Off the Record with Jimmy Gillispie

On this episode, my daughter joined me to choose our top 20 restaurants in a fantasy-football style snake draft. We took turns picking our favorite restaurants, but none of them could be duplicated. It was entertaining, and we will do more of these with different topics.

On this episode, my sister Jessica Thompson sat down with me to talk all about travel. She recently returned home from an 8-day excursion to Italy with our younger sisters. She also travels around the country for work. Additionally, we talked about her love of New York City and our 2025 trip. It was a fun episode about travel.

On this week's episode, podcast host Jimmy Gillispie sat down by himself and talked a lot of football on several levels. He first talked about some of the high school games. He has attended in the Kansas City area this fall, including last week's win by Kearney. He also recap the week of college football and the NFL week before the Monday night game.

On this episode, Matt Noonan returns for his fifth time and we talk a lot of music.. Last month, we saw Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner in concert at the Morton Amphitheater. We discussed the new venue and the amazing show. We also talked about several celebrity deaths including Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen. Then we also talked a lot of music, especially classic rock artists and songs.

On this weeks episode, my good friend PJ Matulka sat down with me and broke down his family vacation in Europe. They traveled internationally for six weeks, visiting five different countries. They stayed at base camps in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Iceland. We discussed some of his favorite spots along with some favorites from his wife and son. We also talked about how he used an AI agent to build his very detailed itinerary and used it to help guide and improve the trip. At the end of the episode, we briefly discussed his possible return to playing ultimate frisbee.

On this week's episode, Vicky Conner joins the podcast to about her business Rink Ratz, which is a rollerskating rink in Blue Springs, MO. She has owned the business for more than 10 years, an has tried to be a part of the community where she grew up. She also talked about her daughter, who has been nicknamed the Limbo Queen because of her amazing talent on skates.

On this week's episode, Brett Pittenger returns to the podcast. Brett and Jimmy made their own lists of their Top 15 Sports Movies. They compared their lists and discussed each movie.

On this week's episode, Brooke Beck returns to talk about her freshman indoor and outdoor track seasons at Oklahoma State University. She talks about becoming an All-American runner and earning All-Big 12 Conference honors, in addition to cutting significant time off her 800m run personal record. Brooke also talks about her summer and her Tik Tok dances.

On this week's episode, Pleasant Hill graduate Paige Gustin joins the podcast during Jimmy's last week at the newspaper, where they worked together for 10 months. She talks about why she became a journalist, along with going to college at the University of Arkansas, where she learned the Woo Pig Sooie chant and experienced sorority life. Paige also talked about how she became an anime fan and why she loves the show "One Piece" during the episode.

On this week's episode, Harrisonville High School graduate Kayleigh Norris talked about her freshman year at the University of Alabama. She talked about battling through injuries, and how she's trying to get back to being healthy for the upcoming cross country season. Kayleigh also talked about her first year of college and her summer.