Talking to Rita Dawod who is a high school teacher at the Chicago Academy For the Arts, an avid traveler, and my sister in-law.

We talk to my friend Zacch who recently uprooted his life in North Carolina and moved to Chicago for a change of pace and scenery. He works in the pharmaceutical research industry helping companies get their drugs through clinical trials and into market. We talk Chicago murder rates dropping, North Korea, government shutdown, and look back at 2018. 

In episode #1 we talk to my long time friend John Hackett who recently moved back to Chicago from China. After completing graduate school in Shanghai he now works as an e-commerce specialist. We talk about China, the Bears, Chance the Rapper, Trump, and more.