Hot Take From the Kitchen

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 future.

We round out the episode with our Top 5 All Time NHL players. It's a great episode--thanks for stopping by fellas!

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 Favorite Olympic Basketball players.

It's a great episode and appreciate Coach stopping by!

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 learn a bit more about Alpena new Girls basketball coach!

Another episode drops as we continue to work out way through local coaches. This week, we sit down and get to know Alpena's new Varsity Girls Basketball Head Coach, Mark Toppi.

We learn a bit about Mark's background, and what made him want to become the Alpena Girls head coach, and then his outlook and hopes for the girls team this year.

We appreciate coach taking time to sit down with us and wish him all the luck for the upcoming season.

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 correctly so we apologize and hope to have it fixed next episode!

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 Favorite Michigan Football players (1:08).

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 then round out the episode with our Top 5 Guards of All-Time. It's a fun, surprise episode, and good to catch up from the summer, so thanks for tuning in!

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 books and we can't wait to talk to you all soon for Season 6!

Fantastic way to end Season 5 with the gang from the Sunset Project. We learn about how they formed and what they are trying to accomplish across Northeast Michigan. We learn a bit about each of them and then what all they are working on collectively.

As you heard on the episode, we had a bit of confusion on the Top 5, so Brad & Steve recorded one after, but Steve forgot to turn on the recorder, so we had to use the back up audio--so we apologize for the quality the last segment, kinda shows how far we've come since Season One however!

We appreciate everyone's support of our pod and look forward to Season Six and some of the things we have planned!