freelance ranks of the capital together. she stayed at the capital, i moved on. this is horrific what happened, and we should all be upset and we should all remember those five names. they shouldn t have died. and as i explained to my 16-year-old who was leaving in a week to go study journalism, this is not normal. this isn t how i grew up. john, this isn t how you grew up. this could have easily happened in your newsroom, it could have happened in my newsroom. this is not how i grew up. i m a former paperboy myself from the old school. these are your colleagues, your former friends, but you were particularly close with wendi winters. so wendi and i rose up through the freelance ranks together. we weren t best friends, but we worked together at the capital, and we worked side by side on stories together. wendi is such an incredibly
witnesses, the massive fight, which spanned on for over three days what are they doing involved 23 people, and guess what? they were all reportedly from the same family. finally after three days of chaos, the cruise stopped early in australia and police had to remove all 23. [laughs] you can t make this up. time for the hotline. let s see what you ve got. sean, all these jobs you had, paperboy, busboy, dishwasher, roofer, framer, plumber, on and on and on, do you know what it sounds like to me? you couldn t hold a job. i was so sick with the flu that every day i watched your show and every day you made me feel a little bit better. watching you is the best medicine, so anybody with the flu, they need to watch you, because you give us hope for the
chris: the story begins back in 1962 when he was a 12 -year-old paperboy from maine won a trip to washington. what impressed him most was arlington, it s beauty and dignity in those rows and rows of grades. everyone represents a life in a family and a story. they are not just tombstones. those are all people. chris: 30 years later in 1992 he was running his own wreath company in harrington, maine but his christmas approached he had a bunch left over. these weeds were fresh and just made and i just didn t want to throw them away. chris: he thought of arlington and all those great. when the cemetery approved he and a dozen volunteers drove the wreaths down and laid them on the headstones. and so it continued for years until a few christmases back when an air force sergeant took this picture which ended up on
it. chris: the story begins back in 1962 when he was a 12 -year-old paperboy from maine won a trip to washington. what impressed him most was arlington, it s beauty and dignity in those rows and rows of grades. everyone represents a life in a family and a story. they are not just tombstones. those are all people. chris: 30 years later in 1992 he was running his own wreath company in harrington, maine but his christmas approached he had a bunch left over. these weeds were fresh and just made and i just didn t want to throw them away. chris: he thought of arlington and all those great. when the cemetery approved he and a dozen volunteers drove the wreaths down and laid them on the headstones. and so it continued for years until a few christmases back when an air force sergeant took
nobody saw it. it seems in all my life,d since i was a paperboy, a dishwasher, cook, waiter, busboy, bartender, tile layer, painter okay, are we going to do the whole list? i m going to list my jobs now. sean: for two decades of my life, i ve always had a sense of urgency. i have it every day on radio like you do. where is his sense of urgency to get this done after promising it for eight years? precisely, sean. also why do you keep telegraphing that you pretty much have the vote? i know you said today we will vote when we have the votes, they are not going to call it unless they have the consensus. over the last two weeks, how many times did you and i get calls from capitol hill saying we are close, really close. we are going to do it.