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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Dan Zampillo: Terry Boers made 'being weird OK'

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.

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0:00.0

Let's go to the phone lines now and welcome another one of my interns.

0:05.1

Unbelievable.

0:05.8

But this guy has gone on to do amazing, amazing and wonderful things.

0:09.9

And a man who produced Boers and Bernstein, among many other roles in the radio business.

0:18.0

Our guy, Dan Zampillo, is here.

0:20.3

And Dan Zampillo is on the Circus Sports Illinois Hotline. What's up, Dan? Am I on your Mount Everest of interns? You are. You are. Truthfully, I had three in a row at one point. It was you, Jeff Dickerson, and Mattabatacola. That's pretty good. That's a good list.

0:38.3

I'm definitely three on that list for sure.

0:40.7

Ted,

0:41.0

tell people about your time with Terry Bors, please.

0:45.5

Oh, I mean, Terry is literally the reason why I got in the radio.

0:50.0

Like him and I were in from the same town, Mokina.

0:53.9

And when I filled out an application to be an intern at the score, I didn't tell Terry this that I was doing that. And somebody saw I was from Mochina and they went to Terry and they're like, Terry, do you know this kid? he wants to be an intern. He's like, yeah, put him on my show. And then that was it.

1:10.0

I mean, that's how I literally got the internship.

1:11.9

So he really got me into the business.

1:14.1

I don't know

1:14.5

if I would have gotten an internship without him. And so that's kind of what started our relationship.

1:22.3

And obviously, I knew him growing up and just knew what kind of guy he was.

1:27.7

But then to get to work with him was just so amazing.

1:32.0

I mean, I think that he made it okay to be weird.

1:36.7

And that's what I loved about Terry.

1:38.7

Like he just was the weirdest.

1:41.4

And it was so great.

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