Kendall & Casey Hour 1, 10-7-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hate to do it, hate to do what? Don't want
to do it? Oh no, but I don't really have
a choice.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay, hands are tied. Huh.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well it's nine oh seven, Okay, October the seventh, correct,
twenty twenty five. And I know we have thousands of
people every day look forward to tuning into this program.
And so I hate, you know, to bring the show
down by doing my least favorite part of every show,
which is I'm going to talking about how right we work?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh no, right out of the gate.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
But we've been telling you, our fabulous audience now for
one week. The shutdown has entered. The federal government shutdown
has entered. Week This is day seven, right, day seven
of the government shutdown.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
We're aware is that funding deal?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, we're all still here. We're all still taking nourishment
upright in the correct direction. Society running relatively smoothly. You know,
there's a famous episode of the Office where there are
the TV show The Office where there are just no bosses,
and Jim, one of the main characters, looks at the
camera and goes, you know, it turns out if you

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just hire the right people and just leave alone, they'll
pretty much take care of everything right on their own.
That's sort of how society works, right. Think about how
much government don't need anyway, We've been telling you from
the beginning this is not worth getting upset about or
excited about, or even taking an interest in, because we
already know how this is going to end. The Republicans
have passed Biden spending levels. Because the Republicans are just

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as addicted to legalized, to vote buying and making sure
their donors and lobbyists are taken care of as the Democrats.
They play you people for idiots, year after year after
year after year. I'm not saying you are idiots, but
I'm saying your zest for a better life. They are predators.
The Republicans are financial predators, and they take full advantage
of you wanting to believe that there's somebody out there

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who wants to make one damn bit of difference in
our world, and these people don't. And they are predators,
and they take advantage of you, and they just keep
spending the money. They keep doling out the favors, they
keep the gravy train rolling, they keep furthering us into
debt thirty seven and a half trillion in climbing and
so that's their victory lap as we passed Biden level

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spending in almost all the Biden level of the Biden programs,
and they've painted themselves as the good guy in the equation.
And we said, okay, that's the first side of this.
The second side is the Democrats shut the government down
over continuing Obamacare, and the Republicans are absolutely going to
continue Obamacare because, as I just said, they're in the

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legalized vote buying business. It's been a giant scam and
a lie for fifteen years. They have zero intention of
shutting down Obamacare because too many people get too much
out of it, and most importantly, their insurance friends make
a gajillion dollars off of Obamacare, so that's never going away.
So I don't know what we're all anybody's excited about

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or pay in any of this, boy Howdy casey. Yesterday,
on numerous occasions, we saw the Republicans start to tip
their hand on exactly what they're gonna do, and they're
going to do exactly what we've said.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
So Donald Trump said negotiations could lead to very good
things regarding healthcare. He didn't confirm any meetings, but he
hinted towards Yeah, there's some wiggle room there.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
You had Marjorie Taylor Green come out and say she's
essentially in favor of the Obamacare subsidies. Now, what they
try to paint Obamacare, what this debate about is people
being able to afford their insurance. Notice, they don't care
at all about you being able to afford your insurance
through your employer. There's not one conversation right now about, boy,
we really got to do something for the hard working

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people in this country. No, the conversation is mostly about
making sure the freeloaders continue to get more of the
free stuff, which they call them creative names like Obamacare subsidies.
But it's taking money from you. Well, it's printing the money,
which is making everything more expensive for you and giving
it to them so they can by overpriced insurance to

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keep their insurance lobby friends very happy.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
That's what this is all about.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Uh huh Okay, So the ACA subsidies they're set to
expire at the end of the year, and if that happens,
it's being reported that the increasing premiums could go up
by seventy five percent.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
So what so, what I have paid for people to
have this because it was never about making insurance more affordable. Casey,
has your insurance in the past fifteen years ever gotten
more affordable?

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Has it ever gone down in price?

