The MoCoShow

The MoCoShow, brought to you by Montgomery Dental MD, was recorded at Black Market Bistro in Garrett Park. This week Nancy Floreen join Steve and Alex to discuss:

- MoCo Celeb of the Week: Daniel Stern (Marv from Home Alone!)

- MoCo Old School Spot of the Week: Hot Shoppes

- Openings/Closings

- Pizza in MoCo

- Jimmy's Famous Seafood in MoCo

- $30 million in upgrades to Rio Washingtonian Center

- Judge denies teacher union's attempt to block Hogan from using apple logo

- MoCo Council may ban smoking in outdoor patios and other outdoor serving areas

- Events in MoCo

and much more!

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This week, Steve and Alex are joined by Kevin O'Rourke of the Germantown Pulse at Agrodolce in Germantown to discuss:

- MoCo Celeb of the Week: Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights, 9-1-1, Nashville, etc.)

- MoCo Old School Spot of the Week: Hooters

- Restaurant Openings/Closings

- Mail Truck Catches Fire in Poolesville

- Olney Resident Loses Wallet at Harris Teeter, Finds it in Mailbox

- Code Ninjas Grand Opening

- Best Parting Treat/Mint in MoCo Restaurants

- Cava Holds Job Fair for Taylor Gourmet Employees

- New Escape Rooms in MoCo

- MoCo Jails Remove Sheets After Suicides/Suicide Attempts

- Bethesda Psychic Cons People out of $340K

- Local High School Football

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Brought to you by Montgomery Dental MD! This week, Steve Solomon and Alex Tsironis are joined by Michelle Ngwafon at The Grilled Oyster Co. in Potomac to discuss:

- MoCo Celeb of the Week: Issa Rae

- MoCo Old School Spot of the Week: Rio Sportland

- MoCo speed and red light camera locations

- Restaurant openings and closings

- Lakeforest Mall is 40 years old

- $25 gift card at Dogfish Head Alehouse available on their Twitter account

- The Sunshine Burger at The Sunshine General Store

- Car Drives Into Montgomery Village Swimming Pool

- MoCo Hidden Gem: Sandy Spring Slave Museum

- Most Accidents on all of 495 occur in MoCo...find out where!

- One year freeze on housing projects in Silver Spring and Takoma Park

- Serial rapist arrested (7 rapes/attempted rapes in Germantown and Gaithersburg from 2007-2011)

- MoCo libraries will soon offer musical instruments to be checked out

and more!

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In Episode 10 Democratic County Executive Marc Elrich joins Steve and Alex to discuss:

- MoCoSnow's Hurricane Florence Update

- Marc's favorite pizza in MoCo

- MoCo Celeb of the Week (Jonathan Banks of Breaking Bad fame)

- Old School Spot of the Week: 10 current restaurants that are "stuck in time"

- Hank Dietle's return

- Restaurant Openings/Closings (Fogo De Chao, Shake Shack, BobaPop, Honey Pig change)

- Tyler Tessier suicide

- U.S. Chess Center moves to Silver Spring

- Will Alex get a key to the county???

- Foulger-Pratt buys Discovery building

- Phone Scams targeting Chinese residents in MoCo

- Electric bikes in MoCo

-Teacher Salaries

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In Episode 9, Steve and Alex are joined by Dimitri "Chef D" Moshovitis (Founder/Executive Chef of Cava). They discuss:

- The first Cava (fast casual) ever was in Bethesda...pitas were more popular than bowls!

- Labor Day Parades in MoCo (Kensington and Gaithersburg)

- The first day of school for MCPS

- QO alum Adam McLean named starting nose tackle for the Terps

- Restaurant openings in MoCo (Nestle Cafe, Zinburger, Cinnaholic, Shake Shack, Julii, etc.)

- Chef D's favorite pizza in MoCo

- &Pizza sent Alex the best Thank You gift

- The story behind the two people sitting in beach chairs on the side of I-270

- Quince Orchard was beating B-CC 50-0 in the second quarter when the game was called due to weather

- Silver Spring/Takoma Park Restaurant Week

- Condoms in MCPS high schools AND middle schools?

- Code Ninjas opening in Germantown

- Parr's Spring, where Carroll, Frederick, Howard, and Montgomery Counties meet

- Firefighter gets his foot run over while "filling the boot"

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In episode 8 of the Moco Show podcast, Alex and Steve are joined by Dan Reed of Just Up the Pike. This week's Moco celebrity of the week is Dave Chappelle, and the old school spot is Shakey's pizza. We talk about the Surrender Donald sign and the history of the Surrender Dorothy graffiti. How much do you know about the Mormon Temple? A Watkins Mill grad has invented a no armpit sweat dress shirt. It's restaurant week in Silver Spring. There's a Facebook page about Moco lost dogs and cats where they reunite many lost pets with their owners. And what was your science fair project?

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In episode 7, Steve and Alex start two new features - the Moco celebrity of the week, and the Moco old school spot of the week. We talk about the old Putt-Putt in Rockville, Halloween pop up stores, are there any toy stores left in Moco, another microbrew opens in Silver Spring, Tastee Diner losing customers because of construction, grading our chances of getting Amazon HQ2, Aretha Franklin once performed in Moco, and Cava buys Zoe's Kitchen.

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In episode 6, Steve and Alex talk about the history of Sam Eig, all the Pho places in Moco, we recap the restaurant openings and closings this week, lots of Moco schools ranked in the Top 10 in Maryland, Alex talks about his trip to the Moco Ag Fair, new art murals planned for Bethesda and Gaithersburg, and a woman was found with 100 cats and charged with animal cruelty.

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In Episode 5, Steve and Alex talk about MocoShow.com getting it's 1 millionth unique visitor of the year, what's the tallest building in Montgomery County, Nick's Diner in Wheaton used to be Joe's Diner - what other places in Moco used to be something else? We recap this week's restaurant openings/closings in Moco. MocoShow.com has an article about 12 restaurant chains that you didn't know were still in Moco. What are the actual boundaries of Silver Spring? Did you know that Moco has several dog parks? And what's your favorite chips/salsa place in Moco?

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In episode 4 of The MocoShow podcast, Steve and Alex discuss Golden Girls and other TV shows we like, the Dogfish Head Alehouse burger for a year contest, Lenny the Moco walking guy, all the new restaurants and stores opening in Moco recently, the Clarksburg Outlets, hidden gem restaurants in Moco, and all the rain that we got last week.

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