Hot Take From the Kitchen

What an episode we have for you all today! We have Meag Schwartz from Great Lake Great Responsibility in the house! We talk about what all led to her winning Chevrolet's Lead Dream Chaser, a 2024 Chevy Trax for three months, and of course $100,000. We learn what all she had to do, when is she picking up the Trax and if she is hoping for one of those big checks like from The Office. We round ou...

Fun episode for you all today, Madison Hall, Brad's niece jumps on and fulfills a dream. We've had some errors throughout the years on the pod, and Madison's episode a few years ago was one of them, so we had her back on and can cross this one off our list. We learn a bit about her and what she likes to do and life for her at her Middle School in Alcona. We round the episode out with o...

HE'S BACK! We have another return guest this week--Mr. Griffin James. He updates us on all his life changes, how it felt winning Alpena Chamber's Business of the Year and other life updates. We do our Top 5 Favorite CD's & Covers and finish the episode with a surprise announcement at the end from Steve! Of course if you've been following Chevrolet's social media channels yo...

Big day for the pod. Brad & Steve decided to invest in the pod and finally bought the equipment. This should significantly improve the listening experience for our fans and also streamline the backend editing process for Steve. So this week's episode we have the girls from Bluebird: Kelly & Katie! We learn about both of them how the store has grown and then talk about our Top 5 Breakfast meals. It...

This week on the pod we have Ben Gould sit down with us. Ben is currently and Registered Nurse who is working towards becoming a Nurse Practitioner! Growing up Ben was quite the athlete and had the opportunity to play baseball in college. However fate had different things planned and some unfortunate injuries exposed Ben to rehab and to further understand how the human body functions. After spendi...

Today's episode we have WATZ's Mid-day host & Promotions Director, Shannon Roeske! We learn a bit about her, how she made her way to Alpena and all the amazing things that they are up to at Midwestern Broadcasting. We round the episode out with an Era's Tour inspired Top 5 Taylor Swift songs. It a jam-packed episode but nice and compact as we are working on shortening up the episod...

What a great episode we have for you all this week! This week Jeff Konczak sits down with us and gives us a little background on how NOAA came to Alpena, updates on a few of his properties that are in the works, with a super cool Sancutary Cinema update and rounds out the interview by getting me excited with a Biggby Coffee soon to be in the neighborhood of my job! We round out the episode with ou...

Pretty exciting episode for us this week as we have on Alison Jakubcin and Raelyn Szatkowski!  We've had Alison on before, so we get an update from her and then get to learn about Raelyn.  Both of them have significant day in/day out battles so we get to understand what all they have they have to deal with daily.  We then do a Top 5 Favorite Places to eat outside of Alpena.  We...

Season 5 marches on with our second episode of the season!  This week's episode finds us revisiting with a prior guest, Cristi Johnson, who has had a lot change in her life since she was on back in 2018... wait a sec... have we been podding since 2018???? She talks about the new venture, SkellaFit, that life has presented her and the importance of believing in ones self.  We then discuss...

We are back!  As we begin our Fifth Season of Hot Take From The Kitchen, we are pumped to kick this season off right!  We sit down with Alpena Varsity Hockey Assistant Coach Cam Givens!  We learn how he made his way to Alpena, his journey in hockey and what all he does at his job at REMAX here in Alpena! Once we get through all that we have an epic Top 5 this week! Our Top 5 War Mov...

New episode drops with Brad and Steve as they recap March Madness and Steve deals with Coach K finally retiring.  He vents his frustration about this year's team and then the guys discuss the insanity of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.  We answer our mailbag from our listeners and round out the episode with our favorite photos that we have each taken.  It was supposed...

That's right Lions fans!  Our beloved (at least by Brad & Steve) QB went to another team and won the whole damn thing.  We talk about what punishment should Coach Howard receive, the amazing Steph Curry and NBA All-Star weekend.  While we are there we discuss what's wrong with these all star games and Steve gives his idea for the NFL Pro-Bowl.  We answer all the questions f...

