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Car Con Carne is an award-winning interview podcast hosted by legendary Chicago media personality James VanOsdol (Q101, WXRT, WGN, WLUP). Hosted in James's car, at live events, restaurants, brewpubs and recording studios, Car Con Carne offers engaging and honest conversations with people you want to know, mostly from the world of music.

The Double Door is a live music institution in Chicago... and after years of being shuddered in Wicker Park, it's getting ready to reopen in Uptown. Double Door owners and show co-hosts Sean Mulroney and Pete Bruce take you behind the scenes of renovating the classic Chicago building that will house the new Double Door and the preparations involved with reintroducing Double Door to the Chicago entertainment landscape.

Chicago radio personality James VanOsdol was once told by an employer, "You haven't earned the right to have fun yet". It was a statement about his status in the company that came to symbolize the more dramatic soul-crushing aspects of the modern workplace. In this funny, accidentally motivational, and highly listenable new book, VanOsdol recounts his own successes and failures in the job market, stopping along the way to share mood-appropriate playlists to run on your streaming platform of choice.