interviewed on my show about two years ago. Do you remember me? We went to prom together. We went to prom together. All right. I just liked to know if I make an impression. Oh, you're the best. I loved prom. But anyway, so this to me seems like one of the biggest siops because. The WMBA currently does not have any biological men playing in their league. And based on what I read, you know, has some, you know, huge hoops to jump through and hurdles to climb for that to ever happen. For them to be publicly saying how much they support this and no anyone goes against it is evil, like isn't it a put up or shut up moment? Isn't it time for them to start opening their doors? Two men. Well, first of all, I don't know that we know there's no men playing in the league. There's no trans, quote unquote, trans women. But I think there's... There have been questions about what not there are men in the league, males in the league. We don't know. They need to test. They don't test. And the fact is you build a boundary. You put up boundaries. You put up while you make rules. You don't have to wait until it happens, right? You don't have to wait until there's a huge problem. In the French league right now, there are men playing in the women's league and their top scores. I know that that is true. We wouldn't wait for there to be an explode. Well, we might actually, given the Lance Armstrong situation, but ideally you have a, you know, drug testing before every single woman in the league is, you know, using performance enhancing drugs. Like this whole idea that there aren't any, so it's not a problem, which I know isn't what you're saying. You're saying the league should put up or shut up, which brings me to Clay Travis, which I'm sure you guys have seen with Justin.

posting and kind of trolling, but I think it's hilarious. He said, I will back a Nashville franchise, a team that's all trans women and all trans coaches, and it'll be the most inclusive team in the league. And if you don't like it, you're a bigot and a transphobe, and he's putting $10 million forward. Can we say what he wants to name the team, or is that bad for radio? I think it's one love, two balls is the name of the team. Well, It's just the balls. The basketball. Oh, okay. Yeah, well, because of the basketballs. Exactly. Of course. But Jennifer, like, I want that. Yeah, you go. It's funny. No, I think it's hilarious. I mean, he's obviously doing it to prove a point, but I think he proves it. No doubt about it. So, but I, so am I weird in thinking, I want them to start loudly opening the door to like, there's a person in France who, yeah, okay, good. So, because if they want to burn their whole system down, let them burn it down, nobody's going to watch. I'm with you. Okay, good. That's like I want to make sure. I'm totally with you. Just do it. I mean, that's kind of what Clay is saying, right? Yeah, do it. But I, you know, I think like in France, for instance, I've been reading about this person whose name, I can't remember off the top of my head. Tar, Tar or something like that. Julie. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so this is a guy, he's 34. He never played before. Like, he just enters the women's pro league. And of course, people are saying, yeah, well, you know, he's not even that good. He's in the second tier league. Okay, he got the most points of any player last year, did not get the MVP because I think on some, he had the most points and the most rebounds. I think on some level, the league knows the optics of giving him MVP are terrible, right? I mean, if he. Right? And they're not putting him in the first tier league, even though he's the best player. Most points. So they sort of know. but they won't draw a line. I mean, it's just crazy. Like, I don't know if you saw the Coco Gop interview from yesterday, you know, the tennis player. So the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association, did just draw a boundary. And they said, we're going to test for sex, which is great. And it came kind of out of nowhere. No one was, like, lobbying them or pushing them. They just did it. We were all very surprised. And Ariana Sabalanka said recently in an interview before a big tournament, like, I support this, men are stronger. This is great. Very clear. Thank you, Savalanka. She's the number one player in the world. Coco Gough, however, is trying to kind of like straddle, right? And she's like, well, I think we need fairness, but I support trans. It's like, you got to pick. Yeah. You have to pick one. And if you, it's not anti-trans. It's pro woman. Just say it. You don't want men in the league. You don't want men playing women's tennis. But she won't say it because she's still afraid and she's still super woke. So that's, um, That's kind of like, I think, what the league is doing with this. It's like they don't want to say no. They don't want to seem like bigots. But they also don't want to elevate this person in France because the optics are terrible. He's crushing it. He's crushing all the women. He's not even a player. It's just like some dude who decided to transition and become a women's basketball player. It's so awful.

That's male advantage. He can just go and be a pro and kick everyone's butt. He's averaging 20 rebounds a game. And I watch his game. He literally couldn't play with us in the men's league. Yeah. But he does not have skills and could not play with us in men's leagues that just normal dude men's leagues. He can? And he can dunk. Nice. Yeah, he dung. And you realize there's only ever been in the WNBA in the WNBA like nine players that could dunk and only six in a game. They can't dunk. They can't do it. They're not big enough. The hand is like all of it. And he just walks around dunking on the court because he's a match. Let's talk about Sophie Cunningham because I saw that you took a picture with her after the game. Did you guys talk about this issue and how she is, you know, lit the fuse? We talked very briefly. I mean, she talked, you know, mostly with Riley, but we did talk some. I mean, it was quick 10 minutes. I mean, the first thing that struck me is there were so many little girls waiting there to get her autograph and get a photo. And she took a picture with every single one. I mean, she's so sweet. And so again. The way ESPN constructed the broadcast to make it look like everybody hates her, that was not what was being experienced on the ground. These girls, there was no one else these girls were waiting for a picture with. I mean, she mostly just said she seemed undaunted. She seemed to be standing strong and unfazed by the criticism, and she seemed to be aware that there was a lot of support for her in the world. She was aware that the league was not being supportive, but she... You know, in a brief 10-minute conversation, she seemed, you know, to be standing tall. Good. And I saw that you and you were with U.S. Senate candidate, Michelle Tofoya, which programming note she will join us at 8 o'clock this morning, that you were all outside with your XXXY Garbon. And you had this man in your face. Yes. You're not one man.

