Welcome into the CHGO Blackhawks podcast.

Hope you're having a wonderful Thursday in this beautiful day in Chicago.

I'm Jay Zawaski.

That's Mario Chirabasi.

Sarah's here running the show. Devon's here riding sidecar, getting some things ready for us as well. We're going to have Stephen Ellis on the show here in a minute from the Daily Faceoff with a couple things we want to let you know about ahead of time. Tomorrow at 2 o'clock, we're going to welcome Frank Nazar to the show. He's going to join us right out of the hop at 2 o'clock and a little bit of

heavy hearts for us here at CHGO. We've talked about this guy for years, a shirtless dark guy,

Kevin Kostalecki, our neighbor here right outside of our window, got word today that he's,

that he passed away. Suddenly, young guy uh don't know you know

the whole story there but uh very very sad news um it's a guy who is with us from the beginning

physically uh and he was a diehard was a lot of our events yeah uh so with a heavy heart we hate

to tell you but uh our buddy shirtless

art guy has passed away so keep kevin and his family uh in your prayers and uh i don't know it's

tough man it's just so young i think he was 52 years old something like that yeah yeah i mean

he was uh he became a a legend of the CHGO universe, and he had many different names within the naked guy, shirtless wonder.

The CHGO network.

But, yeah, I mean, he was a big supporter of us sponsoring the company softball team this year for uh for the store um you know he's the

owner of that bar yeah all stood i've been to in a past life till four in the morning um and yeah it's

just incredibly uh shocking and and and really sad but um, our heart goes out to his family.

And it's going to be weird looking over.

I can see directly to his balcony and, you know, everything,

all the time is thinking, oh, summer's here.

He's out there, shirtless, of course.

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