The TwoDads Podcast

Levi Jones , General Manager of Eldora Speedway , sits down with us for two hours of racing, Tony Stewart, and what it takes to keep the World's Greatest Dirt Track growing in the middle of a cornfield. Spank also pulls up a chair, which means a race made entirely of famous Tonys and a 2028 wish list Levi had to rule on one idea at a time.

DISCOUNT CODE: TwoDads15 (15% off any order) Two women in Celina turned a garage in Coldwater into a line down the street, and they did it with candles. Angie and Ashley of Blended Collective Co. sit down with Bill and Mitch to talk about the day it started in a kitchen, why people wait hours for a candle drop, running a business as women in Mercer County, and the bread scent that cost them $1,500...

Mike Gast is the varsity baseball coach at St. Henry, and this week we barely talk baseball. He visits dead presidents' graves, and we had to know why. We draft the fattest coaches in sports history. Then we get into the leadership class he just built at St. Henry and why he thinks leadership needs to get taught. If you run a crew, a business, or a family, there's something in here for you.

Mike Supeck has never met a stranger, and it built him a career. The Managing Director of the ⁠ Ohio Angel Collective ⁠ joins the dads to break down how a network actually gets built, why who you know changes everything, and what angel investing looks like in Ohio. Plus the Mount Rushmore of packed lunch snacks gets carved.

A coffee trailer built by hand in their own driveway. Derek and Micah Pease of The Hive Coffee Co sit down with the dads to talk about what it actually takes to bet on yourself. The build, the business, and the why behind it all. Plus Family Feud, drinks invented on the spot, and a finale that forces two coffee people to choose between coffee and everything else they love. Grab a cup. Episode 81.

Coldwater's Coach Chip Otten sits down with the dads. Taking over for a legend, leading teenagers in a world short on accountability, and what six state titles actually weigh in a county where Friday night is everything. Plus your Community Mailbag questions and the great snack-versus-dessert debate.

Greg Schweizer, third-generation owner of the Celina Music Store, joins the dads. Why fewer kids are playing music, what phones are doing to the next generation, and how Mercer County parents can help their kids start — or stick with it.

Jeff Myers grew up at the Starlight Drive-In in Maria Stein, and when his family had to choose between letting the screen go dark or rebuilding it all, they rebuilt. Go see a their newly renovated theater this weekend.

This week we sat down with Zach Albert of Albert Sporting Goods in St. Marys & Coldwater. Third-generation owner of the store his grandpa started in 1980, and the guy who bought it with his dad sixty days before the world shut down. We get into how a regular person actually buys a business, what it's like negotiating with your own grandpa, and how a small-town store stays standing in the age o...

This week the dads sit down with Joe McClurg, owner of Rooster Joe Coffee in Coldwater. Joe shares how he and his wife Michelle dreamed about opening a coffee shop for twenty years before finally pulling the trigger, what it was like opening right before the 2020 shutdown, and the story behind his second location, going into the old Versailles firehouse alongside Made Apparel.

This week we sit down with Dave Meyer , Ohio Area Coordinator for Operation BBQ Relief and a member of the OBR family since 2019. From competition barbecue to the middle of disaster zones, Dave tells us what it really takes to serve "The One Hot Meal That Matters" — the meal that shows up after the tornado, the fire, the flood, when people have lost everything and need one thing that feels normal...

Are we still letting kids be kids? Speech therapist Lauren Timmerman (TimberNook West Central Ohio) joins the podcast to talk screens, boredom, why every kid's got letters behind their name now. Plus, we dive into the free fixes every parent can start tonight. Sign up today: https://timbernook.com/providers/ltimmerman/ Music Credit: Call To Adventure - Scott Buckley– released under CC-BY 4.0. www....

Born nearly blind in Celina, Mindy Cook spent years trying to hide the thing that made her different. Fresh off a plane from the World Championships in China, Mindy sits down with the TwoDads to talk about what she really sees, the failures that shaped her, and how Mercer County learned to see one of its own. Mindy Cook is a Paralympic Silver medalist in the Tokyo Games in 2020.

