Lise.FM - Rick Kogan

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This week, I’m joined by a man who needs no introduction…but I’ll give him one, anyway. It’s the great Rick Kogan. You may know him from the Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio or the Billy Goat, and if you don’t, you will after listening to this. I’m lucky enough to be Rick’s producer on his Sunday evening program at WGN Radio, After Hours with Rick Kogan, but, after recording this episode of my podcast, I realized just how little I actually knew about his past. I had no idea his Dad was a Chicago newspaper great, who started the first Arts & Entertainment section in any newspaper, ever. I also had no idea that Rick, like me, spent his 20th year of life abroad - the main difference was that he went with no study abroad program or scholarship fund to speak of, and that he gambled 500 of his remaining dollars away in Monte Carlo. Rick tells me all about his early years, his main influences and shares some advice he would have given himself at 24. Music: Marshall's Field by @FayRayMusic