Happy 125th Birthday, Jack Benny! Steve Darnall of Nostalgia Digest Magazine joins Dave Plier to celebrate the 125th birthday of legendary comedian Jack Benny, plus highlights from the Winter Edition including the classic movie Casablanca, the radio career of the great John Barrymore, the king of Hollywood stunt riders, the very first television musical, Leonard Maltin’s examination of silent movie stars who moved to television.

Dave Plier and Dave Schwan share history on the first Valentine’s Day, Cracker Jack launches in Chicago, Batman Comics debuts, Elvis’ first TV appearance, the trial of The Chicago 7.

If you grew up in the ’60s or ’70s, then your childhood was no doubt shaped by the psychedelic creations of Sid and Marty Krofft! Dave shares his conversation with legendary TV producer Marty Krofft to talk about their earliest days producing ‘The Banana Splits’, 50 years of ‘H.R. Pufnstuf’, ‘Land of the Lost’, their latest series ‘Mutt & Stuff’ and the legacy of Saturday morning television.  

Marketing executive and comedian Jeff Rogers joins Dave to preview this year’s Super Bowl Commercials including Amazon, Microsoft, Budweiser, Hyundai, plus a discussion on the costs, the impact and a look back at the most memorable Super Bowl spots of all-time.   http://serve.castfire.com/audio/3592324/3592324_2019-02-03-045324.64kmono.mp3

Dave talks Sunday’s big game with VSiN host Sam Panayotovich on the odds and props (which will exceed $320 million) including the score of the game, the coin toss, the half-time show and thoughts on when Illinois will potentially legalize sports gambling. To catch up with Sam, and for more information visit, vsin.com.    http://serve.castfire.com/audio/3592325/3592325_2019-02-03-045425.64kmono.mp3

Dave Plier and Dave Schwan talk about the history of Super Bowl Half Time Shows, when the Bears won Super Bowl XX, ‘DA Bears’ on SNL with Mike Meyers, George Wendt and Chris Farley and the 60th Anniversary of the Day that Music Died. http://serve.castfire.com/audio/3592342/3592342_2019-02-03-062942.64kmono.mp3

Chicago’s own John Cusack, who has hit the big screen in classics such as ’Say Anything’, ’Sixteen Candles’, ’The Sure Thing’ and ‘Gross Point Blank’, joins Dave to look back and give his spin on movie ‘High Fidelity’ and preview his screening and LIVE Q&A at The Genesee Theater on Sunday, February 10th. http://serve.castfire.com/audio/3592341/3592341_2019-02-03-062441.64kmono.mp3

Actor and comedian Jeff Rogers shares news with the Dave that he is relaunching ‘The Players Workshop’ in Chicago, the windy city’s only official school of improvisation for over a decade, which helped launched the careers of Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Robert Smigel, Amy Sedaris, Bob Odenkirk, George Wendt and others. For more information on ‘The Players Workshop’ please visit playersworkshoponline.com  

Dave Plier is joined by Emmy and Grammy award winning, producer, director, writer and documentary filmmaker Andrew Solt  to talk about the most valued television libraries of all time, which he owns, ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’.  The collection includes over 10,000 performances including The Beatles (celebrating 55th Anniversary Performance), The Rolling Stones, Bill Haley & the Comets, The Doors and Elvis Presley. To find more information visit edsullivan.com.   http://serve.castfire.com/audio/3592338/3592338_2019-02-03-060938.64kmono.mp3

Dave welcomes in actor Mark Paul Gosselaar to talk about Fox’s new critically acclaimed vampire drama ‘The Passage’ and to celebrate the 30th anniversary this year of TV throwback ‘Saved by the Bell’.