Ong’s Hat is rumored to have once been the site of a gateway to another dimension. After meeting on a forum devoted to the urban legend, yoga instructor Sarah Larsen, and schoolteacher Charlie Brill, go on a road trip to the New Jersey Pine Barrens where a group of renegade Princeton professors had once conducted quantum physics and chaos theory experiments to discover a new theory for dimensional travel. When Sarah disappears, Charlie finds himself at the center of a mystery. Corey Brill (The Walking Dead) stars in this docu-thriller for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds from the makers of The Polybius Conspiracy and Passenger List.

Chef Diana Dávila didn’t just cook up her career in seconds: it took planning, the right ingredients, a lot of trial and error, and creating opportunities so that others could see her as the talented leader she knew she was. Now the Executive Chef and owner of Mi Tocaya Antojeria, a celebrated Mexican restaurant in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, Dávila discusses what it took to stick to her guns, knowing that what she was serving her city was unlike anything else.

While in Chicago, be sure to visit www.mitocaya.com/

Follow Diana on Instagram at @dianalachef

Hosted by Jon Frechette
Produced by Jon Frechette & Todd Luoto
Artwork by Tim Ahern | @tim_ahern_art

Special Thanks To: Christine Dávila
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Music:
1. Desmontes by Blue Dot Sessions 2. Bivly by Blue Dot Sessions 3. Brad PKL by Blue Dot Sessions 4. Dimming Circuit by Blue Dot Sessions 5. The Bus At Dawn by Blue Dot Sessions 6. Pedalrider by Blue Dot Sessions 7. Lobo Lobo by Blue Dot Sessions 8. Pxl Eventuat by Blue Dot Sessions 9. Victory by Jon Frechette 10. Pili Piper by Blue Dot Sessions

A popular word of caution in writing MFAs is that it takes “ten years out in the cold” before anyone can expect success. For screenwriter and former film critic April Wolfe, that meant dozens of jobs, hundreds of cover letters, a dream opportunity as the head film critic of LA Weekly, an unexpected corporate takeover, a newfound creative collaboration, and an opportunity writing a greenlit movie for Universal/Blumhouse. Hers is a story forged by toughness, tenaciousness, and tears; illustrating what it takes for a writer from working-class roots to finally come out from the cold and be welcomed as a Hollywood insider.

Follow April on Twitter at @AWolfeful

Hosted by Jon Frechette
Produced by Jon Frechette & Todd Luoto
Artwork by Tim Ahern | @tim_ahern_art
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Music:

1. Li Fonte by Blue Dot Sessions 2. Morning Bells by Blue Dot Sessions 3. Drone Lemon by Blue Dot Sessions 4. Twitch FS by Blue Dot Sessions 5. Fever Creep by Blue Dot Sessions 6. Arlan Vale by Blue Dot Sessions 7. A Matter of Perspective by Jon Frechette 8. Ridicule by Jon Frechette 9. The Walking Tour by Jon Frechette 10. A Little Powder by Blue Dot Sessions 11. Best Laid Plans (Theme) by Jon Frechette