Latest New amsterdam Podcast Episodes
13. Trouble
Island Voices - September 08, 2023 04:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsGriet's smile widened at the prospect of these 53 combat mariners and 104 Company soldiers disembarking de Soutbergh, having accompanied the incoming Governor and incoming Minister to this Island, as she readies herself for a bit of a business boom... And with this morning's arrival, Supercarg...
12. Governor
Island Voices - August 25, 2023 03:59 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsA young revolutionary once wrote that "...in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility." And with the insurgence of Marcus de Vogelaer's vehemently anti-patroon faction, his planted Provincial Secretary Jan Remunde wasted no time in teaming up with the increasingly embittered...
11. Patroon
Island Voices - August 11, 2023 02:42 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsIsland Voices examines the incredible history of Manhattan island and TALKS to some of the people who have helped to make it incredible. We welcome guests from all walks of life including singer/songwriters, actors/actresses, professional athletes, elected officials, authors, historians and anyo...
10. Minister
Island Voices - August 04, 2023 04:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsAs Walloon Pierre Minuit stared into the dark eyes of those twenty-two displaced Angolans, huddled together along de Heere Wegh, alongside that fledgling "construction project" of sorts at the Island's southern tip, his refugee heart wrestled with the dutiful commitment that he had made to his e...
9. "Mayken"
Island Voices - July 28, 2023 04:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsTucked stealthly into this blind cove atop the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela in 1627, the rugged privateer by the name of Marijn Adriaensen, for all his confidence and tenacity, could not possibly have prepared himself the nature of the particular "possessions" that he and his shipmates were ab...
8. The Grand Design
Island Voices - July 21, 2023 03:59 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsIn the waning days of 1626, Walloon Pierre Minuit would find himself having gone, in less than two years, from unpaid volunteer, to the most senior official in the Dutch West India Company's latest and most nebulous projects on Earth - the remote outpost that Captain Adriaen Block had establishe...
Our first cool podcast recommendation for 2023 - You Can See Me in the Dark
Island Voices - April 28, 2023 23:22 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsWhile this particular segment has nothing to do with "history" or with the Island of Manhattan, what it does have to do with is great storytelling within this oddly morphing "podcasting" medium. Join me for this talk with my coolest new podcasting friends Melissa Sweazy & Nate Reisman to talk a...
Author John G. Turner - "THEY KNEW THEY WERE PILGRIMS"
Island Voices - April 28, 2023 04:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsFew titles help us tell our incredible, epic story of the Island of Manhattan better than author John G. Turner's "They Knew They Were Pilgrims", which chronicles the journey of not just the Plymouth Pilgrims, but of Puritanism and its remarkable path into our lost American history. Join me fo...
Yankee Legend Jim Leyritz - promo
Island Voices - March 21, 2023 04:27 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsYankee legend Jim Leyritz is a part of New York's incredible and timeless history and will forever be remembered in the annals of Yankee lore. Join us and hear everything about wearing the pinstripes for a living -- the ups, the downs and everything in between. Along with his eternal fondness ...
Season Two preview - THE GRAND DESIGN, with Prof. Wim Klooster
Island Voices - March 10, 2023 05:01 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsFew people know about this Dutch Moment in history like Professor Wim Klooster. And the Unleashed Lion that propelled forth a staggeringly ambitious initiative known as "The Grand Design" in essence defined the heart and soul of this movement which culminated in what would become the incredible ...
MILF Manor
Bad Pilots - February 11, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIN THEORY, watching and discussing MILF Manor is a side-splitting romp full of memes and hilarious banter. IN PRACTICE, watching and discussing MILF Manor is an awkward, borderline nauseating experience that plumbs the depths of reality television and highlights the most grotesque fascinations o...
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Dam Nation - February 06, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourOh no! New Amsterdam has run out of blood! While Max and the writers try to figure out why people donate blood, Sharpe gets mysterious blood test results that show a woman and her daughter are not related. Polly is covered in dried mango, and Emily burps at 40:59.
That 90s Show
Bad Pilots - February 04, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHello Wisonsin!!! We were skeptical when Netflix announced they were bringing back (most) of the original cast from That 70s Show for That 90s Show, but it turns out it's not all bad — just don't talk about That 80s Show. Returning guest Katie Brioux joins us to discuss what works and doesn't wo...
OPERATION UNDERWORLD by Matthew Black
Island Voices - January 20, 2023 10:47 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsOperation Underworld: How the Mafia & the U.S. Government teamed up to win World War II. Author Matthew Black joins us to discuss this remarkable but TRUE New York story. #history is cool :) www.thepodcastisland.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Top 10 Worst Shows of 2022
Bad Pilots - January 19, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're back! We're also really late! Is it still kosher to release a year-end countdown in late January? Who cares, we're doing it anyway. Bad Pilots is back babyyyy!! Please enjoy this rambling discussion in which we recap our favorite TV series of 2022 before digging into Metacritic dot com's a...
