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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we got a special surprise for Anna coming
in the studio. It is her thirtieth birthday on Sunday,
and we got to sing Anna, Happy Birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You guys want to sing Anna?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Match first.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
I've never done this.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
This is such a good cake.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Wait, do you know how to do it? I? Got cha,
gotcha got thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Is It's gonna be amazing. Her family's all here, her mom,
her sister, her best friend's parents, family, her nephews.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
All Right, I like it, like it, like it. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
By the way, probably not a great idea in a
radio studio to have sparkling candles.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Day to you, Happy birthday, birthday, dear te.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hav me birthday to.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So fun fact, every Sunday when I go home to
have dinner with my family, we sing Happy Birthday to
Cooper every Sunday because he loves it so much. He
just likes us to sing Cooper.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Can we sing Happy Birthday to Cooper?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Let's do it? Started snoring starting? Ready, here we go? Ready, one, two, three.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Birthday Birthday to you?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Birthday?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Birthday?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
How old are you Cooper? With that many birthdays? What
are you like?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
One hundred? And five or what is it? My gosh,
you look so good? Is that thirty four? By the way,
you have a beautiful family, Anna.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We've heard so much about you. Guys. How much fun
is it to have your lives talked about on the radio?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Are you getting used to it?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Do you have friends and family that say, hey, I
heard your daughter's on the radio and I heard your
talking about something.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You can sit at the at the mic.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, come on, yeah, grab a seat, mom, grab a
seat right there so we can talk to you.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Well, Allison's a nurse and she gets a lot of
people texting her all the time saying things about Alison
touched me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
With Okay, she's married you you.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Gotta get taken on a stretcher to her hospital. Alison
touched me when she called up that morning and talked
about how the kids wanting to listen to their aunt
also helped her be able to get through, uh, some
postpartum that you were dealing with, right, and it got
you to get out of the house and and go
(02:51):
get in the car and drive the kids. So I
think that that, honestly was really special. That was a
special moment. So how are you doing with your daughter?
You you good with her, good.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
With her as having a little trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
We're finding out more things about her that in the
last five years that we haven't known.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But what's the craziest thing you've heard? Probably the tattoo
on the bum. Oh yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
My grandma came to me one day and said, you know, Allison,
I just don't like that that man slapped Anna. And
Anna was talking about crazy story.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, my grandma.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Grandma, That's what she She was like talking about that's
kind of stuff she likes.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And she's like, he needs to keep his hands off
of Can I tell you though?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And I think that this is actually by the way,
I feel like the fumes from that candle o that door,
that one as somebody who you know, I have a son,
Joe that is is Anna's age, and to see where
Anna is in her life and to see also where
my boys are. You guys should be very very proud
(03:57):
of the job that you've done raising her, but be
more proud of her because she she's done an amazing job.
Anna's actually very very talented, but talent only gets you
so far.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Hard work gets you there. That's how we ended up
hiring her.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It had nothing to do with the level of talent
that she had, because she doesn't have radio talent. It
was about how persistent she was, but also the efforts
that I saw her kind of doing for the people
that she was doing work for that made me go,
this is somebody that we need on our team. So
it must come from obviously somewhere, right.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Pops, Yeah here, so yeah, so it's good.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, it's Anna's thirtieth birthday this weekend, and Anna, what
is the big plans? Are you going to do a
Are you gonna do a white lake thing? I know
that this is the one thing Anna. When I go
home to Orland Park, Michigan, and I go back there,
I go through periods where I'm like, I cannot believe
this is where I'm from, because you know, you kind
of like, you know, Orland Park's very white lakeish. I mean,
(05:00):
it's like just a suburb of Chicago and stuff, Michigan, Illinois. Yes,
But when I go back there, there is times where
the innocence comes out in the remembrance of your past
and there's nothing to me. Sometimes they are better than
a great memory of a good time that you had
growing up. So are you going to spend time there.
Are you going to hang out with all the hustlers
(05:21):
in Detroit?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
All?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I'm doing a little bit of both. But Christmas is
right around the corner, so I'm going up there for
a couple of days. So we're going to meet in
the middle and we're going to get sushi for my birthday. Yes, Farming.
That's also where my dad's best friend lives, who I'm
close with. We're going to see him.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What do you want to do for your birthday?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Nothing? I don't know. I just want to chill. I'm
getting a facial and a massage tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
There are different kinds legitimate questions.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I don't know, just like a facial, a wood house
day spot.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, nice.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, So I'm chilling. I'm going out to brunch with
my friends tomorrow too.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So it's funny because I feel like birthdays are always
never really about the person whose birthday it is, and
it's not one of those things like some people are
really good with their birthdays where they're like they take
off work and that is she does stuff like that. Bianca,
by the way, is still posting, kid, She's still She's
got like twelve thousand birthday pictures. She still posting no
(06:27):
but no but beyond but am I talking about her?
