Mike and Steve

Kimberly Cole née "Kim" joins Mike and Steve to talk about her illustrious high school career, home schooling six children, and surviving a very (VERY) difficult pregnancy. (recorded November 21 2024).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Todd Leiby, a man whose father was older than his grandfather but younger than his uncle. Todd talks to Mike and Steve about working his way through college, the recent passing of his mother, and how he became a 2-time burrito-for-a-year winner at Moe's Southwest Grill. (recorded November 6 2024).

Classy Holly Mazzeo (Kwartler) is this episode's guest. She tells Mike and Steve about her long journey to finding her career niche and feeling like a lab rat as she underwent IVF treatment (successfully). Also discussed are wild senior year study hall memories and a dramatic on-stage kiss that was caught by the class yearbook photographers.

Vince Dalchuk is the guest for episode 50. Vince talks about living in Houston during Hurricane Ike, a job assignment in Kuwait, and a lifetime of swimming–including an upcoming bid to make the (senior) Olympics.

Mike and Steve return after a long hiatus to chat with classmate Marlo Emch (Zaber). Together, they recount infamous senior pranks (not our class). Marlo talks about meeting one or more Kardashians, having to choose a parent to live with at age 12, and her experiences with in vitro fertilization. Marlo also learns she had been a cheerleader in high school.

Classmate Becky Coughlin (Pecic) chats with Mike and Steve about becoming a single mom at age 20, bodybuidling, and working to find her own identity in middle age. (recorded June 22 2023).

Classmate (and youth sports team member) Josh Lauener chats with Mike and Steve about finding himself in Europe, his mother leaving the family when he was young, and of course, golf. Plus: do you know the connection between sea turtles and window treatment options? (recorded June 6 2023).

Mike and Steve talk to classmate Keith Nelman about teaching in the Falls schools, 1980s middle school fashion, Keith's successful college track career, struggling with self-esteem issues, and a misunderstanding involving a video camera (recorded Nov 3 2022).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Amanda Champa (Wesolowski) and they discuss having mullet, meeting Meb Keflezighi, the story of her husband losing his job and then starting his own business, her unexpected career change to working in healthcare sales, and shoe sets. (recorded Oct 12 2022).

Brian Schwerdtfeger joins Mike and Steve to talk about an epic Halloween prank, a harrowing workplace accident, and trying to help a family member with alcoholism. Plus: how to not make friends in Germany. (recorded Oct 5 2022).

Mike and Steve welcome classmate Derek Wilkinson to the show to talk about fencing, working for NASA, and surviving a bout with schizophrenia. (recorded Sept 28 2022).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Jennifer Graef Kramer and they discuss donating hair, what to wear while skiing, running a play cafe business, and "taking eleven years to become a parent." (recorded Sept 21st 2022).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Paul Hartzfeld (recorded August 18th 2020).

Mike and Steve interview classmate Jon Falitico.

Topics include: parades, bees, words that almost rhyme

Topics include: Safety Town, materials accepted with yard waste, buttocks.

Topics include: Steve visits Mike, machete vs axe, the venerable Village Thrift Shop, the most dangerous intersection in Cuyahoga Falls.

Topics include: the city of Cuyahoga Falls owns a radio station, "the most midwestern town near Cleveland," emancipated slaves in unmarked graves to be honored with headstones after more than a century.

Topics include: National banana bread day, Neighbor Week, sending away for fruit flies, sending away for communion wafers, OG Dracula.

Topics include: sex, ATM smash and grab, no deal for Sea World, and ice fishing shanties because how could we not include that?

bird feeding and people feeding, Covid decline, Falls H.S. bowler Lakota Zrelak bowls a perfect game!

Topics include: LeBron James and Crypto.com, Mike and Steve to apply for superintendent job, Akron bicentennial, are there any billionaires in Cuyahoga Falls?, swimming holes, Sea World, roller coasters, milk, gimicks.

During a slow news week, Mike and Steve decide to just talk. Topics include: talking to other people, slaughtering animals, senior discounts, and dogs kill people.

Topics include: being in Cuyahoga Falls, crazy mysterious Amazon deliveries, Level 2 snow, Gorge Dam removal, cucurbits.

Topics include: don't rob a bank in your hometown, don't steal bridges, Chapel Hill Mall kaput, combat mode, thrift stores and vintage clothing, cilantro.

Topics include: scary Christmas tours, Falls wrestling team, snow leopard Shanti dies, the Triple Crown--paragon of fancy restaurants, an embarrassment of riches at Krieger's

Topics include: Former Cuyahoga Falls football coach inspires new wine at Sarah's Vineyard, the proper way to rob a bank, toys for tickets, mangoes vs. grapefruits.

