Welcome into the House of Elf podcast. I'm Lauren Tombs. Thank you so much for hanging out here with me.

We got a return guest to the show.

I'll tell you about that in a second how it all came about.

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Pat Tomasulo has been a guest. I think this is actually his third time on the podcast since we started four years ago.

He's so good. I really, I really think that he's one of the most talented people on television in Chicago.

And it comes from this place of if you look at him and you look at Robin with her background in radio and Paul with his background in comedy and improv.

It's no wonder. And then Larry doing the incredible job of playing like the straight man while the stuff is orbiting around him.

It's not a surprise that show the WGM morning news has been so successful for 25 years.

They're number one and they're number one for a reason. Everyone's trying to copy what they do not just here in Chicago, but across the nation because they've had that level of success.

But Pat holds it down on the sports side and I love his approach. It's not my approach. I can't pull it off because I'm not as funny.

But I love his approach to not taking sports so seriously. I wish I had a little bit more of that in me where I wasn't taking it as seriously as I sometimes do.

But we love to catch up and he's got his benefit that he does every year, the laugh your face off.

And this is such good work that he's doing and it started from a place of love because his wife is afflicted with this awful disorder that just causes her insufferable pain like all the time.

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