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Dale and Amy are back in the Dirty Mo Media studio for another round of Bless Your 'Hardt!This week Dale finds out over text that Amy ditched him mid-documentary, and he's still mad about it.Dale explains how rain delays feel like waiting on a root canal, why he's been secretly ordering kettlebells to the house, and why music videos need to make a comeback.Amy calls Dale out for working out barefoot to a '70s love song and can't believe there are people who don't own a toaster.Then it's Red Flag, Green Flag: Thanksgiving turkey trots, falling asleep to true crime, and people who don't return their shopping carts.For more head to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlessYourHardt Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Today, we are bringing you a rerun of a popular episode from four years ago that some of you might have missed. Andy and Lee and Adam talk about propellers! The reason that we are doing a rerun this week is that Andy and August are rushing to leave for England to interview Robin Knox Johnston! That will be for the On The Wind podcast, which is back on next week! Make sure to subscribe to On the Wind so that you don't miss that. That means that this is the last Quarterdeck podcast episode for now, so make sure you subscribe to this one as well, so that you'll know when we are back on. You have got to see this new "chart room" that Andy's made for the website, 59-north.com. Just scroll down from the header page and you will see this interactive globe where you can see all past and all future 59 North trips! Really fun to reminisce if you have already done a trip with us, and perfect for finding your next trip! Just click the "open bunks" filter, and you can explore all of our upcoming adventures right there. There are some really good ones available of FALKEN next spring, Cayman Islands to Key West! That is an amazing trip that I have done myself, Caymans are super fascinating, and you'll get to sail around Cuba and ride the gulf stream. Go check out this chart, it is gorgeous, find a trip and see you onboard! -- This episode is sponsored by BVI Yacht Sales, our boat broker friends from Tortola and Annapolis. Go to bviyachtsales.com to have a look at all the cool boats they have listed right now! And if you find your dream boat elsewhere, they can be your buyers broker!
In this episode of Colonize the Ocean, Brendon Traxler continues the “What Happened To…” series with Planet Ocean Underwater Hotels — the veteran-owned, patented movable underwater hotel concept from Tony Webb.First public around 2011–2012 and patented in 2014 (U.S. Design Patent D736947), the plan is a modular luxury hotel of guestroom pods at about 30 feet, one atmosphere, with surface access — similar in layout to concepts like Poseidon Undersea Resort. Early estimates were roughly $20 million to build and $3,000–$6,000 per night. By 2026 the advertised rate is around $10,000 a night.The story has shifted over the years: Key West origins, a long quiet stretch, a UAE/Dubai and blue-economy/coral-restoration push, then Louisiana fabrication talk (Houma / Morgan City, LSU outreach), and 2026 claims that construction has begun with a ~9-month window. Brendon has spoken with Webb multiple times, respects the design ideas, and is frank about the long record of unfulfilled timelines and a difficult working style. Time will tell — watch the next six to twelve months.https://www.planetoceanunderwaterhotel.com/http://atlantisseacolony.com/https://www.patreon.com/atlantisseacolony#ColonizeTheOcean #PlanetOcean #UnderwaterHotel #TonyWebb #UnderwaterHabitat #BlueEconomy #KeyWest #Louisiana #UAE #Dubai #CoralRestoration #OceanColonization #InnerSpaceTourism #WhatHappenedTo #VeteranOwned #MovableHotel #LuxuryTravel #OceanTech #MarineConservation #PoseidonResort #Houma #MorganCity #LSU #OneAtmosphere #UnderwaterLiving #OceanPodcast #AtlantisSeaColony #PatentedDesign #D736947 #GulfOfAmerica
Joan Roch est de retour au podcast, cette fois pour nous parler de son troisième livre, "Rien ne sert de courir", paru en septembre 2026 aux Éditions de l'Homme. Un livre qui raconte notamment son aventure de 105 jours sur la East Continental Trail, son projet de course le plus ambitieux à ce jour. J'ai eu le plaisir de retrouver Joan à Québec lors du lancement du livre au Noctem Saint-Roch, où nous avons discuté de cette traversée, mais aussi du processus créatif derrière ce troisième ouvrage et des personnes qui ont joué un rôle important dans cette aventure, autant sportive que littéraire. Les gens présents au lancement ont également pu participer à la discussion et poser leurs questions à Joan. Parmi eux, son papa, qui était sur place et qui occupe une place bien particulière dans le livre. Cette jasette avait aussi une dimension particulière puisque Joan était déjà venu au podcast pour parler de son deuxième livre, "Ultra-ordinateur : odyssée d'un coureur", à l'épisode 31, en 2021. Je l'avais ensuite retrouvé à l'épisode 138, quelques jours avant son départ de Key West, alors qu'il s'apprêtait à se lancer dans cette immense aventure qui allait finalement devenir la matière première de "Rien ne sert de courir". Une jasette qui permet de revenir sur le chemin parcouru depuis ce départ, sur l'écriture, la course et tout ce qui se trouve entre les deux. Bonne écoute!CréditsDesign graphique : David HébertThème musical : Frédérick DesrochesPhoto : Joan RochIdée originale, production, recherche et animation : Yannick Vézina© Pas sorti du bois 2026
This week we're telling you guys mistakes people make when planning their vacations! Hopefully you can learn from this and have the best trip ever! As always, please feel free to use our service services to help you plan!Theconciergegirl.com
#1,124 - Ronnie Johnson Are you ready to hear the stories and experiences of a Lowcountry Legend? Ronnie Johnson is an inductee of the Georgia Country Music Hall of Fame, the Low Country Music Hall of Fame, and has been named "Best Vocalist" in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a talented, beloved singer, songwriter, performing and recording artist who has taken the stage everywhere from Key West, Florida to New York City, and even Antartica! Hear the stories that were told when Ronnie Johnson sat down with Paul Leslie at the Wild Dunes Resort in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, right outside of Huey's Southern Eats Restaurant. An additional musical performance was recorded at Hutson Alley outside of Rue de Jean in downtown Charleston. Special thanks to Director of Operations Tony Cuajunco. Ronnie Johnson is a friend to so many. If you ever get to see him perform live, you know what a treat that is. But, let's meet the man himself. The Paul Leslie Hour is a talk show dedicated to “Helping People Tell Their Stories.” Some of the most iconic people of all time drop in to chat. Frequent topics include Arts, Entertainment and Culture.
Keith R. A. DeCandido is an author of around sixty novels, more than a hundred short stories, a mess of comic books, and a ton of nonfiction. The fiction is in both more than thirty different licensed universes, as well as his own original stuff, genre fiction that takes place in the fictional cities of Super City and Cliff's End as well as the mostly real cities of New York and Key West. Please check out these relevant links: DeCandido.net Facebook Fan Page Bluesky Twitter Disclosure Day Welcome to Dice in Mind, a podcast hosted by Bradley Browne and Jason Kaufman to explore the intersection of life, games, science, music, philosophy, creativity, and literature through interviews with leading creatives. All are welcome in this space. Royalty-free music "Night Jazz Beats" courtesy of flybirdaudio. Please follow us: Twitter/X: https://x.com/diceinmind Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/diceinmind.bsky.social
Tim Skillman is a long-time sailor and author of "Looped: from the Staits of Mackinac to the Bitter End," a book about his mid-life-crisis journey from the Great Lakes down the Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers to the Gulf of Mexico and on to the Virgin Islands on a Cheoy Lee 53. We talk about growing up racing small boats in Michigan, buying an Erickson 46, the secret to not getting burned out on maintaining a boat, lunch with Richard Branson, meeting his future wife on the beach, the journey down from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, walking away from his career and family, dealing with the locks and river traffic, why he avoided the Missisippi River, entering the Gulf of Mexico, Key West, crossing the bank between Key West and Nassua, sailing to a foreign country for the first time, a shark encounter while spearfishing in The Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, guns on the boat, the Virgin Islands, an awakening, the San Blas Islands, the Guna people, aliens, and more. Photos and links are on the podcast shownotes page Support the show through Patreon Shop for or sell sailboats at SailboatsForSale.com Sail in New England / Canada with Sailing Resolution Get marine electrical help from Meridian Marine Electrial Shop LED navigation lights at Signal Mate
Dale Earnhardt Jr. gives listeners a closer look into one of his greatest personal friendships as he sits down with longtime country music recording artist Tim Dugger. Over the years, Tim has become known as the “NASCAR guy”, performing as a musical guest at many NASCAR events and becoming synonymous with at-track entertainment. But his path to the stage originated from humble beginnings, traveling as a church singer with his sister, jamming at local music stores with older musicians and grinding for years on the bar circuit. Tim explains the first time he ever performed at a NASCAR event, it was in a very unofficial capacity: setting up in the free camping area at Talladega with a speaker and performing for anyone that would listen.Dale Jr. and Tim's friendship stemmed from an Austin Dillon introduction, when Austin brought Tim along for a paintballing excursion on Dale's property. After a few beers in the basement bar, the guitar came out and Tim showcased his deep repertoire of country music classics. Tim and his wife Tara would be extended an invitation to one of Dale and Amy's Key West trips, and the couples have been close ever since. The interview covers Dale and Tim's shared trauma from their childhoods, some hilarious stories from the road and shared adventures in Ireland. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
This week we are talking about local discounts, restaurant, closures, and new openings! All of the fun stuff that summers bring to Key West
Kyle McGee has raised $11 million from 50 investors. He is in his early thirties, and almost none of that money came from institutions. It came from aunts, uncles, family friends, and people who have sat in the same church as him for 30 years. This week I am breaking down syndication: the model where you raise money from a group of investors to buy an asset far bigger than you could buy on your own. It is not new. Irish partnerships were doing it in the early 2000s, including the syndicate that outbid a Saudi prince for the Savoy Hotel Group. Kyle is doing it at a more modest scale on the Florida Gulf Coast, and the route he took to get there is the instructive part. He started as a real estate appraiser in Key West, hated it, went home to Pensacola, and borrowed $250,000 from his father to build three spec houses. His father was diagnosed with stage four cancer and died six months later, halfway through the third build. Kyle finished it, found a financial backer, built four over-specified houses in a year and made a total of $8,000 between them, then rebuilt the whole model around cheap lots and simple starter homes. 130 houses later he hit the ceiling every small builder hits, and went looking for a way to scale. The part of this conversation worth your full attention is his warning about raising money too early. Nobody wants to fund your education. Investors are not backing your deck or your model, they are backing you, and if you have no track record they will tell you to come back once you have exited a few deals. Kyle has heard no far more often than yes. We also get into workforce housing and why it is close to the most recession resistant thing you can own, why he runs a property management company at a deliberate loss, how the general partner and limited partner split and the preferred return actually work, why he is taking bridge debt at nine and a half percent, and what happens when an event nobody modelled for arrives. I tell the story of watching the second plane hit on the first day of my honeymoon, and what that taught me about stress testing a portfolio. A note on timing: this interview was recorded in 2025 and sat unpublished after I pivoted to episode 268. The market references are from that period. The lessons are not. *** Connect with Kyle on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylemcgee/ Kyle's business Sunchase: https://www.sunchaseco.com/ *** Chapters 00:08 What syndication is, and the Irish syndicate that outbid a Saudi prince 01:14 Why this episode sat unpublished for a year 03:35 Pensacola, "lower Alabama", and hurricane season 05:10 From appraiser in Key West to contractor's licence 11:05 The $250,000 loan from his father, and three lots 12:35 Stage four diagnosis, six months, and finishing the house alone 15:24 The couple who backed him before he backed himself 17:46 23 years old, no credit, no way to scale 18:45 Getting a financial backer and a line of credit 20:48 Four houses, $8,000 profit, and what went wrong 21:47 The pivot to cheap lots and starter homes 22:18 COVID in Florida: $205k to $335k on the same house 24:18 Why you cannot out-build DR Horton 26:26 The first 14 unit apartment deal 30:02 General partner, limited partner, preferred return, promote 32:04 Why nobody wants to fund your education 33:43 What changes when the money is not yours 34:47 The rejections he does not talk about 35:47 50 investors, $11 million, no full cycle exits yet 37:18 Exiting investors into a new partnership 39:14 Time in the market, not timing the market 40:02 Bridge debt at 9.5% and a two year stabilisation window 42:00 9/11, Barbados, and the risk nobody models 45:01 A locations, C properties 47:44 Running a loss making management company on purpose 49:36 Discipline will take you where talent and hustle will not 50:41 Where to find Kyle 51:20 Free monthly workshop and how to work with me *** Elite Property Accelerator is open for its next intake. Learn more: https://epa-learn-more.scoreapp.com/ Join my next Workshop: https://elitepropertyaccelerator.com/workshop *** Behind The Facade is hosted by Gavin J Gallagher, a Dublin-based property investor and developer with 30 years in the Irish and international market, and first-hand experience of three property crashes. *** Support the channel: https://buymeacoffee.com/gavinjgallagher
May 1973 two New Jersey sisters on a Florida Keys vacation were last seen hitchhiking on Stock Island; the next day their bodies were found in the woods off U.S. 1 in Key Largo. Fifty-three years later, forensic genetic genealogy named David Allen Snyder, a former Key West resident who died in Idaho in 2008. There will be no trial—only a name, a timeline, and the end of an unanswered question.
Send us Fan MailThis took place after I paid for a $600 dollar Uber from Miami to Key West just so I could make these podcasts. Enjoy!
