Dad Lounge Podcast

This week's guest comes out of the corn to join us in the #Lounge! It's MALACHI! Star of the 1984 movie, Children of the Corn, and SO MANY other great movies, Courtney Gains is the guest with the guys! Having played roles in movies such as the aforementioned Children of the Corn, The Burbs, Memphis Belle, Back to the Future, Can't Buy Me Love to name just a few, Courtney talks about what it's like...

This week's guest talks turkey! DISCO TURKEYS, that is! A co-owner and President of Gameday Operations of the Carolina Disco Turkeys, Greg Sullivan joins the Lounge! The Disco Turkeys are a first-year team in the All-American Amateur Baseball Association (AAABA), and Greg talks about how the team came about! What led him to want to take ownership of a baseball team? What did he do before this vent...

This week's show is constructed a little differently. Our guest hangout is only about as half as long as we normally have because he was ON HIS LUNCH BREAK, but we put together some other things that made this show its "normal length." OUR GUEST... OH GOODNESS, what an honor for the guys this week to talk to the former holder for the Minnesota Golden Gopher football team (2017-2020), and 5-time ca...

This week the guys DISCover a sport that's growing MUCHLY, in the country! DISC GOLF! Scott Stokely joins the Lounge, owner of 17 national and world tournament & distance titles, and professional disc golfer! Scott has been playing disc golf, on and off, for almost 40 years, and he enlightened the guys about the world that none of them knew about! How much does it cost to play? How about getting a...

It happened again! This time our guest, George Johnson, was late and we wanted to make sure he got his due time, so we rescheduled him! So this week's contingency plan was for the guys to just talk about varying topics! Sam talked about the struggles of packing, and then realizing he hadn't even scratched the surface on all the STUFF he had accumulated in his time at the house he lives in, current...

This week's guest was one that was MUCH more than sports talk with a television station's Sports Director! Glenn Marini, Sports Director for WANE 15 (CBS affiliate in Fort Wayne Indiana), joined Sam & Richey in the Lounge, and it was such a great time, AND it was his first-ever podcast appearance! From nearby Muncie Indiana, Glenn talked about his time working in a VERY small television station in...

This week's guest was FUN! He made the guys SO HAPPY with him coming into the Lounge and hanging out! It's the Hero of Happiness and author of "The Power of FUN," Dave Raymond! MANY will know Dave as the person who introduced baseball and the rest of the world to the Phillie Phanatic! He was the furry green mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies for 16 seasons, and then decided to move on and start a...

We had to go with our contingency plan this week! Our guest was supposed to be Kevin Stone, the Hollywood Hypnotist, but he didn't make it, but luckily we had a guest-host who was filling in for Little Matt! Dalton Shetler was filling in, and ended up being the contingency for the guys to hang out with, in the time slot! Sam and Richey started an impromptu trivia-style conversation with Dalton, an...

**DISCLAIMER** This week's show is fantastic, BUT it does contain some adult kinds of topics. Our guest is in the horror movie business, and does talk about many different types of gore and other things that younger listeners might not be ready to hear! SO, it might be a week that they take off, and #grabalisten next week! This week contains a staring contest, food, death, and horror! Actor Bill O...

This week is YET ANOTHER great conversation that could've gone on for hours! Jeff Rasley (pronounced RACE-lee), came into the Lounge and just dropped SO MANY stories onto the guys! Author of, "You Have to Get Lost Before You Can Be Found: A Memoir of Suffering, Grit, and Love of the Himalayas and Basa Village," Jeff is LOADED to the gills with things to talk about! Jeff, once the head of a small l...

This week is yet another returning guest to the #Lounge! Comedian and actor (& UNPAID carpenter's apprentice) joins the guys and hangs out! About a year ago, he came to the Lounge for the first time, and while the pandemic completely halted his comedy, Aaron was hardly bored! A long-time friend and he started flipping houses! Not a track with which he was completely familiar, Aaron started a tempo...

This week takes a lot of us back to our childhoods! To a simpler day where days were spent playing baseball! Author of "Mrs. Morhard and the Boys: One mother's vision. The first boys' baseball league. A nation inspired," Ruth Hanford Morhard swings for the fences in the Lounge! Ruth's book is about the story of her mother-in-law, Josephine Morhard, who is responsible for forming the first boys' ba...

The guys were all abuzz for this week's show! Amateur beekeeper and singer, Missy Burgess joined the guys in the Lounge! Sam teased Missy's hang out with a story she told his wife, at work! It was an amazingly funny story, and enlightening that even bees do this too! WHO WOULD'VE thought! They then jump into what brought her into beekeeping! The answer might not be what you think. Just how amazing...

