Chicago native Curtis Granderson, TBS baseball analyst and former MLB All-Star, joins John Williams to talk about his lengthy professional baseball career, the upcoming MLW Wiffle Ball series returning to Curtis Granderson Stadium at UIC, the Youth Collector Clubs Initiative that amplifies collector educational efforts, his thoughts on this year’s Home Run Derby and All-Star Game, what he thinks of the newer rules to make the game move faster, and why he thinks it’s great for baseball that the White Sox are competitive again.

We are ‘Keeping it Green’ with Bob Bertog, president of Bertog Landscape Co. in Wheeling and a certified landscape professional with the National Association of Landscape Professionals, joins John Williams to answer all of your lawn and garden questions. Bob says that you should still keep watering and if the humidity comes back, to keep an eye out for diseases.

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Eric Zorn, Publisher of The Picayune Sentinel, joins John Williams to talk about the viral video that shows a person at a Cubs game slapping the fan in front of him for not standing for the national anthem, if political candidates should run for multiple offices at the same time, the candidates lining up to become Chicago mayor, and why he’s frustrated with navigation apps.

Dr. Michael Bauer, Medical Director, Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital, talks to John Williams about the latest on the cyclosporiasis outbreak in the US, the FDA approving a daily pill that could lower cholesterol level, and a new study that shows regular coffee consumption may be linked to a lower risk of stroke, diabetes and heart failure.

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Emily Austin, Associate Professor of Classics and the College, The University of Chicago, joins John Williams to talk about Christopher Nolan’s new movie ‘The Odyssey’ and what we should know about the original text of the poem.

The great Mr. Fix-It, Lou Manfredini, joins John Williams to tell us the projects we need to be working on this week. Lou says that it’s time for dead branch pruning. Lou also answers all of your home improvement questions.

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Michael Evans Behling, star of The CW’s hit drama ‘All American,’ joins John Williams to to talk about how many times he’s been to the Chicago area having grown up in the Midwest, what the show ‘All American’ is all about, the transitions in the show over the course of 8 seasons, his experience running track & field in college at Indiana State, when he became interested in acting, his role in the Chicago-set series ‘Empire,’ the support he received from his family when he decided to pursue acting, and how the belief in himself and his perseverance has positively impacted his career.