Season 2 - Episode 5 - Chris Duprey

In Season 2 Episode 5 Mike welcomes a good friend, and sports media savant, named Chris Duprey into the virtual podcast studio for a freewheeling conversation that touches on several topics the world needs right now, including friendship.

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Key moments from the pod: 

0:30: Mike welcomes listeners to S2E5 (Season 2 Episode 5).

1:30: Mike goes over corrections from some recent episodes and it’s an embarrassingly long list, including yet another discussion of Bozo’s Buckets and whether Mike did indeed wear silk shirts to his middle school and high school dances in the 1990s.

5:45: Mike talks about what’s going on with him, which centers around an amazing new album that just dropped from a cool rocker who happens to be the son of another musical legend.

10:10: Mike welcomes Chris Duprey to the podcast.

10:50: Chris shares his life story with the listeners that could be a script for a Hollywood movie, including what it’s like working in the Lansing area as a true blue Wolverine as well as being the answer to an unfortunate trivia question about Michigan football.

13:45: Chris talks about his experience working at the Michigan Daily as a sports columnist during college and how impactful that was, including mutual friend of Mike and Chris’ Mike Spahn.

17:00: Chris gives some updates on what’s been going on with him, including his sons’ athletic endeavors, specifically the Novi Heat 9U baseball team.  Mike references a couple of his favorite aspects of the Novi Heat.  Spoiler alert: Mike’s a big fan of the Heat!  They also discuss Chris’ advice for his older son about how to approach academics now that he’s starting High School in the Fall.

24:45: Chris gives the backstory on his longest standing friendship, which was formed by running cross country as a kid.  Great Al Bundy from Polk High reference in this segment.

29:30: Mike and Chris discuss the earliest memories of their friendship and how its foundation was established, which involved connections through some mutual friends who remain good mutual friends as well as how Mike would navigate tricky situations involving too much noise and Ann Arbor’s finest.

35:30: Mike references how Chris would perform at house parties during college by reenacting classic U-M sports radio calls(many involving Frank Beckman and Larry Henry), a true talent of Chris’!

37:20: Mike and Chris discuss being in U-M’s Undergrad Business Program (BBA) and how they approached their studies in that program, specifically strategy around group projects.

40:25: Mike has Chris talk about the culture in the Duprey household when watching University of Michigan sporting events, specifically as it relates to Chris’ sons.  Passionate fans is a frighteningly accurate description of these guys.

44:20: Mike and Chris talk about one of his true passions: refereeing college basketball.

48:30: Chris talks about his keys to a good friendship.

50:00: Chris then talks about what he’s fired up about in the next few months, including going to a couple of college basketball tryout camps for refereeing.  

51:30: Mike takes Chris through the (not so) Rapid Fire segment, including talking about Chris’ favorite thing to do with each of his sons for fun, which involves going to watch Michigan football (and a story about going down to West Lafayette for a Michigan/Purdue game), Chris’ favorite small college gyms to ref in, Chris’ favorite U-M game he covered as a reporter at the Michigan Daily during college, Chris’ favorite place to go eat in Novi, MI as a kid, and Chris’ predictions for Michigan football in 2021.