The Grit City Podcast

GCP: Saturday Night Grit - Star Trek Secrets, the MTV Era, and the Mystery of Comet Atlas

January 9th, 2026  |  56 mins 4 secs

comet a/i, comet atlas, desilu studios, elko, ely, floating ice bar, gene roddenberry, headbangers ball, ice fishing, idiocracy movie, interstellar objects., lucille ball, minnesota life, mtv, mtv history, mtv's remote control, music videos, nevada geography, star trek history

Kick off 2026 with Jeff, Scott, and Mike on this episode of Saturday Night Grit. The crew dives into the "non-gravitational acceleration" of Comet A/I (Atlas), the golden age and eventual decline of MTV, and the wild history of Star Trek—from Gene Roddenberry’s complicated legacy to how Lucille Ball personally saved the franchise. Plus, a look at floating ice bars in the Midwest, the dangers of driving on frozen lakes, and a debate on why Americans don't travel enough.

GCP: Hangover Sunday - Hotdish, Ice Bars & Holiday Regret

December 23rd, 2025  |  58 mins 41 secs

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This Hangover Sunday episode of the Grit City Podcast is pure chaos in the best way possible.

The crew kicks things off talking about historic flooding across the Pacific Northwest before spiraling into hobby farms, sheep rentals, goats for HOA landscaping, and why everyone secretly wants a farm—even if they pretend they don’t. From holiday shopping disasters and mall nightmares to Costco-induced rage, the conversation takes a hard Midwest turn with hotdish debates, Minnesota winters, and the surprising joy of ice-fishing bars built directly on frozen lakes.

It’s a high-energy, no-filter episode packed with laughs, weather trauma, questionable food opinions, and exactly the kind of conversations you’d expect from a Sunday morning hangover session.