November 30, 2025 • 7 mins
Episode 30 of NaPodPoMo2025 is in the books, and it’s got me thinking — I’m not quite ready to stop doing daily episodes. But instead of continuing that here on Mike Dell’s World, I’m spinning up something new.
Starting December 1st, 2025, I’m launching a brand-new weekday morning show called “Cup of Traverse City.” You’ll find it on its own feed at:
The plan is simple: a 5-minute (or so) episode every weekday around 8 a.m. Traverse City time. I’ll be recording while I’m having my morning coffee, chatting about whatever’s going on — interesting weather, life stuff, and what’s happening in and around Northern Michigan.
The format will be a bit of a work in progress at first. I’m sure I’ll settle into a groove over time, and my hope is that it becomes a nice little part of your morning routine.
I’d really love your feedback as this gets rolling.
You can reach me:
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By email: mike@mikedell.com
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On social media: mostly Facebook or X
Let me know what you think, and what you’d like me to talk about on Cup of Traverse City.
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(00:00):
[Speaker 0]Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the
[Speaker 0]case may be. This is Mike, and this
[Speaker 0]is Mike Dell's world number four thirty six
[Speaker 0]and also episode thirty of NAPOD promo twenty
[Speaker 0]twenty five. We did it. Well, okay. I
[Speaker 0]did it. But I tell you what, it
[Speaker 0]it has inspired me this year. I don't
(00:23):
[Speaker 0]know what it is about this year versus
[Speaker 0]other years of doing the daily, podcast, and
[Speaker 0]and I have been kind of doing it
[Speaker 0]daily. And what I mean by that is
[Speaker 0]sometimes I record ahead a little bit, but
[Speaker 0]not always. You know, a lot of times
[Speaker 0]it was same day or night before usually,
(00:44):
[Speaker 0]and then I set it to go in
[Speaker 0]the morning. And, yeah, that's, but, you know,
[Speaker 0]I did all thirty, and I did them
[Speaker 0]relatively daily. You know, like I said, I
[Speaker 0]would record a couple of them sometimes ahead
[Speaker 0]a little bit, like this one. I'm actually
[Speaker 0]recording this, on Thanksgiving, so it's a few
(01:07):
[Speaker 0]days ahead of time. But, I I wanna
[Speaker 0]get this out. I've got a, I've got
[Speaker 0]an announcement. I wanted to get this out,
[Speaker 0]and I've just been really anxious about it.
[Speaker 0]And I'm gonna get this queued up so
[Speaker 0]you won't hear it until Sunday, but happy
[Speaker 0]Sunday. Hopefully, the snow hasn't been too bad.
[Speaker 0]Here on Thanksgiving, it's not been too bad.
(01:28):
[Speaker 0]But, again, it's predicted to be snowmageddon, but
[Speaker 0]usually when they predict snowmageddon, it doesn't happen.
[Speaker 0]As they talked about in the blizzard of
[Speaker 0]seventy eight, they they weren't really predicting it
[Speaker 0]to be crazy except for one one of
[Speaker 0]the weatherman, did, but, nobody else expected it
(01:49):
[Speaker 0]to be that bad. But holy crud. Hopefully,
[Speaker 0]we don't have anything like that. But, anyhoo,
[Speaker 0]my big announcement. And, you know, some of
[Speaker 0]you might already heard about it. I've kinda
[Speaker 0]sorta posted it around a little bit, but
[Speaker 0]I'm, starting a new daily show tomorrow, December
(02:09):
[Speaker 0]first. I'm gonna be, doing a new show,
[Speaker 0]new feed, new everything called cup of Traverse
[Speaker 0]City. That sounds like a weird name, but
[Speaker 0]what what this is gonna be is a
[Speaker 0]five minute or so show that I'm gonna
[Speaker 0]do in the morning when I'm drinking my
[Speaker 0]coffee. And who knows what I'm gonna talk
[Speaker 0]about? I'm gonna talk for, you know, four
(02:31):
[Speaker 0]or five minutes and tell you what's going
[Speaker 0]on around here, what's going on in my
[Speaker 0]world. Not not Mike Dell's world, but the
[Speaker 0]world around Traverse City. Just, you know, a
[Speaker 0]daily snippet. I'm only gonna do it Monday
[Speaker 0]through Friday, though. I'm not gonna do it
[Speaker 0]on the weekends. And part of that is
[Speaker 0]that I'll probably have topics as I go
(02:53):
[Speaker 0]through the week that I wanna expand on,
[Speaker 0]and that's what I'll do here on Mike
[Speaker 0]Dell's world. So in theory I know I've
[Speaker 0]said this a hundred times before, so, you
[Speaker 0]know, it is what it is. But in
[Speaker 0]theory, I'll do, Mike Dell's world episode weekly
[Speaker 0]sometime along the week when I have time
[Speaker 0]and the inclination. But I do plan on,
(03:17):
[Speaker 0]you know, most days, do the five minute
[Speaker 0]cup of Traverse City. Now there'll be times
[Speaker 0]when I'm out of town. You know, I've
[Speaker 0]got some, travel on the agenda, and I
[Speaker 0]may or may not publish while I'm on
[Speaker 0]travel. But I will let you guys know
[Speaker 0]ahead of time, those of you that decide
[Speaker 0]to go over and check out Cup of
[Speaker 0]Traverse City. You could get there by going
(03:40):
[Speaker 0]to cup of traverse city dot com, or
[Speaker 0]you can, go directly to the source. I
[Speaker 0]think I did mention this on another episode.
