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The Vergecast
"chris welch" Discussed on The Vergecast
"A lightning round. There's actually a fair amount of news. It was kind of a short week. Presidents day was on Monday. So it was a little quiet, except for Chris Welch breaking big Sonos news. We're going to have a really great episode of the verge cast that goes super deep dive into that. So we're not going to be talking about that today on the lightning round. We are however going to be talking about Spotify's new AI powered DJ, Richard D have thoughts? I don't trust it. As we've said before, I'm anti AI. Pro crypto anti AI, I get it. You got to pick your battles. But so Spotify, they will create a custom playlist and then they will have someone talk over it because that's what you wanted to hear was a computer generated voice talking over your music. Like unless it's that funk, then no. It's not what I wanted. Was there something that people were asking for? Well, McKinney, you were talking before the show about how like, this is a thing on TikTok already. Well, okay, so now I'm actually kind of disturbed. Hearing that there was an 8 because I was like, what is the difference between an AI playlist and an algorithm, something that learns your interests? That's not stupid. What are they doing? Are they just hopping on the brand train or the branding train to be like, we have AI. But no, I did not know that there was a voice. Can you imagine if they sold voice packs or something? A 100% that's coming. You're going to get a Joe Rogan. Voice pack. Well, maybe not because I think they're trying to separate. Yeah, well, I mean, the thing is the Spotify playlists are very well beloved and well hated from musicians, especially like smaller musicians, because if you get on a Spotify or an apple playlist, that's crazy. Your song is going to do numbers, people just go to these things. But at the same time, it's like, it's hard to find any other reach. Yeah. Besides these playlists and going viral online. And so something that was very interesting going on is like on TikTok, there was people who were, I forget her name, but there was a person who makes curates Spotify playlists, and went viral on just putting all these playlists out there for different moods, for different things. And of course, it's something that people want, people seeking new music, new things, just somebody to curate it for them. Yeah. And it's nice that you actually had a person editorializing that, and then having, I guess, they would explain it in a TikTok video, but the idea of having a DJ in the middle of it. An AI DJ. So it's pretending to be a person that picks up music for you, but it is not actually a person. Is it just going to be like Siri? What is the voice going to sound like? Script writers, they're really trying to create a whole set, I probably more than one vibe that it can take. And then the AI generated voice can say whatever the writers decide to hear. So the voice will be based on Xavier X jernigan and I can not knock the name X because that's what I was known as in college. It was a dumb and I can't explain it. But anyway, so X is going to be their DJ voice. And apparently they are already working on their hosting some podcasts and stuff already for Spotify. So it's a familiar voice in a way. Theoretically it'll be a familiar voice for Spotify listeners who also listened to the get up, which is Spotify's podcast. In a way, this kind of reminds me there are drivers. And I think a lot of drivers who are either Uber drivers, Lyft drivers, every single time I'm in there, because that's the only instance that I'm really in a car. And I don't really have friends who have cars in New York. So when you're in there, a lot of the time, they play those radios, like those DJ stations, right? Where there's a DJ who is like blending things in or they call outs and stuff. That's the only thing I can think of where people actually listen to music on the radio still. Yeah. And if that's the only if they're trying to take that on, I don't know, that seems like a kind of silly thing. But once they have this voice, they can have it, you know, obviously they can start breeding stuff off the artist wiki page is the song starts or maybe where they're playing or maybe a concert nearby where you can buy a ticket or something or just a kind of basic advertisement. But this is just interesting. You remember when Apple music launched? And they suddenly paid a bunch of real DJs, a lot of money to come on and curate playlists and record shows and things. Spotify decided, no, we gave Joe Rogan a $1 trillion. So we have no money left for DJs, so we'll have a computer do it. We're going to give the AI the DJ's job. Aw. Great job. Just title do some of that too. Or am I just making that up? No one knows. No, no one listens to my fiance uses title. We found them. We have a time to use at the verge. I will keep their identity confidential. I think I really respect you for that. But I want to know who it is. It's Neela, isn't it? Neela just he's got to have that flat quality lossless audio while he's driving up and down the in his giant track. All right, so some other news that happened this week, Microsoft went to Brussels, Tom Warren was also in Brussels. He's not on the show today because he is recovering from going to professors. He just messaged me one day, I was like, I have to go to Brussels. And I was why? And why am I learning about? Why do I need to know this? Oh, it's for work, okay? So Microsoft went to Brussels because they're trying to defend their right to acquire Activision. And a lot of people are upset with that. Notably Sony, Sony does not want them to acquire it because then they'll be like, well, we won't get all the games. You're going to cut us out. And so Microsoft goes to Brussels to defend and they brought some people with them. They also had a bunch of big timely announcements at the same time, including within video where they said, okay, we signed a deal. All of our games are going to be coming to Nvidia GeForce now's cloud streaming. It's going to be really great. It's going to be super exciting. And also, Call of Duty, day and date on Nintendo products. So the switch that sounds a little bit odd that you would be playing Call of Duty on the switch, but if they release a switch to it makes a little bit more sense. Yes. Yeah, 'cause I can't even play scarlet violet on my Nintendo Switch without running into frame issue. It struggles. And it gets hot, yeah. I mean, people play Call of Duty on their phones, right? You can play like war zone or whatever. But this is going to be the ones that are meant for the PC, the one that's coming for the Xbox Series X and stuff like that. I was really surprised that we didn't actually hear game passes coming to the Nintendo Switch, which would have made sense, right? Like have cloud gaming on the switch. Huge, great for Microsoft, but I guess that was probably would not have been great for Nintendo, who wants to sell games. Once the cell games, and then also what game passed work on the switch as it is right now. If you stream the games, I guess. Okay. Because some games do stream one to switch, right? Like there are some kind of like high performance games to stream plus like all the emulated games, I think, like the Nintendo online stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that all streams. And you know, I used my steam deck for streaming all the time, and it works. And it really helps to get way more battery life when I stream than when I try to actually play the game directly on the steam deck. Then it just sounds like it's on fire. Just the fans were very loudly. So yeah, this was kind of surprising news from Microsoft. It is unclear if kind of regulatory groups like UK's competition and markets authority are going to allow this to go through. Right now, Richard, how do you feel? Do you think it's going to happen? I am
The Vergecast
"chris welch" Discussed on The Vergecast
"And the more all in one you make it, the more waste you're going to make. That's just how it works. You know what I mean? Because we don't live in a culture anymore, where these things can be discrete, and we don't live in a thing where it's prioritized that you're going to have a speaker. And if the speaker breaks, well, you need to go and get it fixed. Or you fix it yourself, ideally, which is what I would love, is just people learning how to fix their own stuff. The more all in one you make something, the worse it's going to be for the environment. Just generally speaking, the worst is going to be for people because they're going to throw shit away and they're going to just get back to having a thing that does a thing and then a thing you can add to a little system. And simplify it for people. And I think that there is a use case for that. Don't make it so that there are these virtual things. Like even if you accept the all in one element of it, don't make it so that you also have to make it so that people throw stuff away because it doesn't work with their other stuff. Because that's what the thing that a mom will do is just throw it away because it doesn't work with their thing. And they're like, well, what's this then? I'll give it to goodwill or something. Chris Welch, what do you what is your ultimate system? What do you use for multi music? Like when you aren't testing stuff. I mean, I've had a pretty small apartment here in Brooklyn. So I've got the Sonos 5 on my desk, play 5. I bought that several years ago. It's still sounds amazing. I've got the arc for my soundbar. Thanks so many people just want pretty good. Like Kris said, there's like a low end and a super high end in the middle. I think Sonos also shoots for the pretty good range with the arc. There would be no market for a 9 $100 Sonos arc if it didn't sound pretty good. There would be no market for a $1400 sennheiser soundbar that I'm testing right now. If they didn't actually blow people away in some sense. So I think I've got that. And I've got the room for the shower. And so I like my shower tunes. And the move if I go work in the backyard and a nice day. I feel like no one's really cracked the shower. Sonos has said they're going to be in four new product categories over the next few years, so maybe a shower showerhead speaker. I do agree, though, that that is probably the most compelling app. The room is actually probably the thing that works the best. Because the HomePod minis don't you have to pull up into a wall. And some people just have one plugged into the wall in their bathroom or something. They have little mounts for them and stuff. Yeah, I've seen this like mounts in the ceiling or you can just do weird stuff like that. But I do agree that AirPlay two devices that work well that are battery powered is a thing that I'm surprised Apple has not tackled yet but in part because it probably messes with their HomePod, demographic, but and also there's plenty of Bluetooth speakers that don't need to make another one unless it has a really strong use case. But they are making that weird mirror and that we're that weird. iPads that are for the kitchen, I think that was reported on. Oh yeah, that's the rumor, I think, is that there's going to be like a HomePod with an iPad attached to it. And we're all going to have them in our kitchen to make the best pies ever. Apple presumably. I do think the battery power is an interesting Amazon got out of the battery powered speakers space. They have the tap, which was, I loved that thing. And the bows portable speaker is very good, but very expensive. But the Sonos move, you can buy a battery pack and swap it out. So when that battery built in dies, you can keep it going. So that's kind of nice, not something you see very often. So I think they do a pretty decent job of guaranteeing a pretty long lifespan for most of their products. I don't know how the room is going to be doing in like two years after the battery has been charged a hundred times. Yeah, I think that'll be a really interesting one for Sonos to deal with. That's because it's their first battery based product, right? But you can swap out that battery. But yeah, I'm pretty excited for what's going to be coming in, 'cause they just bought a company in 2020 called Matt or mate. That makes super small trends that put out big sound in a really small design. And we haven't seen the fruits of that purchase yet, but maybe this year. Okay, well, it sounds like we've kind of, we've kind of gotten a lay of the land. We know there's all this stuff like there are the smart speakers, and they're all doing their thing and they're doing it pretty well. There is Sonos who does it really, really well if you are willing to spend a lot of money and then there is the swim and run audio, which honestly sounds like Sonos, but for me, I'm going to go be basic. It's been money on it. Maybe. But it sounds like there's a lot of solutions out
