For 78 seasons, Shepler’s ferry service has been bringing people to and from the island, and they are one of Michigan’s most familiar and iconic family businesses. Captain Chris Shelper is the President of Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry, and today he’s our guest.

High on the list of yet unanswered questions is, “Can one make the Michigan state budget sexy?”

Today, you can take it off the list because we have an answer.

Jim Curran, long-time Lansing lobbyist at Karoub and Associates, recently took a step back from the halls of the Capitol and rolled the dice. Having worked with a group to redevelop the site of old Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Jim did what lobbyists sometimes do. He pitched a wild idea.

Just in time for Tax Day, it’s Michigan’s State Treasurer. Michigan’s first female State Treasurer, to be exact.

Nikki Thompson Frazier is the owner and creator of Sweet Encounters Bakery and Café. She just moved into our building, and the place now smells amazing!

Nikki’s allergy-safe baking has won awards, landed her on the Food Network, and set her up with this new space in downtown Lansing. She started it all for her kids, and a growing business popped out of the oven.

3:30 a.m. has got to come early when the old iPhone alarm starts going, but that’s how today’s guest starts each day.

For going on eight years, Dave Akerly has hosted the Morning Wake Up each weekday morning on Lansing’s talk radio station, WILS 1320 AM. And that’s only after more than 20 years at Lansing TV news and sports anchor desks.

So, I bet you never thought the largest producer of captive-bred poison dart frogs in the United States, and probably the world, was right here in Michigan, did you? In Owosso, go figure.

The history of Downtown Lansing restaurants is a checkered one, and today, we take a stroll through the graveyard of 25 years of Washington Ave. eateries.

We here at the podcast like to think of ourselves as part of “the Biz.” Today, a well-lit look behind the curtain.

Like the turn of the calendar and Nick DeLeeuw’s sausage egg biscuits and large Dr. Peppers, having Chris Johnson on the podcast to kick off the new year is becoming a regular thing.