Lunch With Lou

Lou takes some time to dish and dine with DIY expert, TV host and Radio Dynamo, Jane Monzures.  Jane is a DIY crafter with contagious enthusiasm, a rip-it-apart and remake it sense of humor, and a bigger is better attitude; all on the rocks with a twist and olive (manhattan on the rocks for Lou! www.diybyjane.com 

Did you know Illinois is home to the only river in the world that flows backwards?  To combat the pollution of the river caused by the growing industrial city, the Sanitary District of Chicago made efforts to reverse the flow of the river beginning in 1900. Lou sits down with the former Executive Director of the MWRD, Richard Lanyon, to discuss how it was made possible.  

Lou sits down with his "high-school-and-still-to-this-day" BFF, Mike Jakubowski.  After the partners in crime graduated high school they became partners in "real-life" beginning their own contracting business.  While Lou eventually went into media, Mike took a leap later in life and became the industrial tech teacher at Hampshire High School, where he still is today.  Tune in to hear the boys rehash some old stories and talk about the future of the trades while up in the sticks of Wisconsin on their annual Trap and Fish Weekend. 

Lou sits down with Mario Rizzotti -  famed culinary judge of Iron Chef America, emcee and brand ambassador.  Together the two talk about their Italian heritage,  the importance of simplicity in recipes, quality ingredients and life in general. Visit  www.mariorizzotti.com and enter LOU20  at checkout for 20% off your order. And be sure to check out Mario at the 12th Annual Chicago Gourmet - Sunday September 29, 2019 at Millennium Park's Mission Impastable! 

Roy Spencer, President and Owner of Perma-Seal Basement Systems, joins Lou to chat not so much about his 40 year old company but about the 40 year path he took to make the company what it is today. 

In his first Lunch with Lou podcast, home expert Lou Manfredini chats with Kim & Scott Vargo - founders of the Chicago-based home design & renovation blog Yellow Brick Home. Since 2009 the DIY-duo have invited folks to join them on their renovation journey.  Find out who they are, how they started in the "pre-social media" world and some of their renovation, demolition and DIY secrets.Support the show