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All right, let's chop it up for 45 minutes. Danny Parkins, my guy, FS1, formerly Chicago Radio icon. This is the slowest three weeks

of the year, as you well know, is that football season ends. We don't take any days off for six

months. Nobody cares. It's light lifting. Then you get about four days after the Super Bowl to chop it up.

And then there's like a three week stretch until NFL free agency and, you know, college basketball pivots into March Maddis where it's pretty dead.

But I wanted to start today. I was watching J.B. Pritzker is the governor of Illinois. It's for the

uninitiated here. He's one of the richest, one of the richest families in America is the Pritzker family. It's probably top four or five richest families in America. A lot of their, you know, net worth was in the Hyatt chain and hotels. And in fact, I have a place in downtown Chicago and J.B. Pritzker, somebody's grandfather has a plaque on the wall. I see it every time I go out the door. So, and he is the

governor, I think he's a Northwestern Duke guy, very, very smart guy. And, you know, so the McCaskies,

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