Episodes

  • WGN Radio host Dave Plier is engaged!

    WGN Radio host Dave Plier is engaged!
    Nov 2 2024
    Lisa Dent welcomes Dave Plier and his fiancé Erica McDonald to talk about getting engaged last week, a second time around for them both, and a slight age difference that Dave refuses to recognize.
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  • Mo Rocca profiles ‘Roctogenarians’: Well-known and the lesser known achieving great things later in life

    Mo Rocca profiles ‘Roctogenarians’: Well-known and the lesser known achieving great things later in life
    Nov 2 2024
    TV host Mo Rocca talks to WGN Radio’s Dave Plier about his new book ‘Roctogenerians’, an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.
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  • Retailers go old school and return to holiday catalogs, Chicago stores gone but not forgotten

    Retailers go old school and return to holiday catalogs, Chicago stores gone but not forgotten
    Nov 2 2024
    WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks to former WGN newsman Roger Badesch about the return of holiday catalogs, inspired by the old Sears Wish Book. Plus, Dave & Roger take a look back at stores we shopped that are gone but not forgotten like Marshall Fields, Wieboldt’s, Montgomery Ward, Zayre, Venture and more.
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  • Bill O’Reilly: No spin assessments on the U.S. presidency from Washington to Biden

    Bill O’Reilly: No spin assessments on the U.S. presidency from Washington to Biden
    Nov 2 2024
    WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks to author and journalist Bill O’Reilly about his latest book ‘Confronting the Presidents’. From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United States presidents have left lasting impacts on our nation. Some of their legacies continue today, some are justly […]
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  • WGN-TV’s Larry Potash on the 15th season of ‘Backstory’: Rise and fall of the mall, tattoos, nostalgia, Chicago sports heroes

    WGN-TV’s Larry Potash on the 15th season of ‘Backstory’: Rise and fall of the mall, tattoos, nostalgia, Chicago sports heroes
    Oct 5 2024
    WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks to WGN-TV’s Larry Potash about the 15th season of Backstory, premiering Sunday October 6, 2024 at 11pm! The broadcasts will also be livestreamed on the WGN+ app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Samsung Smart TVs; online at WGNTV.com/Live and the WGN News mobile app.
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  • Dave Plier and Billy Corgan share memories of ‘Bozo’s Circus’

    Dave Plier and Billy Corgan share memories of ‘Bozo’s Circus’
    Oct 5 2024
    Audio and video of Dave Plier's interview with Billy Corgan.
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  • The Tonight Show’s 70th anniversary with editor, author and producer Bill Carter

    The Tonight Show’s 70th anniversary with editor, author and producer Bill Carter
    Sep 28 2024
    WGN Radio’s Dave Plier celebrates the 70th anniversary of The Tonight Show with Bill Carter, columnist, author and producer of ‘The Story of Late Night’, highlighting the legacy of the series and hosts Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon.
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  • The Tonight Show’s 70th anniversary with legendary bandleader Doc Severinsen

    The Tonight Show’s 70th anniversary with legendary bandleader Doc Severinsen
    Sep 28 2024
    To celebrate The Tonight Show’s 70th Anniversary, WGN Radio’s Dave Plier shares his conversation with legendary bandleader Doc Severinsen, talking about leading the Tonight Show Band, working with Johnny, his fashion statements, favorite moments filling in for Ed McMahon, touring on the road and remembering the day that Johnny left us.
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