John H. Cunningham and Ted E. Haynes talk with Mike about Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers, their documentary on the founding members of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. The pair met at the Key West Film Festival and set out to make a short about steel guitarist Roger Bartlett; six interviews in, they knew they had a feature, and by the time they wrapped in April 2025 they'd shot eighteen more and amassed six hundred pieces of archival material.They talk about the trust the surviving Reefers placed in them, editor Richard Lowe (Muscle Shoals) and archival producer Adam Lawrence sorting through decades of footage, the Key West and Santa Barbara premieres — the latter a nearly two-hundred-seat sellout — and what it was like watching Jimmy Buffett's own sisters sit in the audience for an early screening. They also get into Key West itself as a magnet for outsized characters, name-checking longtime local artist David Wegman along the way.Narrated by Jeff Bridges, Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers opens in theaters nationwide September 5th — Jimmy Buffett Day — through the end of October, before heading to digital. Showtimes and city listings are at occupationalhazardfilm.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth
John H. Cunningham and Ted E. Haynes talk with Mike about Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers, their documentary on the founding members of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. The pair met at the Key West Film Festival and set out to make a short about steel guitarist Roger Bartlett; six interviews in, they knew they had a feature, and by the time they wrapped in April 2025 they'd shot eighteen more and amassed six hundred pieces of archival material.They talk about the trust the surviving Reefers placed in them, editor Richard Lowe (Muscle Shoals) and archival producer Adam Lawrence sorting through decades of footage, the Key West and Santa Barbara premieres — the latter a nearly two-hundred-seat sellout — and what it was like watching Jimmy Buffett's own sisters sit in the audience for an early screening. They also get into Key West itself as a magnet for outsized characters, name-checking longtime local artist David Wegman along the way.Narrated by Jeff Bridges, Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers opens in theaters nationwide September 5th — Jimmy Buffett Day — through the end of October, before heading to digital. Showtimes and city listings are at occupationalhazardfilm.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth
Greg Cote Show: Cruise stops in Key West and Bimini, a new ‘Hard Knocks: Greg's Lobos,' pig roast post-mortem, PFPI the website, Catchphrase #3, season picks on Hurricanes/Dolphins, more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The discussion begins with a critique of upcoming movie sequels and a dive into classic cinema before shifting to the U.S. Open's controversial late-night match scheduling. They analyze the recent NFL investigation involving Eagles' security head Fat Dom and the online drama surrounding Emmanuel Acho. Comedian Aaron Berg joins to share stories about his new stand-up special and his dedication to fitness. (00:01:20) Movie News and NASCAR Debates (00:06:11) Stanley Kubrick Conspiracy Theories (00:10:51) U.S. Open Late Start Criticism (00:14:52) Fat Dom Eagles Security Investigation (00:19:32) Broncos Defense and Mahomes Matchup (00:24:09) Aaron Berg Discusses Comedy Special (00:30:30) Marriage Vows and Key West
Greg Cote Show: Cruise stops in Key West and Bimini, a new ‘Hard Knocks: Greg's Lobos,' pig roast post-mortem, PFPI the website, Catchphrase #3, season picks on Hurricanes/Dolphins, more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Greg Cote Show: Cruise stops in Key West and Bimini, a new ‘Hard Knocks: Greg's Lobos,' pig roast post-mortem, PFPI the website, Catchphrase #3, season picks on Hurricanes/Dolphins, more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What happens when Julie goes to Key West for Jimmy Buffett weekend and Dan stays home in Connecticut?Apparently, a long-distance Casa De Confidence quickie.Julie joins Dan from the La Concha in Key West, where she's grabbing breakfast with friends Melissa and Dawn before heading out on a boat during the Just a Few Friends celebration honoring the life and legacy of Jimmy Buffett.What starts as a quick check-in turns into a conversation about something much bigger: what happens when someone's legacy continues creating good long after they're gone?Julie shares what she's experiencing in Key West as Jimmy Buffett fans gather to celebrate the music, lifestyle, stories, and generosity that made Buffett much more than a musician to so many people.The celebration isn't only bringing fans together. Julie talks about how the weekend supports charitable causes and brings visitors, energy, and economic activity to Key West during what is typically a quieter time of year.She also shares her visit to Books & Books, where she met authors whose work explores Key West and Jimmy Buffett's legacy, including one writer whose personal loss became part of his own healing journey through writing.And because this is Casa De Confidence, things don't stay serious for too long.There's also a Key West thunderstorm, a restaurant power outage that left Julie and her friends temporarily unable to pay their bill, Dan's questionable memory of Vince Vaughn movies, an accidental conversation about swingers, microphone troubleshooting, and a final warning from Dan:Julie, stay off the jet skis.If you've ever wondered why Jimmy Buffett's influence continues to resonate years beyond the music, this little Casa quickie offers a glimpse into the answer.Legacy isn't only what you accomplish while you're here.Sometimes it's what other people continue doing because you were here.In this episode: Why Julie is spending Labor Day weekend in Key West The Just a Few Friends Jimmy Buffett celebration How Buffett's legacy continues through community and charitable giving Why the weekend matters to the local Key West economy Julie's visit to Books & Books Authors documenting Key West and Jimmy Buffett's story How writing can become part of healing after loss A memorable Key West power outage Julie and Dan's long-distance marriage banter Why Dan does NOT want Julie anywhere near a jet ski Pull up a chair, grab a drink, and make yourself at home.Our Casa is your Casa.And as always, go confidently in the direction of your dreams.I want to hear your thoughts about the show and this episode. Text us here...Support the showCasa De Confidence is a podcast for women navigating midlife reinvention, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal growth. Hosted by Julie DeLucca-Collins, the show explores confidence, sustainable business success, visibility, authority building, and aligned growth for women entrepreneurs ready to lead boldly and live intentionally. Through real conversations and practical insights, listeners gain clarity, strengthen confidence, and develop strategies to expand their impact, voice, and opportunities.Liked this episode? Share it with your midlife woman, entrepreneur friends!Love this show? Let us know how we helped you increase your confidence by leaving a review.For more about me and what I do, check out my website.If you're looking for support to grow your business faster, be positioned as an authority in your industry, and impact the masses, schedule a call to explore if you'd be a good fit for one of my coaching programs.Follow Julie DeLucca-Collins on Instagram at @julie_deluccacollins
After leaving behind decades of legendary music, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jimmy Buffett passed away in 2023. Thankfully, in 2026, filmmaker John H. Cunningham has gathered the musicians, producers and experts who were there with Jimmy for the beginning of his incredible career. From his writing days in Nashville to finding a home in Key West, the OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD documentary walks you through Buffett's origin story, courtesy of our guest, John H. Cunningham. Let's talk about it...
In this episode, we plunge deep down the rabbit hole with Dayvid Salinas—host of the popular Dayvid Don't Know podcast and the creative force behind the social media phenomenon Down the Rabbit Hole, a hugely popular Instagram and Facebook page dedicated to the world's strangest paranormal encounters and high-strangeness stories.Join us as we explore the chilling legend of Robert the Doll, the infamous Key West artifact long said to possess a dark, independent will of its own—linked for decades to reports of misfortune, curses, and unexplained activity that have unsettled owners and visitors alike. From there, the conversation expands into mind-bending territory: alternate realities, the possibility that we inhabit multiple dimensions, portals, cryptids, UFOs, and other provocative ideas that challenge our understanding of the world.Dayvid also shares a deeply personal family encounter with the Owl Witch—an eerie entity his father witnessed perched in a tree outside their home. The experience left his logical, skeptical father shaken and questioning everything he thought he knew. High strangeness continued to ripple through the family home afterward, and may even connect to one of Dayvid's own earliest brushes with the paranormal.Tune in for a captivating mix of legendary haunted objects, personal accounts of the unexplained, and far-reaching questions about the hidden layers of reality.Gear up and get freaky with official Let's Get Freaky merchandise! Our spooky-cool collection features hoodies, t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more—perfect for showing your love of the paranormal while staying comfy and stylish. Dive into the full range now: https://tee.pub/lic/wX4lEJj3DMIGot a mind-blowing paranormal encounter, cryptid sighting, UFO experience, or any high-strangeness story that still gives you chills? We want to hear it—and we want YOU on the show! Become a guest on Let's Get Freaky and share your true story with our growing freaky community. Drop us a line at: letsgetfreakypodcast@mail.com Or slide into our DMs on socials: Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, or YouTube → @tcletsgetfreakypodcast.
