So how did you transition into radio?

Well, it was – gosh.

Yeah.

as edited as possible.

I've been now going on three decades in financial planning and wealth management and insurance.

And there's another show that's on WCPT, it's called The Family Meeting.

And it's hosted by a gentleman named Eric Grant.

And I think that it's one if we have, honestly, that it will be beneficial for everyone.

But when you talk to people in Chicago about their everyday lives and you do this every day, you know, what what are they most concerned about right now?

Just like you said, they're concerned about the things that you're concerned about in Kentucky, you know, safety expenses.

You know, Amy, I've I've taken license of something that you shared on my show earlier this this back in the summer, I believe it was maybe the spring episode.

And everywhere I see you go, anywhere on any broadcast, MSNOW, whatever it is, you're consistent in a number of things.

And this is one that you're very consistent on.

And that is when the Democrats went back to House and hopefully the Senate and so many other offices in politics.

affordability and accountability have to be at the front of the room.

And I'm interested in when you talk to people who call your show, Are they angry or hopeful or exhausted right now? I mean, how do people feel about what's coming?

Yeah.

Okay.

So, um, obviously there's a, the unique thing about me being in this, uh, setting is, um, I'm in the one-third.

Um, and so Grant Platner said something that, um, is getting skipped over way too much, and I said last fall that this was something that too many people were skipping over, and they were using numbers, a percentile, to kind of let it slide by.

And by, and because of that thing that they were...

The, for me, from the very beginning, I said on my show, and I said it, I said it in October, I said it again in May after the latest text came out, et cetera, I said that anybody that completely uses a broad stroke about something or about a particular community of people-

... all right.

So this is, this is where it's beyond nuance that comes into the conversation, and this is where I think we as a country would be better.

No, it's fine.

I said this this morning on my show to some extent.

I'm pissed off at people who say that they know so much and knew so much and were always trying to be the smartest, smartest, baddest person in the room.

Right.

did not listen in 2016 when we told everybody Hillary Clinton was right and that it wasn't just about all the economic things and all the things that she laundry listed at the one debate.

Right.

That super bad beige pantsuit, which I thought was real fine.

I'm done with this.

Were we talking about on the air or off the air when that happened?

No, here's what I will tell you guys.

The way that I position this, I was like, listen, you know, most days I kind of give a little bit, particularly when the weather's gotten weird.

If it's super hot or if it's going to be rainy, I mean, up early, I see what the weather's going to be and the traffic pattern.

So in the wintertime, particularly here in Chicago, it's like, hey, guys, listen, if you're driving to work, leave early.

It's a little bit funky out there today.

If you're taking a bus or the train or whatever, give yourself a little more time.

You got Westmore doing great stuff out in Maryland, New

I mean, there's gotta be some good feeling in the city that, that, that these folks have resisted like this.

One of the big things, and I know this is gonna sound kind of o- off, off a little bit, but the Chicago Marathon, you know, is every year, it's in October, typically the second, second weekend and certainly the second Sunday of the month.

That's a big even- big event.

It's a global event.

Almost 50,000 runners participated this year.

It's the largest that we've had ever.

And o-...

I hope so.

Now,

I'm not down with how David Hogg presented himself when he came to changes in the Democratic Party, but you don't go chasing after a teenager like she did.

People forget you chased him down.

I don't forget that.

When the shooting took place at Stoneman, you know, she was one of those people that was talking trash.

She has offended.

This is why I know a lot of people, including our girl Stephanie, is right up with Joe Walsh, but I keep Joe at an arm's length.

Were we talking about on the air or off the air when we were, when, when that.

Yeah.

But I'm not categorizing it at, with a mass school shooting.

That's why I'm adding that, that, that word to it, because when it happens and there are multiple children that, that die or that are, that are shot, um, that's where I'm putting my energy on the topic of shooting.

Shootings.

But guns have got to be ...

We've, we've, we've got to ...

That's a whole thing that has to be rectified in the United States.

We did.

And I don't know when you started following Allison and Mueller She Wrote, Richard.

It's a, it's a str- it's an interesting story.

Um, so Dana Goldberg, comedian Dana Goldberg from DC Comedy and I became friends in 2019.

So I started connecting with Dana and, you know, trying to figure out literally how to do a show, a comedy show here in Chicago.

And as I started following Dana, then you-

Yeah.

And so it... that's how it happened.

And, and then the s- like I said earlier when I, when I first met Allison, and this kinda goes back to what we were talking about earl-... with, um, with Lee McGowan.