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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHart Radio. My guest today is Jill Savage. Jill is host of the mandate on Blaze TV, and she's working on a series of stories on Corey Mills on blaze.com. Hi, Jill. So nice to have you on. Hi, Carol. Thanks so much for reaching out to do this. I'm really excited to be here. I'm really excited to learn more about you. I feel like

you are a wonderful reporter and I don't feel like I know a lot about your history through

your writing. I've read a lot of your stuff. So how did you get your start?

So I went, I grew up in Iowa, right? So it was the first of the nation caucus state, but also like

Iowa basketball was like the first thing that I ever loved in life. So I grew up. I always say like

sitting next to my dad, whatever he likes I like. So that was like the sports history. I love that.

Yeah. So I knew that from an early age, I would say things on watching games before the announcers would say them on TV. Wow. And I'm like, oh, this is so easy. This is totally what I'm going to do. Right. In junior high, I was like, this is it. And then, like, as I got through and got a little bit older in high

school, I was like, well, I still want to do the political stuff too. So I just kind of, like,

mesh together the best of both worlds and spent about 13 years as a sports reporter. And I got to go,

like, I was on like the sidelines for college football and like final fours and

national playoff games and, um, and got to work like a world junior hockey tournament for

NHL network all around like Sweden, Finland, the talk of public. So it was, it was such a good

experience to just go out there and just like see the world and honestly not have to pay for

sports tickets. They were paying me. Yeah, it's fantastic.

Right. Yeah. And then at some point, you know, I was like, okay, well, I do actually want to do

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