Fish & the Flint Chronicles
Fish & the Flint Chronicles host, Gary Fisher, a.k.a "Fish", throws a spotlight on the exceptional people and events that Flint and Genesee County, Michigan has produced. Entertaining, fun, lively, informative, personal, and full of surprises!
Visit Fish's website: FlintChronicles.com
Episodes
15 episodes
CANUSA Games 2024
The annual conclave with the CANUSA team is as always a riotous good time! The CANUSA games pit Americans from Flint against Canadiens from Hamilton, Ontario Canada against each other in an international friendly Olympic style athletic competit...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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1:07:48
Peter C. Cavanaugh - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Radio Personality
Segment three of Fish's two hour show on Flint's music scene is an explosion of energy coming like a blow torch out of California in the persona of the legendary Peter C. Cavanaugh, Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame radio deejay. Cavanaugh's ebullient ...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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26:53
Dan "The Beast" Severn - World Champion Wrestler, UFC Hall of Fame
A product of Montrose, Michigan, Dan Severn was an absolute legend in the Flint area. Known as the “Baddest of The Bad Asses’ he stood as a man among boys in one of the toughest sports in the world.His amateur wrestling career started i...
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Season 6
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Episode 239
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50:28
Pastor Michael Gatewood - Gotti, Gambino, and Coming to Jesus
Tredale Kennedy has been on “Fish and The Flint Chronicles” several times, and each time it’s a different topic. But in fairness, he’s never been on board to participate in a story quite like this one. It’s close to home too, because it involve...
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Season 5
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Episode 218
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50:34
Kevin Conroy - Chairman of the Board and CEO of Exact Sciences
Growing up in Flint, Kevin Conroy was offered the opportunity to experience diversity on a scale most kids in America never get to know. That was all an elemental part of his early years at Civic Park Elementary, and exploring the neighborhoods...
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Season 5
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Episode 197
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51:03
Norma Barbee Fairhurst of the Velvelettes Motown Girl Group
A real live Motown-to-Flint connection visits the studio! Flint's very own Norma Fairhurst, of the Velvelettes, dishes with Fish about Motown "in the day", Little Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, Berry...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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49:23
The Lady Sports Legends - Jo Lake, Sue Novara Reber, Pam Stockton Brady, Linnell Jones McKenney
It’s a truly epic day in the Aquarium! Flint has produced so many incredible athletes in virtually every sport, and we’ve had a ton of them on “Fish and The Flint Chronicles” over the years. However, we rarely have more than one at a time...
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Season 5
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Episode 207
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50:53
Kim Crawford, Historian, Journalist, Author of "16th Michigan Infantry During the Civil War"
Kim Crawford discusses his book "The 16th Michigan Infantry", and it's a classic. Kim was here previously to talk about Jacob Smith, the first white settler and generally acknowledged founder of Flint, Michigan. Now, he moves us forward about 5...
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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45:08
Pete "Fat Cat" Flanders, Legendary DJ in the Great City of Flint, Michigan
Growing up on Indiana Avenue on Flint’s East Side, Pete Flanders couldn’t have known that he would one day be a key associate of the Godfather of Soul James Brown. But he was.He couldn’t possibly have known he would be on the vanguard o...
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Season 5
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Episode 215
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50:44
Taylor "Machine Gun" Duerr, Detroit Champion Boxer, World Title Contender, Heroin Addict
Taylor is a champion. Yet, he's no ordinary champion. Sure, he's a boxing national title holder, and he has his sights set on a WBC World Title, currently ranked 13th in the world. But his fight is a lot bigger than that.Taylor is a he...
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Season 3
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Episode 95
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49:24
Ernie Gilbert, Emmy and Annie Award-Winning Animator
He’s back! The ultimate “Fish and The Flint Chronicles” guest, Ernie Gilbert is back for another swim in the Aquarium. This time he’s right here on the bricks of Saginaw Street doing the show with his signature hat and grin. Ern is in town as t...
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Season 5
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Episode 189
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48:00
Angalia Bianca, Ex-Gang Member Turned Violence Interrupter, Author
“I was a 29-year-old heroin addict who had taken barbiturates and quaaludes like daily vitamins since I was in my teens, and I had done cocaine, LSD, and MDA hundreds of times. I had been a prostitute and a member of an Arizona biker gang, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 152
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48:02
Chris Byrd, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Vladamir Klitchko, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, and Tyson Fury. Legendary names in sporting history. They come from different eras, races, creeds, religions...
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Season 5
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Episode 208
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1:03:45
David Blight, Pulitzer Prize 2019, History
Growing up on the Eastside of Flint, David Blight never knew he would some day receive the literary world's highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize. Now that he has, it all seems to make sense. David learned how to tell a great story, und...
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Season 2
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Episode 45
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47:58