Nick D – Monica Eng, Axios Stories & Why Are You Too Sexy For Your Cat???

About this episode

Nick Digilio welcomes Monica Eng to discuss various stories from Axios and revisits pop culture moments with Esmeralda Leon.

Nick welcomes Monica Eng to talk about a range of stories she’s been covering for Axios.com, including tipped minimum wage in Chicago, geriatric gymnastics, great happy hour deals around the city, the reopening of the beloved dance club Berlin, human composting, how to handle a flooded road, and more. Later, Esmeralda Leon joins Nick to revisit some pop culture moments from the 90s and 00s that probably should have stayed in the past. They get into things like French kissing Jar Jar Binks, the real dangers of Skydancers, the questionable haircuts and fat suits on Friends, and even Right Said Fred somehow being too sexy for their cat. [Ep 447]

People in this episode

Host: Nick Digilio

Guests: Monica Eng, Esmeralda Leon

Topics covered

• pop culture
• 90s and 00s nostalgia
• Chicago news
• human composting
• tipped minimum wage
• geriatric gymnastics
• happy hour deals

Keywords

• Axios
• Chicago
• human composting
• tipped minimum wage
• 90s nostalgia
• Friends
• Right Said Fred
• Skydancers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Axios

Products: Skydancers

Books & works: Friends

Places: Chicago, Berlin

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