Best Of XRT

At the 2020 Cubs Convention, Lin Brehmer & Marty Lennartz sat down with Cubs Radio 670 WSCR color analyst Ron Coomer to chat about who gave him his "Coom-Dawg" nickname, his thoughts on the Astros & Red Sox cheating scandals, and a whole lot more.

Lin Brehmer shares fond memories of watching Monty Python's Flying Circus alongside other red-eyed college students back in the 70's.

Welcome to the Linside Podcast: addressing the great podcast shortage in America, where today we speak with Jason Narducy (Split Single, Bob Mould, Superchunk) about the new rock and roll musical, Verboten. Verboten is based on the true story of Chicago’s own young punks. Written by Brett Neveu with music and lyrics by Jason Narducy. Info at TheHouseTheatre.com. We also talk about Dave Grohl, Sonic Highways, Steve Albini, Bob Mould, Mike Mills, Jon Wurster, Cubby Bear, Nora O’Connor, The Decemberists and the original members of Verboten.

The Bears open the 2019 football campaign against the Green Bay Packers. It’s a rivalry that goes all the way back to the birth of the NFL. An earnest listeners asked Lin, What do you have against Wisconsin and The Packers?

Lee Smith was inducted into the Hall of Fame and Lin Brehmer pays tribute to the dominant Cubs closer.

Just Jeff Garlin from The Goldbergs and Curb Your Enthusiasm stopping by to alphabetize the CDs ...

He’s got two shows at Park West Wednesday June 12 at 7 & 9:30pm for his Netflix special that’ll be releasing in the coming months.  Tickets available right here.

We catch up with Cage The Elephant frontman Matt Shultz ahead of the release of their new album Social Cues.

Ben Lovett & Ted Dwane from Mumford & Sons stopped by the XRT studios prior to their big show at the United Center to discuss their new album Delta, bringing an intimate feeling to a large stage, and their long relationship with Chicago.