The Town Mile Podcast

The original crew gets together to record a Phillies reaction episode, as well as all the Birds and Bears talk to start of the season. We also get into the incredible beauty and anticipation of preparing to be a Dad for the first time. Thanks for listening!!

The VanLeur Chronicles series continues after a few month hiatus, with Gerad VanLeur. Gerad shares his experiences of growing up and being around his Dad's incredible coaching career; and how it continues to impact him to this day. He also shares his memories of his stellar hoops prowess, which led to a memorable career at the University of Sioux Falls. Huge thank you to Gerad for carving out some...

There wouldn't be a VanLeur Chronicles series without him. In this episode, I had the privilege of sitting down with South Dakota Hall of Fame Coach VanLeur to go over his remarkable coaching career in Emery. We talk about the milestones of his 40+ year career: from the early years in the 80's, to the '93 team that made the first playoff run; and the first title team in 2001. Was a pleasure to tal...

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there! Especially to my Dad, Terry Janssen. I sat down with my Dad on a recent trip home to discuss his formative years growing up in Emery, and when basketball and baseball first became a thing in his life. Very proud to get to hear my Dad's story of incredible resilience, and share it on The Town Mile. Thanks for listening.

It's been too long! Time to get this going again: the 45th Town Mile Podcast, back after a long hiatus. Since our last episode: we've had a marriage, a birth of a new little guy, Eagles & Bears kickoffs, and 60 Aaron Judge home runs. All great things to catch up on. Thanks for listening, we appreciate you! 

Bears. Birds. Weezy. Blink. 

Macy Miller joins The Town Mile Podcast to discuss her South Dakota State Jackrabbit hoops career, and getting drafted into the WNBA where she will take her talents to Seattle. She also talks Mitchell Kernel basketball, where her teammates went out and celebrated after big wins in Brookings, and what shoes she rocked during the season. Big thanks to Macy for joining us, this was a fun one. 

The Gang gets together to catch up on the first few weeks of the Bryce Harper Phillies, the Sixers round one playoff series, recent questionable NBA Hall Of Famers, Jordan Howard, and the 10th Anniversary of the beginning of a complicated legacy. Smash play and enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

The Town Mile is proud to present our first Town Mile Film Society episode and salute Quentin Tarantino's 1994 masterpiece Pulp Fiction. Cap'n Drew Degen @swingtimekingtime joins us for a deep-dive as we share our favorite scenes, favorite lines, and why Winston Wolf was wearing a tuxedo at 8:30 in the morning.

On the latest Town Mile Podcast, Matthew gets Joe's reaction to the Bombers getting steamrolled by the Red Sox in the ALDS, we dive into the Eagles/Giants blowout, we discuss another Bears letdown in Miami (you mean it's not the first time?!), and we continue to be the two most fired-up dudes in the world for Creed 2.

Its time for week #1 of professional football! We discuss the first Birds dub, Khalil Mack to Da Bears, Draft Party at the Scioli's, South Dakota dudes playing for the Eagles, and Matthew going nearly 2 years sans haircut. Have a great Sunday!!! Lets do this.

Yo yo yo who's ready for a 21 run?! Been many years since we had ours so it's nice to let it rip on our 21st TM Podcast. We had some serious pride watching Brian Urlacher and Brian Dawkins enshrined in Canton: so why not talk about it on a recorded track for an hour?! That's just what we did. The Town Mile Podcast can now buy beer: so this one is on us.

Padraic Duffy joins The Town Mile podcast to talk South Dakota West River basketball history. He's been a fixture in the Black Hills South Dakota sports media community, and goes way back with Joe to their days in Binnewies Hall at South Dakota State. He drops some serious hoops knowledge, big thanks to him for taking time to lay down the 20th episode with us!!

The Town Mile Podcast is joined by Texas Christian University Asst. head basketball coach Ryan Miller. Ryan shares his basketball journey starting in Mitchell, SD and playing for the late, great Gary Munsen as a Mitchell Kernel. We talked about his legendary '98 performance at Frost Arena, his coaching career, and the tremendous pride he has for his younger brother Mike. Huge thanks to Ryan for jo...

Good morning! Last night we had the privilege of sitting down with Philly's own Rebecca Barber, who is the founder of The Rocky 50K. She tells us all about her running and rock and roll journey, and was an awesome guest. This was a fun one, thanks to her for taking the time to join us. Have an awesome Thursday, smash that play button!

One of the best Twitter follows there is, Jack Silverstein @readjack joined us tonight to give us some high-level insight on the 72-10 Chicago Bulls of 1996. Jack wrote a great book called "How The Goat Was Built: 6 Life Lessons From the 1996 Chicago Bulls", and linked up with us for our 16th episode. He's an absolute Chicago sports encyclopedia, and was great to have him join and drop some knowle...

It's Memorial Day Weekend!! Before heading to the beach, our main man Justin Ross joined us via satellite to drop some knowledge of ocean sustainability. He is the founder of KnOcean Life, a dedicated cause to help protect mother earth's beautiful ocean waters. It's the first ever episode we've done via phone, so it took us a few seconds to get it rolling at the beginning. Stoked for Justin to tak...

Happy Friday to the good Lads! The Town Mile Podcast #8 is fresh out of the frying pan for a brand-new Friday edition. It may be blowing and snowing like crazy outside in Philly, but it's toasty warm in here and we've got topics from Money Mike Miller to Matt Forte's career to cover. Let 'er rip and have an awesome weekend!

Happy New Year!! Holy Smokes it's almost 2018!! But before we turn the clock over, let's turn the clock back to the 1990's and talk glory days with our main man Chris Janssen. Chris joins us to open up about growing up in Emery, South Dakota and tell us about his hoop dreams journey. Huge thanks to him for taking the time to kick off 2018 with us. Happy New Year!!!