Episode Seventeen: Jake from Collective Pour (Special Guest Jake Wallace)
In episode seventeen, Katie and Jess speak to Jake, a manager at Collective Pour in Champaign. Jake speaks not only on how reopening is affecting the bar so far, but also about the importance of weari...
13 Jul 202052min
Episode Sixteen: I Just Call Him Greg (Special Guests David Hunter, Mike Lovejoy and Curtis Crowell)
In episode sixteen, Katie and Jess continue their efforts to see how reopening is going for restaurants and bars around Champaign-Urbana. This week, they are joined by David Hunter, Mike Lovejoy and C...
5 Jul 20201h 12min
Episode Fifteen: Winners Adapt (Special Guest Michael “Figgy” Newton)
This week on Faking It, Katie and Jess speak with Michael “Figgy” Newton about how reopening is going at the Esquire and Jupiter’s downtown. Figgy speaks passionately about how he views the future of ...
29 Jun 20201h 18min
Episode Fourteen: That’s Two Trays, Tommy! (Special Guest Tommy Tracey)
In episode fourteen, Katie and Jess speak to one of their Two Week Media co-founders and manager of Big Grove Tavern, Tommy Tracey, about how reopening is going for them. Tommy speaks candidly about h...
22 Jun 20201h 19min
Episode Thirteen: Br-Anne New (Special Guest Anne Clark Skuse)
Episode thirteen begins Katie and Jess’s summer project! They will be touching base with a different restaurant in town each week to see how reopening is treating the service industry. And where bette...
15 Jun 20201h 27min
Episode Twelve: A Terrible, Horrible Dystopian Game (Special Guest Chris Alwes)
In episode twelve, Katie and Jess focus on closures in their community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. They speak with former executive chef of DESTIHL Champaign, Chris Alwes, who shares some gr...
8 Jun 20201h 3min
Episode Eleven: Gallons of Boxed Wine (Special Guests Tom Sulek and Jen McCarthy)
The last episode in our Call Around the World miniseries finds Katie and Jess speaking to Katie’s friends Jen and Tom, who are living up north in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The conversation is a candid a...
1 Jun 20201h 46min
Episode Ten: Our Interview with Two-Time National Champion ([and] Special Guest Ashley Hancock)
This week in our Call Around the World Series, Katie and Jess find themselves speaking to Jess’s friend Ashley, who is living in Indianapolis. Currently a news producer, Ashley is able to speak candid...
24 Mai 20201h 31min
