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2019 Greatest hits Shows!

Fish and the Flint Chronicles Greatest Hits!
Show One and Two

October 2 and 4, 2019
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since our first episode of  “Fish and The Flint Chronicles”!

We’ve had some truly amazing guests, and featured stories that not only tell an amazing historical tale, but also provides tremendous value and opportunity for learning how to navigate the future.  

AMAZING STORIES!
  • Yale history professor, and current Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight, describing growing up on the East Side of Flint- in a trailer park.
  • Rad Jones discussing what it was like to protect President John F. Kennedy and his family.
  • Mark Farner singing “I’m Your Captain” live on the air with us, and describing  how Grand Funk Railroad blew Led Zeppelin off the stage, and hanging out with Jimi Hendrix
  • Sam Thompson explaining what it was like to be Elvis Presley’s personal body guard and chief of security, and meeting him for the first time in the basement of Graceland, complete with fishing hat, shades, and a karate outfit (Elvis not Sam!).
  • Norma Fairhurst telling the story of growing up in the Flint band The Velvelettes, in the Motown records culture and system, and playing with The Temptations, Four Tops, Supremes, Smokey Rovbinson and Marvin Gaye, and especially with her young harmonica player, an unknown 14 year old kid from Saginaw named  Stevie Wonder
  • Billy Bob Thornton telling his (now famous) story of getting run out of town as a young musician, and what it was like working with The Beatles engineer and his producer, Geoff Emerick.
  • Speaking of The Beatles, they loom large in our visit with Peter C. Cavanaugh, Flint’s very own member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, who photo bombed The Beatles and snagged an interview through deception ( and guile) when they first showed up in Detroit in 1964, and how he took Pete Townsend of The Who bar hopping on Dort Highway after Keith Moon destroyed the Holiday Inn on Bristol Road during his 21st birthday party.
  • Telling Hollywood superstar  Mark Wahlberg about Flint’s incredible automotive history.
  • Discussing Flint’s resiliency with world wide mega icon and musical genius Yo Yo Ma - at Berston Field House no less!
  • Hearing Gordon Strozier of Ready For The World describe how the bands' tour bus was “shot up” by "The Jewish Mafia", as well as sharing the stage and singing “We Are The World” with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and Smokey Robinson at the Grammys.
  • Flint News broadcast legend Bill Harris explaining how he interviewed the iconic news GOAT Walter Cronkite. 
  • Hollywood actor and Flintstone Ben Cain talking about grabbing coney's at Angelos Coney Island.
  • PR legend, television guest on Good Morning American and other networks, author and Flintstone Howard Bragman discussing the three most important rungs on the ladder of Hollywood success.

And that’s just for openers!

In volume 1 of our Greatest Hits we explore the athletic realm. Sports is one of Flint’s most impressive exports. You can make a case (and we do) that it's the greatest sports city per capita in American history. It’s a HUGE part of our history and legacy, and we’ve had far more than our fair share of them on the show in our first year including:

Jack Nicklaus, The GOAT of golf, discussing how he purchased his first car ever in Flint- a Buick , and then getting a little Flint automobile history from Fish!
Jimmy Abbott, Sullivan Award and Golden Spikes winner, Flint Central Indian, Michigan Wolverine, Olympic Gold Medlaist, Pan Am Games star, Major League Baseball star and ‘No Hit’ pitcher for the New York Yankees
Rick Leach, Michigan football legend and Major League Baseball star with the Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, and Detroit Tigers.
Paul Krause, NFL Hall of Famer, FOUR sport high school All American at Burton Bendle High School, TWO sport college All American, and current holder of the hallowed NFL interception record. Quite likely the greatest athlete ever from Flint.
Eric Turner, National Punt, Pass, and Kick winner as a kid, three sport star at Flint Central, virtually inarguably the greatest high school basketball player in Flint history, and a star at The University of Michigan. He is a true Flintstone legend.
Glen Rice, All State and All American at Flint Northwestern, back to back state champion, National Champion at The University of Michigan, and World Champion with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Anthony Dirrell, WBC Boxing World Super Middle Weight Champion. A tough man among tough men, from a tough city. He beat cancer, a serious motorcycle accident, and everybody else in his division!
Mark Ingram Jr. Grand Blanc and Flint Southwestern football star, National Champion at Alabama, winner of the Heisman Trophy, and current NFL star running back. 
Brent Williams, Flint Northern football star, and long time New England Patriot and NFL star. He bedeviled quaterbacks all over the league.
Rico Phillips, The reigning NHL  Willie O’ Ree Award winner and founder of the Flint Inner City Hockey League. He is an incredible asset to the community- and a retired firefighter to boot. 
Keith Gave, Former CIA agent, sportswriter and the author of the book “The Russian Five” documenting the rise of  the Detroit Red Wings
John Wharton, the Flint Northern product who was the Trainer for the Stanley Cup winning Detroit Red Wings teams
Mike Ramsdell, Flint's own film director extraordinaire! The mastermind behind the Jimmy Abbott movie "Set Apart" on heavy rotation on ESPN, and also an award winning serious documentary filmmaker. He's pure Flintstone and 100% real. 
Joshua Riehl, Director of what just might be the best hockey documentary ever. "The Russian Five" has played to acclaim all over the world! He's on hand to discuss the film and filmmaking.

To celebrate all of this, and reflect on a very fast, and very cool first year on the air, we’ve compiled our “Fish and The Flint Chronicles: Greatest Hits Volume I and II.

Although we had to leave a LOT of great guests out of this recap, you’ll get a feel for just how incredible this first year was. We aim to make our second year even better! It’s history, it’s fun, it’s entertaining as hell, and most of all it’s pure FISH AND THE FLINT CHRONICLES!

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