Welcome into the C.H.O. Bears, a podcast. We are once again live from the glorious

Xfinity loft in the West Loop of the greatest city in the world, Chicago, Adam Hogue, Mark

Carmen, and Greg Braggs Jr. And Brandon Spano. Who has no idea the show is starting. You know,

I'd just like to point out, it's nice to Stephen to be here. now great job Stephen Stephen Stephen are a great producer

you know we we would be lost without them and we kind of were today all right when the

CEO asked to go out to lunch I go out to lunch that's how it goes actually when the CEO asked

you said no and then I told you when the CEO asked you go to lunch and then you went to lunch so if you want to you can throw you could throw me under the bus too I thought that Stephen meeting with Brandon to let Brandon know how bad I am was important all we talked about that's what I figured so I wanted to make sure that was you know well they saw the results of that survey that we encouraged everybody to do. And he had to fly here to Chicago and now we can all

smell that he's here. But, you know, um, he does smell good. I'll say that. He always does. He always

does. He's got a great... I drove him to the airport once. My wife's car smelled like

Brandon Spanel for three weeks. It would be amazing if Greg Bragg's got some cologne. You know, so if you're watching for the first time ever, I mean, this is not the first time ever we started the show at 101, that's for sure. But it is the first time that it was actually Stephen's fault. Yeah, well, I mean, I actually thought it was our fault for not realizing that Stephen would get,

would start staring in the eyes of Brandon and would not make it back in time for the show. And we should have, we should have gotten Sarah ready to do it. I told you that immediately. You did. The second I walked in. I go, he went to lunch with Brandon. And Karam's like, yeah. I go, that's not okay. He goes, it's fine. I go, it's not fine.

We have a lot of things we need to do.

Karm, oblivious.

Like what? Oh, I don't know. Ads, clips, link, set, Tweet, chairs, tweet. And I would just like to point out, Greg Greggs did all of those things. So he is the hero. Yeah. I thought it was a good exercise. He wasn't the hero we wanted, but he's the hero we needed. I said to Sean, I think it's a good exercise

for the day that Stephen just collapses and passes out. And then we just continue on with the show.

We need those contingency plans.

No, we're not calling an ambulance.

We're going to make sure we get the show to you people.

Well, the real hero is in the chat already, and he's got a challenge for our chat.

The iceberg is back with more.

He says, I will donate 10 YouTube memberships for every 50 likes, starting with 200 likes.

Wow.

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