Podcasts about Lake Eerie

Happy New Year Stitchers! In this fun switcheroo episode, Nicole discusses a very easy DIY Crochet Hat found on the crochetdreamz website. Then Angela dives into story time about the Haunted Great Lakes here in the US! Movie review: Lake Eerie (2016). YouTube Channel for Demos Website: https://theominousstitch.podbean.com/ Instagram: @theominousstitch Facebook: The Ominous Stitch Podcast page TikTok: @theominousstitchpodcast   SUPPORT The Ominous Stitch Podcast & become a PATRON...you might get presents from us!   If you have any spooky experiences, we would love to have a listener episode-so please share! Email us: theominousstitch@gmail.com

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/534  Presented by: NR Adventures, Stonefly Nets, Smitty's Fly Box Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors        Welcome to our latest episode featuring Jake Villwock, author of the book Smallmouth Bass Flies. In this episode, we will take you on a journey to Pennsylvania for a typical bass fishing trip with Jake and his team. He will share his techniques and tips on how to catch smallmouth bass, and his gear set up when bass fishing. Jake also gives insight into the flies he uses when bass fishing, so whether you're a beginner or an experienced angler, you won't want to miss this episode! Episode Chapters with Jake Villwock on Smallmouth Bass Flies 1:34 - Jake shares with us his first memory of fly fishing. His first fish on a fly was a blue gill and his second was a striper. Stripers and saltwater have always been one of his favorite things to target. 3:52 - He has been known for smallmouth bass fishing. He wrote a book titled Smallmouth Bass Flies - Top to Bottom. 5:02 - He talks about the similarities between smallmouth bass and trout. 7:24 - Currently, he operates in South Central Pennsylvania, mainly guiding in Juniata and Susquehanna. Their bass season is from late March to the end of October. 9:41 - Along with other guides, he also guides for steelhead fishing in Lake Eerie and up in New York. He also describes how they do bass fishing. 12:30 - He describes a typical bass fishing trip with them in their area. They meet their clients in a quaint diner called Thompsontown Corner Deli to have breakfast. He also describes the lunch they serve on their trips. 17:20 - We talk about drinking in guiding trips. He mentions the brand Athletic which sells non-alcoholic beer. 19:50 - He explains why big bass in the springtime is very aggressive and shares some tips on how to catch them during this time. He says that keeping yourself low and slow is how you will catch them. 24:15 - We talk about crayfish which is a large portion of the smallmouth's diet in the summertime. He describes his setup with a crayfish fly pattern. 28:28 - He describes how he uses the tip of the fly line to his advantage. He always casts slightly upstream to have a little bit of an angle. Paying attention to the tip of the line to manage the speed of your retrieve is very important. 33:40 - We dig into the fly patterns he uses. The size of the claws of the crayfish is very important to consider. He further describes how he ties his crayfish flies and the materials he uses. 38:49 - One of his favorite flies for the springtime it's still cold is Russ Maddin's circus peanut. We had Russ on the podcast in episode 253. 39:55 - He tells us his signature flies. You can also see how he ties his flies through his YouTube at Relentless TV. He recently signed a contract with Montana Fly Company (MFC). We talked about MFC in episode 531 with Jake Chutz. 41:30 - He walks us through how he targets a fish in top water and subsurface. 47:06 - He also gives tips on finding a fish depending on the season when you're new in the area. June and October are the months when it's hard to find fish. The best thing to do is to start on the banks and float the river when it's low and clear. 51:40 - He gives more tips on his setup, particularly lines. He gives a shoutout to Scientific Angler for their amazing triple-density lines. He also mentions their Stillwater Hover. 55:03 - He mentions the tungsten beads which are good for when you can't see the fish. 56:30 - He usually sees bigger fish during the summertime when the water is clear. He also explains his theory of how the color of the fish tells you if it's ready to eat. 59:57 - When he's bait fishing, he uses a leader that is six to eight feet. For cray fishing and dry fly fishing, he uses a 10 to 12-ft leader. 1:00:42 - He gives valuable tips on casting. When it comes to cray fishing, the more perfect you make the cast, the worse it's going to be. 1:03:10 - He talks about catching steelhead vs big bass in the Lake Eerie. 1:06:00 - We do the Fly Shop Shout-out segment. He mentions the TCO Fly Shop which has multiple shops in Pennsylvania. For those who want to get a trip with Jake's team, they can book with TCO. 1:07:45 - His boat is a Clacka HeadHunter Skiff II. He also uses an NRS Raft in the spring. 1:08:13 - He gives one last tip for bass fishing. 1:09:29 - He leaves us with a funny story about that time when he fell off the boat while guiding. Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/534 

The end is nigh! The Mikes jump right back into part 2 of the Transformers Animated Season 1 two-part finale "Megatron Rising."The stage is set, all the pawns are in place, and an explosion at Sumdac tower reveals the towering form of Cybertron's favorite theater-kid-turned-tyrant. 50 stellar cycles at the bottom of Lake Eerie has all led to this.After an explosive review of the most action-packed episode yet, stick around for the last dip into the mail bag, final G1 scores, and the Fate of the [2] Furious!Want to be guest on the show? Our email address is 2Mikes2Furious@Gmail.comFollow 2 Mikes 2 Furious on social mediaTwitter, Facebook, InstagramCheck out Mike Seibert's other podcast, Mike Seibert Radio, everywhere you listen to 2 Mikes 2 FuriousBecome a Mike Seibertronian and join the MSRP/2M2F Friends and Fans Facebook GroupFollow Mike Seibert on social mediaTwitter, Facebook, Instagram, BlueskyYou can buy books written by Mikel Andrews on Amazon, including the Coming of Mage saga: Coming of Mage and its sequel, A War for the Mages, as well as his latest , Gone for a Spell Follow Mikel Andrews on Twitter

With the preseason finally in sight, Mike shares his own NorCal update, and Dave is given access to an obscure Kings-related relic. JDV episode art NFTs: https://objkt.com/collection/KT1Ax4tbMp3CQshZi4TuvFRHLHxa1Sot53MJ Visit the homepage: https://joiedevivek.neocities.org/ Email the show at: joiedevivek@gmail.com Original "Fanfare for the 916" theme music by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira & Dovydas Stalmokas. Remix by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira.