Speaker 4 (04:31):
No?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Absolutely not. That was a lie. If you liked your doctor,
you could keep it. That was a lie. This was
never about better medical care. It was never about more
affordable insurance. It was about getting people addicted to government,
running up the tab, making people dependent on these government programs,
and helping their their friends in the insurance lobby. That's

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what this has always been about. They don't want it
to go away. The Republicans have had multiple opportunities for
it to go away. They have another opportunity to hear
because if the subsidies go away, the whole thing falls over.
The Republicans don't have to do anything. Just do nothing.
If you want Obamacare to go away, do nothing. But
they're not doing that. They're going to cut a deal

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with the Democrats to keep Obamacare alive.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, Trump said he would consider a deal on extending
the Affordable Care Act if the right deal came along.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Now, let's go back to what the right deal is
to the Republicans, because that's what they're hanging their hat on. Yeah,
this little working group that they formed or focus group
or whatever they're calling them, the hard line in the
sand for the Republicans, this doesn't mean the means the best
you're going to get now, they're not going to get this.
But the best you're going to get is that they
essentially reset Obamacare to where it was before COVID. That's

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their big reform to Obamacare is sure it wasn't doing
anything we said, it wasn't helping the people that we
promised to help. But we're going to reset this to
where it was in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty levels, which
they're not going to get that anyway. But that's their
big line in the sand on Obamacare.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
So Senator Todd Young he has called this government shut
down a manufactured crisis caused by the Democrat.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
No, it's caused by him, It's caused by them.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
It's caused by the Republicans because they spent all their
time on this stupid, big bullcrap bill, which also is
a giant giveaway to select pockets of people they want
to vote for them, rather than doing the actual business
of the American people, rather than doing the actual things
that they've campaigned on for twenty five years. Oh yeah,
we've learned our lesson one more shot. We'll get the

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spending under control, We'll get it all in line. We'll
get government back to where it needs to be. We've
learned our lesson one more sent And what do they do.
It's always the same special interest priorities. It's the same
legalized vote buying operations at the expense of you. So
they spent how many months instead of focus on doing
the business of running an efficient, lean, slim down government. No,

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they spent that time focused on this giant giveaway to
make the president happy rather than do their jobs.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
All right, Well, here's Donald Trump and he is still
branding it as the Democrats shut down at the vote today,
failed in the Senate, will not figure layoffs.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
It could at some point it will. And you know,
the Democrats are the ones that started this. And if
you think about it, it's about health care to a
large extent. It's about we want great health care for people.
We don't want to give the money away to other
people that come pouring into our country, and they've already
poured because nobody's coming into our country now. We have
the border totally stopped. In fact numbers, we just announced

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again we're in another zero. So we have zero for
four months in a row, zero people coming into our
country illegally. And that's a pretty good number. I'm not
sure even I can believe that, Doug, if you want
to know the truth.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Zero. Trump is still saying that it's the Democrats wanting
to give health care to illegals.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
The whole thing sucks. To quote Ronnie Dangerfield in Caddyshack,
why this whole place sucks? Like they are painting themselves
as the good guys, being the Republicans overdoing all the
Biden stuff. What is good or decent about any of that?
And if the whole goal is we must keep the
government open at any cost, then we've already lost this conversation.

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Like I see people like Marlon Stutsman doing the Johnny
smartass routine on social media and I want to puke
because you people are just as bad in this equation.
Because over the past twenty plus years, if we look
at what party has been accountable for more debt, more
government spending, more irresponsible government, more growth of government. Marlin,
it's you and the Republicans and yet they're doing some

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sort of victory lap here as though they're the good
guys in all of this, when they're screwing you just
the same way the Democrats are, just through a different means.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
You're listening to Kendall and Casey, it is ninety three
WIBC Casey.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
I have a big concern. What's that? I am beginning
to think are elected a fiefs have no idea what
they're doing?

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Are they not aware that they have to pass a
balanced budget? Why I like everybody's bragging about we passed
a balanced budget because you have to.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm very concerned about people at a local level, and
I'm very concerned about people to a state level.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Is there anything we can do?