Kruser in for Jack talks to Chuck McKee of Bluegrass Auction and Realty - phoning in from Key West, talking calls and texts from listeners who want to know what their valuables are worth! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Friends visited us this past weekend and had never been to Key West. Well, we had to fix that. So we did a quick tour of some of our favorite spots. Island news and information is also on the menu, as well as some music news. Thanks for listening!
This week Mike welcomes to the podcast comedian, and fellow Massachusetts native, Joe List. Joe talks about what it's like to be married to and raise a chid with another working comedian, Sarah Tollemache, and Joe tells a story about how he worked through a panic attack moments before doing stand-up on Conan. Mike and Joe also discuss Joe's documentary feature that he directed about a comic who dropped out of traditional show business to run a comedy club in Key West, Florida. Plus, they work out new jokes about the military history of M&Ms, strange childhood memories, and the worst thing you could say to a child. Please consider donating to the Holbrook Fire Department Text BIRBIGS to 917-444-7150 for updates Find Mike: Website: https://birbigs.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/birbigs/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/birbigfans TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@mikebirbiglia Find Joe: Website: https://www.comedianjoelist.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joelistcomedy/ Hosted and Produced by Mike Birbiglia Producers: Peter Salomone, Joseph Birbiglia, Mabel Lewis, Gary Simons Sound Mixed by Shubh Saran Supervising Engineer: Kate Bilinski Video Consultant: Graham Willoughby Special Thanks: Marissa Hurwitz, Josh Upfal, David Raphael, Nina Cwik, J. Hope Stein, Oona Music: Jack Antonoff and Bleachers Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Send us Fan MailDrums and Rums — where the backbeat meets the spirits.KEY WEST RUM FEST REWIND with Neil Lindley!The glasses may be empty and the sun may have set on another Key West Rum Festival, but we've still got plenty to talk about.Join Drums and Rums LIVE as I sit down with Neil Lindley, organizer of the Key West Rum Festival, to look back at this year's festival and talk about everything that went down in Key West.We'll get into the rum, the events, the people, the unforgettable moments, and some of the stories you might not have heard while the festival was happening. Neil will also take us behind the scenes to talk about what it takes to bring a rum festival to life in one of the most iconic drinking destinations in the world.
Send us Fan MailThe Wheeland Brothers have built their signature sound around surf rock, reggae, acoustic music, and a life spent chasing waves, adventure, and a little more time off the grid. In this episode of Wildly Unplug, brothers Travis and Nate “Frog” Wheeland join Lauren Connolly for a conversation about music, surfing, nature, burnout, creativity, and what happens when you step away from the noise long enough to actually be present.The brothers share how Jimmy Buffett inspired adventure beyond their Southern California hometown, how Kenny Chesney and SiriusXM helped turn their music into something financially possible, and why they still think of music as a passion more than a career. They also talk about writing songs around campfires, surfing with dolphins and great white sharks, finding inspiration on unnamed beaches, and why some of their best creative ideas happen far away from cell service.We also dive into the reality of turning something you love into your job, the importance of rest, their relationship as brothers and collaborators, and why nature has become their antidote to burnout and the constant pull of phones and technology.Plus, the Wheeland Brothers talk about their upcoming trip to Key West for Just a Few Friends, their new song “Island Town,” and why escaping the rat race might be less about doing nothing—and more about reconnecting with something real.If you love surf rock, beach music, surfing, nature, outdoor adventure, creativity, or conversations about slowing down and living a little more unplugged, this episode is for you.In this episode: The Wheeland Brothers • surf rock and reggae • Jimmy Buffett's influence • Kenny Chesney and No Shoes Radio • Radio Margaritaville • songwriting and creativity • surfing and ocean stories • burnout and rest • nature and mental reset • unplugging from technology • Key West • Just a Few Friends • “Island Town” • finding adventure off the mapWildly Unplug explores stories of nature, conservation, creativity, and adventure that remind us there's more to life than the hustle.Get outside and see what develops. Support the show
What changes as we get older? Maybe it's less about becoming a completely different person and more about getting clearer on what actually deserves our time.In this Sunday episode of Casa DeConfidence, Julie and Dan are back at the microphones for one of their candid conversations about marriage, midlife, getting older, changing priorities, and creating a life you actually enjoy.It starts, as many Casa conversations do, somewhere unexpected: Julie announces a new bucket-list dream of taking on the Mongol Rally, a wild, choose-your-own-adventure journey across thousands of miles. That leads Dan to ask a bigger question: What mattered to us in our 20s that doesn't matter nearly as much now?And what have we learned along the way?Dan shares something he wishes he had understood sooner: in his 20s, he didn't fully understand the power of saying no. Later, he had to learn the power of saying yes. Now, in midlife, he recognizes that a good life requires both.Julie and Dan talk about what it means to trust yourself enough to make your own decisions, how our priorities shift as we age, why some opportunities are worth saying yes to, and why we don't have to do everything ourselves.They also get into the very real stuff of everyday life: simplifying dinner when life gets busy, Julie's upcoming trip to Key West for the annual Jimmy Buffett celebration, adventures with their three senior dogs, the never-ending bathroom remodel, and why sometimes the best decision you can make is eating pizza outside on a beautiful New England evening.Because some things in life are fleeting.Maybe living confidently isn't always about chasing the next accomplishment. Sometimes it's knowing what matters, saying no to what doesn't, saying yes to what does, and giving yourself permission to enjoy it without guilt.In This Episode:How priorities change as we get olderWhat we would tell our younger selves about lifeThe power of saying no without guiltWhy learning to say yes matters just as muchCreating a bucket list and choosing new adventuresWhy midlife can bring greater clarity about what really mattersLetting go of the pressure to do everything yourselfMaking intentional choices about your time and energyWhy ordinary moments can become some of the best parts of lifeJulie's upcoming Key West adventure celebrating Jimmy BuffettMarriage, aging, senior dogs, home renovations, and plenty of Casa DeConfidence banterA Question for YouThink about who you were at 21 or 25.What mattered enormously to you then that you don't care nearly as much about today? And what matters to you now that your younger self never would have understood?We'd love to hear your answer.If this episode makes you laugh, think, or reconsider what deserves a yes or a no in your own life, share it with someone who might need the same reminder.And remember: pick one thing you enjoy and do it guiltlessly.Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, make some brave moves, and leave people and the planet better than you found them.I want to hear your thoughts about the show and this episode. Text us here...Support the showCasa De Confidence is a podcast for women navigating midlife reinvention, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal growth. Hosted by Julie DeLucca-Collins, the show explores confidence, sustainable business success, visibility, authority building, and aligned growth for women entrepreneurs ready to lead boldly and live intentionally. Through real conversations and practical insights, listeners gain clarity, strengthen confidence, and develop strategies to expand their impact, voice, and opportunities.Liked this episode? Share it with your midlife woman, entrepreneur friends!Love this show? Let us know how we helped you increase your confidence by leaving a review.For more about me and what I do, check out my website.If you're looking for support to grow your business faster, be positioned as an authority in your industry, and impact the masses, schedule a call to explore if you'd be a good fit for one of my coaching programs.Follow Julie DeLucca-Collins on Instagram at @julie_deluccacollins
