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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good afternoon, First Day friends. Thank you for joining us
for our number two of the First Day show on
this last day of summer. Oh no, oh, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I guess what it's the equinox. Equinox the sun comes
up in the same place due east and sets due west.
It's only happens twice a year.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That's it, twice a year. Hummingbirds, I think have finally
made it out of here. I now have. I just
have one two little hummingbirds that are left, but they're
on their way. It is the twenty first of September.
You all know what that is. Don't jack, Here we
go dance Danny.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
There, you get that camera off me turn that camera round.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh best song in the world. Oh yeah, hey, our
too and Cold two and O Colts are in Tennessee
this afternoon one o'clock kickoff against the Titans. I'm Terry.
That's Danny. Kylon Tally is here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Did you get some good sleep last night?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh yeah, typical, I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, difficult before.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
At four o'clock in the morning. So I can you
say you get a lot of sleep?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, I just want to ask you because this is
very interesting, Denny AMERI sleep surveyed one thousand Americans, and
what they found out in this study is one in
five Americans are dreaming about AI and sixteen percent experience
AI related dreams multiple times per month. Ninety three percent
of Americans have chat GPT induced nightmares, and nearly one
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in four gen zers have dreamed about artificial intelligence, with
one in six dreaming about losing their jobs to AI.
What kid, AI?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I am not dreaming it, Kylan, Are you dreaming AI?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I have not?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Nope, not. Yeah, you worrying? Are you dreaming about something
with AI?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I still dream I still dream about high school?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I do.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Do you know? But I'll be dog going if I'm
dreaming about artificial and cinemination?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Artificial intelligent? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, I wonder where you were going? Well, that would
be maybe that is around the corner.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh no, oh dear, what kind of world are we
living in?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And they listen here On another note, The Strong Museum,
the Strong National Museum of Play, has unveiled the twelve
finalists reduction into its National Toy Hall of Fame, and
this year's contenders are Battleship. Oh you like that one?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I Love I Love that game that was a strategy.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Game, Connect four.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't know that was more difficult as simple as
that one was supposed to be. I always got my
butt by Mitch Foyd.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yep. It causes a lot of arguments between my friends
when we're playing. It's not it's our monopoly.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, here's another contender, Ferby corn Hole the scooter slime
snow okay, but Denny spirograph is in there. Maybe Spiergraph
spirograph every least. Oh, I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It was all these called wheels, and you can make
the Neda's designs. Yeah, Terry about the slime, how many
times did you get the green slime in your hand
and act like you sneezed and then drop it on
the table.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
First. Every kid has a spiral graph. Yes, I had one.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I didn't know that's what I was called. This is
really cool, all the geometric patterns so you can create. Hey,
talking about play real quick. There's a new little cafe opened.
It's called Storybook Play Cafe in Greenwood. It's got coffee
and snacks, but it's got an indoor play area for
toddlers and young kids.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It's free.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
It's just open, really cute, little space, cool, very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Listen, if you want to vote, and I didn't give
you all the nominees, but if you want to vote,
because that's how they do it. You need to get
your vote in now for the National Toy Hall of
Fame finalists. Pick yours favorites September twenty fourth, get that
in by then that date. You can get your ballot
at Toy Hall of Fame dot org. Also one more note,
you guys, did you hear the Hobknob Corner restaurant in
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Nashville decided to close down.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, they didn't get the lease renewed. I don't know
what was going on there, but that's been there for
what thirty years?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
A long time. The doors, they're closing the doors after
nearly fifty years of opening and operating in downtown Nashville.
It's part of our Look, y'all are getting ready to
do the Nashville thing, I'll bet you. And this is
just one of those great places that is now saying
we can't do it anymore right there on Main Street.
Since nineteen seventy nine, sad news. The Cole family is
saying we're going to shut those doors and I think
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they're going to close. I don't have the closing date,
but pretty quick here second week of November. There, it
is second week of November. Hey, we got to take
a break. Guys, We're going to do that. I'm watching
the clock very carefully. We've got a run. We've got
a great guest coming up next, Little Wishes. That's all
I'll say here as we continue on the first day
on ninety three. WIBC. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month,
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and joining us now is Liz Lowenstein, the founder of
the Little Wish Foundation, which brings joy and comfort to
kids that are battling cancer by granting them a little Wish. Liz,
thank you so much for spending time with us. Today.
The Little Wish Foundation is celebrating fifteen years rooted right
here in Indiana. I think we all want to know,
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how did it begin?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Yeah, so, I can't believe it's been fifteen years. It's
absolutely amazing. It's been such an awesome, incredible journey. I
started this when I was just sixteen years old in
high school, and I actually I attended the wake of
a seven year old boy named Max.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He was my fifth.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Grade teacher's son and that day just forever changed my life.
I truly could not walk away from that day and
experience and not do nothing. So I kind of just
had this stream in my heart to help other kids
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going through cancer, like my friend mac Dad and bring
them joy in a little way that I could as
a teen through a Little Wish. So Max's like last
little wish before passing was actually a puppy and his
parents got him that and he loves his little puppy,
Chewy so much. And that's really the inspiration behind doing
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Little Things was remembering Max's last little wish, that puppy.
So you know, since then, that's been the fire behind
us continuing on all these years later, and that's our beginning.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
At just fifteen years old. You know, how would you
describe the core mission of the Little Wish Foundation, Well.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
We bring hope, comfort and joy to kids going through cancer, so,
you know, simply put, what we do is bring our
Little Wish gifts and it's of the child's choosing. They can,
you know, really pick kind of whatever they'd like, and
we bring joy and hope and comfort during their really
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difficult time because, as everyone knows, cancer is incredibly difficult
and oftentimes very long journey. So we want to be
that distraction that picked me up and just that boosts
and a friend to them during that time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Liz, what has been the most unexpected lesson that you've
learned on this journey?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Well, you know, something that we've we've said all these
years is live life to the max. And you know
it's attributing that back to my friend Max, but live
bas to the max and that just couldn't be more
true in doing this. It's absolutely every single day, don't
take it for granted and live life to the max.
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Oh my gosh, I love that. Yeah, just simply put.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So, how do you find or connect with kids that
are a candidate for being granted a little wish? Know?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
So we have kind of like partnered with nineteen different
children's hospitals now in a lot of states, and so wow,
we've you know, so going back to the first question
of you know what our thing challenge is, Well, you know,
we're a small team. My mom and I started this
truly like out of our out of our home, and
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you know we're still doing it together today, which is
super amazing. And that just that alone, But you know,
I think when you are a small team. Ultimately, that
can be difficult when you're trying to do something big
and trying to sustain something and create kind of a
roadmap to sustained throughout the years, and you know, keeping
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in mind I was a teenager starting this. It's like
all of those challenges of being a young adult trying
to find your own way and going through you know,
school and college and trying to do this as well,
because you know, I didn't want to go away. I
wanted to keep it going. So I think trying to
sustain something that we just saw such potential in and
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I had this big dream for it, I think that
was difficult. But you know, adding in the times and
just our ever changing in our world as you know,
going through COVID, going through different economic things, and just
honestly just any type of nonprofit or business, you know,
it's inevitable to have ups and downs, and so it's yeah,
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it's been it's been a challenge for sure, but it's
been a fun challenge in a way because you know,
finding your people along that way that just support you
no matter what and believe in your mission has been amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
This is Liz Lowenstein. She is the founder of the
Little Wish Foundation, and we'll make sure that you know
all about her and how you can find out where
to connect with her before we end our conversation. But
before we do that, Liz, how did the Little Wish
Foundation go from a local effort to a national nonprofit?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Oh? Boy, well, yeah, So my hometown is Michigan City, Indiana.
That's where I'm from. That's where a Little Wish started
when I was just in high school with my mom,
and I ended up coming to Beller University in Indianapolis,
and that's kind of what brought us to Indy. And
also the fact that Riley Hospital was really becoming, you know,
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our most prominent wish granting hospital during that time, so
it kind of just followed to that way. But oh,
you know, I really believed and I explained a Little
Wish as like a small, you know, homegrown nonprofit with
small routs, and we do that type of fundraising truly,
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we feel like that is the most effective and a
nonprofit of our fives at least. And then honestly, we
kind of just triedlicating that and the other studies we
went to, so doing fundraising in some of those cities.
But you know, Pridmarily just keeping it in Indianapolis is
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our base. That's just kind of been a formula that's
worked for us. So, you know, I've traveled around to
all these different hospitals in these states and established you know,
relationships with those hospitals and have made so many friends
along the way, and you know, you kind of just
build from there.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Have you been able to stay in touch with any
of the children or the families over time.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Oh, of course, yeah, we we do. You know, we
never put pressure on or expect anything. You know, we're
very a an organization where we understand, you know, the
time and it's sensitive for everyone involved, so we want
to respect that and we really leave it up to
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the families as they would like to stay connected with
us or not.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Yeah, but of course we've certainly along the way we've
made forever friends a lot of our Little Wish families.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yes, you know, I just bet this work has changed
you too.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Oh, only in every way possible.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I can only imagine that it has. What is your
vision for the foundation as you look down the road.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Well, you know, it's funny that you say a vision,
because our vision for Little Wish is every child everywhere
deserves their little wish. So that's been the vision from
day one, and I'm really happy and proud that fifteen
years later, that is still our vision and still my
personal vision. You know what I would like to see
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with Little Wish, I would I would love to see
every child everywhere get their little wish. Yeah. And you know, unfortunately,
it's like cancer is not going anywhere. And you know,
we had no idea, yea, what childhood cancer would look
like fifteen years down the road. Fifteen years ago. You know,
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of course, you hope that it goes away or you know,
there's and while there's certainly advances in medicine and lots
of hope now through science, it's not gone away. It's
you know, only becoming almost more prominent. Yeah, And so
you know, we just want to keep bringing that joy
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because it's the least we could do. I felt like,
at the end of the day, it's the least we
could do to be a friend for someone going through
something terrible like this, and let's be a little bright
light in their life.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The Little Wish Foundation celebrating fifteen years granting wishes to
kids diagnosed with cancer. How many wishes have you granted.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Oh boy, We've granted like over four thousand, three hundred wishes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That's incredible. Little Wishes Foundation has able to do that
thanks to donations. Need support to keep the organization running.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
You know, it's it's Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I think
that's one thing that everyone could do that's free is
follow Little Wish Foundation on our Instagram and on our Facebook.
Follow us along on our journey as we highlight other
kids that are just such great goal warriors, you know,
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engaging with us in positive ways that help boost us
up and help get our name out. That is something
free and amazing that we're really fortunate we can do
in this day and age. But of course we need donations.
This is how we're able to continue on and it's
how we're able to keep granting wishes. So our website
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Little Wish Foundation dot org. Definitely going to that website
and reaching out.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It is your calling. I believe that. Liz Lowenstein, the
founder of the Little Wishes Foundation, it is Childhood Cancer
Awareness Month. This foundation has been granting little wishes to
children battling cancer for fifteen years. Little Wish Foundation is
now a national nonprofit which started right here in Indy
Little Wish Foundation dot org if you can help in
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any way and remember them during this upcoming season of giving. Liz,
thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Oh, thank you so much for having me and allowing
me to share our story. And it's a big that
makes all the difference for us. So thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Well, take a break. It's the first Day ninety three WIBC.
Welcome back to the First Day ninety three WIBC. I'm
Terry Kylan. Denny Smith is here too. Also want to
mention Charlie Kirk being remembered and celebrated today at State
Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, and it is President Trump
obviously will be there. Several members of his cabinet will
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speak at the memorial. Vice President Advance Secretary of State
Marco Rubio, Robert F. Kennedy, Junior Pete Hegseth will be
there at TOLCI Gabbard all speaking. If you can imagine
the secure already, this will probably be the most safest
place in the world at that moment. During this memorial,
which begins at one o'clock, I know it will be
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also a streamed live on multiple multiple platforms. So again,
Charlie Kirk remembered today and celebrated beginning at one o'clock
this afternoon. Denny Smith, we want to ask you, and
we talked to you a little bit about this earlier
during Dollars and Cents, But the Feds made some cuts
this week and people seem to be overjoyed. And you
have a little bit of different take on it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, I've been reading a lot Terry Lynn, and one
of the guys I really like to read is a
fellow by the name of Ed Dowd. And Ed was
I'll tell you how good Ed was. Ed called the
debacles in so many stocks. Remember Enron? He called that
almost nine months ahead and got his company used to
work for black Rock, and he got them all out
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of it just about the time it fell. But he's
a brilliant mind. Now he's been sharing with a lot
of people that were way behind the curve. And although
the Fed did cut a quarter of a percent this week,
it really is a spit in the bucket, and it
should have been done maybe nine months ago, and maybe
as much as a half a point nine months ago.
