I'm popular and I've done well. I mean, I think we have the greatest economy actually ever in history. We have to get the word out, okay? If we can get the word out, we should win. Ah, yes, President Trump, it is more difficult for a Republican president, of course, since you don't have the vast media apparatus, the propaganda apparatus already in place, as any Democrat like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have. It's good to be a Democrat, not because, you know, you've learned to live with monkeypox and you're comfortable taking all those antibiotics now. And because so many people in your family have either shot other people or been shot. But never mind that. And I have in front of me, I have in my hands, mailbag day questions. and I was going through the mailbag questions, and I like them. And we have some prepared audio for the mailbag section today as well. But right now, we've got a lot going on because all the crazy Democrats. Now, more people in America smoke pot every day, the New York Times says, than drink alcohol every day. And they say, hey, isn't that great? And they encourage their daughters to date illegal alien gang members from B-pole countries all over the world. We've got that. And I say, let's go back to let's go back to the telephones, Michael. So much to talk about in a couple of major topics. But first, because we were just talking about the New York Times story and the study that the New York Times putting out about more people smoking pot every day in the United States than drink alcohol every day in the United States. 18 million people smoking pot every day in the United States. And the New York Times says, and that's greater than the number of people that drink alcohol every day, which is a little hard to imagine, but nevertheless. And the New York Times says that in 1992, there were fewer than 1 million people smoking pot every day in the United States. By 2012, about 6 million people smoking pot every day. And now 18 million people smoking pot every day in the United States because the Democrats are fixing a problem. They've made it all better. Made it all better. See, you know, the Democrats, they got, where are they? In San Francisco, handing out needles, handing out for injecting drugs. And we talked about it last night on the Right Squad on the Newsmax television show. And the liberal there at the table is like, hey, that's real good because sharing needles gives you AIDS. So we should give everybody needles and crack pipes. Remember, Joe Biden was handing out crack pipes, too. Democrats are making everything better. And they have, you know, in New York City and in San Francisco and elsewhere, Democrats, they set up drug use centers where you can go and they will give you heroin and syringes. And then they'll say, oh, this is so good. This is much better. And they're wrong about everything, as usual. All right, let's go because I see a nice person called in. Let's go. And there are a couple of different topics I want to get to from our listeners today calling in. And let's go to Anonymous calling from the great state of Maryland, who wants to respond to the New York Times story that I was just sharing with you. Anonymous, you are on the Chris Plant Show. Hi, Chris. This is Anonymous. Thanks for taking my call. You bet. Welcome. I really appreciate that you bring up this topic. I have been a pediatric nurse for 22 years, and I've worked mostly in the emergency room, And now I work in Washington, D.C. at Children's Hospital, which is why I'm keeping myself anonymous. But I am so grateful that you're bringing attention to this topic because it is overwhelming how many children are coming in with cannabinoid hyperemesis, which I'd never even heard of. and just like you said, the vomiting and it lasts for days and they're also having psychotic issues secondary to smoking marijuana. Most of them are daily users. And the third thing that I've seen a lot is strokes. Teenagers going to parties and being handed what they think is a joint and it's some homemade concoction and then they have a stroke And they are in hospital for weeks, and then they have to go to rehab. Some of them have lifelong chronic conditions. And I think I'm just so grateful. I heard it, and I said, I've got to call, because it's so frustrating as a nurse to be taking care of these children who I don't even know how they get it. And so that's all I can say as far as I know. I work with children, and as far as adults, my experience is riding elevators and then walking into my patients' rooms, and the rooms reek of marijuana. And so it takes a toll. You know, you get a headache, and, you know, it's not a great working condition. There's a dispensary a quarter of a mile from the house where I live, and when I go out to work in the morning at 530 a.m., most mornings, the first thing I smell is marijuana. And so I'm so grateful, and I think I can speak on behalf of the nurses that I work with and the medical staff, that we just really need to look at what, you know, we went to go solve a problem. And the way we solved a problem is we created a whole new problem. You know, we thought we were solving a problem by having compassion. And instead, we've released this monster that is really causing lifelong damage, not only to our children, but to families and our society as a whole. Thank you. Wow. And you said all that very, very well. I have a dispensary even closer to where I live than you describe. And I smell pot every day in Washington, D.C., in my neighborhood and beyond. And in my building, we live in a building in Washington, D.C., and we smell pot. And I've got to tell you, I think the guy moved out of the building recently, but had a neighbor who had to be in his early 80s, early 80s, And he moved out with his wife fairly recently, within the last year, I think. And he would walk around smoking a joint, you know, 80-something-year-old guy. And a nice guy, real fun guy. And see him down in his car on the street, on the side street, smoking a joint. And I'd walk by and say, hey. And he'd say, hey, want a hit? And I'd say, no, I'm okay, thanks. I'm going to work again. I'm on my way to work. But it is very common. And you're describing kids, and it's called Children's Hospital, of all things. And certainly I know Children's Hospital and where it is and all that. And I've been there as a news guy. I've been there. And you're saying people walk in, like to visit. Their kids are in the hospital, and they walk in getting stoned, or they're vaping. They have vape pens, and they're just walking through the hospital smoking dope, or they're getting high in their car before they walk in or whatever. And the people walking around. Yeah, they're in the parking lot. Yeah, you can smell it in the parking lot, and it's disturbing. Sometimes I smell it in the garage where we have to park in order to get a shuttle. And you're wondering, hey, you know, I think that there is a large mental health crisis. We all know this. We all know this. I won't go into that. But when people are allowed to say, hey, you know, at least let me just have this joint to, like, take the edge off. I have a terrible family situation or I'm unemployed or, you know, things are rough at home. My parents are divorced or it's a single family home, whatever. The thing that we turn to, whether it's marijuana or you also mentioned alcohol, which is a totally different topic but related, the very thing that we seek to alleviate our symptoms becomes the problem itself. And people are so uncomfortable with saying no to their children and no. and we have lost this sort of respect for difficulty and suffering in life. I mean, suffering is part of life, and we can't just take the edge off of everything because it leads to other problems. Yeah, and it's funny. I was having a conversation with someone a couple of weeks ago, young adult, and saying, you know, like, oh, bad day. I need a drink. And honestly, my generation, Anonymous, was kind of raised with this idea, and it's in the old movies and the old TV shows. oh, it's been a rough day, I need a drink, right? And that's the worst approach to drinking. You know, you shouldn't drink because you're having a bad day and then drink because you're celebrating and then drink because it's time to have food because then you probably find yourself drinking too much and that can be a problem. But I agree with you, Anonymous, that I had never heard of cannabinoid hyperemesis. Is that what it is? Hyperemesis. Hyperemesis and the cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome is not something I had ever heard of, but severe vomiting, stomach pain. I thought pot was supposed to relieve you of, you know, of all these maladies and anxiety and all that stuff. But apparently the opposite is the and and once again, I got to say, Anonymous, that it is this is once again, the Democrats solving a problem. Yeah no kidding And looking at looking out for children And what so amazing is that I have have recently had a patient who was I think it was her seventh or eighth admission in a calendar year because this person every time they smoke they end up she's a daily user. And so these kids are coming in not just once we have frequent flyers now we recognize them by name and where the parents are or where oftentimes our psych team will step in we do get involved social work it's not like we just say we don't roll our eyes, but it's overwhelming. How do you take care of all these kids when they're returning to an environment that doesn't offer the same support, discipline, and quite frankly, just like the sobriety of it all? They're getting it at school. We had two kids in the last month that came in one year of age who needed two doses of Narcan from fentanyl. So these kids are getting access to drugs, call them legal or illegal. And why is a one-year-old coming in after being brought back to life twice with rescue drugs. It's just becoming such a big problem. And when I hear people say it over the radio, I say, thank you, and don't stop because we have got, this is a fight for our children, for our future, because they can't advocate for themselves. Yeah. Yeah. And look, I mean, I grew up in a world where people smoked pot when I was around when I was a kid and when I was a teenager and and on and on. And it was never really a big deal. Of course, when I was a kid, pot was about 1 20th as potent as pot is today in terms of THC content and and all that. But nevertheless, and and again, I know a lot of people and it's treated very casually. And under a lot of circumstances, perhaps it is a casual thing. You take a puff at the end of the night at home and you go to sleep or something, you know, is one thing. But getting up, getting in your car and pulling out your vape pen and and soaking up and going to the airport and smoking in the airport and smoking in the hospital. And, you know, when you're doing all