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Because I see whether it's the governor or now the
mayor of Indianapolis making it a talking point, which means
somebody wrote it down, somebody hit send, Yeah, somebody I
would hope read and reviewed and approved and said, look
in this case, mister mayor, Before that, mister governor, does
this look good to you?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
So I'm going to say this as.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
As slow as I can and still put it in
a coherent sentence so that hopefully now it will register
because the radio guy.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
No.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Look, I know local government and state government better than
about ninety nine point nine percent of the people out
there walking. I get that, But this is pretty elementary
stuff that if you're an elected you should probably have
a firm grasp on. And these people would never just
lie for the sake of manipulation. I refuse to believe
that they actually know what's going on and they're just
lying for the sake of manipulation. So as an educational

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tool here, I'm going to say this very slowly, all right,
and everybody hearing my voice right now. If you're whether
it's your mayor or your city council or your town
council or your county council, or whoever it is, tries this.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Routine with you, you just say it in the.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Same way I'm saying it right now, or you say
it right back to them, because either they're woefully uninformed
or they are manipulative, deceptive, habitual liars trying to fool
and con you into thinking they did something. Leave that,
and either way they need this said to them. You
half two pass a balanced budget as a local or

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state official. Okay, follow up, Yeah, that is because you
can't print money. Oh there was that, simple enough.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, I got it.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Look at what we did. We did what we have
to do. We don't have an option, look at us.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Hey, that was the talking point from Joe Hawks that
last night about the city's one point seven billion dollar budget.
We balanced it. Yeah, no kidding, idiot, you had to.
I'm not running. I'm not running for nothing.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I'm running something. I run it from things.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
I wish he'd do that. They should mandate in order
for him to ever get to us speak at any
meetings going forward, that he should have to do that.
That should be his introduction every time he takes the
things to the floor to speak. What a disgrace these
people are. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
So the budget passed seventeen to eight by the city
County Council, and they did address the forty three million
dollars shortfall. They said they're going to do that through
agency reductions and higher permitting fees.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
So wait, wait, you know what a permitting say Say
that again, Say that again for Yeah, they're.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Going to address the shortfall through agency reductions and higher
permitting fees.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh nos, agency reductions. Oh no, But what was the
second part of that higher permitting.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh that's so if you so, let's see if you
have to have a permitting fee to do something, that's
a tax. Right, So they raised taxes. Okay, very good. Yeah,
make sure that we did that.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, public safety on the list. They were exempt for
many cost cutting. The IMPD budget is going to raise
six percent to three hundred and fifty eight million dollars.
It's up forty six percent since twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Okay, but this would be my question because this is
the new hawks at m O ever since like I
don't know, maybe twenty two is he just throws a
bunch of money at IMPD and goes, look, I'm so
pro police. Look at what I did. How is it
going to make it better? There's no point in throwing
a single extra dollar at anything without a very clear plan.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
See, government never does this.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
And Tony got into this a little bit on his
morning show and he's absolutely right. And I harp on
this with these clowns in Warehouse Berg all the time.
What are you trying to do? What's the clear vision
by which we can judge are you succeeding or not?
And governments, I'm talking across the board there is almost

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never a clear standard by what are we trying to do?
What is the goal of this government? How do you
judge us if it's successful or not? So in the
case of IMPD, simply throwing money at someone going here, ketch,
look at me. I love the police. That's not doing

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the city any favors. There should be a clear spelling
out this is the money we're paying, this is where
the money's going. This is how you're going to judge
if it was successful or not. And if it doesn't work,
then we'll cut the budget going forward. You don't get
a blank check just because you put police by your name.
And yet on almost none of this, at least from
the mayor's office, there's any sort of clear leading of

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standards by which he should be judged, because we know
he doesn't want any standards.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
So the question is what does success look like?

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Right right? And you're never going you almost never get
that on how to be judged, because then that holds
people accountable.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
So there was some political tensions going on as well.
Counselor Ron Gibson, he called the question to end the
debates last night. Oh we're done here, let's just vote. Yeah,
that's right, and other people are saying, wait, we're being silenced.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
This is the censorship.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
At least didn't call the cops on people this time.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Have them removed.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's a huge upgrade.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
And there was a big debate about urban forests.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Have you have you ever delved it? So there are.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
That's that's an oxymoron, isn't it? Well it's so uh
Jimbo shrimp.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's actually gotten a lot of talk lately because there
are pockets in this in Indianapolis and Marion County that
have large tracks of what we would I mean, forrest
is a strong word, with large tracks of tree line
and etc. I mean get force is a very strong word.
But for the sake of this discussion, we'll call it that.

