Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for another Tuesday's edition. Our guest today,

I would use the word ever-vestant to describe her. Cheery, sunny, even when the

news is not great, all of which are compliments, by the way. I use those same words to describe

other people I like and respect in my life. Although the topic today is decidedly not

it is, I mean, COVID in general cast a poll over our country, but everyone did not

reap the same consequences. For Janice Dean, it is incredibly personal. COVID and the

complications there from and decisions made by those in positions of authority,

causally led to the death of her mother-in-law and father-in-law. She has written a book,

I am the storm about it. But let's talk to her. Janice, how are you? I'm sorry for the not

cheery topic, but it's important and we have to talk about it. Absolutely. And with advocacy,

which is something that I've been doing for almost three years now, there is a power in that,

there is also hope in that. I've met incredible people that went through the same thing.

With them, I feel that we can get to the bottom of some of the things that went wrong during COVID.

The book, a lot of the stories in the book come from tragedy, but coming through that, the storm,

there is light at the end of the tunnel. This is the old homicide prosecutor in me. I always

found it so frustrating that the trial was always about the defendant, the perpetrator, and almost

never did the jury learn much about the victim. So I want you to tell us what your mother-in-father-in-law

were like. True Brooklyn New Yorkers, our former governor used to say that he was New York tough.

And they were the definition of New York tough. Born and bred in New York,

my father-in-law, Mickey, was a firefighter for 23 years. My husband, Sean, by the way,

is a firefighter in New York City firefighter for 27 years. He served in the US Air Force.

He was stationed in Hawaii, got married to Dee, pretty young in his 20s. I hear stories that they

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