Latest Pwr Podcast Episodes
Episode 137 - SS Daniel J. Morrell, Part I
Beyond the Breakers - July 10, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsPart One (of two, we promise) on the sinking of the lake freighter Daniel J. Morrell in 1966. **GFM Campaign** Help us get Muhammad Al-Bardini and his family out of Gaza - Muhammad is a hospital volunteer at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and his GFM is over halfway to the goal. Anything you can give...
Episode 137.1 - SS Daniel J. Morrell, Part I
Beyond the Breakers - July 10, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsPart One (of two, we promise) on the sinking of the lake freighter Daniel J. Morrell in 1966. **GFM Campaign** Help us get Muhammad Al-Bardini and his family out of Gaza - Muhammad is a hospital volunteer at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and his GFM is over halfway to the goal. Anything you can give...
It Was An Era - The Shipwreck Show (Ep. 126)
The Shipwreck Show - July 09, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe're so sorry audio listeners... Well only a little bit. Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support G...
Riverboats on Willamette towed barns, fetched fish
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 05, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe Willamette River was running high and wild on the morning of Feb. 5, 1890, as Alden and Arthur Graham set out from Oregon City in their sternwheel riverboat for the daily run to Portland. They arrived in Portland in what must have been record time, dodging logs and small floating buildings ...
“Primer in Diving Physiology”
POD DIVER RADIO: The Scuba-cast - July 05, 2024 03:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings“Primer in Diving Physiology” Presented by: Capt. Marie Knafele USN MD ~ PhD NEDU Chief Medical Officer NAUI TECHNICAL DIVING CONFERENCE 2000 Army Special Forces Underwater Operations School, Key West, Florida, US November 01, 2000 Capt Knafele "Discusses oxygen toxicity, CO2 buildup, a...
For teenage sailor, visit to Portland ended in a life sentence
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 04, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsLike the hero of an 1800s “cautionary tale,” 17-year-old Joseph Swards stepped off the ship, fell in with bad company, got caught up in a robbery that went horribly wrong — and in the end was lucky he wasn't hanged. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeator...
Roseburg’s ‘Champagne Riot’ was probably not what you think
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 03, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe year after the Civil War ended, the partisans of North and South still clung to their resentments in Douglas County. On Christmas Day, those hard feelings broke out in a knock-down-drag-out that left two men dead. (Roseburg, Douglas County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeato...
Tall talker from The Dalles was Oregon's own 'International Murderer o' Mystery'
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 02, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsHe called himself James Cook, and spoke with an English accent. But when asked about his past, he spun fanciful and ever-changing stories full of world travels, tiger hunts, shanghaiings and the like; he went to his death a total enigma. (The Dalles, Wasco County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, s...
THAT Is A Sport??? (Ep. 126)
The Shipwreck Show - July 02, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe're so sorry audio listeners... Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kraken! - https://tw...
Ben Holladay, Abigail Scott Duniway were old friends of hers (WPA oral-history interview with Minerva Thessing)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 01, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Minerva Thessing. Ms. Thessing grew up near Milwaukie in the 1860s and was friends with some of Oregon's most famous pioneer characters, from Ben Holladay to Abigail Scott Duniway. She also seems to have had a knack for psychic matters. (For ...
West Coast was the Detroit of fishboat engines
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 28, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe engines that went into these old-school boats were slow, heavy, primitive, and built in one of several factories in San Francisco. In fact, until the mid-1930s San Francisco Bay was the Detroit of the marine-engine industry; the Union Gas Engine Company, est. 1885, was one of the very first m...
How the Prineville Vigilantes were defeated without a shot
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 27, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsCrook County citizens finally decided they'd had enough of the secretive lynchings and killings; they banded together and defeated the gang of masked riders without a single shot being fired. (Prineville, Crook County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1212a-prineville-...
Lynching kicked off scary vigilante era in Prineville
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 26, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsIn Crook County, the early 1880s were like something out of a Louis L'Amour novel: Masked riders galloping around by night, dispensing what they saw as justice. It all started with the lynching of an innocent man. (Part 1 of 2) (Prineville, Crook County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https:/...
To return to sea, ship had to ‘sail’ through the woods
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 25, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsAfter Columbia Lightship broke its lines and drifted ashore, the salvage bid was won by a house-moving company from Portland — which, rather than trying to pull the stranded ship off the beach, built a road, trucked it over the peninsula, and launched it in Baker Bay. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop...
Xander Went Camping (Ep. 125)
The Shipwreck Show - June 25, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt was juuuuuuust right! Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kraken! - https://twitter.com...
