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Dave Plier and Dave Schwan talk about the beginnings of prohibition, Ford introduces the assembly line, Whamo and the frisbee, Ernie Banks is nominated to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the warnings surrounding the debut of legendary sitcom ‘All in the Family’ and a look back at the Blizzard of ’79 in Chicago.  

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WGN- TV Meteorologist Demetrius Ivory joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier with a winter storm update at 11pm Friday night.  

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Dave’s conversations with Chicago’s own Gary Sinise on his acting journey, The Steppenwolf Theater, ‘Forrest Gump’ and his unwavering support for our veterans; rock legend Mick Jones of ‘Foreigner’; David Eigenberg, best known from ‘Sex in the City’ and NBC’s ‘Chicago Fire’; and comedy legend Carl Reiner.

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Dave shares more of his favorite conversation of the year featuring music icon Olivia Newton John; Christopher Knight; Peter Brady from The Brady Bunch’ on the series’ 50th anniversary; George Schlatter, producer/director/writer of ‘Laugh-In’ on fifty years and this year’s new retrospective on Netflix; and Larry Potash and Mike Toomey look back at 60’s and 70’s classic TV.

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Dave celebrates 50 years of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ in a 2015 interview with Executive Producer of the Peanuts specials, Lee Mendelson, as they talk about cartoonist Charles Schulz and the journey to make this American holiday classic.