this and and it's been made so easy because of the legalization. And I think they keep changing the laws in D.C. and nobody even knows what they are anymore. But but it's become ubiquitous and accepted more broadly accepted, certainly, and more normal. And when you legalize it, then you you take away. When I started doing radio, this was an issue, too. And and I had lived in California and Santa Barbara for seven years. And when I lived there in the 80s, they had pot had not been legalized, but they stopped arresting people for it. And they give you a ticket. for $100 on the street or something if you were caught smoking pot or with a little bit of pot. And that kind of kept it indoors to some degree or another. And there was a penalty for being flagrant about smoking pot. But they didn't put you in handcuffs and bring you into jail. And the police didn't spend a lot of time arresting people for possession of marijuana. And I thought, well, that's probably pretty close to right. But, you know, Anonymous, that's kind of weird because that leaves the drug dealers in business and the cartels in business getting their money. So it's more complicated than it looks at first blush, right? Yes. Yes, and on that, I'll piggyback your comment by saying, in no means am I judging people who have difficulties and who turn to stuff. I mean, I'm not, let me just say that people have difficult lives and they turn to things to numb their pain. but we've normalized it to a point that it's um nobody wants to say anything anymore everyone's afraid of offending somebody or confrontation you can't even go up to someone just at our library across the street our public library i was sitting there someone walked in with a joint and i called the front desk and i said i'm looking at a man who is actively smoking a joint and then she by the time she got up to me stopped and they didn't kick him out they didn't ask him to leave so the whole lobby so we have to learn how to adjust to this right but they can't be like why do we have to be the ones that now have to sit around because the smell is unreal i mean i can deal with a cigarette that's one that's here and doesn't bother me as much but that marijuana man it stinks well let me let me tell you know i don't want if he had walked in smoking a cigarette he would have been kicked out in a heartbeat exactly you know right that's unacceptable you can't have people smoking cigarettes in the library. Smoking is bad for you. Smoking cigarettes, now that's bad for you. It is. It really is. That's not good at all. We can't have our kids smoking cigarettes, but here's a joint. Anyway, I'll let you go. I know you, but I'm just, I'm so grateful. Thank you so much for everything that you do. I love your show. I listen to every chance I get, and I deeply appreciate you giving a voice to these kids who need adults to step in and adult, Be adults. We need adults to be adults. Yeah. Anonymous, wonderful call. Thank you very much. I look forward to meeting you one day around town. I won't buy you a joint, but maybe a glass of wine or something like that. Yeah, this is Brave New World that has such people in it. And again, in New York, they're setting up drug use centers where you go to use heroin and fentanyl. And liberals say, oh, this is real good. They're not dying on the sidewalk. They're dying indoors now, and Democrats are making everything better. 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Nick Shirley breaks more news than ABC News. He's the guy with his phone went to the Leering Center in Minnesota and found the fraud on the order of billions of dollars being stolen from American taxpayers by Somalis. Nick Shirley went to San Francisco with his phone again and ran into Democrats handing out syringes to junkies on the streets of San Francisco. We were talking to the people over there in the van and they're giving out free stuff. They're giving out the Narcan to save people and they're also giving out needles. And what's their, like, what's the idea of giving out needles in the rubber bands? This is so they can do the drugs, like, without worrying about disease, so everyone gets a clean needle. So they're giving you the drugs, the stuff to do the drugs, right, this, glass pipes, and then they're giving you the stuff to save your life, so you don't die, and then they give it to you every day. No questions asked, no, hey, don't do this, or can we get you some help? No, they're just offering you the drug bags to do the drugs. They're not offering you any kind of help or assistance. There you go. That's Democrats fixing the problem. Here's a pipe, and here's the free crack to smoke, and there's Narcan. So when you overdose on fentanyl, you can take the Narcan, or your friends next to you can give you the Narcan, or you can give your friends the Narcan. So they're giving them syringes, and they're giving them glass pipes, and they're giving them drugs out on the sidewalks because Democrats are making it better. They're fixing the problem. And then you heard the guy saying it. And so, yeah, that means, you know, you don't spread disease. Well, addiction to opioids might be considered a disease, something to be frowned upon. But the Democrats are spreading joy wherever they go and addiction and disease. And when they have the opportunity, they certainly like to spread monkeypox. Tired of partisan noise America more divided than ever but independent Americans We be right back From