Good morning. It is December 12th. It is six minutes after nine. You're listening to

the Kendall and Casey show on 93 WIBC and Rob Kendall has the day off. And in his place,

we have the Laquatius, Brad Kluffensteinstein. Hey, good morning. Good morning, Casey.

Laquatius, that's a big word. Yeah. I mean, it's your talkative. Okay. And since this

is a talk show, it works. It does. Right. So yeah, I'm glad if somebody thinks I'm

talkative and apparently somebody seems to want to hear what I have to say. Yes, we do.

Double good. Okay. So we're going to start off the show where we kind of left off Thursday

before radio, radio thon, hit on Friday. And that is talking about Brittany Griner. And

the WNBA star, she was released from the Russian penal colony on Thursday after nearly a year

in custody. The United States negotiated a one for one prisoner swap involving her and convicted

Russian arms dealer Victor boot. Okay. So the US and Russia had agreed to the swap about a

week before it happened. And then Thursday morning, the White House confirmed that she was safe

and they were posting pictures and videos of the president speaking with her on the phone.

And then Biden said that he was glad to be able to see Brittany in good spirits. And she's

currently flying home to the United States. Okay. Well, she's home. And I'm elated for her.

I am super jazzed up. I'm very excited. But in here's the big bite, we can be more than one thing

in one time, right? I'm glad she was released from the Russian prison. I'm happy for her as an

American. But I'm also mad that she put the United States in that position. You know, there were

warnings. Amen. Don't don't travel to Russia. And she went anyway. And how about her agent

for sending her there? Yeah. Now, I don't know how many other

players went over to Russia after the warning. I mean, if you remember this time a year ago,

Russia was massing troops on the Ukrainian border. And Russia's like, oh, no, nothing's going

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