The fortune-telling mind reader's story (WPA oral-history interview with 'Miss Smith')
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 24, 2024 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer William C. Haight's 1939 oral history interview with a fascinating fortune-teller he identified only as 'Miss Smith,' in her tea-room business in Portland's Carlton Hotel. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001945/ )
Ep 276 - Who put Heather Walker in a trash bin?
Ohio Mysteries - June 24, 2024 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsThe coroner doesn't know how 18-year-old Heather Walker was killed, or even when she died during the two-and-a-half months she went missing in the winter of 2008. The mere fact that she was stuffed in a trash can on the east side of Dayton, however, was enough for a ruling of homicide, since she ...
Storied editor lost feud with Oregon’s first woman doc
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 21, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsOn any list of Oregon “firsts,” there’s one name that almost never pops up - Dr. Adaline M. Weed. Which is understandable, because although Dr. Weed was the first female physician in the Oregon Territory, she was not a “regular” doctor – she was a hydropathist, a practitioner of “water cure.” Ma...
Horrifying asylum poison mix-up left dozens dead
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 20, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsSent downstairs to fetch a pan of powdered milk, a kitchen assistant at the Oregon State Hospital dipped his scoop into the wrong bin — and brought back six pounds of roach poison. It was mixed into the eggs and fed to 467 people. (Salem, Marion County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://...
CAGcast #797: Tri Rod lol
CAGcast - June 20, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThe gang talks huge Nintendo and Xbox events, lots of movies and TV, and oh so much more!
OM Backroads Ep:38. Ohio’s Historical Milestones!
Ohio Mysteries - June 20, 2024 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsSince Ohio became a state, it has excelled in creating, discovering, and inventing! The buckeye state has created pop culture icons, set sports records that may never be broken, and has invented items that we use every day and in every walk of life! Ohio can lay claim to milestones in business, m...
West Coast’s first novel was a torrid page-turner
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 19, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsShe had a record of uninhibited and acerbic writing; she was preparing what appeared to be a super-racy tell-all memoir; and she had just secured a divorce from a prominent community member about whom they’d all heard some pretty tantalizing rumors. What was not to like? (French Prairie, Marion C...
Oregon’s literary legacy built on “true confession”
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 18, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsMARGARET JEWETT BAILEY WAS not only Oregon’s first author of novel-length fiction, she was also the West Coast’s first published female author, and its first female newspaper journalist. She was also one of the most colorful characters of a remarkably colorful age. She could be absolutely savage...
Star Wars Fans SUCK!!! (Ep. 124)
The Shipwreck Show - June 18, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSTOP. YOUR. CRYING. Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kraken! - https://twitter.com/Good...
Episode 240: The Uvalde school shooting - Part Five
Disaster Area - June 17, 2024 16:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIn the final part of this series, we learn about the perpetrator as well as the investigations which have followed in the past two years. Videos: Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics Cell phone video of the parents imploring the polic...
He's been workin' on the railroad, all the livelong day (WPA oral-history interview with Joseph Stangler, former railroad worker)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 17, 2024 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer William C. Haight's oral history interview with Joseph Stangler, a 62-year-old veteran of James J. Hill's railroad building workcrews who was reinventing himself as a concrete artist. This oral history is a fascinating glimpse into the life and work of one of the wandering workmen who ...
Episode 136 - SS Mataafa ft. Kaylee Matuszak
Beyond the Breakers - June 17, 2024 12:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week we finally take down a ship that has been referenced a few times here and there but never actually been the star of her own show - SS Mataafa (yes the one from the storm) We're joined once again by Kaylee (@kayleefabulous) who just this week has released her second album, Leading Lad...
Ep 275 - The Cal Poly plane crash
Ohio Mysteries - June 17, 2024 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1960, Cal Poly flew its Mustangs football team to Toledo to play Bowling Green State University. After the game, they took off from Toledo for their trip back home. The plane lasted just 30 seconds in the air before crashing and tumbling in a fiery explosion, killing 22 of 48 aboard. This is t...
Governor’s kindness led to fatal consequences
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 14, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsAS EVERY SENSIBLE person knows, there is pretty much no such thing as being “cruel to be kind.” Sometimes it does work the other way around, though. Every now and then you run across a story in which someone did something that was intended as a kindness, but turned out to be anything but. Such a...
Pioneer Courthouse square once the site of landmark hotel
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 13, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe grand monument to the Gilded Age was a municipal architectural treasure and hosted U.S. presidents, but was razed in the 1950s to make way for a parking garage; all that remains is a wrought-iron rail. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1890s, 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatorego...
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