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So they said that we can expect two more rate cuts.
But here's what this Fortells housing makes up about thirty
six percent of the economy, and we're going to see
inflation go lower because the housing report that was put out,
all the indicators are rolling over. And that doesn't mean
necessarily Indiana or Indianapolis, but nationally, we're going to have
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a housing recession. And if that makes up thirty six
percent of the economy, you know we can expect some
a two percent sub two percent inflation. And that's been
the goal of the FED forever. So why they waited
so long? I argue with President Trump all the time,
but I think he got this one right. Those rascals
in the FED, who are I'm not their fan in
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any way. I said this earlier. They're not federal, they're
not a re they're not a bank. They're a privately
held corporation that is fleecing the American public. And they
got no business setting rates. That should be the Treasury
or that should be free market. But anyway, I think
inflation is going to be coming down. And uh, once again,
the Fed's too late to the.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Party, even with a couple more cuts coming right.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Even with a couple Yeah, they're just late. They should
have done them so long till too late.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Even with made they're saying by the end of the year, right,
maybe a couple more cuts, yes.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And they'll stage those out. There might be one in October,
then there might be one in late November. But you know,
with interest rates topping and falling and the housing market downturn,
and the biggest one, those rascals at the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, they have been either lying or they're just
so freaking incompetent. They reduced the jobs report by almost
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a million jobs, nine hundred and eleven thousand.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And I don't know. That's statistical fraud. And when your
government lies to you through the Department of Labor Statistics,
it can't be good. But this panic rate cut cycle
is going to be similar to two thousand and seven,
in two thousand and nine when we had the subprime
conflicts where people were borrowing money that shouldn't been.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So Denny, do you think that maybe do you think
that this is a good time to maybe, I mean
when when people buying houses and people buying cars and
that sort of thing. Yes, jump on this or.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Well, it depends on what stage of life. If I
was the ky Lin's age, I'd be getting into a house.
If I were an empty nester and trying to decide
when to sell the house, I'd be getting it on
the market pretty quick. It just depends on where you
are in life now. Terry Lynn, you want to get
your dream you know, little house on the prairie and
cabin in the woods, do you bet?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Jah?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So, I would say, talk to a good realtor who
can sort of coach you through that. But everybody's different
based on the stage of life. If you're getting ready
to start a family, you're starting getting married, you need
a house. But I will say this, I will predict
that apartments are going to go down in price.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh that's awesome to here. We'll keep watching all right,
Guinny Paul, thank you for that. We're going to take
a break, just a few more minutes left of the
first day. We'll be back ninety three. WIBC Master Chef
All Star Live is coming to Indianapolis on Tuesday, October
seventh at the Old National Center, featuring fan favorite contestants
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from the Master Chef franchise, including our guests Kylin. We've
got Rachel Sanchez and Julio Figuerreio, finalists from Master Chef
Dynamic Duos, and how are you guys? Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Of course, we are so happy to be here with
you guys. Thank you for having us today.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So much for the indigation. Hello Indi Anapolis.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You're gonna be here before you know it. But I'm
a big fan. Kylon is a big fan. Over the summer,
we're able to watch you. To you a married couple
from Naples, Florida and competing in Chef Gordon Ramsay's Master
Chef duo. Both of you have in common the fact
that your grandmothers were the culinary journey That's where your
culinary journeys began. But Julia, how did the two of
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you meet?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Is a great story. So I used to be a
the general manager of a Mexican restaurant in Fort Myers
Beach and right after a was during COVID. Actually we
needed a new bartender and I ended up interviewing Rachel
for the position. And she was great, you know, she
was loving, personable, She knew how to speak Spanish in English,
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which helped a lot. She was, you know, great at
what she did. She's beautiful, as you know bartenders. That
definitely helped, you know, having a beautiful bartender and I
hired her for the position, you know, and from their owner.
We started talking and you know, getting to know each other.
And I promise I had no second intentions when I
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hired her. I love it happened.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Such a great story. All right, let's talk about Master
Chef Do Rachel. On a scale of one to ten,
how difficult was the casting process to even get in?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Oh, it's not difficult to do, but it's a lot.
It's long. It's a long process. And you know I
tried three times before before the casting process that we
actually got in. So I applied four times to get
in the show. So for me, it was amazing because
I've been fun of the show for so long. I
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watched every single season, every single episode, many many times,
and it was a dream of mine to be in
the competition. So every time that I applied that I
couldn't get in, I was sad. And when we finally
it had the chance, it was long and tiring, but
you know, I was happy because every step closer, you know,
it was my dream right there, I could see it.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
If we could give a tip to anybody listening right
now that would love to apply, take pictures of your food,
anything that you make take pictures of because in the
casting process you've got to send a lot of photos
and videos of you cooking, of the food you make,
and they love that.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Do you want to Rachel if I can, I want
to let everybody know because when Rachel moved here to
this country, she experienced what so many of us do,
and that's anxiety, and it also had some pianic attacks
and I can't imagine how you control that with the
stress of cooking in a competition, especially on TV.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
So actually, you know, coming to this country with a
seting panic attacks, it didn't help. You know, all the
pressure that not know in a language and the change
of the system that it comes with it, and watching
the show was one of those things that helped me
come down from it. Now, being in the competition it
was a whole different story because you know, you are
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in a really fast environment. You know the clock it's
running down, but before that, you don't know what the
judge is gonna throw at you. So of course there
is a lot of stress involved, and you know, having
juliub with me definitely helped a lot, kind of like
going down a little bit down, but yeah, it was
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definitely a lot of anxiety. I did not have like attacks,
let's say, because you know, I've been getting better and
better with the years and some third but obviously you
know the fear of doing something wrong or you know,
failing my community. It was there all the time until
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the club started, you know, like going on at the
clubs started running down. I forgot about everything focused on
the cooking, and then well we were like hands up.
Then it came back again. That never left my body.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
This is Rachel and Julia. They're coming from Master Chef
Dynamic Duos to Master Chef All Stars Live October seventh,
seven pm at the Old National Center, ticket Masters where
you get your where you can get your tickets or
at master Chef Live Tour dot com Kyland.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Master Chef All Stars Live is a live cooking competition
with audience participation. Julio, can you explain this this style
and format that you guys will be taking on on
October seventh?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
One hundred percent. So we're trying to mimic what happens
in the show. We want people to feel what actually
you know, goes on into a day of shooting any
episode of Master Chef. We want you to see the
the clock running down, the pressure tests that we have
throughout the competition, some mystery things happening. You know, there
are so many nuances of the show that we're trying
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to bring to a life, to a live performance for
people to get the feeling of what Master Chef really is.
And perhaps it's going to give them, you know, that
little something to apply, be like, Hey, I think I
can do this. You know I can handle bord On Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Hey, listen, what's one of speaking of Rachel, what's one
of the biggest lessons you learned from Chef Gordon Ramsey.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh boy, There's so many, but I feel like there
is one that always stuck with me. It's do not
work with them ins sake. If you see that something
is not going right, don't keep on working on top
of that. Just scratch it, put it aside and start again.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He would make me cry just looking at me the
wrong way. Julia, what did you take away from from
dynamic duos and from also from working with really one
of those those legends now, Chef Gordon Ramsay.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You know, it's funny because Rachel as a big fan
of Gordon, she always been, and I always told her
that I thought he was overrated until I really met
him and saw his leadership. He has such an aura
about him that you know, he commends respect with just
the way he presents himself. He's such a leader, a
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master teacher. You know, he wanted to make us look
good the whole time, and what you see on TV,
you know he's a lot different. You know, behind the cameras,
he's very sweet. He's trying to make you look good.
He's always trying to teach you something. So I think
that everybody that gets close to greatness like him, you
become a better person and definitely a better professional.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Thailand, Rachel, I'm curious because you guys being a married couple,
I'm sure it's so easy to get frustrated with each
other in that stressful, high pressure scenario.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
How do you keep it?
Speaker 5 (27:14):
How do you keep it positive or like spice it
up in your relationship to keep you guys successful.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
So you know, that's a great question because you know
and I as Loon, as we started dating, we build
that relationship based on a lot of communication and effect.
And we of course we argue, you know, like any
other couple, but we say what is wrong in a
nice manner, and if whatever is happening, we put it
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out there before it starts to build that until that
is no more like nice way to put it right. So,
of course, in that moment, with a lot of stress
and pressure, anything can go wrong. You know, I might
make a mistake or he might But communication and respect
that's the base of everything for us.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
And also adding to that, I think is understanding the
moment you're in. You cannot take things personal, you know,
Like we had a lot of pressure moments during the
show that if if Rachel, you know, shouted at something
at me, I could not say. I could not think
at that moment that she was trying to hurt me personally.
But it's because hey, we're under a time pressure. We
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have things to get done. So now, if you're going
to take everything personal, you're not going to get past
the point of understanding the other person or being appreciative
of the moment. So I think we handled that very well,
and that's what we try to do in our day lives.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I do want to find out, because you know the
show itself, what did that do for you? I guess
career wise, Rachel. I'll start with you, after being on
the show, what happened next.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Well for me, you know, it was fulfully in a dream.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Like I said, I was always a fan.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
And being you know, a part of the cousin being
on the show, I could fulfill that dream of mine.
Now after that, back home, I run a baking business.
I do custom cakes and theserch tables you know, as
my business, and of course it has helped a lot
on that luckily, people you know, us getting to know
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me more. And besides that, many many people are asking
me about, you know, how to do this or that
or Julie and I decided to start something new and
soon we're going to be launching baking and cooking classes
online as well as all workshops for the locals. So
that definitely is helping a lot because we're getting a
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lot of the sposure and people getting to know us
and have a little more like appreciation and respect and
also you know, inspiring other people to learn from us.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
And you know, that's so great, Julio. For you, is
it kind of fun being a superstar? I mean, people
recognize you. I'm sure has changed for you since being
on the show.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
You know, this is very something, very interesting because yesterday
was our very first show with the tour, right, Yeah,
and we hadn't Richelde had not experienced this same yet
because you know, our season is still going on. The
finales tonight.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Actually yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
And yesterday the VAP guests, she started crying, you know
when she saw all of us, and that hit me.
Was the moment that hit me like, wow, you know,
people really enjoy seeing us on TV and they were
really cheering for us. It was such a heartfelt moment,
you know, to have that love from from the audience,
from somebody that really want us to do well and
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continue pursuing our dreams that you know, this store is
definitely gonna I feel like this store is definitely gonna
give me a lot of those moments. And I'm very
thankful and blessed to have this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Hope please kind of go ahead.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
With this tour of Master Chefs All Star live cast
member lineup. You're gonna have audience Q and A sessions
and then someone from the Eye and so we'll have
the opportunity to be your Sooe chef. Can you talk
about that and how it's been so far.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, So people are getting the VIP tickets, they're gonna
be able to have a few Q and A with us,
with Jeron, Michael, Rachel and myself. We're going to be
answering questions that they might have, taking pictures, and some
of them will be chosen to be our soo chefs,
you know. So they're gonna have some personal time close
ups with us. They're going to be cooking with us
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as well, So it's gonna be really fun.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's gonna be so fun. We cannot wait. Rachel Sanchez
and Julio Figuretto, oh, I hope I did it right.
Master from Master Chef Dynamic, do as be watching them
on Fox. October seventh is when they'll be here seven pm.
Get your tickets at mastercheflivetour dot com or at ticket master.
Luck to you both. We can't wait to see you
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when you come to ND.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Thank you so much for having us. And also if
you wanna, if you're hearing us and you want to
get a couple of free tickets, you can go in
our social media, The Fire Cooks and comment in our
last post see what you have to do again? Those
to free take it from us.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Please follow these guys at the Fiery Cooks. Thanks so
much for having us.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
We really appreciate it. We appreciate everybody. Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Hey, we've got to run. Thanks so so much, it
was so much fun, great show. Thank you all so
much for joining. And enjoy your last day of summer.
Oh please, yes, you enjoyed that last day of summer.
And we'll catch you here next week. Right here on
the first day. The news is next ninety three w IBC.
This is our comes, this is our team.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
We go home, Goles, this is we.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
We're gonna tell you go figure too. Oh my gosh,
please sitance hey, cam more. This is our team.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Go cod
Good afternoon, First Day friends. Thank you for joining us
for our number two of the First Day show on
this last day of summer. Oh no, oh, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I guess what it's the equinox. Equinox the sun comes
up in the same place due east and sets due west.
