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Investigative reporter Curt Guyette on the Flint disaster, the future of Ypsi’s Elbow Room, our second on-air swap meet, and sharing meatloaf with musician Greg McIntosh… on episode 37 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | January 31, 2016

I’ve made a couple of comments over the past few days about last week’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack having been bad. In truth, it wasn’t all that bad. I’m re-listening to it now, while folding clothes… which, by the way, is the best way to enjoy the Saturday Six Pack… and there’s actually […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andrew Epstein, Ann Landers, anxiety, ASMR, bad interviews, Beezy's, chewing, Curt Guyette, Elbow Room, Flint, investigative reporting, Jean Henry, Kate de Fuccio, lead, Matt Jones, Matt Krizowsky, Meatloaf, Mexican food, Mezcal, Monkey Power Trio, Patti Smith, Pete Townshend, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, public health, Ski Troop Attack, swastika, the sad state of journalism, water, whispering | 21 Comments

ACLU Michigan’s investigative reporter Curt Guyette on the Flint water crisis, sharing meatloaf with musician Gregory McIntosh, the future of Ypsi’s infamous Elbow Room, and our second annual on-air swap meet… on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | January 22, 2016

Somehow, yet once again, we’ve managed to book an awesome show for your listening pleasure this Saturday evening. This weekend’s show will be in four parts. First, we will be continuing our ongoing coverage of the Flint water crisis with ACLU Michigan’s investigative reporter Curt Guyette. Then, we’ll be talking with Andrew Epstein, the new […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged ACLU, Andrew Epstein, Curt Guyette, Elbow Room, Flint, Flint water crisis, Gregory Macintosh, Jean Henry, journalism, lead, lead poisoning, Lee Anne Walters, Meatloaf, Rick Snyder, the sad state of journalism, water | 7 Comments

The episode where Pete Larson flies in from Kenya to announce his rebirth as a Mississippi bluesman, we trade a Suzanne Somers “three way” poncho for eight bottles of cheap wine, and one of my guests tells me that she’s posed nude for Playboy… The Saturday Six Pack #13

By Mark | April 20, 2015

I’ve complained recently that we haven’t been getting a lot of calls during the show. Well, apparently all of that complaining has paid off. The phone didn’t stop ringing this episode. The first call came in before Jim Cherewick had even finished singing the opening theme. It was Matt Jones, calling from his basement, where […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged board games, Bulb Records, Chin Azzaro, Chris Sandon, Columbus, Deja Vu, erotic photography, gentrification, Girls of the Big 10, Jim Cherewick, Kurt Anschuetz, Miller High Life, Nancy Perry, nude photography, Pete Larson, Playboy, ponchos, porn, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Red Roof Inn, snoring, Stan Malinowski, Suzanne Somers, tallboys, The Who Guy, Yen Azzaro, Ypsiopoly | 26 Comments

Bulb Records co-founder Pete Larson visits from Kenya, Mark talks art with Yen Azzaro, and we attempt an on-air swap meet… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | April 16, 2015

When I first met Pete Larson, over 25 years ago now, I think he’d just moved to Ann Arbor from Mississippi. He was a skinny kid with a long, scraggly beard like a goat, and a love for dangerously loud, life-shortening music. My first memory of him is at the Club Heidelberg, standing with one […]