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B-93 Morning Show: What Won't Your Spouse Throw Away?

April 7, 2026·12 min·1 clip

Mike reveals his wife wants him to throw out a disgusting, broken chair he used with all three kids.

The episode opens with unrelated advertisement content before host Mike introduces the morning's listener engagement topic: what is one thing you or your spouse refuse to get rid of. The prompt is inspired by Mike's own current situation — a spring cleaning effort during which the couple had professional carpet cleaners Modernistic do the whole house, requiring furniture to be moved. In moving furniture, Mike's wife discovered an old rocking chair that had been passed from child's room to child's room as their three kids (now aged 11, 6, and 2) grew up. Mike describes the chair as sentimental, connected to countless bedtime reading sessions and late-night soothing of babies. His wife sees it differently: the chair is missing one arm (the other she reveals she has already thrown away), covered in sweat stains, shredded fabric, red marker, and a faded picture of a child. Mike phones out the B-93 listener line (616-242-9393) for audience responses. First caller Joe from Grand Rapids describes his wife's refusal to digitize or discard thousands of physical photographs, and separately notes she collects rubber ducks in the hundreds. Mike is sympathetic to the photos but stumped by the ducks. Mike's wife Allie then calls in from Hudsonville; the segment becomes an on-air domestic negotiation with Mike offering alternative uses for the chair (coffee nook, cat perch) while Allie dismantles each argument. The conversation is interrupted when Mike asks their toddler son whether daddy should keep the chair; the child says 'yes,' and Mike declares victory. Allie signs off warmly. A third caller, Emily from Matawan, describes her husband's habit of wearing socks until the heel is fully exposed, and her solution of secretly discarding and replacing them during laundry runs without her husband noticing. A caller from Kalamazoo suggests Mike repurpose the chair as a cat house, which Mike entertains enthusiastically as a creative compromise. Final caller Beth from Ionia describes two separate hoarding tendencies in her household: saving surplus hardware from flat-pack furniture builds and a 51-year-old husband's childhood wrestling action figures. The episode closes with Mike acknowledging the chair will probably have to go, while noting it is costing him increasingly in bribery gifts to his wife.

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