Believe, follow and listen on your favorite platform. Now, I have the mailbag. It's mailbag day because it's not hump day here at the Chris Plant Show as it is in the Clinton household. But it is mailbag day. Wednesday, every Wednesday, mailbag day. And I have in my hands the mailbag questions. And Michael Peirce is looking at me funny, and I think I have to get to the – oh, no, I do have to get to the mailbag. But I want to play one more Nick Shirley soundbite for you. As we were just playing Nick Shirley in San Francisco, Nick Shirley, who broke the news about the Somali fraud, billions of dollars in Minnesota, funding a terrorist organization in Somalia so they can kill and kidnap and murder, which is what they do. They're radical Islamic jihadis. And I know it sounds like a chicken and rice dish, but it's not a Somali terror group. But Nick Shirley, Nick Shirley, who broke the story there in Minnesota, and then he's on the streets of San Francisco, a little different than the streets of San Francisco used to be, and found the guy handing out the crack pipes and the syringes with needles to inject because it makes everybody safer to just do heroin with your own needles. and smoke crack with your own pipes. And so they give them out and they help people. Now, Nick Shirley also found one of the helpful San Francisco Democrats out on the street. And there's a man, a man of color, laying flat on his back, sprawled out on the sidewalk, unconscious, with debris all around him and a tent, like a camping tent about 15 feet from him. And people just living on the street and they're drug addled. They're passed out. And Nick Shirley said to the helpful Democrat who's passing out drug stuff, said, well, how do you know this man's alive? This guy looks like he's dead. He sprawled out. His legs are bent like they had broken. And I said, what's going on? So here's Nick Shirley with one of the Democrats handing out all the good drug stuff on the streets of San Francisco. This guy is clearly he's passed out right now. How do we know that he is still alive and that he doesn't need Narcan right now? He's breathing. You see his chest rising, and it's going up and down, and his color's good. Now, if he's blue, he's not responsive, his color's gone, he'd be like a blue, gray, purple color, then you'd know he's overdosing. Okay. So the most important thing is to hit him with Narcan. It doesn't matter how much Narcan you give him. It doesn't matter. You know, if you've got three in here, give him all three, and rescue breaths. Okay, so what's in here? You give him rescue breaths. This Narcan, you inject him into their nose, and it brings him back to life. Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm bringing him back to life. If you just give him rescue breaths. Now, this guy looked like something out of an alien movie, and he sprawled out with his limbs all twisted around upside down and one knee up in the air, and he looks like he's dead, and his mouth is hanging open. No, see, his chest is moving, and his color is good. He's not gray, purple, blue, so he's fine. Otherwise, we'd have to give him a maximum dose of Narcan, and then we'll give him more fentanyl and heroin and another fresh needle. So we can start over again. And nobody's saying, hey, do you want help? No, they're just saying, here, more drugs, here, new needles. So you don't get the AIDS. You just die of a drug overdose on the sidewalk and then we come get your body. And we turn it into a mulch. And that's good for your garden. That's good for you. And they scatter it in the gardens around San Francisco because they're making everything better. That's the Democrat Party. They're very helpful. Very, very helpful. All right, mailbag time. Mailbag time. Let's get to the mailbag. And there's one kind of a fun one on the end that took me at the end that took me by surprise. But let's go to the mailbag questions. Let's start with Michael. Michael with his mailbag question. Says, Chris, next Tuesday marks five years since Rush Limbaugh's passing. Rest in peace. Today, he'd be 75. He'd be 75 years old and still leading talk radio's America First movement. And that's a fact. If Rush Limbaugh were alive today at 75, he certainly would still be leading talk radio and the America First movement. And Michael says, Chris, you're today's leader. Wait a minute. But if healthy and God willing, how long do you hope to host your radio show and any update on your first book? Any update on your first book? Shaming me is shaming me here at the end. But he's right. He's right. Michael is right to shame me. Now, I've got to say, Michael, I plan to do radio forever. Honestly, I think I plan to do radio forever. I'm done with doing radio and then TV. And radio is the greatest, most wonderful, the most fun, and interacting with you normal people, great American people, and all that good stuff. So I love that. And the truth is, Michael, I think I plan to do radio for as long as they will let me do radio. And if they say they won't let me do radio anymore, then I think I would want to do a streaming podcast. They call them podcasts. I don't like that word, but, you know, do my own radio show. And I think I'd want to keep doing something independently. But I'm also happy working for, you know, for corporate America doing radio. They're on all the radio stations across the country and stuff. But the truth is, Michael, I plan on doing radio forever and ever. And you said Rush Limbaugh is 75 years old. But in December, I turned 66, 66 years old. But, you know, I feel pretty good. My swing is still pretty good, and my brain's working pretty well. Don't smoke too much pot, so you've got to keep the brain going. Don't drink. I drink a lot less than I used to, too. But I work too much right now. But what I hope to do, and I spoke to Chris Ruddy, the owner of Newsmax, earlier this week, actually, about finishing up my tour of duty at Newsmax and getting back to radio only. But I hope to do radio forever and ever because this is just great. And it's fun every day. And I'd be doing this at home to my best girl and not doing it here. So I might as well come here. And I do come into the studio almost every day. During the ice, I stayed home for a couple of days. because I couldn't get my car out because of the District of Columbia. And any update on your first book? I got to tell you, Michael, my deal is with myself and with my best girl that I've said out loud, as soon as I stop doing TV and I have more hours that I am in control of, it's time for my first book, and I think I need at least two books. Like my grandfather, the old radio guy, put out two books when he was on the radio. in the 1920s and 30s. And I've got a little update on that coming up, too. But I need to get at least my first book, Michael, and I thank you for that. And I plan on doing radio forever. And you're right, Rush Limbaugh would still be number one in the field. And there's no doubt about that because he was Rush Limbaugh. Thank you, Michael. Next question from Just Win. Just Win. Just Win asks, He has two quotes. Could be she. I don't want to be misogynistic. Just Wynn asks, how is the non-view still allowed to be on, spewing hate and division every day and misinformation and disinformation, I would add? And the correct answer to that, Just Wynn, is ABC News. news because believe it or not the tv show the view with uh whoopi goldberg and the rest of the gang of miscreants and misinformed mental cases there uh that is uh under the budget of and the umbrella of abc news along with george snuffluffagus right the democrat party um operative for a career And then ABC said, hey, we're a Democrat Party operation. Let's hire George Stephanopoulos and pay him $25 million a year. And it's good to be a Democrat because the propaganda apparatus is boundless. But just when the view is going nowhere, how are they still allowed to be on? They do propaganda for the left and for the Democrat and ABC News. It pays hundreds of millions of dollars to keep that propaganda on the air. that disinformation on the air, that mental illness on the air. Remember Whoopi Goldberg saying that when Roe v. Wade was overturned and then, by the way, the number of abortions went up immediately to more than a million a year in the United States after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme court But Whoopi Goldberg was so upset when Roe v Wade was turned over that she was having flashbacks to before 1973 and how terrible everything was in America And this is what Whoopi Goldberg under ABC News umbrella was conveying. We got tired of tripping over women in bathrooms, public bathrooms, who were giving themselves abortions because there was nowhere safe, nowhere clean, nowhere to go. That's right. Everywhere you went into public ladies' rooms, the floors were littered with women sprawled out with coat hangers giving themselves abortions because, you know, that's what she experienced. And this is what you get from these miscreants, these mental dwarves with the radical left-wing idiotic false propaganda. And that's ABC News. Thank you very much. They ought to be gassed, honestly. And the second question from Just Wynn is a number two question. Will Jeffries, Plaskett, Presley and Omar face any accountability? Short answer to that. No, no, of course not. Because ABC News and NBC News and CBS News and The Washington Post and The New York Times and the Democrats love the savagery and the mental dwarfism and all that. And also, Just Win says, also, Chris, Chicago gets run worse daily by the mayor. You know, let's go Brandon Johnson there in Chicago. Roughly over 150 plus shot since the new year. But crime is down. And that's what the Democrats will tell you. And I looked it up today. I did look it up today. They just went in, and I went to heyjackass.com, which counts the shootings and the murders in Chicago. And they've had 171 people shot so far this year in Chicago. And what's the date today, Michael? It's February 11th, and they've had 171 people shot. They've had 39 shot and killed, 132 shot and wounded. And in Chicago, that's not news because Democrats run the news. And it's not important because human life doesn't matter to them. Now, thank you, Just Win. Beard of Sense, Beard of Sense, asks Chris. When we were growing up in the early 1970s, everyone was down on America. We suffered through Vietnam, race riots, assassinations, Richard Nixon resigning, hippies, etc. But when the bicentennial came around, 1976, 200 years since the Constitution, at least to my 14-year-old self, we all seem to come together and celebrate. Do you think that's possible this coming June, you know, for the 250th anniversary of the Constitution and America's birth? And I've got to say, sadly, beard of sense, and I remember what you're talking about. Although I spent July 4th, 1976, I was 16 years old. I was in New York with my friend Wingate Crawford. And we went