Okay, you're not even, you're not playing the worst part. And I'm not going to say this on the radio because it's so gross. Gross. He was there before us. He's a paid agitator. He's been at other protests. I don't know who would pay this guy to represent them. Like all he does is make people not want to associate with that side. He was screaming. We had balloons and cookies and T-shirts that we were handing out. We were taking pictures with the Sophie Life Size cutout. We were just a fan zone, right, celebrating. We wanted to know she's not alone, even though, you know, the league isn't standing with her. This guy, and he had three other people with him. There were only four of them. They had these megaphones. They literally would put it right up to our ears and scream in our ears. He had a fan that he would hold over women's head that had the C-word on it. He would scream the C-word in our faces, dirty C-word, dirty B-word. This is the civil rights. movement of our time, one that silences women and calls him disgusting names. He had no argument. Like we were just there to celebrate. We were having conversations. People were doing little interviews, you know, on their phone. And he was, they had no argument. They just were screaming expletives at us. I mean, it's a, it's gross. It's an anti-woman misogynistic, horrible movement. This man was screaming in our faces and shouting us down. It stayed, you know, we were very determined to stay peaceful because we were there to have fun and be thankful for Sophie. It was hard with him because he was so, he was provoking us to do something. And did they make you take down your signs, your pro Sophie cutting hand signs inside? Inside, yeah, I was sitting with Riley Gaines, like on the floor, basically, like on the third row on the court. And she had a sign that literally just said, thank you, Sophie, with hearts on it. And at half time, a security guy told her she couldn't have that sign. We followed all the instructions, like I read the instruction. You know, there's rules about the signs how big, da-da-da. And we followed the instructions because we didn't want anything like that to happen. And he said, you can't have signs with someone's name on them, which is a lie that wasn't in the rules. And there were lots of other signs with other names, but he didn't want that name. the name Sophie. And I doubt that guard acted on his own. I'm sure either, you know, the team management told him, like he did, he's just a guy, right? But there was definitely a coordinated effort to make it seem like she has no support, if that makes sense. Right. Well, I just wish Caitlin Clark would come out and. you know, defend Sophie Cunningham with moral clarity. But I mean, I know she's only 23 years old. There's a lot coming her way. It's a lot of process. But yeah, I don't blame her either. It's just, you know, that's the way that's going to go for the time being. You know what, though? I feel like, you know, here's a journalist who are challenging her. She says, I just want to play ball, which is totally fair. She didn't take the other side. She said, I just want to play ball. She's not wrong when she says.

The league leaders need to deal with this. Like challenge the commissioner. Challenge the coaches. She's right. The management needs to deal with it. And how about challenging all the players who are, you know, aggressively taunting Sophie, who are, you know, posing for pictures like Brianna Turner, who I just realized has blocked me on social media. Congratulations. The ones who are wearing the trans kids blonde shorts, challenge them. Let Caitlin play. Leave her alone. She already gets beat up enough on the field, on the court. All right. Jennifer Say, we're going to have to leave it there. Jennifer Say from the say, S-E-Y-Say Anything Substack, I see what you did there, former executive Levi's, former Olympic gymnast. And now, President, CEO of X, X, XY, Clothing Line. Real quick, any new items you want to plug. Well, you got to get the logo T. That's the hot item right now because of the two girls who were wearing it at the storm game who got berated by the co-owner of the team. That's the item that's flying out the door. So if you want the logo T in black and green, it's like the, you know, it's like the marker of this movement. You better get it because they're selling fast. All right. Thank you so much, Jennifer. Say, always a pleasure. And God bless you. Thanks, gentlemen. Thank you, guys. Bye. And she joined us on the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. Before you see it on TV, share it on Facebook or read about it in the paper. Hear it here first. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560. The answer. Sean Fest returns on August 28th at the Western Chicago Northwest in Itasca. Registration is free. Go to 560 Theanswer.com slash S-H-A-U-N-Fest. Welcome back to Chicago's morning answer, Amy Jacobson, Jim Murio. We're both in for Dan Prop, who will be returning tomorrow. And a program note, today at 1135 on The Real Story, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to noon. We're going to have Maria Pappas join us. I love when Democrats come on the show. And she wants to be your next mayor. I call it the Battle of the Greeks. Who's going to get the Greek vote? It's very important in Chicago. Splitting the Greek vote would be bad. I met Maria a couple weeks ago at a Greek fest. She was at a Greek fest. And she was on the stage singing Greek songs, by the way. So bring that up to her, please. And she wasn't bad. Really? Well, she's a professional concert pianist. She's an engineer. She's brilliant. Is she? Oh, yeah. Okay. And she speaks fluent Greek. Yeah, she was definitely playing up to the Greeks and singing Greek music. All right. Well, we'll have to ask her about that when she joins us again at 1135. And because she's holding Alexei Janullis' feet to the fire. She's not going to let him get away with anything. I love it. I love that. Yep. All right. Speaking of politics, in Florida, we have a primary August 18th. And there are 11 Republicans running for the open seat, which is being left vacant by Byron.

