Coldwater's Coach Chip Otten sits down with the dads. Taking over for a legend, leading teenagers in a world short on accountability, and what six state titles actually weigh in a county where Friday night is everything. Plus your Community Mailbag questions and the great snack-versus-dessert debate.

Greg Schweizer, third-generation owner of the Celina Music Store, joins the dads. Why fewer kids are playing music, what phones are doing to the next generation, and how Mercer County parents can help their kids start — or stick with it.

Jeff Myers grew up at the Starlight Drive-In in Maria Stein, and when his family had to choose between letting the screen go dark or rebuilding it all, they rebuilt. Go see a their newly renovated theater this weekend.

This week we sat down with Zach Albert of Albert Sporting Goods in St. Marys & Coldwater. Third-generation owner of the store his grandpa started in 1980, and the guy who bought it with his dad sixty days before the world shut down. We get into how a regular person actually buys a business, what it's like negotiating with your own grandpa, and how a small-town store stays standing in the age of Amazon. Music Attribution: Call To Adventure - Scott Buckley– released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

This week the dads sit down with Joe McClurg, owner of Rooster Joe Coffee in Coldwater. Joe shares how he and his wife Michelle dreamed about opening a coffee shop for twenty years before finally pulling the trigger, what it was like opening right before the 2020 shutdown, and the story behind his second location, going into the old Versailles firehouse alongside Made Apparel.

This week we sit down with Dave Meyer, Ohio Area Coordinator for Operation BBQ Relief and a member of the OBR family since 2019. From competition barbecue to the middle of disaster zones, Dave tells us what it really takes to serve "The One Hot Meal That Matters" — the meal that shows up after the tornado, the fire, the flood, when people have lost everything and need one thing that feels normal again.

Are we still letting kids be kids? Speech therapist Lauren Timmerman (TimberNook West Central Ohio) joins the podcast to talk screens, boredom, why every kid's got letters behind their name now. Plus, we dive into the free fixes every parent can start tonight. Sign up today: https://timbernook.com/providers/ltimmerman/Music Credit: Call To Adventure - Scott Buckley– released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

Born nearly blind in Celina, Mindy Cook spent years trying to hide the thing that made her different. Fresh off a plane from the World Championships in China, Mindy sits down with the TwoDads to talk about what she really sees, the failures that shaped her, and how Mercer County learned to see one of its own. Mindy Cook is a Paralympic Silver medalist in the Tokyo Games in 2020.

Austin and Kayla Adams bought a gym nobody wanted.Snap Fitness in Celina — tucked in the Chief parking lot, written off by half the town, a reputation already hurt before they ever got the keys. Everybody had an opinion. Most of them weren't good.But this isn't really a gym story.Before these two ever took on a business people had given up on, they almost gave up on each other. This week they sit down with Mitch and Bill and get honest about the hard years, the near-end of their marriage, the faith that pulled them back, and the second chance that turned into something neither of them saw coming.

Around here, the church is the center of everything, but that doesn't always mean it's the center of our own minds. This week, we fix that.Father Ethan Moore of isn't the priest you grew up picturing. He rides a motorcycle, he's got the hair, and he's out to reach a generation that quit listening. We sat down with one Father to get into the life he gave up to take the collar, the loneliness nobody asks about, doubt, and what he'd actually say to the folks who drifted from the pew years ago and still feel weird about it.We run a community mailbag stacked with your questions, then close with a game where we make a real priest decide whether your everyday shortcuts are sins. Some of you are in trouble.