About this episode

Nick Digilio welcomes journalist Monica Eng to discuss various topics including local news and traumatizing movies.

Nick welcomes journalist Monica Eng from Axios Chicago back to the podcast to talk about some of the stories she’s been covering, including great new places to eat in Harbor Country, how police are responding to teen takeovers, the possibility of moving the Pride Parade downtown, refreshing cold soup recipes, and why Lake Michigan stays so unbelievably cold. Later, Esmeralda Leon joins Nick to catch up before diving into anthology TV shows like Tales from the Crypt and the creepy Mexican series La Hora Marcada. They also revisit some of the movie and TV moments that traumatized them as kids, and even as adults, including the shoe scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Beast from The Sandlot, and, of course, The Brave Little Toaster. [Ep 471]

People in this episode

Host: Nick Digilio

Guests: Monica Eng, Esmeralda Leon

Topics covered

• journalism
• food
• police response
• Pride Parade
• anthology TV
• traumatizing movies

Keywords

• Monica Eng
• Axios Chicago
• Pride Parade
• Tales from the Crypt
• traumatizing movies
• cold soup recipes
• Lake Michigan

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Axios Chicago

Books & works: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Sandlot, The Brave Little Toaster, Tales from the Crypt, La Hora Marcada

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