Content WarningThis episode deals with the rape and death of a young child.Ten-year-old Holly had been playing with a neighborhood playmate a bit younger than her. When it came time for her friend to go home, Holly didn't want the little girl to walk back alone. So her mother, Maria, gave her permission to escort her friend home since the walk wasn't very far, only about six minutes. In fact, it was the same route that Holly took every day to get to school.By 8:30, darkness had fallen, and Holly had not arrived home. At first, Maria thought that her daughter must have stayed at her friend's house to play for a little while, but a quick phone call confirmed that she hadn't. Family and friends began canvassing the neighborhood. A frantic Maria called the police and reported her daughter missing.The next morning, a man was walking their dog along the beach when he saw a black nylon duffel bag in the water. Inside that bag, he would find the torso of a young girl wrapped in plastic.Join Jen and Cam as they discuss the heartbreaking case 'Gone In A Flash: Holly Jones.'Michael Briere is up for parole in 2028. There is already a petition to make sure he stays behind bars. Here is the link if you would like to add your name.https://www.change.org/p/holly-jones Written and researched by Lauretta AllenListener Discretion by Edward October from OctoberpodVHSExecutive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Paw PrintSources:https://www.missingkids.org/education/kidsmartzhttps://www.crime-safety-security.com/child-safety-kidnap.htmlhttps://www.primetimecrime.com/Recent/Murder/murder_Holly_Jones.htmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEDVJZ9xmY&ab_channel=AlexanderGoddardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2H8x0oEAg&ab_channel=CP24https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Holly_Jones#:~:text=Hours%20after%20her%20disappearance%2C%20she,Island%20on%20May%2013%2C%202003.https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-the-grim-20-year-anniversary-since-holly-jones-was-abducted-and-killedhttps://toronto.ctvnews.ca/detective-who-solved-holly-jones-murder-reveals-what-sharp-eyed-officers-noticed-in-killer-s-apartment-1.5599109https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/briere-michael.htmhttps://canadiancrowe.tripod.com/holly.htmlhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/239273387/holly-maria-joneshttps://www.torontoisland.com/wards.phphttps://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/43.6375/-79.3622https://www.amazon.com/High-School-Horror/dp/B09236MVPS/ref=sr_1_4?crid=L5ZK6H6VCJM9&keywords=Lake+Eerie&qid=1692027167&sprefix=lake+eerie%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-4 (Investigation Discovery series on Amazon Prime video)https://www.newspapers.com/image/514239486/?terms=Holly%20Jones&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/514241254/?terms=Holly%20Jones&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/466891007/?terms=Holly%20Jones&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/466888511/?terms=Holly%20Jones&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/466888511/?terms=Holly%20Jones&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/514357150/?terms=Holly%20Jones&match=1 (map and timeline)https://www.newspapers.com/image/514357150/?terms=Holly%20Jones&match=1https://globalnews.ca/news/152542/looking-at-the-amber-alert-in-canada/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/holly-jones-mother-speaks-out/article772515/https://www.newspapers.com/image/476545653/?terms=Holly%20Jones%20Toronto&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/514309990/?terms=michael%20Briere&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/514310027/https://www.newspapers.com/image/514316116/?terms=michael%20Briere&match=1https://thecinemaholic.com/where-is-michael-briere-now/https://www.newspapers.com/image/514312764/?terms=michael%20Briere&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/515302178/?terms=michael%20Briere%20bolduc&match=1https://theconversation.com/psychology-of-a-paedophile-why-are-some-people-attracted-to-children-59991https://www.newspapers.com/image/514310362/?terms=Michael%20Briere&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/514412741/?terms=Michael%20Briere&match=1This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3647242/advertisement

This week on the podcast the Terrible Trio will discuss the 2008 Australian film, "Lake Mungo." The episode will dissect the documentary film style technique and the use of editing to create a haunting atmosphere. Tune in to find out more! If you enjoy the show, please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can also rate us five stars on Apple podcasts and Spotify.Social Media:⭐ Facebook⭐ Twitter⭐ Instagram⭐ Letterboxd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/473  Presented by: Stonefly Nets Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors    Dan Pribanic is here today to take us to Chagrin River Outfitters, the Steelhead Alley area, and some fishing tips and tricks. We discover which strains of steelhead they are hitting up there in that part of Lake Eerie. We also get his take on single-hand versus two-handed rods and spey. We also dig into which other species he's focusing on this year in his area. Dan and his team are the big reason why our last trip to Ohio was so successful, so let's find out exactly how they work the magic. Chagrin River Outfitters Show Notes with Dan Pribanic 2:25 - Dan tells how he got into fly fishing. He came from a big family with 10 siblings. His older brothers were involved in outdoor activities such as fishing and hunting, so they were the ones who influenced him to fish. His first fly-fishing experience was in central Pennsylvania. 3:54 - He grew up in Pittsburgh. There are a lot of great trout fishing and warm-water opportunities there. 5:01 - He shares the story of how he started Chagrin River Outfitters. Around 1999, he thought of going to law school. He worked in a law firm for a year with his brothers, who are attorneys, and that was when he realized that that was not the path he wanted to go down. He and his wife eventually opened the shop in 2006. 7:34 - Their shop is right on the Chagrin River, which is a great fishery. They pretty much cover the northeast Ohio area at a little bit of Pennsylvania at times. 8:20 - He takes us into their fishing program if somebody visits their shop around the summer. Steelhead is their number one species. They also have pretty good smallmouth and pike fishing in their local rivers. 12:03 - I ask his thoughts on the steelhead versus not steelhead thing that some people talk about. 14:29 - He talks about how they fish throughout the seasons, particularly the fly patterns and lines. A lot of fishing in their area involves floating Skagit heads and changing up the sink tips they're running. He also describes his go-to rod for his home waters. 19:22 - We dig into smallmouth bass, which is native to their area. These species start coming in by the end of April. 22:48 - He also mentions some other species that they target throughout the year, such as carp, quillback, and gar. 26:44 - There are not a lot of other fly shops in their area, but he mentions the Backpackers shop, which is about an hour and 10 minutes drive from their shop. 27:18 - We dig into Steelhead Alley. They're right in the middle of it. That area has been called the Steelhead Alley for a long time. 29:16 - He walks us through what their shop looks like throughout the year. He mentions some staff members who usually man the shop and provide guiding services. 31:24 - They focus on single-hand and two-handed rod fishing for steelhead. They also host six trips to the Bahamas and Belize yearly for bonefish and permit fishing. They tie steelhead flies and also sell some shop merchandise. 33:27 - He tells the story of the first time he met Jeff Liskay. He has known him since he opened his shop. 34:30 - They also offer single-hand casting classes in their shop. 35:21 - We dig into single-hand versus two-handed casting for steelhead. 36:15 - He mentions some fly patterns that work well for hitting steelhead. He also gives some fishing tips and tricks for catching steelhead, such as speeding up his fly. 42:31 - Most anglers start to fish for steelhead in September when it starts to rain a little bit and the temperature cools down. They also get a lot of guys in their shop who prepare for salmon fishing in Michigan and New York at that time of year. 45:35 - If you want to avoid the crowd, he recommends fishing at Steelhead Alley in December. He also likes fishing from late February to March. For those who are interested in our Steelhead School with Jeff Liskay, visit wetflyswing.com/SteelheadSchool. 47:58 - We throw him a question from one of our Instagram followers about tying droppers. For steelhead fishing, he ties up a bunch of droppers and rigs in advance and puts them in a little bag, which he says is a time saver. 51:24 - He never listens to a podcast, but he loves listening to music and reading books. He's a huge fan of Gordon Lightfoot. 52:03 - He tells us a bit about his busy daily schedule. 53:06 - He talks about Cleveland, Ohio. It has a great food scene and nice fishing. Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/473 

I used to have a verbal practice-"Not good or bad humanhood, Christhood."That's like me saying, " Not Niagara Falls, Lake Eerie."Or, "Not the waves, Oceanhood."Or, "Not the light, not the rays, the Son", that's looking out of your eyes right now. That will experience your day with you--let's just start there. Not even AS you yet. Just let Him be WITH you. And that means just feel Love, while you scroll,while you drive,while you eat,while you work,while you're scared. That's the tipping point. When Grace allows you to feel This, to hear Me,the Voiceless Voice, even when you're scared,even when you're angry, even when you think you're you. You're going to continue to appear as you, but our practice is knowingCONSTANTLYno matter the appearance, that you are God appearing as you. And not being tempted out of that knowledge,out of that practice, out of this Feeling,out of His Name.We pray in His Name,by being His Name. By being Him,That which is breathing you right now,pouring out through you right now,That's Love. Everything you think you want,everything you need,is coming from That. Through that Breath. Affirm: Everything is alright. Because I Am all right. And I Am is all there is. I Love you, Nik nikki@curlynikki.com"You are not that, which may or may not wake up."-@thehamsterwheelisnotmotorized via IG"Nothing can come to you; nothing can be added to you. You are already that place in consciousness through which Infinity is pouring. That which we term your human-hood must be so as to be a clear transparency through which your infinite individual Self may appear, express or reveal itself.When we look at Niagara Falls, we might assume that it would run dry with so much water continually pouring over as the Falls, but looking behind the immediate scene, we see Lake Erie, and realize that actually there is no Niagara Falls, that this is but a name given to Lake Erie at a point where the water pours over a precipice and becomes the Falls. The infinity of Niagara Falls is assured by virtue of the fact that actually the source of Niagara, that which constitutes Niagara, is really Lake Erie."-Joel Goldsmith, The Infinite Way (Metaphysical Healing chapter) "Where nothing is, there is everything.All efforts are for the sake of this realization only."-Sri Anandamayi Ma"When I get fearful, I say a tiny prayer. It's called a breath prayer.The prayer is five words: God, reduce me to love."-@hannahbrencher via IG"Learn to sit still and be mentally still, and the silence thus generated with be more vocal than words spoken and written; and you will have an instantaneous solution not only to your own personal problems but to the problems of others as well." -Sant Kirpal Singh"To be pure and still means to be open to purity and stillness - - as a result you can intuit the truth." -The Jesus Sutras"We go on polishing and beautifying the body and the world outside while the mind remains a mess. Do all this polishing and beautifying inside. Stop becoming tense about the external situations. Once the inside of a person is clean, then the outside automatically becomes all right."-Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi)Support the show

Liz and Jon hold their breath and dip their toes into the fetid water of Lake Eerie. The pollution was the monster all along!

