Connie C. Wilson Interviews Spike O’Dell

Whatever happened to WGN radio personality Spike O’Dell? Connie Wilson interviews one of the station’s most popular broadcasters from his current retirement home in Nashville where he paints and otherwise is “doing whatever he wants to do.”

Connie and Spike both born in E. Moline, Illinois reminisce about his radio career, especially his more than 20 years in Chicago at WGN.

In this interview O’Dell talks candidly about his charity projects over the years, the death of his predecessor “Uncle Bobby” Collins, changes at the station, his favorite interviews and love of short-wave “Ham” Radio.