Step up for a good cause at Skyrise Chicago

It's time to step up to support a good cause, and we mean literally, during Skyrise Chicago. Have you ever done that, Jake, where you climbed the Willis? No, I have not. I got winded walking into the studio, so no, I missed that one. All right, people are going to climb 100 floors to support the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, and one of those people is Gabriela Primas. Hi, Gabby. So you guys are having us follow up, Jon Bon Jovi, and then also I'm hearing that Jake has never done this before and I'm hearing that now I have to put him on the list for Sunday November 8th, Sue, we've done it man, 105 floors this morning, thank you very much, okay we've done some flights guys, but we all haven't done all 105, it's going to happen November 8th, but this is a preparation day isn't it, Sue? That is, and you feel good uh this is going to be your second year, right? this is all for Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, right? America's number one rehab hospital that we're lucky enough to have right here in Chicago. For everyone at home, you're gonna be participating. What is your story? Because you had a recent diagnosis a handful of years ago. Right, four years ago I was diagnosed with PD Parkinson's disease and my doctor in neurology said I've got two things to tell you. First, the only thing that really works is exercise and And second, you go to Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, and you have a full workout with them or, you know, summary workout, and then you just, you know, you go to the labs themselves. They're targeting PD with certain exercise classes, and they're great. Amazing, and that's what makes us so special. Of course, you're going to climb because you're part of the program. You're seeing benefits from Shirley Ryan Ability Lab. but also everyone else who signs up and we encourage you to do so, it will benefit uh Shirley Ryan Ability Lab and all the great things that you guys do because you have a whole community now but I want to ask you how it feels getting up to the finish line where we are right now and what it looks like walking out this door it feels like a um runner's high a runner's high a runner's high you can just um know that the dopamine is working up there and uh it's a very very special feeling and it couldn't have happened without Shirley Ryan and Ability Lab. There's no way it could have happened. I'm part of a group there and the group itself really helps one to really understand each other and talk to each other openly that you don't share with others about what's going on and what are the new treatments and what else can we do with at shirley ryan and um it's just great it makes it it makes it worthwhile to live and it is so amazing because even for preparation day we have some cheerleaders here because it is awesome to see some of the current patients at shirley ryan um also some of the former ones that are sometimes in the stairwell so enjoy the view here at the top of the willis tower gm of skydeck here randy you guys have hosted skyrise Chicago for the last you guys are such good cheerleaders uh for the last 18 years yeah I mean it is cool getting up here crossing that finish line it'll look a lot different there's a whole DJ and stuff that day uh but what is the energy like the energy is it's unbelievable I mean it's normally pretty energetic on every day people are in a good mood they're here they're taking it in there's awe for the views going every direction but you layer in a couple hundred people that are cheering and accomplishing something that's not very easy to do but more importantly doing it for a great cause, the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, and what they do with the money makes us feel great. And of course, the fact that we can raise over a million dollars here at the Tower to give to them in one day, it's really rewarding. I know that you're the record holder for, just kidding, I think it's like 13, I believe it or not, I think it's like, what is it, like 13 minutes? I think people have broke that record to get all the way up, I mean 105 floors. And why do we say 105 rather than 103? Because we thought a couple years ago, let's take people through the brand new museum we created so every climber will go through the museum and it's really great so it's two floors down and then you come up to the 105th floor and you get the most rewarding finish line here in the city of Chicago any event that it has I would stack any finish line against what you're looking at here it is absolutely incredible okay skyrisechicago.org that is the place to be you can see where they're at in terms of their fundraising goal it's 1.3 that you're trying to raise for Skyrise this year and it's all going to benefit Shirley Ryan Ability Lab and guys participate and if you can't participate then that's where you donate i'm going to be one of the climbers i have a list of Fox Chicago peeps who are also going to be climbing with me i'm going to be sending out an email later guys to try to get more people um awesome cause we're going to go over to ledge because once you're done then also included is the very special sightseeing this is a beautiful view wait until you get over there all right i'll send it back to you you guys for now. All right. Thank you so much, Gabby.