I'm pared my eighty d is going crazy? I got hold?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Can I play with your toy? Yeah? WHOA so careful?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, but I I've never been the type of person
that have ever done the whole I'm taking off on
my birthday. I always hate my birthday because I don't
ever want to be the center of attention.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
As weird as that sounds, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm I'm sort of the same way. And also like
I'm thirty, which I don't know how I feel about.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So that's another reason why I'm telling me thirty thirty
is a good deck, like thirties are a good deck. Yeah,
Like I.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Think I feel good, But I'm also like, dang, it's
kind of old. Like in thirty more years, I'm going
to be my mom's age.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Come on, we got to rewire ourselves. Getting old should
be the goal. Yes, you know what I mean, Like,
that's what we're living for us to continue to living,
and hopefully you live well so that when you get
older you can really have.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Here's something for your mom. When you were thirty years old,
you had a family, didn't you have the time right
a family. So is it weird for you sometimes? Cause
it's weird for me, Like when I look at my kids,
Like when my kids turn twenty five and Chelsea and
I had two kids at that time. So I sat
there and I looked at it, and I want my
kids to push off having kids as late as possible
(07:37):
because we started, you know, way early. But I look
at it sometimes like I look at their lives and
sometimes I envy their lives.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I have a little bit of envy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, where you go and honestly, it's not that you
don't want your you want your kids to get have
a better life than you do, but you do have
this moment where you go, like, I do think that
there's a level in a And I look at you too,
like I look at you and I go, God, you have,
even though you may not sometimes always think that your
life is the greatest life.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You have a life that I would love to have.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I feel very blessed and very fortunate. I don't think
that I'm I'm not thinking that I have a blessed life,
like I do think that I think that I sacrificed
some things to get to this point. Absolutely, Yeah, Like
I talked about relationships like those are my two best friends, moms.
Those are two of the people that I've sort of
(08:30):
straight away from because I've been so focused on building
my career. So like there there's been given take with it,
but very blessed.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's how you get to the greatness.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
The road to greatness, you always have to cross the
street to sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And true friends and true friends honestly will come back
in any season of your life.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Absolutely and you'll pick up where you're left off. Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, So well, we're really proud of you. It's thirty
for you, and be honest with you, it's only downhill
from here.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No offense. I mean, seriously, look at mine in Shannon's life.
I mean, Shannon always gets thrown in. I would kill
for Shannon's life. I know you want to lay. You
want to lay at night with Wes? Is that what
I mean? Seriously, snuggler, that's what it is. Nobody dresses
like that man, So
All right, we got a special surprise for Anna coming
in the studio. It is her thirtieth birthday on Sunday,
and we got to sing Anna, Happy Birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You guys want to sing Anna?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Match first.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
I've never done this.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
This is such a good cake.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Wait, do you know how to do it? I? Got cha,
gotcha got thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Is It's gonna be amazing. Her family's all here, her mom,
her sister, her best friend's parents, family, her nephews.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
All Right, I like it, like it, like it. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
By the way, probably not a great idea in a
radio studio to have sparkling candles.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Day to you, Happy birthday, birthday, dear te.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hav me birthday to.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So fun fact, every Sunday when I go home to
have dinner with my family, we sing Happy Birthday to
Cooper every Sunday because he loves it so much. He
just likes us to sing Cooper.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Can we sing Happy Birthday to Cooper?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Let's do it? Started snoring starting? Ready, here we go? Ready, one, two, three.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Birthday Birthday to you?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Birthday?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Birthday?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
How old are you Cooper? With that many birthdays? What
are you like?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
One hundred? And five or what is it? My gosh,
you look so good? Is that thirty four? By the way,
you have a beautiful family, Anna.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We've heard so much about you. Guys. How much fun
is it to have your lives talked about on the radio?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Are you getting used to it?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Do you have friends and family that say, hey, I
heard your daughter's on the radio and I heard your
talking about something.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You can sit at the at the mic.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, come on, yeah, grab a seat, mom, grab a
seat right there so we can talk to you.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Well, Allison's a nurse and she gets a lot of
people texting her all the time saying things about Alison
touched me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
With Okay, she's married you you.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Gotta get taken on a stretcher to her hospital. Alison
touched me when she called up that morning and talked
about how the kids wanting to listen to their aunt
also helped her be able to get through, uh, some
postpartum that you were dealing with, right, and it got
you to get out of the house and and go
(02:51):
get in the car and drive the kids. So I
think that that, honestly was really special. That was a
special moment. So how are you doing with your daughter?
You you good with her, good.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
With her as having a little trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
We're finding out more things about her that in the
last five years that we haven't known.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But what's the craziest thing you've heard? Probably the tattoo
on the bum. Oh yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
My grandma came to me one day and said, you know, Allison,
I just don't like that that man slapped Anna. And
Anna was talking about crazy story.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, my grandma.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Grandma, That's what she She was like talking about that's
kind of stuff she likes.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And she's like, he needs to keep his hands off
of Can I tell you though?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And I think that this is actually by the way,
I feel like the fumes from that candle o that door,
that one as somebody who you know, I have a son,
Joe that is is Anna's age, and to see where
Anna is in her life and to see also where
my boys are. You guys should be very very proud
(03:57):
of the job that you've done raising her, but be
more proud of her because she she's done an amazing job.
Anna's actually very very talented, but talent only gets you
so far.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Hard work gets you there. That's how we ended up
hiring her.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It had nothing to do with the level of talent
that she had, because she doesn't have radio talent. It
was about how persistent she was, but also the efforts
that I saw her kind of doing for the people
that she was doing work for that made me go,
this is somebody that we need on our team. So
it must come from obviously somewhere, right.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Pops, Yeah here, so yeah, so it's good.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, it's Anna's thirtieth birthday this weekend, and Anna, what
is the big plans? Are you going to do a
Are you gonna do a white lake thing? I know
that this is the one thing Anna. When I go
home to Orland Park, Michigan, and I go back there,
I go through periods where I'm like, I cannot believe
this is where I'm from, because you know, you kind
of like, you know, Orland Park's very white lakeish. I mean,
(05:00):
it's like just a suburb of Chicago and stuff, Michigan, Illinois. Yes,
But when I go back there, there is times where
the innocence comes out in the remembrance of your past
and there's nothing to me. Sometimes they are better than
a great memory of a good time that you had
growing up. So are you going to spend time there.
Are you going to hang out with all the hustlers
(05:21):
in Detroit?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
All?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I'm doing a little bit of both. But Christmas is
right around the corner, so I'm going up there for
a couple of days. So we're going to meet in
the middle and we're going to get sushi for my birthday. Yes, Farming.
That's also where my dad's best friend lives, who I'm
close with. We're going to see him.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What do you want to do for your birthday?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Nothing? I don't know. I just want to chill. I'm
getting a facial and a massage tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
There are different kinds legitimate questions.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I don't know, just like a facial, a wood house
day spot.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, nice.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, So I'm chilling. I'm going out to brunch with
my friends tomorrow too.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So it's funny because I feel like birthdays are always
never really about the person whose birthday it is, and
it's not one of those things like some people are
really good with their birthdays where they're like they take
off work and that is she does stuff like that. Bianca,
by the way, is still posting, kid, She's still She's
got like twelve thousand birthday pictures. She still posting no
(06:27):
but no but beyond but am I talking about her?
I'm pared my eighty d is going crazy? I got hold?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Can I play with your toy? Yeah? WHOA so careful?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, but I I've never been the type of person
that have ever done the whole I'm taking off on
my birthday. I always hate my birthday because I don't
ever want to be the center of attention.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
As weird as that sounds, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm I'm sort of the same way. And also like
I'm thirty, which I don't know how I feel about.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So that's another reason why I'm telling me thirty thirty
is a good deck, like thirties are a good deck. Yeah,
Like I.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Think I feel good, But I'm also like, dang, it's
kind of old. Like in thirty more years, I'm going
to be my mom's age.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Come on, we got to rewire ourselves. Getting old should
be the goal. Yes, you know what I mean, Like,
that's what we're living for us to continue to living,
and hopefully you live well so that when you get
older you can really have.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Here's something for your mom. When you were thirty years old,
you had a family, didn't you have the time right
a family. So is it weird for you sometimes? Cause
it's weird for me, Like when I look at my kids,
Like when my kids turn twenty five and Chelsea and
I had two kids at that time. So I sat
there and I looked at it, and I want my
kids to push off having kids as late as possible
(07:37):
because we started, you know, way early. But I look
at it sometimes like I look at their lives and
sometimes I envy their lives.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I have a little bit of envy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, where you go and honestly, it's not that you
don't want your you want your kids to get have
a better life than you do, but you do have
this moment where you go, like, I do think that
there's a level in a And I look at you too,
like I look at you and I go, God, you have,
even though you may not sometimes always think that your
life is the greatest life.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You have a life that I would love to have.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I feel very blessed and very fortunate. I don't think
that I'm I'm not thinking that I have a blessed life,
like I do think that I think that I sacrificed
some things to get to this point. Absolutely, Yeah, Like
I talked about relationships like those are my two best friends, moms.
Those are two of the people that I've sort of
(08:30):
straight away from because I've been so focused on building
my career. So like there there's been given take with it,
but very blessed.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's how you get to the greatness.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
The road to greatness, you always have to cross the
street to sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And true friends and true friends honestly will come back
in any season of your life.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Absolutely and you'll pick up where you're left off. Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, So well, we're really proud of you. It's thirty
for you, and be honest with you, it's only downhill
from here.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No offense. I mean, seriously, look at mine in Shannon's life.
I mean, Shannon always gets thrown in. I would kill
for Shannon's life. I know you want to lay. You
want to lay at night with Wes? Is that what
I mean? Seriously, snuggler, that's what it is. Nobody dresses
like that man, So
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