Lisa Dent

Dan Hampton, NFL Hall of Famer and host of the Hamp and O’B show, joins Lisa Dent to preview the Bears’ first game of the 2026 season against the Carolina Panthers.

Lisa Dent checks in with the newsroom to hear their stories, including Kevin celebrating Jack’s second birthday themed after Toy Story, Nashville International Airport is in the process of renaming itself in honor of Dolly Parton, and Mary asks, “what’s with” college football players wearing crop tops.

Clarendon Hills resident Stu Breslow joins the Lisa Dent Show to share his story of September 11, 2001 where he was on the 40th floor of the North Tower as the attack on the World Trade Center happened. He addresses every moment from meeting the first responders headed up the tower, to finding shelter away from the buildings, to the point where he was able to finally call his wife and let her know that he was alive.

Science Director for the Center for Food Safety Bill Freese joins Lisa Dent to talk about how the Trump Administration is being sued for approving the use of a pesticide containing the “forever chemical,” trifludimoxazin, which has links to cancer, when growing a wide variety of foods.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of the 8th District joins Lisa Lisa Dent to discuss how former researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic have stated that AI could be the catalyst that will bring the end of humanity. They address how it’s imperative that the race to advance AI be stopped before it continues to spiral out of control.

Lisa Dent checks in with the newsroom to hear their stories, including Kim Kardashian’s new project involving travel baseball, Disney teasing “Infinity-vision” ahead of Avengers: Doomsday, and the two beverages people shouldn’t order when on a flight.

Lou Manfredini hops on the show with Lisa to answer listeners’ home project questions. Today, he shares tips on replacing storm windows, fixing a blacktop driveway, repairing your roof following the August storms, and more!

Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), joins Lisa Dent to discuss the recalls of the Ricky Joy Sour Crush Candy Bottles, Vet Plus Inc.’s Fi dog supplements, 1,500 pounds of Prime Line Distributors pork, and more.

Ron Brown, news anchor for WGN Radio, joins Lisa Dent to dish out some Brownie Points. This week he reviews the documentary Peter Asher: Everywhere Man as well as the fast-paced Korean action film Hope.

Senior Director of Fiscal and Economic Analysis at the Illinois Policy Institute Bryce Hill joins the Lisa Dent Show to discuss how last year, the top fifty of Illinois’ state pensioners each averaged about $437,000. Together, they discuss the factors that could lead to such an unsustainable system and what measures need to be made to change it.