It's only happens twice a year.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That's it, twice a year. Hummingbirds, I think have finally
made it out of here. I now have. I just
have one two little hummingbirds that are left, but they're
on their way. It is the twenty first of September.
You all know what that is. Don't jack, Here we
go dance Danny.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
There, you get that camera off me turn that camera round.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh best song in the world. Oh yeah, hey, our
too and Cold two and O Colts are in Tennessee
this afternoon one o'clock kickoff against the Titans. I'm Terry.
That's Danny. Kylon Tally is here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Did you get some good sleep last night?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh yeah, typical, I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, difficult before.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
At four o'clock in the morning. So I can you
say you get a lot of sleep?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, I just want to ask you because this is
very interesting, Denny AMERI sleep surveyed one thousand Americans, and
what they found out in this study is one in
five Americans are dreaming about AI and sixteen percent experience
AI related dreams multiple times per month. Ninety three percent
of Americans have chat GPT induced nightmares, and nearly one
(01:29):
in four gen zers have dreamed about artificial intelligence, with
one in six dreaming about losing their jobs to AI.
What kid, AI?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I am not dreaming it, Kylan, Are you dreaming AI?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I have not?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Nope, not. Yeah, you worrying? Are you dreaming about something
with AI?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I still dream I still dream about high school?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I do.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Do you know? But I'll be dog going if I'm
dreaming about artificial and cinemination?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Artificial intelligent? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, I wonder where you were going? Well, that would
be maybe that is around the corner.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh no, oh dear, what kind of world are we
living in?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And they listen here On another note, The Strong Museum,
the Strong National Museum of Play, has unveiled the twelve
finalists reduction into its National Toy Hall of Fame, and
this year's contenders are Battleship. Oh you like that one?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I Love I Love that game that was a strategy.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Game, Connect four.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't know that was more difficult as simple as
that one was supposed to be. I always got my
butt by Mitch Foyd.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yep. It causes a lot of arguments between my friends
when we're playing. It's not it's our monopoly.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, here's another contender, Ferby corn Hole the scooter slime
snow okay, but Denny spirograph is in there. Maybe Spiergraph
spirograph every least. Oh, I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It was all these called wheels, and you can make
the Neda's designs. Yeah, Terry about the slime, how many
times did you get the green slime in your hand
and act like you sneezed and then drop it on
the table.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
First. Every kid has a spiral graph. Yes, I had one.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I didn't know that's what I was called. This is
really cool, all the geometric patterns so you can create. Hey,
talking about play real quick. There's a new little cafe opened.
It's called Storybook Play Cafe in Greenwood. It's got coffee
and snacks, but it's got an indoor play area for
toddlers and young kids.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It's free.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
It's just open, really cute, little space, cool, very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Listen, if you want to vote, and I didn't give
you all the nominees, but if you want to vote,
because that's how they do it. You need to get
your vote in now for the National Toy Hall of
Fame finalists. Pick yours favorites September twenty fourth, get that
in by then that date. You can get your ballot
at Toy Hall of Fame dot org. Also one more note,
you guys, did you hear the Hobknob Corner restaurant in
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Nashville decided to close down.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, they didn't get the lease renewed. I don't know
what was going on there, but that's been there for
what thirty years?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
A long time. The doors, they're closing the doors after
nearly fifty years of opening and operating in downtown Nashville.
It's part of our Look, y'all are getting ready to
do the Nashville thing, I'll bet you. And this is
just one of those great places that is now saying
we can't do it anymore right there on Main Street.
Since nineteen seventy nine, sad news. The Cole family is
saying we're going to shut those doors and I think
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they're going to close. I don't have the closing date,
but pretty quick here second week of November. There, it
is second week of November. Hey, we got to take
a break. Guys, We're going to do that. I'm watching
the clock very carefully. We've got a run. We've got
a great guest coming up next, Little Wishes. That's all
I'll say here as we continue on the first day
on ninety three. WIBC. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month,
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and joining us now is Liz Lowenstein, the founder of
the Little Wish Foundation, which brings joy and comfort to
kids that are battling cancer by granting them a little Wish. Liz,
thank you so much for spending time with us. Today.
The Little Wish Foundation is celebrating fifteen years rooted right
here in Indiana. I think we all want to know,
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how did it begin?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Yeah, so, I can't believe it's been fifteen years. It's
absolutely amazing. It's been such an awesome, incredible journey. I
started this when I was just sixteen years old in
high school, and I actually I attended the wake of
a seven year old boy named Max.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He was my fifth.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Grade teacher's son and that day just forever changed my life.
I truly could not walk away from that day and
experience and not do nothing. So I kind of just
had this stream in my heart to help other kids
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going through cancer, like my friend mac Dad and bring
them joy in a little way that I could as
a teen through a Little Wish. So Max's like last
little wish before passing was actually a puppy and his
parents got him that and he loves his little puppy,
Chewy so much. And that's really the inspiration behind doing
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Little Things was remembering Max's last little wish, that puppy.
So you know, since then, that's been the fire behind
us continuing on all these years later, and that's our beginning.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
At just fifteen years old. You know, how would you
describe the core mission of the Little Wish Foundation, Well.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
We bring hope, comfort and joy to kids going through cancer, so,
you know, simply put, what we do is bring our
Little Wish gifts and it's of the child's choosing. They can,
you know, really pick kind of whatever they'd like, and
we bring joy and hope and comfort during their really
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difficult time because, as everyone knows, cancer is incredibly difficult
and oftentimes very long journey. So we want to be
that distraction that picked me up and just that boosts
and a friend to them during that time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Liz, what has been the most unexpected lesson that you've
learned on this journey?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Well, you know, something that we've we've said all these
years is live life to the max. And you know
it's attributing that back to my friend Max, but live
bas to the max and that just couldn't be more
true in doing this. It's absolutely every single day, don't
take it for granted and live life to the max.
(07:49):
Oh my gosh, I love that. Yeah, just simply put.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So, how do you find or connect with kids that
are a candidate for being granted a little wish? Know?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
So we have kind of like partnered with nineteen different
children's hospitals now in a lot of states, and so wow,
we've you know, so going back to the first question
of you know what our thing challenge is, Well, you know,
we're a small team. My mom and I started this
truly like out of our out of our home, and
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you know we're still doing it together today, which is
super amazing. And that just that alone, But you know,
I think when you are a small team. Ultimately, that
can be difficult when you're trying to do something big
and trying to sustain something and create kind of a
roadmap to sustained throughout the years, and you know, keeping
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in mind I was a teenager starting this. It's like
all of those challenges of being a young adult trying
to find your own way and going through you know,
school and college and trying to do this as well,
because you know, I didn't want to go away. I
wanted to keep it going. So I think trying to
sustain something that we just saw such potential in and
(09:08):
I had this big dream for it, I think that
was difficult. But you know, adding in the times and
just our ever changing in our world as you know,
going through COVID, going through different economic things, and just
honestly just any type of nonprofit or business, you know,
it's inevitable to have ups and downs, and so it's yeah,
(09:33):
it's been it's been a challenge for sure, but it's
been a fun challenge in a way because you know,
finding your people along that way that just support you
no matter what and believe in your mission has been amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
This is Liz Lowenstein. She is the founder of the
Little Wish Foundation, and we'll make sure that you know
all about her and how you can find out where
to connect with her before we end our conversation. But
before we do that, Liz, how did the Little Wish
Foundation go from a local effort to a national nonprofit?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Oh? Boy, well, yeah, So my hometown is Michigan City, Indiana.
That's where I'm from. That's where a Little Wish started
when I was just in high school with my mom,
and I ended up coming to Beller University in Indianapolis,
and that's kind of what brought us to Indy. And
also the fact that Riley Hospital was really becoming, you know,
(10:29):
our most prominent wish granting hospital during that time, so
it kind of just followed to that way. But oh,
you know, I really believed and I explained a Little
Wish as like a small, you know, homegrown nonprofit with
small routs, and we do that type of fundraising truly,
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we feel like that is the most effective and a
nonprofit of our fives at least. And then honestly, we
kind of just triedlicating that and the other studies we
went to, so doing fundraising in some of those cities.
But you know, Pridmarily just keeping it in Indianapolis is
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our base. That's just kind of been a formula that's
worked for us. So, you know, I've traveled around to
all these different hospitals in these states and established you know,
relationships with those hospitals and have made so many friends
along the way, and you know, you kind of just
build from there.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Have you been able to stay in touch with any
of the children or the families over time.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Oh, of course, yeah, we we do. You know, we
never put pressure on or expect anything. You know, we're
very a an organization where we understand, you know, the
time and it's sensitive for everyone involved, so we want
to respect that and we really leave it up to
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the families as they would like to stay connected with
us or not.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Yeah, but of course we've certainly along the way we've
made forever friends a lot of our Little Wish families.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yes, you know, I just bet this work has changed
you too.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Oh, only in every way possible.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I can only imagine that it has. What is your
vision for the foundation as you look down the road.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Well, you know, it's funny that you say a vision,
because our vision for Little Wish is every child everywhere
deserves their little wish. So that's been the vision from
day one, and I'm really happy and proud that fifteen
years later, that is still our vision and still my
personal vision. You know what I would like to see
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with Little Wish, I would I would love to see
every child everywhere get their little wish. Yeah. And you know, unfortunately,
it's like cancer is not going anywhere. And you know,
we had no idea, yea, what childhood cancer would look
like fifteen years down the road. Fifteen years ago. You know,
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of course, you hope that it goes away or you know,
there's and while there's certainly advances in medicine and lots
of hope now through science, it's not gone away. It's
you know, only becoming almost more prominent. Yeah, And so
you know, we just want to keep bringing that joy
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because it's the least we could do. I felt like,
at the end of the day, it's the least we
could do to be a friend for someone going through
something terrible like this, and let's be a little bright
light in their life.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The Little Wish Foundation celebrating fifteen years granting wishes to
kids diagnosed with cancer. How many wishes have you granted.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Oh boy, We've granted like over four thousand, three hundred wishes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That's incredible. Little Wishes Foundation has able to do that
thanks to donations. Need support to keep the organization running.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
You know, it's it's Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I think
that's one thing that everyone could do that's free is
follow Little Wish Foundation on our Instagram and on our Facebook.
Follow us along on our journey as we highlight other
kids that are just such great goal warriors, you know,
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engaging with us in positive ways that help boost us
up and help get our name out. That is something
free and amazing that we're really fortunate we can do
in this day and age. But of course we need donations.
This is how we're able to continue on and it's
how we're able to keep granting wishes. So our website
(14:44):
Little Wish Foundation dot org. Definitely going to that website
and reaching out.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It is your calling. I believe that. Liz Lowenstein, the
founder of the Little Wishes Foundation, it is Childhood Cancer
Awareness Month. This foundation has been granting little wishes to
children battling cancer for fifteen years. Little Wish Foundation is
now a national nonprofit which started right here in Indy
Little Wish Foundation dot org if you can help in
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any way and remember them during this upcoming season of giving. Liz,
thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Oh, thank you so much for having me and allowing
me to share our story. And it's a big that
makes all the difference for us. So thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Well, take a break. It's the first Day ninety three WIBC.
Welcome back to the First Day ninety three WIBC. I'm
Terry Kylan. Denny Smith is here too. Also want to
mention Charlie Kirk being remembered and celebrated today at State
Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, and it is President Trump
obviously will be there. Several members of his cabinet will
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speak at the memorial. Vice President Advance Secretary of State
Marco Rubio, Robert F. Kennedy, Junior Pete Hegseth will be
there at TOLCI Gabbard all speaking. If you can imagine
the secure already, this will probably be the most safest
place in the world at that moment. During this memorial,
which begins at one o'clock, I know it will be
(16:08):
also a streamed live on multiple multiple platforms. So again,
Charlie Kirk remembered today and celebrated beginning at one o'clock
this afternoon. Denny Smith, we want to ask you, and
we talked to you a little bit about this earlier
during Dollars and Cents, But the Feds made some cuts
this week and people seem to be overjoyed. And you
have a little bit of different take on it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, I've been reading a lot Terry Lynn, and one
of the guys I really like to read is a
fellow by the name of Ed Dowd. And Ed was
I'll tell you how good Ed was. Ed called the
debacles in so many stocks. Remember Enron? He called that
almost nine months ahead and got his company used to
work for black Rock, and he got them all out
(16:50):
of it just about the time it fell. But he's
a brilliant mind. Now he's been sharing with a lot
of people that were way behind the curve. And although
the Fed did cut a quarter of a percent this week,
it really is a spit in the bucket, and it
should have been done maybe nine months ago, and maybe
as much as a half a point nine months ago.