Welcome back to the Boneyard Podcast, where 2 ECU Alumni, Jared Shafit and Artie Brower sit around, drink beer and talk about ECU sports. This week the boys are back doing their thing for Episode 290 of the Boneyard Podcast!Use Promo Code: Boneyard20 for 20% off your first order at Rhoback.comThe episode covers a range of topics, including updates on the bonfire, anniversary plans, and a trip to Key West. It also delves into ECU athletics, media day, and college football rule changes. The conversation covers a range of rule changes in football, including targeting penalties, unsportsmanlike conduct, helmet attachments, punt formation, fair catch kick, and logo placement on jerseys. The hosts express their opinions and discuss the implications of these rule changes. The conversation covers a range of topics related to football challenges, officiating errors, bold predictions, and game analysis. It also delves into the strengths and weaknesses of various teams and the potential outcomes of the season. The conversation covers a range of topics including college football predictions, game analysis, and gambling corner. The hosts discuss hot takes, team performances, and upcoming games, providing insights and predictions for the upcoming season.TakeawaysBonfire and Anniversary: The hosts discuss recent bonfire activities and upcoming anniversary plans.ECU Athletics: Media day insights and interviews with players and coaches provide a glimpse into the upcoming season.College Football Rule Changes: A detailed discussion on targeting penalties and the impact on players and teams. Rule changes in football impact player behavior and game dynamics.The introduction of new rules sparks debate and discussion among fans and analysts. Challenges in football officiatingBold predictions for the seasonGambling corner insights
Amy and the gang are back for another round of Bless Your ‘Hardt! This week, the crew recaps a wild girls' trip to Key West, including the hilarious differences between traveling with the girls versus traveling with the guys. Amy explains why girls trips are so much more organized, how everyone had their own job, and why sometimes the best vacation plan is doing absolutely nothing. Then, things get heated over self-checkout. Why are employees hovering over you while you scan your own groceries? Is self-checkout supposed to be an honor system? Dale reminds everyone that it's called SELF-checkout and he doesn't need anyone else. Plus, Dale talks about how he spent his time with the girls while Amy was gone, including a trip to downtown Kannapolis, and talks about the Dale statue. They also dive into some questionable “Would You Rather” scenarios involving cold pizza, melted ice cream, clogged toilets, sleeping on the floor, and more. From Key West chaos to self-checkout surveillance, don't miss this one. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Having lived amid the “movable feast” of 1970s Key West, a St. Augustine artist and restaurateur is part of a new documentary on the turbulent time.
Hour 3 (8.25) The official unemployment rate is 4.1%. Another measure says one in four American workers is "functionally unemployed," and it just rose for the fourth month in a row. 8:05 — Chargers, Dodgers, the Travel Store, iHeartRadio Music Festival tickets at axs.com, and the Conway Cruise at conwaycruise.com. 8:20 — Labor Day travel. What's actually still on the table at Disneyland, and the question everybody asks backwards: when do airfares really drop. 8:35 — 24.9% of the American workforce is "functionally unemployed" — jobless, stuck in part-time work they didn't ask for, or earning a poverty wage — against an official rate of 4.1%. Then the warm-water file: a hammerhead filmed off Laguna Beach on Saturday, the first the photographer had seen in Southern California since 2015, and a bad shark bite off Key West. Plus rattlesnake season that started in March and hasn't let up, and Crozier's position on spiders. 8:50 — Two kinds of plumber, and only one of them is licensed and insured. Plumbing Wholesale Outlet. Plus, the extreme heat warning runs through 8 p.m. Friday, with the Inland Empire around 105 and Thursday at the peak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Send us Fan MailBecoming the Bison: Monarch Mistakes, Putting Down Roots & Learning to Be a Beginner AgainWhat happens when you move to a new ecosystem and realize you don't know nearly as much as you thought you did?In this week's Wildly Rejected: Becoming the Bison, Lauren shares an unexpectedly chaotic lesson involving monarch butterflies, 20 very hungry caterpillars, and one major realization about moving from Ohio to Key West, Florida. After years of watching and tagging migrating monarchs in Ohio, she discovers that island life—and the wildlife that comes with it—plays by a very different set of rules.But the monarch mishap becomes part of a much bigger transition. As Lauren settles into Key West, becomes an empty nester, starts ukulele lessons, joins the Key West Writers Guild, explores volunteering with local parrots, and looks for ways to become part of her new community, the 1,000 Rejection Challenge is beginning to change. Instead of simply asking, Will you accept my work?, the bigger question is becoming: Where do I belong?There's still rejection, too. Lauren gets an answer after a five-month wait on an environmental art grant, submits a favorite sea turtle photograph to the Sea Turtle Preservation Society's 2027 calendar contest, and makes another kind of ask—one centered on finding community rather than collecting accomplishments.This episode is about rejection, life transitions, empty nest life, monarch butterflies, citizen science, nature journaling, Key West wildlife, finding community, and giving yourself permission to become a beginner again.Because the goal may still be 1,000 rejections, but it was never supposed to become another hustle-culture checklist. Sometimes moving forward means slowing down long enough to learn the soil beneath your feet.Current 1,000 Rejection Challenge stats: 170 total asks | 39 accepted | 79 rejected | 30 in review | 17 waiting for a response | 2 waitlisted | 3 other.Wildly Unplug is a podcast about stepping away from hustle culture and reconnecting with the wild through stories of nature, conservation, creativity, wildlife, adventure, and personal growth.Until next time, unplug, get outside, and see what develops. Support the show
In this episode, I reconnect with Allison Burson, the National Greenway Director for the East Coast Greenway Alliance, for an update on the buildout of this all-ages-and-abilities active mobility multi-use pathway that stretches the entire length of the eastern seaboard from the Canadian border in Maine all the way down to Key West, Florida. This episode is rich with visuals. Watch on YouTube or on Patreon.Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
Some people live so far on the fringes of society that they don't even consider themselves part of it, that's what Jrad and Steed are covering on this week's episode of Chubstep. The guys start with a correction on the Greenland episode before getting into why Steed's boredom led him to choose the main topic. Micronations and sovereign citizens starts out with the crazy people defending themselves in court, trying to use this excuse to get out of tickets, Mos Def / Yasiin Bey's trouble with his World Passport, the complicated beliefs of Sovereign Citizens and how it ties to Star Wars, a micronation made of concrete in the ocean that involved a James Bond level helicopter rescue, a high concentration of micronations in the Czech Republic including Anarchy99, when not paying your taxes adds up for micronations, Key West's Conch Republic, an island for the LGBTQ+ community, and a failed Scottish island take over
