Pete McMurray Show

😂🎤 John Michael Higgins back hosting America Says 📺 on Game Show Network 

-The iconic scene in 'The Break-Up' "This is a feature film, it was an expensive one, it had celebrities and big big stars in it ... there was a lt of people around the table - Ann Margret was at that table! Jennifer Aniston!"

-Six seasons of America Says - he does 5-6 shows a day
-His friendship and working with Katherine O'Hara 
-How he and Katherine didn't speak, they sang to each other


 

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🎓💸 HOW MUCH do you give 2026 grads? 😅📈 Inflation, tough job market… what are we coughing up 💵😬

Grade school
High School
College

What do you give grads this year?  Here's what experts are saying ...
 

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🍿 She made late night TV legendary… now Rhonda Shear brings 'Up All Night' back in a big way 😂📺

-Working with Gilbert
-What was it like being everyone's late night friend
-The movies played back in the day
-Now on Roku

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🎤😂 For Pete’s Sake - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week

The Iran war is making condoms more expensive 😳💸
Dave Grohl keeps his voice alive with beer whiskey and Advil 🍺🥃
Can you be friends with someone you love? Experts say… probably not 😬💔
 

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😂🎤 Show Open 05.09.26

Favorite TV moms (yes, Mrs Brady is in there) 👩‍👧‍👦📺
New food trend alert… soup for breakfast?! 🍲😳 (someone check on us)
A survey says the word of 2026 is “stressful” 😬💥 We are thriving… obviously 😂

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FX's The Shield star Michael Chiklis joined us to talk:

-Rob Morrow and the backyard band
-Loves the 70's music 
-The arts and the Creative Coalition
-What the National Endowment for the Arts does with these grants and why this is so important to all of us
-Michael Chiklis' character The Shield's Lt. Vic Mackey changed cable television "it was kind of an incredible moment in television history...the rise of the anti-hero...I don't know if you could do the Shield now"

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Eve Plumb aka Jan Brady joined us:

-She and her husband Ken have ZOOM cocktails with Chris Knight (Peter Brady) and his wife Cara
-The HGTV Brady Reunion was the biggest ratings HGTV has ever seen
-Her Plumb line
-Her guest appearances on 1960-1970's shows 

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🚨 Bret Baier was in the room during the assassination attempt on the President… now makes the case we’re still a great country 🇺🇸 in his new book, 'Case for America' 📚 

Bret talks:
-The chaos that night during the WHCD
-Gun violence and the effect on him
-His book 'Case for America' is basically a defense of the American idea
-What are the next steps to united a divided country 
-Is the President showing us by example unifying the country
-What is the Iran endgame 

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Jeff Ross' new Netflix special "Take a Banana for a Ride"

-Who was his band growing up?
-Meeting KISS 
-His favorite comics 
-The Roastmaster General Jeff Ross "I was doing crack & hookers 'til 10 min ago,  what do you think I got a good night's sleep to come on your show for five minutes - NO!"


 

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NBC's Garret Haake was in the ballroom during shots fired at the White House Correspondents Dinner

-"My first reaction is to try and report this out. I was half squatting under our table shooting video with my iphone"
-The confusion and mayhem that followed
-What jokes did the President have planned
-He sprinted, in a TUX, through the streets of DC to get to the White House Press Conference an hour later
-Former Senator Ben Sasse had a statement on 60 minutes

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😂 Show Open 05.02.26 🎤 

Lisa’s 1888 house still has a little character 🏚️✨ 
JD Vance’s security team deserves a raise 💼💰 
Pete’s Derby pick #5 Right to Party at 30-1 🐎🎉 riding on vibes 😄
 

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🎤 For Pete’s Sake 😂 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week

🎸 Oasis & Metallica named best tours 🔥 fewer fights, more riffs
🧱 California guy swaps $34K of LEGO for dry pasta 🍝 calls it al dente fraud 😳
💸 People are paying thousands to go on reading retreats… 📚 to read… a book 😴

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💔➡️❤️ Dating after divorce in your 40s & 50s… welcome back 

😅 Effort should match interest 
👀 clarity beats mystery 
🧠 And, if they’re weird early… it’s not getting better  🎧  (time to say 'BUH-Byeeeeeee)


 

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38% of Americans went “no contact” last year… 👀📵 are we protecting our peace or just ghosting people we owe money to? 😳💬 🎧

Nowadays - young people are more likely than older groups to have gone “no contact” with a loved one in the last year 
(Gen Z 60%, millennials 50%, Gen X 38%, baby boomers 20%)

-Top reason for going “no contact” with someone was because that person was not respectful to them (36%)

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David Koechner played Champ in Anchorman

David Talks:
-Laughing during filming, "We would shoot every scene 3 times as scripted, and then we would improvise...you don't know what one of these brilliant guys are going to say, so you have to hold it together"
-Life Lessons with David Koechner ... and Tire Talk 
-Charna Halpern is the Queen of Comedy
-Adam McKay is the smartest guy he knows 

David is on tour
Go to david-koechner.com for tickets

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😴 Morning naps might be a wake up call 😳 Researchers tracked 1,300+ adults 56+ for 19 years and found early day nappers had a 30% higher risk vs afternoon snoozers 📊⏰ So… nap later and live longer? 😅 

 Who’s napping (and how often)

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🎙️ For Pete’s Sake - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week!

✈️ Tom Cruise is back for Top Gun 3… at this point he’s just refusing to age 😅
🚔  Baby Jessica from the 22-foot well has been arrested 😳
🔮 1 in 5 Americans think they’re psychic… so apparently someone should’ve seen this coming 🤣

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😵‍💫📊 Your Stress Has a Language… Here Are the 5 Types and What Yours Says About You 😬

The Imploder: This is a “freeze” response to a stressful situation. The imploder may feel hopeless, helpless and paralyzed, Donnelly explained.  I have a buddy that does just that.  He freezes in the moment.  So odd to me, but I get him.  

The Exploder: This is a “fight or flight” response to a stressful situation. This person may have an inflated reaction to a stressful situation; they might get irritable, frustrated or angry, or even leave a situation that they can’t handle, Donnelly said.<...

😂📱 Chris Leighton posted his kids’ texts on Instagram… now he’s a bestselling author 📚🔥 and somehow his kids STILL think he’s not cool 😎🚫 Parenting is undefeated 🤣

His new book is entitled
"Dad, can you not?"

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🌍😂 70% of Americans say they want more adventure… and the #1 way they’re doing it? Seeing more of the world!

✈️😄 Turns out “zest for life” might just mean booking the trip instead of talking about it 🧳🔥

There are more people visiting France each year than the entire population of the country 🇫🇷

In Iceland, it’s illegal to name your baby something not on an approved list 😳

Tokyo has more Michelin-star restaurants than any other city in the world 🍣

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🎙️😂 Show Open 04.25.26

📊 The President’s approval rating is in the toilet… and someone just hit the flush 🚽
🤔 The government wants gyms in airports 🏋️‍♂️✈️ (because delays weren’t stressful enough) 🤣
🎸The oldest classic rock bands still touring… and yes, you’re still buying tickets 🎸🥁🎹

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🎸NYT bestselling author Bob Spitz pulls back the curtain in his new book 'The Rolling Stones…The Biography' - wild stories, and the stuff you definitely weren’t supposed to hear 🤫🔥 And yes… he told us a few 👀

-The relationship between Mick and Keith
-They sat around one night talking about the women they were with

-The making of Exile on Main Street - the drugs, the all night partying
-LIVE AID they did not play together - they were there, but not together

 

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😄🎥 Comedy queen Judy Greer - from 13 Going on 30 to Arrested Development - has been stealing scenes for years… now she’s trying to survive our show 🎬💫

-She was ready to quit college 
-Ted Danson
-Her new movie 'Mabel' is named after the PLANT in the film
-Lisa is her dopplegangers 

MABEL Movie Trailer 

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😂🎤 First time on The Late Show & Comedian Joe Dombrowski says, “I think I poo’d my pants” 😳💩 National TV nerves are REAL. His New Special 'Dad on Arrival' 🤣🔥

-He got a tap on the shoulder and "good luck" from a legendary tv personality as he was walking out to go on stage 
-He is a new dad
-His parent moving to Seattle

Joe is so so funny

Watch 'Dad on Arrival' Here 

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🎬😂 Forget White Lotus… Steve Zahn’s Funniest Role Might Still Be Saving Silverman 😳 But His New Movie with his daughter, Audrey Zahn,  She Dances Could Top It 💃🔥 

-The new movie is a story of their lives when Audrey danced

-Crying on demand
-That slacker Ethan Hawke in the movie
-
 

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For Pete’s Sake 🎙️ Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week!