The Vergecast
"chris welch" Discussed on The Vergecast
"Ask is why sonas, why whim, and then Jen, do you go first? Me. Apple Alexa in Google. So I do use all three of the voice assistants in my home and a couple others. So we have Alexa with its multi room music, Google Assistant with its multi room music and then apple's Siri over AirPlay. So AirPlay is their multi room music and you can control it with Siri. I think the most important thing to start out with when you're talking about multi room music is this is a proprietary mess. There is no simple solution Chris person found out this ecosystem lock in hard in this space. A few of the companies have tried to expand and provide much more sort of flexibility, but ultimately you end up with the best experience if you stick with the hardware of the manufacturer. For example, with Amazon's multi room music, if you have all echo devices and to be fair to them and this is probably the biggest selling point, there are so many variations and so many different ways you can play through an echo speaker. You've got the s'mores speakers. You've got the little echo dots. You've got the echo big round echo fourth gen. You've got fire TVs, there's so many that work great and when you set up multi music, you can look in your app and it's like, oh, look at this, I have like ten speakers in my house. I can have this great multi room music experience. They do work with a few with quite a few third party speakers as well. I've actually managed to get my multi room music playing through my smoke alarm, which is really exciting. And my thermostat. So it works with the one link smoke alarm and you could be thermostat if you enable Alexa. So, you know, there's a lot of options there. The problem I have always found with the amazons, I'm trying not to say the name to set off everyone's devices with Amazon's multi room music using voice is there are issues with mesh networks. It seems like when you have a mesh Wi-Fi network and you use multi room music, it's very hard to get all of your devices working together. This is something that Amazon can't really control. Although, and this is even using their own arrow network, I've had the error mesh network, and I will set up multi view music with multiple speakers, but only like three will show up. And then you can select another one and the other three show up. You can't get them all on one because they're on different nodes. I may be going in the weeds a bit here, but that's basically one of the biggest issues I've had using Amazon's multi view music. But when it does work, it's probably one of the easiest to use. It's the easiest nomenclature to get it going. You can say, hey, Amazon's assistant play me the latest Taylor Swift album and away it will go with Google, that is not the case. Oh. So Google has the same sort of basic setup. So you can use any Google speaker. So you've got the nest hub, the nest max, the next nest mini, the nest audio, and then some of the older Google Home speakers, any chromecast enabled speaker, so third party speakers from Lenovo. If you still have chromecast audio, all of those devices are all work with multi room music. The problem I have with using the Google system with voice is if I ask, say, for the same thing, say play me some Taylor Swift. I just this morning tested it out on one of my nest hub maxes. And instead of playing the music everywhere, as I asked it to, it showed me a YouTube video of Taylor Swift. So the nomenclature is the issue there. And there's different ways of using multi music if voice isn't your preferred option. Of course, you can do it through an app. And this is where the sort of ecosystem locking comes in, Spotify lets you play to any of these speakers. So if you have a Spotify account, you can use Alexa multi room music. You can use Google's multi view music. You can use Sonos. And that works fine, but you're locked in to Spotify. It's just a bit of a mess right now. I think people like flexibility, especially in their home, especially if you have more than one person in your home, you might want a different speaker in your room, or you might want different speaker in your kitchen. And right now, it's so hard to find a simple solution that works reliably with multi read music. That's been my experience, and this is why I was so excited about Chris persons, article, in fact, when it came out, I tweeted it to my followers and I was like, I think some of you might have been looking for this. And there were a lot of positive responses because it's just a frustrating space. And just to wrap up the smart home side and I know Chris Welch will help weigh in on this too because we just finished testing the homepods together. Obviously, Apple has its AirPlay system. And that is one of the systems that actually works the most reliably across speaker platforms. So you can use a number of different speakers without problems. So you can have your Sonos, you can have bows, you can have your Apple homepods, and Apple TV, so your TV speakers can kind of get in on the game. But it's less intuitive to control and you really relies on your iPhone. You can use the voice assistant, but it is not as intuitive in terms of commands to get it working. It can get real dumb. When I asked it to play music, sometimes it's like, no, you don't want to listen to pippin. And I'm like, I do. I'm the one person that wants to listen to pippin. And I was like, we're going to play you some rock. And I was like, that's cool, I guess. No, I know. It's quite funny what each of the smart assistants will come up with when you ask for a specific audio. They all have opinions and they're not good. And then the final piece of the puzzle, of course, is you can use Sonos with Amazon's assistant, but only so no speakers. So you can set up a Sonos group in your Amazon Alexa app and play music using one of your echo speakers, but only to show no speaker. So you can't almost a 100% certain correct me if I'm wrong. But my experience, you can only group sono speakers together using Alexa. You can't also add in your echo studio if you have one with your Sonos beam. So that's kind of, again, that kind of frustrating, I got these speakers and I want to be able to do this. But it's hard. And I don't know, technically whether this is difficult thing to fix, to make, or whether it's just the different companies alike locking in their proprietary systems and making it impossible to share. And I'm sure Chris Welch could probably feel us in on that. We need to go to Chris Welch because that's the beauty of Sonos, right? It is super proprietary. It is all one thing, but when it works. When it works, it works really well. And I'm not a big voice service person. So I don't use their own voice service. I don't use Alexa and Sonos devices. I just use Sonos as its own thing. It's for music. It's for entertainment.
Newsradio 700 WLW
"chris welch" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Ballpark and pick up Slim Jim and Mike sells potato chips at Kroger stores. Throughout Reds country. 700 WLW. It is just about time for baseball in Chicago. As the Reds and Cubs wrap up seasons play against each other back to regularly, we go now and with all the play by play, here's Tommy thrown All right. Thank you. Yet another beautiful night for baseball. We've got a pretty good breeze blowing from left to right here. Wrigley Field tonight and once again, the windy city living up to its reputation. Let's take a look at tonight's starting lineup for This series. Wrap up we begin with David Bells visiting Reds. The Reds are to tie for that second wild card spot after the Padres lost last night and the Reds one Reds are 74 66. Heating things up is the second baseman Jonathan Indian hitting second end in center field. Tyler Nay Quinn. Nick Castellanos plays right field. He bats third, batting fourth at first base. Joey Votto Mike Moustakas at third base bats, fifth. Six. The shortstop Kyle Farmer, Tucker Barnhart, catching bats, seventh, hitting eight the left fielder Matt Chirac and batting ninth, pitching Vladimir Gutierrez again for the Reds. It'll be India Quinn Castano's Votto Moustakas farmer. Heart Heart truck, and Gutierrez, now for Andy Green's Chicago Cubs course. They're managed by David Ross. He remains out. Quarantining with Covid. Cubs are 64 76 there in fourth place in the central Division 21 games back, leading off the center fielder Rafael Ortega. Frank Swindle snapped his eight game hit streak. Last night. He plays first base and bats, second, hitting third in left field, Ian Happ Willson Contreras will catch and bat fourth batting 5th and 3rd base, Patrick wisdom. Hitting six. The right fielder Jason Heyward, batting seventh, the second baseman David Body. Hitting eight the shortstop Sergio Up Contra and pitching and batting ninth. Alec Mills again for the Cubs. It'll be Ortega swindle Hap. Contreras, Wisdom Hayward Body Al Contra and Mills, Alec Mills pitching Least once again to be joined by Chris Welch. I'm Tommy throw great to be with you tonight from Wrigley Field in Chicago. Alex Mills, Chris comes in with a even six and six record. The Reds have face him twice this year. When he has started, Reds beat him both times. This is a guy that really doesn't have a lot of flash, but when he's on he can. He can beat you because he seems to have pretty good command, a pretty good idea what he wants to do Well, they better have good command because he doesn't throw very hard, but I would call him a garden variety right hander with a limited upside. As far as as below. In fact, he's one of the slowest pitchers in the league will get to that later on, but he's legitimately has five or six different pitches. He's got good command and his his games always tried to get the hitter a little bit off balance. So they hit it on the end of the bat rather than swing and miss it. Jonathan India hit his fifth leadoff home run of the year last night. He leads off here standing in Reds and Cubs. Hope you enjoy it. Let's play first pitches, a called strike on the outside corner and east to India and were underway and one Count on Jonathan India game getting started right on time at 6 40 this evening. Here's the one pitch, Sandy just off the outside corner, One ball and one strike. Mills loves to live down there lowing away all night long..
