Shawn got a pee pass that lets him cut the line in an emergency, prompting Marc and ML to wonder […]

The Governor and Speaker of the House flipflopped on their claims they want you to have access to information about […]

Shawn shares his adventures with balloons before ML goes ham on a (former?) listener. STRAIGHT DOPE Shawn is back in the […]

Darko State News talks about his big scoop on the latest Sherrone Moore scandal before Shawn Windsor steals the show […]

Darren McCarty is into wrestling, but ML and Marc are lovers, not fighters, so they ask D Mac to tell […]

Presidential candidate (?) Rahm Emanuel joins ML and Marc to talk about everything but his political ambitions.  STRAIGHT DOPEWho’s Rahm Emanuel, […]

Erika Erickson is BACK! ML is, too, but from Quebec City. Marc is always here. ALWAYS. STRAIGHT DOPE Erika and […]

Charlie Langton, Jennifer Hammond and ML are HACKED! Hear all about their troubles with X. STRAIGHT DOPE Soulmates already know, […]

The Detroit newspaper war fizzled. So ML, Marc and author Bryan Gruley look back at the last great Detroit newspaper […]

ML is impatient for peace in Ukraine, while Marc says he’s fine if we snatch Greenland. Disagreement over college football […]

A deep dive with legendary Fox 2 investigative reporter Rob Wolchek as he prepares for his upcoming retirement in March 2026. The […]

ESPN scoop-machine Dan Wetzel reveals how he spent his Christmas vacation breaking big stories about the Michigan Wolverines. STRAIGHT DOPE:  ML […]

Happy New Year! This week we are revisiting two more of our Patreon BONUS episodes. Two legendary Detroit sportscasters, Bernie Smilovitz and John […]

Merry Christmas! This week we are revisiting two of our Patreon BONUS episodes.  We go deep into Detroit mob history […]

Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield’s dad the Rev. Horace Sheffield III talks about what it’s like to be father of the first […]

A secret marriage in Detroit and a secretive engagement party in Lansing start this week’s show, before ML and Marc […]

Jocks, celebrities and local media luminaries assemble THIS FRIDAY, Dec. 5 to help raise money for the Tom Kowalski Foundation […]

No soup for Erika Erickson, whose big scoop about a whistleblower at Campbell’s is making national news … and ML, […]

Dan Wetzel of ESPN explains how U-M blew up a plan to bring $2.4 billion into the Big Ten while […]

Instead of discussing the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, we wreck an hour of your day by discussing two different […]

Charlie LeDuff digs digging into dirty deals and dug up a doozy last week involving a demolition contractor and a […]

Shawn is back talking about a 9th grade rager while ML and Marc are grateful Erika’s ears aren’t exposed to […]

Erika is all fired up for Halloween, bringing a touch of evil to Red Shovel Network headquarters where the conversation […]

The Office’s Todd Packer, David Koechner, talks about doing trivia at Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle on 10/26, his time on […]

ML returns from Munich, so Shawn decides to talk up his trip to Des Moines, while Marc waits for Calgon […]

ML checks in from Oktoberfest, as Dan Wetzel joins Marc in the studio to talk about the weird things in […]

Erika Erickson is back. We find out who is annoying us this week AND what public official ML Elrick annoyed. […]

John Keating zooms in from retirement to tell ML, Marc, Shawn – and ML’s daughter Sophie – terrific tales of […]

Tom Selleck’s mustache and Hawaiian shirt combo do charity work in Hazel Park, and our special guest tells Erika, Marc […]

The truth – and Shawn – is out there somewhere. ML and Marc search for it, while Erika is away […]