(17:11):
So they said that we can expect two more rate cuts.
But here's what this Fortells housing makes up about thirty
six percent of the economy, and we're going to see
inflation go lower because the housing report that was put out,
all the indicators are rolling over. And that doesn't mean
necessarily Indiana or Indianapolis, but nationally, we're going to have
(17:35):
a housing recession. And if that makes up thirty six
percent of the economy, you know we can expect some
a two percent sub two percent inflation. And that's been
the goal of the FED forever. So why they waited
so long? I argue with President Trump all the time,
but I think he got this one right. Those rascals
in the FED, who are I'm not their fan in
(17:56):
any way. I said this earlier. They're not federal, they're
not a re they're not a bank. They're a privately
held corporation that is fleecing the American public. And they
got no business setting rates. That should be the Treasury
or that should be free market. But anyway, I think
inflation is going to be coming down. And uh, once again,
the Fed's too late to the.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Party, even with a couple more cuts coming right.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Even with a couple Yeah, they're just late. They should
have done them so long till too late.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Even with made they're saying by the end of the year, right,
maybe a couple more cuts, yes.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And they'll stage those out. There might be one in October,
then there might be one in late November. But you know,
with interest rates topping and falling and the housing market downturn,
and the biggest one, those rascals at the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, they have been either lying or they're just
so freaking incompetent. They reduced the jobs report by almost
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a million jobs, nine hundred and eleven thousand.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And I don't know. That's statistical fraud. And when your
government lies to you through the Department of Labor Statistics,
it can't be good. But this panic rate cut cycle
is going to be similar to two thousand and seven,
in two thousand and nine when we had the subprime
conflicts where people were borrowing money that shouldn't been.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So Denny, do you think that maybe do you think
that this is a good time to maybe, I mean
when when people buying houses and people buying cars and
that sort of thing. Yes, jump on this or.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Well, it depends on what stage of life. If I
was the ky Lin's age, I'd be getting into a house.
If I were an empty nester and trying to decide
when to sell the house, I'd be getting it on
the market pretty quick. It just depends on where you
are in life now. Terry Lynn, you want to get
your dream you know, little house on the prairie and
cabin in the woods, do you bet?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Jah?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So, I would say, talk to a good realtor who
can sort of coach you through that. But everybody's different
based on the stage of life. If you're getting ready
to start a family, you're starting getting married, you need
a house. But I will say this, I will predict
that apartments are going to go down in price.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh that's awesome to here. We'll keep watching all right,
Guinny Paul, thank you for that. We're going to take
a break, just a few more minutes left of the
first day. We'll be back ninety three. WIBC Master Chef
All Star Live is coming to Indianapolis on Tuesday, October
seventh at the Old National Center, featuring fan favorite contestants
(20:18):
from the Master Chef franchise, including our guests Kylin. We've
got Rachel Sanchez and Julio Figuerreio, finalists from Master Chef
Dynamic Duos, and how are you guys? Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Of course, we are so happy to be here with
you guys. Thank you for having us today.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So much for the indigation. Hello Indi Anapolis.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You're gonna be here before you know it. But I'm
a big fan. Kylon is a big fan. Over the summer,
we're able to watch you. To you a married couple
from Naples, Florida and competing in Chef Gordon Ramsay's Master
Chef duo. Both of you have in common the fact
that your grandmothers were the culinary journey That's where your
culinary journeys began. But Julia, how did the two of
(21:04):
you meet?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Is a great story. So I used to be a
the general manager of a Mexican restaurant in Fort Myers
Beach and right after a was during COVID. Actually we
needed a new bartender and I ended up interviewing Rachel
for the position. And she was great, you know, she
was loving, personable, She knew how to speak Spanish in English,
(21:27):
which helped a lot. She was, you know, great at
what she did. She's beautiful, as you know bartenders. That
definitely helped, you know, having a beautiful bartender and I
hired her for the position, you know, and from their owner.
We started talking and you know, getting to know each other.
And I promise I had no second intentions when I
(21:48):
hired her. I love it happened.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Such a great story. All right, let's talk about Master
Chef Do Rachel. On a scale of one to ten,
how difficult was the casting process to even get in?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Oh, it's not difficult to do, but it's a lot.
It's long. It's a long process. And you know I
tried three times before before the casting process that we
actually got in. So I applied four times to get
in the show. So for me, it was amazing because
I've been fun of the show for so long. I
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watched every single season, every single episode, many many times,
and it was a dream of mine to be in
the competition. So every time that I applied that I
couldn't get in, I was sad. And when we finally
it had the chance, it was long and tiring, but
you know, I was happy because every step closer, you know,
it was my dream right there, I could see it.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
If we could give a tip to anybody listening right
now that would love to apply, take pictures of your food,
anything that you make take pictures of because in the
casting process you've got to send a lot of photos
and videos of you cooking, of the food you make,
and they love that.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Do you want to Rachel if I can, I want
to let everybody know because when Rachel moved here to
this country, she experienced what so many of us do,
and that's anxiety, and it also had some pianic attacks
and I can't imagine how you control that with the
stress of cooking in a competition, especially on TV.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
So actually, you know, coming to this country with a
seting panic attacks, it didn't help. You know, all the
pressure that not know in a language and the change
of the system that it comes with it, and watching
the show was one of those things that helped me
come down from it. Now, being in the competition it
was a whole different story because you know, you are
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in a really fast environment. You know the clock it's
running down, but before that, you don't know what the
judge is gonna throw at you. So of course there
is a lot of stress involved, and you know, having
juliub with me definitely helped a lot, kind of like
going down a little bit down, but yeah, it was
(24:02):
definitely a lot of anxiety. I did not have like attacks,
let's say, because you know, I've been getting better and
better with the years and some third but obviously you
know the fear of doing something wrong or you know,
failing my community. It was there all the time until
(24:23):
the club started, you know, like going on at the
clubs started running down. I forgot about everything focused on
the cooking, and then well we were like hands up.
