• Nasty voicemails and great stories from one of ML’s journalism heroes provide some heat in the midst of an epic snowstorm. M.L. Elrick (Twitter @elrick/Facebook ML ELRICK/Instagram ml_elrick), Marc Fellhauer (Twitter @MarcFell) and Shawn Windsor (Twitter @ShawnWindsor) catch up with Gerry Shields (Twitter @retail_politics) while Matt Jennings reviews his Soft History notes and Joey Zuver sharpens his snow skates.
• THE STRAIGHT DOPE: ML plays the sympathy card by playing a voicemail he got seven years ago from an unsympathetic Fox 2 viewer after ML got manhandled by some cops in a church. Listen for the voicemail, watch the story here.
• Gerry Shields, author of “The Front Row: My Jagged Journey Recording American History from Reagan to Trump” and host of the Retail Politics Podcast, dials in to talk about some high- and low-lights from his journalism career.
• ML plays the nasty voicemail his wife Tresa Baldas got after a front-page story. Apparently, the caller doesn’t know how to pronounce her surname.
• GEEK OF THE WEEK: The Lombardi Trophy designer’s daughter wins our award for what seemed to be a campaign to remind people HER DAD DESIGNED THE LOMBARDI TROPHY.
• THIS WEEK IN SOFT HISTORY: Perfesser Matt is back.
• ROOM 7609:  New New Wave bands are IN AGAIN, which is why ML plays “Disconnected Lines” by Risk Risk”
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