We want to thank Coach Simion for sitting down with us this week and this whole past season to discuss Wildcat Football. We also want to thank Ken Gembel or LUCK Unlimited for sponsoring not only Coaches corner, but supporting high school athlete across Northern Michigan. We appreciate everyone tuning in for coaches corner and go cats!…

It's not our last episode with Coach, but it is our last episode previewing the upcoming game for this season. We get right into this episode with a listener email. We answer that and quickly pivot to the Paul Bunyan game and who we think will win. (Only Steve answers the question! haha) We then preview the Wildcats against St. Johns, and the Lions…

Only a few episodes left with coach! This week we continue to recap the previous week or Wildcat Football and the Lions. We talk about Alpena's close loss to the Soo and Detroit's huge win against Dallas but how much it hurt us to see Hutch go down. We preview this week upcoming Escanaba, Michigan taking on Illinois and Detroit's first place match …

We're back for Week 7 of Coaches Corner. We sit down with Coach touch on the tough loss to Gaylord and the rest of the weekend in football. We then meet Junior wide out Thorin Rogers, and learn more about him and the sports he participates in. Only couple weeks left with coach! We're gonna miss him!

We are ready for Homecoming week! This week we sit down with Coach review the previous week's games and preview the upcoming games this weekend. We meet Home Coming Court Nominee Eric Eades and learn a bit about him and why he loves football. He talks about early college program he's enrolled in and then gives us the lowdown on all the home coming …

We are still going strong on Coaches Corner! Coach swings by and we go over all what went well and the predictions we had for the weekend. With Brad on vacation, we had one of our past guest, and pod sponsor, Dr. Ken Gembell II stop in and co-host the episode. We go over what all we think will happen in football this weekend and then meet Brady and…

This week's episode we are back with Coach Simion to preview this week's slate of games: Alpena taking on Cadillac Friday night, Michigan hosts USC and Lions are on the road to Arizone. We then meet fullback, Colt Walter, and what he loves about being part of the Alpena Wildcat football team. We appreciate Coach continuing to stop by The Kitchen ea…

New episode for Week 3 with Coach Simion as we review last weeks home opener against Marquette. We recap what we thought of Michigan vs. Texas and the Lions/Rams primetime match up. We preview this week's matchup against Zeeland East. We then talk about all the football this weekend with Michigan taking on Arkansas State, Lions taking on the Bucs a…

We are back with Coaches Corner where we talk about our Wildcat Football team and preview the upcoming game, and review how it went last week. We talk with coach about the tough loss to Ludington on the road, what he hopes his team can learn from it and what they worked on in practice this week. We talk a bit about our first home game against Marqu…

We are starting a new branch of our pod called Coaches Corner where we talk about our Wildcat Football team and preview the upcoming game, and review how it went last week. Since there was only a scrimmage on the road, not much to go over but we do preview The Cats road game coming up against Ludington Thursday. Each week Coach Simion will bring on…

New episode drops with Alpena Hockey Coaches Ben Henry and Cam Givens. We learn about how Ben became the coach of Alpena's favorite team and his outlook on the upcoming season. Cam then takes the mic and we catch up with him since his last episode. We then discuss where we see High School athletics heading and how that could impact our school's fut…

We sit down with new Alpena Boys Varsity Basketball HC, Evan Neff. We learn about where Coach is from, his college basketball career and his experience and love for the game. We then talk about his hopes for Alpena basketball and the opportunities he see for growth. We round the episode out with bring back the Top 5 and we talk about our Top 5 Favo…

New episode drops this week, with new Girls Varsity Head Coach, Mark Toppi. We learn about Mark's background, his love for basketball and his coaching experience. We then learn about his hopes for the future of Alpena Girls Basketball and some of his principles he believes in to be successful as a basketball team. Great episode to sit down and lear…

Back with another episode! This week we sit down with NEW Alpena High School Football Coach, Matt Simion! We learn his experience--which he has a ton of--what he hopes for the upcoming season and what he thinks of coming to Alpena! It's a great chance to get to learn a bit more about our new coach!

Episode #2 for Season 6 brings your Alpena Athletic Director, Jon Studley. We learn on how became a part of the Alpena community, his rich experience he has in high school athletics and some of the goals he has for Alpena High Athletics. We apologize for the lack of audio quality this episode. Steve got a new laptop and the audio didn't record corr…

We are back for Season 6. Today we sit down with one of the voices of Alpena Hockey, Tom Dutcher, and discuss all things sports. We spend some times on local and national hot takes, Learn about Tom (30:19), spend some time talking about Alpena Hockey (39:58). We then pivot and talk about the Fab Five (48:14) and then our Top this week is our Favori…

We got ourselves an email so, keeping our word, we fired up the mics and brought you guys an episode! We sat down with DABS Founder, Cliff Lamay. We talk about where he grew up, what motivated him to create a Summer Basketball League and how the league is doing so far. We learn about his other side hustle--BlocBros--a DJ service he provides and the…

