And the Welcome on all to all to all today two of the d and see we're in Chicago and so we

thought it's only appropriate to bring an expert on Chicago, someone who's dwelled in Chicago and

someone who I was lucky enough to spend some time with at the RNC and now we're at

the DNC we're doing shows together.

Patty Baskets, how's it going?

I'm, you know what, I don't know if I,

expert makes me sound like I know everything about it.

I'm a Northwest fighter.

I've been here my whole life, well, I guess, yes.

Yes. So so driving at home

heartland signal w ceped t a 20 there you go I'm never gonna get the all you kidding

me but but it's great to have you here so we you had me on your show at the RNC and we talked about a couple nights of the speeches and everything and now you're here and we talked yesterday and you get a chance to do the show it's awesome.

I am so thrilled to be here.

Thank you for having me everybody and thank you for joining us.

For people who might not be familiar with your work.

Oh, I'm talking about what you do.

Sure, I was born in Chicago and I set out to be a historian. I wanted to be a history professor and I saw

I did not know that actually. Yeah I was at Northwestern for grad school and I saw there was a 24-hour

marathon on VH1 stand-up spotlight in 1994 that give you an idea how old I am and Margaret

show was just coming up and I thought my mom is funnier than hers and I've been doing stand-up

comedy ever since I dropped out, disappointed my father. My mom said, my mom's from Mexico. She's like, do it, you don't have any debt, you aren't in a relationship. So I've been doing that and then I got in a radio, thankfully, I always wanted to do politics and music and

food and comedy, so we had a great show on WGM and now I'm at WCPT where I get to cover more, you know,

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