Donald's, who's going to be running for governor. Right. So let's bring on one of them. That's the 19th district in Florida. I believe it's Dan Proff's district. It is. And Bobaicino, who's my partner on Future's Edge, his district as well. So let's bring in the author of a Patriots plea, someone who has an amazing story to tell and is running for that seat. Let's bring in John Strand. John, how are you? Good morning, Amy and Jim. I'm doing great. And there are at least 10 or 11 Republicans running in that district, but only one of them qualified with voter signatures. Every other candidate bought their way onto the ballot. And yes, you have the distinct, amazing, exciting time this morning to have that one person on with you. Thank you for having me on. But are there numbers coming out like polling? Are you the favorite? You know, this is what I have discovered about this district and about this race. It is quite wild and extraordinary. As you mentioned, Byron Donalds's, a superstar in the MAGA movement endorsed by President Trump to run for governor. Him leaving the seat open has a power vacuum that has been filled by very wealthy rhino rejects, as I call them. And that has made the race difficult to analyze. However, the polling data that we have seen. clearly shows about half respondents undecided up until the last couple of weeks. And they certainly know who the front runners are because they have dumped, I think, 10 or 15 million, maybe $20 million into this race among the three or four wealthiest rhinos. So the name ID is very high. The enthusiasm for those folks is very low. So I think we have the ceiling to rise at this last moment and win the race. We are the exciting outsider candidate that the district is hungry for, bringing a platform of constitutional governance, returning the government to fit back inside the Constitution, locking down our borders, securing our sovereignty, accelerating mass deportations, which will incredibly lower the cost of living for real American families. So they're ready for it. I love it. I love it. Okay. We have to go take a step back and why you're here, what triggered and activated you. And the story you told on my show The Future's Edge about the day of January 6th in what year was that, 2001? When you spent four months in jail. Can you walk us through kind of briefly what really irritated you about the entire episode? Absolutely. And the story starts even earlier than that, right? So a lot of us were doing our own American dream, whatever that is in our lives. I was living as an actor and writer actually in Los Angeles, California. I was born there because my dad served in the U.S. Navy. But COVID came crashing down around all of us in 2020, and I recognized it immediately for the fraudulent scheme that was. I'm talking January 2020. I started a freedom rally in the streets of L.A., of all places. which grew vibrant, drawing tens of thousands to support President Trump and push back against lockdowns. That led me to become the creative director of America's frontline doctors, which also includes Dr. Joseph Ladipo, the current Surgeon General, with Ron DeSantis in Florida.

But because of that work, I was traveling the country speaking. I was involved in a speech at January 6th in D.C. got wrapped up in the crowd there, was assaulted by an FBI SWAT team, disappeared in jail for four days without a phone call, and then got bonded out to find myself facing a 20-year felony. And then they gave me a single misdemeanor plea deal to make it all go away. But that would have been a false confession of guilt. I was innocent. I refused on principle, knowing I would take a 20-year felony on the chin and go to prison, which I did. They tried to lock me up for almost a decade. They abused me in isolation for four straight months. I served a full year. And then one at the Supreme Court being vindicated, got out before President was actually back in office and continued to press my appeal until being exonerated all five charges vacated with prejudice. I'm completely innocent and restored, now running for Congress at John Strand.com with a story like you have never heard in your life. Well, John Strand, author and running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District in Florida, thank you for joining us. Tell us about those dark days in prison. How did they torture you? So Geneva Convention and Amnesty International both classify isolation beyond 14 days as torture. I was held in isolation, very abusive isolation conditions for four straight months. For example, even in isolation conditions in the United States, supposedly we have rules and regulations to guardrail. Some of those include an hour of recreation per day, and particularly at least a phone call every seven days. When you are in isolation, first of all, you are in a concrete shoebox, about 10 by 10, feeling like you're buried underground, you're almost cut off from human contact entirely. That phone call is the difference between life or death. You will scratch your eyeballs out to get that phone call. After about the first 72 hours, you're losing your mind. They never gave me those phone calls. They cut me off for months from all contact with my family, my attorneys. They blocked my attorneys from scheduled visits. That's wildly illegal. The abuse goes on and on. And if you remember one thing from this interview, you do not want to miss a chance to read this book and learn the details of the story. Patriot plea has just been released. You can get it at john strand.com and at Amazon. And it is an incredible tale. It feels like an action movie, but it's actually a real story. You'll be very disturbed by what has happened inside the United States of America. But it's also a redeeming story about how God uses suffering for a purpose and that if we're faithful to trust in the truth. truth of what God has given us and reclaim our American birthright, that amazing things can still happen. There's, there's, do we have some more time, maybe, right? Yes. Because there's something in our interview that came up that was news to me, and I think it's a big, big thing. Because, again, I looked at all the data, looked at all the film. I think that January 6th and my critical analyst eye was, was crap. I think it was mostly.

a setup. I'm not an offend. Which, by the way, anyone looks at you and, like, that's an unreasonable opinion to have? No, you can have whatever opinion you want. There's no, you can question an election. You can question the events that are told you you're supposed to. But there's one thing that stood out is that when the crowd moved from the Trump speech to the Capitol, everyone was made to believe that they were just roving, looking for trouble. They weren't at all. There was something on the schedule that drew them over there, correct? Absolutely. It was advertised weeks in advance. There was a website. This was widely distributed for weeks. And this was the third of three major protests in D.C. all related to an obviously irregular. And now we know fraudulent election. So it was an entirely reasonable opinion at the time. Now it's basically proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. But nevertheless, millions of people over the course of several months were going to D.C. to participate in this effort to challenge. an election. This included sitting congressmen and senators that were prepared to challenge the electors as well. So it was advertised weeks in advance that there would be a morning speech and then a ceremonial march and then afternoon speeches. The advertising literally said on the steps of the Capitol. So it was it was clearly indicated that a crowd would be gathering at the northeast corner on the plaza. The plaza is open to the public 365 days a year essentially. It is the literal de facto public square. So full expectation that people would be gathering there in the plaza, that there would be speeches. By the way, several congressmen were scheduled to speak with us that day. This was all advertised in advance. So yeah, a roving band of insurrectionists is totally ridiculous. It's just not true. It's a pathetic false narrative driven by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, obviously. And if you want all the details breaking it down, repatriate plea, it's all in there, and it will really, really blow you away. John Strand, thank you so much for joining us. Again, the book is A Patriot Plee. And good luck with your race. August 18th is the primary in Florida. So we will be keeping track of your progress. Thank you so much. We got an exciting chance to win. Go to John Strand.com and help us because this is the wheat that it matters. We can win this race. God bless you guys. God bless you too. And he joined us on our Alpha Wealth Group answer. Hear about the big stories of the day. Then talk about them right here on Chicago's morning answer. An AM 560. The answer. All right. We're going to stay in Florida because in South Florida. They have something new, a one of a kind. Do you know what that is? Oh, I do. Well, you do know now. I'm on my way. So you've ever thought, you know, oh, what should I wear to dinner? Is that ever been a problem? Like, honey, what should I wear? Well, you don't have to worry about it anymore if you go to the Suarez Steakhouse. Folks, it's legal and it's an all-nude restaurant. Yeah, no, you heard that right, people. Tonight, the chef expects about 20 people, men, women, some single, some not. All of them, nude. Dashiba Hart is your hostess. It's more so of a gathering to get to know people, new people in the city and the lifestyle. Will you cooking the nude ever or what? Me? No, no, no, no, no. Now, there's no.

