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.

After losing two of their own children, Morgan and Marion, Mollie Verdier turned the hardest thing a parent can face into a mission to make sure no family walks that road alone.This week Rob and Mitch sit down with Mollie Verdier of Morgan's Place in Sidney, Ohio - a cemetery she and her husband Nathan built on their own farm to give miscarried, stillborn, and unborn babies a dignified burial at no cost to families. Mollie shares the 3am calling that started it all, the three promises she made that night, and why she believes joy and sorrow can live in the same room. If you've walked through this, or love someone who has, this one's for you. You're not alone, and there's help. Learn more or donate at morgansplacecemetery.org.This episode is dedicated to Neal Ray Sr. - Bill's grandfather, a father of six boys and grandpa to many.

It's Men's Mental Health Month, so we did one a little different. Spank from Gilbert Station pulled up to the table to talk about what he's going through - and the four of us got into the stuff guys around here usually dodge. Don't worry, it's still us. There's plenty of laughs, some games, and the usual nonsense along the way. It gets real, but it gets dumb too - that's kind of the whole point.

Kerry Roberts doesn't sit for interviews. It took us months to get him in this chair, and what we got was the real story behind one of Mercer County's most recognizable names.The bread route. The bartending. The deal that fell through. The building that nearly broke him. And the 2017 tornado that came through the front window of Ctown Wings. And the public nonsense - that it was all handed to him - finally put to rest.Kerry walks us through all of it.

He almost didn't live to see it finished.This week on TwoDads, AJ Mast pulls up a chair. The guy behind The Boathouse at Grand Lake — the spot you've driven past a hundred times on 127 — tells us how a kid from Mercer County built a business from the mud up and beat cancer with a one-year-old son waiting for him at home.We laughed our way through it, cracked every boat pun we could think of, and somewhere in the middle he told us about the Kardashian joke he made when twelve nurses thought he was dying.This one's funny. This one's real. This one's Mercer County.Hit play.

The Boardwalk in Celina. The Shipyard. Market Hall. Harvest Crossing. The cottages on the lake. Roofs over your neighbors' heads.One family quietly built most of it...and they've been doing it for 75 years.This week we sit down with Randy Bruns — the second-generation owner of Bruns Construction. We talk about what it's like to take over your dad's business, build your own chapter on top of it, and right now stand in the middle of handing it off to your own kids.Whether you're inheriting something, building something, or trying to figure out how to lead the people next to you — this one's for you.TwoDads merch is HERE

GET YOUR OFFICIAL TWODADS MERCHANDISE---------------One Phone. Every Game. One Story You've Never Heard.You've seen his videos. You've shared his videos. You couldn't pick him out at the local Walmart.This week, the man behind ReelLife sits down with us. He's the guy in the bleachers with a phone — Coldwater on a Tuesday, Marion Local on a Friday, some Saturday tournament three hours away that nobody else is covering. If your kid is playing, he's probably already there.We get into who he is, why he started, what it's cost him, and the story behind why he keeps showing up — one he's never told publicly before.

Most people have a dream job. Conner Prince actually has his.He's the newly named Chief Meteorologist at WLIO in Lima, Ohio, a title he ground for, doubted himself over, and finally earned. He's also built one of the most genuine social followings in the region.In this one we get into the climb nobody talks about — what it actually took to get the title, the moment he thought it wasn't going to happen, and where he was when the call finally came. We also get into his obsession with food, what life looks like now that people recognize him at the grocery store, and the work he's doing in schools across this area.If you've ever had a dream you were scared to say out loud — this one's for you.

Brooke and Braelen Bader own Made Apparel together — custom tees, every school logo in the county, and a second location coming inside a historic Versailles firehouse with a drive-thru coffee window. Braelen also runs Nite Owl Studio next door. Fifty feet of downtown Celina. One marriage holding all of it together.On this episode Mitch and Bill sit down with both of them to get the real story — how a t-shirt shop with no storefront grew into one of the most recognizable names in Mercer County, what it actually looks like to build something with your spouse, and what keeps you going when the fear is real. Plus Would Mercer County Wear It, the Junk Drawer, and Couples Therapy on the whiteboards.This one's for anyone who's ever had an idea and wasn't sure if their town was big enough for it.