by The Solid Listen Team | Jan 12, 2026 | Oh, Malort! Episodes
In 1999, under pressure from an activist priest, the City of Chicago Police and Fire Committee invited talk show host Jerry Springer to a hearing regarding violence on his show. Spoiler, it didn’t go well for Burke and the gang. Come for the government inefficiency...
by The Solid Listen Team | Jan 6, 2026 | Oh, Malort! Episodes
Morgan joins Alyssa to talk about Van der Rohe V Fansworth which is case of contract law. Show Notes: Chicago Magazine: Remembering the Farnsworth House Feud WTTW: Mies van der Rohe Architectural Record: A Second Look at Edith Farnsworth and Her Mies van der...
by The Solid Listen Team | Dec 31, 2025 | Oh, Malort! Episodes
To celebrate NYE, Alyssa and John combined their knowledge of performing arts venue management and recorded an impromptu episode to discuss the dumpster fire that is the Kennedy Center. These people are incompetent and seemingly hate the arts. Grenell SOLID LISTEN...
by The Solid Listen Team | Dec 29, 2025 | Oh, Malort! Episodes
In this episode Alyssa tells Risen about Y2K Chicago Style. This episode takes some surprising twists and turns and 2025 makes more sense. Support the show by subscribing, leaving a five-star review, telling all your friends and following...
by The Solid Listen Team | Dec 22, 2025 | Oh, Malort! Episodes
Alyssa and Molly McAleer from Mother May I Sleep with Podcast travel back to the late 1890’s/ early 1900’s to discuss Chicago’s Bluebeard Johann Hoch, a bigamist and murder whose crimes would be too much for a Lifetime Movie plot. Show...
by The Solid Listen Team | Dec 15, 2025 | Oh, Malort! Episodes
Alyssa and Matt Drufke from the comedy show Still Not Friday talk about 16 inch softball. Show Notes: ABC-7: ‘Chicago’s game’: 16-inch softball, created on Near South Side, celebrates 135th anniversary Encyclopedia of Chicago:Softball,...
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