GoManDo Everyday Moments Podcast

Mike flies solo this week, and he starts with good news: his brother-in-law came through heart surgery. The surgeons opened his chest, stopped his heart and used veins from his leg to do the repair. He's out of the ICU soon and on his way home after a few more days. Mike admits it puts his own complaints about a head cold in perspective. Then it's tea time. He's drinking two bags of wh...

Mike flies solo this week, and the show opens with his mom, who is 94. She doesn't fall from anywhere high. She slides off the bed or the toilet, and the toilet falls are the hardest on both of them. Each time, Mike has to lift her off the floor himself while she's dead weight, unable to crawl, sit up, or help in any way. Getting her up can take half an hour, and he knows it won't get...

Mike flies solo this week, and he opens with a gardening letdown. The red potatoes he planted months ago finally died back. His plant manager John, a farmer for years, told him to wait a week and dig them up on the weekend, and the harvest was a flop: small, bumpy, oddly textured spuds that Mike is too spooked to eat. His last crop of white potatoes, grown in a different spot on the property, came...

Mike is back behind the mic with a voice that barely cooperates. A sore throat hit so hard last Thursday night he couldn't swallow, then it slid into his chest and head and turned into a week of hacking, coughing, and no sleep. He's finally sleeping through the night again, but the cough is hanging on, and he's still not sure what it was: head cold, allergies, or something that morphed...

Mike opens solo with something heavier than a recipe. His brother-in-law, the kind of guy Mike says you would wish was your own brother, went in for the same heart calcium CT scan Mike had a few weeks back. Mike's came back low risk, a relief he admits he did not expect. His brother-in-law's came back high, and now there is a follow-up procedure on the calendar, possibly a stent, possibly...

Mike flies solo this week with a notebook full of loose ends. The big one first: he's been pushing himself out of the series novels he usually burns through and into nonfiction, and it's actually taking. Bad Blood and the Theranos saga hooked him, Elizabeth Holmes struck him as one strange bird in every interview he could find, and from there he worked through Wave Walker and a second esca...

Mike is flying solo again, and this week's episode is a running to-do list turned confessional. It opens with the update everyone was waiting for: Mom, at 94, is back to eating and sleeping like herself. After a stretch of not feeling right, a full workup, blood work, belly imaging, and urine tests, came back clean. The doctor's verdict was simple: this is old age, nothing more. A small tw...

Mike and Nelson sit down for one final show together, and it's a bittersweet one. After a couple of months of building the podcast side by side, Nelson is stepping away for a big opportunity he can't pass up, leaving Mike to fly solo until he finds the right person to help him keep the thing running. There's genuine warmth here: Nelson admits the show inspired him to push himself, and...

Mike and Nelson are back for another easy, roundabout conversation that starts with the small logistics of caring for Mike's mom and ends somewhere on a beach with a coconut tree. First up: the ongoing CVS pharmacy app saga, where Mike can log in on his laptop but keeps getting stopped on his phone, a common enough complaint that it might just be the app itself. The good news is the bigger sys...

Mike and Nelson are back, and this week the theme is chaos. Nelson kicks things off with a bald tire that blew out and cost him three hundred bucks for two replacements, plus install and alignment, the kind of ordeal that pushes real work to the back burner. He's also winding down his time on the show, with another full-time gig on the horizon, which means the production company wants Mike to...

Mike walks into his first appointment with a brand new doctor and walks out with a prescription pitch he didn't ask for. Ten minutes in, the guy is already pushing Ozempic. Between a high A1C, a beer gut, and a stack of blood pressure meds, the doctor sees a quick fix. Mike sees a rabbit hole. He and Nelson dig into the GLP-1 conversation: the miracle weight loss stories playing out on local n...

Mike's desk looks like a small appliance showroom this week, and there's a reason. He walks Nelson through the full arc of his shaving life, from clean-cut razor guy during his nine-to-five years, to the once-a-week touch-up crowd, to a rotating cast of trimmers and clippers, and finally to his newest purchase: the top-rated Braun Series 8. He read the reviews, discovered the 8 outperforms...

Mike and Nelson finally reconnect after a wicked storm knocked out power at Mike's place for three straight days. The Fourth of July weekend blast that nobody saw coming, not even the meteorologists with their whole staff, blew shingles clean off the roof, dropped an estimated 400,000 people into darkness across Michigan, and forced Mike to trash the entire contents of two fridges and two free...

Mike and Nelson open with a honey crisis. Mike's favorite little store, the one that sells local honey from a guy in the next town over, is out again after somebody stole all the hives earlier in the year. His backup is a glass jar of Michigan honey from Metamora, a place neither guy can quite locate on the map, and it comes with a new problem: no squeeze bottle, so Mike has to spoon it into h...

Welcome to episode one of GoManDo, where Mike and Nelson sit down for exactly the kind of loose, roll-with-it conversation the show is built on. Mike kicks things off already flustered, wrong hat, wrong shirt, and a morning ATM run that went sideways when the machine flashed "out of service." No cash for Nelson, who cuts hair as his nine to five and does the podcast on the side, so Mike...

Mike and Nelson sit down for a working session before a big meeting Mike has with the company that hosts the podcast. The plan is to walk in with real questions: how to handle advertising when the views were sky high during paid promotion but flatten out without it, how to bring guests into the mix, and where the whole show goes from here. It is a candid look behind the curtain at a podcast trying...

Mike finally has the court order in hand, which means the name change went through. The relief is real, but so is the bureaucratic gauntlet that comes next. He walks Nelson through the misstep that almost cost him: heading to the Secretary of State first, only to learn after the fact that Social Security has to come first or nothing else will stick. Cue thirty web pages that led nowhere, a Chromeb...

Nelson shows up to the GoManDo studio fresh off barber duty, and Mike's walking in with a brand-new haircut and a head full of talking points, minus the actual script he meant to bring. What follows is a loose, easygoing hang built around the small obsessions that fill a week: the spearmint plant Mike finally tracked down at Meijer, repotted, and is now bruising leaf by leaf into homemade gree...

Mike and Nelson open with garden talk, but this is no ordinary planting update. Nelson goes the budget route this year, seven five-gallon buckets of peppers, tomatoes, and strawberries on a rental property where a raised bed didn't make sense. Mike, meanwhile, comes home from a work trip to find water shooting over his back fence and his garden underwater, the handiwork of a strange elderly ne...

Mike comes in riding a gardening high, and it's contagious. After a brutally long Michigan winter and a bad case of spring fever, he finally got everything in the ground: potatoes, onions already poking up, tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, brussels sprouts, bubblegum petunias front and back, coleus down the side of the house, and three rows of rainbow sunflowers spaced twelve inches apart. He till...

Mike and Nelson kick things off with a tea experiment, a fresh spearmint blend from Meijer steeped a full half hour ahead of time, still scalding when they raise the mugs. From there Nelson recaps the in-laws' visit from Florida, including a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art (currently mid-renovation through fall of 2027) and the Toledo Botanical Garden, complete with an artist village of potte...

Nelson is back after a stress headache knocked him out for a week, and Mike picks up right where they left off: gardens going in, taxes raising eyebrows, and a kitchen experiment that might change his weeknight dinners forever. Mike walks through the planting push at his place, sunflower seeds in (the multi-colored five to six footers), onions and potatoes down, and a fresh three-tier planter on t...

Mike flies solo this week after Nelson bailed on production duty, so the show looks a little different, filmed on a phone with no board, no fancy mics, no co-host energy. What it lacks in polish it makes up for in honesty. Mike walks listeners through a packed spring weekend: planting beds prepped, onions and sunflowers going in, red potatoes cut and callusing on the counter, and bubblegum petunia...

Mike and Nelson cover a sprawling conversation that touches on cutting the SiriusXM cord, escaping jury duty, the slow burn of Mike's legal name change, and the state of Cuba's collapsing infrastructure. Plus picadillo recipes, Michigan's booming 420 culture, the absurdity of Love Is Blind, and a surprisingly heated take on a fashion trend you've definitely seen. Key Takeaways: ● Auditing your sub...

Mike and Nelson swap stories about spring gardening prep, Meyer lemon trees that winter indoors, and the art of surviving a 94-year-old's doctor's appointment. Along the way: women's collegiate bowling oddities, Hungary's election shakeup, untreatable viruses, and why mother's day weekend is a garden center madhouse. Key Takeaways: ● Michigan clay soil needs serious amending wi...