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And it's what do you want to do with this?
There are people who feel very strongly about preserving those
plots of land and keeping that as one of the
few remaining tracks of densely populated vegetation.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
How about that green space? Yeah, thank you very much, because.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Again, for I don't know, but this has become a
big point of contention about how do you do it?
How do you preserve it? If you want to preserve it,
do you want to turn it over to a developer?
And that sounded like that continuity you played out last night.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, Counselor Michael Paul Hart. He proposed two million dollars
for it. It was voted down, mostly by the Democrats.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
All Right, we got to take a break. When we
come back, Ryan Hendrick is going to join us. He
has been doing all sorts of boots on the ground
reporting information finding on the mark on what actually took
place with Mark Sanchez. And he has a whole bunch
of amazing information that he has been able to put together.

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He actually talked on the phone yesterday with the attorney
for Sanchez. If you ever do anything wrong, you don't
want Ryan Hedrick trying to track you down. Yeah, he's
that guy's relentless.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
He's going to share his info coming out from ninety
three WYBC.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
All right, so, still a lot of moving parts with
the Mark Sanchez saga. It's kenl Casey John Rob, that's case.
He joined in the studio by WIBC Newsmad Extraordinaire Ryan Hedrick. Ryan, Hello,
what's up?

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Rob?

Speaker 1 (16:45):
How are you okay?

Speaker 5 (16:46):
So morning, Case.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
So it came out yesterday that there was a little
confusion on this, but that Mark Sanchez has secured the
services of the firm connected with Jim Boyles, who is
are the most high profile attorney in the city of Indianapolis.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Yeah, and he's in London right now with an Alex Palow.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, with Alex Palos.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
So I called him yesterday to see if there was
some way that we could get a comment and he
kind of laughed and said, I'm not going to comment.
And I said, well, would you consider commenting after the
case is done? And he laughed again. He said, listen,
I'm trying to be nice, but I'm not going to comment.
I'm never going to comment about any cases I'm involved with.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
So Luke and Meyer, Jenny luken Meyer is his sort
of right hand person. I think she's handling this right now.
So obviously I don't think this is anybody's surprise. Sanchez
is sparing no expense in his legal defense. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Everybody has a dream team, right, oj had a dream
team that got him off. So this is Mark Sanchez's
version of a dream team, and I guess he needs it.
After the Marion County Prosecutor filed a felony charge, bringing
a total of four charges now three misdemeanors, in one
for the serious bodily injury that he caused.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Now the other big public news. Then want to get
to how you spent your day yesterday? Was that? Now
there is a civil lawsuit that's been filed.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah, there's no punitive like amount damage. But I guess
this guy is disfigured now. The sixty nine year old
grease delivery guy who was up until a couple of
weeks ago an illegal immigrant, he is now in a
whoa whoa.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Oh, yeah, that's the way say that again.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
So he was up until a couple of weeks ago
not living here legally. He was in the process. Oh okay, yeah,
he was in the process. So this is not a
case involving an illegal immigrant. He's now an American citizen,
and he was celebrating the fact that he was making
the most of his opportunities in America, and his family says, look,
he was just trying to do his job when he

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was attacked by Mark Sanchez. So now he's in a
neck brace. He's he's battered, bruised and beaten, and he's
still recovering. I reached out to his attorney, Eric this
morning We sent him an email to see if you
talk about this because he's making the media rounds. I
think he was on CBS News last night. He did
not get back to me as of what nine to thirty,

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so waiting to hear from him.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Ryan Hedrick from the WBC newsroom is is our guest.
He spent much of his day yesterday, and we'll get
to that here in a second. Digging on what actually
took place or alleges alleged have taken place with the
whole Mark Sanchez saga.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Casey, Yeah, I'm just wondering.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
So part of this lawsuit that the alleged victim is
bringing is also against Fox because they're saying that they
were unfitness as an employer and that Mark Sanchez had
a propensity for drinking, yeah, and or harmful conduct. Is
this something they're going to have to like prove over,
like this is a pattern of behavior.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
I think they're probably going to have to do that
because I know when people are like high risk and
they're hired by companies, they usually have to divulge their
past and come clean and you know, swear on a
stack of bibles that they're not going to do this stuff. Again,
I don't know of Sanchez. I've never heard of Sanchez misbehaving.
I've never heard of him getting an OWI or DWR