Afarts, me sharties! Liz and Jon board a sloop and hunt one large (banana for scale) monster on the banks of Lake Eerie.

Show Notes Episode 396: BALLOONS! Menace from Above! This week, Host Dave Bledsoe ducks his bill collectors by huffing helium and pretends to be a child when he answers the phone. (He could let it go to voicemail). On the show this week we examine the existential threat of the most dangerous flying object ever devised: The Balloon! (Someone tell the Montgolfier Brothers they finally made it!) Along the way we discover that Dave had no friends as a child. (Shocker, we know) Then we provide you with three tales of perfidy and panic all created by the diabolical auspices of the BALLOON! Beware listeners, you cannot know how heinous these latex harbingers of doom truly can be!  From the deserts of New Mexico, to the sunny skies of Southern California all the way to the shores of Lake Eerie, the Balloon Threat has terrorized and intimidated innocent Americans guilty of nothing more than living their lives! Why do these inflated horrors hate us with such unmitigated passions, we may know never. All we know is that Balloons are an existential threat! (Trust us, we did the research) Our Sponsor this week is Helium, so much more than a way to make your voice sound silly. We open the show with a dangerous toy from the 1980's and close with Kaye and Rob attempting to lure you into their death machine!  Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/RvnjKIbLRKw We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/in-1947-high-altitude-balloon-crash-landed-roswell-aliens-never-left-180963917/ Lawn Chair Larry 1982 Honorable Mention Confirmed True by Darwin https://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html Late Night with David Letterman July 12, 1982 https://youtu.be/FtdLo1Mug8A Wikipedia: Lawnchair Larry flight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight Cleveland marks 35 years since 1.5 million balloons fell on city in disastrous balloonfest https://www.wivb.com/news/cleveland-marks-35-years-since-1-5-million-balloons-fell-on-city-in-disastrous-balloonfest/ Wikipedia: Balloonfest ‘86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_%2786 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Packers are dead and Cody doesn't quite know what to do with himself. Then we dive into What In The World Is Going On!? What would you do if you won the Powerball? Deep Openers are happening all across the Midwest right now. A double digit Smallmouth Bass was caught on Lake Eerie, and much much more. Then for the final part of the Episode, strap in, it's Story Time with Ryan Pinkalla as we dive DEEP into his week long trip in the Rocky Mountains, out in Colorado, chasing Elk. Recorded on Monday, November 7th. Episode Summary: Introduction & the Green Bay Packers are Dead | 0:00 - 9:10 What In The World Is Going On!? | 9:10 - 53:30 Story Time - Elk Hunting with Ryan Pinkalla in Colorado | 53:30 - 1:51:00 Welcome to Past The Barb with Adam Bartusek, Ryan Pinkalla, Cody Hahner, and Will Stolski. We talk about everything outdoors the way YOU and your friends do, as well as whatever is going on in the world today. ~ Past The Barb Social Media ~ Email Us Questions and Feedback: pastthebarbpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @pastthebarbpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087978004491 ~ Follow Us On Social Media ~ Adam Bartusek Instagram: @adambartusek Adam Bartusek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adambartbartusekRyan Pinkalla Instagram: @ryan_pinkalla Ryan Pinkalla YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiRaRNvs27BVe4UHB_k_rswWill Stolski Instagram: @will_stolski Cody Hahner Instagram: @codyhahnerfishing

Hank's singing christmas tunes, talking Grizzly bear Tattoos and ranting about cheaters cheating in a Walleye tournament in lake Eerie. This one's a doozy. Enjoy! 

Jeremiah 1.4-10, Psalm 71.1-6, Hebrews 12.18-29, Luke 13.10-17; Will there be dinosaurs in the New Creation? What can Moana teach us about vocation? What makes worship acceptable? These questions and more on this episode of Strangely Warmed with guest Allison LeBrun. Allison serves Vermilion Grace UMC on the shores of Lake Eerie in Ohio.Hosted by Taylor Mertins.-Don't forget to head over to https://www.crackersandgrapejuice.comClick on “Support the Show.”Become a patronSubscribe to CGJ+For peanuts, you can help us out….we appreciate it more than you can imagine.Follow us on the three-majors of social media:https://www.facebook.com/crackersnjuicehttps://www.instagram.com/crackersandgrapejuicehttp://www.twitter.com/crackersnjuice

Isaiah 5.1-7, Psalm 80.1-2, 8-19, Hebrews 11.29-12.2, Luke 12.49-56; How important are twitter handles? Should weddings happen in vineyards? What does real restoration look like according to the strange new world of the Bible? These questions and more on this episode of Strangely Warmed with guest Allison LeBrun. Allison serves Vermilion Grace UMC on the shores of Lake Eerie in Ohio.Hosted by Taylor Mertins.-Don't forget to head over to https://www.crackersandgrapejuice.comClick on “Support the Show.”Become a patronSubscribe to CGJ+For peanuts, you can help us out….we appreciate it more than you can imagine.Follow us on the three-majors of social media:https://www.facebook.com/crackersnjuicehttps://www.instagram.com/crackersandgrapejuicehttp://www.twitter.com/crackersnjuice

The Alan Cox Show

The Alan Cox Show

Dr Sam Shepphard had it all – a brilliant career, a beautiful wife, a young family, and a gorgeous house overlooking Lake Eerie. Then, on Independence Day 1954, his dream life came tumbling down. A bushy-haired burglar broke into the Sheppard residence and beat pregnant Marilyn Sheppard to death while she slept. At least, that was Dr Sheppard's story, and he stuck to it. But the police and the courts were dubious – and the events of that summer night in Bay View, Ohio, would echo down the decades. The Psycho Killer team has been taking a fresh look at the evidence.Acknowledgement: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', ITV/Granada Television, 1984-94