Topics include: welcoming the holidays, Dairy Queen vs. catalytic convertor theft as livelihood, City of Akron to provide free menstrual products in restrooms, fencing, first ever barbershop in Stow, what you can get for $3.99 at Krieger's.

Topics include: 100-year old WWII veteran/conscientious objector, new businesses, 96-year old trophy finder, the buck stops here.

Topics include: another bank robbery, Mayor Don Walters wins 3rd term, does the Akron Zoo have chimpanzees?, update on the unlicensed funeral operator, ladybugs, stink bugs, deer crashes, Ohio Amish-grown cabbage, freeon wanted!, leaf pickup.

capers, Nightmare Before Christmas house, popular and unpopular Halloween costumes, sales at Krieger's, library events, slutty porkloins.

Topics include: Fire truck pull success, flushable wipes, drug take-back, power outage, Krieger's sales, library programs for this week.

Topics include: Akron-Canton Airport is 75, rubber worker statue, "robot" mowers, Sasquatch thefts a national epidemic, plus a bonus stolen statue story.

Mike and Steve talk to Cuyahoga Falls Mayor Don Walters about what high school was like for him, how he went from high school to mayor, and how he worked through his son's addiction issues,. They wrap up with a hearty game of Make this Sound with Your Mouth Only. Mike and Steve discuss several "things."

Topics include: Sasquatch clues, Covid lions, Broad Boulevard ceremoniously renamed, Akron school bus crisis, unlicensed funeral operator, great deals at Krieger's, so many stump grinders.

This week's topics: Arthur Treachers, Sasquatch search continues, Seven Floors of Hell, Autumn leaves, Halloween events, fire truck pull, the case of the milkshake marauder..

This week's topics: Ohio to welcome 855 Afghan evacuees, Akron marathon, pumpkin patches, haunted horses, blimps, an old house, 3D print tiny house designs at the library.

Topics include: 100 years of the Tiger Band, Bank robbery, Sasquatch theft, how to hem clothes workshop at the library, Newberry School time capsule, Portage Path was once the western border of the United States.

Mike and Steve are back with more Cuyahoga Falls news, featuring: Local residents with connections to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City; Cuyahoga Falls 'adopts' tribal territory in Houma, Louisiana; Oktoberfest returns; Back to school bash; Stair climbing; Petting zoos.

Mike and Steve report on Cuyahoga Falls news for the week of September 5, 2021, including refuse pickup, pancake breakfast, and the historic Cuyahoga Falls fire bell.

Mike and Steve go live with guest Andy Pal and discuss France, Crayolas, high school plays, and light saber sounds, not necessarily in that order.

Mike and Steve make an announcement about an upcoming special episode that will be broadcast live on YouTube.

Jennifer Geiger is this episode's guest and she talks about raising her first child at age eighteen; teaching high school drug, alcohol and sex ed classes; and writing her first book, Laugh Anyway. Mike and Steve discuss several "things."

Geoff Remark hangs out with Mike and Steve to talk about the death of his father, sand volleyball, and his illustrious career as a home room rep. Mike and Steve bemoan the seriousness of social media and analyze some Cuyahoga Falls Talk of the Town discussions.

In this timely episode, Susan Gabeau (Kushner) talks about being a nurse at the epicenter of the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak, New York City. In addition, she tells her story of surviving sexual assault as a child and finding a home in New York. In a total contrast, Steve whines about how tired he is from sitting around all day. Mike and Steve discuss the strange phenomenon of upmanaging.

Shannon Burtrand-Roupe is this episode's guest, and she tells how Christianity became an important part of her life and how she ended up in Arizona. Shannon is inexplicably the second guest on the show to have entered the profession of pharmaceutical sales through unlikely circumstances. Mike and Steve take a break from their usual idiocy to talk about mortality.

Tim Smith joins Mike and Steve to talk about living in Canada, losing his brother to cancer, and he manages to bail Steve out in the Make This Sound With Your Mouth Only game. Mike and Steve reminisce about some teachers.

Mike and Steve agonize over the correct pronunciation of "crayon" before bringing in guest Catherine (Amie) Tosenberger for a wide ranging discussion about theatre types, self-reliance, marrying classmate, Tim Smith, and. . .lots of stuff.

Joe Sorboro is this episode's guest, and he talks about meeting his wife, the challenges of raising a child with autism, and reveals why he has worn short shorts all this time. Mike and Steve make two bombshell announcements.

Heather Lyell Shaw tells Mike and Steve about having a heart attack at age 19, describes the current state of Cuyahoga Falls High School, and reminisces about the late lamented Schnee and Sill schools. Mike and Steve drink the world's rarest and best beer and become intoxicated.

Captain Aaron Haas joins Mike and Steve and talks about his unlikely journey from military service to pharmaceutical sales. Topics include being on active duty on 9/11 and Aaron's dominance in a bizarre game involving a lighter and pain.