Season 2 - Episode 2 - Zach Williams

In Season 2 Episode 2 Mike welcomes one of his all time favorite people to shoot the breeze with (as the kids say) into the Virtual Podcast Studio: Zach Williams (@zwilliams23 on Twitter).

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Key moments from the pod: 

0:30: Mike welcomes listeners to Episode 2.

2:00: Mike corrects the errors/mistakes from the Season 2 Premier with Amy Pretty.  Spoiler alert: it’s a short segment.

2:50: Mike talks about what’s going on with him, including his favorite TV show of 2021 so far: Mare of Easttown on HBO Max.

4:00: Mike pays tribute to the State of Indiana (where this episode’s guest Zach Williams hails from) with his top 5 favorite things he loves about the state of Indiana.

14:00: Mike welcomes Zach Williams into the Virtual Podcast Studio.

15:50: Zach tells the listeners his gripping life story from birth to the Summer of 2021.

19:30: Zach talks about why he loves what he does work wise and Mike makes an apt comparison of Zach to Ron Swanson from Pawnee, IN.

21:10: Zach takes the listeners through the story of who his longest running friend is and it’s a multi-part answer that does not involve a relative of Larry Bird.

24:20: Mike and Zach recount the last time the two of them were in the same place and it was in Chicago.  They also talk about some of the unique geographic features of the City of Chicago and how it’s a “city of neighborhoods”.

27:40: Mike and Zach discuss their earliest memories of their friendship.

32:10: Mike and Zach then get into some of their favorite shared memories, starting with Zach’s love of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, how Mike adopted the Cubs as his National League team and the story about how Zach and his wife Debbi invited their favorite Wrigly beer vendor Glen to their wedding.

39:45: Mike and Zach discuss their love of recreational softball and how popular it is in Chicago.

44:00: Mike and Zach tell the story of meeting down in Bloomington, IN for a Michigan/Indiana University basketball game, including why Bloomington is a unique college town.

49:20: Mike and Zach talk about why they really enjoy playing in college fantasy sports leagues.

53:15: Zach gives his philosophy for what makes a good friendship.

56:45: Zach talks about what he’s looking forward to in the next few months, including training for the Chicago Marathon.

1:01:05: Mike takes Zach through the (not so) Rapid Fire segment, including talking about coaching his son's baseball team and playing with his daughter, who Zach’s all-time favorite Cub is (he has the same first name as Zach’s son), the favorite podcast he’s been listening to (aside from Talking Friendship with Mike D), and his favorite all-time Indiana University sports moment.