To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Prices increase and a partial paywall activates on March 14. Organizations can email skiing@substack.com or reply to this email to add multiple users on one account.The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Spot and Mountain Gazette - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch.WhoAndrew Halmi, General Manager of Mount Pleasant of Edinboro, PennsylvaniaRecorded onMarch 1, 2022Why I interviewed himCold and hilly, with the Appalachian spine slashing southwest-to-northeast across the map, Pennsylvania is a monster ski state, with 28 lift-served mountains. Most of these are bunched across the southern tier, in Vailville from Seven Springs to Roundtop, or along the eastern border with New Jersey, from Spring Mountain up to Elk.And then there’s Mount Pleasant, drifting alone in the state’s far northwest corner, hundreds of miles and hours of driving from the next-closest in-state ski areas. It’s like one of those nature documentaries with a drone floating over the lone baby buffalo standing apart from the herd, bunched and snorting about the quality of this year’s grass crop. You look for the circling wolves or lions and wait for the poor thing to be transformed into lunch. It’s isn’t entirely clear how any other outcome is possible.But Mount Pleasant is the Spud Webb of Pennsylvania skiing, the unassuming 5’6” kid who wins the NBA Slam Dunk Contest (that actually happened). The ski area is, first of all, well-positioned, seated less than 17 miles off the shores of the Lake Eerie snow factory. The ski area often leads the state in snowfall, with up to 200 inches in a bomber year. Again, this is in Pennsylvania. Every ski area in the Poconos combined doesn’t get 200 inches some years.Second, while it’s separated from its in-state ski-area homeboys by at least three hours of highway, Mount Pleasant is quite well-positioned from a business point of view. Eerie, population 97,000-ish, is just 20 miles away. The county has around 270,000 residents altogether. Other than Peek’n Peak, stationed 32 miles away across the New York state line, Mount Pleasant has those skiers all to itself.But neither of those things is the essential ingredient to Mount Pleasant’s improbable survival amid the graveyard of lost ski areas haunting Pennsylvania’s mountains. Cliché alert: the secret is the people. Launched as a notion in the 70s and crushed by the snow droughts and changing economy of the 80s, Mount Pleasant hung on through the 90s, barely solvent as a ski club running on the clunky machinery of faded decades. When the current owners bought the joint in the mid-2000s, it was a time machine at best and a hospice patient at worst, waiting to be guided toward the light.Since then, the place has punched its way out of the grave, and it’s now a thriving little ski area, with a modern triple chair and improving snowmaking. The owners, Doug and Laura Sinsabaugh, are local school teachers who have poured every dollar of profit back into the ski area. They have invested millions and, according to Halmi, never put a cent in their own pockets. They’ve shown remarkable resilience and ingenuity, installing the chairlift – which came used from Granite Peak, Wisconsin – themselves and slowly, methodically upgrading the snowmaking plant.The place still has a long way to go. Only half the trails have snowmaking. The lodge – a repurposed dairy barn – is perhaps the most remarkable building in Northeast skiing, but it’s roughly the size of an F-350 truckbed. The beginner area is still served by a J-bar that makes the VCR look like a miracle of modern machinery.Improvements for all of these elements are underway, as we discuss in the podcast. Last year’s Covid-driven outdoor boom accelerated Mount Pleasant’s renaissance, re-introducing the little ski area to a jaded local population who had, not unfairly, dismissed it as a relic. When they showed up in 2021 for their first visit in seven or 10 or 15 years, they found the formerly problematic T-bar sitting in a pile in the parking lot and a glimmering chairlift staggering up the incline and a place with a spark and a future. It’s really an incredible story, and I’m as excited to share this one as any I’ve ever recorded.What we talked aboutMount Pleasant’s strong Instagram account; I told Halmi to get Mount Pleasant onto Twitter and then he got it onto Twitter so give the joint a follow; how hard it is for someone who works at a ski area to ski sometimes; Mount Pleasant in its member-owned, ragtag days under the Mountain View name; how close the ski area came to not opening for the 2020-21 ski season and how that season re-ignited Mount Pleasant’s business; when and why the ski area failed and what resurrected it; puttering through 28-day operating seasons; the couple who saved the ski area and hauled it into modernity; “this was as close as you could get to starting a ski area from scratch”; why the owners have returned 100 percent of the ski area’s profit back into rebuilding it; Pennsylvania as a ski state; why Mount Pleasant survived as so many small ski areas across the state went extinct; the Lone Ranger of Pennsylvania skiing; the enormous challenge of moving a used triple chair from Granite Peak, Wisconsin, to Mount Pleasant; how a team of people from a ski area that had never had a chairlift demolished their old T-bar and installed a new lift over the course of one offseason; getting the lift towers installed with a crew of “three or four,” and without a helicopter; oops the chairs arrived with no safety bars; the vagaries of safety-bar cultures across the United States; how the chairlift changed the character and energy of the ski area; pouring one out for the T-bar; how many people you can get on a single T-bar; where the old T-bar is today and the inventive way Mount Pleasant may repurpose it; what kind of chairlift Mount Pleasant would like next and where that would go; the other upgrades that have to happen before a new chair is a possibility; how much it costs to install snowmaking on a single trail; how the ski area’s beginner area could evolve; why Mount Pleasant has a carpet lift sitting in its parking lot; yes there is such a thing as 200 inches of snow in a single Pennsylvania ski season; the mountain’s long-term snowmaking plans; Mount Pleasant’s threaded-through-the-forest trail network and border-to-border ski philosophy; why the ski area has minimal terrain park features and whether that could change; what happened to the old Minute Man trail and whether it could ever come back into the trail network; how Mount Pleasant managed to stay open seven nights per week in a challenging labor market; what would happen to the ski area were it to change its operating schedule after its season-pass sale; what happened when Vail moved into nearby Ohio; Mount Pleasant’s unique baselodge; whether we could see Mount Pleasant on the Indy Pass or any other pass coalitions; and season passes.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewSmall ski areas, I think, are having a moment. I don’t have any data to prove that, but everywhere I look, megapass burnout it palpable. I love the rambling adventure of big ski areas. The sport could not be mainstream without them. But that doesn’t mean that a big ski area is the best ski area for every ski day. Sometimes a slowpoke day through the slowpoke woods is all you need. You don’t have to fight for your life to find a parking spot or line up for the chairlift or buy a Rice Krispy Treat. You just ski. It’s a different enough kind of skiing that it feels like a different sport altogether.There’s a bit of a positive feedback loop going on here. Skiers – especially skiers with kids – seek out an experience that isn’t defined by Times-Square-on-New-Year’s-Eve crowds. They find little back-of-the-woods bumps like Mount Pleasant or Maple Ski Ridge, New York or Whaleback, New Hampshire. They like it. They tell their friends. The incremental revenue generated from this word-of-mouth uptick in visits goes straight back into the mountain. A place like Mount Pleasant trades a Roman-era T-bar for a modern chairlift. That baseline experience in place, its future becomes more certain, and all of skiing benefits from a healthier beginner mountain.Mount Pleasant is pretty much exactly all of this. It’s just big enough to not bore a seasoned skier while remaining approachable enough for someone who’s never clicked in. It’s not an easy balance to achieve. Halmi, the owners, everyone involved with this place have accomplished something pretty cool: saved a dying ski area without a huge airdrop of cash. It’s a story that others who want to do the same could surely benefit from hearing.Why you should ski Mount Pleasant of EdinboroI said this to Halmi on the podcast, and I’ll repeat it here: I liked Mount Pleasant a lot more than I was expecting to. Not that I thought I would dislike it. I am a huge fan of small ski areas. But many of them, admirable as their mission is, are not super compelling from a terrain point of view, with a clear-cut hillside stripped of the deadly obstacles (read: trees), that their first-timer clientele may have a habit of smashing into.What I found was a neat little trail system woven through the woods. It’s a layout that encourages exploration and find-your-own lines inventiveness. I’ll admit I hit it after a storm cycle, when the snow stood deep in the trees and the old T-bar line was skiable. That did favorably color my impression of the place – snow makes everything better. But the overall trail-management approach resonated with me in a way that’s rare for sub-400-vertical-foot ski areas. It felt like a ski area run by skiers, which is not as universal as you may suppose.It also just feels cool to be there. The dairy barn/lodge alone would be an attraction even if you had no interest in anything above it. The fact that the ski area not only still has, but still uses a 1976 Tucker Sno-Cat is one of the raddest things in America (the mountain also has modern groomers). The place bristles with life and energy, a real kids-and-families joint materializing out of the Pennsylvania backroads.The place has some quirks. The steepest part of the main slope is near the bottom – a nightmare for a beginner’s-oriented hill. If you follow the abandoned T-bar all the way down, you find yourself on the far side of the tubing hill, and it’s an adventure in poling, a ride up the J-bar, and a duck-walk back up to the chairlift to find your way home. But it’s all part of the adventure, and all part of the character of this fabulous little ski area. It feels well-loved and well-cared-for, and that is clear the minute you arrive.More Mount Pleasant of EdinboroLift Blog’s inventory of Mount Pleasant’s lift fleetHistoric Mount Pleasant trailmaps on skimap.orgMount Pleasant season passesA trailmap and brochure from Mount Pleasant’s inaugural season, 1970-71:Here’s a photo of the lodge prior to its conversion from a dairy barn:The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Prices increase and a partial paywall goes up on March 14. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Today we have Lyle Gayder (@hooked_on_niagara) a fishing guide on the Canadian side of the Niagara and a fishing podcast host.  We cover: Smallmouth bass How to catch smallmouth bass in Lake Eerie Check out more from Cast & Spear: Subscribe to the Cast & Spear Podcast Check out our Weekly Fishing Newsletter Watch our YouTube videos Follow our Instagram Watch our TikTok videos Like our Facebook Page

