0:00 - Absentee CPS teachers

12:32 - Denver Mayor Mike Johnston: would be willing to go to jail to defend people in this country illegally

29:51 - Samantha Steele, Cook Co Board of Review...DUI stop

51:17 - Trump 47 cabinet: CDC

01:05:04 - Steven Bucci, visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, responds to Sen Duckworth's statements on Hegseth & Gabbard 

01:24:37 - Mamet

01:39:17 - Chris Jones, editorial page editor & chief theater critic for the Chicago Tribune and Broadway critic for the New York Daily News, joins Dan & Amy for a discussion on the Lyric Opera's "Blue" and a hopeful future for Chicago's theater scene. Chris is also the author of  Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from ‘Angels in America’ to ‘Hamilton’

01:56:14 - Martin Gurri, former CIA analyst, presently a Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, on Trump's victory and a "profound cultural shift" Check out Martin’s book   The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium