Nov. 30, 2025

We did it! (Ok, I did it!) – Introducing Cup Of Traverse City

We did it!  (Ok, I did it!) – Introducing Cup Of Traverse City
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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:

  • By email: mike@mikedell.com

  • 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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Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the

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case may be. This is Mike, and this

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is Mike Dell's world number four thirty six

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and also episode thirty of NAPOD promo twenty

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twenty five. We did it. Well, okay. I

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did it. But I tell you what, it

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it has inspired me this year. I don't

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know what it is about this year versus

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other years of doing the daily, podcast, and

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and I have been kind of doing it

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daily. And what I mean by that is

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sometimes I record ahead a little bit, but

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not always. You know, a lot of times

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it was same day or night before usually,

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and then I set it to go in

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the morning. And, yeah, that's, but, you know,

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I did all thirty, and I did them

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relatively daily. You know, like I said, I

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would record a couple of them sometimes ahead

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a little bit, like this one. I'm actually

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recording this, on Thanksgiving, so it's a few

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days ahead of time. But, I I wanna

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get this out. I've got a, I've got

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an announcement. I wanted to get this out,

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and I've just been really anxious about it.

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And I'm gonna get this queued up so

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you won't hear it until Sunday, but happy

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Sunday. Hopefully, the snow hasn't been too bad.

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Here on Thanksgiving, it's not been too bad.

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But, again, it's predicted to be snowmageddon, but

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usually when they predict snowmageddon, it doesn't happen.

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As they talked about in the blizzard of

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seventy eight, they they weren't really predicting it

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to be crazy except for one one of

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the weatherman, did, but, nobody else expected it

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to be that bad. But holy crud. Hopefully,

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we don't have anything like that. But, anyhoo,

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my big announcement. And, you know, some of

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you might already heard about it. I've kinda

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sorta posted it around a little bit, but

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I'm, starting a new daily show tomorrow, December

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first. I'm gonna be, doing a new show,

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new feed, new everything called cup of Traverse

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City. That sounds like a weird name, but

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what what this is gonna be is a

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five minute or so show that I'm gonna

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do in the morning when I'm drinking my

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coffee. And who knows what I'm gonna talk

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about? I'm gonna talk for, you know, four

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or five minutes and tell you what's going

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on around here, what's going on in my

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world. Not not Mike Dell's world, but the

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world around Traverse City. Just, you know, a

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daily snippet. I'm only gonna do it Monday

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through Friday, though. I'm not gonna do it

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on the weekends. And part of that is

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that I'll probably have topics as I go

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through the week that I wanna expand on,

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and that's what I'll do here on Mike

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Dell's world. So in theory I know I've

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said this a hundred times before, so, you

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know, it is what it is. But in

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theory, I'll do, Mike Dell's world episode weekly

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sometime along the week when I have time

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and the inclination. But I do plan on,

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you know, most days, do the five minute

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cup of Traverse City. Now there'll be times

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when I'm out of town. You know, I've

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got some, travel on the agenda, and I

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may or may not publish while I'm on

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travel. But I will let you guys know

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ahead of time, those of you that decide

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to go over and check out Cup of

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Traverse City. You could get there by going

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to cup of traverse city dot com, or

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you can, go directly to the source. I

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think I did mention this on another episode.

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Oh, well. But this is my big announcement.

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I am gonna do it. I'm committed to

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it. We're gonna do it. You can also

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go to podcast dot show slash c o

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t c, you know, cup of Traverse City.

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And it's gonna be a hyper local show.

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It's gonna be a show mostly about Traverse

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City and what's going on here. You know,

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probably talk about the weather a fair amount

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depending on what's going on in the weather.

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You know, sometimes it's boring, but sometimes it's

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not. You know? So it's gonna evolve, you

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know, what topics I talk about, all that.

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But, it's gonna be a little five minute

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update every day, you know, something of hopefully

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use. If not anything else entertaining and kinda

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Twitter sized snippets. But, I've got it down

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to, you know, my production down to a

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science. I mean, literally, it's gonna be flip

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the mic on, talk for five minutes, stop

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it, publish it, be done with it, and,

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you know, I can get that going, you

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know, within ten, fifteen minutes. And that's that's

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gonna be the key to the success. You

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know, if it's hard to do, you know,

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people don't tend to do stuff that's hard

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all the time. So this won't be particularly

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hard for me. Hopefully, it won't be particularly

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hard for you. Actually, I did yeah. When

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I mentioned the ads, right, I do have

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a couple of test episodes over there, and

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I did I I do have one there

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where I talk about how to subscribe, and

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or follow the podcast and probably, you know,

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some other ways than just a normal podcast

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app. Yeah. It works. Of course, it's gonna

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work in all the podcast apps as well,

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but, you know, there there's a couple of

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apps that might get it there quicker so

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you can listen to it in not quite

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real time. I'm not gonna go live. Although,

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I do have the capability. I don't think

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you don't get enough people doing that. Listen

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live, and you don't wanna have to be

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somewhere at a certain time, but, hopefully, it'll

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be published somewhere around eight AM. Again, you

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know, it could be a little later, could

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be a little earlier, could you know, if

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I have to prerecord one, I might record

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one the night before, and it'll go real

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early. But for the most part, it's gonna

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be same day, around eight o'clock in the

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morning eastern time, Traverse City time. And, yeah.

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cup of traverse city dot com and, get

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signed up. There's, you know, there's links there

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to Apple and Spotify and podcast index and

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email and Android and all the other places.

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to the bottom of that page that comes

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up, you'll see a thing that, says modern

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podcast apps. If you use one of those

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apps, it's gonna update fairly instantly after I

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publish. Now, you know, technology being what technology

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is, it might not always work. But, anyway,

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something interesting for those of you around Traverse

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City or those interested in around Traverse City.

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This is my attempt at a hyperlocal daily

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podcast. So check it out over at cup

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of Traverse City dot com and or, podcast

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dot show slash c o t c. And

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I will catch you tomorrow on Cup of

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Traverse City and probably next weekend on Mike