It’s gut-check time.  We’re taking it one episode at a time, and we’re just going to go out there and give it 110 percent.

Graham Couch, sports columnist for the Lansing State Journal, is our guest.  The dude is a physical freak; a true student of the game. 

Today, we take all controversies and opinions out of the podcast by asking the evergreen question: How would you grade Lansing’s food scene?

Helping us kick off 2020, Emily Lawler of MLive, Beth LeBlanc of the Detroit News, and Kyle Melinn of MIRS News join us. It’s simple. We put topics in a bowl, the reporters pull them out, and the predictions for the new year start to fly.

Fixing Michigan’s crumbling roads continues to be the white whale (wink, wink) of state politics.  Every pol pledges to fix them; no one actually does.  So, what’s the deal with our roads?

Today, we talk to an expert… Joe’s dad.

When you think of Christmas in Michigan, you think of Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth.

Today, we load up the sleigh to visit the Christmas capital of America, and Wayne Bronner, the second generation owner of the store, is our guest.

We’ve been talking about it for months, and today we do it.  We hypnotize Laura Biehl.

When he died last month, words like “legend” and “icon” were used to describe Hugh McDiarmid, Sr.  Hugh was a political reporter and columnist for the Detroit Free Press, and for most of us on this podcast, his career spanned a time before ours.  So, we set out to do some learning and asked two of Hugh’s colleagues to talk about their friend.

For a podcast based in Michigan’s capital city, we’ve made it 42 episodes without talking to a lobbyist.  No longer.

There aren’t many TV reporters in Michigan who can say their coverage of the State Capitol is seen by viewers in four different TV markets across the state.  In fact, there’s just one… Mikenzie Frost.

Today, we talk our hometown with the creators of the wildly popular parody social media account, @LansingMIFacts.