Lou Carlozo is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago. In 2025, his Bankadelic podcast was ranked No. 3 among all financial services shows covering AI by Million Podcasts. In 16 years at the Chicago Tribune, Lou was a Pulitzer Prize finalist , Polk Award winner and weekly syndicated columnist ("The Recession Diaries"). He has covered personal finance, SMBs and investing for Reuters, MSN Money, Yahoo Finance, ETF.com, InvestorPlace, Moneywise and the Wall Street Journal's BuySide. He’s created or co-created some of the industry’s most popular podcasts, including BAI Banking Strategies and Dave and Dharm Demystify in the UK. Now at 50,000 listens, Bankadelic is sponsored by the William Mills Agency, Lemonade LXP and Talking Biz News. Lou composes/performs all the theme music and provides voice characterizations for the banking skits. A coffee shop fan, Lou is writing a book on Chicago’s coffeehouse culture for Trove Publishing that’s expected in 2026.