“They truly are a family. You feel that when you hang out with them,” Crane said. “When you go on one of the road shows, it’s like a family reunion for them because they have more time together.”

“Whad’Ya Know?” was created in 1985 after then-WHA station manager Jack Mitchell called Feldman and asked him to do a show for the station. Feldman, who grew up in Milwaukee and had done shows for WORT and WHA, was unemployed and living in Chicago at the time. He agreed to a meeting with Mitchell in Rockford, Illinois.

“I didn’t want to do it because I wanted to prove myself in Chicago,” said Feldman. “I was up all night worrying about it. I came up with this proposal and I thought he’d reject it out of hand. But he said, ‘Let’s give it a try.’”

Now, Feldman can barely remember his life when he wasn’t doing the show. “It’s been practically synonymous with my life,” he said. “My kids grew up to it. It became generational with the audience. Kids were dragged to soccer listening to my show. Some of their own kids now are listening to it. So it was generational and metaphorical.”