500 Years of American History in under 15 minutes.
Island Voices - January 16, 2023 14:14 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsThe true history of this incredible place that we now call "New York", is in truth, the history of this remarkable nation that we now call "The United States of America." And all of that really started with a young man studying to be a Catholic priest, in 16th century Europe. But the connectio...
This Is All I Need
Dam Nation - December 22, 2022 02:00 - 1 hourWhile Max is away in the wilds of Connecticut, Bloom tries a controversial plan to make the ER less violent, and Frome possibly commits human rights violations. Polly and Emily reach the peak of comedy as they try to eat their microphones.
"Operation Underworld" author Matthew Black coming soon...
Island Voices - December 16, 2022 23:10 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsIn 1942, the U.S. Navy needed to secure New York City's ports. But the only way it knew how to do that completely and effectively was to partner with the most unlikeliest of factions: the mafia. To get your advanced order of Matthew Black's remarkable book "Operation Underworld", use this link:...
Author Eric Jaffe
Island Voices - November 26, 2022 17:46 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsPrior to the American Revolution, it was a nearly impassable native trail that had been ordered by the crown to become "The King's Best Highway" as a means of facilitating a regular exchange of information between the colonial villages of New York and Boston. But since the first rider set out on...
The Spirit of Thomas Paine
Island Voices - October 31, 2022 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsOur patron saint of American Independence never really had a peaceful life. And upon his death in 1809, disallowed from being buried in the Quaker Cemetery he was therefore buried on his New Rochelle property, right at the corner of North Avenue & Paine Avenue - only to be dug up ten years later...
Safe Enough
Dam Nation - October 16, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutesOnce again, New Amsterdam is hit hard with some revenue woes and, once again, it's up to Max to save it. If only the hospital could convince him to do his last favorite thing - ask for money. Polly wants the audience to know that she keeps up with pop culture references, and Emily convinces P...
The Spirit of Thomas Paine - COMING THIS HALLOWEEN
Island Voices - October 09, 2022 21:33 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsOur patron saint of American Independence was an English Quaker who spent his life discarding his heritage, his given religion and searching for his true home and his true purpose. And when he finally set foot on American soil in 1774 he was a thirty-seven year old fledgling writer / excise tax...
WABC Radio's James Golden
Island Voices - October 07, 2022 04:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsA man who cares no more about "political correctness" than he does about towing any particular line, the coolest man -- and quite possibly the coolest head -- on talk radio today, New York's own the one and only -- the magnificent Mr. James Golden. Climb aboard. History is cool ;) Hosted on...
7. ISLAND - 1626 (Part Two)
Island Voices - October 07, 2022 04:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsThe spirit of the Walloons rises to new heights, when Walloon Pierre Minuit goes from unpaid volunteer to Governor of this fledgling "colony" in a matter of a year. And when tragedy strikes the northern reaches of that colony, Minuit, a man of action, does what no one had ever thought to do befo...
Essential Workers
Dam Nation - September 29, 2022 12:00 - 42 minutesReynolds flies in from San Francisco in a desperate bid to save the Covid-striken Kapoor. Meanwhile, Max faces a formidable obstacle - consequences from his decisions in season two. Emily wants everyone to remind you that Reynolds was stabbed, and Polly played everyone's favorite West Side Sto...
7. ISLAND - 1626 (Part One)
Island Voices - September 29, 2022 01:56 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsThe Dutch West India Company finally find their boots on the ground in the fierce and passionate race of refugees who would not only become our bonafide "Manhattan Pilgrims", but would in fact forge the most impactful society ever known to man. And by 1626, these Walloons would make their ...
6. Wampum & Walloons - 1621
Island Voices - September 23, 2022 04:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratings"To every time, there is a season." And while Ecclesiastes' prophetic words sounded a bit different out of the mouths of the original settlers of this incredible place that we now call "New York", it meant the same thing in the seventeenth century as it does today. And faced with the...
5. New Netherland - 1619
Island Voices - September 16, 2022 11:02 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsAfter toiling away in this fertile new land for the entirety of his young adult life, Jacob Eelkens was certain that the advent of this "New Netherland Company" would be his opportunity to shine in this priceless market. But upon Captain Hendrick Carstyaensen's return to the Hudson, Jacob would ...
The New Normal
Dam Nation - September 13, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutesIt's here. Covid has come to the Dam. And New Amsterdam tackles the historic pandemic in the only way they know how: by having a commercial jet crash into the river right outside the hospital. Emily does a Freddie Highmore impression in Simlish, and Polly's favorite kind of movie trivia is bla...
4. Onrust - 1614
Island Voices - September 09, 2022 04:01 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsOver the long winter of 1613, Manhattan's first immigrant, Juan Rodrigues, becomes an integral component of the Sachem's trade and in the process an invaluable asset to the Dutch traders upon their return. But, Rodrigues' choice of Dutchmen to trade with is certainly NOT the ones who broug...
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