Mike and Steve

Kimberly Cole née "Kim" joins Mike and Steve to talk about her illustrious high school career, home schooling six children, and surviving a very (VERY) difficult pregnancy. (recorded November 21 2024).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Todd Leiby, a man whose father was older than his grandfather but younger than his uncle. Todd talks to Mike and Steve about working his way through college, the recent passing of his mother, and how he became a 2-time burrito-for-a-year winner at Moe's Southwest Grill. (recorded November 6 2024).

Classy Holly Mazzeo (Kwartler) is this episode's guest. She tells Mike and Steve about her long journey to finding her career niche and feeling like a lab rat as she underwent IVF treatment (successfully). Also discussed are wild senior year study hall memories and a dramatic on-stage kiss that was caught by the class yearbook photographers.

Vince Dalchuk is the guest for episode 50. Vince talks about living in Houston during Hurricane Ike, a job assignment in Kuwait, and a lifetime of swimming–including an upcoming bid to make the (senior) Olympics.

Mike and Steve return after a long hiatus to chat with classmate Marlo Emch (Zaber). Together, they recount infamous senior pranks (not our class). Marlo talks about meeting one or more Kardashians, having to choose a parent to live with at age 12, and her experiences with in vitro fertilization. Marlo also learns she had been a cheerleader in high school.

Classmate Becky Coughlin (Pecic) chats with Mike and Steve about becoming a single mom at age 20, bodybuidling, and working to find her own identity in middle age. (recorded June 22 2023).

Classmate (and youth sports team member) Josh Lauener chats with Mike and Steve about finding himself in Europe, his mother leaving the family when he was young, and of course, golf. Plus: do you know the connection between sea turtles and window treatment options? (recorded June 6 2023).

Mike and Steve talk to classmate Keith Nelman about teaching in the Falls schools, 1980s middle school fashion, Keith's successful college track career, struggling with self-esteem issues, and a misunderstanding involving a video camera (recorded Nov 3 2022).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Amanda Champa (Wesolowski) and they discuss having mullet, meeting Meb Keflezighi, the story of her husband losing his job and then starting his own business, her unexpected career change to working in healthcare sales, and shoe sets. (recorded Oct 12 2022).

Brian Schwerdtfeger joins Mike and Steve to talk about an epic Halloween prank, a harrowing workplace accident, and trying to help a family member with alcoholism. Plus: how to not make friends in Germany. (recorded Oct 5 2022).

Mike and Steve welcome classmate Derek Wilkinson to the show to talk about fencing, working for NASA, and surviving a bout with schizophrenia. (recorded Sept 28 2022).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Jennifer Graef Kramer and they discuss donating hair, what to wear while skiing, running a play cafe business, and "taking eleven years to become a parent." (recorded Sept 21st 2022).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Paul Hartzfeld (recorded August 18th 2020).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Jon Falitico (recorded March 4th 2020).

Topics include: parades, bees, words that almost rhyme

Topics include: Safety Town, materials accepted with yard waste, buttocks.

Topics include: Steve visits Mike, machete vs axe, the venerable Village Thrift Shop, the most dangerous intersection in Cuyahoga Falls.

Topics include: the city of Cuyahoga Falls owns a radio station, "the most midwestern town near Cleveland," emancipated slaves in unmarked graves to be honored with headstones after more than a century.

Topics include: National banana bread day, Neighbor Week, sending away for fruit flies, sending away for communion wafers, OG Dracula.

Topics include: sex, ATM smash and grab, no deal for Sea World, and ice fishing shanties because how could we not include that?

bird feeding and people feeding, Covid decline, Falls H.S. bowler Lakota Zrelak bowls a perfect game!

Topics include: LeBron James and Crypto.com, Mike and Steve to apply for superintendent job, Akron bicentennial, are there any billionaires in Cuyahoga Falls?, swimming holes, Sea World, roller coasters, milk, gimicks.

During a slow news week, Mike and Steve decide to just talk. Topics include: talking to other people, slaughtering animals, senior discounts, and dogs kill people.

Topics include: being in Cuyahoga Falls, crazy mysterious Amazon deliveries, Level 2 snow, Gorge Dam removal, cucurbits.

Topics include: don't rob a bank in your hometown, don't steal bridges, Chapel Hill Mall kaput, combat mode, thrift stores and vintage clothing, cilantro.