Episodes

  • From first down to touchdown, elevate your tailgate with Barefoot Wine

    From first down to touchdown, elevate your tailgate with Barefoot Wine
    Nov 16 2024
    Jennifer Wall, award-winning winemaker behind Barefoot Wine, official sponsor of the NFL, joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk about elevating your tailgating experience with Barefoot Wine; wings, burgers, bbq rib pairings and more!
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  • Garry Meier & Dave Plier: The importance of Veterans Day and a remembrance of Garry’s father’s experience in WWII

    Garry Meier & Dave Plier: The importance of Veterans Day and a remembrance of Garry’s father’s experience in WWII
    Nov 11 2024
    WGN Radio’s Dave Plier catches up with Radio Hall of Famer Garry Meier to continue a Veterans Day tradition: Celebrating his father, WWII veteran Frank Meier, as he shares his special recording about the 48-hour period of battle in December 1944 during his service in the U.S. Army under General George Patton.
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  • Goose Island’s 2024 Bourbon County Stout Variants release on Black Friday!

    Goose Island’s 2024 Bourbon County Stout Variants release on Black Friday!
    Nov 9 2024
    Goose Island’s annual Bourbon County Stout lineup will be released on Black Friday! WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks to Todd Ahsmann – President of Goose Island, Mike Siegel – Goose Island Senior Innovation Manager, WGN TV Morning News’ Jeff Hoover, Tracy Hoover and Erica McDonald about this time-honored tradition, the history, the process, and why […]
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  • Celebrity political endorsements simply don’t matter

    Celebrity political endorsements simply don’t matter
    Nov 9 2024
    WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks about this week’s presidential election, over a century of celebrity endorsements, the fact that celebrity endorsements did not drive voters to cast a ballot for a specific candidate this year and the need for these superstars to stay in their lane.
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  • 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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