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Paul Lisnek

Paul Lisnek

Emmy-winning attorney and political analyst for WGN-TV since 2008; host of WGN's "Behind the Curtain" and the theater podcast "Curtain Call Chicago."

Sep 29, 2026

6:11
But how does it fit together? When you look at yourself, how does, for example, the politics and the theater and the law and the juries, how does this whole compilation come together into one guy? How do you see it? It all started
6:30
with an advisor, career advisor at University of Illinois many years ago who told me that she didn't respect me.
6:36
That's how this started.
6:37
Very nice.
6:38
Here's the very short story, which is I was a sophomore liberal arts general student, went in to see an advisor and she said, what's your major going to be? And I said, accounting.
6:46
And she went, what? And I went, yeah, well, accounting, I need to have a job.
6:50
My fraternity brothers are business people.

36 MINS LATER

42:49
How does the, based on your legal background, how does the United States Department of Justice, the antitrust division and whatnot, how do they allow stuff like this to happen?

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