out and got into a car crash and ended up in a hospital in the Bronx where everybody was being brought in because Democrats were throwing M-80s into people's cars driving by and blowing their hands up and stuff. But we had a car crash. And I spent the bison telling. We were headed down to the fireworks at the Statue of Liberty for 1976. ended up in a hospital in the Bronx, but we had a good time. And it was kind of fun. The car was a wreck, but never mind that. Crashing in the Bronx, hospital in the Bronx. And is it possible this, you know, and I think it's more difficult because the left, the Democrat Party, is no longer an American party. It's an anti-American party. And they're violent and criminally insane. And they've created mobs to attack everybody. And Donald Trump is in the White House celebrating our 250th anniversary. So it will not be like the coming together of the bicentennial for sure. But we can try. You know, they've got Trump derangement syndrome and America derangement syndrome. But it will be a test, Beard of Sense, and we'll be watching it closely. And then Beard of Sense asks, can you really see AOC and the squad being pro-America in any way whatsoever? And the answer to that is obviously no. No, obviously not. Now, I've got one more that I have to get to, one more that I need to get to. But I want to take a break here, and then I want to come back because there's something I want to play you, audio I want to play you in response to the last mailbag question today. And, yeah, I look forward to this, actually, because something I haven't done here for more than 15 years, I think, coming right up. A little spirit in the sky. Our last mailbag question of the day. And this comes from Kevin from Smithville, Missouri, who actually mailed it in by U.S. Mail. And Kevin says, Hey, Chris, on military anniversaries, D-Day Plus One, you play a record. Your father, Jules Orteg, a Navy fighter pilot, stationed in an aircraft carrier, the European Theater, during World War II. Perhaps where you got your fondness for flying military aircraft, and perhaps it is, and who doesn't love flying military aircraft? Come on. I personally find your father's story very interesting because I never thought of Europe as being an aircraft carrier war during World War II. Good point. Really think about the Pacific Ocean, the large sea battles. True. Said you also have brought up your family's history of being on radio for more than 100 years. True. With your grandfather, Pat Barnes, and your mother, Barbara Barnes-Orteg, having radio shows. All true. My question is like your father's record. Do you have any small radio clips of your grandfather and mother's radio shows that you can share with us? I'm curious if the proper English humor and charisma are a family trait. And we do have clips. I don't have a lot. But this is my grandfather, Pat Barnes, and his daughter, my mother, Barbara Ann Barnes, who became Barbara Ann Barnes-Orteg Plant. And this is 1937, Christmas Day, the new Amsterdam Theater, New York City, 42nd Street. And now for that happy-go-lucky child of the highways and airwaves, the head barnstormer, Pat Barnes. That's the guy doing the intros. Oh, goodness. Merry Christmas, everybody. My grandfather. Merry Christmas, Pat. Merry Christmas, Pat. You'd think we rehearsed it, wouldn't you? You'd think we rehearsed it. And he's doing shtick. He's doing jokes. And they went Christmas Day, the rooftop radio studio, the New Amsterdam Theater, right in Manhattan. I've got a funny story about that, too. And my young mother was nine years old And she was doing national radio broadcasts Girls, the youngest barnstormer of them all Is representing you tonight Her name is Barbara Barnes The adorable daughter of the head barnstormer But mommy, Christmas is almost over And we haven't had our dinner yet We'll have it, darling And if God is good to us, dear We'll have someone here to help us eat it. Someone we haven't seen for the longest time. Company, Mommy? Yes, darling. Daddy. Company. Mommy. Daddy was arrested. You're crying. He was arrested by the cops. Mommy. Because he's an Irish guy. May I answer it? No, darling, no. Mommy, we'll see who it is. See, and then my grandfather was an Irish guy. He got and showed the character. It was theater, you know, radio theater. and my grandfather, Pat Barnes, he was arrested by the police and thrown in jail on Christmas. And my mother said, are we going to have a special visitor? And I actually have this recording. It's about 30 minutes long. And my mother is a 9-year-old girl. My grandfather, home from World War I, where he fought against the Hun in France and into Germany. And my grandfather did radio from 1922, but his own national show by 1924, 102 years ago. And my family, by hook or by crook, has been on the air nonstop since certainly 1924 and perhaps nonstop since 1922. My grandfather was on the air nonstop from then until 1969. He was 80 years old when he died, and he was doing radio and television at that point. until he was 80 years old. My mother was on and off in radio and in television when I was a kid. And after my father died, we moved to Milwaukee and with my grandfather and grandmother. And my grandfather was still on TV on WISN in Milwaukee. My mother then went on WISN in Milwaukee, had her own TV show, did interviews and stuff, interviewed Burt Reynolds. He was a stuntman, an unknown stuntman. And, yeah, family history. We couldn't find honest work.
