Throwing For the Love of It
A two time national champion at Kansas and a Canadian Olympic team member in the javelin, Scott set national records that still stand, won myriad titles, all while battling injuries, and now is raising a family and passing on coaching and life lessons to young people.An Inspiring and enjoyable conversation.
Rollicking and Rambunctious Rumination
The Banter Boys dive into a robust fact check, taste test some magnificant brews, and dish on everything from coal mining to colloquialisms, lobster rolls to Alcatraz, redwoods to both forms of football, robot cars to romance, and more. Raise and glass and come on along!
Take Me Out
Reliably cool and informative with this edition diving into great projects, bad anthems, fascinating new releases and re-releases, and more, featuring The Police, Brian Eno, Ingrid Andress, The Basebal Project, Celine Dion, Fergie,The Zombies, and others. Come on along!
Bursting at the Seams Bigtime
Absolutely chock full of big stories and events. We put David Lesky of Inside the Crown back to work with the Royals hitting the break, making deals, working the draft, and Bobby Witt Jr. in the Derby spotlight. I'll go round the MLB at the break, and highlight and amazing soccer weekend of highs and lows, virtuoso work at Wimbledon, hometown dramatics in golf, and, well, the Chiefs are going camping. Deep diving to say the least!
Evaluations, Expectations, and Subplots
Hot summer takes and great fun as we dive into the Royals at All-Star break time, local college football QB's and team prospects, a bit of college basketball and Wimbledon, trivia, and other detours. Enjoy!
Mentor Through the Decades
The heat of July sees thousands of players and coaches start prepping for the Friday Night Lights of the fall, a perfect time to hit the archives and revisit our conversation with one of the giants of Kansas City high school football Tony Severino, winner of myriad state titles and inpactful in the lives of scores of young football players. Fascinating and inspirational!
Voodoo Inspiration
An enjoyable conversation with John Michaels, the leader of the new Bruce Springsteen tribute band “Thunder Road”. They will be appearing at the Voodoo Lounge at Harrah’s in North KC, bringing their outstanding catalogue of Springsteen music based on live show arrangments. A fun ride!
All Stars and Keeping Hope Alive
Easing back into real ife after the extended holiday with great baseball conversation with David Lesky from "Inside the Crown". MLB and Royal All-Stars and dep dives into other topics. Plus, SKC with an exciting win, the KC Current finally absorb a loss, Euros mania, an NBA swan song, and more. Jump right back in with us!
Citizen of Smiles
The 4th of July weekend and plenty of soccer dramatics provide a perfect time to revisit out conversation with Roger. Raised in Liverpool with many things American, he eventually became a U.S. citizen. That journey is enjoyably explored in this chat, and his fine book.
Challenges and Scaling the Heights
Roll into the holiday with great musical conversation highlighting concerts, documentaries, and albums featuring Eminem, Cat Power, Modest Mouse, The Pixies, Celine Dion, Little Steven, The Indigo Girls, Dolly Parton, and more. Eclectic and enjoyable every time.