touchy-feely stuff going on at the table? What about that? Somebody gets friendly. What's the story? That's French fun, no. I love this. All right, that's what the chef says, that no funny business goes on. We did check with the city. All of this, by the way, is perfectly legal for a couple of reasons really quick. Number one, the staff has to keep their clothes on. Only the customers can be naked. And number two, all of the windows here you can't see in or out. So there's no peeping. No peeping tombs. Do we really have to comment on the story of the story in itself? Just play that clip. It's fantastic. You ever seen a grown man naked? Here we are. 3126, 42560. Don't you know that's our Alpha Wealth Group call and text lines? So, yeah, I don't, so what they do is they go into the restaurant. You have to go into the restaurant clothed. Okay. And then they, you just, in front of everybody, you just take off your clothes. And put him in a little cubby. And then sit down. Count me in. I mean, what do they do with the chairs after people eat? It's unhygienic. Exactly. It's awful. They should make him shower first. Like before you get into a pool, you've got to shower first. Yeah. Which, by the way, with how hot it is in the studio for the last two hours, three hours, that taking my clothes off sounds relatively attractive right now. Justin. Tickets three, are ready to this? This is gender bias. Tickets for men are $250. For women, it's $150. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why? Couples, it's $300. Do people want to see the women? I think that's a great idea. We should do this at Brants. How do you know we already aren't? I know we have, but it's Tuesday night at Brants. You have a back room? Oh, Tuesday that's naked night. No, yes. What are you going to offer? I mean, this is a five-star dining experience, and if you could see, you know, the video of it, it's a beautiful restaurant. Yeah. They have beautiful place settings, nice linens. The chef looks like he knows what he's doing. You know, had a plate for the reporter to eat. It was great food. Here's a question, though. Doesn't it seem like, and I've been to beaches that are kind of half nudy in Europe and stuff? It doesn't seem like the people who are the most willing to be nude in these public spaces. Are the people you'd least like to see nude in these public places? Is that just my imagination? I've been to Black's Beach in San Diego, yes, where it's, you know, clothing optional. Yeah. And always the people that are. It's not great. Yeah. But, I mean, if you can make money, that's pretty good. I guess. I mean, if this really attracts a people, it's fantastic. It can't be legal here. There's too many regulations for restaurants. I would think. I don't know. Maybe this is. I'm not going to find out. No, you're not. But maybe we could suggest this for Dan. Excuse me? No, because he lives in Florida. Oh, he could easily. Yes, he could easily take it. He could take a little fact-finding mission for AM-560. Rip it off and let's go. Yeah. You've made the switch and it feels so good. You've switched to Chicago's morning answer. An AM-560, the answer. This is Chicago's morning answer with Dan Proft, an AM-560, the answer.

Four-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster now running for U.S. Senate in Minnesota. On the Republican side, our side, Michelle Tofoya. Without further ado, let's welcome her to the program. Good morning. Michelle, how are you? Good morning. It's great to be with you. How are you? Good. It's Amy Jacobson and Jim Muriel. We're filling in for Dan Proff today, and we are thrilled to have you back because, you know, pedal to the medal. The primary is this coming Tuesday, and what's your final push to voters? Well, you know what? Just that we are the Republican candidate that can win. We show that in poll after poll. And Republicans haven't held this seat in 20 years. And we finally have an opportunity with an open seat, Senator Tina Smith stepping down. And the two candidates that are running on the Democrat side, we'll see which one comes through. But I don't think either one has the answers for Minnesota. One is our lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan. She's been right at Tim Walz's side as our state has gone through. Complete embarrassment with fraud and other issues. The other is Angie Craig, who's been in the house and really hasn't done anything except vote against the farm bill, which, as you likely know, Minnesota's economic backbone is the agricultural sector. And so to vote against a farm bill because she didn't want some common sense. changes to the SNAP program, you know, trying to clean up more fraud. She didn't want that. So she voted against it. Fortunately, the Farm Bill did pass through the House. It's working its way through the Senate right now. But that's the option that we have. It's pretty much common sense on my side and a little bit of crazy on theirs. And what is, I mean, Tim Walz, obviously he's lame duck. He's not running for re-election. And don't forget what he said about a pedophile. who was raping a 10-year-old boy for a few years, but then he stopped. And this is what he said. Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can't all be judged by our worst day? And I want to be very clear. These are horrific crimes. They often are. By just picking them up and taking them out with no due process, It just seems unfair. How to walk us through that? Why in the world would Governor Walls try and protect a pedophile? Not only Governor Walls, but our AG Keith Ellison as well. This whole administration has, like I said, really been an embarrassment. And that, pardoning this pedophile was peak embarrassment. It was disgraceful, absolutely disgusting. And to say, don't judge someone by their worst day. This person was raping this 10 to 12 year old over the course of two years. And so, no, you know, it wasn't worse day. You know, having a bad day is one thing. Having a bad couple of years by criminally abusing a child is quite something else. So look, the Democrats have really had one party rule here in Minnesota for years. And nothing has gone well. We need changes. We need changes, even if it's at the federal level, which is the office I'm running for. I can certainly have influence from that seat. And we need to bring some common sense back to Minnesota. So there's one quick comment about one of the funniest things in politics is when the Democratic Party thought that they'd bring Tim Walz to the ticket because he's a...