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community! This week, we cover: a woman in BC meets someone new in the worst way possible, big cappuccino energy, the grim reaper appears on a man's lawn near Lake Eerie, a crime-committing Todd impersonator is on the loose, and Yakei the queen monkey takes on her biggest foe yet--love. See you next Friday for more Spooky Gay Bullsh!t! Join the Secret Society That Doesn't Suck for exclusive weekly mini episodes, livestreams, and a whole lot more! patreon.com/thatsspooky Get into our new apparel store and the rest of our merch! thatsspooky.com/store Check out our website for show notes, photos, and more at thatsspooky.com Follow us on Instagram for photos from today's episode and all the memes @thatsspookypod We're on Twitter! Follow us at @thatsspookypod Don't forget to send your spooky gay B.S. to thatsspookypod@gmail.com

Turkey Point Beach Provincial Park comes with decent campsites, well-maintained park facilities, children's playgrounds, and clean sandy beaches. Close to the vineyards and cute small town, Turkey Point Beach is one great Ontario park to explore along with Lake Eerie.

*Re broadcast from 2013 Cloverleaf Radio's hosts The Host with the Most Jimmy Falcon and Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling's Gremlina welcome Actress Marilyn Ghigliotti to the show! Marilyn Ghigliotti (born August 10, 1961) is an American actress, best known for playing Veronica Loughran in Clerks. Clerks director Kevin Smith cast her for her ability to cry while doing a monologue for the audition. She later auditioned for Smith's Mallrats and was offered the role of Kim in Chasing Amy, but was not comfortable with kissing another girl on film.[1]She moved to Sayreville, New Jersey where she attended middle school and graduated from Sayreville War Memorial High School in 1979. After high school, she earned her beautician license to do make-up and hair professionally. She worked at hair salons and later entered acting. Both of her parents are from Puerto Rico.She performed in community theater in the New Jersey area. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1998, aside from her acting work, Ghigliotti works as a make-up artist in the TV/film industry as well as side work as a wedding stylist. Films include works, Clerks III, Jay & Silent Bob Reboot, Starship Rising, Lake Eerie, and SO much more! Check it out! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jianetwork/support

Welcome back to Time of My Lifetime. On this episode we watch and discuss the 1996 Lifetime, "Justice for Annie," starring Danica McKellar (not Phoebe Cates) and Peggy Lipton. We touch on all the important topics like the United States naval presence on Lake Eerie, terrible kitchen skills, and the GOAT Lifetime movie detective, Detective McAdams who is from Brooklyn and definitely IS NOT drunk. At least not this early in the morning. We don't want to bum you out but the real story this was based on is pretty weird and a major bummer but hey, we're not here to talk about that (at least not too much). Support the show by visiting our Facebook page (yes, that's the extent of our social media) and leaving a comment or review.

Welcome back to Time of My Lifetime. On this episode we watch and discuss the 1996 Lifetime, "Justice for Annie," starring Danica McKellar (not Phoebe Cates) and Peggy Lipton. We touch on all the important topics like the United States naval presence on Lake Eerie, terrible kitchen skills, and the GOAT Lifetime movie detective, Detective McAdams who is from Brooklyn and definitely IS NOT drunk. At least not this early in the morning. We don't want to bum you out but the real story this was based on is pretty weird and a major bummer but hey, we're not here to talk about that (at least not too much). Support the show by visiting our Facebook page (yes, that's the extent of our social media) and leaving a comment or review.

Quizmasters Lee and Marc welcome Kyle Anne (http://kyleanne.net) for a general knowledge quiz on Video Games, Movies, Fast Food, Animals, Slogans, Psychology, Toys, World Cup, Geology and more! Round One VIDEO GAMES - What popular and influential golden age video game was used in a 2018 campaign by Highways England to raise awareness on the dangers of tailgating? 90's MOVIES - What sin does John Doe address first in the movie Seven? FAST FOOD - Which fast food chain became the first drive-thru restaurant service in the state of California when it opened in 1948? ANIMALS - Snails, slugs and whelks belong to which taxonomic class in the order Mollusca whose name translates from Greek into to "stomach foot"? SLOGANS - "When there's no tomorrow" is the slogan for what company? AWARDS RECORDS - With 11 wins, who broke cinematographer Donald A. Morgan's record as the most awarded black artist in Emmy Awards history at the 2021 Emmy Awards? Round Two PHOBIAS - Nelophobia is the fear of the fragility of what? PSYCHOLOGY - Factitious disorder, wherein a person feigns illness for no practical reason, is often called by what common name? KINKS - Klismaphilia is the term to describe a type of BDSM fetish play where one is aroused when what procedure is administered to them? AFRICA - Mount Kilimanjaro is located in what African country? 90's TOYS - What pocket typewriter by Tiger Electronics was marketed towards girls in the 1990's and also featured audio recording and playback? 70's MOVIES - Jon Wojtowicz was a pansexual man who attempted to rob a bank to pay for his wife Liz's sexual affirmation surgery in 1972 and was the inspiration for which 1975 film starring Al Pacino? Rate My Question WORLD CUP - The classic black and white Telstar soccer ball was used in the 1970 World Cup to be more easily seen on black and white television. It was made up of 32 interlocking panels of which 2 geometric shapes? Also, which shape is white and which shape is black? Final Questions PUBLICITY STUNTS - Due to a poorly thought out publicity stunt, what was released into the atmosphere in Cleveland in September of 1986, affecting traffic, the local airport and a local Coast Guard search for two fisherman lost in Lake Eerie (among other things)? MEDICAL DEVICES - What is the name for a slender medical device that is used to look inside a body cavity or organ using an attached light? GEOLOGY - What mineral is listed as a 1 on the Mohs hardness scale, the softest mineral in the world? Upcoming LIVE Know Nonsense Trivia Challenges December 8th, 2021 - Know Nonsense Challenge - Point Ybel Brewing Co. - 7:30 pm EDT December 9th, 2021 - Know Nonsense Trivia Challenge - Ollies Pub Records and Beer - 7:30 pm EDT You can find out more information about that and all of our live events online at KnowNonsenseTrivia.com All of the Know Nonsense events are free to play and you can win prizes after every round. Thank you Thanks to our supporters on Patreon. Thank you, Quizdaddies – Brandon, Issa, Adam V., Tommy (The Electric Mud) and Tim (Pat's Garden Service) Thank you, Team Captains – Captain Nick, Grant, Mo, Jenny, Rick G., Skyler, Dylan, Shaun, Lydia, Gil, David, Aaron, Kristen & Fletcher Thank you, Proverbial Lightkeepers – Justin, Robb, Rachael, Rikki, Jon Lewis, Moo, Tim, Nabeel, Patrick, Jon, Adam B., Ryan, Mollie, Lisa, Alex, Spencer, Kaitlynn, Manu, Matthew, Luc, Hank, Justin, Cooper, Elyse, Sarah, Karly, Kristopher, Josh, Lucas Thank you, Rumplesnailtskins – Edsicalz, Sarah, FoxenV, Laurel, A-A-Ron, Loren, Hbomb, Alex, Doug, Kevin and Sara, Tiffany, Allison, Paige, We Do Stuff, Kenya, Jeff, Eric, Steven, Efren, Mike J., Mike C., Mike. K If you'd like to support the podcast and gain access to bonus content, please visit http://theknowno.com and click "Support." Special Guest: Kyle Anne.

