We all know someone who’s vowed to quit smoking in the new year. Quitting is great for your health, yet one side effect can be weight gain.  How can quitters avoid the weight gain? Julie found out on The Roadhouse, talking with Liz Weinandy, a registered dietitian at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

You may have heard of hyperloop technology—a super fast type of transportation that will move people through vacuum tubes at speeds up to 750 miles per hour.

What does that all mean for energy and the environment? To try and answer these questions, we invited Meredith Rutland Bauer, a freelance reporter specializing in technology and the environment, to The Roadhouse.  

The Grand Marais Public Library has many events planned for this winter, including their Winter Wednesday and Friday Night Reels series.  To help break it all down, library director Steve Harsin stopped by The Roadhouse and chatted with Dave about everything that will be happening at the library.

Dram Shop stopped by The Roadhouse to perform some country music for us.  The Dram Shop Duo consists of Tony Haedt (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and harmonica) and Cindy Sue (lead vocals and tambourine).

You can learn more about the group here.

Outdoors writer Sam Cook retired this year from the Duluth News Tribune after 38 years (though he still contributes a weekly general column). He joined The Roadhouse to talk with Dave about what he has been up to since retiring and, of course, to talk about all things outdoors.

Twin Cities musician Russell DuFresne was in town before the Christmas holiday to present A Very Petty Christmas, featuring the music of Tom Petty, at the Wunderbar in Grand Marais.  He joined The Roadhouse along with a special guest just before their gig to play a few songs and talk about how the show came to be.

A pack of wolves living near Voyageurs National Park was recently caught on video hunting freshwater fish— something that has not been documented before. Tom Gable is a researcher with the Voyageurs Wolf Project and he stopped by The Roadhouse to tell us more about this phenomenon as well as other happenings with wolves in the park.

You can learn more about the Voyageurs Wolf Project here.

Sometimes the holiday season can feel more stressful than fun.  Barbara Burns Churchill, a Master Certified Executive Coach stopped by The Roadhouse and spoke with Brian about ways we can lower our stress this time of year.

Are you curious about the early history of Grand Marais?  Have you ever wondered about the Scandinavian fishermen on the North Shore? 

WTIP's CJ Heithoff recently found out more about these topics and more when she sat down with author Tim Cochrane on The Roadhouse to talk about his new book, "Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade".