Big Events and Past Glories
A KC Monarchs theme as we check in with President and G.M. Jay Hinrichs after American Association All-Star festivities this week, and bring you a timely reprise of the fascinating and lively conversation with Monarchs manager Joe Calfapietra, a baseball lifer and successful leader for many years. Summer game fun for everyone!
Back and Beautiful
The couple's view of life returns with a chock full episode fillled with travel stories, big personalities, and enjoyable entertainments. California vacation, fond memories of Bob Newhart and Gene Wilder, piano virtuosity, singing preparations, and more. Come on along!
Hitting the High Notes
After a nice Sunday at the K covering the Royals, let's hear about the sweep from Manager Q, Bobby Witt Jr., and Seth Lugo. Plus the MLB roundup, a mostly sucessful KC soccer weekend, a Schauffle virtuoso at the Open Championship, a dash of Chiefs, and the Olympics loom. Let’s start the week right!
Midsummer Mayhem
Summer fun with a confluence of sports events in various phases of their seasons. Chiefs hit training camp with history on the line, the Royals try to make the second half fun, trivia fun, and the usual enjoyable detours. Come along!
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!