We round out Season 5 with the gang from the Sunset Project. We learn a bit about each of the fellas, how they created the nonprofit and some of the things they learned along the way as well as their hopes for the organization. Steve and Brad then round out the episode with their Top 5 Characters from the hit TV Show, The Bear. Season 5 is in the b…

This week we have in The Kitchen Shelly Gibbs from Friends Together with Alison Jakubcin who is part of their Fundraising Committee. We learn more about Shelly, what all she does with Friends Together and what all Friends Together does for our community. We then touch base with Brad about his yearly Costume Run and how this year he has chosen to gi…

We have a fantastic episode for you guys this week! We sit down with Paige Spisak from MLiveMIBest! We learn about how she found her way to the mLive team, a little bit about the content they make and how she ended up in Alpena. We then talk to her about all the things she needs to make sure she tries this summer in Alpena--especially with the Four…

Good episode for you guys this week! Robert Barrigar stops by and talks about his Insurance Agency, how their program the Agent Charitable Fund helps families across Michigan. We then talk about his involvement with Rotary, and a distributing trend we are seeing with Service Clubs. Lastly, we talk about an Insurance Agent's worse nightmare: we do a…

Back to our regularly scheduled pod with a guest we've been trying to get on for a while! Chef Reid Krebs of Blue Moon Cafe took time to swing by and talk about how his first year has gone with his new restaurant. We talk about his journey to Alpena and what led him to open his own restaurant in the heart of Downtown Alpena. He talks about where he…

It our annual Memorial Day Episode where just the two of us sit down and reflect. This year we decided to reflect on what all we have learned over the past five years of running a podcast. We talk about what equipment we use, what platform we recommend to use to publish the pod, and go over some of the mistakes and things that we know we could be d…

Have have another past guest returning this week--Dylan Wallace. We talk about what all has changed since he was on back in Episode 10 in 2018--we've put in over 100 episodes since then! We find out his involvement with Huron Shores/Little League and some hopeful future improvements to the complex north of Alpena. We round it out with our Top 5 Fav…

Great episode for you today. We sit down with Ben Freeland, who moved to the Alpena area from the thumb of Michigan back in 2008. We learned where he was from, about his time at SVSU and how he and his wife, Amanda landed in Alpena. We learn about his time at the hospital and his transition to Thunder Bay Fyzical. Ben shares a great story about Ste…

What an episode we have for you all today! We have Meag Schwartz from Great Lake Great Responsibility in the house! We talk about what all led to her winning Chevrolet's Lead Dream Chaser, a 2024 Chevy Trax for three months, and of course $100,000. We learn what all she had to do, when is she picking up the Trax and if she is hoping for one of thos…

Fun episode for you all today, Madison Hall, Brad's niece jumps on and fulfills a dream. We've had some errors throughout the years on the pod, and Madison's episode a few years ago was one of them, so we had her back on and can cross this one off our list. We learn a bit about her and what she likes to do and life for her at her Middle School in A…

HE'S BACK! We have another return guest this week--Mr. Griffin James. He updates us on all his life changes, how it felt winning Alpena Chamber's Business of the Year and other life updates. We do our Top 5 Favorite CD's & Covers and finish the episode with a surprise announcement at the end from Steve! Of course if you've been following Chevrolet'…

Big day for the pod. Brad & Steve decided to invest in the pod and finally bought the equipment. This should significantly improve the listening experience for our fans and also streamline the backend editing process for Steve. So this week's episode we have the girls from Bluebird: Kelly & Katie! We learn about both of them how the store has grown…

This week on the pod we have Ben Gould sit down with us. Ben is currently and Registered Nurse who is working towards becoming a Nurse Practitioner! Growing up Ben was quite the athlete and had the opportunity to play baseball in college. However fate had different things planned and some unfortunate injuries exposed Ben to rehab and to further und…

Today's episode we have WATZ's Mid-day host & Promotions Director, Shannon Roeske! We learn a bit about her, how she made her way to Alpena and all the amazing things that they are up to at Midwestern Broadcasting. We round the episode out with an Era's Tour inspired Top 5 Taylor Swift songs. It a jam-packed episode but nice and compact as we are w…

What a great episode we have for you all this week! This week Jeff Konczak sits down with us and gives us a little background on how NOAA came to Alpena, updates on a few of his properties that are in the works, with a super cool Sancutary Cinema update and rounds out the interview by getting me excited with a Biggby Coffee soon to be in the neighb…

Pretty exciting episode for us this week as we have on Alison Jakubcin and Raelyn Szatkowski! We've had Alison on before, so we get an update from her and then get to learn about Raelyn. Both of them have significant day in/day out battles so we get to understand what all they have they have to deal with daily. We then do a Top 5 Favorite Places to…

