Hot Dish Takes

A podcast · Green Bay ⇆ Chicago

Hot Dish Takes

Kristin Lytie and Holly Krig are two midwestern organizers serving up labor, liberation, and casserole-grade solidarity. Bring a dish to pass.

Episode 01 is out of the oven. Explicit, like all good kitchen talk.

Hand-drawn cover art: an organizer in a sage-green apron with an IWW pin, red polka-dot oven mitts, holding a casserole pan that reads Hot Dish Takes in pink bubble letters.
cover art by Whitney

Fresh out of the oven

The latest episode

EP 01 · 56 min E

How we met, and why we organize

In the debut episode, Kristin and Holly get into the work: union campaigns, abolition organizing, Chicago and the wider Midwest. Plus the story of how a Green Bay comedian and a Chicago organizer ended up sharing a mic. Theme song by Holly and the Nice Lions.

The potluck table

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Every serving so far. We're a new show, so check back. The oven stays on.

EP 01 E

How we met, and why we organize

Unions, abolition, Chicago, Green Bay, and the origin story of the show. 56 minutes.

Ding! (eventually)

Episode 02 is still in the oven. Subscribe wherever you listen and it'll land on your plate warm.

Who's cooking

Your hosts

Kristin Lytie

Green Bay, Wisconsin

Kristin is a union organizer and comedian. She's spent nearly 20 years in organized labor alongside undocumented day laborers, retail and service workers, graduate employees, and public educators.

Her comedy album Dissociation Vacation debuted at #1 on iTunes and Amazon, plays on SiriusXM, and earned a rave from Razorcake. She curates the comedy stage at GBUFO INVASION Fest and is on the 2025 and 2026 Vans Warped Tour.

Holly Krig

Chicago, Illinois

Holly is the director of organizing for Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration and a cofounder of the Chicago Community Bond Fund and the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign.

A working-class organizer from the rural Midwest now rooted in Chicago, her work and writing on abolition and incarceration have appeared in Truthout and beyond.

Our theme song is “Dead Sounds” by Holly and the Nice Lions. Thanks, Holly Trasti, for letting us blast it twice an episode.