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Happy Thanksgiving you turkeys!  Enjoy an interview with the gin-u-wine heirs to the Blackball Ferry legacy, brought to you by Friends Of The Boaty Show. Skip to that at around 26:00, or dig in for  your dose of BS silly with an epic Old Boat Ad and Steph's stories from the largest outdoor hot tub park in North America... Spa Nordique!  Boaty Show hats are now available at www.theboatyshow.com/merch. We love you and are thankful for you, thanks for listening!    Jeff: Hi. If you enjoy the Boaty Show, you may enjoy my new audiobook. It's about AI and how we can live with it. You Teach The Machines: AI on Your Terms. Out wherever you get your audiobooks. By me, Jeff Pennington. [Music] Jeff: Welcome back listeners. I'm Jeff Pennington. I'm joined by my co-host... Steph: Stephanie Weiss. Jeff: Sipping on her coffee. It is Sunday, still morning. We, uh, we both have fires going. Mine's downstairs, Steph's is right in front of her in her living room. We're remote, and it's been a minute. We're not gonna talk about that. We're just gonna jump right back in. Right? Steph: Yeah, let's jump right in. Jeff: Jump right in. Like it's summer and we're going swimming again. Steph: Exactly. Exactly. Jeff: We have, uh, we have a show today. We're gonna do a segment on the Puget Sound ferry system—the history of. And we're gonna do, uh... what do we got? We got a "Old Boat Ad" from Jay. He was touring down in, uh, Whatchamacallit, Florida? Sarasota. He sent a picture of an alligator, which I will contend is Boaty. Steph: You want my opinion on that? Jeff: I want your opinion on that. Steph: I mean, it does... it does get from one place to the other. I don't know if they do that without getting wet, but yeah. I admit, boat adjacent. If you've seen an alligator, you wish you were in a boat. I mean, I can think of many ways that alligator is Boaty. Yes. Jeff: That was... that was excellent commentary. Thank you very much. Steph: You're welcome. Jeff: Wait, when you were down there last winter for the fundraising visit and you found that waterfront, that waterfront bar that served like drinks in buckets or something? Were there any alligators around then? Steph: Yeah. Well, yes. We were told there were alligators around, but I didn't see an alligator. But I did see lots and lots of signs about the alligators. Remember the signs? Jeff: In particular that it was alligator mating season. Steph: That's what it was! Yes. "Do not approach the mating alligator" or something super weird like that. Like... yes. That's right. Jeff: And then we did a whole... we did a whole, I mean we might have had a series of bits on alligator mating. And why you weren't supposed to go in the water when they were mating? Was it because it was gross? Because it's like, you know, it's the water that they're mating in and what's all that about? Or because you don't want like the throes of alligator mating ecstasy to like, end up with you getting like, you know, I don't know. Maybe they like bite each other in the midst of all that and you don't want to get confused... like get a body part confused. Steph: Right. Is there more traditional aggression? Right. Are they more aggressive when they're mating? These are questions. And then we had—I think we ended up really wondering whether that was a deep water thing or just a shoreline thing. Like if you're out in the middle, do you have to worry about that? Remember? We had this... this was a whole conversation. Jeff: I think... but I do think that it's ridiculous because... because like, if you see alligators whether they're mating or not, could we all just assume you don't go in the water? I just seems unnecessary, but... Jeff: And we'll count that as the only answer worth taking away because I only recall the questions we had at the time. Uh, and I don't recall any resolution of any of this. So, um, interesting though that Jay... winter-ish, maybe mating season or not. It looked like the picture was a solo... solo alligator. It was just, just an alligator. Unless maybe it was an alligator couple and you couldn't see the other alligator because that alligator was underwater? Steph: Like... that just occurred to me when you said... great minds think alike. Jeff: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Steph: We should ask Jay. Jeff: We should ask Jay what was going on. Steph: Or not so great minds think alike. Jeff: All right. All right. So I think we should lead off with, uh, since we're talking about Jay and his trip through Florida—he played at least one show down there, I saw a picture of a backyard concert, looked lovely. Or an outdoor concert I shouldn't say, I don't know if it was backyard or not, looked lovely. And, uh, he sent a boat ad. And since this is his favorite segment, we're gonna do it. Steph: Mmm. Do it. [Music: Old Boat Ad Jingle] Jeff: It's... I can't... It's been so long that we've done this that when we were in the middle of doing it all the time, it seemed completely normal. And now when we're like... we're like four months away from doing it regularly or whatever, and it's like holy [bleep]. What the hell is this? That was a song about old boat ad copy from Jay and that was like... like, you know, I don't know, six months ago I was like, "Well yeah, of course Jay's gonna make a song saying 'Come on Jeff read those vintage boaty advertisements, give us some of them old boat ads.'" And that was like in the midst of it, it was like "Yeah fine." And now it's like, what the [bleep] is this? Oh my god! Steph: And people want... people are like, "Hey man when are you gonna start making that show again?" 'Cause they want this nonsense! Jeff: Oh god. That makes me so happy. It's good to be weird. Steph: It's good to be weird. Jeff: Okay. All that aside, notwithstanding. Let's do it. Okay. Jay found this ad in the wild. I don't know where it was. Um, I'm looking at the picture. It looks like it's in a frame. Maybe it was in like... I'm gonna say it was in a bathroom at a bar that he was at, or a restaurant perhaps, and it was above the urinal and he saw this. It was right in front of his face. "You can't blame a guy for boasting about his new Mercury. Not only pride of possession, but downright satisfaction comes with the ownership of a new Mercury Outboard Motor. When you put a Mercury on a boat, you are completely confident of quick, easy starting and effortless 'hold the course' steering. You know that there will be instant response to every touch of the throttle. Whether you want a burst of flashing speed or just a ripple of hushed power for the slowest possible trolling. The new Mercury with 'Full Jeweled Powerhead'—bears repeating—Full Jeweled, yes like bling bling jewels, Full Jeweled Powerhead gives you greater all-around mechanical efficiency and endurance never before known in an outboard motor. Yes, with your Mercury, you'll experience that pride of possession realized only by those who own the finest." Scrolling down through the ad... that was the main copy presented next to uh, a lovely couple in a, looks like a Penn Yan outboard skiff uh, with an outboard obviously on the back. Um, she of course is reclining. He of course is driving. Um, and he's holding his hand out like, "Ah! Oh my god this is great!" Like out to the side like, "Can you believe it?" "Of course, of course this is great." Um, he doesn't look so polished, he's kind of look got... he's got some bedhead and a t-shirt on. She looks put together. Um, so he must have a great personality. Steph: [Laughs] Jeff: So scrolling down there's like more details. Um, mostly for him because there's like cutaway diagrams and whatnot. So: "The Rocket. A six horsepower precision-built alternate firing twin with sparkling power that will plane a boat beautifully. Yet throttle down for... oh, yet throttle down to a hush for continuous trolling. Another exclusive Mercury first." This is more on the Full Jeweled Powerhead. "Mercury's Full Jeweled Powerhead. Mercury engineers have developed a method of using roller bearings on wrist pins, crank pins, and crank shaft. It results in reduction of mechanical friction, new power and smoothness, readier response to the throttle, many more months of service-free operation than any outboard with conventional plain bearings." "The Comet. A smooth running 3.2 horsepower single. The ideal family outboard. Just right for your car-top boat or the average rental boat. Mercury. Own a Mercury. Matchless and outboard excellence. Kiekhaefer Corporation, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Outboard Motors. Portable Industrial Engines." There you go. Old Boat Ad. Steph: I have a lot of questions. And an observation. Jeff: Go. Steph: I love how the masthead of this ad if you will—I don't know if that's the right word for it—but it's a... it's a bubble, it's a like a word bubble coming from the guy in the boat, right? "You can't blame a guy for boasting about his new Mercury." I love like the... I love all of the like the um... how proud you should be. Like there's a lot of like, you know, you just... you're just going to boast and it's going to be like everyone's going to be impressed with you. There's going to be "Pride of Possession." Which I think is very interesting. And then what is going on with the jewels? I don't understand the jewels and why are we talking about jewels? There's no jewels in this. Jeff: There's roller bearings. Steph: What is that? And how is it like a jewel? Is it a ruby? Jeff: Well, my guess is given that this is setting the guy up to boast, if it was made out of ruby it would have said that, right? But I can say... Steph: I agree. Jeff: I can say that I don't know whether it's jeweled or made out of a jewel or not. But uh, different... there's different kinds of bearings. I know a little bit about bearings. Not a lot. Steph: Didn't we talk about bearings once before? Jeff: I'm sure we did. I'm sure we did. Steph: I like this sentence... I like this sentence a lot. "The Mercury engineers have developed a method of using roller bearings on wrist pins, crank pins, and crank shaft." What? Jeff: Uh, I don't know what a wrist pin is. I don't know what a crank... was it a wrist pin and a crank pin? Steph: Wrist pins and crank pins. Yeah. Things I didn't know about. But I love... I also love that they're getting into this level of detail right in the ad. This is the good old days. You know what I mean? Like this is... this is the least reductive ad I've ever seen. They're really... they're just... they hit you a little bit with the ego in the top and then they get right into the deep, deep details. I think this is lovely. It was... it was lovely to listen to. Jeff: So you got... I don't know what those pins are. The crank... I don't know. Let's not talk about why you've got bearings or what they're on, but ball bearings are balls. And... Steph: [Laughs silently] Jeff: ...you're laughing silently with our... Steph: Wrist bearings are wrists? Crank pins are cranks? I don't know. Jeff: No. We're not gonna talk about that stuff. We're just gonna talk about the bearings. So you got ball bearings which are spherical, okay? And then you've got roller bearings which are like a... in my mind it's a bearing that's made of a... it looks like a rolling pin, okay? And a ball bearing can... can bear weight while moving in all directions because it's a sphere. Steph: 360. Jeff: Yup. 360 times 360, right? In any direction. And then a roller bearing can bear... bear weight while moving just in like one direction back and forth. One plane I guess. And uh, I know roller bearings because there are conical roller bearings on boat trailers in the hubs of the boat trailer. Um, because the... and they're almost like a rolling pin shape except they're flared a little bit at, you know, toward one end so it's like a slight cone shape. And that's because the axle on your boat trailer has a slight taper to it. And so the wheel spinning on those bearings on that slightly tapered axle shaft has to be slightly... has to match that taper as it spins around and around and around. Um, now, that being said, going from, you know, roller bearings to "jeweled"? That's... that's what I'm talking about right there. Yup. Steph: Full Jeweled. Yeah. I mean I don't know. I guess... you know how I feel about this stuff. I kind of love things that I don't understand and there's a lot here I don't understand. And I think this is a lovely... so we've got two en... Is the Rocket one and the Comet is the other? They have space names. Amazing. Jeff: Yeah. And this was before... this might have been early space era. Yeah. Steph: Yeah. Early space race. Jeff: It look... I like that it's like, it's just a little boat. Nothing fancy. It's just a little tin can. Steph: Yeah. Rockin' out. Or having a great time. They're all proud... proud of themselves. Jeff: They mentioned "Car Top Boats" which was a... that was a big deal in the expansion of boating into the middle class. And... yeah. So Penn Yan, the boat manufacturer, my understanding is they hit it big for the first time with car-top boats. So Penn Yan Car Toppers, you'll still see those around sometimes. And that was like what pontoon boats and jet skis are doing... they did for boating then what pontoon boats and jet skis are doing now. Which is just making it way more accessible. Steph: I hear you. Jeff: Yeah. Steph: I hear you. "There it is. Just right for your car-top boat or the average rental boat." Got it. Yeah. Jeff: Yeah. Give me... give me more opportunity to get in the water without having to be a rich guy with my own dock or a yacht or anything like that. Steph: Mm-hm. Equal opportunity boating. Jeff: E... E... E-O-B. E-O-B-B. Equal Opportunity Boating Board. Okay. Enough of that. Steph: Yes. That's a... that's a worthy goal. Jeff: All right. We're gonna move on to our... our next topic. Which, you know what? Let's... let's step back. What have you been doing lately? Steph: Mmm. That's a great question. Um... Jeff: Have you gone anywhere? Have you gone anywhere fun? Steph: I did. I went to the... I went to the Spa Nordique in... in Chelsea, Quebec. Yes. I did do that. I was... show before the show we were chatting about this. Yes. I did go there with my friend Julie, my personal historian. And we had a wonderful time. Jeff: What is the Spa Nordique? Tell us... You walk up to the Spa Nordique. What's the experience? Steph: Okay. So real... so real quick. It's like... it's not like a spa like people usually think of a spa. It's a "thermal experience." It's got this whole Nordic vibe to it. Everything's made of wood. And it's a very large... it's many acres. And it has tons of different ways to get warm and cold in water. And also not in water. So, for example, there's like ten different outdoor hot tubs scattered all over the place. And there's like fifteen different kinds of saunas. There's like a earth sauna and a barrel sauna and a Russian sauna and a whatever. There's like... And then there's um, also like steam rooms. And there's cold plunges, which is not for me, but for other people. And there's places to eat and drink. And that's it. And you put on a robe, you leave your phone and all your [bleep] behind and you just wander around in this environment for the day. It's very affordable. Like sixty bucks for the whole day, like US. And it is very beautiful and it's very calming. And very relaxing. And it's delightful. And I would recommend it to everybody. So I've been there probably four or five times. And um, it's close, you know it's like two hours away from here. It's not far. And I think it's the largest spa in North America. But it's not like busy feeling. It's very calming and relaxing. Jeff: We're gonna... we're gonna back up to the very... one of the first two... two of the first words you said which was "thermal experience." Steph: Yeah. That's what they call it. Um... yeah, I don't know. I guess you're just getting in warm water. And then you're supposed to get in cold water cause it's good for you, but like I said, that's just not for me. But um... but you know like, it's like good for you. I don't know. You're supposed to like steam yourself and then get... We were... it was like snowing when we were there. There was actually a hail storm that happened. Like a full-on hail storm um, when we were sitting in one of the hot... my favorite hot tub which is like a hot spring kind of a thing. It's up at the top. And um, they totally just started hailing. And it looks like... like accumulating in our hair. It was very exciting. Jeff: Thankfully... thankfully accumulating in your hair and not like... they were baseball sized and like braining you and knocking you out. Steph: Right. No, they were not baseball sized. Which is good news. They were small and they were accumulating and it was very snow monkey. The whole experience is like just being a snow monkey for the day. That's it. That's how... Jeff: Can you make this up? Thermal experience. Be a snow mon... have a... have a thermal expe... we're gonna have to write an ad for this. Have a thermal experience as a... be a snow monkey for the day. Steph: I don't know why that's not their tagline. For... I don't know why not. It makes no sense. Jeff: So the other thing that grabbed me about... about this is you said you leave your phone behind. Which I think is probably healthy because that means that um, people aren't like nervous about somebody taking a picture of them when they, you know, take their robe off and get in the... in the tub or whatever. But also, dude, anything that people do where they leave their phones behind... those are becoming more and more valuable experiences as people just come to the conclusion that their phone makes them sick. And I had this experience recently... did... did an um... one of my book events at uh, the Poor Sethi headquarters in Brooklyn. In Gowanus. Uh, the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. And afterward, my... my daughter Mary Jane was there uh, and it was the first time she'd come to see one of these... these talks. The book talks. And uh, she brought a few of her friends who had moved to New York after graduating... they all graduated last spring. And they were so psyched. They're like, "Oh my god. Why does it feel so... so like novel to get together in person in a room and talk about something and talk to... with each other?" Because it was a... it ended up being a really interactive session. People were going back and forth to each other. And I started to fade a bit into the background which is what I go for with these... these events. They're kind of like group therapy community workshops about, you know, AI in your life. Not so much what AI is, but like how AI merges into your life. Anyway, at Spa Nordique, it's a thermal experience minus your phone. And you're there for the day or most of the day because you want to get... you want to get as much thermal experience as you can for your sixty dollars. So that's a day without your phone. That's freaking awesome. Steph: Yeah. And when I fir... when we first started going a few years ago, it was pretty much like "Don't bring your phone in here." Like it was like a kind of a rule. Now it's like um, you're allowed to bring your phone, but most people don't. So every now and then there'll be somebody with a phone. But the other funny thing is that... that you know, it's an adjustment going... like you said, you go for the whole day because it's... it's big, there's you know places to stop in and have a bite to eat or get a beverage or whatever. So you really do stay there for a while and you do really disengage from the sense of time. And it's funny how many times you're like, you know, think of things that normally you'd be looking up to your phone but you just don't do it cause you can't. But my... but one funny... one funny thing that happened when we got there was... um... when you first walk in on the left there's this very cool like... like experience. Like it's like a... like they do a Boreal Forest experience and they like um, they like wave branches around and like whatever. So that happens at certain times. So do we really want to do it? Because afterwards you were like rub salts all over your body and then there's like a flash dance bucket that you dump on yourself... you really... you have to be... obviously you need to get involved in something like that. So we were looking at the times. And then we were like... and like Julie and I together are like we're always like a little on the spazzy side anyway. Like it's always... things are always just awkward and weird and great. And like... so we were like, "Okay. So we can come back at one at eleven? Or maybe..." And then it's in like... it's like Canadian time so it's like 1300 and 1500 and we don't know what that means. It's complicated. So it's just... it was so hard. We were like talking about it and... and then this... and we were like, "How are we gonna come back? How are we gonna know when to come back because we don't have phones?" And then um, so then a nice young man who worked at the spa went by and we asked him... The other thing is just constant like language situation going on about wheth... you know we don't speak French. Everybody else does. So you know... and they're very sweet about it. But you know you always have to navigate the fact that you're speaking English. And so we in English ask this nice young man what time it is. And he paused. And I thought maybe it was just because he had to switch into English in his brain. I don't know why. But and he looked at us. And he was like, "Well, right now it's blah blah blah o'clock," and he like explained what time it was and um, the fact that it would be this time in an hour and a half we could come back and the thing would do it again. And then he kind of like looked at us and we were like, "Okay great thank you." And we left. But then later when we came back to actually do the experience, I... we were sitting in the sauna and I looked out and there is a clock so big. Like so big. It's hu... it's huge. It's like... it's like seven feet across. And it was right behind... right behind us when we had asked the guy what time it was! And we realized that like the long pause was like, "Should I just tell them that there's a clock right there? Or should I just be really nice about this and just answer the question and not point out the clock?" Like for sure he was like... are these people being... is this wrong? Are these people... Jeff: Are they... are they messing with me? Steph: ...messing with me? And and he's... he's Canadian but he's also French Canadian so like he he also like... because if you're not French Canadian and you're Canadian the stereotype is like you're just super nice and you're just gonna be super nice and... "Oh of course I'll just tell you what time it is." If you're French Canadian you might be like, "You freaking idiot. Like... I'm glad that you're up here... I'm glad that you're up here you know spending your money even though we can't freaking stand you because you're from America, but..." Steph: It was a lot... there were a lot... yes, there were a lot of components. I love the fact that I think a little bit he was just like, it seemed like if he was like, "Dude, literally a clock right there," then it just would have felt a little less polite. So he didn't say that. And then we had to discover the clock on our own. And um, it was amazing and hilarious. So that was, again back to the time thing. Jeff: I have more soapbox about about that. Um, I'll... I'll do it... I'll do it briefly and try not to go on um, and make it annoying. But uh, when you... you treat your watch as your... as your timepiece... I'm sorry. When you treat your phone as your timepiece, and then you don't have your phone, you end up lost. And you can't conceive that there might be a giant clock on the wall. Although maybe you can conceive of it and you just because you're having a nice day with some beverages and with Julie you don't con... conceive of it. But anyway, this is why I'm always on Instagram, I'm always posting uh, these Sheffield watches. Because if you put on a watch that's just a watch on your wrist and it's not an Apple Watch like all of a sudden you've got the ability to tell time without necessarily getting hit by a bunch of distractions which an Apple Watch is gonna do to you, which pulling... pulling out your phone is gonna do to you. And I'm... I'm huge on this for my kids. I'm like, "Hey like... if you're looking at your phone to tell the time you're like, I don't know, half the time you get pulled in because you see a notification. And now you're looking at your phone more. And now you're more te..." Oh wait, I said I wasn't gonna keep going on and get on my soapbox but... Steph: No, but I hear what you're saying. And at first I was kind of like... you know, I have a thing about Apple Watches because they were like they're meant to be like they don't want to make you... to help people avoid pulling out their phone all the time. But they actually just make people look super rude because you look like you're literally just like, "Um, I don't have ti... like every single time something goes off you're like, 'Uh, is this over? Is it time...?'" You know what I mean? So um, but I hadn't thought about that cause you're right. Whenever you look at your phone, of course there's gonna be notifications and all that's gonna pull you in. And that's... it's a very good point. So yes to watches. Agreed. Jeff: Yep. And I'm gonna I'm gonna bring this all home and make it all Boaty. Ready? All right. Spa Nordique is... Spa Nordique is Boaty because in Iceland outdoor hot spring fed pools and indoor became about because the rate of death by drowning amongst Icelandic fishermen was so high because it's the freaking North Sea. And the last thing you want to do there and there aren't any lakes, right? But the last thing you want to do there is learn how to swim in the ocean. But so that meant the entire population of Iceland whose entire existence was supported by fishing... nobody knew how to swim! And it became a... a public safety, public health, community health like anti-drowning initiative to start... to create public outdoor hot springs... public outdoor hot tubs so that people could learn to swim. Uh, and they sprang up all around the country and it became like part of the culture that you go there to learn to swim but then you also go there to hang out with each other. And um, that's all so that people in Iceland can go fishing, if they go in the drink uh, survive... have a great chance of survival. Boaty. Right? Um, also the... the watch thing. If you have to pull your phone out to tell what time it is while you're out in a boat, you might drop your phone on the deck. You might drop your phone in the drink or off the dock. You also might get distracted by your phone and you're... when you're driving a boat or you're out there in a boat, you probably shouldn't be distracted because A, that means it's taking away from the enjoyment and B, because you might run into something. So... Boaty. Boom. Done. Okay. Steph: So... so learn to swim in a hot spring and buy a watch. Boom. Jeff: And have thermal experiences. Steph: Oh. Jeff: Um... Missy just texted me and called. Um... they just got hit from behind on 76. They're all okay. The cops are there now. Uh oh. Steph: Whoa. Jeff: Hold on a sec. Let me... let me communicate. Steph: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Jeff: Everybody's okay. They don't need me to call or come pick them up. All right. Good. Well how about that? Steph: Do we have to move on? Jeff: Yeah. Yeah. Steph: I have... I have a th... I have a... one of my... I'll just tell you and you can always like edit this out later if it's boring. But one of the things that's funny about it is when you're at the spa you can tell which are the hot pools and which are the cold pools because there's nobody in the cold ones, right? Um, but there was this one that Julie and I found and they had... they tell you like the temperatures and um, it was empty and we were walking around and it is... I think they said it was like 69 degrees or something like that? But there's nobody in it and it feels cold but then we realized, wait, that's like the river temperature. That's like the temperature of the river, right? In the summer. And then we got in this cold-ish thing and then it was... and that but we got used to it really quickly and it was really delightful and lovely. So we think of it as like that's like the river temperature pool and we... that's the only cold-ish pool that I get in. But it's very nice. Jeff: That... that's awesome because if the river temperature hits 69 degrees we're probably bitching about it cause it's too warm. Steph: Exactly. Exactly right. Jeff: That's awesome. All right. All right we're gonna move on. Uh, next segment. Um, we're gonna play an interview which was uh, listener submitted. So Rob uh, shared this. Some friends of his recorded an interview with the heirs, the descendants of the founder of the Black Ball Ferry Fleet in Puget Sound, Seattle. So we're gonna play that and then uh, I did a bunch of research on all this that we'll talk about after the interview. So here it is. [Interview Segment] I am standing here with the heirs of the Black Ball Line. Yeah. A couple of them. Was that heir or errors? Errors. Probably errors. Doug and Chris McMahon are standing here with you. Doug and Chris McMahon. And our great grandfather was Charles Peabody who came out west in 1885 and started the Alaska Steamship Company and then the Puget Sound Navigation. They were flying the Black Ball flag, which his family owned on the East Coast from 1803 forward. The Black Ball flag's been flying... Nice. ...and uh, his son... I have one on my travel trailer and every time I go camping we post our big full-size flag. Just... it still flies around the region. Yes. She's... she's still flying. And flies in Portland too. So... So and then the state bought it... the ferries in the 50s. And turns out they stopped making money. Started running in the red. Yeah. So. Yeah. So can you give me a brief history of why it's a Black Ball and with a white circle and red in the middle? Well so that's from the Coho. Right. And so the Coho was the last Black Ball ship that's flying. And so they licensed the flag but they added the white circle. And why did they choose that? Well because it was part of the whole ferry system. Okay. And when the Coho started, the Coho started right after... But the original Black Ball flag, which was a red flag with a black ball only, no white circle, was also researched as um, like some kind of a maritime victory award for ships. You know when they when they won a battle or did something good like cannon-neering or something, you know grenade throwing, they would be awarded the flags and they would fly the flag. So it's one of them. I don't recall exactly which one. And the original Black Ball ships that sailed from Brooklyn to uh, England and mainland Europe and back, um, had a Black Ball flag that was a swallowtail flag. So it wasn't a rectangle, it was swallowtail and a giant black ball on the main sail. And they were the first company... Rad. Like pirates. It does look like the hurricane warning flags too. People often catch us about that which is typically a square black in the center of the red. But in some regions it's a round circle just like Puget Sound Navigation's Black Ball flag. Just a couple specific places. They were the first shipping company to leave on a scheduled date. So they were... in the mid 1800s a ship would leave when it was full. Ass in seat. We're leaving at this time. That's right. And the Black Ball said "We're leaving on this date, empty or full." So they changed the industry then. Yeah. So when we were kids we used to get to ride in the wheelhouse every once in a while. Oh yeah. Or if we were with our Grandpa downtown and you'd see all these, you know, basically old men at the time in the 60s, right? On the... on the waterfront. He'd walk up to half of them because they all knew who each were. You know, they worked in shipping or the shipyards together. Yeah. Did he know Iver Haglund? Yes. They lived near one another up in West... up in West Seattle at Alki. Yeah so he absolutely knew Iver Haglund. We also have a relative who was a bank robber. So you know, they... they ran... Keep clam. Keep clam. One of his brothers... One of his brothers was a bank robber. Spent his lifetime in prison. Was on Alcatraz. That's awesome. Twice. So you know... Captains of Industry and... not. Yeah. Pioneers. Pioneers. Please introduce yourself again. My name's Doug McMahon. I'm from Portland, Oregon. And I'm Chris McMahon, Doug's brother. And where do you live? Uh, Des Moines, Washington. Right up here just across the way. Originally from Portland though. We're both from Portland. So nice to meet you. Thank you so much. [End of Interview Segment] Steph: Yeah. But that is... that is... that is very cool. And I think like the... the boat itself is really cool too, right? I remember we talked about the boat once a while ago. Jeff: Yeah. Well there's the... there's the Kalakala and then there's the Coho. The Kalakala is like this really wild uh, streamlined early streamlining Art Deco looking um... I don't know why I say Art Deco I don't really know what that means. Uh, ferry. And then um, and that's that thing's like I think it's just sitting there... maybe it already got broken up. Uh, but it was derelict for a long time. And then the Coho is still operating, which we'll get to. I'm gonna talk this through in a little bit. All right so. Steph: Okay. Jeff: Puget Sound Ferries. So Puget Sound is surrounds Seattle. It's like between Seattle and Victoria British Columbia and there's island after island after island. It's probably my second favorite watery place that I've been to um, after the St. Lawrence River because there's just so much going on. Um, I like islands and inlets and... Steph: It is beautiful. Jeff: Yep. So uh, this presented a big challenge for getting around back in the day. Uh, because if you wanted to get out to one of these islands cause there's timber out there or other resources or because you wanted to live out there, um, yeah you had to take a boat. And the shortest distance between two points on land on the quote mainland was sometimes a boat, not or by water, not necessarily over land. So uh, there were ferries that that got established. And the... there's like three big eras of ferries um, in in the Puget Sound. The first is the "Mosquito Fleet" era which was like 1850s to the 1920s. And it's when people really nailed down and commercialized the... the ferry as transportation infrastructure and the waterways are now how people get around, right? Um, and it helped develop the region. So um, like before the 1880s or so uh, it was all about steamboats. And the... the first steamships that got there cause you had to go basically either come from Asia or go around uh, the tip of South America back in the day before the Panama Canal to get to this place. So the Hudson Bay Company sent the SS Beaver in the 1830s which showed how uh, steam power... Steph: Beaver... Jeff: Yeah yeah... Steph: [Laughs] Thank god for the Canadians. All right. Jeff: The Hudson's Bay Company sent the SS Beaver like around the horn uh, even better... Steph: [Laughs] Jeff: In the 1830s. So uh, all of a sudden like you've got a steamboat that's like cruising around Puget Sound and it works out. Um, and the... the Americans, I think the Canadian... I don't know a lot about the Canadian history of the West Coast but the American history of the West Coast uh, was like, you know okay... 1849, 49ers... uh, the West like opened up in a... the West Coast opened up in a big way because of the Gold Rush. Um, but then timber became a huge deal. Probably more money made in timber than in uh, gold at that point. But the first American steamboat was the SS Fairy. Okay? Begins scheduled service in the 1850s and it linked uh, Olympia and Seattle. And roads were hammered. It was just mud, you know, nothing was paved. Uh, you definitely wanted to be on a... on a steamer. Maybe a sidewheeler like, you know, old-timey sidewheelers on the... on the Mississippi. Um, but it was really the only way that mail and your goods and s... goods and people got from town to town on the Puget Sound. So that was like early steamboats pre-1880s. And then in the 1880s uh, it really started to take off. So as the area developed, the... the something happened called the Mos... the Swarm, right? So the swarm of the Mosquito Fleet. Hundreds of small um, independent privately owned steamships pl... basically started creating a dense network and they were all competing with each other. Cause like all you needed was a boat with a steam engine and you could get going. Um, and there were some some famous boats during this time. Fleet... Mosquito Fleet boats. And this was not like, you know, so-and-so owned the Mosquito Fleet, it was just like "Hey there's a swarm of boats out there we're gonna call them and they're all small so we're gonna call them the Mosquito Fleet." Uh, and this is where the names get names get more lame. The SS Flyer, the SS Bailey Gatzert. Steph: Okay. I like SS Fairy. Direct. Jeff: Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and and then there's this huge opportunity and this dude named Charles Peabody who we heard about. We heard from his descendants uh, and we heard about the Black Ball uh, right? From his descendants just a minute ago. Charles Peabody. He shows up with this... this family history of the uh, Transatlantic Fleet where they innovated and um... this is something you're pretty psyched about which is like "Oh okay we're gonna have scheduled service instead of just waiting until we've got a full load and then we'll go. We're gonna leave at noon." Steph: Mm-hm. Yeah. Well I just think it's interesting like I... I remember we talked about this pr... I guess you said maybe with Rob a while ago. I find it fascinating the idea that you would get on a boat and then just wait for enough people to get on the boat to have to leave. That's... I could see how that would be disruptive to your day. Jeff: Yeah. Steph: Maybe hopefully those peop... they didn't have watches. But um, but they uh... but then yeah I guess I would appreciate the fact that you had some general idea of when it might leave. But I can see how the risk would be uh, you had to travel empty some so maybe you just had to... more reliable. It was a leap of faith, right? They were like, "If we make it more reliable then people will use it more." Right? Jeff: Yeah. And scheduled service for trains was probably a thing but, you know, when you've got this big boat you definitely don't want to... you don't want to go empty. And so I can see the commercial interest in like a full boat being there but also like then you're leaving out a lot of people who were like "I don't want to sit around and wait for this." Um, anyway. I don't know. Charles Peabody. Uh, so he... he's a descendant of the people that started the Black Ball Fleet way back in the early early 1800s. He shows up out there and starts buying up the swarm. Um, he creates the Puget Sound Navigation Company, PSNC, in 1898. And then just starts buying up competing Mosquito Fleet companies. Like he bought up the White Collar Line. Steph: Mmm. Jeff: Don't know why it's called White Collar Line. Um, going to guess it was fancy. Uh, and eventually becomes the... the biggest operator. Steph: You said fancy? Jeff: Fancy. Steph: Okay. Jeff: And then what Peabody did, based... based on this research is he figured out that the automobile was gonna be a threat, okay? To... to the ferry fleet because now you've got cars. People buy cars, they want the roads to get better so that they can drive their cars. The roads do get better so more people get cars to drive on those roads. So then he figures out that this is a threat and starts converting his ferries to carry cars. And the rest of the Mosquito Fleet, many of whom he'd bought up in the first place, but the rest of the Mosquito Fleet that hadn't been acquired by the Puget Sound Navigation Company... they're not... they're not as like strategic as he is. They don't start converting their boats to carry cars... he does. So they die off. No more. Right? So now he's got a monopoly. And uh, he officially at... at this point adopts the Black Ball Line as its name. Um, and the flag that we heard about, the red and black ball uh, flag in the in the late 20s. Um, coincidentally also around the time of Prohibition and tons and tons of smuggling of da booze from Canada into the US. I am not... I'm not accusing the Black Ball Line of being involved in smuggling um, but it was going on. And uh, there was succession also in the family. Alexander takes over um, from his dad uh, and uh, they really nail down... And then ah this is where... so then they launch the Kalakala. K-A-L-A-K-A-L-A. Kalakala in 1935. This is the streamlined Art Deco ferry that uh, that we we talked about last time and our friends Rob and Jen and Byron uh, actually went out and checked out um, while it was still floating. And it's just like really cool. Looks like um, you know uh, like early streamlined locomotives and trains. That kind of thing with like really neat windows and and that sort of thing. Um, but that becomes the international symbol of the fleet. Everybody's super psyched about it. Um, so that was like 20s, 30s. And then World War II hits. And um, labor organizing really took off around World War II. Uh, and the ferry workers started unionizing and uh, probably pushing back on on pay and working conditions and hours and stuff. And this monopoly uh, had, you know... being a monopoly is great unless there's a strike. And then your... you know your workers strike and your boats aren't running and people are like "Well [bleep], I gotta get around." So now maybe they figure out that they don't have to take the ferry. Take their car on the ferry, take their truck on the ferry and they um... they go elsewhere and that starts to... to put pressure on the ferry. But also like if you've got to raise wages, um, now your... your margins are lower. Blah blah blah. So um, ultimately uh, the... you know the... there was a... a wartime um, freeze in wages and operations but the... the unions um, really pushed for better wages which put a bunch of strain on the... on the company. And the... the only way that... that the Peabodys could make this all work was uh, with a big fare increase. So they um... pushed for a 30% fare increase to cover their costs. Um, and the... they had... it had gotten to the point where they were being regulated at this point because it was, you know, privately operated transportation infrastructure that everybody relied on. Um, so they were regulated and the state said "Nope." So like, you know, a public utility commission has to negotiate rate increases with their state regulator. So same thing happened here. Um, and Peabody says "Give us 30% more." State says "Nope." And Peabody says "All right, F you." They shut it all down. They shut it all down. And that stranded uh, like all the commuters. And people were super pissed at them for shutting it down. Um, which then turned it into a political moment. And uh, the... you know people, businesses said "Take over this... this as an essential utility." And that's when uh, Washington State purchased all this stuff from... all the ferries and the whole system from the uh, the Peabodys. From the Black Ball Line. And that created the Washington State Ferry System. And as you heard in the... in the um, interview, uh, was running... ended up running at a loss. I don't know if it still does, it may as... as a lot of public transit infrastructure does. Um, but the state bought out the Black Ball Line in... in 51. And um, they bought it out for 4.9 million dollars which in like "today dollars" is still not even that much I don't think for, you know, 16 ships, 20 terminals uh, which is what it was at the time. Um, but anyway they buy it out and start operating on... in June of 51. And uh, the state said "Hey we're just gonna do this until we build all the bridges everywhere." Uh, which didn't really happen. Um, and the Washington State Ferry uh, system just change... they basically uh, did away with the Black Ball livery. Which is like the Boaty way of saying how you paint [bleep]. Um, what colors. Um, so they went from orange to green. Uh, but the... the company, Captain Peabody, Alexander, um, and his family retained the route... the international route between... between Seattle and Victoria. And that is the MV Coho which still runs uh, and it's still the Black Ball Ferry Line. And it um... basically gives you a through line from like the original Transatlantic Fleet that did scheduled service for the first time ever um, and, you know... you're on board or not we're leaving at noon. Through line from like the early early 1800s all the way through to today. The Black Ball line has been continuously running or the Black Ball uh... the... Black Ball family or I'm sorry the Black Ball line has been continuously running cause the Coho is still going. Was launched in 59 but it uh... it's still the um... it's still a major private auto ferry line in the region. And international. So goes back and forth to Canada. Which is what you did when you went to the Hot Springs as well. Steph: Um, yeah. I love that. I love that it's still running. I didn't realize that. Jeff: Yeah. The Coho. I... I was out there for work years ago and I thought about taking um, taking the ferry up to Victoria. There's a high speed... and I don't think it's the Coho. There's a high speed ferry that runs also. Um, it may even go further than Victoria but uh, cause I was like "Oh man it'd be pretty cool to do a day trip to just like take the ferry from Seattle up through the Sound to, you know, wherever. Like get off get a... get some poutine and then come back." Although it's the West Coast I don't know if poutine... I don't know if poutine made it out there or maybe they call it something else. I love ferries. Steph: I do too. And I... I've actually been to that part of the world only one time, but I was... I went to a wedding on Vashon Island. And then um, so yeah I was to... completely taken with how watery and boaty it was and we totally took a ferry there and it was amazing and I loved it. And yes, I agree. Ferries are fun and um, that's some... that's some very cool history. I like it. Jeff: Yeah. Well we're gonna... we're gonna wrap up now. Um, because uh... I just got a call and a text from my wife and she... Steph: Yeah. Jeff: She and Mary Jane... so Missy and Mary Jane got rear-ended. I think Toby too. Got rear-ended on the highway. And uh, they don't need a ride but just in case they do I want to wrap it up. Everybody's okay. Nobody got hurt. Steph: Yeah. Sounds good. Good. Good. Jeff: Yeah. Um, but couple things. One, I am currently wearing a Boaty Show hat. And uh, the hot admin, the lovely Melissa, set up a freaking e-commerce website so that you listeners if you would like can buy a Boaty Show hat and we will ship it to you. We don't really make any money on this. It's... it's all uh, basically break-even. Um, but that can be found at thebodyshow.com/merch. M-E-R-C-H. Merch. Thebodyshow.com/merch. They're... I'm very excited because I've got a big head and we have an extra large hat. Which means that if you usually put like the... the little snappy back thing on like the last two nubbins, the snap back on the last two nubbins... on the XL Boaty Show hat you get... you get to at least on my head you get five nubbins. You can snap five hat nubbins. And it... and it doesn't look like you're cramming a tiny hat on top of your big head. So that's exciting. Uh, there's... there's Heather Grey, Dark Grey, and Navy Blue. And uh, would love it if you guys ordered some um, because uh... it's... it's a cool hat. It's got the boat tractor on it. Steph: Mm-hm. It's the holiday season. Time to go buy some merch for your friends and families. Everybody needs a Boaty Show hat. Jeff: Yeah. Also these were made by Bolt Printing who who we talked uh, about on the show once upon a time. Uh, they're really cool people and... Steph: You love them. Jeff: I do. I do. And they made a video of the hats getting made that I'll I'll try and repost. Um, and the other thing is that my book is out. So is the audiobook. So You Teach The Machines: AI on Your Terms is available on everywhere you get your audiobooks. Uh, Audible, Amazon, Apple, and then like 35 others. So if you don't mind listening to my voice, uh, I read the book and people are finding it really helpful. And uh, you can support the show and us doing this silly stuff by buying hats and checking out the book. We are gonna wrap it up. Steph: And next time we get to do Photo of the Week. Jeff: Oh yes! Yes. We're bringing back Photo of the Week next time. Um, there have been a bunch of submissions while we've been on our hiatus and uh, we can't wait. So like next week will probably mostly be Photo of the Week discussions. Jeff & Steph: [Singing together] Yo ho ho, that's it for the Boaty Show. Pack the cooler, grab the lines, let's go go go. Yo ho ho... Jeff: That's it for the Boaty Show. Boom we are out. Say bye-bye Stephanie. Steph: Bye-bye Stephanie.  

this episode is a audio recording of a recent Think Piece in the voice o skilled Proffessional Guide Dog; It speaks to the world of interdependance through the lens of a loyal but deep thinking BOATY!!

Show Notes: Declaration of Interdependence In this powerful reflection, Anthony Corona gives voice to Boaty, his trusted guide dog and steadfast companion of nearly nine years. Written in the cadence of the Declaration of Independence, this piece reimagines the pursuit of freedom through Boaty's wise and gentle eyes, transforming it into a call for empathy, inclusion, and collective strength. The Declaration of Interdependence invites listeners to consider freedom not as the absence of need but as the presence of connection. It challenges us to see accessibility, compassion, and shared humanity as the true measures of democracy.   Tune in for this heartfelt piece that reminds us that independence is only meaningful when it is shared.

To celebrate my 50th birthday Imagine my so very much better half and my favorite Audio Description Artist and Friend collaborated on a fun, personal and so special gift: I share it with you now. 50 Fun Facts About Anthony Corona               1.           Born and raised in Staten Island, Anthony sports a thick New York accent that could cut through any crowd.               2.           He grew up playing baseball and other sports, but his real field is music and storytelling.               3.           Karaoke is his second home, he can grab a mic and own the stage anytime.               4.           Anthony has the magical ability to learn lyrics at the drop of a hat.               5.           He's loud, and proud of it. His personality fills every room.               6.           Even his devices match his volume, TV, phone, music, Voice Over, you name it.               7.           He's a huge animal lover, dogs, cats, and just about everything with fur or feathers.               8.           His dream pet is a guinea pygmy goat he plans to name Butterbeans.               9.           Pasta and chocolate cake could easily be his daily diet if you let him.               10.        Once a white wine guy, he's now a red wine convert thanks to Gabriel.               11.        His ultimate diva is Madonna, the queen of his playlists.               12.        His diva squad also includes Kylie Minogue, Belinda Carlisle, J.Lo, and Celine Dion.               13.        He calls himself a terrible Italian because he can't stand olives.               14.        His grandma taught him to cook from an early age, and he's been a pro ever since.               15.        Anthony's meatloaf is legendary.               16.        His baked ziti is another fan favorite.               17.        Cooking is never just cooking, he sings and dances the whole way through.               18.        He comes from a big, loving Italian family that shaped who he is.               19.        At heart, he's a writer, words are his superpower.               20.        He's also an accomplished journalist with a knack for storytelling.               21.        Pop culture is his playground, he knows more than most encyclopedias.               22.        Soap operas are his lifelong passion, he's followed them since before he could even speak.               23.        Soap stars aren't just actors to him, they feel like extended family.               24.        He dives into stories with full passion, whether it's soaps, novels, or films.               25.        Anthony is an avid reader with eclectic taste across all genres.               26.        His forever favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time.               27.        Writing isn't just a hobby, it's his calling, and he lives it daily.               28.        Him and his guide dog, Boaty, are  even featured in the newest Guiding Emily book.               29.        Beyond writing, he's a prolific podcaster with a smooth, magnetic voice.               30.        His voice is equal parts sexy and perfect for broadcasting.               31.        He has a love hate relationship with socks, he hates wearing them but has a collection.               32.        Around the house, shoes are optional and usually skipped.               33.        His alter ego Esther is a sharp tongued older lady from Staten Island who comes out to play.               34.        Scam callers beware, Anthony gives them a run for their money.               35.        He adores kids and dreams of having a daughter named Heaven Leigh.               36.        He stepped up as a father figure for his niece and nephew, shaping their lives with love.               37.        Nine years ago, Anthony lost his eyesight but never his vision for life.               38.        With determination, he taught himself most of his blind rehab.               39.        He knew he'd need a guide dog, and he's still working with his first, Boaty.               40.        Boaty is just as loud and full of personality as his dad.               41.        Blindness hasn't slowed him down, though it has left him with a few battle bruises.               42.        He has a forever open wound on his right eyebrow from hitting the same wall repeatedly, but laughs it off.               43.        Anthony loves dressing up Guido style, complete with chains and bracelets.   44.        He's expressive, he talks with his hands, his face, and his entire body.               45.        He's also deeply caring, tough on the outside, gooey on the inside.               46.        He's an idea factory, always planning events, projects, and new adventures.               47.        He's frugal but loves little treasures, especially kitchen décor like wooden spoons and fat Italian chef figurines.               48.        Dogs don't just love him, they listen to him like he speaks their language.               49.        He always saves the last bite for the dogs and makes them line up like a proper audience.               50.        At the end of the day, Anthony is passionate, dramatic, romantic, funny, and full of life, the complete package of a lover, a friend, and a partner.Episode Notes Notes go here This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

WTD S2E46 Boaty McShotgun ********************* The team runs in to save Bella Acid and decides that 3 on army is a fair fight ********************* Content Warning: Profanity, sexual references, descriptions of violence, Drug/Alcohol use, and homebrewed rules. ********************* Promo: The Arcology Podcast Website: https://arcologypodcast.com/ ********************** Support us on Patreon, or our Merch shop Linktree to all our links Join our Discord Show art by Nyltin ********************** Music from Epidemic Sound  (referral link) Hosting by Podbean (referral link) Shadowrun is owned by The Topps Company, Inc. and Catalyst Games

Newest Younger Demographic Liasons Celina and Jack make the case for growing up behind the wheel of a boat.  These two are best friends and might as well been birthed in a Boston Whaler.  Recorded Saturday of Labor Day weekend, you can hear nostalgia creeping in for this summer and summers past.  Thanks so much for listening! Reach out via email theboatyshow@gmail.com, follow the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us on instagram, facebook, and youtube @theboatyshow.  New show every Wednesday! Stay boaty...

This episode of The Boaty Show was recorded in front of a live studio audience.  Well, about 14 minutes of it.  HUGE Thanks to The Contenders Jay Nash and Josh Day for sharing their concert and performing the Boat Of The Week song.  Thanks to everyone who came out and had a good time.  The rest of the episode is a day-after debrief at friends Christy and Gray's on Round Island, their awesome Shamrock Walk Through 20, sponsons, and a bat.  New show every Wednesday! Email your Boat Of The Week submission, question, announcement, or sponsorship inquiry to theboatyshow@gmail.com Check out other episodes, show notes, and pictures of BOTW candidates at www.theboatyshow,com. Video of the live event! https://youtu.be/I2BMMvHDT80 BMW TYDE electric hydrofoil (Kimberly) Sea Isle NJ Tiki Bar Barge (Meredith and Dawn) 1970 Century Cheetah 16

Join us as we talk about developments with BOATY, what HOPIA is all about, and the games we are playing this week!

You all listened 1000 times!  To show our gratitude we made you a special bonus episode! Jeff's best friend Marc is good at many things, including mixology.  Marc concocts an original Boaty Show cocktail recipe, the "Press Gang". Missy and Jeff try it and share the recipe and our notes. Hint - it's good, but maybe not for everyone? Let us know what you think!

The Boaty Show Intro gets a remix by DJ Eurotrash Jay Nash, Brian Danforth reports from Stuart Florida, the Groverbuilt recreational lobsterboat story, we face a crisis of our own making in Boat Of The Week, Steph tests her original Eclipse Mimosa recipe, and more!   Please tag your boaty pics with #theboatyshow on Instagram and follow the hashtag so we can share the fun... Tune in every Wednesday, thanks for listening!

“Small Boats Week” was a horrific failure. Why do the Tories keep getting it so horrendously wrong? Plus, are politicians playing up to the cameras to gain viral popularity? We unpack whether our politicians are more camera conscious ever as they chase online moments. We discuss with this week's guest Ed Campbell from PoliticsJOE.  “The further we strip real human lives out of this, the more we avoid an actual human solution.” – Yasmeen Serhan “The problem is that Braverman does know how to throw red meat to Tory activists.” – Seth Thévoz “If you think about the younger Prime Ministers, they're all gifts to cartoonists - and they all played that up.” – Seth Thévoz  “The problem with online content compared to a party political broadcast is that you're competing against every other piece of online content.” – Ed Campbell www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Alex Andreou with Seth Thévoz, Yasmeen Serhan and PoliticsJOE's Ed Campbell. Producers: Alex Rees & Chris Jones. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's edition of Learned Lately, Justin tells the bizarre story of one of his favorite Internet gags, Boaty McBoatface, and his surprisingly large number of cousins!Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/

Chris is back with the next episode of Boaty Broadside, this time he is chatting with Ian Ballantyne about HMS London.Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhackTips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhackBuy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris is back with the next episode of Boaty Broadside, this time he is chatting with Ian Ballantyne about HMS London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've given Chris a license to waffle about naval history in this new monthly segment. First up, it's Alexander Rose discussing spies and the secret plot to build a Confederate navy.Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhackTips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhackBuy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhackMerch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rusty has a new favourite pod with ex-Wallaby and Rusty's paddle-board partner Berwick Barnes and the man who makes things happen Andrew Fraser. A Joe Rogan-esque meander through rugby, coaching, music, coach development or a spa, detail, the magic pill, Japanese translators, Queen playing Wembley and, most importantly, the impact of being a Boaty Boy... enjoy! 

Jan Gilby and Teresa Simonsen from the Waikato Treasure Chests Dragon Boat Team join Mike Williams to discuss their sport and talk about the huge regatta happening at Lake Karapiro in April next year.

Objecting to the noise and emissions of Foinaven, the good residents of Fairlie have been up in arms – and on the phone to Energy Voice – in protest. While the decommissioning industry may be sad to see it leave for Denmark, the locals are at best divided on its presence.   Egypt has turned out to be a tricky location for M&A this year. One deal has already fallen apart and TransGlobe's desire to merge with Gabon-focused Vaalco is under fire. Small caps are under pressure, but there are no guarantees that size will solve all problems.   The people chose the name Boaty McBoatface for a larger vessel but scientific sobriety ruled this out, relegating it instead to an autonomous vessel. While the scale is somewhat diminished, Boaty has set off for valuable duty this week, heading off to inspect decommissioned assets in the North Sea.     About Energy Voice Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what's coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight. For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services. For a 30 day free trial subscription to the Energy Voice website and app, visit energyvoice.com/subscriptions.

Welcome back to another episode of the Allengendly Podcast! Join our hosts as we discover some crazy true, and not true facts about BOATS! In this episode we talk about the Goonies Boat, Internet Naming Boats, and Viking Warships! Grab on to your oars as this episode generates some hilarious waves! LISTEN NOW! Please check us out on the NEWSLY app! NEWSLY: https://newsly.me/ PROMO CODE: ALLEGENDLY

Join Stella, Willy and Jade for a boat race on the high seas! Peril, pirates and… powerups(?!) abound!

Join Stella, Willy and Jade for a boat race on the high seas! Peril, pirates and… powerups(?!) abound!

This week on The Ball and All Podcast we welcome Rhian Slapp and Dylan Steele from The Boaty Boys.   What started with one man training on his 'Pat Malone' down at the Boat Channel has morphed into a quasi Mens Health & Exercise group that is doing great things for blokes of all ages within the Lennox Head community.   Tune in this week to hear how it all began, the shenanigans that went down on the annual trip away and how you to can replicate something similar within your own local community.  To find out more, visit their Instagram Page https://www.instagram.com/theboatyboys/ and to get involved you will find them every Tuesday & Thursday morning 5.30 to 6.30am at the Boat Channel - Bring a kettlebell, goggles/towel and a bloody good vibe.As always we would like to thank the people who support us:Yulli's Brews - Huge welcome this week to Simon and the team from Yulli's Brews.  If you haven't yet met Amanda, Jed, Hans Gropo, or even the big Seabass - we'll make sure that over the next few months we introduce you all.  The team at Yulli's Brew know their beer and food in equal measure and they also know how to have a bloody good time combining the pair.  If you want to get your hands on one of the beers we've mentioned above or perhaps another tipple tickles your fancy, be sure to visit  https://www.yullisbrews.com.au/The Station Grocer Lennox Head - Your 'one stop shop' for all things fuel, food, coffee and Ball & All Merchandise in Lennox Head and the Northern Rivers.  Get down and see Matty, Joel, Brucey and the team and who knows, if Woody has his way they may be selling small reptiles, blue bottles and Army tanks very very soon.  https://thestationgrocer.com.au/Lennox Pizza and Pasta - The best pizza this side of Naples and a huge supporter of the podcast - call in and see Mez and the team when next in Lennox Head or get online and check them out at https://lennoxheadpizzaandpasta.com.au/Elders Lennox Head & Bangalow - with the real estate market really struggling in small map dot locations like Lennox Head and Bangalow, Elders thought it was time they got their name out there on the world stage - that is why they market themselves on the internet at https://www.elderslennoxhead.com.au/. https://bangalow.eldersrealestate.com.au/

“That's what the Rock Boat is all about - its never cookie-cutter, you get something different every year…. You never know what these bands are gonna do!”-Barb “Tink” KishTink has her 21 year old son to thank for her introduction to the Rock Boat. When her son was 5 years old, she learned about TRB through a classmate's parents. She was there in the early days and recalls Zac Brown playing on the bar. Over the years, she has developed a passion for Swag. She makes her own handmade swag and opens up in this episode about her favorite swag (Bueller? Bueller?) - and more importantly, how it has led to meeting fellow Boaters. Planning started a year and a half ago - and this year, she is making Bottle Caps, to celebrate Boaty's 21st Bday. Bring your swag to trade and find Barb in her light-up Tinker Bell wings!!!The BoatCast would like to thank our sponsor, lifecoachingforwomenphysicians.com, for supporting us in promoting Rock Boat Artists. If you want to get the word out about these artists and are interested in sponsoring The Boatcast, please email Chris at: ChristopherRhoad@gmail.com.

We take a quick dive into a few popular internet vote competitions. Some Taylor Swift, some Boaty McBoat Face, some canibals. Just classics. But the result is- internet is still undefeated.Fireside 24:45- Gender reveal parties gone wrong

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Join us as we follow Morphia (Chelsey Winkler), Seven (Boggs), Melinoe (Cera Roy), Humberto (Robert Humble) and Archibald (Murdock) as they reach the ominous towers of cake --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jessey-winkler/support

Former Director Claude Berube joins us to talk all about the treasures on display and hidden away at the oldest museum dedicated to the US Navy there is... 

As Boaty Week comes to a close, Phil Weir talks to us all about a little known carrier strike... on Finland in the Second World War. 

Kate Jamieson continues Boaty Week with the tale of Nelson and the Battle of the Nile in 1798. 

Boaty Week continues with Owen Rees. What was life like at sea in Ancient Greece? How were battles fought? And how were sailors regarded?

David Davies returns to tell us all about the London, past present and future. Why did she explode in 1665? How was she found? And why do we desperately need to save the Stuart answer to the Mary Rose?

Chris Sams kicks off Boaty Week in style with thrilling tales from the German navy in WW1. He's got bucket list locations, chases, battles, skulduggery and a giant floating pig to keep you entertained. 

First question is whether there is Post-Trump identify crisis for AOC re: the border and DSA beef. Next, how did the the Suez boat really get there?

The Sunday Brunch, Episode 5 - This week Matt thinks he is a terrible human being, Marty is not doing well with vaccine shot number two, they discuss the ship getting unstuck, the massive Facebook hack, social media misinformation, CDC guideline changes, vaccine passports, vaccine distribution, now enjoying talking to strangers, vaccine "waste lists", vaccinated parties, and crazy nostalgic purchases by 90's kids. We now have merch! Subscribe: https://www.sundaybrunchpodcast.org/ Email the Show: thesundaybrunchpod@gmail.com Leave a Voicemail: (970) 627-7445 Hosts: Matt and Dr. Marty About the Show: Join our hosts for a rundown of the week's news in the areas of tech, science, health, and more. Podcast Terms and Conditions: https://www.sundaybrunchpodcast.org/terms-and-conditions --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesundaybrunch/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesundaybrunch/support

Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast which takes a deep dive into a compliance related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. This week Matt and Tom take a deep dive into the recent grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal, which has now been floated free. What does it mean from the risk management and compliance perspective? Some of the issues we consider are: What were the controls in place to stop this failure? What changed which rendered these controls ineffective and even obsolete? What is your risk program around supply chain disruption? Was this a Black Swan event? What does this mean for compliance officers?  Resources Matt’s blog post on Radical Compliance:  Less Ever Given on Risk and Control The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez, Brendan Greely in the FT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jumpy & Boaty cover the horrific details of the Russian sleep expiriment. !Viewer Discretion is advised!

Episode Notes November 2017, life changed in the most amazing way! I went to Smithtown, Long Island and was matched with my first guide dog. Boaty is a phenomenal Black Lab who is not only my guide but the best thing that has happened in my life. The Guide Dog Foundation who turns 75 this year was the school who gave a shot to a guy who had less than 2 years independent mobility but who's very life hinged on a successful match. Fast forward these 3 years and I have such appreciation for the school that helped me really grab life and pull myself back to a life that is full and productive. I have tremendous respect for the process and all of the schools and thousands of people who work so hard to make these programs successful. This week I want to deep dive into the first 2 years of a guide dog life!! Eric and Holly have raised 4 amazing dogs starting with Boaty. When I stepped onto the campus in Long Island I could never have imagined that I would become a member of another amazing family. Join Sunday Edition as we welcome Eric, Holly and Nancy. Nancy is the person Holly and Eric's second guide went to. She has become a sister of sorts being the human who loves and is in care of one of the dogs Holly and Eric have raised. We are a family unto ourselves and I am happy to welcome  them and share their parts of the process.  Lauren Berglund graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Child, Adult, Family Services. She has past experience in higher education disability services and vocational rehabilitation services. Lauren is the Consumer Relations Coordinator at the Guide Dog Foundation and America's Vetdogs, sister non-profit organizations that place guide and service dogs with veterans, first responders, and individuals who are blind or have other disabilities. The Guide Dog Foundation and America's Vetdogs were the first assistance dog programs in the United States to be dually accredited by the International Guide Dog Federation and Assistance Dogs International. Through her position Lauren empowers program graduates and applicants through a combination of strong multi-channel direct phone support and referral services, creation of high value and informative content, and engaging in strategic public outreach and education efforts to key stakeholder originations.   Douglas Wiggin is the Field Rep for the Guide Dog Foundation. The area he primarily works is the New England area, as well as Florida, Mississippi, and Part of Canada. He has been with the Foundation for 31 years. He has lived in Maine for almost 14 years now. He was a resident instructor for about 16 years and now a field rep for about 15 years. As a Field Rep parts of his are Interviews, aftercare, home placements, residential placements, agency visits, and re certification of our Vet dogs.   So we will spend the first hour of Sunday Edition going thru the life of a Guide Dog from birth to the successful matching and growing as a team.  Then I speak to Donna Brown who is a dynamic Board Member and a wonderful ACB advocate and friend. We will get to know her and her journey to the Board.  Lastly Leslie Spoone will preview the Holiday Auction, enticing with some of the goodies on the auction block and her work making yoga available to our members virtually.  Sunday Edition airs on ACB Radio Mainstream at 1pm eastern and can be found on all major podcast catchers by searching : ACB Sunday Edition Questions and comments for the show can be sent to : celebrationac@aol.com

Wonder pills, tapeworms, remedies, oh my! Throughout history dieting fads have resurfaced in new ways to get people to lose weight fast. Are these remedies a good habit to develop, or an unhealthy fad? What do you think?

Jumpy And Boaty talk about the events of the worst nuclear disaster in history, Chernobyl.

Jumpy and Boaty debate the talking points of the moon landing...was it real or fake???

Jumpy & Boaty dispute the ideas of congressional term limits and why we should or should not have term limits and discuss possible compromises.

Jumpy & Boaty talk about the different views on pro life and pro choice with our second guest host Claire. Listener discretion is Advised

Jumpy and Boaty talk about the rise and fall of Detroit, Michigan.

With help from special guest Bryce, Jumpy and boaty continue the topic of fact vs. faith.

In this two part series, Jumpy and Boaty discuss the contrast of science and religion.

Jumpy & Boaty tackle the topic of Renewable energy and the effects on the environment from different sources of energy.

A heartfelt message from Jumpy & Boaty. Our thoughts and prayers go to all families effected durning these times...Stay safe and thank you for listening to Disputable Facts.

Extraterrestrial life...is it out there?

In this episode we go over the events and timeline for the creation of the atomic bomb.

Matt & Rez sit down with rapper Boaty Blanco and talk about how he got his first few thousand monthly listeners and how he got to where he is today. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hip-hop-entrepreneurs/support

In this episode we feature 2 tracks from 2 musical artists.. 1 from Boaty Blanco and the 2nd from Jonathan Souza..

Tony Barthel and Jim Cherry, hosts of the popular Curbside Classic Car Show podcast, discuss Lake County’s Boat Races, a challenge of junk cars, junk boats and a soapy track making a night of true enjoyment for anyone who loves the demolition derby and an extreme version of the most ridiculous and fun racing event on the west coast. The Curbside Classic Car Show podcast is a fun look at the world of vintage cars, car events and the people that make them happen.

This week, Sinow and Kimmy talk about what technology nurses turn to in caring for the aging population of Finland, what discovery the Internet’s favorite Boaty McBoatface has made, how Scotland is caring for their children and poorest families, and Austin’s program pairing senior citizens and youth together for backyard gardening! Check out the blog post at https://www.kimmymauldin.com/joybinge-podcast Be sure to follow on social media! Twitter: @joybingepodcast IG: @joybingepodcast Facebook: @JoyBingePodcast Artwork by James Cole "Industrious Ferret" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In March 2016 the public voted to name a new polar research vessel "Boaty McBoatface", ultimately though, it was decided that "RRS Sir David Attenborough" was a more fitting choice. But the name "Boaty McBoatface" lived on and was instead given to one of the ship's autonomous submarine vehicles. And this week data from Boaty's first research mission in Antarctica has revealed a worrying new mechanism related to rising sea levels. Boaty has discovered that winds above the southern ocean, which have been strengthening in recent years, due in part to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

In March 2016 the public voted to name a new polar research vessel "Boaty McBoatface", ultimately though, it was decided that "RRS Sir David Attenborough" was a more fitting choice. But the name "Boaty McBoatface" lived on and was instead given to one of the ship's autonomous submarine vehicles. And this week data from Boaty's first research mission in Antarctica has revealed a worrying new mechanism related to rising sea levels. Boaty has discovered that winds above the southern ocean, which have been strengthening in recent years, due in part to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Downlowd is joined by singer Lisa Heller. Topics discussed include some Q & A with Lisa, Boaty McBoatface's first successful mission, standing airplane "saddles", and Dr. Marijuana Pepsi. photo of the airline seats: https://bit.ly/31MU6ra follow Lisa: www.instagram.com/lisahellermusic follow Downlowd: www.instagram.com/downlowd

Boaty McBoatface – the unmanned submersible research vessel – makes his first big contribution to climate science, while the Stoics teach us about the emotions. Also, some info on wave energy and the vampire power wasted by your electronics. Our cardinal friends, Fern & Meredith, deal with a mystery and solve it badly.

Boaty McBoatface – the unmanned submersible research vessel – makes his first big contribution to climate science, while the Stoics teach us about the emotions. Also, some info on wave energy and the vampire power wasted by your electronics. Our cardinal friends, Fern & Meredith, deal with a mystery and solve it badly.

Fisch and Chip finally get a chance to talk to Derik LaMar of the famous Lamar's beard and body oil. There's a list of Beatles songs, meth addicted squirrels, a check to see if the orange menace has destroyed the whole country yet, and we find out who the real victim is.

Fisch and Chip finally get a chance to talk to Derik LaMar of the famous Lamar's beard and body oil. There's a list of Beatles songs, meth addicted squirrels, a check to see if the orange menace has destroyed the whole country yet, and we find out who the real victim is.

Why Peter never became a sailor and a lot of Detective Conan

TONS of content this week. As always, time stamps below!00:00 Adaptive optics let earth bound telescopes see clearer than the Hubble! Also, getting into astronomy isn't nearly as expensive as you think.19:05 Elon Musk calls a cave diver a "pedo" after he criticized Musk's tiny submarine. 34:10 Fortnite is one of the most popular video games in the world, let's explore exactly why.40:21 Virtual Reality being used to help patients cope with fear. We aren't nearly ready for flying cars. Stranger Things season 3 preview, and finally the fate of "Boaty McBoatface".Check out the blog for all sorts of neat stuff! https://thebuzz.iheart.com/featured/geek-therapy-radio/Sponsor http://kungfusaloon.com/

The End, This Podcast is a Geek Audio Blog, Boaty, Lonely Space Alien, Weighty, Inevitable Non-Existent Football Tangent, RIP Steve Ditko, Terry Gilliam's and John Cleese's Whiny Privileged Rants, Jaws, Rick and Morty, The Handmaid's Tale, The Expanse, Soylent Green, RPi Accessories, NES Classic Accessories, Clean Meat? That Pub in Altair, Ramping Up Output, Oh My Bork!

The End, This Podcast is a Geek Audio Blog, Boaty, Lonely Space Alien, Weighty, Inevitable Non-Existent Football Tangent, RIP Steve Ditko, Terry Gilliam's and John Cleese's Whiny Privileged Rants, Jaws, Rick and Morty, The Handmaid's Tale, The Expanse, Soylent Green, RPi Accessories, NES Classic Accessories, Clean Meat? That Pub in Altair, Ramping Up Output, Oh My Bork!

The End, This Podcast is a Geek Audio Blog, Boaty, Lonely Space Alien, Weighty, Inevitable Non-Existent Football Tangent, RIP Steve Ditko, Terry Gilliam's and John Cleese's Whiny Privileged Rants, Jaws, Rick and Morty, The Handmaid's Tale, The Expanse, Soylent Green, RPi Accessories, NES Classic Accessories, Clean Meat? That Pub in Altair, Ramping Up Output, Oh My Bork!

Dan finds out all about the yellow submarine that's helping marine scientists find out all about what's going on in the parts of the ocean it's super hard to get to!  Find out where Boaty has been, where he's off to next and what Professor Wynn thinks about the name Boaty McBoatface! 

In which we discuss the allure of The Joker, Eric’s new workout regime, what to do when you’re out of underwear, how well we are aware of our physical surroundings, the happiest place on Earth, and the first voyage of Boaty McBoatface. adventuresinirrationality@gmail.com       @AIIrrationality http://www.facebook.com/AdventuresInIrrationality http://adventuresinirrationality.com/  Music by U.S. Army Blues, licensed under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 license.

GUEST: JESSA REED & XTINA VK, Greg's Strange dreams; LL Logjam; Space Party of some kind; WOC: Boaty McBoatface, Conspiracy Theorists, Lemonade, Masked Dating, Eyes Wide Shut App; JESSA REED & XTINA VK, Falling Asleep On Airplanes, Big Sky Comedy Festival, Travel, FUNHOUSE LOUNGE ON WEDNESDAY

The internet allows brands and celebrities to connect with people like never before. However, there are times when this connection has unintended consequences. 

Dustin and Anil return from the SMILE Conference with lessons from Law Enforcement Social Media that apply to Govies everywhere.  Plus on the Week in Tweet, pot seeking Twitterer invited to police HQ, blowback against Facebook's editorial choices, and a slew of new features to keep Periscope in the live video game.  Finally, a fond farewell to Boaty McBoatFace.

Emoji's, Boaty McBoatfase, James Hand, YouTube Connect, Facebook Live, Bluesmart suitcase, NCAA smart ball, Stickers, Darryl Eves, Ryan Hamilton, Life of Dad and more. Let's learn something about our own businesses through these blogging, social media, and tech news.