Then it came back again. That never left my body.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
This is Rachel and Julia. They're coming from Master Chef
Dynamic Duos to Master Chef All Stars Live October seventh,
seven pm at the Old National Center, ticket Masters where
you get your where you can get your tickets or
at master Chef Live Tour dot com Kyland.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Master Chef All Stars Live is a live cooking competition
with audience participation. Julio, can you explain this this style
and format that you guys will be taking on on
October seventh?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
One hundred percent. So we're trying to mimic what happens
in the show. We want people to feel what actually
you know, goes on into a day of shooting any
episode of Master Chef. We want you to see the
the clock running down, the pressure tests that we have
throughout the competition, some mystery things happening. You know, there
are so many nuances of the show that we're trying
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to bring to a life, to a live performance for
people to get the feeling of what Master Chef really is.
And perhaps it's going to give them, you know, that
little something to apply, be like, Hey, I think I
can do this. You know I can handle bord On Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Hey, listen, what's one of speaking of Rachel, what's one
of the biggest lessons you learned from Chef Gordon Ramsey.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh boy, There's so many, but I feel like there
is one that always stuck with me. It's do not
work with them ins sake. If you see that something
is not going right, don't keep on working on top
of that. Just scratch it, put it aside and start again.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He would make me cry just looking at me the
wrong way. Julia, what did you take away from from
dynamic duos and from also from working with really one
of those those legends now, Chef Gordon Ramsay.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You know, it's funny because Rachel as a big fan
of Gordon, she always been, and I always told her
that I thought he was overrated until I really met
him and saw his leadership. He has such an aura
about him that you know, he commends respect with just
the way he presents himself. He's such a leader, a
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master teacher. You know, he wanted to make us look
good the whole time, and what you see on TV,
you know he's a lot different. You know, behind the cameras,
he's very sweet. He's trying to make you look good.
He's always trying to teach you something. So I think
that everybody that gets close to greatness like him, you
become a better person and definitely a better professional.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Thailand, Rachel, I'm curious because you guys being a married couple,
I'm sure it's so easy to get frustrated with each
other in that stressful, high pressure scenario.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
How do you keep it?
Speaker 5 (27:14):
How do you keep it positive or like spice it
up in your relationship to keep you guys successful.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
So you know, that's a great question because you know
and I as Loon, as we started dating, we build
that relationship based on a lot of communication and effect.
And we of course we argue, you know, like any
other couple, but we say what is wrong in a
nice manner, and if whatever is happening, we put it
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out there before it starts to build that until that
is no more like nice way to put it right. So,
of course, in that moment, with a lot of stress
and pressure, anything can go wrong. You know, I might
make a mistake or he might But communication and respect
that's the base of everything for us.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
And also adding to that, I think is understanding the
moment you're in. You cannot take things personal, you know,
Like we had a lot of pressure moments during the
show that if if Rachel, you know, shouted at something
at me, I could not say. I could not think
at that moment that she was trying to hurt me personally.
But it's because hey, we're under a time pressure. We
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have things to get done. So now, if you're going
to take everything personal, you're not going to get past
the point of understanding the other person or being appreciative
of the moment. So I think we handled that very well,
and that's what we try to do in our day lives.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I do want to find out, because you know the
show itself, what did that do for you? I guess
career wise, Rachel. I'll start with you, after being on
the show, what happened next.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Well for me, you know, it was fulfully in a dream.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Like I said, I was always a fan.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
And being you know, a part of the cousin being
on the show, I could fulfill that dream of mine.
Now after that, back home, I run a baking business.
I do custom cakes and theserch tables you know, as
my business, and of course it has helped a lot
on that luckily, people you know, us getting to know
(29:17):
me more. And besides that, many many people are asking
me about, you know, how to do this or that
or Julie and I decided to start something new and
soon we're going to be launching baking and cooking classes
online as well as all workshops for the locals. So
that definitely is helping a lot because we're getting a
(29:38):
lot of the sposure and people getting to know us
and have a little more like appreciation and respect and
also you know, inspiring other people to learn from us.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
And you know, that's so great, Julio. For you, is
it kind of fun being a superstar? I mean, people
recognize you. I'm sure has changed for you since being
on the show.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
You know, this is very something, very interesting because yesterday
was our very first show with the tour, right, Yeah,
and we hadn't Richelde had not experienced this same yet
because you know, our season is still going on. The
finales tonight.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Actually yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
And yesterday the VAP guests, she started crying, you know
when she saw all of us, and that hit me.
Was the moment that hit me like, wow, you know,
people really enjoy seeing us on TV and they were
really cheering for us. It was such a heartfelt moment,
you know, to have that love from from the audience,
from somebody that really want us to do well and
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continue pursuing our dreams that you know, this store is
definitely gonna I feel like this store is definitely gonna
give me a lot of those moments. And I'm very
thankful and blessed to have this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Hope please kind of go ahead.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
With this tour of Master Chefs All Star live cast
member lineup. You're gonna have audience Q and A sessions
and then someone from the Eye and so we'll have
the opportunity to be your Sooe chef. Can you talk
about that and how it's been so far.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, So people are getting the VIP tickets, they're gonna
be able to have a few Q and A with us,
with Jeron, Michael, Rachel and myself. We're going to be
answering questions that they might have, taking pictures, and some
of them will be chosen to be our soo chefs,
you know. So they're gonna have some personal time close
ups with us. They're going to be cooking with us
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as well, So it's gonna be really fun.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's gonna be so fun. We cannot wait. Rachel Sanchez
and Julio Figuretto, oh, I hope I did it right.
Master from Master Chef Dynamic, do as be watching them
on Fox. October seventh is when they'll be here seven pm.
Get your tickets at mastercheflivetour dot com or at ticket master.
Luck to you both. We can't wait to see you
(31:50):
when you come to ND.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Thank you so much for having us. And also if
you wanna, if you're hearing us and you want to
get a couple of free tickets, you can go in
our social media, The Fire Cooks and comment in our
last post see what you have to do again? Those
to free take it from us.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Please follow these guys at the Fiery Cooks. Thanks so
much for having us.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
We really appreciate it. We appreciate everybody. Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Hey, we've got to run. Thanks so so much, it
was so much fun, great show. Thank you all so
much for joining. And enjoy your last day of summer.
Oh please, yes, you enjoyed that last day of summer.
And we'll catch you here next week. Right here on
the first day. The news is next ninety three w IBC.
This is our comes, this is our team.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
We go home, Goles, this is we.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
We're gonna tell you go figure too. Oh my gosh,
please sitance hey, cam more. This is our team.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
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