The ALL NEW Big Wakeup Call with Ryan Gatenby

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From November 17, 2021: Brian Baumgartner, "Kevin Malone" from The Office, called into talk about his book WELCOME TO DUNDER MIFFLIN: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office .

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From February 6, 2016: "The Office" legend Kate Flannery shared some stories from her time on "The Office," her days doing improv in Chicago, and her new film, 4th Man Out.

KATE FLANNERY…

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From November 12, 2018: John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants called in for a chat about the They Might Be Giants Radio Network, of which I was a charter member. We also talked abou…

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Pam Nisevich Bede is an author and sports nutritionist. Pam shared some heatwave hydration solutions and other safety tips to be aware of in record-breaking heat.

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From April 1, 2016: "Ringo Starr" called in to talk about his book, Postcards From the Boys," and his upcoming tour with the All-Starr Band.

*DISCLAIMER: not Ringo Starr. An incredible s…

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From November 2013: I had a fun chat with Lisa Loeb about her new album for kids and our shared love of the 70s PBS Kids show "Zoom."

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From October 16, 2012: Susanna Hoffs joined the show to talk about her album Someday.  We also had a fun guitar geek chat about Rickenbacker guitars.

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Chicago's own Amy Landecker called in on September 22, 2017 to talk about an all-new season (season 4) of her critically-acclaimed and Emmy-Award winning Amazon Prime series Transparent…

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TV legend Bob Eubanks joined the show on June 8, 2021, to talk about the 55th anniversary of The Newlywed Game.  We also had a fun chat about how he promoted the Beatles 1964 concert at…

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From July 2015, legendary comedian and Chicago-area local hero Jim Gaffigan called in for a brief but entertaining chat with me about the debut episode of The Jim Gaffigan Show.

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From December 11, 2014: Legendary TV host and comedy writer Dick Cavett called in to talk about his memoir, BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks.  We dis…

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From June 22, 2018, legendary author James Patterson called in to talk about his new novel, The President Is Missing, a collaboration with former president Bill Clinton. Immediately fol…

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On this episode, we re-visit my chats with best-selling superstar author Rick Riordan!

 Rick Riordan, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five #1 New …

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NBC Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison visited our show twice to talk about the latest episodes of the long-running program.

Our interviews were on October 18, 2013 and April 4, 2014.

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From October 30, 2019: NBC News correspondent and MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle called in for a chat about her book Modern Ruhles, where she "brings her characteristic curiosity, empathy…

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From April 10, 2019: Nora McInerny talked about her new memoir, No Happy Endings, which she described as "a new book with more heartbreaking AND hilarious meditations on my messy, wonde…

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From September 27, 2018: Andrea Canning, correspondent for Dateline NBC, called in to promote the 27th season of the program.

ABOUT ANDREA CANNING

Andrea Canning is a correspondent for Da…

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From October 9, 2018: Best-selling author Alan Axelrod discussed his book THE DISRUPTERS: 50 People Who Changed the World.

ABOUT ALAN AXELROD  
ALAN AXELROD is the author of more than 100…

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From October 29, 2021: Tamron Hall, Emmy®  Award-winning talk show host and television journalist, discussed the launch of a new series of crime thrillers, featuring a main character mo…

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From June 1, 2021: Chicago-raised Veronica Roth was a senior at Northwestern University when she wrote her first book Divergent, the first part of a trilogy that would go on to sell mor…