The Happy Hour is back with special guest Kevin Allison of Risk! podcast

Warning: Episode contains salty language (F-bombs) and the word “penises” 2X.

Friends, we’re back! After a brief hiatus, the Daily Detroit Happy Hour returns with a fresh new episode.

We’ve been taking some time to refocus the show and what we’re about. So you’ll notice some new things. In the interests of variety, we’ll be doing more and shorter segments, which was always a goal anyway, at a slightly faster pace. We’ll still feature great interviews with Detroit’s tastemakers and innovators, but we aim to better embrace the Happy Hour in the Daily Detroit Happy Hour and be like Detroit’s dinner party conversation. We hope you like the change.

On this week’s episode, we scored an interview with Kevin Allison, the ever-gracious founder and host of the incredible storytelling podcast Risk! The show comes to town Aug. 3 for a live recording at the Magic Bag in Ferndale. He’s an incredible personality and it was fun to talk with him about podcast lessons he’s learned he hard way and other hilarious, occasionally weird truths.

Also, we welcome chef Godwin Ihentuge of Yum Village, former Happy Hour guest and and host of the “Refrigerator Diaries” podcast, about pancakes. Seriously. Specifically, the new downtown IHOPlebee’s. We also debate pancake styles, because I have strong opinions.

And finally, Jer and I were lucky enough to go to the VIP opening party for the Detroit Shipping Company, the new food court/biergarden/gallery/event space made of shipping containers (check out our video tour of the place). Co-owner John Hartzell and chef Petro Drakopoulos, the director of operations, talked with us in the new Podcast Detroit studio inside the shipping container.

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