Hey guys! On this episode of the Airtime Misfits Podcast we're discussing Wicked Twister located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH. Wicked Twister has long been rumored to be on the chopping block. Cedar Point finally made the news official by announcing Wicked Twister would be removed from the park to make way for future park improvements. The coaster currently takes up a decent chunk of beautiful beach front real estate. This land, combined with the land formerly occupied by the Oceana Stadium, Cedar Point has quite a large area to work with for future rides and attractions. Will it be a new record breaking coaster? Maybe Cedar Point will finally build that boardwalk/pier enthusiasts have been dreaming about for years. Whatever the park decides to do, it will be exciting to see how this area of the park transforms.Get your last rides in now for Wicked Twister. Final day to ride is September 6, 2021! What are your thoughts about Wicked Twister being removed from the park? Will you miss it or are you more excited about the future potential for this area of the park? What would you like to see Cedar Point do with this beach front area?Thanks for listening!

Jeb and Blake discovered that S03E08 - The Great Lakes Triangle - has disappeared into a temporal anomaly. But we dare not leave you adrift in Lake Eerie, so instead we usher you through a mysterious temple to a VHS tape on a stone pedestal... as we go in research of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Discussed in this episode: The story conception tapes of Raiders (Lucas, Spielberg, Kasden)  Same thing, but performed by actors  Secret of the Incas (Affiliate Link) Whole film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K02U0CVoutE Map Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZJaIc1SDbQ The big scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzl4_ytmxDs The real Aztec Sun Stone  The "protection of antiquities" act wasn't real yet when the film is set. The Nazis and the occult stuff alluded to the Ahnenerbe.  Discussed on MonsterTalk before.  Turkdean Barrows mentioned in the film were not a real place but during and after the filming, two barrows in similar area were excavated. Retcon doesn't work in real life guys. The Pan American sea plane  LucasFilm & Trademarking the word "Nazi." Also mentioned: OG style gaming in the Raiders mileu: Raiders of the Lost ArtifactOG style D&D game

With a dream to sail the Atlantic one day, Maryanne (Scotland) met Kyle (USA) in 2002 and setting abut turning her dream into reality. They kicked their adventures on a 25 foot monohull on Lake Eerie and 19 years later they have not only crossed together but have also crossed the Pacific 5 times and have spent the last decade as live aboard cruisers. They share the tales of their travels including the strangest Customs border clearance ever experienced, in a tiny coastal town in Ireland. They also share the sad story of the loss of their brand new catamaran in a storm, when a lee shore anchorage pushed them aground on the coast of Italy and the stress of flying home to the USA to find a replacement yacht and decided to restart their adventures on an 2001 Fountaine-Pajot Athena 38 named Begonia, which they live on today.  Find out more about podcast content and sailing opportunities: https://www.oceansailingpodcast.com 

Lake Erie has some secrets...we're going to dive in.

Be advised: racist and homophobic slurs inside I stopped by a bar in eastern Ohio tonight just inside the border from Pennsylvania up in the steel milling towns along Lake Eerie. I am joined today by 3 locals of the bar and town for a shoot the shit session. It's raw and unfiltered- that's what you're going to get. I don't seek people out for these interviews, I take what I can get each day to keep White Lightning on the road to the next state. We are joined tonight by a special guest...trapped possum.

Be advised: racist and homophobic slurs inside I stopped by a bar in eastern Ohio tonight just inside the border from Pennsylvania up in the steel milling towns along Lake Eerie. I am joined today by 3 locals of the bar and town for a shoot the shit session. It's raw and unfiltered- that's what you're going to get. I don't seek people out for these interviews, I take what I can get each day to keep White Lightning on the road to the next state. We are joined tonight by a special guest...trapped possum.

In a possible #TrueCrimeTVClub first, Christopher and Eric serve up a holiday-set crime that isn't a family massacre. But the brutal murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl inside of a Toledo, Ohio church on Holy Saturday is no less disturbing. In THE LAKE EERIE MURDERS, Season 2, Episode 4, entitled "Black Sabbath", Christopher and Eric go on a Gothic journey into faith, sadism and the dark secrets that can hide behind the holiest walls.  (This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

In this twisted episode, Ryan longs for the glory days of serial killers, while Tyler keeps his options a little too wide open. Ryan gives Tyler his first-ever compliment, albeit, begrudgingly and Tyler regales us with the harrowing story of the time he went swimming in Lake Eerie. A new round of "Hear ye, Hear ye!", a quick game of "is this racist?", and Tyler basks in Ryans' misery. They are THOSEGUYSYOUHATE! Support this podcast

Robbie Quinn is possibly the world's first, and definitely the world's best pizza delivery flyer.  His mission lately has been to deliver pizza, groceries, and supplies to Kelleys Island in Lake Eerie but has also been doing charity flying to save dogs from kill shelters and bad situations.     Follow Robbie on tik tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@islandpilot?lang=en   TOTs Podcast www.totspodcast.com Follow Us on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/totscast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TOTSPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOTscast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4aMcbxB9-ekcoFNsV7ynw   Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/totspodcast   For episode updates text "TATER" to 31996 Contact us @ marketwithben@gmail.com   Host : Ben Gardner Technical Producer / Editor : Ryan DeMarco  

Composer and sound artist Rob Mackay traces the migratory route of the monarch butterfly, from the Great Lakes in Canada to the forests of Mexico, via the shifting coastal landscape of the eastern shores of Virginia. Along the route of this sonic road-movie Rob meets people working to protect this extraordinary species: Darlene Burgess, a conservation specialist monitoring butterfly populations on the shores of Lake Eerie; Nancy Barnhart, coordinating the monarch migration programme for the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory at Kiptopeke State Park, where we also encounter composer Matthew Burtner, whose sonifications of data from the local seagrass beds help track changes in the monarch's environment; and butterfly expert Pablo Jaramillo-López giving a tour of the Sierra Chincua and Cerro Pelón reserves in Mexico. We also hear reflections from the late Lincoln Brower, the American entomologist whose legacy has inspired many of today's research and conservation efforts. The programme features Rob Mackay's binaural field recordings, and audio from live stream boxes, set up in partnership with the ecological art and technology collective SoundCamp to monitor the monarch's changing habitats. Plus Rob’s own flute playing, recorded in the Mexican forest meadows with David Blink on handpan and trumpet, alongside poetry in Spanish about the monarch by Rolando Rodriguez.

D-Man opens the show with a discussion about formulas to reaching the World Series in the MLB, and talks about the matchup between Dodgers and Rays.D-Man changes topics as he welcomes guest Norm Schultz to talk about wind turbines on Lake Eerie. D-Man welcomes Ben Axelrod, Channel 3 News, to break down the upcoming matchup between Browns Bengals. D-Man, producer Frank The Tank, and guest caller Artie from Rocky River go over Sundays NFL slate with picks.

Revenge drives a good boy bad in this great lakes legend. Do all dogs go to heaven? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/weirdandfeared/support

"She was not quite sure what made her so nervous."   Leave the city behind and join Aurelien at the lake house for Shirley Jackson's 1948 paranoia-inducing short story, "The Summer People". It's a story full of beautiful views, strange townspeople, and a distinct feeling of creeping dread.   Episode References: Explore US prices and wages by decade: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages Make an egg'n'onion sandwich: http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/food-drink/egg-n-onion-sandwich/   -- * Theme: Magical Transition by Kevin McLeod * Additional music and sound effects from zapsplat.com * Clip from Tommy Dorsey at the Hollywood Paladium: https://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Tommy_Dorsey.php * Clip from Artie Shaw At the Hotel Lincoln: https://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Artie_Shaw.php * Clips from real Brylcream and Captain Midnite Ovaltine commercials: https://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Vintage_Commercials.php

GPS and Lake Eerie do not get along. Matt wants to remake Napoleon Dynamite and The Darkest Hour, not at the same time. Jordan discusses his drinking habits. CBS hit show Survivor makes an appearance. How fat is America? We speculate and more! Happy Independence Day to all!