77WABC Radio
"chris welch" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"The FEMA director's on, uh, projector. Chris Welch. She's on and I'm here with With my senior adviser, and, uh, boy who knows Louisiana? Very, very well, man. Did you hear that in New Orleans and Senator Christman? Now the the the everybody ignored that he called the black man, his one of his top aides and my this This boy is, uh Can you imagine? Could you just about don't want to finish the sentence? Because you know what I'm gonna say? Yeah, if that had been Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump Bush and what they would have done if he called the boy over there. Ben Carson. Absolutely. I mean, are you kidding me? Let me just say Cedric Richmond. He was in the Homeland Security Committee. We didn't agree on a lot of issues be too smart, Able tough, Tough minded guy. The president be lucky has amount of staff and you shouldn't be. Referring to him that way at all. Oh, my God and again glossed over the media. They say the media is turning on Joe Biden after Afghanistan. No, they're not absolutely that they didn't even play. There was some of these gold star mothers. What they said about him after he was pretending to be a gold star Father. I mean, how disgusting is that? You talk about stolen valor that that was what Joe Biden was doing. We'll get into that a little bit later. More on Biden down in Louisiana last week. I mean, totally completely out of it. All right now, now, uh, Cedric, Uh, Who are we going to next? Governor? Res is go. You are I understand God, you're not On video, but you are on telephone. So Gove far away is, uh, is American trial on Mayor control Are you on? I don't I don't think she was able to get.
Chicago's Afternoon News
Democrat Emanuel "Chris" Welch of Hillside, near Chicago, weighs in on Edward Guerra Kodatt's resignation
"To Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch says he doesn't know too many of the details behind this sudden resignation of newly appointed 22nd district, Illinois House representative Edward Guerra coded Welch told the Economic Club of Chicago that he found out just like everyone else did last night. I received a call from my chief of staff. Telling me that she had heard word that he intended to resign. And she didn't know anything more than that. Just wanted me to be aware. And this morning, you know, we were she word from the clerk of the house that he had indeed resigned. And honestly, that's all I know. But it was apparently asked to resign by former House Speaker Mike Madigan due to questionable
Newsradio 700 WLW
"chris welch" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Thoughts. Baseball just a little while. Think warm thoughts here. We have joined US Reds new play by play guy with Fox Sports Ohio and a buddy of mine, John Sadek. Now, John, What is the Process. And I mean, do you go to great lengths to, you know, learn about the history of the Reds and the Big Red machine. Of course, I know about that. But all the all the subsequent seasons and kind of errors before that. Is that something that's kind of important to you? Yeah, that's that's the balancing act really that Uh, Will be my biggest task every day forever is kind of how do you, uh, How do you handle looking into the rather lengthy history of the first franchise of a professional baseball and, you know, marry that up with today's players. You know the games that that matter right now that that's That's the challenge because I'm going to read and learn and talk to people that know more than me, which is most people, especially in the greater Cincinnati area every day, and I couldn't do that. Nonstop to the rest of my life, and I'm still going to come across a lot of stuff that I don't know. Um, but I also need to make sure that I have some clarity and that I'm able to recall things and it's certain that the right moments and and that's one of the fun parts of it. I'd love that stuff I love Reading into the history and that's one of the robust rewards of working for one team. You're able to narrow that focus, some because the Reds fan And I'm just dive in as much as I can. And I don't know what you know. I'm on Social. John say that if anybody's listening if anybody has any feedback if anybody is recommendations, and I already have a couple of books, but if they have Websites. They would steer me too, or stories that they want to share. I'm all years. I want to learn as much as I can. There you go. Now, John. What are you here in terms of reds and spring training in Arizona. And is it gonna happen on time? What you hearing? Yeah, it sounds like it is with the protocols being ratified this week. It sounds like we're in pretty good shape at this point. You know, I spent training broadcast schedule is still TBD that that's a little bit more of a moving target that I hope we're gonna have Barrow down sooner than later. But I'll be out there at some point. Um Chris Welch is going to be out there already. He has a place out there in Arizona. We've spoken on the phone had a chance to connect along with all the other support crew and gym Day and our producer Josh, hold the rest of the guys in the truck. And I'm looking forward to having a chance to tell some of those stories, then that's the downside, though bodies, you know the way that baseball structured right now we're not gonna have any access to the clubhouse, in person or to a manager's office ship like it was last year for everyone. Everything is gonna be through a screen and that's gonna be hard because You know the way that you really forge relationships and gain a sense of trust and are able to learn and tell some stories is by being there and I'm not gonna be able to be there in that sense for who knows how long Right? Absolutely. No, it's there's something about personal person chemistry more. We're all fighting through it. Um, it just real quick before I let you go Just back to your point when I asked you about your style about calling a game, and you said that the game let the play dictate the broadcast. I had a director at ESPN. Tell me a story about Vin Scully. And I don't know this is true or legend, but you know, it is John. Everyone has like a board right with the notes and all this, and I guess some young analysts was in there, and he's got his like board. It's like, you know, like a four by eight sheet of plywood, right, and he's got all these notes written down. He's staring at it and Vin Scully Grabs the board and throws it out the window and says son, the game is out there. And to your point again, who knows? If that happened? I'd like to think it did because it's a great story. But your point that that is where the game is being played. And that's where again you to your point where a play by play guy or an analyst should should be focused. So listen, man, we gotta run here. But I also know you're gonna be on the hot stove league tonight. Also correct. Hey, did yeah, I can't wait. It'll be myself and gender crawl. Got you again, John. I'm so excited for you, man. You deserve this more than anybody out there and how hard you've grinded And you know how hard you've worked, man, so I couldn't be happier for you, buddy. Thank you so much. I can't wait to get the season going and I appreciate you guys and your kindness and having me up. Very good. Thanks, John. Thanks for being You gotta John say that the new TV guy for Fox Sports Ohio looking forward to you? I mean, you spoke very highly of you. You work with a guy for Ah, how long you worked with him? Yeah, over a couple of seasons. This is like 11 4012 I I honestly think my first radio game It was Alabama at Arkansas. You knows he and I were on this like outdoor. You know, we were in a boot. We're always like outdoor like scaffolding they had set up and it was like in the corner of the end zone. It was awful and it was raining and you couldn't see anything and hopefully that those tapes are burned because I can't imagine how terrible that I was on that game, But, yeah, he and I did a couple games again about Prime, maybe eight games or more. Over a couple of seasons, but But like I said, Man, Reds fans, you're gonna like him. First of all, he's got that that golden voice. He's got that great pipes and he's a guy that that has made. It wasn't because of his. You know who his dad was, or wasn't because of you know his race or gender. It was because the dude just absolutely worked his. You know what off And I think he's going to be really, really good. I'm excited for you. All right,.
WLS-AM 890
"chris welch" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Of Springfield. You asked for it. You wanted it term limits. It looks like the possibility Moments after being sworn in as speaker of the Illinois House last month. Emanuel Chris Welch. Wanna raise the Maywood like my former colleague John Dempsey. Told reporters that he supported term limits for the position. What term limits What are these term limits? You speak of? Not in Illinois. We don't have term limits. But please, you choke. Turns out, he meant it. Rules that govern of the legislative process were released last night. And the first thing that pops out is term limits for the House speaker. Are you kidding me? You get power power, and they're willing to give it up voluntarily, like peaceful transfer of power in America. Is that really supposed to happen anymore? Also not only for the speaker, but for the minority leader, too. The proposal states that top leaders Republican Democrat blue red whatever party in party out the proposal, states that the top leaders conserve only five general Assembly's Now I'm gonna do the master. You don't have to. You just concentrate on driving. General Assembly's Can't you hear something? So only fine. It's 10 years. That's 10 years, so you can only be speaking for 10 years. That's only be 28 less than our last speaker, right? The rules. Changes were filed by Majority leader Greg Harris and will be voted on when the House lawmakers meeting Springfield tomorrow. The other big change. The rules also allow for remote legislating something the state Senate's been doing for months. They seem to figure it out early. The change will clear lawmakers on the House side to call into committee hearings so that will help And, according to the resolution, bills that are sent to the rules committee now must get reported out to a subject matter Committee for debate. Lot of people say bills go to the rules Committee to die Well, that's very accurate. And that's not going to happen anymore. Close quote that's from Harris, and he talked to Shia, Kapo said. Political by the way, it's a big improvement went on to say. It is the most significant change since Chris Welch became speaker following Madigan's decades long run. Republicans, of course. Say the proposed change. They're mostly cosmetic. And that Welsh will retain power over the house the way Madigan did. Well, guys. You need to win the elections to get the power. Hey, At least this is a step in the right direction. So don't become chief Dark Kat just automatically. That's why people don't like Republicans. That's why you're not invited to. Ah, parties anymore. I mean, real parties except your own parties. That's why you get beat up in high school like mad Gates used to almost every day, I guess. Probably just looking at him. No offense. Republicans say the proposed changes are mostly cosmetic. Quote. While it's great that bills get assigned to committee, they will die there just like they did in rules. It's the same process different committee. This is Deputy chief of staff for House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, speaking Our focus. Was to allow bills to get an up or down vote in committee. To prevent the speaker or the chairman. Person from unilaterally but blocking a bill from being hurt. Close quote. Okay, I get it. I get it, so they voted out of the rules Committee to some other committee. Where it dies. But at least it's Hey, It's something new, right? I'm encouraged. Are you encouraged? I'm slightly encouraged by this term limits for the speaker. And the minority leader. Sounds like a good idea. I don't think term limits. To be honest with you are necessarily constitutional, because if you want to vote, the same ossified old timer in Year after year after year election after election after election. You're dumb enough to do that, then that's your constitutional right? You know, I say, I say this, whether it is You know, crazy writing over here from Georgia or crazy Lefty over here from California? Hey, man, America deserves the representation They vote in Pay attention. Ah, that that Wells, for example, still retains considerable power by appointing committee chair position. Sure to the victor, Go the spoils. And the stipends that go along with them, meaning the case. Those lieutenants in turn, control what pills? What bills or pills make it to a vote. Uh, Harris says Republicans adopted similar rules done and on and on when they control the house. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way, Way Way Way Back When He had it. There will be bipartisan talks on what works and what more needs to be done. Okay, sir, there will be care. Everybody's more optimistic now than I am. Become chief dark cloud since the sixth of January. I have I'm going back and re reading the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to see how far along we are another subtle change the next time a special investigating committee is called If the speaker or the minority leader is subject of the complaint is the subject of the complaint or the petitioner of the said complaint. They must then recuse themselves from supervising the disciplinary process that makes sense. I'm stunned. We didn't do that before. Really? That change follows the investigation and the man against connection to a federal corruption investigation and the complaint filed by Durkin. So That's good for the goose and the gander both sides there now as long as we're talking about Chris Welch immediately after he took over the speakership. They brought up redistricting and essentially another fair map initiative, which I keep pounding that rock. Day and on that, if that damn weekend and weak out, we need fair redistricting. I believe in sure, Max. But my definition of fair maps may be different than what Governor Chris occurs. Definition is and what the hell are GOP's definition is We have to get everyone around the table and at least have an open and transparent process. Okay, fine. Fine. Fine, Fine. Here's my problem. District should not be based on Special considerations choose a category Whatever. Politicians should not be able to pick their constituents and correspondent Lee Certain segments demographically of our population shouldn't necessarily be able to ban themselves together just so they can vote. They're one of their advocates into the legislature. That that that doesn't make any sense in my mind in my mind. I've always been well, representative, I guess I think a fair Matt has to be a reflective of the diverse population in.
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"Slash h and G or call 8443660613. We're starting to see more congestion getting into downtown this morning, The Kennedy backed up from about central to Harlem. Sorry Harlem to Central and then the Stevenson itself Backed up from Central to kids in again from Ashland onto the inbound. Dan Ryan ramped of Rick Dan Ryan itself and bonus tight from the Stevenson into the burn. I'm Vicky Cuckoos Ian, WGN Traffic. Central Chicago Man faces charges in connection with last week siege at the U. S. Capitol. The man's been identified as Kevin Lyons of the Jefferson Park neighborhood He's accused of illegally entering the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. WGN's Glenn Marshall is in Jefferson Park this morning with details Kevin Lines is a H back technician. Ah, complaints showed how the suspect posted a map from his Jefferson Park home to D. C. He also posted a quote, saying quote are refused to tell my Children that I sat back and did nothing. I'm headed to D. C to stop the steel and quote now he's one of three Locally charging amongst 70 nationally in connection to the siege on the Capitol neighbors tell us he was very vocal on the block about being a trump supporter. Now Kevin Lyons is his billet set for $10,000 in this situation. He's due back in court Tuesday, The day after the inauguration, FBI executed a search warrant at Lion's home prosecutors here accusing Kyle Rittenhouse of flashing a white supremacist hand sign. Right now. It's of Antioch is charged with shooting and killing two men and wounding a third during a Kenosha protest last summer following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in a court filing yesterday, the Kenosha County district attorney's office provided images of Rittenhouse. Flashing the hand sign that a Wisconsin bar last week prosecutors are now asking a judge to modify Rittenhouse is bond agreement while he awaits trial. State representative Chris Welch is Illinois's NEWHOUSE. SPEAKER. Wealthy election ends Mike Madigan's run is the longest serving speaker in American history. Wealth 1 69 of the 73 available votes and was congratulated by Madigan. He also addressed questions about his past treatment of women. I think you have to recognize that.
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"Also see to blue lines. Forest Park bound trains are now standing at Rosemont due to mechanical problems. I'm Vicky Jacuzzi in W. GM Traffic Central, A man from Chicago faces charges in connection with last week siege at the Capitol, Kevin Lyons of Jefferson Park. Is a supporter of President Trump. He's charged with disorderly conduct and violent entry of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office at the height of the demonstration and attack on the capital. Among his online posts was this. I refused to tell my Children that I sat back and did nothing. I'm heading to D. C to stop the seal. Other posts included talk of in his words. Taking the fight to Antifa. This is one of his neighbors. This is simple, working guy who had just a new opinion. That's all and whether and how he proposed his opinion or showed his opinion was just wrong. Honestly, all those people around in my opinion, other post by lines reveal he visited Kenosha in the days after riding broke out there over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Lines is scheduled to return to court next Tuesday, The day after Joe Biden takes the oath of office after 36 years, Mike Madigan is no longer speaker of the Illinois House. State representative Chris Welch, who represents the near West suburbs, will now take the gavel. Welch is the first black speaker of the Illinois House and has been a Madigan ally. He says fixing the budget and passing ethics reforms are top priorities. I am grateful Humbled by your friendship, your guidance and your trust. While we won't always agree because of where we come from, I want to ensure that each of my colleagues knows I want to work with you directly. Madigan ended his bid for another term as speaker of it questions about his involvement in the comment bribery scandal. For now, he will continue to serve a state representative. For Chicago's Southwest side. It's not clear if you'll remain chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party. You may soon be able to get alcohol delivered to your home by food delivery services. The General Assembly.
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"Sibley Boulevard. Roadwork on the entrance ramp from westbound Sibley that is closed until 7 A.m. car jackings were up more than double from this time last year. There were four in the city Tuesday night. Three Wednesday night. Chicago police chief of detectives Brendan Dina Hand says the motive typically the commission of another crime Involving a gun or a joy ride, he says. In some cases, it's for illegal resale out of state or overseas. It appears that there are many juvenile offenders who are constantly going out and doing this, and we're doing our best to work with the juvenile justice system. Even through all the reform that is going on to try to hold these offenders accountable and, more importantly, change their behavior. Dean and says. In most cases the suspects are after large SUVs. But the make and model generally appears random. Here. It is you to be extremely vigilant when bringing a vehicle to a full stop like a red light or a gas station, grocery store or even when dropping off your kids a day school Man from the Northwest side is accused in last week's insurrection of the capital. He will stay behind bars overnight of Metropolitan Correctional Center. FBI agents arrested 41 40 year old Kevin Lyons yesterday at his home in Jefferson Park. He's charged with violent entry, disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Here's WGN's Patrick Elwood in the complaint Lions posted on social media. I'm map from his Northside, home to the nation's capital, saying, quote. I refused to tell my Children that I sat back and did nothing. I am heading to D. C. To stop the steel quote lines. Neighbors tell w G and he was an outspoken loyalist of President Trump. They believe the U. S government was abusing Americans. Congressman Mike Quigley, who voted yes. On impeaching President Trump yesterday, says it was necessary believe this president is still a clear and present. Threat who doesn't believe that if he told the malicious to stand down Bella of people would be safer who would who believes that if he told them and said, I lost this election Joe Biden is next president that we would need safer he refuses to do that. You have annoyed, has a new House speaker for the first time In decades, lawmakers in Springfield elected representative Emanuel Chris Welch to replace Mike Madigan. Wells becomes the first African American in Illinois history to be the speaker of the house. I want to thank my colleagues for the trust. They put in me here today to lead our Democratic caucus and to lead this entire Democratic House of Representatives. Tire representative body with Democrats and Republic. Madigan, in a statement said it was time for new leadership and wished all the best to Welsh and historic moment in Illinois politics. Seventh Illinois district wealth by the way, shared his message of unity representative Jim Durkin, who leads the Republicans. Had some congratulatory words are Very passionate. About our positions. And that will continue. I'm extending the olive branch of cooperation. Starting today. Well, just been in the house for eight years. You know that I lawmakers approved an expensive criminal justice and police reform bill. It sets statewide standards on the use of force. Making sure suspects in custody get three phone calls, ending cash bail facing in a body camera mandate for police departments. Representative Patrick Wind, Horse of Metropolis voted no early nineties to 2014 and 15. We have seen massive decreases in crime throughout our state and country. A massive overhaul of the criminal justice system, I believe will lead to increases in crime and an undoing of the things that have occurred over that 20 to 25 year period of time that it resulted in a safer society. Federal authorities have asked test that recall thousands of its older models. Nexus has problems with the touch screens of more than 158,000 vehicles could raise the crash risk. The cars include Model s sedans and Model X SUV's made before 2019. WGN Sports Tampa Baby The Hawks last night 5 to 1. The Hawks are in Tampa Bay Friday night Pregame of Chris Bone at 5 36. O'clock Face off John Weidman and Troy Murray. Ohio State beat Northwestern 81 71 College Hoops. Virginia be Notre Dame 80 68. Here's your forecast. A storm approaches this Thursday. It'll bring rain showers during the afternoon, which change to snow. By nightfall, the high temperature climbs a 41 degrees on Friday. Snow showers will be possible to be windy and colder. The high temperature 34 35 on Saturday mostly cloudy flurries possible a few lingering snow showers on Sunday. Sunday's high temperature 31 WGN meteorologist. Dimitrius Ivory right now. 37 degrees at O'Hare 38 Ad Men Way It's 37, Valparaiso, 35, Waukegan and 38 at the lakefront. I'm David Jennings on Chicago's very own 7 20, WGN. And I'm really James. Another good time, our talking about nothing in the news, but anything else that's on your mind on WGN radio. Does anybody want breakfast? Guys. Let's go. I'm later for McDonald's in.