Because he's, I almost can't say it with a straight face. No, he's a guy's guy. He's a guy. And he'll appeal to the guys. He wears camo. It's so, how little they know about us. But that's not my question. My question is this, is that I would love you in the NFL. You were fantastic. And I want the answer to this question. I want a specific answer that I'm hoping for. But like what was it that kind of pushed you to give up that career and then activated you towards trying to make change and do what you're doing now? This was not a recent change of heart. This happened beginning with 9-11. I unapologetically, unabashedly loved this country. And I know it's for some people that's not. pool or chic to say, I don't care. I love this country. And when it got attacked on 9-11, it really opened my eyes. I began to really immerse myself in the political issues. So this is back in 2001. And wow, we're getting here on the 25th anniversary. And it's hard to believe it's been that long. But so for the last 25 years, I've just been aching and hurting for our country. And then to see what's happened in Minnesota and just be an embarrassment. I can't tell you how many people I talk to in the state who are embarrassed to say they're from here. You know, shoot, Michelle, I went on a trip and people asked me where I'm from and I just don't want to tell them so I just say the Midwest. You know, I get that comment every single day. So what's happened here is these are really a lot of unforced errors, right? And so. I just kept watching and watching and saying, if my kids get to the point where they can handle this and my family agrees that we can handle this, I'm going to do this. And all the stars just aligned. Tina Smith stepped out of the seat. It was an open seat. We were at peak crazy here in Minnesota. And I just decided, you know what? If I don't do this, I'm going to regret it for the rest of my life. I want to serve. I'm going to give this a go. And let's go. And the family was in. And so here we are. That's awesome. Now, that's a great answer, by the way, but the answer I was hoping for, and I want to know if any of this was embedded in it. Because the NFL inexplicably went woke. I never really got it. I don't know where the pressure was coming from. Their fan base certainly didn't want them to be woke. But something really weird happened there. Was that any part of your decision? Or why did they do that? I can't answer the why. I think that, you know, we can trace protests back through the history of sports and we can get to the Mexico City Olympics. And, you know, we can get to a lot of places and think where was the origin of using sports as a platform. But truly, these athletes do have a platform. And I am a First Amendment absolutist. If they want to kneel during the anthem, that is their right. Did it break my heart? Yes, it did. Yes, it did. It was hard to watch. And that really opened my eyes to what do these guys, I understand what their grievances are, but what don't they understand about the progress that we've made in this country? And then I started seeing it in my kids' schools.

So, you know, when you've got skin in the game and you see your kids being taught certain narratives, you start to really think, okay, if this is going on in one school, in one town, in one state, what's happening everywhere else? And so I really started to look at school choice and the education system. My mom was a public school teacher for her entire career. So I really started digging into that. And I thought, we're not teaching civics. Half of our kids in Minnesota can't read at grade level. Half of them can't do math at great level. To me, that is criminal. If we are going to spend money, and it's not just about the money, this is a moral imperative. We need to send our kids into the world able to read and do math. Real quick little story, I talked to a guy who's in the construction business, and they usually have a test for guys who are going to come work for them to add fractions because, you know, when you're measuring stuff. You might have three eighths of an inch here plus one and a half inches over there. What is that total? And they said they had to take that question off the test because none of the guys could do fractions. This is the direction we are going. And we're trying to compete not just as a state. We're trying to compete as a country on the world stage. And we are letting our kids down. And that means we're letting our future down. I just couldn't sit by and watch that. Yeah, now also one book that kids can read, it's the trans doll. Here's an explanation of that, only in Minnesota so far. Everyone should be learning that there's diversity and gender identity and that what makes you real is not what your body parts are, but how you think and feel. I have already begun using the dolls with my own patients who are between five and ten years old. Five and ten years old. So is there any pushback to try and get that interactive trans doll? Slash book off the shelves or out of the classrooms, I should say. So for people who haven't heard, these dolls can have their privates removed and switched around and you can come up with any combination of things. It's just not reality. This is not reality. And if you are suggesting to four and five-year-old children, which this is the part that really angers me, I remember my kids when they were four and five. You know, this was not even on the radar. These are vulnerable, tenderhearted kids who are trusting their teachers. And then these teachers come in with this kind of, you know, and Tim Walz wants them to have these dolls available. This is not appropriate for school. This is just complete. And it's not appropriate for four-year-olds. But you know what they say. They want to get them while they're young. And to press this ideology on children of that age, it honestly leaves me breathless. I can't. And I think I speak for probably 90% of Minnesota. Yeah, I mean, it's like the new Mr. Potato Head. Remember where you put different, like, I'm going to try this thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, right. It's absolutely ridiculous. So what's next for Tim Walz once he's out of office? I said, I have no idea. I have no idea, but that is the only consequence he is facing so far for overseeing at least $9 billion worth of fraud in the state. And, you know, look.