Season 5 marches on with our second episode of the season! This week's episode finds us revisiting with a prior guest, Cristi Johnson, who has had a lot change in her life since she was on back in 2018... wait a sec... have we been podding since 2018???? She talks about the new venture, SkellaFit, that life has presented her and the importance of b…

We are back! As we begin our Fifth Season of Hot Take From The Kitchen, we are pumped to kick this season off right! We sit down with Alpena Varsity Hockey Assistant Coach Cam Givens! We learn how he made his way to Alpena, his journey in hockey and what all he does at his job at REMAX here in Alpena! Once we get through all that we have an epic To…

New episode drops with Brad and Steve as they recap March Madness and Steve deals with Coach K finally retiring. He vents his frustration about this year's team and then the guys discuss the insanity of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. We answer our mailbag from our listeners and round out the episode with our favorite photos that we h…

That's right Lions fans! Our beloved (at least by Brad & Steve) QB went to another team and won the whole damn thing. We talk about what punishment should Coach Howard receive, the amazing Steph Curry and NBA All-Star weekend. While we are there we discuss what's wrong with these all star games and Steve gives his idea for the NFL Pro-Bowl. We answ…

We usually take a long break in the beginning of the year with the Pod but since we've been spotty at best, we decided to just start early and continue Season 4 for a bit. We catch up with all that has gone on in our lives. Steve survived Covid, and Brad is still working from home--find out how much longer on this week's episode. After we catch up,…

Another episode that took Steve three months to edit, but he didn't want to give up! On our 100th Episode we have on Mitchel Dipzinski co-Founder of the Poetics Lab. While the recording of this pod might have taken place back in October, it's amazing how much of the episode still carries over into 2022. It's an important pod, so you should definite…

So we decided to finally fired the pod back up! New mics, open & honest conversation about what the pod has become and where we want it to go. But so much stayed the same.... we fire off a few Hot Takes, get into what been happening in both Brad & I's lives since the last episode and we then talk about the future of the pod and where we would like …

Steve took a heckuva digger on the porch a couple weeks back and messed up his back and neck. A large group of people commented that he should go to a chiropractor—but he’s scared. So we sit down with Lindsay Higgins, from Higgins Family Chiropractic and she talks to Steve about the benefits of regular chiropractic visits. We get to know Lindsay, a…

We have a fantastic episode for you guys this week!! This week we sit down with Paige Allia and Joel Choate and learn all the cool things they have going on in their lives. We first talk with Paige and learn how she settled in Alpena and also how she became a yoga instructor. We then pivot, talk to Joel and his new business in town Collective Effor…

Welcome to Season 4 of Hot Take From the Kitchen! After an epic Hot Take Session that gets us caught up from the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021, we get right down to business. To kick off the Season right, we bring back Matt Duthler from Northland Area Federal Credit Union and do our give-a-way. We find out that the lobby is open for all their l…

We are here for our yearly end of year episode! Lots of good and bad things have happened for us this year and we go over some of the highlights that 2020 has brought us. We then talk about our Top 5 Favorite Episodes from our 3rd Season and go over what we liked about those episodes. It's been a wild year but we've given it our best! We appreciate…

Hey gang! We are back with a quick episode and update for you all. It's been a crazy time but nevertheless we think we have a pretty cool episode for you all this week! Brad and I took our enneagram test and then shared our results with our listeners. We then talk about how enneagram dynamic work with relationships and what its says about us. If th…

Grab your favorite Austin Brother's Beer, kick back and relax as we talk with Chris Heikkuri from Austin Brothers Beer Co. We meet Chris and learn how he and his family ended up in Alpena, MI. We get updates on how ABBC has done through the pandemic and what they hope to do moving forward. We have an awesome Top 5 that Steve screws up and only forg…

We have a quick episode for you today! We sit down and talk with Alpena County Prosecutor, Cynthia Muszynski, and find out how her election campaign is going. As some of you know, Cynthia was appointed to be the County Prosecutor back in March and has been in the position since, but in the meantime, has been also campaign to get elected to the posi…

Did you know Alpena has its very own Pro on the National Disc Golfing Circuit? Well you do now and we sit down with him while he is home on break! Andrew Marwede is a helluva basketball player but about three years ago he made the jump to disc golf and hasn't looked back! We learn about his growing up in Alpena and his time with AHS & ACC Basketbal…

Gun Dawg is in the house! We get on the horn tonight and talk with one of Bay View's Finest: Mike Gunderson! We reminisce on the old day of Bay View Basketball and how Gun Dawg arrived in Alpena. We go over that background and then talk about his college career and where he is now. We then pivot to hear about his amazing transformation story and we…

The boys are back! Steve needed a "creativity break" and they are back refreshed and ready to go--okay, Brad is always ready to pod--but either way we got a new episode for you all. The boys start off refreshing what the pod has become and give a chance for the new listeners to learn about Brad and Steve a bit. The boys then talk about their photog…