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Who is Chuck Swersky and why is he being celebrated today?
This is Joe Vagga Kate.
Thanks to Chuck Swersky. Happy 50 years in broadcasting to him that he is celebrating today. Just a tremendous mark of a career. Thanks to Cliff Floyd who came on with us. Thanks to the guest of honor, Nico Horder, for spending an hour with us here at Wildfire in River North. Thanks to everybody in the audience who came out. I see some I see some younger fans too. Thanks to your parents for being cool. Thanks. Thanks. again to our crew here, Ray Diaz, Connor O'Donnell, and also of course the fabulous Rich Wyatt Engineering. Thanks back at our office to Tyler Butterbaugh. Thanks to Cody Westerlin, Jacob Stutz, and Max Curtis as well. And thanks to you, Matt Spiegel. How'd you like being on the midday show? I enjoyed it.
It's been a minute. I
enjoyed it, yeah. I I did this shift for a number of years. It's nice to be an accompaniment to people's work day, whether it be in the offices or uh or driving around. Uh helping a day go by faster is how I always used to think of the midday show.
That's a very good point.
Right. And I think I think we did that pretty well today. It was really fun to hang out with the guests as well in person. Nico and Chuck. Chuck was beaming. A beaming swirsk is uh is a lovely thing. They should put it on top of a skyscraper in Chicago. There's a beaming swirsk up there on the top. His
head just like a a detached Chuck Swarski smiling head. Yep. And it rotates. Just for fun. Of course it does. Yes. And that is inside our minds. So now let's get inside the minds of Mark Roody and Anthony Heron back at the station. Hey guys.
I did. Here's my question about Chuck Swersky. It's really the most important question to be asked. Did Joe Bagadonuts make an appearance out there? As in, did he have some proclamations about other sports or hot takes that I need to know about because I am the keeper of Joe Bag of Donuts. Did he make an appearance out there?
I don't believe I mean he talked about the Bulls, but that was on the air as Chuck Swersky. I didn't hear any hot takes from Joey Bennett.
Me neither, me neither. We we were going deep inside the career and the history of Chuck Swarski.
What is the story behind Chuck Swersky’s “beaming” moment and the Supersonics naming contest?
I learned some stuff. He fell in love with the Seattle Supersonics and in fact he took part in the naming contest for the Seattle Supersonics as a young sixth grader. Really? I love that image. What was the What
was the name that he entered? Or was it Super Did he vote for supersonics or what how how did that
it's a good question. I wasn't listening. He
waxed poetic. He waxed proetic on the supersonic plane. Yes, he did.
He talked about Boeing for a while and uh Supersonics. Okay. Right? Rich, do you remember? I don't know if we got there.
Guys, Chuck is used to doing an overnight radio show. Yeah, just or a basketball. You just give
him one direction and he just goes. What do you say remembers, didn't he say? Yeah, I I took it to mean that there was the supersonics that he voted for. Oh, yeah, he just
assumed that his name won. I think that's why he didn't explain. Good job, Spiegel. Hey, every once in a while Chuck Swarsky named the Seattle Superstar. That's it. That's it. That's what it is. That is that is perfect That is that is perfect broken.
broken down messaging of twenty twenty-six. I I love that. No, I I hey I remember listening 'cause cause my parents, like growing up, like I hated it as a kid, but they'd have GN on all the time. And there's old Bobby Collins and the ch the sports guy. Here's Chuck Swirski with sports and Chuck Sworski doing sports radio before anybody else was doing sports radio. Radio, I think on on what is it Spiegel C C B R or The Bear or something like that? Yeah. Yeah,
you know, I I I forget uh there's there was a few different call letters at the time. But the uh uh let me ask you this, Chet Chit Chat is a combination of Chet Kopik and Chuck Swirsky.
That is correct. Yes. Yes, but and as performed by Bruce Wolf, for formerly of everywhere, the loop and the score and Fox thirty two. I actually interned at Fox thirty two right across the street here when I was in college for Bruce Wolf.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Chuck Swersky and why is he being celebrated today?
0:00–2:04
2
What is the story behind Chuck Swersky’s “beaming” moment and the Supersonics naming contest?
2:04–4:17
3
Why did Mark Grote and Anthony Herron decide to do a show‑swap with the afternoon crew?
4:17–6:26
4
How did the hosts feel about the show‑swap and what challenges did they discuss?
6:26–9:04
5
What are the hosts’ thoughts on suburban living versus city life?
9:04–12:25
6
Why are biking and walking becoming the preferred ways to get around the suburbs?
12:25–15:05
7
What is the controversy surrounding Kyler Gordon and how does it relate to the Bears?
15:05–17:03
8
Will there be cake at the studio and what are the health concerns mentioned?
17:03–19:46
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