Send us Fan MailWhat happens when rejection collides with grief, an empty nest, and a completely new life?In this deeply personal Wildly Rejected: Becoming the Bison update, Lauren catches up on weeks 16–19 of her 1,000 Rejection Challenge. She reflects on saying goodbye to her beloved dog Georgie, watching her son leave for college, moving away from Cincinnati, and beginning again as a full-time Key West resident—all while feeling caught in the “ooey-gooey” middle of transformation.Along the way, she shares the sting of rejection from the Fantasy Fest poster contest, NASA Social, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and a literary publication—as well as the surprising gift of receiving constructive feedback. But the challenge is also beginning to mean something new. Her latest asks aren't only about awards, sales, and recognition; they're about friendship, volunteering, conservation, creativity, and finding her place in a new community.This episode is a reminder that falling behind doesn't mean failing. Sometimes becoming the bison simply means giving yourself permission to grieve, take a break, pull your foot out of the quicksand, and keep moving forward—one small step and one brave ask at a time.Current challenge stats:• 167 total asks• 39 accepted• 77 rejected• 31 in review• 16 awaiting a response• 2 waitlisted• 2 otherUntil next time, unplug, get outside, and see what develops. Support the show
The boys are talking morning sex! Joe heads to Tom Dustin's wedding in Key West in Salacuse. Mark brings the lady to see Noah Kahan and she gets the old piss-foot. Joe has the best day of his entire life (unrelated). It's Tuesdays! Our Stuff: - https://www.patreon.com/tuesdays - youtube.com/tuesdayswithstories - https://www.tuesdayspod.com - Want a free pack of Goodwipes? Buy any two packs, text your receipt, and get reimbursed for one. Head to https://www.goodwipes.com/TUESDAYS - For free shipping on your order & 365-day returns go to https://www.quince.com/TUESDAYS
In February 1963, the SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a converted WWII tanker carrying molten sulphur, disappeared somewhere between Texas and Key West, Florida, taking all 39 crew members with it. There was no distress call, and only a few life jackets and debris were found weeks later. The wreck of the Marine Sulphur Queen has never been found, and no bodies have ever been recovered. The official US Coast Guard investigation report could not establish a cause of the sinking, and only put forth possible reasons for its loss. This episode, explores the troubled history of the ship, the few details we actually know of its final voyage, the search and rescue operation, the Coast Guard investigation, and finally, the lawsuits filed by the families of the crewmembers. The cause of the sinking of the Marine Sulphur Queen remains unsolved, and is the focus one of the most debated unsolved mysteries, including theories involving the linked the so-called "Bermuda Triangle." (NOTE: Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs does NOT support the Bermuda Triangle theories.) ** No AI was used to create this video. **
Meeting Don Mattingly, First Pitches, Daryl Strawberry was apparently in the stands, college students are heading back to campus, parents everywhere are questioning their financial decisions, and Florida has once again decided that normal behavior is merely a suggestion. Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, the comedy podcast where one innocent conversation can make several deeply unnecessary turns before anyone has a chance to stop it.The show kicks off with Daryl Strawberry after video surfaces of the former MLB star crossing paths with an old teammate. That naturally gets Rizz thinking about what would happen if Strawberry suddenly appeared in front of him — because apparently meeting one baseball hero wasn't enough emotional trauma for one week.From there, we move into college season. Parents are loading up cars, kids are heading back to school, and the crew starts debating the best college towns in America. Fayetteville gets plenty of love as Rizz talks about an upcoming Arkansas visit, while Moon makes a strong case for Tuscaloosa and the conversation wanders through Bloomington, Ann Arbor, Tempe, Madison, Charlottesville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Laramie and Urbana-Champaign.There are legitimate discussions about business schools, campus life and tuition. There are also judgments based on weather, stadiums, sandwiches and whether your kid will feel like college is just “13th grade.” In other words, this is not an accredited educational consulting service. Please plan accordingly.Then Florida arrives.And Florida does not arrive quietly.It's time for Fake News of Florida, where callers have to decide whether increasingly ridiculous headlines actually happened in the Sunshine State or were created specifically to destroy their remaining faith in humanity.Could a Chuck E. Cheese mascot really get arrested inside the arcade? Could a guy in a Batman onesie detain a burglary suspect? Could a 300-pound feral hog crash through somebody's glass door? What about a runaway kangaroo? A guy hiding a gun under silicone breasts? A pet store burglar putting a live ferret down his pants?These are the questions our ancestors dreamed we would someday have the technology to answer.Moon serves as a lifeline, which occasionally works beautifully and occasionally involves him building an entire forensic case around a headline only to discover that Florida simply does not respect conventional logic. The more reasonable his explanation sounds, the more concerned everyone should probably become.Things eventually escalate to mystery shower curtains, a Key West parrot allegedly trapped in a margarita machine and perhaps the most Florida sentence ever assembled: a Pensacola man trying to trade a live rattlesnake for a box of chicken tenders. At some point you stop asking whether the headlines are plausible and start accepting that the state of Florida is basically running its own comedy podcast without microphones.It's baseball nostalgia, college-parent anxiety, caller chaos, weird news and enough Florida nonsense to make you suspicious of every headline you read for the rest of the day. Just another comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where we take the important stories of the day and immediately make them significantly less important.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This week, we're putting Keith in the hot seat! We're finding out his top picks for everything from the best pizza, burger, steak, Key lime pie, and Old Fashioned to the best place to relax, grab a rum drink, or take someone who's visiting Key West for the first time.Then it's time for Quick Hits with Keith, where he has to answer rapid-fire questions with no time to think. Finally, we wrap things up with Rate It with Keith, where he scores some of Key West's most iconic foods, attractions, and traditions.Will you agree with his picks… or think he's completely wrong? Tune in and find out!
Ask Us A Question!Nathaniel Linville has become one of the most respected technical minds in flyfishing — a tournament champion, Master Certified Casting Instructor, IGFA Trustee, world-record holder, and owner of The Angling Company in Key West. But what makes Nathaniel especially interesting isn't simply what he has accomplished. It's the way he approaches the sport: relentlessly analyzing casting, presentation, fish behavior, equipment, preparation, and all of the small details that ultimately determine whether an angler converts an opportunity or watches it disappear.In Part One of this two-part conversation, we dive into Nathaniel's remarkable 2026 March Merkin victory, including an incredible seven-permit final day, before exploring what years of tournament fishing have taught him about permit, tarpon, and success on the flats. Nathaniel breaks down what anglers misunderstand about these species, why supposed “refusals” often begin with mistakes made seconds earlier, and what traveling anglers can do before a trip to dramatically improve their odds. We also dig into the science of fly casting and the skills anglers should actually be practicing. This is a fascinating conversation about preparation, precision, and the small differences that separate good anglers from consistently great ones.Waypoints is brought to you by PatagoniaTo bring their gear to life, Patagonia is motivated by relentless curiosity and a passion for the wild. They evaluate hundreds of materials, build dozens of prototypes and spend seasons punishing them in the world's most extreme conditions. The work is the guide, and Patagonia never tires of exploring, learning and improving. For the past two years, the Yellow Dog Flyfishing travel team has worked closely with Patagonia to test and refine the all-new Patagonia River Salt Wading Boots II in destinations ranging from New Zealand to the Seychelles. Featured throughout the Yellow Dog Field Reports series, these boots have become the go to choice for our team thanks to their Vibram® Megagrip soles, durable quick drying construction, speed to get on and off, and support built for both freshwater and saltwater environments.- Follow us on Instagram- Follow us on Facebook- Check out our YouTube Page- View the official Yellow Dog w...