This week's show is one where 4 dads sit and talk about raising their children, and more! Dad of the #2 pick in the 2005 NBA Draft, Marvin Williams Jr., Marvin Williams Sr. joins the #Lounge! Also the author of "Secondary Break: An NBA Dad's Story," Marvin Sr. talks about what it meant to him to be able to write a book about a dad raising a son to make it to the highest level of basketball, in the...

This week takes the guys back to their high school days! DC Glenn, a.k.a. DC the Brain Supreme sprinkled all sorts of things in the #Lounge, this week! DC is half of the hip-hop duo, Tag Team, who had the iconic song, "Whoomp! (There It Is)," that came out in the early 1990s! He talks in-depth about the national GEICO commercial that Tag Team was featured, and whether or not the offer to do a comm...

**DISCLAIMER** This episode has no connection to the Coca-Cola Corporation. There are no endorsements for or against their stances or statements. There are shows where that topic would come up, but the 500 Section Lounge podcast is NOT one of those shows. We like to allow our listeners to get away from the topics of current events, even for just a little while, each week! ENJOY! This week the guys...

This week the guys dive DEEP! Founder/CEO and jack of all trades of Flock Goods, Matt Gagne, joins the #Lounge! A trained skydiving instructor, Matt was working hard to becoming part of a professional skydiving team! His work, up to joining a team took him to Dubai where he was training and working in the best wind tunnels in the world! He took a position on a skydiving team, in 2014, and was a co...

With the first 75 shows in the books, the guys decided to reminisce about times that rang to them as a favorite guest or time while in the #Lounge! What a long strange long trip it's been to get to this show! The guests, the laughs, the games, and just in general GREAT TIMES they've shared while talking into microphones! FIRST, Little Matt chose the time the guys had the Mental Health Comedian, Fr...

This week is the 75th edition of the #Lounge! The guys decided what better way to celebrate than to have their first-ever guest come on for his FOURTH appearance! Yep, we're talking about Dalton Shetler! There were ALL SORTS of topics during this show! The guys talk about the Big Ten tournament, and what his plans are for it! NCAA tournament? Yep, the guys talked about that too! Where do Michigan...

This week's show ended with the guys already planning YET ANOTHER return of Jeff H. Ryan in the #Lounge! Jeff, making his second appearance (and third installment) this week, and it was NOT DISAPPOINTING in any way! COVID doesn't slow down research and writing, and Jeff has been AMAZINGLY busy! Jeff shares how long it takes to research, the topic of his next book, and amazing connections of histor...

This week's show comes from high above the center ring, UNDER the Big Top! Former Peru Amateur Circus performer, Kate (Katie) Blocher, walks a FINE line in the #Lounge! Kate is Sam's cousin, and she performed in the Peru Amateur Circus for many years growing up! She talks about all of the different performance acts she participated in and the work that was put into mastering that act! She does go...

Our final week of our Sports Febstival was the perfect pick-six! Former consensus All-Big Ten safety, in 2008, for the Michigan State Spartans, Otis Wiley joins the Lounge! The guys had a barrage of questions for Otis! What was your pregame prep, What do you remember the most fondly, What was it like playing at Notre Dame Stadium as a visitor, Did the Flint-stones impress on you the appeal of Mich...

Week 3 of the "Sports Febstival" brings the HEAT! Former high school stand-out basketball player at Lewis-Cass high school (IN), former college, FIBA, and NBA coach, and the host of the Coach Scott Fields Show, Scott Fields hangs out in the #Lounge this week! The energy RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE was amazing! Scott talks about how his love of basketball came to be, and where it has taken him! The conve...

IT MIGHT BE... IT COULD BE... IT IS! A HOMERUN! Harry Carey said it right when you think about this week in the #Lounge! The guys had college coach, at Trine University (Angola, IN), and 17+ year veteran coach at USA Baseball, Brett Ratcliffe as our "Sports Febstival" Part 2 guest! Brett has worked with SO MANY different players and has just as many stories to tell! He is the reason the guys know...

SOUND THE TRUMPETS!! This week kicks off our FIRST "Sports Febstival!"  While we have sports guests throughout the year, we have dedicated the month of February to have guests that are a tribute to how the 500 Section started... as a sports show! What a way to start such an event, with our guest this week! Justin Kershaw, former defensive stand-out, and captain of the 2008 Michigan State Spartan f...