Austin and Kayla Adams bought a gym nobody wanted. Snap Fitness in Celina — tucked in the Chief parking lot, written off by half the town, a reputation already hurt before they ever got the keys. Everybody had an opinion. Most of them weren't good. But this isn't really a gym story. Before these two ever took on a business people had given up on, they almost gave up on each other. This week they s...

Around here, the church is the center of everything, but that doesn't always mean it's the center of our own minds. This week, we fix that. Father Ethan Moore of isn't the priest you grew up picturing. He rides a motorcycle, he's got the hair, and he's out to reach a generation that quit listening. We sat down with one Father to get into the life he gave up to take the collar,...

After losing two of their own children, Morgan and Marion, Mollie Verdier turned the hardest thing a parent can face into a mission to make sure no family walks that road alone. This week Rob and Mitch sit down with Mollie Verdier of Morgan's Place in Sidney, Ohio - a cemetery she and her husband Nathan built on their own farm to give miscarried, stillborn, and unborn babies a dignified burial at...

It's Men's Mental Health Month, so we did one a little different. Spank from Gilbert Station pulled up to the table to talk about what he's going through - and the four of us got into the stuff guys around here usually dodge. Don't worry, it's still us. There's plenty of laughs, some games, and the usual nonsense along the way. It gets real, but it gets dumb too - that'...

Kerry Roberts doesn't sit for interviews. It took us months to get him in this chair, and what we got was the real story behind one of Mercer County's most recognizable names. The bread route. The bartending. The deal that fell through. The building that nearly broke him. And the 2017 tornado that came through the front window of Ctown Wings . And the public nonsense - that it was all handed to hi...

He almost didn't live to see it finished. This week on TwoDads, AJ Mast pulls up a chair. The guy behind The Boathouse at Grand Lake — the spot you've driven past a hundred times on 127 — tells us how a kid from Mercer County built a business from the mud up and beat cancer with a one-year-old son waiting for him at home. We laughed our way through it, cracked every boat pun we could think of, and...

The Boardwalk in Celina. The Shipyard . Market Hall. Harvest Crossing. The cottages on the lake. Roofs over your neighbors' heads. One family quietly built most of it...and they've been doing it for 75 years. This week we sit down with Randy Bruns — the second-generation owner of Bruns Construction. We talk about what it's like to take over your dad's business, build your own chapter on top of it,...

GET YOUR OFFICIAL TWODADS MERCHANDISE --------------- One Phone. Every Game. One Story You've Never Heard. You've seen his videos. You've shared his videos. You couldn't pick him out at the local Walmart. This week, the man behind ReelLife sits down with us. He's the guy in the bleachers with a phone — Coldwater on a Tuesday, Marion Local on a Friday, some Saturday tournament t...

Most people have a dream job. Conner Prince actually has his. He's the newly named Chief Meteorologist at WLIO in Lima, Ohio, a title he ground for, doubted himself over, and finally earned. He's also built one of the most genuine social followings in the region. In this one we get into the climb nobody talks about — what it actually took to get the title, the moment he thought it wasn&#39...

Brooke and Braelen Bader own Made Apparel together — custom tees, every school logo in the county, and a second location coming inside a historic Versailles firehouse with a drive-thru coffee window. Braelen also runs Nite Owl Studio next door. Fifty feet of downtown Celina. One marriage holding all of it together. On this episode Mitch and Bill sit down with both of them to get the real story — h...

He's seventeen. He's already a legend in Delphos. Forty-year scoring record — broken. Fifty-three points in a single game. Mr. Basketball finalist twice. But nobody actually knows Cam Elwer. So we sat him down and went there. The dad who coaches him. The mom holding it all together while her kid becomes public property. The little brothers growing up in his shadow. What dating looks like w...

How do you find the next great MLB pitcher? Brian Garman knows. As the Minor League Pitching Coordinator for the Cincinnati Reds he oversees 110 pitchers and decides who moves up and who goes home. But before he was the one making those calls he was the kid who never made it. Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2010, Brian blew out his shoulder, emptied his savings account trying to get back, and...