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October 28, 2025 14 mins
(And Adam Tuss.)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you allowed to be here?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Or no?

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Yeah, oh you aren't. Oh then come over here.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
You think I just came in here to watch you guys, Say.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
No, I didn't know. You just came and came by it.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Thank you for having me?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah? No, but I didn't know if you could talk
on the radio. I didn't know if top would get mad.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
No. I mean they don't really own me. Neither is INBC,
so I just got to float around.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You know you, Lauren Ricketts is here. How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I I'm so happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
How this is the part that makes no sense to me.
How have you never been in this been in this room.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
I've never been in this room. And you know how
long I've been listening since you guys got on air.
I mean literally since because my parents we grew up
listening to w MTQ every morning as.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Soon every d a horrible morning show.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
And I wasn't a big country fan, but that's all
we listened to. And then when as soon as I
got was able to drive, you guys were on the air.
And this is early two thousands, so when I was
commuting back and forth DC internships and then college, I
went to school in Richmond, and you guys were on
one O two point one exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Look how that good? How it works?

Speaker 6 (01:02):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
So as soon as you were able to drive and
smoke on your own.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, that's exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
But I sound like I've had a couple of cigrets before.
But it things been good. When when did you get back?
I feel we talked to you when you got back. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I came back from Prague May first, So I was
there for about three and a half years.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
May first of this year.

Speaker 7 (01:23):
No, oh god, that's it's only been since May.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's I feel like it was last bay.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I left in twenty twenty two and I got back
this year, so twenty twenty five first.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah, and we even extended a little bit. So three
and a half years I was over there.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Dude, I feel like, don't do you feel like it's
been longer than Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, no, it.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Really does, probably because NBC keeps having me on. Thank goodness,
they gave me my job back, and they were just like, here.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Were you shocked?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I was? I was.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
They're so good to me. They were awesome to me.
This is the best station I've ever worked for.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Were were other people there like you're kidding mee right.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
They were like pulling for me.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
I think, honestly, I think it was like a I mean,
we're all I think it comes off when you're watching us.
We're all friends. So like they were really pushing.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Our boss, friends with everybody in the building. Everyone. Oh no,
these people I'm good with. I'm friends with everybody in
the building. You can you can hear that.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I can, I can feel it.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
But no.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
But that's nice though, because most places that wouldn't happen.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
After three and a half years, you're and.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
A half year hiatus to go and trample around Europe.
Yeah it was great. I mean, my husband was working, I.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
Wasn't you, but you were on mom duty. You were
on mom I was on mom duty.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Mom was also having a good time too. Yeah it
looked like it.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
It was Prague awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Prague was amazing, absolutely amazing. I got stuff for you.
That's why I wanted to come in today.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh wait, you brought a gift, guest, better be more
than five bucks.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Like, I've never worked on the in radio before, but
you probably can't because my voice carries Yes, that's why
I wanted to come in.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Elliott I had no idea.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
So I had this made for you.

Speaker 7 (02:57):
Oh you go.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I haven't even taken it out of the bubble wrap yet.
Do you know what that is?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, but I don't know. Can I say what it is?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (03:06):
What do you mean any Can you say it's a
nesting doll?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, that's not what I was going to call.

Speaker 7 (03:13):
You don't know what nesting dolls are?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's not the name I know it by.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
Oh really, I don't even know what do you know by? Something? Offenses?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I think so well, I don't know. I don't know
what I'm supposed to call it?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
The gypsy nesting dolls?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, oh my god, Lauren, please they already canceled us earlier. Wait,
so but I don't know what I do with this.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
So it's well, there's a whole bunch of them in there,
and so it's all the best players from the Caps
over the years, Washington Capitals.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I had those made.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
You have these?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Mad?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
These made?

Speaker 4 (03:40):
There's a and progue. There's a place that does these.
They're called Russian nesting dolls. There's a place that does these,
and they have every sport and so you can get
a maid and I got a whole bunch of them
for myself, just being a fan. But then I was like, oh,
Elliott needs one of these, so you gotta veatchkin on
the top.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
And it got I don't want to break twist it.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
You won't break them. There you go, and then.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
And bop it and oh, oh she very good.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
God, this is awesome. This is Oh my god. How
small did they get? Backstrom? She said, who's the bitty one?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:18):
And Wilson. Yeah, that's awesome, great good.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I'm glad you like it. And I got Diane Tyler,
you have a little bit of this too, although.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I realize looking around you guys have so much unopened
alcohol in here. So this is from Ukraine and it's
called piano Wishna piano Wishna, and it is so there
is what does it really call?

