Season 5 - Episode 7 - Mike talks 2023 Michigan football v Minnesota with Bob Stinchcombe

In Episode 7 of Season 5 Mike welcomes a true friend of his from childhood, Robert “Bob” Stinchcombe to the pod to talk not only about the introduction of camcorder technology to homework assignments in the 1990’s but also the 2023 Michigan football game against the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers.

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Key moments from the pod: 

0:30: Mike welcomes listeners to S5E7 featuring Mike’s multi-decade friend Bob Stinchcombe.

1:50: Mike then corrects some seriously embarrassing errors, including continuing to reference Google as an option for podcast listening, a missed scarlet fever reference, and an explanation why there was no sultry sax in the Nebraska (S5E6) episode intro.

4:45: Mike talks about what’s been going with him recently, including what Mike’s new favorite burger in all of Michigan has in common with his favorite burger of all time from Au Cheval in Chicago, another example of how Mike is a man of the people (as is this episode’s guest Bob Stinchcombe).

8:00: Mike gets into why he loves Minneapolis, the importance of rocking the best gear possible when attending a road game, a Warehouse District brewery tour, waking up early to watch Tottenham with Minneapolis Spurs, and a musical tribute to one of Minnesota’s greatest musical sons.

17:00: Mike welcomes Cabrini legend Bob Stinchcombe onto the podcast and Bob shares some basics about himself.

19:00: Bob then retraces literally every single important moment of his life for the listeners and why he enjoys the city of Minneapolis.

22:30: Bob then talks about his family’s love of the Detroit Tigers.

24:15: The guys then talk about the new movie about Mother Cabrini (the namesake of their school from growing up).

25:30: Next up is when the guys go deep on using digital video to do homework and how it springboarded their academic careers to success.

29:30: The guys then talk about the Thunderdome-like environment at Cabrini High School’s “Open” Campus during the 90’s.

34:30: Mike and Bob go over the last time they saw each other and then Bob talks about which friend of his he’s been friends with the longest (spoiler alert: it’s a former guest of the podcast who’s name rhymes with Lyle Burek).

37:20: The guys shift to Michigan football where Bob talks about his feelings on the 2023 Michigan football team coming into the season as well as how they’d been performing coming into the Minnesota game (cue the classic boa constrictor analogy!).

42:25: Next up is a full recap of the Michigan/Minnesota game from 2023, including Bob (not) attempting to break down what Ski-U-Mah means.

55:00: The guys finish up talking about their thoughts on Michigan coming out of the game (including why the Brown Jug is still a great trophy) with Bob sharing why he still cares so much about Michigan football at this point in his life.