🍕🚴♂️🎶 Pizza, Parades & Powerful Moments | What’s Up Big Rapids Ep. 34 (9-3-25)
This week on What’s Up Big Rapids, Chris takes us on a Chicago deep-dive—literally—after a weekend full of deep dish pizza, museums, and big city adventures. 🍕🦖 Meanwhile, Pat is officially a Big Rapids resident (welcome home!), and the guys cover everything from football season to the largest Labor Day Arts & Crafts Show ever.
We look ahead to a packed September with the Big Dam Bike Ride, Wheatland Festival, Hot Boat Party, and more. Plus: comedy, concerts, Culver’s, cruises, and a very spirited debate about donuts. 🍩
Stick around for the uplifting moment of the week — you’ll leave smiling.
0:00 – Intro & Welcome 👋
1:05 – Happy Labor Day! 🇺🇸
1:30 – Chris’ Chicago weekend trip 🏙️
3:00 – Deep dish pizza debate 🍕
5:15 – Giordano’s frozen vs Lou Malnati’s 😲
7:10 – Must-see museums: Field & Griffin 🦖🔬
9:10 – Chicago = beautiful, clean & safe 🙌
11:25 – Pat is officially a Big Rapids resident 🏡
12:30 – Biggest Labor Day Arts & Crafts Show ever 🎨
14:28 – Another high school hole-in-one! ⛳
16:40 – Football season is back 🏈
17:20 – Thanks to Dr. Atwood — who should be next guest? 🎙️
19:40 – Big Dam Bike Ride next weekend 🚴♂️
21:20 – Movie night at Roben-Hood Airport ✈️🎥
22:30 – Labor Day bittersweet: summer’s end 🌅
23:18 – 52nd Annual Wheatland Music Festival 🎶
26:40 – Hot Boat Party at Hardy Dam 🚤
27:00 – Boat life & cruise talk ⛴️
31:15 – Canadian Lakes Folk Jamboree 🎵
32:23 – Angels of Action + Culver’s “Dine for a Difference” 🍔
33:20 – Jelly vs cream-filled donuts debate 🍩😂
36:40 – Books & Brats at Sawmill (9/6) 📚🌭
37:54 – Uplifting Moment of the Week ✨
41:46 – Comedy Night at The Peaks (Sept 18) 🎭
45:38 – Mecosta County Regatta?? More info needed! 🚤
51:42 – Dom’s Corrections 📝
53:40 – Outro 👋
Big Rapids podcast, Chicago weekend trip, Giordano’s vs Lou Malnati’s, Field Museum Chicago, Griffin Science and Technology Museum, Big Rapids Arts & Crafts Show, Big Dam Bike Ride 2025, Wheatland Festival 2025, Hardy Dam Hot Boat Party, Canadian Lakes Folk Jamboree, Angels of Action Culver’s fundraiser, Big Rapids library events, Sawmill books and brats, Peaks comedy night
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