Speaker 1 (04:42):
You have no idea what you're saying, no idea what.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I don't even know I'm pronouncing that correctly.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
So it's like the best bowl of cherries that you
get in like July summertimes that juice squeezed out and
it's alcohol, but it is so smooth, it's so good,
and you can heat it up in the wintertime oh
it's so good.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
So it's from Ukraine, from Leviv.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
Do you drink it like a why do you drink it? Like?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Like so my dad will have a burb or my
dad my husband will have a Bourbon and I'll usually
pour one of those. You can't get that, Yeah, you
can't get that except for like Central and Eastern Europe,
so they only have that's so I got that one
in Latvia.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
But yeah, so there you go the.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Way you sounding like, oh, I was there, you.

Speaker 7 (05:23):
Know, I just you know, over to Paris.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
My extensive travels were Winchester, d C.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
And rischmol and Bristol, Tennessee, not Virginia. I crossed the border.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Like you're a Godzian world traveler.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
But like, I've never been to Paris, so like there
is that.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
I've been lot Via places and Poland, you know.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
But it was awesome. It wasn't as cool as Slovenia.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
You guys were talking about the Slovenian NBC having candy.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
That was the coolest place I've ever seen in my
entire life. Slovenia.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Remember you've been into Winchester.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
On a list, I wouldn't even I wouldn't even even
put that down.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, it's great, it's beautiful. And also, hi to Winchester.
Those are my You have so many fans out Winchester
by the way, very nice people, yes, very very nice people.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Exactly were you were you? Were you a Were you
the Queen Apple Blossom?

Speaker 6 (06:19):
Queen?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
The Queen?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
My parents aren't famous, so I was a princess. I
wasn't even only like a celebrity that gets to be
only it's like a celebrity's daughter. What was Missy w
rent because her parents ain't famous?

Speaker 7 (06:30):
Was she a princess or princess?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
And there's maids? Is she from Winchester? What's her name?

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Last name is Rents?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh, I should know her, but I don't.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, well she wouldn't have been queen.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
She princess?

Speaker 7 (06:42):
Who've been the queen's then? Who've been the famous queens?

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'd have to look it up. Now you guys ask.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
What are they from Winchester? They bring someone in Martin daughter?

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Was there one time when I was a Winchester Yeah recently? Yeah,
Dan Ackward's wife is from from New Winchester, Donna Dixon.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
But who is Rudy what's his name? Sean Aston?

Speaker 4 (07:03):
He's both of his daughters have been she was the
last queen last year.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, he's the president of Union.

Speaker 8 (07:11):
But he keeps coming.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Rudy keeps coming back because he loves Winchester because amazing.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
So, but like I got the little wave and everything,
and what are the dudes?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
The dudes are stags right.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
No, there's no guys. There's little pages for boys, but there's.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Maybe that's what I was thinking of.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, there's a stag luncheon.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
You need to come out to that.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
I've never been invited.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Isn't that like just like cigars and bourbon cigars, bourbon
beer and it's all like hooking up?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, well are they?

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Like who's hooking up are during the lunch? Isn't it
all the stags and the princesses? No, No, that's what
I thought it was. I thought it was a big
hook up separate, I know.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, I I never went to the stag lunch and
when I was a princess, Your.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Husband's gotta be a.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
We need them paycheck. But no, he no, there's no. Yeah,
it's a big party for men, gotcha, gotcha? And then
the women have a bloomer's luncheon. So that's their thing. Yeah,
you need to come out to win chest.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
But are you okay?

Speaker 5 (08:12):
But now that you're back, you're not You're not pulling
out again sometime soon.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Nope.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm here for the foreseeable future.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, you guys get to hear me L four and
my laugh, And I get so excited.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
When people get upset about your laugh because they get
so angry at mine.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh boy, I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
They like tell me to like calm down and like,
you know, bring it down a couple levels.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Which I don't know how to do. So like I'm
just like, yeah, so you Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:36):
I just love it when I when I turn on
the news early on Sunday morning, if I'm up early,
and I'm.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Like, oh yeah, it's ricks here we go. That barely
gets on air.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Sometimes I have to anchor it TuS my boy.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
News with no credibility.

Speaker 7 (08:51):
How did his dancing go?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh that's right? How did he do?

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I think he did?

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Really?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
What I saw an Instagram thing that he got.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Uh, he was a champion and he danced to Did
he win it?

Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think so?

Speaker 6 (09:05):
No?

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Way asked him the other day, let me see what
he wrote me?

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Would you have his number?

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, I have his number. Do you want to call him?

