Season 1 - Episode 12 (Season 1 Finale) - Brock Steere

In the Season 1 Finale Mike reflects on the first season of this podcast, discusses his love of St. Patrick's Day as well as Irish music and brings on the plastics king of the Midwest, his dear friend Brock Steere.

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Key moments from the pod: 

0:30: Mike welcomes listeners to Episode 12.

1:30: Mike endorses Episode 3 guest Megan Mazurek’s realtor skillz.

2:40: Mike goes over the corrections from Episodes 11 and 11.5 (spoiler alert: it’s a short list).

3:05: Mike talks about what Season 1 of the podcast has meant to him, including giving a shout out to the international listeners of the podcast and looks forward to Season 2.

6:20: Mike goes over what’s going on with him and it involves getting extremely fired up for St. Patrick’s Day, discusses the importance of this holiday in Chicago and then goes over a few of his favorite St. Patrick’s Day songs.

15:40: Mike welcomes his great friend Brock Steere into the (virtual) Podcast Studio.

17:15: Brock gives the listeners about his background, including growing up in Akron, OH, attending undergrad at Indiana University as a diehard Wolverine fan and moving to Chicago to sling gum.

23:00: Brock talks about his longest running friend and what’s kept their friendship strong.

26:30: Mike and Brock talk about the last time they saw each other, which was at the Michigan/Ohio State football game in Ann Arbor in 2019.

28:15: Mike and Brock discuss a more recent mini-tradition in their friendship of Mike traveling down to Akron to visit Brock and go see a Cleveland Cavs game.

30:30: Mike and Brock trace the origins of their friendship back to a Chicago house party in 2004 where Mike was wearing a pink shirt.

33:30: Mike recounts the story of breaking the news that Chad Henne had been named the starting QB for the Michigan football team in 2004 for the Miami (OH) game as well as a former nickname of Mike (“Mike Jones”).

36:40: Mike and Brock talk about watching Michigan football at Brock’s condo on a TV that was hung over some sweet bugles as well as at Mike’s condo.  Just a lot of football watching at condos.

39:00: Brock breaks down his approach to going to watch Chicago Cubs games at Wrigley Field, filling the role of the “pied piper”, popping bottles during daylight hours (and why it’s a good investment), and blowing up (in a good way).

46:00: Brock and Mike talk about helping create the now legendary “Steere Tailgate” outside U-M Stadium and why Brock and his family decided to invest in the University of Michigan.

52:30: Brock talks about what he’s excited about in his life, including getting outside with his family as well as the launch of a really cool new product from his family company called “Meltdown” (meltdownice.com).

58:00: Mike takes Brock through the (not so) Rapid Fire segment, including talking about the next road venue Brock wants to go see Michigan football play in, his favorite part about living in Ohio, his all time favorite University of Michigan sports memory, and his favorite spots to hit the town at in Chicago.