Good morning, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Happy Wednesday, everybody.

It is a hump day, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026.

This is the Michigan Insider.

This is the Big 1050.

WTKA online at the Big 1050.com.

And it's a Wednesday. so in the eight o'clock

hour we're going to go inside the huddle with Michael Spath plus a bonus guest hoping to connect

in the back end of the eight o'clock hour with a good friend of this show we know him well

his name is Marcus Ray and M Ray 29 hoping to have him join. That's the one around 845 or so this morning.

We got some fun things to talk about with him, including he's moving. It's going to be fun news. We're going to talk about this coming up. It's a big football move for his son and a local team in southeastern Michigan. So we'll get to that coming up at around 845. and then the 9 o'clock hour on a Wednesday,

which means the midweek peak with Steve Clark here on the Michigan Insider

on the Big 1050 WTCA in line at the big 1050.com. So any of you that coach or watch or are involved with U-Sports, you know that at some point early, at some point throughout the competition, this happens in just about every one of Gracie softball games. You yell shoe check because one kid has their shoe on tied. So time is called. They check their shoes. So of course, you yell shoe lace check or shoe check for everybody else to check their shoes. So we're going to do something similar to that. I've already passed. But we're going to do this voice check I'm all here

how about you miss voice check check one two I miss is here it's cold but

miss is here miss is here um we are of course no Sam this morning um he apparently

channeled his inner ASMR yesterday, unintentionally.

That was, um, I, so the full story behind it, I mean, I had no reason not to tell the story.

It was like right around the beginning of the show yesterday, I get a text from Sam.

And I usually, we text at the morning about obviously, you know, leading up the show, et cetera.

And I got a text from in the morning saying, I woke up with no voice.

And there was no sign of it happening the day before.

It wasn't one of those where he, I mean, he watched the Pistons game is what actually

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