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Write it down? This is where he gets pissy. I
need to get clearance.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
I can go get coffee before he goes on. Remember
last time Kristen called him.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Oh that's right. Yeah, he needed coffee, he needed clearance.
I don't want the bonds man.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's not a.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Philly Okay, yeah, give him a call.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
He should be listening.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
It'll be my hands.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Nine one.

Speaker 8 (09:57):
H Hello, Adam Tuss.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, Hey, it's Elliott. How are you okay?

Speaker 6 (10:18):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Buddy?

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Hey, don't cuss. You're on the air, and don't don't
be mad. Lauren Ricketts is here. She said, it was
okay that I call you.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, no, we were trying to. I was trying to.
It was very kind.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
I got your invite to the Dancing with the Stars
in DC thing, did you?

Speaker 1 (10:35):
But I don't know what happened.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Well, I didn't win. There's that.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Oh Lauren said that you that you were a champion.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, she was like, Tuss one, let's call it.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
I'm a champion in many people's heart, but not of
the actual competition.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
Yeah, is it is the person I don't know who won?

Speaker 1 (11:03):
I also don't know who you what?

Speaker 7 (11:05):
What song did you dance to?

Speaker 6 (11:08):
So I went old school and I danced to pump
up the gym member technotronics.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Oh of course I do basketball.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Know what was going on.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
We had a whole thing. We had a we had
a whole routine. We had It was like a story
like I was a sports star. I used a prop,
I had a basketball. I dribbled the basketball effectively. I
hit every dance move. I felt really good about it,
and then the scores came in and they weren't exactly.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Where I wanted to.

Speaker 6 (11:45):
I listened Elliott Elliott, and I can't believe Lauren had
you sneak attack me like this.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
By the way, thank you, Lauren.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Listen. You know how sports stars will say, like, and
I'm not comparing myself to a sports star, but you
know how sports athletes will say, like, I left it
all out there on the field. Yeah, like, I left
it all out there. I gave it everything I had. Unfortunately,
unfortunately that was good for two eighths and one to seven.
Two eights and one seven.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
By the way, that's not bad, dude, for I thought
you were gonna stay like, Oh, I gave it everything,
and I got a four two and a one.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
Yeah. Well, considering though the person right before me got
three tens, it was a hard act to follow. It
was that, it was a really hard act to following
a dude.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
That sucks. That sucks. But you guys raised me now,
but you know what, yes, go ahead. Oh it was fun.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
It it does.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
It was fun. My family was there, like my fifteen
year old daughter was there cheering me on my mom.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Like, it was fun.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
It was a good time. And the most important thing
is that, like people raised a lot of money. I mean,
like hundreds of thousands of dollars we raised for charity,
so that that's the most important thing.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, no, that's great. That's great.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
And I'm sure on a on a Saturday night, your
fifteen year old was like, no, this is exactly what
I want.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Awesome, this is what I'm looking forward to doing.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
He couldn't have gotten out of their path. He really couldn't.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, congratulations, I'm not winning.

Speaker 6 (13:10):
Thank you, Elliott. I really appreciate it. And Lauren, I
so appreciate you. You making Elliott call me right now,
Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right, Tuss, we'll talk to you later. Thank you,
Thank bye York. All right, so, yeah, he didn't win.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Sorry, I'm sorry, totally lied everybody. I was like, yeah,
you went, That's how I do my weather too.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah right, all right, all right, Lauren, I have to
do real work now. Okay, thank you for the gift.
You are certainly well.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Can I mention one thing? Can I mention my charity
real quick?

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (13:40):
I know?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Is it like some like arrow through the head and stupid?

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Somebody just asked me about him, which we renamed Predator
my cat.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Whoa dude renamed the animal we.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Did during COVID because my husband was like, we can't
have a cat named Cupid or he was like, oh
you know the caut name Cupid. So he was COVID,
so we renamed him and we renamed him Predator.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, Yes, but I wasn't aware of your charity.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
It's so called Lee in Action, and it's to give
breathment boxes for mothers. After this is good to totally
bring everything down stillborn burs and miscarriacters. Well, at least
laugh through it because I'm on the board. But anyway,
I mean I can laugh about things now, but it's
really sad. But again we have a charity event on

(14:24):
November eighth at extenbar Arling ten. So again I'll put
more my more information about it on my socials.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
That's for you.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
So we started that in DC and we're all hospitals
all the DC, Maryland, Virginia, all over the United States,
in three different countries.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
That's awesome. So good for you. That's very nice, guys.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Thank you for having me too. It's been a life
long dream because I'm a big fan, serious.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Dream higher I said that, bar I gotta work. I
gotta work. Go back down, back down,
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