Mick Fleetwood says “I do” AGAIN for a 5th time at 78 💍 
Americans hit peak AI burnout 🤖😵 
Jean Smart goes straight from set to triple bypass like a boss ❤️‍🩹🎬

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The 2026 Price of being a PET Parent: $4,272

 Pictured: Lisa's two pooches 

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😂🎙️ The always entertaining Steven Weber from Chicago Med joi
ned us to talk: Chicago accents 🗣️🍕, Cher (because of course) 🎤💃, and his run on Celebrity Jeopardy where things may or may not have gone off the rails 🧠❓🤣

-Playing an arrogant ER doc on Chicago Med
-Does he like doing the crossovers with Med, PD, and Fire
-Which Chicago show has the best Cha-cog-go accent
-He had lunch with the Facebook guy with the glasses
-Celebrity Jeopardy 

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🎬😎 “Sloan!” Emmanuelle Chriqui Joins Us… Entourage Stories, Hollywood Life & A Love Like This 💕   
(Plus, Pete Admits He Follows Her on Instagram 😄📱)

-Her Instagram acct
-The new movie "A Love Like This" 
-Entourage 

A Love Like This Trailer 

 

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🎙️😂 David Archuleta reflects on his American Idol run and says, “It was everyone’s way of connecting at that time… I was kind of like the channel for people to connect” 🎤📺💫 From runner up to his new book Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself 📖

-His run on Idol
-The pressure from his father and his Mormon religion
-Dealing with his sexuality 

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🎙️ Show Open 04.18.26 

😂 What if we sent comedian John Mulaney to Iran 🇮🇷 to negotiate peace talks 
🤝 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2026 class announced & Lisa is officially tired of all of it 🎸
😤 If you’re a woman needing a friend… just go to the bathroom at your favorite restaurant 🚻💄

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If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It’s Too Good To Be True - That’s The Tipoff To The Ripoff 🚨

💸 Steve Bernas from the Better Business Bureau Breaks Down: 

Tax Scams, Job Scams, and More…How Not To Get Burned 😬📱

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Ryan Nobles Breaks Down Why the Iran War Won't Be Wrapping Up Quickly Like Everyone Hopes 🎙️

-No clear timeline
-Why this war won't be wrapped up quickly 

-Will other countries in the region get involved
-The market, gas prices, the economy
-AG Pam Bondi getting the axe
-Did we actually fix the TSA problem

 

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The One Dog Rule 🐶
❤️ Every Owner Swears By… If You Could Pass Down One Piece of Advice, This Is It 

🦴👀 Veteran Dog Owners All Agree 

🐾 Don’t Mess This Up 😅

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🎙️Show Open

🧥 Pete and His Yellow Jacket Go National TV 📺
✈️ Welcome Back TSA Workers, You Were Missed 🙌 
🏖️ Americans Still Can’t Relax on Vacation  😅 🏖️ Even When We’re “Off,” We’re Not 😂

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For Pete’s Sake 🎙️

🍿 Devil Wears Prada Popcorn Purses at AMC 👜 because snacks need outfits
💸 The Big Arch Burger Hits Your Wallet 🍔 hope you’re not splitting lunch
🤯 Someone Crushed the Thumb Push-Up Record 👍 our thumbs are sore typing

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Handicapper Fat Jack’s Final Four Picks 🏀

💰 Who Do You Trust With Your Money? 
😬 Over/Under 
🎯 Favorites 
🔥 What teams meet in the National Championship

FatJackSports.com 

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🚒🎙️ Chicago Fire Star David Eigenberg joined us

-14 years and almost 300 episodes
-Why Pete can't play a corpse
-The cast went to Mexico together 

... and so much more!  

Get ready for the Eigenberg Energy!!!

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😳 1 in 5 People Go to AI Instead of Their Doctor 🩺🙈 
Because … They're Embarrassed 😬💬

-Most people live in pain
-A lot of us have LIED to our doctor "How many drinks do you have in any give week?"  "Uhhhhh...."
-Sexual health is one people are most likely to lie about 

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Fox News Channel's 🇮🇱⚠️ Mike Tobin Live from Israel:

-The Cluster Bomb and why it's being used so much
-People hear the warning sirens and have 10 minutes to seek shelter
-Are people going about their daily life, knowing they could be bombed at any second  "It's really remarkable the way they just go about their normal life ... it's remarkable the degree the people are used to it"
-Does it feel like it's escalating or ending soon
 

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