[Speaker 0]Oh, well. But this is my big announcement.
[Speaker 0]I am gonna do it. I'm committed to
[Speaker 0]it. We're gonna do it. You can also
[Speaker 0]go to podcast dot show slash c o
(04:00):
[Speaker 0]t c, you know, cup of Traverse City.
[Speaker 0]And it's gonna be a hyper local show.
[Speaker 0]It's gonna be a show mostly about Traverse
[Speaker 0]City and what's going on here. You know,
[Speaker 0]probably talk about the weather a fair amount
[Speaker 0]depending on what's going on in the weather.
[Speaker 0]You know, sometimes it's boring, but sometimes it's
(04:23):
[Speaker 0]not. You know? So it's gonna evolve, you
[Speaker 0]know, what topics I talk about, all that.
[Speaker 0]But, it's gonna be a little five minute
[Speaker 0]update every day, you know, something of hopefully
[Speaker 0]use. If not anything else entertaining and kinda
[Speaker 0]Twitter sized snippets. But, I've got it down
(04:44):
[Speaker 0]to, you know, my production down to a
[Speaker 0]science. I mean, literally, it's gonna be flip
[Speaker 0]the mic on, talk for five minutes, stop
[Speaker 0]it, publish it, be done with it, and,
[Speaker 0]you know, I can get that going, you
[Speaker 0]know, within ten, fifteen minutes. And that's that's
[Speaker 0]gonna be the key to the success. You
[Speaker 0]know, if it's hard to do, you know,
(05:04):
[Speaker 0]people don't tend to do stuff that's hard
[Speaker 0]all the time. So this won't be particularly
[Speaker 0]hard for me. Hopefully, it won't be particularly
[Speaker 0]hard for you. Actually, I did yeah. When
[Speaker 0]I mentioned the ads, right, I do have
[Speaker 0]a couple of test episodes over there, and
[Speaker 0]I did I I do have one there
[Speaker 0]where I talk about how to subscribe, and
(05:28):
[Speaker 0]or follow the podcast and probably, you know,
[Speaker 0]some other ways than just a normal podcast
[Speaker 0]app. Yeah. It works. Of course, it's gonna
[Speaker 0]work in all the podcast apps as well,
[Speaker 0]but, you know, there there's a couple of
[Speaker 0]apps that might get it there quicker so
[Speaker 0]you can listen to it in not quite
[Speaker 0]real time. I'm not gonna go live. Although,
(05:48):
[Speaker 0]I do have the capability. I don't think
[Speaker 0]you don't get enough people doing that. Listen
[Speaker 0]live, and you don't wanna have to be
[Speaker 0]somewhere at a certain time, but, hopefully, it'll
[Speaker 0]be published somewhere around eight AM. Again, you
[Speaker 0]know, it could be a little later, could
[Speaker 0]be a little earlier, could you know, if
[Speaker 0]I have to prerecord one, I might record
[Speaker 0]one the night before, and it'll go real
(06:09):
[Speaker 0]early. But for the most part, it's gonna
[Speaker 0]be same day, around eight o'clock in the
[Speaker 0]morning eastern time, Traverse City time. And, yeah.
[Speaker 0]Go over there and check that out at
[Speaker 0]cup of traverse city dot com and, get
[Speaker 0]signed up. There's, you know, there's links there
(06:31):
[Speaker 0]to Apple and Spotify and podcast index and
[Speaker 0]email and Android and all the other places.
[Speaker 0]And then if you scroll all the way
[Speaker 0]to the bottom of that page that comes
[Speaker 0]up, you'll see a thing that, says modern
[Speaker 0]podcast apps. If you use one of those
(06:51):
[Speaker 0]apps, it's gonna update fairly instantly after I
[Speaker 0]publish. Now, you know, technology being what technology
[Speaker 0]is, it might not always work. But, anyway,
[Speaker 0]something interesting for those of you around Traverse
[Speaker 0]City or those interested in around Traverse City.