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"Now. 39 at the lake and Midway 38 at O'Hare. It's the year. 31 history made today as the U. S House impeached President Trump for the second time, Let's get the latest from ABC News. It isn't just what President Trump says in his latest video message. It's what he doesn't say A B C's Karen Travers says he makes no mention that he was impeached today for an unprecedented second time. In a new video released by the White House Wednesday night, President Trump offered his most forceful condemnation yet Of the violent insurrection of the capital last week. There is never a justification for violence. No excuses. No exceptions. America is a nation of laws, but the president again did not acknowledge playing a role in inciting the crowd of his supporters. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said the president bears responsibility for the attack on Congress. Karen Travers. ABC NEWS Washington 10 Republicans joined Democrats voting in favor of a single article of impeachment inciting insurrections. Several Republicans did not vote. Senate Child will almost certainly be after Mr Trump leaves office with continuing coverage. The second impeachment of President Trump. Daria Aldinger ABC NEWS Also tonight, the Feds have arrested a Chicago man. Alleging that he was in the capital in last week's riot 40 year old Kevin Lyons of the Northwest Side Dish of Chicago is charged with violent entry. And disorderly conduct were also getting late word tonight that Olympic gold medal swimmer Clete Keller Has been arrested for his alleged participation in the riot plead. Keller has won five Olympic swimming medals. He was best known for anchoring the winning U. S team. In the four by 200 M freestyle relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Now he is under arrest after the photos from the capital show that he's there wearing a U. S Olympic team jacket. He appears to be one of the tallest individuals in the riot. Keller 6 FT six inches tall down in Springfield today, more history being made as Democrats ousted Michael Madigan as the speaker of the Illinois House. Madigan has been caught up implicated in the comment. Bribery scandal. The Democrats electing Emanuel Chris Welch of Hillside as the new speaker of the House. And more breaking news tonight. We're just getting word that former Republican Michigan governor Rick Snyder has been charged with two counts of willful neglect of duty. In the Flint Michigan water crisis of 2014 2015 wls news time 6 34 Checking traffic.
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"President Trump speaking for the first time since the House voted to impeach him for a second time, he denounced the violence of the U. S Capitol bill of several people dead like all of you, I was shocked and deeply saddened by the calamity. At the Capitol last week. The president also weighed in on a social media accounts being shut down, he says the efforts to censor cancel on blacklist Our fellow citizens are wrong and dangerous, and all of us can choose by our actions to rise above. The rancor has bigger Nancy Pelosi sign the articles of impeachment against the president during a capital ceremony today in a bipartisan way the House Demonstrated. That no one is above the law. Not even the president of the United States. Pelosi called impeachment heartbreaking, but said the president represents a clear and present danger to the nation. More demonstrations are planned leading up to President elect Biden's inauguration next week, The National Guard has been called into the nation's capital to secure the city. 14, members of the Illinois congressional delegation voted for impeachment, including Republican Adam Kinzinger. Four other republic Republicans voted no Congressman Mike boss Rodney Davis during the Hood and Mary Miller, Chicago based McDonald's is joining other corporations when it comes to political contributions. The company says it's pausing all political giving and is reviewing its policies following the siege on the Capitol. McDonald's has a political action committee that takes donations from employees and franchisees. And makes donations. That committee gave more than $500,000 to candidates During the most recent election cycle. Illinois has a new House speaker for the first time. In decades, Lawmakers in Springfield have elected representative Chris Welch to replace Mike Madigan and become the first black speaker of the House. I am grateful Humbled by your friendship, your guidance and your trust. While we won't always agree because of where we come from, I want to ensure that each of my colleagues knows I want to work with you directly. Jim Durkin was also sworn in again as House minority leader. There were four Carjackings in Chicago last night. They're double what they were this time last year. Chief of detectives Brendan Dina Hand says motives very A lot of the cars are just being taken driven for 24 hours and dumped on by that time, they've already taken a new vehicle. But there are vehicles being carjacked then are subsequently being used and shootings or additional robberies. And then Lastly, it is. Ah, It's not a higher percentage. But there are certain cars that hiring cars that they're taking and more likely being re tagged or sold in different states or overseas, he says. There is a small percentage of high end cars that are being targeted, but mostly it's large SUVs and other random makes and models. WGN SPORTS Here's Kevin Pound of test in Tampa to begin the 2021 season for the Blackhawks. It's time for the puck drop preview sponsored by Ditch, which Midwest your partner for trenches, cable plows and directional drills. Is a ditch, which midwest dot com Hawks taking on the Lightning Tonight in Tampa, first two matchups against the reigning Stanley Cup champs over three days whose head coach Jeremy Collison, it's challenging. It's shouldn't have everyone's attention number plane's champions. It's It is their night to celebrate, but we gotta be ready. It's a very good team over there. And Callison celebrating his 36th birthday today. Happy birthday coach. It will be a special night for Hawks. Defenseman Ian Mitchell, he said to make his NHL debut, it's so cool come true. Especially my family could be here with me. I will be cheering on our home and Yeah, I just comment to make make everyone proud that along the way that I could say, say, I mean, it's so I can't wait for tonight. Yeah, I think come true. Mitchell was drafted by the Hawks in 2017. Malcolm Sue. Bad gets the start in that Chris boat is pre game coming up in less than 30 minutes. Jonah Troy with the call at seven. And it hell is all this morning. George McCaskey says the Bears are sticking with Ryan Pace and met Maggie. No major changes. Paces. Everything is on the table at the quarterback position. College Hoops Northwestern at Ohio State. Tonight, Dave any Joey Meyer with the colon w WGN radio dot com and 5 60 AM and in the N B, a blockbuster trade James Harden, heading from the Rockets to the Brooklyn Nets and a trade of Kevin Powell, WGN sports And now the W G M forecast a storm approaches this Thursday. It'll bring rain showers during the afternoon, which change to snow. By nightfall, the high temperature climbs a 41 degrees on Friday. Snow showers will be possible to be windy and colder. The high temperature 34 35 on Saturday mostly cloudy flurries possible a few lingering snow showers on Sunday. Sunday's high temperature 31 I'm WGN meteorologist. Dimitrius Ivory. Your money on W G ended out closed down eight points today. NASDAQ Up 50 60 S and P 500 up eight points. I'm Kim Gordon.
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"President Trump is on the verge of being impeached for a second time, The House is now voting. The president faces a single charge. Incitement of insurrection among area Democrats voting in favor of impeachment Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi when Donald Trump told rioters to go to the capital and quote unquote fight like hell He incited an attack on the Capitol and the ideals comprising the American dream. I'm voting for impeachment because I know we're still the country. My parents believed in And I will fight like hell for it. At least seven Republicans support impeachment, the latest congressman Peter Mayer of Michigan during debate. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says impeaching President Trump and such a short time frame is a miss take a vote to impeach will further fanned the flames of partisan division. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he remains undecided on convicting President Trump in a second impeachment trial, but intends to listen to the legal arguments when they're presented to the Senate. But he will not agree to bring back the Senate early for an impeachment trial. The only way it can reconvene is if leaders of both parties agree to meet for an emergency session. Security is exceptionally tight at the Capitol, beefed up by armed National Guard troops with secure perimeter set up And metal detectors screenings required for lawmakers entering the House chamber. Earlier today, President Trump issued a statement urging no violence, law breaking or vandalism of any kind. Amid reports of further protests. Illinois House Democrats voted state representative Chris Welch is the next speaker of the House. He received 69 of 73 votes. Just moments before the 102nd General Assembly was sworn in next. Our reporter Mark Maxwell is at the Capitol in Springfield. Some reservations about representative wealth, but by and large, he is respected among its members. He's moved some big legislation. For the most part, they just wanted to know that he was going to represent everyone and not just a certain constituency or a certain part of the state. And once that was enough people felt like he was going to assume this new role. In that way, he had pretty much total by it. Mayor Life a tweeting. It's a momentous day in Illinois for the first time, a black Illinois will be speaker, The Illinois House. I'm excited to work with you, Mr Welch with you to address the needs of residents across Chicago and our entire state Senator Marco Rubio is urging President elect Biden to send a powerful message to the American people. In a letter he called him biting on his first day in office. Call on Congress to approve stimulus checks of $2000 Rubio says it was send a positive message to the American people in the world if both parties could come together Theology Department of Public Health now listing on their website, the seven day average of vaccines administered today It's 25,400, the department also announcing 5862 new coronavirus cases. And 97 additional deaths with the state positivity rate of 7.3%. The seven day rolling averages can be found on our website at WGN radio dot com. WGN Sports Here's Kevin pal. Thank you, Kim. So what's next for the Bears? Not a ton of answers out of hell Asshole this morning at the team season ending press conference, other than the fact Ryan Pace and Matt Maggie will remain with the team is Ted Phillips on the decision and we have a solid Football Foundation. We have a solid football culture. We truly believe that because we've delved into those all the different issues that make up a solid football culture and a salad Football foundation is the way the team CEO puts it. As always, with the Bears. Questions remain at the quarterback position. Here's gentle manager Ryan Pace to get to where we wanna go. You know, we definitely need more than out of that position. You know, we we know that and you know what does that entail? That's what this whole off season is about. You know, as we go into this Jeff, and we're just three days off a playoff loss, but that's what this off season is about, and the team making it. Official defense coordinator Chuck Pagano is retiring. Malcolm Suban starts in that for the Blackhawks in tonight's season opener at Tampa. First of eight matchups between the two teams this year after division realignments Chris Boating with the pregame at 6 30 John, Wait a minute. Troy Murray have the call at seven and in college basketball. Northwestern visits number 21, Ohio State tip of at six on a M, 5, 16 and WGN radio dot com. I'm Kevin Powell, WGN Sports and now the W G M forecast. Afternoon temperatures today will be about 10 degrees warmer than the average high of 31. We'll see. Cloudy skies across Chicago land and winds out of the south running 5 to 10 MPH For tonight clubs will drop into the mid thirties. For tomorrow Upper thirties but will face a 70% chance for some afternoon and evening rain snow showers that will switch over to all snow here, especially Thursday night and into Friday..
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"Key, who is represents the south suburbs of Chicago is predicting that Emanuel Chris Welch will get 60 votes. Head of noon when the 102nd General Assembly is sworn in. So his picture in the paper today I don't know a thing about this guy. Chris Welts. So Emanuel Chris Welch. You have speaker of the house Or maybe that maybe. Yeah, we have nothing official. But apparently the caucus has broken up just in the nick of time. You mentioned 15 minutes to go now, until that decision has to be made a long time. I don't know if we would say, buddy. But, uh, supporter of Mike Madigan ran that's investigative committee and then decided to drop the investigation. Just a couple months ago, maybe last month into, you know everything That happened surrounding comments so definitely friendly with Mike Madigan and seemingly in line right now to be the next House Speaker. Austin burglar was with us the other day kind of rolled his eyes had how cozy that is. So is mad again going to pull the strings behind the scenes is he's literally going to be on the sidelines. Is he going to quit? Not only his speakership, but his seat. I mean, I wonder what his future is well and the other issue that's propped up and you've you've talked about it to about you know some of these incidents involving women reports of domestic violence charges that were dropped some accusations of firings related to broken relationships with women. You know was he essentially set up in order to fail, And maybe Mike Madigan would scoot in there and and really claim that the speakership don't know that. That's the case right now. But it did seem pretty interesting over the last 24 hours. By the way, Ryan Chicago's afternoon news host Ebert trends on the line. So there's a guest. You guys have gotta round up, Steve. Ryan and I were texting about that story involving Chris Welch last night. It be interesting if we could ever find out where it came from. Um, and it's also fascinating that In these times, the Democratic women in the Legislature were Willing and quick to overlook it to elected speaker. You mean that voted for him this time, But he didn't win. It voted for him all those years? No, that will vote for him for speaker. I mean, that story clearly was placed that just the time that might have Some kids bid, but it wasn't enough. The Women in the Democratic caucus didn't turn on and they're going to still support him and looks like he's got the votes. I'll tell you guys, I don't understand that I do not understand the Um Fealty to Mike mad again that the Democratic Party has has exercised all these years. For instance, if you weren't Mike Madigan, it would still be a Democrat. Right, so it's not like the Republicans would suddenly take control. He would be the speaker of the House. The Democrats have the votes, so I don't know why they kept hitching their wagon to him. I don't know why they love that guy so much. He was in charge of the purse strings, right? I mean, he was in charge of the money and the building. Yeah, sure. I mean, he's also the party chairman. Right? That's a good point, so but you know it. It looks like it's gonna end today. What's it been? 37 years? Is that the number 36 of the last 37 years? I think it is 37 Last 38. There was one year where he was not, but there was just briefly. It was a couple years. Lee Daniels was the speaker in the eighties. But so if you're 37 years old, he's been to speed the speaker of the house your entire life. Yeah, Essentially, that's amazing. And I think the question will be something for you guys to worry about Steve is like S. So what's the crystal ball? Say? How does life in Illinois change like his pension reform gonna happen? Our maps going to be drawn significantly differently, stuff like that. Ryan pointed out that Welch is a was a Madigan ally eyes, but which is significant, but also not so much. I mean, the fact is that any change is monumental down there. So while Welch may well have been part of the Madigan coterie, you know, I think you're probably going to see change. It's not a coup By AH, situation. I mean, Republican leader Durkin is, you know, already being critical of Welsh in you know, they're sharp divisions there that they're gonna have to work out. But It will change the process. I don't know how dramatically but we're you know, we're coming toward change. Well, since the speaker's portfolio is going to change so radically. I wonder if he's going to want to be just another member of the house, Or is he going to wrap it up? Then? I wonder if he'll run for re election. No, I would suspect he will resign pretty quickly resign or not run again. Resigned. Um, And that's not unusual in leadership. I mean, you may well see Mitch McConnell resigned. Maybe not. But you know, there was a big deal made when Trent Lott was the Republicans, the majority leader in the Senate and the Democrats took over and lot actually stayed for a while. It was surprising. But there have been others who have been in and out. I think Harry Reid was in and out of leadership. So we'll see if McConnell thinks that they might take. I've got enough director. I'm sorry, but if McConnell thinks they might take control again in two years, he could stay. Do the headline again from Springfield and Ryan Borough. You are reading what today looks like 45 minutes away from the General Assembly being sworn in and there is feeling as though Chris Emmanuel, I guess Chris is the nickname Welch will be the new House speaker after You know what's been pretty contentious last couple days trying to figure out who that lead Who that front runner is gonna be. By the way, Tony, What did you want to say? You're on WGN Radio. Hello? Hi. This is Tony. No. See, I was the managing editor at W. Gmtv for 30 years. And I have John. Yes. Yes, Yes. Hi, Tony. What's up? Hi. Chris Welch went to Northwestern University and while he was going to northwestern, we hired him as an intern. He worked as a sports in turn in the eighties, and we do him quite well. And Steve, you might have run into him. Well, I don't know. If by then we had split and you guys went downtown. I don't remember. You know, I was with you guys up there from 84 86. So I'm being built. I might have worked with Chris Welles. Right? Judge situation, right? Didn't he entered over it? NBC five. He did? Yeah. Alright, Dad, That's the connection, And that's uh, movie was a very, very nice young student at Northwestern who was working hard. Hey, grew up and Maywood Bellwood and his dream was to become a lawyer, and he did, and I we were all rooting for him. While he was going to Northwestern, but a great story. Hey, Tony, what are you doing these days? Tony? Well, I'm a retired, did some consulting work? And, uh, you know, I did a lot of enough. I took the buyout s Oh, you were talking, Tolo. Phil and I was another one who took the buyout. And you know into interesting about Phil. We saw his picture for the first time in the theater column. We now know what he looks like. What a shame, too, Because now he's got to pay for his food filled to tell the restaurant critic. Hey, Tony, I got to go nice of you to call and listen. Thank you, sir..
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"45 year old Chicago Heights Man is among people arrested by the FBI in the wake of the breach on the capital. And WGN's Pam Jones reports he's accused of making new threats. Lewis Capriati is accused of threatening to kill Democrats on Inauguration Day, Capriati was arrested on a federal criminal charge of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, prosecutors say. On December 29th Capriati left a voice message for a U. S. House member from New Jersey. In it, he threatened to surround the White House and to kill any Democrat that stepped foot on the long A detention hearing is set for Friday at 10 A.m.. Pam Jones, WGN News one person. It is dead after a carbon monoxide leak on the northwest side. It happened last night inside an apartment near Belmont in Normandy Woman and a man were found unresponsive of the floor of the bedroom. The woman died. The man is in critical condition. High levels of carbon monoxide were found inside of that apartment. It's not clear what the source was. The new session of the Illinois General Assembly begins today. The first order of business will be to elect a new speaker of the House. WGN's Tom and Bradley has more now from spring through the House and turned a little after four o'clock this morning. They are back again at eight. Democrats have not decided who their leader will be. But they are close. Both Democrats and Republicans say privately. That Emanuel Chris Welch representative is Michael Madigan's choice for successor. Democrats held a vote in caucus for speaker and Welsh faced off against J. Hoffman. Welsh Gap 50 votes Hoffman 15 60 votes are needed front runner to replace Madigan is facing questions about his past, a police report shows officers were called To the West Suburban home of state representative Chris Welch, back in 2000 to his ex girlfriend told police that Welsh slammed her head into a kitchen countertop numerous times after she called him a loser. The woman didn't press charges. Welch also face a 2010 federal lawsuit for sexual harassment and retaliation in which a different woman claims he lost. She lost her job at the provides. Oh Township High School district. Because she broke up with him while he was president of the school board and Education Reform bill is headed to Governor Pritzker's desk. The measure passed the House and Senate during the lame duck session in Springfield. That proposals are intended You have leveled the playing field for minority students and students in underserved district's. The reforms would change high school graduation requirements to include two years of foreign language and would increase the number of stem classes. That's the science, technology, education and math, engineering and math. A new test for incoming kindergarten students would also be used to provide teachers with information on their literacy and math. Social sciences and emotional skills. There is some good news when it comes to Corona virus cases and deaths in Chicago. The public Health commissioner, Dr Allison are, Woody says Chicago's averaging just over 1000 new cases per day. And when it comes to death, we're currently averaging 13 deaths per day in Chicago residents again above the 3 to 4 deaths per day that we were seeing over the summer, but much better than the 24 deaths per day that we saw at the peak in early December. Hospitalizations and those in the ICU are also down. 117 more people were reported dead from covert 19 yesterday across Illinois. With 6642 new and profitable cases. Now it WGN sports Here's David. It's been just about five months since the Blackhawks bowed out of the playoff bubble with a loss to the Vegas Golden Knights tonight. They start fresh starting the season against the Tampa Bay. Like excited to get going. We're ready to play a game. I think that's that's so we need. We need to see where we're at No exhibition games. It's hard to measure your preparation. I think the work ethics been good, and so now we're going to test ourselves against the Stanley Cup champions. So what you know it's pretty good situation for us to see. Where there's room to improve. That's coach Jeremy College in celebrating his 36th birthday today with the new contract extension the runs till he's 38 the Hawks in Tampa, where they raised the Stanley Cup banner tonight. 6 30 pregame. Seven o'clock the face off the John Weidman in Troy Murray here on W. G. M. Matt Nagy remains the dean of Chicago's pro coaches with three years complete, and Hill apparently be around for 1/4 with the reports Naggy and GM Ryan pace of being retained by the Bears. Nothing official yet from the team of postseason media conference expected sometime this week, and defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano reportedly retiring two of the Bulls missing lately because of covert protocols. They're back practicing Larry marketed and Ryan Archie Deok, you know had been exposed to Cove it while two teammates Chandler Hutchison and Thomas said. Iran ski remain quarantined after Testing positive. Last night's game of the Boston was postpone College hoops seventh Ring, Michigan beat its third straight ranked opponent, 77 54 of her number. Nine Wisconsin. Those three wins by an average of 22 points tonight. Northwestern at number 21, Ohio State. You can hear it. It's six On AM 5 60 WGN radio dot com. David W. GM Sports Now the forecast from the WGN Chicago Weather Center. Here's meteorologist Morgan Put Fire. Good morning. We start out today with increasing cloud cover early in the morning, with temperatures anywhere from the upper teens to the Middle thirties, so a big range and temperatures close to freezing in the city this morning. We're looking at mostly cloudy sky today I wouldn't rule out a few Sprinkles here and there, but overall we're mainly dry and mild Temperatures look to climb into the upper thirties and lower forties this afternoon. That is with the help of winds coming in out of the southwest, both this morning and through your daytime hours. Those 10 to 15 MPH. I'm the WGN Weather Center. I'm marking Coke Meyer. It's mostly cloudy. Officially right now they're here. 34 degrees there with a wind chill of 27. It's 33 at Midway 34 at the lakefront. And wheeling this morning. It's 34 receiving partly cloudy and 32 your money on WGN. US. Consumer prices rose 4/10 of a percent in December, led by a sharp rise in gasoline prices. The Labor Department says that the December increase Followed a 2/10 of a percent rise in November and no change at all. In October. It was the largest advance in four months. Inflation for all of 2020 was.
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"chris welch" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Is tight and seeing more congestion getting into downtown on the Stevenson from Ashland onto that inbound and Ryan ramp. I'm Vicky Jacuzzi on WGN Traffic. Central Chicago Heights Man is accused of threatening to commit violence that President elect Joe Biden's inauguration in Washington, Lewis Capriati is charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. WGN's rob Steed reports. Authorities are familiar with Capriati, Capri. Ani was upset with the outcome of the election and records show on December 29th. He left a voicemail for a U. S. House member from New Jersey stating if certain people quote think that Joe Biden is going to put his hands on the Bible and walk into the expletive White House on January, 20th They're sadly expletive, mistaken end quote and records show. He further stated quote. We will surround the expletive White House and we will kill any expletive Democrat that steps on the expletive lawn and important pre on against another court hearing scheduled for this week that you were at least four Carjackings in Chicago last night, In one case in the Edgewater neighborhood of Man and a woman were targeted by three carjackers. Just before nine. They were forced out of their black Dodge Charger in the 1000 block of West Hollywood. The suspects took their wallets and cell phones. The woman was also forced to hand over the keys to her orange charger. The thieves took off with the cars and haven't been caught. No one was hurt. Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr Allison are what he says. When it comes to coronavirus in Chicago. The numbers are improving. We're currently averaging just over 1000 new cases in Chicago residents per day, well down from the 2400 new cases per day that we were averaging in November but well above the 400 new cases per day, which is where we'd like to be and where we were over the summer or what, he says Deaths and hospitalizations are also down the cities. Positivity radius 10.3%. That's below the state's threshold of 12%, the front runner to replace embattled House Speaker Michael Madigan is facing questions about his past. Police report shows officers were called to the West Suburban hillside home of Welsh in 20 0 to Chris Welch in 20 0 to his girlfriend told police that well slammed her head into a kitchen countertop numerous times after she called him a loser. The woman didn't press charges. Welch also face to 2010 federal lawsuit for sexual harassment and retaliation in which different different woman claims she lost her job at the provides. Oh township High School district. Because she broke up with him while he was president of the school Board of Chicago. Alderman wants the Trump Tower sign removed If President Trump is impeached again, Alderman Gilbert Vegas will introduce an ordinance at the next City Council meeting. He says signed permit should be denied a revoked if the name is someone who's been convicted of a crime. Treason, sedition or subversive activities. Eviction would require a two thirds vote in the Senate after impeachment by the House. The second ordinance would prohibit anyone who took part in the capital violence from doing business with the city of Chicago. Now, with WGN SPORTS Here's Dave innit amid plenty of speculation that they might clean house. The Bears apparently think Palace Hall is clean enough. Flurry of reports surfaced last night that both general manager Ryan Pace and coach Mad Maggie will be given another year. Toe try to restore the franchise to the success they enjoyed in 2018. That means they'll decide the future of quarterback Mitch Torbinski, as well as Who will call the shots defensively. D coordinator Chuck Pagano expected to retire Happy birthday to Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colijn he gets to celebrate turning 36 on the road against the defending Stanley Cup champions. The Blackhawks Open the new season tonight at Tampa Bay. College and will have to do it without some key players out with the illness or injury. Jonathon Tape's Kirby Doc and Alex Knee Lander, and he could no longer count on Corey Crawford in gold. But he also has a two year contract extension as the Hawks Open the season. The pre game with Chris Boden tonight 6 30 face off at seven with John and Troy here on W. GM the Bulls game of the Boston last night. Postpone because Covert 19 protocols. College basketball. Seventh ranked Michigan has done something no other team has ever done, beating three straight ranked opponents by at least 19 points. The latest number nine Wisconsin 77 54. The Wolverines are 11. No Northern Illinois beat Akron 67 65..
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"If health care workers in that location are not taking up that vaccine. And let's give it to people who are next in line that includes first responders, school personnel and teachers, food and agriculture facilities, manufacturing site staff that shelters and daycares postal workers, public transit workers, corrections officers and inmates. Lauren Cone 8 90 WLS news, while Chicago public schools Are saying that there were about 500 more than 500 teachers AWOL yesterday as some kids return to in classroom learning. Let's get more on the story from Nick Gail. Some 6500 Chicago public school students were expected back in the classroom yesterday. CPS saying that about 71% of teachers expected back actually showed up Monday. Those that didn't show up today. Risk not getting paid and locked out of their Google classroom and email accounts. Alderman Ray Lopez telling Bruce ST James on WLS Think if PPS Gone it discipline correct. For their contract. We could wind up seeing payouts form grievances and things of that nature. Look, I'm sure teachers want to teach Our kids want to learn. But if we keep trying to beat people over the head with a bad just to prove a right, we're not gonna accomplish what we need to accomplish. See if he has also reported that an additional 235 teachers failed health screenings when they showed up Monday. It had to be turned away. Nick Gale 8 90 WLS news Finally, tonight. We told you yesterday that Illinois House Speaker Michael Mad again is about nine votes short of what he needs to get another term as Illinois House speaker. Now the legislative Black Caucus. Most of them to offer 20 all but one of their 22 members had endorsed mad again for another term. But now that it looks like mad again doesn't have the votes. State. Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch of Hillside is stepping forward as a possible candidate for speaker of the House. And now all 22 members of the Black Caucus are endorsing Chris Welch. For speaker. But of course, the number 22 is a lot less than the number 51, which is the number that mad again. Had before yesterday. But Madigan still short of what he needs for another term as Illinois House speaker and, of course he has been implicated in the comment. Bribery scandal. But Madigan has not officially been charged. WLS news time 408 WLS News is sponsored in part by cars for kids..
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"Mike Madigan has suspended his reelection campaign for speaker. WGN State Capitol reporter Mark Maxwell says that doesn't mean Madigan is done. Make no mistake. Speaker Madigan still wants to win this thing. This is his strategy ball out for now and see if the House Democrats splinter into different factions backing different parts. Across the state. If that happens, and Democrats remain further divided well, he's positioned himself to try and jump back in and unify the caucus. But then we're just right back to square one with at least 19 Democrats who publicly opposed his race. The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, which back mad again is reportedly thrown his support behind Madigan allies, state representative Chris Welch. Who led the committee investigating Madigan's role in the comments scandal that investigation was dropped. A woman is under
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The AirPods Max Review
"Review time again but this time headphones specifically the airpods max. I'll stick to one review today to stand for all the others so as usual. I'm gonna pick the verge with chris. Welsh chris says the airpods max have a luxury design. They have terrific sound quality. They're very effective at noise cancellation. But they are heavy. The lack of a three point five millimeter headphone. Jack means these are not headphones. You can use anywhere for anything and his words here. The included case is an abomination. I about that case. And then about the headphone jack and then his conclusions about the headphones themselves quote far and away. The worst thing about the airpods. Max is their case. If you can call it that which i consider generous look putting aside all the memes about looking like a handbag or bra. It's a failure on every level at functionality. And i don't know what apple was thinking. It makes the airpods max easy to recognize at a distance. Maybe that was the main goal but in terms of doing case things. It's a joke that offers virtually no protection for your five hundred and fifty dollar headphones. I wouldn't feel good about throwing this into a packed bag. The earcups could get scratched since there are so many slits in the case and something could poke through that exposed mesh canopy and the case also picks up dirt and smudges in no time. This is bad enough. Misfire that it drags down the entire product. Everyone else gets this right and it's baffling. That apple could get it so wrong. I'd expect to see many third-party cases for the airpods. Max very soon and i predict apple will sell some of those directly because this thing is just untenable another downside. No three point five millimeter. Jack the airpods. Max only have a lightning connector. So if you want higher-quality wired audio or to plug them in on a plane you've got to get a thirty five dollar cable. No putting an oxford between two iphone. Headphone dangles won't work. Ouch i can live without the three point. Five millimeter jack but to not include the cable in the box at this price rude also. It's worth mentioning that there's no passive mode for the airpods max. When they're out of juice they stop working altogether. Even if you're wired you can't use the very good clear sounding voice. Mike's on the headphones plugged in either. But the cable is good for eliminating all latency. If you want to use the airpods max. For recording or monitoring purposes and quote then to his wrap-up quote these headphones might end up a hit lately. The earbuds they share a name with but they could also just coast by the same vein as something like the homepods. Another apple product that was priced higher than the competition when released and hurt by it. If you're the kind of person that knows you'll love the airpods max. You shouldn't hesitate to go for it. They sound killer for music and movies alike and they feel like they should cost even more money. They're about as luxurious as noise. Cancelling headphones get but not as expensive as they come. But there's still no world. I would recommend the airpods max to your average headphone shopper. Especially when the airpods pro offer a lot of the same features for less many consumers will be perfectly happy. Sticking with the tried and true options from sony bows microsoft and elsewhere at the very least. It's probably worth waiting for apple music. Hd or spatial audio on the apple tv. Or for god's sake a better case and quote
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MacBook Air with Apple's own M1 chip is faster and has better battery life than Intel-based predecessors
"And speaking of that our final blizzard of reviews for probably this year blue in this morning the embargoes for reviews of macs using the new emlyn ships broke this morning. Let me get two of the devices out of the way before we focus more on the meat of the interesting stuff. Which in my opinion is the mac. Air all include links to these reviews in the show notes even if we don't delve into all of them deeply at the verge chris. Welsh says the mac mini with the new ship is a mixed bag. Existing apps run well and the price is certainly appealing but with ram limited bizarrely to sixteen gigabytes and the inability to upgrade that ram and since it doesn't support external. Gpa's could you really run this as your main machine. His conclusion though was mostly positive. Quote spending a few days with the twenty twenty. Mac mini has shown me that it's a barn burner of a miniature desktop. It outperforms most intel macs in several benchmarks runs apps reliably and offers a fantastic day to day experience whether you're using it for web browsing and email or for creative editing and professional work that potential will only grow an apple inevitably raises the rams ceiling and hopefully bring back those missing usb ports. These six hundred and ninety nine dollars. Starting price is tempting but most people will be better off upgrading to sixteen gigabytes of unified memory. Which puts you at eight hundred and ninety nine dollars. Doubling the default six hundred and fifty six gigabytes storage makes that cost climb higher to one thousand ninety nine dollars but even then the price to performance ratio for the mac mini has never been better than with this. Change over to apple silicon. Even if you ignore iphone apps completely transition is off to an impressive start considering just how smoothly everything comes together. And just as ever the mac. Minis flexibility is what makes it special and quote. Also at the verge. Neil patel tackled the macbook pro with the chip and he concurred great performance. Great display great battery life but again why ram limited to sixteen gigabytes and also this kind of got lost in the shuffle of the original announcement but only two usb ports only two period only to on a pro machine guests. I'm gonna be holding onto this last macbook pro with actual ports and sd card reader and hdmi etc until it literally is on its last legs. Anyway knee lies conclusion quote. There are two things to say about the thirteen inch. Macbook pro with 'em one chip one. The m one and the work apple has done to make a difficult processor. Transition seamless remarkable success and to this particular mac book. Pro doesn't necessarily seem like a worthwhile upgrade over the macbook. Air with an m one chip. Yes it offers slightly better sustained performance and a little more battery life than the air. But i would happily trade back. Those seconds of faster rendering time on the pro for the hours of frustration caused by the touch bar. And if you have much more serious performance needs it seems likely that you might want more than two ports sixteen gigabytes of ram and only one external display so. This machine is a twitter. An excellent fascinating twitter buddy between her nonetheless and quote
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Samsung's Galaxy Buds Live are clear winners with a unique design, strong sound and long battery life
"Lose Samsung unpacked event was just yesterday but if you believe Chris Welsh over at the verge The surprise breakout announcement from yesterday was for something that a lot of us kind of ridiculed those galaxy buds live. Those things that look like actual beans that you put in your ear. Well. Welsh says maybe they're cool beans an unconventional design for God's might actually turn out to be a winner quoting from his review. The one, hundred, sixty, nine, dollars, ninety, nine, Cent Buds live have a style all their own and they're super reflective in the bronze color which can look more rose gold and some lighting but I generally liked the look and the fact that Samsung is experimenting. You've never worn ear buds quite like these, which means putting them in the first few times feels a bit foreign and. You might think it turns out they slot into the culture of my ears quite naturally the bean design works and are both comfortable and stable once they're there are no silicone tips, the speaker points directly into your ear canal. The Buds live have silicone stabilisers near the top, and there's a slightly larger set included in the box if those buds better sit in your ears contours. The tap controls work just like those on the galaxy buds plus single tap to pause double the skip three to go back and you can customize what along press does the Galaxy Buds live carrying case which has a USB port and wireless charging support is wonderfully compact though the ear buds will definitely go flying out if you drop it since they don't have a very deep cradle with three total beam forming Mike's to on the exterior and one inside the galaxy. Buds live have performed just fine during my zoom meetings and Voice Calls Samsung. says. They also have a voice pickup unit in the hardware for improved speech detection you can use either. But independently while the other is charging in the case taken as a whole package, the Gazi Buds live, exceed what I came in expecting based on the leaks and the uncertainty I had about what the bean shaped would mean for comfort and sound quality neither wound up being a concern after actually using them. If you're okay living with a healthy dose of outside sound while listening to the Galaxy Buds live, there's a lot to like and quote.
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Google’s much improved Pixel Buds are finally here
"Back when the pixel phones were refreshed. You might remember that. Google announced the hundred and seventy nine dollars. Second Gen Pixel Bud wireless ear buds. They were to be Google's first. True wireless ear buds eliminating that fabric tether that the first generation had and the emphasis at the time was on the hands. Free Google assistant voice control capabilities. However they weren't immediately made available delayed for six months or something as Google said at the time. Well it's been six months. It's spring and finally. The new Pixel Buds are here and at the Verge Chris. Welsh says. The design is much improved. Wireless charging is cool. Google assistant works well and the sound quality is very good. However one small caveat quote new to this iteration as soft stabiliser arc. Think of it like a silicone fin on each earbud. That's meant to help the Pixel buds stay anchored in your ears. I had no issues with comfort. But we've been testing a few pairs of Pixel Buds and dinner and Becca. Bo said the ARC caused some soreness during extended listening and quote. I should describe this. It's not a silicon thin. That goes around the outside of your ear. It's actually it tucks inside your kind ear canal a little bit. I can see how if your ears aren't shaped correctly. That would be a little uncomfortable. So I know if that's a deal breaker or not I guess it depends on your ear and I mean one advantage of the design is the fact that you don't have anything dangling from your head if you'll recall that does mean it sort of looks like you've got Frankenstein. Monster style bolts in your ears. But I guess that's an a weirder than any other design that's out there. And frankly the coolest application of these things remains the ability to use google. Translate in real time if you're traveling. And Encountering Foreign Tongues Chris's conclusion in his review. Was this quote at one. Hundred seventy nine dollars. The Pixel Buds are priced at the same level as Jabra's elite seventy five t ear buds. Which is still personally pick over these for their more dynamic sound and because you don't miss out on features depending on what phone you have. There's unsurprisingly no pixel buds APP for IOS. But if Google assistant has a decent sized presence in your life you might be willing to make do with the downsides of Google's new ear buds lacking base and the occasional swell in outside noise for the convenience of being able to call upon it anytime anywhere