Chicago Podcasts

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 15: Beer, Steroids, Surfin' and Rock 'N' Roll

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 06.23.2009 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

The guys interview former rock radio DJ James VanOsdol about his fight to publish a book on Chicago's rock scene in the '90s and why you should donate to the cause.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 14: Meet Mike North, Crime Fighter?

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 06.16.2009 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

The guys get the inside scoop on the Chicago Sports Webio scandal from Mike North, who tells all about his allegedly crooked business partner and his future as a FBI cooperating witness.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 13: Fook and Konkol's Guide to Rocking Buckets

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 06.09.2009 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

Downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly talks about targeting the Bucket Boys with a new noise ordinance, what's next for the Chicago Children's Museum and why he will not support Todd Stroger for re-election.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 12: Parking Torture

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 06.03.2009 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

Fook and Konkol strike back with an interview with Chicago's own radio terrorist, Mancow Muller, who discusses his controversial waterboarding and take on the parking meters from hell.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 11: Chicago's Winter of Discontent (With Bacon)

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 02.03.2009 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

If not for bacon this might be Chicago's worst scoring week ever. Our ex-governor officially became a talk show queen, our hometown NBA hero was struck by tragedy and a kid cop made Mayor Daley blow his top.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 10: Inaugurate This!

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 01.20.2009 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

What if our new Mr. President channeled Slick Rick during his inaugural address? You wondered that, too? Well, you better listen.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 9: Massaging The Magic Chuckhole

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 01.06.2009 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

The guys talk with Ray Wu, the Chicago guy who came up with a special app that turns your iPhone into a personal massager, and "What Would Jay (Marriotti) Say?" makes its triumphant return.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 8: The Frozen Banana Episode

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 12.23.2008 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

Fook and Konkol got stood up by Bolingbrook stud muffin Drew Peterson, but they talk about his, er, undying quest for wife No. 5 anyway and find out how much guys get paid for doing the worst winter job in Chicago.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 7: You've Just Been Blagojeviched

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 12.16.2008 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

The guys interview former Channel 5 reporter Amy Jacobson, who talks for the first time about having dinner with Rod Blagojevich and how she caught her husband cheating.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 6: Hey Buddy, Can You Spare $34 Gazillion?

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

This week we're talking about the great Goose Island Sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors, Brian Urlacher's baby momma drama and selling Chicago's parking meters (thanks a ton, Mayor Daley).

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 5: This is What Change Smells Like?

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 11.11.2008 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

Barack Obama declared victory in Grant Park amid celebration and the wafting scent of an herb now available for medicinal purposes in Michigan and Fook caught the celebration on tape. Hear it on this edition of Keeping Score In Chicago.

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 4: The Prius Mutatio Show

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 11.04.2008 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

Want to know what it might be like to hang out with Barack Obama backstage at the Ba-Rock Show on election night?

Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 3: The Scary Episode

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 10.28.2008 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

Everything on this week's episode will freak you out: From the Jon Burge Torture Timeline, to the Jennifer Hudson saga.

Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 2: The Plumber Strikes Back

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 10.22.2008 | Chicago


Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

On this week's episode, hear Chicago band Fluid Minds tear up their new hit "Hey Joe (The Plumber)."

Keeping Score In Chicago

Posted 10.14.2008 | Chicago


Chicago Sun-Times reporter and neighborhoods columnist Mark Konkol and former Q101 DJ Todd "Fook" Fooks have launched a weekly news podcast. On "Keep...