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beating up people in public. So I don't know the
gist of that complaint. I mean, I guess that he's
saying that his employer should be fully accountable for everything
he does off the clock. It's not like Sanchez beat
this guy up at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Okay, I want to ask you about this because this
is your take your reporter hat off for a second.
Your wheelhouse is you know, you've admitted this, and you've
spent much of your last several years helping people with
addictions because of your struggle with the addiction. When a
guy has no history of this, like, it's one thing
if you and maybe he does have a history of it,
it just never got reported. But it's just kind of
weird that in Casey, we're talking about this off air

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that he Okay, let's say the guy did drink too much,
which are or do something too much, which I believe
is at those harder sort of these allegations. Is it
possible that somebody did something.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
To him that he made him act that way?

Speaker 1 (20:58):
I used to consumingly, I'm just trying to figure out
how if you don't have a propensity to do this,
that it gets to this point. I think that's what
people are struggling with.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
Well, on the supporting Sobriety podcast that myself and Matt
Bear host, I'd been upfront about my struggle. So in
two thousand and seven I thought I was going to
get black bald from radio. I was working in Baltimore
at was then a thirteen hundred AM. It was an
ESPN radio station that at the time Dan Patrick had

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an afternoon show, his syndicated show with Rob Dibble if
you could remember that, and I was doing sports updates
during Dan Patrick's syndicated show. And at the time I
had a really bad drug problem using. I was covering
the Orioles and the Washington Wizards and the Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
I was kind of all over the mid Atlantic map.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
And when they had to fire me because I didn't
show up for a sports update for one day, a
no call, no show, my boss Dave Librosi, who has
since retired, told me that if we continue to employ you,
you are now aliable because of your drug using and
your alcohol using, and we can't account for anything that
you may do in a public setting, especially because I

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had credentials to cover these teams in that special access.
So those words really resonated with me. As I'm covering
Mark Sanchez's story, I can totally dig where the plaintiffs
side is coming from. Because if and when Fox Sports
decides to take disciplinary action against him, say they keep
him on staff and he does this again, say at

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a Christmas party or something, they could be on the hook.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
And this is a totally naive question, but is it
possible somebody did something to a drink or something, because
it just doesn't seem like if bike.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Did drink from Mark Sanchez.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Well, I'm not saying that it happen. I'm just saying
it's just I think this is what people are struggling with.
Is as you said, at least publicly, and you've looked
into this now you're a great reporter. There doesn't appear
to be any track record of, hey, the guy gets
violent and beats people up, or you know, you.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Don't know what he drank though I mean I used
to sort of say, yeah, I used to drink a
one hundred proof liquor. I mean, this stuff was just
I used to mix it with coke and not cocaine,
just co copine. Sure, and when I mix this hundred
proof with coke, I got angry, I got very confrontational. So,
I mean, we're just hypothesizing right now.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Right well, his friends and his former teammates, they're starting
to speak out and they're saying that he's such a
nice guy and they're just is so out of character.
And they even said that they want to investigate and
get to the bottom of what happened. Like they're making
it sound like he's partially a victim in this.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
Well. I mean he's going to play the victim because
he's on the defensive right now. Not only is he
on the hook for the felony charge in three misdemeanors,
but he's on the hook for potentially millions and millions
and millions of dollars. I mean, Voiles is not going
to work pro bono, right This is going to cost
him a lot of money. This is going to cost

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him a lot of money and a lot of credibility.
Maybe tear down this reputation. I mean, look at what
Tom Brenneman said, dropped a racial slur on the air,
and he's still struggling to get back and he didn't
assault anybody.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Ryan Hendrick from the WBC newsroom is our guest. Okay,
So you spent much of your day. I mean, this
is just great on the ground reporting, trying to get
information from people that may have been witnesses, that were witnesses,
kind of can you give us high levels some of
the things that you learned yesterday about what's alleged to

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take a place. So the alley is O.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Sage Street south O Sage Streets technically not an alley,
it's the street that runs between Maryland and West Washington.
To the east is North Senate Avenue. So I went
behind the west and because I couldn't figure out exactly
where this fight took place, so I did locate the
bay where this worker was working to trade out the
oil in this fight that the prosecutors and the cops