[Speaker 0]This is my attempt at a hyperlocal daily
(07:11):
[Speaker 0]podcast. So check it out over at cup
[Speaker 0]of Traverse City dot com and or, podcast
[Speaker 0]dot show slash c o t c. And
[Speaker 0]I will catch you tomorrow on Cup of
[Speaker 0]Traverse City and probably next weekend on Mike
[Speaker 0]Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the
[Speaker 0]case may be. This is Mike, and this
[Speaker 0]is Mike Dell's world number four thirty six
[Speaker 0]and also episode thirty of NAPOD promo twenty
[Speaker 0]twenty five. We did it. Well, okay. I
[Speaker 0]did it. But I tell you what, it
[Speaker 0]it has inspired me this year. I don't
(00:23):
[Speaker 0]know what it is about this year versus
[Speaker 0]other years of doing the daily, podcast, and
[Speaker 0]and I have been kind of doing it
[Speaker 0]daily. And what I mean by that is
[Speaker 0]sometimes I record ahead a little bit, but
[Speaker 0]not always. You know, a lot of times
[Speaker 0]it was same day or night before usually,
(00:44):
[Speaker 0]and then I set it to go in
[Speaker 0]the morning. And, yeah, that's, but, you know,
[Speaker 0]I did all thirty, and I did them
[Speaker 0]relatively daily. You know, like I said, I
[Speaker 0]would record a couple of them sometimes ahead
[Speaker 0]a little bit, like this one. I'm actually
[Speaker 0]recording this, on Thanksgiving, so it's a few
(01:07):
[Speaker 0]days ahead of time. But, I I wanna
[Speaker 0]get this out. I've got a, I've got
[Speaker 0]an announcement. I wanted to get this out,
[Speaker 0]and I've just been really anxious about it.
[Speaker 0]And I'm gonna get this queued up so
[Speaker 0]you won't hear it until Sunday, but happy
[Speaker 0]Sunday. Hopefully, the snow hasn't been too bad.
[Speaker 0]Here on Thanksgiving, it's not been too bad.
(01:28):
[Speaker 0]But, again, it's predicted to be snowmageddon, but
[Speaker 0]usually when they predict snowmageddon, it doesn't happen.
[Speaker 0]As they talked about in the blizzard of
[Speaker 0]seventy eight, they they weren't really predicting it
[Speaker 0]to be crazy except for one one of
[Speaker 0]the weatherman, did, but, nobody else expected it
(01:49):
[Speaker 0]to be that bad. But holy crud. Hopefully,
[Speaker 0]we don't have anything like that. But, anyhoo,
[Speaker 0]my big announcement. And, you know, some of
[Speaker 0]you might already heard about it. I've kinda
[Speaker 0]sorta posted it around a little bit, but
[Speaker 0]I'm, starting a new daily show tomorrow, December
(02:09):
[Speaker 0]first. I'm gonna be, doing a new show,
[Speaker 0]new feed, new everything called cup of Traverse
[Speaker 0]City. That sounds like a weird name, but
[Speaker 0]what what this is gonna be is a
[Speaker 0]five minute or so show that I'm gonna
[Speaker 0]do in the morning when I'm drinking my
[Speaker 0]coffee. And who knows what I'm gonna talk
[Speaker 0]about? I'm gonna talk for, you know, four
(02:31):
[Speaker 0]or five minutes and tell you what's going
[Speaker 0]on around here, what's going on in my
[Speaker 0]world. Not not Mike Dell's world, but the
[Speaker 0]world around Traverse City. Just, you know, a
[Speaker 0]daily snippet. I'm only gonna do it Monday
[Speaker 0]through Friday, though. I'm not gonna do it
[Speaker 0]on the weekends. And part of that is
[Speaker 0]that I'll probably have topics as I go
(02:53):
[Speaker 0]through the week that I wanna expand on,
[Speaker 0]and that's what I'll do here on Mike
[Speaker 0]Dell's world. So in theory I know I've
[Speaker 0]said this a hundred times before, so, you
[Speaker 0]know, it is what it is. But in
[Speaker 0]theory, I'll do, Mike Dell's world episode weekly
[Speaker 0]sometime along the week when I have time
[Speaker 0]and the inclination. But I do plan on,
(03:17):
[Speaker 0]you know, most days, do the five minute
[Speaker 0]cup of Traverse City. Now there'll be times
[Speaker 0]when I'm out of town. You know, I've
[Speaker 0]got some, travel on the agenda, and I
[Speaker 0]may or may not publish while I'm on
[Speaker 0]travel. But I will let you guys know
[Speaker 0]ahead of time, those of you that decide
[Speaker 0]to go over and check out Cup of
[Speaker 0]Traverse City. You could get there by going
(03:40):
[Speaker 0]to cup of traverse city dot com, or
[Speaker 0]you can, go directly to the source. I
[Speaker 0]think I did mention this on another episode.