He says the buck stops with him, but then he doesn't really want to take any responsibility. So, and, you know, we went from having a massive surplus in Minnesota to a massive deficit all the while giving this money away, just just giving it away. So. And mostly to Somalian Americans, right? That's in the paperwork. That is in the paperwork. So people can go and look for that to themselves. So I don't know what's next for him. I just, I'm glad he won't be our governor anymore. And I don't think he would have been had he run for a third term, which is why he stepped out of the race. So we've got to see what we can do as Minnesota. I hope that Minnesotans are seeing that we need drastic change, that all these quote unquote, experienced career politicians have brought us to this place. And if we want to get out of it, we're going to need some outsiders. We're going to need real change. And so I am just hoping and praying that Minnesotans are of that same mind. Now, you're smart. You went to graduated from Berkeley, loved you on the radio, and I think it's translated well into politics. And we can tell that you really care. How big of a decision was it? with your family to run for Senate. Has there been any threats against any of your family members? Because the left can get ugly. We do know that. I do know that. Mostly they're coming at me, fortunately. It was a big decision. I talked to each one individually. We've talked as a group. My husband and I've been discussing this, like I said, for 25 years as to how this was going to fit into our future life. And so it was a massive decision. And so those who say, oh, she just jumped in the race. You don't just jump into a race. And, oh, real quick, I do want to say to your audience that, yes, I did graduate from Berkeley. I returned my diploma because Cal Berkeley was turning down conservative speakers on campus because it ruffled a few of their liberal feathers. That was many years ago, probably 10 years ago now. And I sent my diploma back. So I can't, I don't know that I can say I'm a Berkeley grad, but I did get my master's in business at USC. And so I still have that diploma. Good for you. Good for you. Well, thank you so much. And for more information, people, and to donate to your campaign, Michelletafoya.com, correct? That's it. M-I-C-H-E-E-1-L- and Michelle, although it'll probably get you there if you just Google the name. But thank you for that opportunity. Gosh, we have so much work to do. And that is one thing I pride myself in, is working as hard as I have to for as long as it takes to get this job done. So any support that people want to give would be most appreciated. All right, Michelle Tofoya. Thank you so much for coming on. Good luck on Tuesday.

Thank you. It looks like you're doing well on the polls. So thank you so much. And she joined us. Yep. Oh, you got this girl. And she joined us on our Alpha Wealth Group answer line. It's news, opinion, insight. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560. The answer. Text messages are pouring in. Great show, Jim and Amy. Great guests this morning. You two are a great team. Hope all as well. Well, thank you. What did you say you have to turn the microphone on? What are you first time? You're nervous? Hold, but can you hear me or no? Yeah, we can hear you. I think that text smells like my sister a little bit. I think saying how great a team we are. So Jim and I have fun poking, fun at each other, and you and I have something in common. Oh, we sure do. So at the end of the school year in high school, yes, we're talking about high school. They do best eyes, most likely to succeed. Well, at Hersey, they had great butt. They're called the senior superlatives. That's the whole, that's what they're called. Right. Yeah. You must have gone to Palatine to use fancy words like superlatives. So Jim and I have something in common. I sure do. Do you want to tell them or so? No, I'll tell them. We both drum roll. Justin, do you have a drum roll? We both. Best legs. Yeah. I was runner up. Truthfulness is important. I was runner up, but it's a big school, so I still considered it a victory, particularly for a 5-foot-8 guy to be voted best legs. I have kind of short legs, so I'm fairly proud of it. I was best personality, too, but I'm way more proud of the legs thing. You? Yeah, no, no, keep going, Jim. No, no. I missed your personality. That was like an afterthought. That's like Miss Congeniality at the beauty. Like, I don't want to be best personality. I want to have good legs. So ours was called Sexiest Legs. Really? And I didn't come in second. I came in first. Thank you. It does not surprise me. Thank you. Yeah. But I also. This dovetails into the new dining thing, by the way. We should go back to that story. But also, I did not give best personality. I got. Are you ready? Yeah, you go. I know what you got. I got biggest brown nose. Okay? That's okay. I thought you were going to say Homecoming Queen. You got that too, right? Yeah. Box checked. But yeah, I got biggest brown nose. What does that even mean that you're nice to the adults and the teachers and things? Like, I don't even get that. That means you work people to get what you want. Your brown nose. You suck up to the teachers and to, but I wasn't sucking up. I was just learning from them and I was always there. I sat in the first row to copious notes. It was not late for school. Did what I was supposed to do. Well, my mom worked at the school, so I couldn't really misbehave very much. I don't think they do that anymore. Oh, really? Best butt and, yeah, no, I think they probably crowded that out. Because remember there was, I don't remember, but there was some, like, mean ones. Like, well, actually, like, Best Brown knows is kind of mean a little bit. Okay, I took it. Well, I don't care. You know, they can tell me whatever I want, but I think there were some that weren't, there were somewhat derogatory, which I think that those.

Obviously, he had to go. Like what? I don't remember, but there was. If anyone can remember any of those, I'm certain there were some that were derogatory, but I'm drawn a blank right now. Got a text message from 312. Jim, which of you, Amy or Jim, used high heels to accentuate your cats? Well, that was me. It was definitely me. I hate high heels. I don't need to be any taller. No, you're already like 5-10, right? You need to be taller. Thank you. Thank you, Amy, for pointing that out. All right, coming up, we're going to get back to some serious stuff, but we do like to have fun here. U.S. Senate race in Texas, a new poll is out showing the non-meat eater, now meat eater, ahead in the polls. We'll start there with Ed Morrissey. But now let's head into the newsroom. Here is Mike. Good morning, Mike. Did you win anything? No, but Jim and I both wore heels, and he knows it. In the 1970s, we wore heels with our leisure suits. Nice. We all did. I love those. Every single one of us wore heels with our leisure suits, at least an inch and a half. Fantastic. I couldn't get away with that because I'd look like a short guy trying to be not a short guy. Yeah, I know, but we all bought them. I bought mine at Rogers Department Store. You bought them at, I don't know, Herple Shymers here or something like that, and we all wore them in the 1970s. That's awesome. Thanks, Mike. The stories you need to know to start your day. This is Chicago's morning answer. An AM 560, The Answer. If you're looking for the latest news, insight into what it means, and the sharpest opinion. There's only one station in Chicago where you can turn, and it's this one. We're AM 560. The answer. Okay, welcome back to Chicago's morning answer. Amy Jacobson, Jim Muriel, in for Dan Croft, who will be back tomorrow. So. As always, we thank him for letting us fill in for him. It's always a pleasure. Four hours goes fast, too. I know. It does. It does. It flies by. All right. So some progressive laughs, Democrat Socialists of America are changing their tune now that they, you know, won. the primary in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, and then Francesca Hong in Wisconsin, their primary is on Tuesday, but looks like she's going to win that race. Just baffling. She's a full-on nut job. You know, I think she could be that, yes. Yeah. Again, but by the way, it's starting to think like being a full-on nut job, that's like criteria. That's what they're looking for. I think when you get to burn it all down mode, the crazier the people are, the better, I guess, for them, right? 312-642-2-560. We're going to play you some waffling, some vacillation, some changes in policy. So Francesca Hong.