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say happened. So I paced it out and if they
started throwing blows by the air the fry dispensery, it's
about two hundred and thirty seven feet seventy nine yards
three quarters of a football field that Sanchez would have
had to have walked northeast, Yeah, northeast up the alley

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to West Washington Street, stabbed in the torso.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Because the videos come out now one of these camera
street cams of him, and you could I mean it's
a black and white camera, but you can see him
with the stain and holding.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
It definitely looks like he got stabbed, like right below
the pectoral muscle. Because the majority of the blood that
is seen coming from him is right under that pectoral muscle.
So if you took a shot kind of right around
the chest, you'd start bleeding down obviously not up. And
then he proceeds east up West Washington Street by Pronta Pizzeria,

(25:50):
right where Loupe martine zones that I talk to him,
that's another story. And then he proceeds to the pub
to bang on the window and get help at about
twelve thirty.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
But you pointed out how far he had to go.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Seventy nine yards that's three quarters of a football field.
So I had a buddy that got stabbed in a
bad drug deal on the South side of Chicago ten
years ago. I called him to ask him what would
Mark Sanchez have had to endure being stabbed near the chest,
and he said two things, man, fight or flight or
just sheer endurance would have to win out before you

(26:24):
walk that way. And then as you walk, because he
was walking, he got in a fight with somebody and
had to walk to a police station. Walk in the precinct,
maybe about half the distance that Sanchez did. He said
he collapsed. So Sanchez was by the time he was
banging on the window, you could probably assume that he
was at a gas He was worried, he was losing breath,

(26:46):
His heart was probably fluttering, and he's probably having a
difficult time breathing at that point.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
So he's probably very lucky to be alive for sure.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
I mean, the bartender, who was also the general manager,
applied pressure in the wound, called the cops. And I
have a hard time believing that this guy who basically
works in a sports bar didn't know it was Mark Sanchez.
Maybe he didn't, I don't know, but Mark Sanchez is
a pretty recognizable character around here, right didn't he beat
the colts like yours?

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Again, thank you for bringing that bringing that up. Okay,
before I let you go, I did want to ask
you this, like, have you sort of put together sort
of what is alleged to have happened. Like, can you just,
like in a minute, sort of explain how like from
the instigation to what happens. So somebody driving in the
road goes, Okay, now I get because there's just so
much info out there and they comes in bits and pieces,

(27:36):
can you sort of put it together in a.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Just imagine just two guys brawling. They're going side to side,
they're swinging, hitting each other, and Sanchez is on top
of this guy.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
And it was over the guy's carving pods.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
Well, I mean that's what Ryan Meher said over a
parking spot. I don't know if it was over a
parking spot or the alcohol exacerbated the feelings that Sanchez
just got angrier and angrier. But imagine guys swinging and
kicking and fighting for their lives. One guy gets the
better part of another guy and in a panic, reaches
up and pokes him in the chest with the knife,

(28:11):
and Sanchez staggers back. He's holding his chest, he's starting
to bleed, and he's like, I'm in trouble here. This
guy is probably more than I could handle at this point.
And now he certainly staggers three quarters of a football
field to.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Do we know what Sanchez on his way back to
the hotel.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
No, I don't know that. And I went to two
bars yesterday, not to get back my clean time, but
to ask if Sanchez was drinking at those bars along
Maryland's drink. Nobody would touch it, nobody would say anything.
One guy at Connor's Pub looked at me and smiled
and said, I don't know anything. So I don't know
anything from the nut stand.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, you're going to stay on it. And I told
Casey said, if there's one guy I would not want
looking into me, it's you. Well, I was alleged to
do something.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
I did send an email to the property management company
and they have yet to get back to me about
surveillance video. So I'll share that with all Right.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
So there's a pre trial conference which is set for
November fourth at eight thirty.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
In the meantime. You're going to stay on this, aren't you?

