Chuck Swirsky Making the Rounds

Our @JohngysBeat goes one-on-one with a legend in broadcasting, #ChuckSwirsky. A beloved voice in Chicago and more for decades talks sports and much more this time on, "On The Beat" A great #interview!!https://t.co/U4V7obwY1F

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Eckhartz Everyday

 *On this day in 2016, Bobby Skafish began his book tour promoting We Have Company. The first stop was at WGN-TV's morning show. He stayed for two full segments, the first one was about his book. The second one they asked him to identify mullets and tattoos.

Eckhartz Everyday

 *Today is WGN Morning News anchor Larry Potash's birthday. He had some nice words to say about the Eckhartz Press book Mob Adjacent: “Normally we can experience organized crime from a safe distance, from the page or screen – for the Gentile brothers, the action was right before their childhood eyes.”

*Last year on this day, Dave and I were the Zoom stars of Cocktails and Conversation for the Chicago Writers Association. If you'd like to relive that appearance, it's still out there.

Studio Walls

 Every week I send my Minutia Men Co-Host Dave Stern a list from our audio archives for this week's Studio Walls feature. These are the possibilities for this week. Which one will he choose?

*April 12 is David Letterman's birthday. We had his good friend Tom Dreesen on the show and he talked about his relationship with Letterman. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 12, 1892, the Cubs and Cardinals played against each other for the first time. Pat Hughes and Ron Santo talked about a mixed Cubs-Cardinals marriage (We have the AUDIO)

*April 12 would have been David Cassidy's birthday. Fellow Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce was on our show and discussed his "older brother" David. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 12 was also Tiny Tim's birthday. Leo Durocher and Lou Boudreau once discussed Tiny Tim in an expletive filled outtake from the Durocher in the Dugout pre-game show. (AUDIO)

*April 13, 2014, Dave appears on WGN-TV morning show to talk about The Pothole Store. The show did another visit with him in 2018 (Video here)

*April 13, 1990, the song "Rico Suave" peaks at #7 on the Billboard charts. We talked to the creator of that song, Gerardo. (Listen to the interview here)

*April 13 is actress/producer Summer Crockett Moore's birthday. We interviewed her for the show a few years ago. (Listen to the interview here)

*April 14 is stuntwoman Janene Carlton's birthday. We interview her as well (Listen to the entire inteview here)

*April 15, 2014, Dave's song "Pothole Song" debuts on YouTube. (Video is here)

*April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Dave's 1974 poem correctly identifies Booth as 'Surely Not a Lincoln Fan' (AUDIO)