Hey, it's me, Ira from the Michigan Insider. Join me at the first ever Ann Arbor Wine and Spirits Festival on Saturday, April 11th from 2 until 8 at Revel Run in Chelsea.

Taste local and national brands of wine, tequila bourbon, and so much more. Enjoy Zingerman's Roadhouse and local food trucks, live entertainment and cigar rolling demonstrations.

Charles Woodson Intercept Wines will be there too. Get your tickets in advance and save.

Go to Ann Arbor Wine and Spiritsfest.com. That's Ann Arbor Wine and Spiritsfest.com. Buy your tickets today. We'll see you on the 11th. And we are back, folks, here on the Michigan Insider, on the Big 1050 WTKA, aligned at the Big 1050.com before we get back to the midweek peak,

want to tell those of you who are in a marker for a new vehicle

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With that, we're going to get back to the midweek peak with Steve Clark.

Steve, there have been a lot of aspersions cast over the course of the year.

Fewer now, but definitely over the course of the year about Michigan getting near. Is there a team of transfers and their mercenaries?

Well, when you win to the degree that they do, I think dusty spot on. Can't be mercenaries.

If you're that invested in one another and that connected.

And if you're a guy like Yaxil Linda Boar who's willing to put it all on the line,

mercenary is not going to do that, Steve Clark.

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