Former Alabama national championship quarterback Jake Coker and co-host Mick Gillispie are back together for another episode of Last Call, featuring Alabama football analysis, unforgettable travel stories and plenty of off-the-rails conversation. The biggest question in Tuscaloosa remains the Alabama quarterback competition. With offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb expected to make a decision after the Crimson Tide's second scrimmage, Jake looks back at his own 2015 quarterback battle and explains why allowing the competition to linger can damage morale, disrupt offensive chemistry and prevent a team from developing its identity. Jake and Mick also discuss why Alabama must establish a physical, dominant running game to compete for an SEC championship and College Football Playoff berth. They evaluate the Crimson Tide's running back depth, the importance of pass protection and what separates talented players from the backs who earn meaningful snaps. The conversation also turns to Kalen DeBoer's challenge of following Nick Saban, the standard Saban established at Alabama and why defensive coordinator Kane Wommack deserves credit for keeping the Crimson Tide competitive in difficult games. Plus, Mick shares stories from a turbulent trip to Key West, Jake recalls a frightening Blackhawk helicopter flight and the guys discuss Jake's upcoming family vacation to Disney World. Like the video, share your thoughts on Alabama's quarterback battle in the comments and subscribe for more episodes of Last Call featuring Jake Coker and Mick Gillispie. #AlabamaFootball #CrimsonTide #JakeCoker #LastCall #CollegeFootball #RollTide SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - youtube.com/@nextroundlive @TNRClips - youtube.com/@TNRClips FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Brooks Carter: /BrooksACarter Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the 1700s, one Florida Man became the most "successful businessman in America" after selling cats to Key West and faking his own death. On this episode, Josh Mills and Wayne McCarty cover your favorite Florida Man headlines, play a game of "Family Feud," and learn about Timothy Dexter, the man whose insane ideas led to him becoming one of the wealthiest and most influential people in early American history. Though barely educated or literate, Dexter considered himself "the greatest philosopher in the known world" and authored a book, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, which espouses his views on various topics and became notorious for its unusual misspellings and grammatical errors. Headlines: Florida Man throws alligator at girlfriend during an argument, Florida Man narrowly avoids "the Anti-Christ" while running from the law. On mic: Josh Mills, Wayne McCarty, Jess Nieman, Emily Grabill, Luke West Each week, the Florida Men on Florida Man podcast blends comedy with the fascinating legends, lore, and history of the wildest state in the Union: Florida. Learn more at www.fmofm.com
Kelsey's Netflix special Happy Hour comes out Aug. 18th!! This week, Chad and Kelsey go to an awesome wedding in Key West and answer some great listener emails! Write into pretendproblemspodcast@gmail.com with your advice questions and stories and we'll answer them on the show! Subscribe to the podcast, and give it a 5-star rating and review to help the show move up the charts. Video for the episodes is on Kelsey's YouTube channel!Watch the episodes and subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9UBPfi4B_j1Ua7xDOcyBnASee Kelsey on tour: https://punchup.live/kelseycook/ticketsSee Chad on tour: https://punchup.live/chaddaniels/ticketsWatch Kelsey's special “Mark Your Territory” on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uYqWsDhWkkA?si=J9hgt5nKtMLxB1sjWatch Chad's special "Mixed Reviews" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1kVr3zkz7E&t=663sFollow Kelsey on social media: @KelseyCookComedyFollow Chad on social media: @thatchaddanielsTheme Song cowritten by Matthew Facca and Alex BentSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In tonight's dead letter, listener Mary is on a ghost tour in Key West when the guide stands her group under an old, unmarked movie marquee and asks them what happened there. Before he says another word, Mary smells smoke. The story he tells the group involves a church fire, and more strange events unfold from there.Relevant Prior EpisodesConjuring Philip Part 1The True Story behind the Conjuring Part 1Resurrection Mary Part 1The Count of St Germain Part 1Links and Further ReadingGreat Fire of Key West (1886) — WikipediaOur History — St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Key WestStrand Theater, 527 Duval Street — Cinema TreasuresSan Carlos Institute — WikipediaChicago Hauntings: The Horrors of the Iroquois Theater Fire That Killed 602 People Downtown in 1903 — CBS ChicagoAmerican Ghost Walks — the ghost tour company the hosts recommendDowsing — BritannicaThe Philip Experiment — WikipediaWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!
With Chris Stanley currently out of the country, Chris Faga is joined by a legendary panel featuring Zac Amico, KP Burke, and Chris Warren for a completely unhinged episode of High Society Radio!In this episode, history nerds KP Burke and Chris Warren join Faga for a deep dive into niche American lore—starting with a comprehensive history of monster trucks, wild stories from dive bar games like Quick Draw and Photo Hunt, and the truth behind Ellis Island name changes.The panel breaks down local New York street icons, Mario Bosco and Lil Mo Mozzarella roasts, and the bizarre trend of a $42 seafood pizza slice in NYC. Plus, Zac Amico shares an unforgettable story about his father-in-law, the crew revisits the famous Smithfield Ham Heist, and they unpack paranormal lore surrounding Key West's haunted "Robert the Doll." Finally, they look at Dan Bilzerian's recent pivot to traditional lifestyle content and reflect on the 2010s media circus surrounding Courtney Stodden.Air Date 7/30/26DON'T FORGET TO WATCH FAGA'S NEW SPECIAL "BURN AFTER SAYING" ON THE HSR YOUTUBE PAGE!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxIHJU2LotUSupport Our Sponsors!Body Brain Coffee: https://bodybraincoffee.com/ - Grab A Bag of Body Brain Coffee with Promo Code HSR20 to get 20% off!3rd Mic Harrington: https://3rdmicharrington.com/High Society Radio is 2 native New Yorkers who started from the bottom and didn't raise up much. That's not the point, if you enjoy a sideways view on technology, current events, or just an in depth analysis of action movies from 2006 this is the show for you.Chris Stanley is the on air producer for Bennington on Sirius XM.Chris Faga is a lifelong street urchin, a former head chef, county comitteman and supposed comedian. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisFromBklynInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisfrombklynEngineer: DomExecutive Producer: JorgeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/themharrington/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMHarringtonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Florida Department of Environmental "Protection" refuses to investigate a Key West utility company that has been injecting waste water underground only to have it surface elsewhere.Everyone knows 1980s PBS TV painter Bob Ross, but most people don't associate him with Florida. Ross was born, raised, lived and died in Central Florida. The Bob Ross Art Workshop & Gallery in New Smyrna Beach is open to the public and carries on his legacy. Our guest this episode, Nicholas Hankins, carries on Ross' legacy through a new version of Ross' "Joy of Painting" TV show.Ross mostly painted woodland and mountain scenes, but he did paint Florida on the show one time.
This episode covers real-life horror far more extreme than usual, including a Russian professor arrested in 2011 for keeping the mummified corpses of 29 women and girls in his apartment, each one fitted with a hidden music box. It also includes the story of a 19th-century whiskey heir who paid six handkerchiefs for a 10-year-old girl so he could watch cannibals kill and eat her, and the theory that Alexander the Great was declared dead nearly a week before he actually died. Content is more graphic than usual, so listener discretion is advised.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/necropolystREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8e5emeCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:00:47.354 = Show Open00:01:58.356 = Alexander the Great00:05:52.710 = The Ravenous Beast of Gévaudan00:09:41.943 = The Rape and Burial of Jessica Lunsford ***00:11:55.911 = The Dyatlov Pass Incident00:15:29.080 = The Torture Dungeon of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng00:19:10.197 = Robert The Doll00:23:08.785 = The Disappearance and Eerie Return of Bobby Dunbar ***00:26:33.271 = Albert Fish – The Brooklyn Vampire00:30:06.498 = The Strange Disappearance of the Sodder Children00:34:28.570 = Anatoly Moskvin, The Russian Who Mummified Dead Girls00:38:41.505 = The Jameson Whiskey Cannibal ***00:42:29.572 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Real-Life Horror Stories More Freaky Than Fiction” by Marco Margaritoff for AllThatsInteresting.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8p9c72(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: March 2022Weird Darkness this episode gathers real-life horror too extreme for scripted television, spanning from ancient Macedonia to the Congo basin and landing, along the way, in a Russian apartment stacked with mummified girls.It opens with Alexander the Great, who collapsed in Babylon in 323 B.C. after a 24-hour drinking binge triggered a sudden fever, a stabbing pain in his back, and creeping paralysis that eventually left him speechless; doctors pronounced him dead at 32. His body reportedly stayed "pure and fresh" for six days afterward, evidence ancient Greeks took as proof of his divinity. In 2019, Dr. Katherine Hall of New Zealand's University of Otago proposed in the Ancient History Bulletin that Alexander actually suffered from Guillain-Barré Syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that paralyzes the body while leaving the mind fully intact; since fourth-century-B.C. doctors checked for breath rather than a pulse, Hall's theory suggests Alexander may have been declared dead nearly a week before he actually died, and was buried alive.From there, the story moves to 18th-century France, where a wolf-like creature killed or mauled close to 300 people across three years in the Gévaudan region, most of them women and children. Fourteen-year-old shepherdess Jeanne Boulet was the first confirmed victim in 1764; a fifteen-year-old girl killed a month later survived long enough to describe her attacker as "a horrible beast". Militia leader Jean-Baptiste Duhamel organized a 30,000-strong hunting party, and King Louis XV eventually dispatched his own bodyguard, François Antoine, who killed a large wolf in September 1765; the attacks resumed within months regardless. A farmer named Jean Chastel is credited with killing the actual beast using silver bullets, reportedly after finding human remains inside its stomach.Next, the episode turns to the 2005 murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford in Homosassa, Florida. Convicted sex offender John Evander Couey broke into her family's home, took her to his trailer, raped her over three days, sealed her inside garbage bags, and buried her alive in his yard while she still clutched a stuffed dolphin her father had won her at a state fair. Prosecutors later determined Jessica may have still been alive in the house during Couey's first police interview. Couey was convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping in March 2007 and died on death row of natural causes in 2009.From Florida, the episode jumps to the Ural Mountains and the Dyatlov Pass incident of January 1959, when hiking leader Igor Dyatlov and eight fellow students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute died during an expedition toward Otorten Mountain. Investigators found their tent slashed open from the inside and shoeless footprints leading nearly a mile into the forest; the first bodies recovered, dressed only in underwear despite temperatures near negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit, were ruled hypothermia deaths. Two of the last four bodies found, Lyudmila Dubinina and Semyon Zolotaryov, were missing their eyeballs, Lyudmila was also missing her tongue, and both had clothing that tested positive for radioactivity. More than sixty years later, no single explanation, from avalanche to secret Soviet weapons testing, has been confirmed.The episode then moves to a cabin in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, where Leonard Lake and Charles Ng tortured and killed as many as 25 people between 1983 and 1985. Lake, a Vietnam veteran discharged for psychological reasons, built a cinderblock bunker behind a one-way mirror where he and Ng held women as sex slaves before killing them, dismembering the bodies, and dissolving the remains in acid; investigators eventually recovered twelve victims' remains along with roughly 40 pounds of charred bone. The pair was caught in June 1985 after Ng tried to shoplift a bench vise; Lake swallowed a cyanide capsule sewn into his jacket lining and died in custody before trial, while Ng was convicted of eleven murders in 1999 and remains on death row at San Quentin.Next comes Robert the Doll, manufactured by Germany's Steiff Company in 1904 and given to a Key West boy named Robert Eugene "Gene" Otto, who reportedly carried the doll everywhere and spoke of it in the first person. After Gene died in 1974, new owner Myrtle Reuter said the doll continued moving through her house with no explanation and eventually donated it to the Fort East Martello Museum, where curator Cori Convertito now oversees a steady stream of visitors who claim their cameras stop working in Robert's presence.From there, the episode circles back to 1912 Louisiana and the disappearance of four-year-old Bobby Dunbar from Swayze Lake. Eight months later, authorities found a boy matching his description traveling with a man named William Cantwell Walters, who insisted the child was Bruce Anderson, son of field hand Julia Anderson; the Dunbar family claimed the boy as their own anyway. It took until 2004, after years of research by Bobby's granddaughter Margaret Dunbar Cutwright, for a DNA test to prove the man raised as Bobby Dunbar shared no blood relation to the Dunbar family, meaning the real Bobby likely died in 1912 and the family had unknowingly raised Julia's son instead.The story turns next to Albert Fish, born in 1870 and later known as the Brooklyn Vampire, who spent decades torturing, killing, and cannibalizing children after enduring severe abuse in a New York orphanage as a boy. In 1928, posing as a farmer named Frank Howard, Fish lured ten-year-old Grace Budd away from her family and killed her; he wasn't identified until November 1934, when a letter he sent to Grace's mother describing the murder in graphic detail was traced back to him. Fish was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison on January 16th, 1936.Following that, the episode covers the unresolved 1945 Sodder children case in Fayetteville, West Virginia, where a Christmas Eve house fire killed, or apparently killed, five of George and Jennie Sodder's nine children. No bones were ever recovered from the wreckage despite a coroner attributing the deaths to the blaze, and the family spent decades chasing tips and alleged sightings after strangers had made ominous threats about the house burning down in the months before the fire. George and Jennie erected a billboard along Route 16 asking for information and died in 1968 and 1989, respectively, without ever learning their children's fate.From there, the story turns to Anatoly Moskvin, a Russian journalist and college professor fluent in thirteen languages who dubbed himself a "necropolyst" and visited 752 cemeteries around his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod. Moskvin was arrested in 2011 after police investigating the desecration of Muslim graves found him painting over photographs of the dead; a search of the apartment he shared with his parents turned up the mummified remains of 29 women and girls, dressed, made up with buttons for eyes, and fitted with music boxes inside their chests. Moskvin told investigators he dug up the bodies because he was lonely and confessed to 44 counts of abusing graves and corpses.The episode clos
In Key West, Florida during the Great Depression, an obsessed German radiology technician, Carl Tanzler, became convinced that a dying young woman named Elena de Hoyos was his supernatural soulmate. After her death, his delusion led him to commit one of the most bizarre and disturbing acts of grave robbery in American history. We explore the strange intersection of obsession, tuberculosis, embalming, mental illness, and necrophilia in yet another dark, weird, and fascinating episode. Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious PrivateFacebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :) For all merch-related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste) Please rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast. Sign up through Patreon, and for $5 a month, you get access to the entire Secret Suck catalog (295 episodes) PLUS the entire catalog of Timesuck, AD FREE. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.