hates America, hates Thanksgiving. And she told Caitlin Susan Collins from CNN why she does not like the holiday, wants it abolished. And it has nothing to do with COVID. You know, you've talked about your past positions that he keeps highlighting and, you know, obviously likely would continue to do so before November should you win. One thing that they brought up as well was a post from you in 2021, where you said Americans should cancel Thanksgiving, should have done this in 1621. The post has been deleted. Republicans have been highlighting it. Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled? I'm a chef and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. I always think my hospitality background in owning a restaurant for seven, eight years that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing. But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so I think there, I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve. And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef, will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people. to the table. How are those skills transferable? I want her. She was a sous chef, too, at some point in time, to being governor. To mix the ingredients that are our population to come up. I could have written this for her. She missed a trick. Guess what? Yeah. Because hating Thanksgiving is, you know, similar to hating America. Guess what her new favorite holiday is. Thanksgiving. You got it, baby. She loves her some. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. That's really her? That's really her. She sounds like she's... They have it. Yep. I don't want to cancel it. I actually love it. We bring, actually, it's kind of an in-laws and family members and their in-laws, and it's a big event. You know, I'm just, I'm going to be real. I'm kind of a camaraderie when it comes to holidays in general. So, but right now what we want to get serious about is making sure that we deliver a Democratic trifecta for the majority for Democrats. And it's exciting to see more and more people join our movement, get engaged, get organized, and get to work to make sure that we have Democrats in the majority in the legislature and the executive this year. 312642-560-Alfa wealth group call and text line. She told that yesterday to a podcaster, how she celebrates the holiday with both her family and her in-laws, former in-laws. She said that in the background there was her ice out pin and her Milwaukee Bucks hat were prominently featured in the background as she dished out her newfound love for Thanksgiving, Jim.

Again, these people who buy it, who listen to her like, oh, yeah, she evolved. No, she didn't evolve. She just is trying to put on a specific face so you will vote for her. Can't we just not be idiots as a society sometime and see through these morons? Well, a political operative got to her and so like, honey, yeah, this isn't. Doesn't pull well. Yeah. And Tuesday's coming around the corner real fast. The last push is this weekend. She is also campaigned with. Hasan Piker, so she would be classified as one of Pikers people. She wants to abolish ice. She wants to abolish Thanksgiving. Defund police was in there too, right? Yep, I think. And now she said, you know, that is changed. So tiresome. Abdul al-Sachid. Keep his name out of your mouth. Out of your mouth. He changed his tune, too. You got to hear this one. All right. So remember that horrible synagogue shooting that they had? I do. In Michigan, Temple Israel and West Bloomfield Township. The guy was arrested. I mean, he died by suicide after he killed innocent people. We're grateful that children weren't in the building, but security guard was killed. And so after that happened. Candidate Abdul El-Sayed at the time said, hurt people, do hurt people. Not supportive of the Jewish community, not supportive of the victims from that murder. And he said that, you know, he was asked to, James O'Keeve asked him if he regrets the comments amid concerned about him for Jewish voters. And he said, what I mean is hurt people, hurt people. And maybe if we're serious about ending the hurt, we should stop hurting people. That's what I mean. Okay, so here he is yesterday explaining that. How are you going to get the Jewish vote? What I mean is that hurt people, hurt people. That maybe if we're serious about ending the hurt, we should stop hurting people. That's what I mean. I condemn the attack. It was a vile anti-Semitic attack. And I think it's important for us to be asking the big picture question about what's happening now. You've got a Republican Party that is morally bankrupt. That is actively hurting people. And I think if we're serious about addressing a lot of the crises as they stand, maybe stop trying to divide people from each other. Stop trying to pass policies that have us going to war instead of investing here. Stop trying to nickel and dime people at every turn because of the corporations you support and do favors for. And so, look, I stand in solidarity with my Jewish sisters and brothers. And we can condemn... anti-Semitism and at the same time we can be talking about how we bring people together and we can be talking about everybody's pain and I think anybody who does not want to do that is not serious about actually addressing the hurt that we see across the board so I'm trying to unify people around the things that we need and deserve in this country and as I said my commitment to Jewish safety is the same as I've got a commitment to my own kids and that's that's the highest commitment I can offer as a father thank you press we're going to wrap Oh, yeah, nothing to see here. Got to go. Yeah. And again, they just go, whichever way the wind is blowing, they just kind of jump into that. And what he said originally that, you know, hurt people, hurt people, is that he was siding with the perpetrator and not the victim. It's difficult to walk back from that. And now let's move south to Texas. U.S. Senate candidate, James Talarico. Oh, yeah, this guy's great. Okay, so this is, I mean.