[Speaker 0]Oh, well. But this is my big announcement.
[Speaker 0]I am gonna do it. I'm committed to
[Speaker 0]it. We're gonna do it. You can also
[Speaker 0]go to podcast dot show slash c o
(04:00):
[Speaker 0]t c, you know, cup of Traverse City.
[Speaker 0]And it's gonna be a hyper local show.
[Speaker 0]It's gonna be a show mostly about Traverse
[Speaker 0]City and what's going on here. You know,
[Speaker 0]probably talk about the weather a fair amount
[Speaker 0]depending on what's going on in the weather.
[Speaker 0]You know, sometimes it's boring, but sometimes it's
(04:23):
[Speaker 0]not. You know? So it's gonna evolve, you
[Speaker 0]know, what topics I talk about, all that.
[Speaker 0]But, it's gonna be a little five minute
[Speaker 0]update every day, you know, something of hopefully
[Speaker 0]use. If not anything else entertaining and kinda
[Speaker 0]Twitter sized snippets. But, I've got it down
(04:44):
[Speaker 0]to, you know, my production down to a
[Speaker 0]science. I mean, literally, it's gonna be flip
[Speaker 0]the mic on, talk for five minutes, stop
[Speaker 0]it, publish it, be done with it, and,
[Speaker 0]you know, I can get that going, you
[Speaker 0]know, within ten, fifteen minutes. And that's that's
[Speaker 0]gonna be the key to the success. You
[Speaker 0]know, if it's hard to do, you know,
(05:04):
[Speaker 0]people don't tend to do stuff that's hard
[Speaker 0]all the time. So this won't be particularly
[Speaker 0]hard for me. Hopefully, it won't be particularly
[Speaker 0]hard for you. Actually, I did yeah. When
[Speaker 0]I mentioned the ads, right, I do have
[Speaker 0]a couple of test episodes over there, and
[Speaker 0]I did I I do have one there
[Speaker 0]where I talk about how to subscribe, and
(05:28):
[Speaker 0]or follow the podcast and probably, you know,
[Speaker 0]some other ways than just a normal podcast
[Speaker 0]app. Yeah. It works. Of course, it's gonna
[Speaker 0]work in all the podcast apps as well,
[Speaker 0]but, you know, there there's a couple of
[Speaker 0]apps that might get it there quicker so
[Speaker 0]you can listen to it in not quite
[Speaker 0]real time. I'm not gonna go live. Although,
(05:48):
[Speaker 0]I do have the capability. I don't think
[Speaker 0]you don't get enough people doing that. Listen
[Speaker 0]live, and you don't wanna have to be
[Speaker 0]somewhere at a certain time, but, hopefully, it'll
[Speaker 0]be published somewhere around eight AM. Again, you
[Speaker 0]know, it could be a little later, could
[Speaker 0]be a little earlier, could you know, if
[Speaker 0]I have to prerecord one, I might record
[Speaker 0]one the night before, and it'll go real
(06:09):
[Speaker 0]early. But for the most part, it's gonna
[Speaker 0]be same day, around eight o'clock in the
[Speaker 0]morning eastern time, Traverse City time. And, yeah.
[Speaker 0]Go over there and check that out at
[Speaker 0]cup of traverse city dot com and, get
[Speaker 0]signed up. There's, you know, there's links there
(06:31):
[Speaker 0]to Apple and Spotify and podcast index and
[Speaker 0]email and Android and all the other places.
[Speaker 0]And then if you scroll all the way
[Speaker 0]to the bottom of that page that comes
[Speaker 0]up, you'll see a thing that, says modern
[Speaker 0]podcast apps. If you use one of those
(06:51):
[Speaker 0]apps, it's gonna update fairly instantly after I
[Speaker 0]publish. Now, you know, technology being what technology
[Speaker 0]is, it might not always work. But, anyway,
[Speaker 0]something interesting for those of you around Traverse
[Speaker 0]City or those interested in around Traverse City.
[Speaker 0]This is my attempt at a hyperlocal daily
(07:11):
[Speaker 0]podcast. So check it out over at cup
[Speaker 0]of Traverse City dot com and or, podcast
[Speaker 0]dot show slash c o t c. And
[Speaker 0]I will catch you tomorrow on Cup of
[Speaker 0]Traverse City and probably next weekend on Mike
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