A fundamentally decent person, in a fundamentally indecent time. He lived a long life but for the rest of us it wasn't long enough.The Vatican says that Pope Francis died after suffering a stroke and heart failure, but not before he gav...

This new episode features one of my favorite guests. Robert Jones is the current Chancellor of the University of Illinois but is about to leave to become the next President at the University of Washington.He has lived an amazing life so...

TIME TO TURN THE PAGERichard Roeper had over 16,000 bylines at the Chicago Sun-Times. That's an incredible run! As a Southside kid, he has lived his dream by not just working at his hometown newspaper but by being one of its biggest star...

IT'S BASEBALL SEASON, GO PLAY OUTSIDE!He's on MLB Network Radio and ESPN.  He knows so much baseball - he may know too much.Mike Ferrin is here with a big league season preview where he picks winners and we try to come up wit...

YOU ARE WORTH IT - YOU CAN BEAT THISMy older brother, Mickey, will celebrate 22 years since his last drink on 1/1/2026. We both lived through his very bad days and now have the reward of his very good ones.That makes the great n...

SLAMMIN' SAMMY IS BACKLast spring Sammy Sosa joined me for his first Chicago interview in years. This spring the CUBS have him back in the family.I'm not taking credit for it but if the CUBS win another WS I'm expecting a ring.

While I'm away we've pulled a couple of the most popular episodes of LIVE FROM MY OFFICE. First up is a look inside the mind of WGN MORNING NEWS star Paul Konrad.Taylor Swift says "everything I know about handling fame comes from Paul"

One of my favorite funny people, Tim Cavanagh, is my guest.We talk funny things.  He sings.  And we land on an innovation to ease your anxiety. It's the exact kind of escapism we all could use right now. See Tim o...

OH MY!So, how are you feeling? Seems like EVERYONE is sick in this new year so I ask Dr. Kevin Most all about it. Then we talk the new head of Health and Human Services, RFK JR.Hard to rank which of Trump's idiotic Cab...

One of the last places you may think of for fixing corruption in politics... is Illinois.Think again!In a time where justice is something we can't count on anymore, a bad guy got his in a Chicago courtroom. Mike Madigan was the mo...

...of this interview. The last few minutes are as close as it gets to the siloed, narcissistic-sociopathic mind of OJ. It's impossible to explain all that went into getting an interview with OJ SIMPSON in the 90s. He was topic #1 for everyone, ...

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world. He might be our best shot at a future in space. Has he hurt SpaceX. What is he after? David Kerley from Full Throttle on Substack joins me to talk Elon. Then I'll give you a chance to win when we pl...

The best thing we can do MAY just be to look away.Perspective and advice AND some laughs. Plus, a bonus call from "Trump" on this new episode of LIVE FROM MY OFFICE NOTES

As we head into the great unknown of the potential s*** show that is 2025, it seemed like a good time to put the band back together. So Pat Brady and Eric Adelstein join me to talk about what is - and what might be - and where we mi...

This is part two, of many, in a continuing effort to understand the terminology of politics and how it affects all of us. In other words we cut through the BS for you and you use your new knowledge to start to change a broken system.

We start the New Year with one of the funniest people ever... and I'm including all of history... court jesters, smart ass monks, and street prophets... Colin Mochrie! Sure, Colin's phone line was a little messed up during the conversation, but...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!Just before my last big NYE comedy show, I get the band together to talk on this final episode of LIVE FROM MY OFFICE for 2024. Enjoy Tim Benker, John DaCosse, and Jim Flannigan and tolerate me on New Year's Eve! We've got...

Dave Barry is one of the funniest people in all of history and he's back on the podcast. We talk Christmas gifts and his new memoir...then I almost talk him out of writing the memoir. That's what friends are for! He's older...

It's important that you hear this episode where we talk about your body and your soul!Dr. Kevin Most has never stopped preaching the TRUTH about vaccines and here he lays out the potential danger of RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Hu...

My pal David Kaplan joins me to discuss the mystery of the Bears. He's got an amazing story about how the Bears lost a great NFL head coach by being incredibly cheap and he covers the best and the worst of the NFL. We even aofferlittle hope in ...

It's been two weeks since the election and I need to say two things.1) I was wrong about the winner2) I'm not wrong about what I believeIn this first episode of LIVE FROM MY OFFICE since Trump was elected, again, I tackle...

With the election just a few days away, I wanted to spend a little more time encouraging you to go vote. This episode is in two parts, with the first being me going through a list of what should disqualify Donald Trump from ever being President...

A special episode of LIVE FROM MY OFFICE where the boss at The Raue Center, Richard Kuranda, and John Da Cosse, join me to talk theater and my last NEW YEARS EVE show coming soonOh...and...a bananas call from Trump that you have to hear...

...OR IS IT JUST BEGINNING?Days before this massive election it's two of my favorite voices in politics on this new episode of LIVE FROM MY OFFICE. The Democrat is Bridget Gainer. The Republican is Pat BradyUnlike everyone else in...

David Letterman once said about Bill Zehme, "...he was also emblematic of that era when profile writers were often cooler than the people they were profiling. Whenever he interviewed me, I tried inhumanly hard to impress the guy..."Bill...