And I have to thank Justin Kosick personally because we were looking for this soundbite for hours. James Talarico, when he began his campaign, well, he's wearing a mask inside a church because he's a Presbyterian seminary, don't you know? Because, you know, God is not buying it. Is both masculine and feminine and everything in between? God is non-binary. Are you masculine or feminine? Or are you everything in between, Mr. Chalrico? And basically, oh my gosh, I can't find it. Oh, here I will. Oh, okay. During the beginning weeks of his campaign, because he's all about the environment. So what do you do when you're concerned about the environment? You don't eat meat, but you're in Texas. So I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign. So we have, we are, we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses. Some of you may know big nonas. They were little nonas. And then they opened up brick and mortar, some of their big nonas. But we just got our pizza from there today. And so. The point is that I think all of us, not just policymakers, but everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort. Yeah. I got a lot about that. Because if you've ever read the book, How the World Really Works by Vaclav Slim, he's a professor, and he argues that the whole eating vegetables instead of meat would be good for the environment if all of them were grown within like a couple miles of you. The fact that we eat tomatoes from California, basically we put water, which is what 80% of tomatoes are, and put them in a truck that runs on fossil fuel to bring it here. It's much better for the environment to be eating dense. nutritional proteins like chicken and beef than it is from eating California's tomatoes. So the whole thing is asinine and that they put themselves in a less healthy diet to show some loyalty that ideology makes me crazy. Well, so it's so funny. So that wasn't polling well. You cannot run first U.S. Senate in Texas when a majority are ranchers. run cattle, there's slaughterhouses everywhere. I mean, they love their cattle. Yeah. And so then, oh, I'm sorry, I've changed my mind. Did I say vegan? No. I'm an eighth generation Texan. I've been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton's first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good. I mean, but the best part is, Jim, and you should see this video. His team called a press conference. at a barbecue joint to watch him shove a stick of meat down his throat. Look, he likes meat. Vote for him. Yeah, I just couldn't. That's maybe why I'll never run for office. Is that, this is ridiculous. That's really what you have to do. He was for open borders. Oh, I know. Yeah. So he's a single, 37 years old claims he has a girlfriend for. From Canada. Yeah. That he met at Bandscamp. Right.

Kind of like Cory Booker, you know what I mean? Like this alleged girlfriend, but he doesn't take her out in public because he doesn't want her to get any media scrutiny. Here he is on border security. He was all about open borders. I called out Joe Biden for failing to secure our southern border. And I got a lot of heat in my own party for doing that. But I remember talking with my colleagues in the legislature who represent border communities. And they told me about the utter chaos caused by President Biden's policies. And the Democratic Party, we're the ones that should be about making government work for people. And our immigration system is a prime example of government not working for people. And so I'm a border security Democrat. I believe we've kind of have a sane. No. Prove it at the time. Be vocal about it then. You cannot walk back on that. I said, oh, yeah, you know, I told my best friend and my girlfriend from Canada how much I against it I was. Yeah. You live in Texas. You're now becoming aware of the situation. We do not approve. Give me a break. Let's go to, oh, Tom and Blue Island. Hello, Tom. Hello, Amy, my friend. Hello, Jim. Hey, as you guys are discussing the politics of misdirection, Amy, I think you're going to start getting yourself in a little bit of trouble. If you keep referring to Mr. You have to refer to Mr. Saeed as God. I heard on the radio all day yesterday. Oh, all of a sudden he's a doctor again. So they're going to try to deflect with that as you guys, you know, are talking about, you know, now James Talarico eats meat and stuff. And Jim, you said a couple of minutes ago as far as this. It's a Thanksgiving murderer. The Democrats just don't care. They're going to vote for her anyway. Yeah. I mean, she is, you know, I'm all about helping people of mental illness, but when she was 18, she. She was in the hospital for bipolar disorder. Single mom, she had a failed restaurant. So you're promoting, I'm a chef, so I'll make a great governor. But you were the chef in a restaurant that you owned that failed. Now I know a lot of restaurants fail, but. Yeah, for other reasons. Yeah, for a lot of reasons. Right. Yeah. All right. Let's go to Bill on the northwest side. Good morning. Good morning. You know, all these socialists slash communists are using the same playbook. When they're challenged on what they've said in the past, they'll say, well, you know, I've evolved.

They'll say anything that they need to say to get elected. Now, if and when they get elected, they'll de-evolve. You'll see that. You'll see that for sure. I know. You know, use all four trans and sports. And let's see if that's changed. And I think people are really tired of these cultural war fights that are designed to tear us apart, designed to get us angry. I mean, there are difficult issues, trying to figure out. trans athletes in sports. That's an issue where we could actually come to a policy solution. There's no controversy there. It's like 1% of the people pretend they think that biological men should compete against women. And it's not even, they don't even really believe it. It's some sort of loyalty test for the ideology. They just want to find something that people will push back about so they can paint us as being anti-trans or I get confused on all these issues. All right. More of your phone calls and comments after the break. The stories you need to know to start your day. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560 The Answer. As they say, let's finish strong. Thank you so much for joining us today. Brants. Anything new on the menu there? You want to discuss or you want to tease? No, I mean, we have to come to your establishment. I mean, we are, I don't mean to sound cocky, but we got a line of people at the door, but, you know, we have 10 that are best-selling items, you know, our burgers and our ribs, and people will come back for those. I know people who eat burgers and ribs three nights a week, and they're not sick of them after years and years. I eat a branch burger almost every day. Is Mr. James Talarico there from Texas shoving meat in his mouth? This nonsense about a vegan dieter. a vegetarian diet being healthy. I can attest to the fact that a meat and fat diet is what's healthy. I don't eat that crappy bread stuff. You mean the evil carbs? Evil. Well, carbs can be evil, particularly processed carbs are evil. You know, I mean, this is not my opinion. This is all the research I've done. So I feel a lot better. I'm doing another triathlon in three weeks. And I've felt so much better in the last three or four years when I've gone almost very little carbs. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. And where's your triathlon? In Boston. Someone in the ocean. Oh, which I've never done that before. I'll keep an eye on you with your tracker, your ankle tracker. Thank you so much for making this part of your morning. We so very appreciate it. Justin Kosick, Keith Conrad, who's in for Quinn. And Dan will be back here tomorrow. Hear about the big stories of the day. Then talk about them right here on Chicago's Morning Answer on AM 560. The Answer. Thanks for listening to Chicago's Morning Answer podcast sponsored by Signature, a division of Esquire Bank. Signature takes pride in helping customers grow their business and provide unmatched banking expertise, custom financial solutions, and the industry's best technology. So whether your business is looking for a deposit relationship or needs a ready source of financing, Signature has the solutions for you. Call today at 773-467, 5600 to hear how signature can help your business grow and thrive. Esquire Bank, member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender.