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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comBy Nancy RommelmannI put most of my Portland coverage on my Substack, Make More Pie, where I almost never post audio. Since you all are audiophiles, and on the chance the story is of interest, I am cross-posting the episode here - NRThe streets of Portland may be calmer than during the 108 straight nights of violence in 2020, but are things better? Or are they just as bad but in different ways?Photographers Chelly (@hunnybadgermom on Twitter) and Michelle (@cocainemichelle) cover the city, including the current rise in homelessness and drug addiction, the uptick in crime, and the exponential shredding of the social fabric. They chronicle the deterioration of downtown, where the vacancy rate is set to hit 40%, and speak with those filling the void. Lifelong Oregonians, they see citizens variously unwilling to see these issues as problems, and fleeing the City of Roses because of them.How did Portland get to where it is? Have decisions based on presumed compassion - to not prosecute property and some violent crimes; to provide support if not treatment to drug users — led to bad outcomes? And are better days two years away, or two decades?Episode notes:Video I took while driving Thomas Chatterton-Williams, February 2022One Michelle took, January 2023Rebranded Foster-Powell, Felony Flats was a great neighborhood nameFrom Measure 110, which decriminalized personal-use amounts of drugs:“On November 3, 2020, Oregon voters passed Measure 110, approving two shifts in how the state deals with the use of illegal drugs. First, the measure reduces penalties for drug possession, making Oregon the first state to decriminalize the personal possession of illegal drugs. Secondly, the anticipated savings achieved from the current cost of enforcing criminal drug possession penalties will be combined with marijuana sales revenue to fund a new drug addiction treatment and recovery grant program.”Emphasis mine. Oregon ranks second-highest in rate of substance abuse and 50th in access to treatment. Since the passage of 110, “funding has been slow getting out of the gate and instances of drug abuse and overdose deaths have increased,” and agencies are currently fighting over who gets to siphon off funds earmarked for drug treatment.“A Murder in Portland,” by Nancy Rommelmann (Washington Examiner Magazine)“Destruction and Hope in Portland,” which I wrote for Persuasion, featured North Portland resident Kurt Martig who, like Michelle, was shocked at how many people on NextDoor are willing to reimagine the destruction of other people's property as no big deal. (NB: Martig and his family moved out of Portland last year.)“I go on Nextdoor.com and I'm seeing things like, ‘People have insurance, things are less important than lives,'” Martig said. “I'm like, guys, you're hurting innocent bystanders, the business owners are getting hurt, the employees are going to get hurt, the customers, it's all the way down.”Others disagreed. Someone at the dog park told Martig he should factor in “the decades and centuries of oppression and understand why people are doing what they're doing.” A friend told him that the cops were always worse.“It kind of breaks down to, you can either be one way or the other,” Martig said. “Which is a false choice.”“Nike Offers to Pay Police to Guard Portland Store From Shoplifters,” by Mike Impelli (Newsweek)“Portland, Ore., Once Among Safest U.S. Cities, Struggles to Cut Homicide Rate,” by Zusha Elinson (Wall Street Journal)“We looked at Portland's crime rates. Comparatively, they're not so bad,” by Andy Giegerich (Portland Business Journal)About that bucket of diarrhea sloshed into a police station…

En los primeros minutos del programa de hoy, tenemos a una cantante de California llamada Anya Marina con su tercer álbum de estudio, Felony Flats. Y un quinteto de Londres, que juega con el shoegaze y el pop, que publica ahora su disco de debut tras varios singles editados en los últimos años, la banda se llama Exlovers, y su álbum Moth, una de los novedades más interesantes de esta semana. Otra banda que os presentamos en este programa es Hospitality, desde Brooklyn, grupo con chica al frente con su primer álbum publicado este año 2012. Hoy también hacemos un repaso a nuestras 3 canciones favoritas del mes de junio, ahí están piezas de Saint Etienne, Alpaca Sports, y Crocodiles. Y de nuevo volvemos a recuperar a The Byrds con otra canción de su tercer disco, que extraemos de la fantástica caja The Complete Columbia Albums Collection.

Anya Marina is a singer-songwriter based in New York City. Since 2009, she has recorded 5 studio albums and toured the U.S. extensively both as an opener and headliner. In this episode Anya tells us three separate stories, which all are coincidentally tied together by  either Florida or crowd heckling.   Anya shows us that you can still have fun in a on stage disaster and also how to maneuver a misunderstood post show love interest.  We hear a few tunes from her record Felony Flats and Queen Of The Night. Enjoy!Music by Anya Marina and Joe PlummerEpisode sponsored by Izotope, Izotope.com and Caddis, Caddislife.com

Amberain! A group comprised of friends, neighbors, work colleagues and brothers. Rick, Rick, Dick, Steve, Sandy and Bruce. Drummer Rick Tippet, guitarist Rick Fry and manager and impresario Rick Burgess are sadly gone. The Ricks are gone. Rock’n’Roll heaven.  [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] (http://bettereachday.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fixedw_large_2x.jpg) The Young Street Bridge, now Kurt's memorial park.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] (http://bettereachday.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-23-at-5.06.04-PM.png) The rental house/studio up the Wishkah River on 2nd Street.[/caption] These songs were recorded on good old quarter inch reel to reel tape and ended up on a Memorex cassette tape. So, what we’re about to hear are one take, maybe two in some cases, recordings done in a house adjacent to what is now the Kurt Cobain Park...under the Young Street Bridge down in what locals call Felony Flats, about a block and a half from Cobain’s childhood home, in Aberdeen Washington. Aberdeen has had a history of garage bands dating back to the dawning of electric guitars and rain. I have sweet memories of bands cranking so loud you could feel the bass resonating in the ground two blocks away.  It’s not uncommon to have the police show up to tell you to turn it down...and then stay and listen. Most of our originals were harmony oriented with lead vocalist Sandy Murchy up front. The songs featured in this episode, In The Morning, Dear Sissy and I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye are perfect examples. In The Morning was written by Dick Murchy and Rick Fry, actually before the band was formed in 1974. That’s Rick on the tasty country guitar licks and Sandy and Dick on the vocals. I met lead vocalist Sandy in kindergarten. We were five. We were buds from day one. He invited me over for lunch after school one day (we only went in the morning because we were in accelerated kindergarten for gifted five year olds (no we weren’t, I made that up) and that’s when I met his older brother Dick. We had PB and J’s and listened to Dick torment their sister Cathy. The lunch was a spur of the moment idea of Sandy’s so consequently no one at my home knew where I was...back in 1961 there wasn’t much fear of your kid getting abducted by aliens. There was a fear of Dick giving Sandy wedgies until he had crack rash though. Alan Shepard, the first American in space hadn’t even launched yet. Kennedy was the new president and Alaska and Hawaii had become states only a couple years prior. This was two years before the Beatles were on the Sullivan Show.  The radio was playing Elvis and the Everly Brothers. I had seen Jimmy Dodd on the Mickey Mouse Club show so I knew I wanted to play guitar. It isn’t easy putting these personal shows together in light of the members that have passed. Sometimes people ask me “hey, will you guys ever play together again?” It would be fun, never the same mainly because we got older two of the members are gone, but hell to the yeah, I’d put a few songs together with them anytime. Growing up, I was lucky to live about 100 yards from Dick and Sandy’s house on L Street. I slept over there and ate my first taco there. In the 60s...they were new to the white folk where we lived. Sometimes the three of us would get together in their living room, which was one acre of shag carpet and two pianos, and harmonize. Dick wrote this one and it was an instant “we just knew what to do” song. After almost 50 years, some of the songs have taken on new meanings. It's fitting to end this show with one of my favorites, I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye.

Amberain! A group comprised of friends, neighbors, work colleagues and brothers. Rick, Rick, Dick, Steve, Sandy and Bruce. Drummer Rick Tippet, guitarist Rick Fry and manager and impresario Rick Burgess are sadly gone. The Ricks are gone. Rock’n’Roll heaven.  [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] (http://bettereachday.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fixedw_large_2x.jpg) The Young Street Bridge, now Kurt's memorial park.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] (http://bettereachday.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-23-at-5.06.04-PM.png) The rental house/studio up the Wishkah River on 2nd Street.[/caption] These songs were recorded on good old quarter inch reel to reel tape and ended up on a Memorex cassette tape. So, what we’re about to hear are one take, maybe two in some cases, recordings done in a house adjacent to what is now the Kurt Cobain Park...under the Young Street Bridge down in what locals call Felony Flats, about a block and a half from Cobain’s childhood home, in Aberdeen Washington. Aberdeen has had a history of garage bands dating back to the dawning of electric guitars and rain. I have sweet memories of bands cranking so loud you could feel the bass resonating in the ground two blocks away.  It’s not uncommon to have the police show up to tell you to turn it down...and then stay and listen. Most of our originals were harmony oriented with lead vocalist Sandy Murchy up front. The songs featured in this episode, In The Morning, Dear Sissy and I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye are perfect examples. In The Morning was written by Dick Murchy and Rick Fry, actually before the band was formed in 1974. That’s Rick on the tasty country guitar licks and Sandy and Dick on the vocals. I met lead vocalist Sandy in kindergarten. We were five. We were buds from day one. He invited me over for lunch after school one day (we only went in the morning because we were in accelerated kindergarten for gifted five year olds (no we weren’t, I made that up) and that’s when I met his older brother Dick. We had PB and J’s and listened to Dick torment their sister Cathy. The lunch was a spur of the moment idea of Sandy’s so consequently no one at my home knew where I was...back in 1961 there wasn’t much fear of your kid getting abducted by aliens. There was a fear of Dick giving Sandy wedgies until he had crack rash though. Alan Shepard, the first American in space hadn’t even launched yet. Kennedy was the new president and Alaska and Hawaii had become states only a couple years prior. This was two years before the Beatles were on the Sullivan Show.  The radio was playing Elvis and the Everly Brothers. I had seen Jimmy Dodd on the Mickey Mouse Club show so I knew I wanted to play guitar. It isn’t easy putting these personal shows together in light of the members that have passed. Sometimes people ask me “hey, will you guys ever play together again?” It would be fun, never the same mainly because we got older two of the members are gone, but hell to the yeah, I’d put a few songs together with them anytime. Growing up, I was lucky to live about 100 yards from Dick and Sandy’s house on L Street. I slept over there and ate my first taco there. In the 60s...they were new to the white folk where we lived. Sometimes the three of us would get together in their living room, which was one acre of shag carpet and two pianos, and harmonize. Dick wrote this one and it was an instant “we just knew what to do” song. After almost 50 years, some of the songs have taken on new meanings. It's fitting to end this show with one of my favorites, I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye.

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The fog is starting to clear from Greg's sickness, but his way of relaxing...needs work. A spreadsheet has been created to apparently keep track of the former felons from his house and neighborhood... In World of Crazy: Pizza Shoes; Spider Fire; Drone Burritos; Fake Plane. Ball Talk: Gordon; Baseball to Portland; Beer Cheese Poutine. PDX Podcast Festival

More shocking revelations abound, as Greg finds out more about his house as he visits the ladies at the records dept; felonies abound! Sarah also attempts to give Greg some lessons regarding a panel he will be moderating and the results....fail. In World of Crazy: Lonely Goldfish; Tooth Fairy; Ocktoberfest Shoes; Bird Poo Bandits. In Ball Talk: Super Bowl Prediction! Don't forget the FER Brewer's Cup Cornhole Tournament and Live Show is 9/17 at Landmark Saloon w/ Monkey Shoulder Scotch, Ninkasi, Worthy and more!

GUEST: TIM LEDWITH. The glorious land known as Felony Flats is alive and well in Portland, as Greg and Sarah had a particular encounter over the weekend. There is also some reminiscing of the former Methhead Neighbors. We are then joined by TIM LEDWITDH. Tim has an opportunity to guest on a very popular Judge's TV show and also has a comedy showcase coming up at HELIUM called LOOSE CANNONS! In Ball Talk: Nurkic, TOC Scandal, MLB Prediction. Thanks to NEXT ADVENTURE!

Sarah's Obsessions, Beards, Shopping Woes, Felony Flats, Neighbors Air Conditioner, Blocked Windows And 20 Minute Fires, WoC, Miracle Baby, ALF, Flat Earthers, REV NAT'S & BTU, Ball Talk, Conspiracy Theories, Mike and Mike Out

GUESTS: DAN HALSTED, JASON LAMB, JOHNNY USELDINGER, Running With Rich People, Hood To Coast, Felony Flats, Heavy Breathing And Smiling, SPONSOR A LEG FOR SARAH AND GREG, Legs For Sale, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, Movies In Black And White At Hollywood Theatre, WoC, Hacker Hack, Goonies, Cheese Gang, BIKE GALLERY

Running Shame, Felony Flats, Sarah Responds To An Email, Awkward To Girls, Dipped In Vaseline, World Of Crazy, Ball Pit, Gym Problem, Valentine's Day Pet, NEXT ADVENTURE, SB Commercials, Prop Bets

Shirts Up, A Walter, Felony Flats, The Spitters, World Of Crazy, Swiss Cheese Pervert, Eating, Squatch Watch, Squatch Love, Ball Talk, Kenny Anderson Grown Man, Praying For Football

Neighbors Love Us, Running Challenge, Harrassed By Homeless, Finding Bodies, Felony Flats, Lovely Working Girls, Too Much Coffee, Ball talk, Strahan And Ripa, Beer Chugging Athlete Hero, World Of Crazy, Gibbon Helium, Chester Reads 50 Shades Of Grey