Speaker 1 (29:08):
I will? Definitely. You're the best man.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Thank you, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
You're listening to Kennel and Casey. It's ninety three WYBC.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
So twenty twenty six is shaping up to be a
fascinating year for music because there's a lot of old
time bands, very popular bands that are at least pondering
and getting back together.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah. Well Rush has announced they're not just pondering it.
They're going to do it.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Their first tour in twenty twenty six, right, so their
first tour since the death of their drummer, Neil Perk.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
So yes, that was what twenty was twenty.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Twenty twenty passed away.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
And they last toured together in twenty fifteen. Rush group.
People don't know that's a three piece group. They have
many songs you've heard of, much like Cream in the
sense of a phenomenal amount of sound for a three
piece group. And their drummer, who was also wrote most
of the lyrics to their songs, Neil Pert. He passed
away at cancer and they had kind of declared much

(30:10):
like Led Zeppelin did at the death of John Bonham. Hey,
Rush died with Neil Pert and now Geddy Lee and
gosh darn it, who's the other guy? Uh, he's the
least famous of the three. Anyway, it's horrible, I'm blanking
on the guy's name. Anyway, the two living memallogies, thank you,
thank you very much. They decided they were gonna get
back together. They have a replacement drummer. It's actually a woman.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
It is. Her name is Anika Niles, who is.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
A pretty known quantity. And they're actually going to and
I give Rush credit, they're admitting what they're doing here.
They're gonna, for the first time ever, really have some
backup musicians. Geedty Lee came out and it was kind
of like, hey, look, we're old and we're doing this
as a tribute.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
They're going to.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Add some additional musicians just to kind of expand their
sound in their stage presence.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah. So, I mean, look, I give them credit because
they're Look, I'm sure they're going to not decline the
money that comes with this, so they're not running a
soup kitchen here, but they are saying, we want to
do this as a tribute. We the two remaining members,
felt this would be a great tribute and we want
to do this, and we recognize now at our advanced age,
some of the limitations that we're going to have. Although

(31:21):
I feel like a group like Rush can get away
with it because Geddy Lee is not Michael Jackson or
Mick Jagger right standing around on stage, so you can
kind of get away with it and pass and it'll
be It'll be fine. So I think if you're a
fan in Casey, there's two shows at the United Center Chicago.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
I say, I know, Thursday, July sixteenth and Saturday, July eighteenth.
Tickets go on sale October seventeenth for the show.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
I'm okay with this because they're admitting up front what
it is.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
It's a celebration of fifty years of Rush music.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
And they're telling you that we're adding people and we're
it's not going to be Rush circa nineteen eighty But
if you love our music and you want to pay
tribute to a great member this band, and this may
be the last time we do this, then come see us.
I'm totally okay with this, totally fine.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
When you and I were talking about this last night,
I realized I have seen Russian concert.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
It was circa nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
And I thought about it and I was like, wow,
Rob was what four.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
I was just out of high school and you weren't
even in kindergarten yet.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, but I probably had Rush on the radio hopefully. Boy.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Another band that is talking about reuniting is Fleetwood Mac.
There's been rumors swirling about yeah, ah nice. So you
know Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood they both publicly wished
Lindsay Buckingham a happy birthday. Many people are saying, oh,
I thinks they're warming up between them, and now are
they going to go on the road.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
The only thing more entertaining about Fleetwood Mac than their
music is their feuding, and there's been obviously when you
had the mcvie's Christine and John mcvee, who were part
of Fleetwood Mac for years, Obviously you had the Lindsay
bucking Stevie Nicks dynamic, you had Mick Fleetwood and Stevie
Nicks dynamic. I mean, just this bizarro thing of who's

(33:08):
hooking up with who and who's doing what. And then
obviously Christine McVie, who look Stevie Nicks, gets kind of
all the credit. I think Christine McVie was one hundred
times the singer that Stevie Nicks ever was, and I
think a lot of her songs that she let on
were better than the Stevie Nicks songs. She passed away.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
John McVie he retired right.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
And then Buckingham was it Buckingham and Fleetwood or Buckyam
and Nicks. I can't keep track of this. Most recent
they got into it said okay, we're done. I think
at one point Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham went out
as a pair. May I don't know, like I said,
I know, maybe it was mcvee and Buckingham. I don't know. Anyway,

(33:48):
I think they're talking about all the four living ones
getting back together, yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Going on tour.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
It would be something, it would definitely be a commercial success.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
So the Rush thing definitely happened. Fleetwood Mac.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Maybe you're listening to Kendall and Casey on ninety three WIBC.
Coming up next, Jacob Stewart from Indie Star is going
to join us.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah. He's got a big article about Blackrock potentially buying
AES That is bad news for right Bears