We usually take a long break in the beginning of the year with the Pod but since we've been spotty at best, we decided to just start early and continue Season 4 for a bit.   We catch up with all that has gone on in our lives.  Steve survived Covid, and Brad is still working from home--find out how much longer on this week's episode.  After we catch up, we talk about our New Year's R...

Another episode that took Steve three months to edit, but he didn't want to give up! On our 100th Episode we have on Mitchel Dipzinski co-Founder of the Poetics Lab.  While the recording of this pod might have taken place back in October, it's amazing how much of the episode still carries over into 2022.  It's an important pod, so you should definitely give it a listen. To finish it out...

So we decided to finally fired the pod back up!  New mics, open & honest conversation about what the pod has become and where we want it to go.  But so much stayed the same.... we fire off a few Hot Takes, get into what been happening in both Brad & I's lives since the last episode and we then talk about the future of the pod and where we would like to see it go.  We round o...

Steve took a heckuva digger on the porch a couple weeks back and messed up his back and neck. A large group of people commented that he should go to a chiropractor—but he’s scared. So we sit down with Lindsay Higgins, from Higgins Family Chiropractic and she talks to Steve about the benefits of regular chiropractic visits. We get to know Lindsay, and how she and her family arrived her in Alpena, a...

We have a fantastic episode for you guys this week!! This week we sit down with Paige Allia and Joel Choate and learn all the cool things they have going on in their lives.  We first talk with Paige and learn how she settled in Alpena and also how she became a yoga instructor.  We then pivot, talk to Joel and his new business in town Collective Effort Gaming.  After we get the low-d...

Welcome to Season 4 of Hot Take From the Kitchen!   After an epic Hot Take Session that gets us caught up from the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021, we get right down to business. To kick off the Season right, we bring back Matt Duthler from Northland Area Federal Credit Union and do our give-a-way.  We find out that the lobby is open for all their location and that includes the new Hea...

We are here for our yearly end of year episode!  Lots of good and bad things have happened for us this year and we go over some of the highlights that 2020 has brought us.  We then talk about our Top 5 Favorite Episodes from our 3rd Season and go over what we liked about those episodes.   It's been a wild year but we've given it our best!  We appreciate all our listeners and lo...

Hey gang!  We are back with a quick episode and update for you all.  It's been a crazy time but nevertheless we think we have a pretty cool episode for you all this week!   Brad and I took our enneagram test and then shared our results with our listeners.  We then talk about how enneagram dynamic work with relationships and what its says about us.  If this interests you at...

Grab your favorite Austin Brother's Beer, kick back and relax as we talk with Chris Heikkuri from Austin Brothers Beer Co.  We meet Chris and learn how he and his family ended up in Alpena, MI.  We get updates on how ABBC has done through the pandemic and what they hope to do moving forward.   We have an awesome Top 5 that Steve screws up and only forgets one of the greatest Christm...

We have a quick episode for you today!  We sit down and talk with Alpena County Prosecutor, Cynthia Muszynski, and find out how her election campaign is going.  As some of you know, Cynthia was appointed to be the County Prosecutor back in March and has been in the position since, but in the meantime, has been also campaign to get elected to the position Nov. 3rd!   We sit down and find out why sh...

Did you know Alpena has its very own Pro on the National Disc Golfing Circuit?  Well you do now and we sit down with him while he is home on break!  Andrew Marwede is a helluva basketball player but about three years ago he made the jump to disc golf and hasn't looked back! We learn about his growing up in Alpena and his time with AHS & ACC Basketball.  We then pivot to his Prof...

Gun Dawg is in the house!  We get on the horn tonight and talk with one of Bay View's Finest: Mike Gunderson!  We reminisce on the old day of Bay View Basketball and how Gun Dawg arrived in Alpena.  We go over that background and then talk about his college career and where he is now.   We then pivot to hear about his amazing transformation story and weight loss journey and rou...

The boys are back!  Steve needed a "creativity break" and they are back refreshed and ready to go--okay, Brad is always ready to pod--but either way we got a new episode for you all.  The boys start off refreshing what the pod has become and give a chance for the new listeners to learn about Brad and Steve a bit.  The boys then talk about their photography journey and where it has l...