Earth Day was founded by Wisconsin's very own Gaylord Nelson. Then a senator, and former Wisconsin governor, Nelson had a simple idea for a day of awareness for the planet.  The year was 1970. Gas was cheap. There were no regulations like the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act to keep factories from polluting our air, land, and water. A rising consciousness after several environmental disasters had the country buzzing with a desire to do more. His idea took off, and millions joined in across the country. Today, Earth Day is celebrated by more than a billion people around the globe. Nelson's daughter, Tia, is paving the way for his legacy to live on through her environmental advocacy. She is the managing director on climate at the Outrider Foundation. In this episode, she sheds light on her father's work, what Earth Day means to her and how you can get involved.Learn more about Nelson's legacy in the spring issue of Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine: https://dnr.wi.gov/wnrmag/ Learn more about Outrider Foundation at https://outrider.org/features/earth-day-film/--------------------------------------TRANSCRIPTAnnouncer: [00:00:00] Welcome to Wisconsin DNRs Wild Wisconsin - Off The Record podcast, information straight from the source.Katie Grant: [00:00:12] Welcome back to another episode of Wild Wisconsin - Off The Record. I'm your host, DNRs digital media coordinator, Katie Grant. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. That's 50 years of living, changing and advancing. In 1970 a gallon of gas was 36 cents. The Beatles released, "Let it be" and then later broke up and a quarter would get you a dozen eggs. It was also the year of the very first Earth Day founded by former Wisconsin governor Gaylord Nelson. It was a time when factories pumped pollutants into the air, lakes and rivers with few repercussions. Gas guzzling cars ruled the roads. Before 1970 there was no EPA, no Clean Air Act, and no Clean Water Act.Then a senator, Gaylord Nelson, had an idea to raise awareness about air and water pollution. His idea took off and on the first Earth Day in 1970 millions of Americans participated in rallies, marches and teach-ins for environmental education across the country. Earth Day catalyzed a movement in the United States that founded the Environmental Protection Agency and ignited a spirit of stewardship that has driven progress for five decades.Today, Earth Day is celebrated around the world with billions of people participating in their own way. Although Gaylord Nelson passed away in 2005, his legacy lives on through his daughter, Tia, who was 14 at the time of the first Earth Day. She has since followed in her father's environmental protection footsteps.Today, Tia Nelson is the managing director on climate for the Outrider Foundation. She is internationally recognized as a champion for environmental stewardship and climate change. Before the Safer at Home order, we spoke with Tia in early March to hear more about her father's life work, what Earth Day means to her and how you can get involved.Just because most of us are at home doesn't mean you can't celebrate Earth Day this year as we all do what we can to slow the spread of COVID-19, the DNR encourages you to celebrate 50 years of Earth Day close to home. Be sure to practice social distancing if you're out in the community. At the Wisconsin DNR, we embrace Earth Day 365. For us, every day is Earth Day. Sit back and listen in to how a Wisconsin senator helped establish Earth Day 50 years ago and how his daughter keeps his memory alive today. Tia Nelson: [00:02:37] My name is Tia Nelson. I'm managing director for the climate change program at the Outrider Foundation. We seek to educate, engage, and inspire action on big global challenges like climate change, help people understand the risks, but importantly also help them understand the opportunities to be a part of the solution.Katie Grant: [00:03:00] Fantastic. So you could be doing anything in the world. Why are you so passionate about the environment? Tia Nelson: [00:03:07] I have always had a love of nature. I spent a lot of time in the outdoors as a child. I went on to study wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin. I had wanted to be a veterinarian, but I'm pretty severely dyslexic, and so I struggled in school and once I found out that veterinarians had to go to school as long as doctors did, I figured that wasn't the best path for me.And I had the real privilege to study under, uh Joe Hickey, uh, who had done really important early work on how DDT was thinning, uh, eggshells and impairing, uh, the reproduction of bird species, especially, uh, predators, um, in Wisconsin and across the country. It was a big inspiration to my father who then went on to introduce the first bill to ban the use of DDT.So I was, uh, influenced, um, by great professors like Joe Hickey, uh, Orin, Ronstead, uh, Bob McCabe. Um, Bob was Dean of the Wildlife Ecology school. When I, uh, started attending the university and he actually inscribed, uh, and gave to my father the first day that my father was sworn in as governor, uh, a inscribed first edition copy of the Sand County Almanac with a beautiful inscription in it. I haven't here on my desk, um saying, um, "with and in between the lines of this book, you shall find great wisdom." Um, so I guess that's a long way of saying that, uh, nature was imbued in me as a child just as it was for my father, and I just seem to gravitate to the issue naturally and studied it in school and went on to work in the Capitol.I worked for the DNR as a fisheries technician summertimes while I was in college. It was a great job. Um, it's always been my life's work and my passion. Katie Grant: [00:05:07] Yeah. Did you ever feel pressure to work in the environmental space or you just knew it was what you wanted to do? Tia Nelson: [00:05:13] I just did it. It just was me. It was just a part of me and, uh, a keen interest of mine from a very young age.Uh, it must have obviously been influenced by my father and his work. Um, but I don't remember an epiphany moment. Um, it simply was imbued in me from a very early age, and it wasn't something that I honestly gave a lot of thought to. It was just who I was. Katie Grant: [00:05:43] Tell us a little bit about your father's legacy. For anyone who doesn't know, why is he so important to Wisconsin and Earth Day in general? Tia Nelson: [00:05:50] Well, my father grew up in a small town called Clear Lake in Polk County in northwestern Wisconsin. Not far from the St. Croix River where he camped and fished and canoed and his experiences in nature as a child had a big influence on him.The places his father took him, uh, the St. Croix, uh, which I just mentioned. Also, they visited the Apostle Islands. It's interesting for me to reflect on the fact that those childhood experiences in nature here in these magnificent, uh, natural landscapes in Wisconsin became inspiration for him once he was elected to office.And he served in the state senate for 10 years. He became governor when I was two. In 1958, he was elected and he became known pretty quickly as across the country as the conservation governor, principally because of a bold initiative that he put forward to tax uh, put a penny, a pack tax on cigarettes to fund the Outdoor Recreation Action Program --known by the acronym OREP -- uh, to fund, uh, the protection, uh, of public recreation lands for the citizens of Wisconsin, and to create opportunities for, uh, fishing and hunting and recreating. And that program was wildly popular and, uh, drew a lot of national attention, the National Boating Magazine, um, in I think around 1960, um, their front page was "All Eyes on Wisconsin" with a picture of the state of Wisconsin. And my, an image of my father overlaid and a story about how the, the great, uh, conservation innovation that was taking place in Wisconsin.So that was my father's, um, early efforts as governor, he took that experience and the popularity of that program, which is now known as the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund, named after my father and Republican governor Warren Knowles, who succeeded my father when my father was elected to the senate. Um, uh, so Wisconsin's had a long bipartisan tradition of support for those types of initiatives.The OREP program was wildly popular, um, to members of both parties. My father went off to Washington as the United States senator. He took with him a scrapbook of all the good press that he'd gotten for, uh, pushing, uh, conservation and outdoor recreation, uh, agenda as governor in Wisconsin. And, uh, he managed using that, good press that he'd received here in Wisconsin to convince President John F. Kennedy to do a conservation tour. My father was looking for a way to get politicians to wake up to the fact that the, uh, citizens, uh, were eager and interested in, uh, passing laws that protected our rights to breathe clean air and drink clean water and, uh, protect, uh, outdoor recreation areas. The conservation tour failed to accomplish what my father had hoped. Um, indeed, it was cut short after a few stops, as I recall. Um, and, um, sadly, President Kennedy was assassinated several months after that conservation tour, and it was between 1963 and 1969 my father continuing to push and talk about the environmental challenges of our time. And to try to think of an idea that might galvanize, um, uh, the people and, uh, shake as my father said, shake the political establishment out of their lethargy, um, and, uh, step up to address the big environmental challenges of our time.Keep in mind that Lake Eerie was so polluted at the time, um, that it had burned for days. Um, and, uh, today you can, uh, fish some good walleye out of there. Katie Grant: [00:10:15] Right. Right. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old, uh, Swedish environmental activist has gained international recognition for her climate strikes. She's also known for, having said "adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope, but I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to act as if the house, house is on fire because it is." How does it make you feel to see her and other young activists who are leading the environmentalist fight? And do you think they fit with your father's legacy? Tia Nelson: [00:10:48] Yes, they certainly do.It's really, the story of Greta Thunberg is, um, a really inspiring one, and it is one that I reflect on quite often for the following reason. It would have been impossible for Greta to imagine when she was sitting alone protesting in front of the Swedish parliament that that simple act of defiance would launch the global youth movement just as Rosa Parks could not have known that that simple act of defiance saying no to that bus driver when he demanded she moved to the back of the bus, she simply quietly said one word, no. It changed the course of history. Just as my father could never have known that the simple idea of setting aside a day to teach on the environment on April 22nd, 1970, would launch the environmental movement, propel the environmental movement forward in these unimaginable ways.Keep in mind there was no Environmental Protection Agency. Uh, it was signed into law by a Republican president, Richard Nixon. Um, some months after the first Earth Day, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, uh, Endangered Species Act, a whole slew of laws that we take for granted today, passed that first decade after Earth Day. More environmental laws were passed, um, in the decade that followed that first Earth Day than any other time in American history. And so Greta's story is inspiring to me and the way that Rosa Parks story is inspiring in the way that my father's story is inspiring. These were individuals who had a set of values and cared passionately about something, and they took action and they kept at it and they changed the course of history. It demonstrates to me the power of individual action to inspire others to become involved and be a part of the solution. And that to me is, is incredibly inspiring. Earth Day was successful beyond my father's wildest dreams. He never could have imagined that 20 million people would gather on that day or that 50 years later we would be celebrating his legacy in this way.Katie Grant: [00:13:20] Right. Tia Nelson: [00:13:20] And I, and, and I, I think that, that people on the 100th anniversary of Earth Day, uh, will be saying the same thing about Greta Thunberg and the youth activists around the world who have done exactly what my father had hoped youth would do and youth did do that first Earth Day. It shook up the establishment and made them pay attention.Katie Grant: [00:13:45] Right, right. You've mentioned in past interviews that you have a kind of fuzzy memory when it comes to what you were doing on that first Earth Day. As you got older, though. Do you recall any of your father's continuing work with regard to Earth Day? Tia Nelson: [00:14:02] Um, yes. Well, I, I was almost 14 when the first Earth Day occurred and I did not remember what I was doing.I, of course, get asked this question quite often. I, you know, was tempted to make up a good story, but I thought better of it. Uh, the way I learned that I was cleaning up trash at my junior high school is I was doing a talk show, a radio talk show, and one of my, uh, um, friends from junior high called and said, you were with me, we were picking up trash. So, um, but as the years, um, ensued, uh, I think it really dawned on me the significance of Earth Day on the 20th anniversary. I was on the Washington Mall with my father for the 20th anniversary. That was a magnificently large, um, and significant anniversary event. And it was pretty obvious that this would be a big, and enduring, um, uh, thing for a long time, uh, to come.My father worked tirelessly and he also he, he felt very, uh, drawn and very duty-bound to speak to youth. And he accepted the smallest school. If the kids wrote him a letter and asked him to come speak to them about the issues, the environment, he went. Um, he saw great promise in our youth. He knew that, uh, it were, that it was the young people in 1970 that, uh, made such a big difference, uh, in, in the success of that event.And so he would give speeches to big audiences. He would give talks to little schools. Uh, he was tireless in his advocacy, outreach and, um, public efforts to engage people because he saw the power, uh, of, um, doing that. And so, um, he was, uh, tireless, and in, in delivering that message and traveling around, giving talks, visiting schools, giving media interviews and doing everything he could to continue to advance the cause.Katie Grant: [00:16:20] When you spoke with us, uh, for our article in the Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine, you said one of the reasons the first Earth Day was so successful was because of the way it grew organically at the local level, rather than being planned from the top down. Why do you think the simplistic approach worked in his, kind of made it work for the last 50 years? Tia Nelson: [00:16:40] If you look at the first Earth Day, there were literally thousands of organizers in, um, communities across the country. My father did not prescribe a specific agenda. He didn't tell him what issues they should be talking about. He encouraged people to think about what they cared about, where they lived, what the challenges, the environmental challenges, quality of life challenges, were, wherever they lived, uh, whether it was in, uh, the city or the countryside. Um, and people responded, I think if you look at Adam Rome's book, he interviewed over 140 people, um, dozens and dozens and dozens of these local organizers. And one thing that's obvious is by not prescribing what the agenda was and what the issues were and how my father, uh, trying to prescribe from Washington what people were supposed to do, but rather letting them identify their priorities and values, um, uh, where, where they lived, um, and worked, uh, and raised their families.Um, that was very powerful. So some people planted trees, some people picked up trash, some people protested, some people had concerts. I have images of the, uh, Earth Day, uh, on State Street. State Street was closed and, uh, an entomologist and in, you know, a professor of insects, uh, set up a booth. A rather shabby looking one at that, uh, with information about the importance of insects as pollinators.Um, my point is, uh, whether it was entomologists educating people on the importance of bees as a pollinator, uh, or, uh, uh, Girl Scout troop picking up trash and in their local neighborhood or another group, um, planting trees, um, people felt empowered to take action in a way that was meaningful to them.And in, in not trying to control what people did and how they did it and how they messaged around it, um, turned out to be really, uh, uh, a stroke of genius on my father's part. Katie Grant: [00:19:07] For sure. For sure. So over the years, I'm sure you have participated in Earth Day and a lot of different ways, uh, do you have any particularly memorable ways that you have celebrated it?Tia Nelson: [00:19:20] Um, well, they're all meaningful to me. It's always been important for me to honor my father and my own, uh, life's work on Earth Day. It's particularly been important to me to, uh, tell his story to kids um, so that they understand that my father was just a little boy from a little town, um, in Wisconsin, and he grew up to change the world in unimaginable ways, and I want kids to know they have that power, too.Um, so I have always done as much as I can, uh, uh, some local events, media events, um, uh, try to talk to, uh, schoolkids, uh. This year is different though. This year I have a spreadsheet with, gosh, close to 40, um, appearances, interviews, podcasts, like the one we're doing now. Um. Uh, I'm very proud, very excited that we'll be debuting a, uh, uh, film, uh, at Earth X, the largest environmental film fest in the United States in Dallas, Texas on Earth... on the eve of Earth Day.We'll be opening that, uh, Earth X event. Uh, we will be closing out the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism event on April 25th. Uh, the day the mall or a mall event will occur. We've been invited to show at Tribeca Film Fest, uh, in New York and are still trying to figure out whether we can do all of these things in, in the short timeframe of a week.Uh, I will be showing the film at the University of Wisconsin Nelson.. Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies on Monday, April 20th. Uh, and what's exciting to me about the film is I recruited the youth activists Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, and Bob Inglis, the former Republican congressman, founder of a group called RepublicEN.Uh, the two of them have joined me, uh, in this film to honor my father and in a call to action to people today to come together and address the biggest environmental challenge of our time, which is climate change. And that, uh, Bob and Varshini, uh, eh, are joining me and talking about the need for a multigenerational bi-partisan socially just movement to address climate change is just a source of enormous excitement and pride for me. So I'll be showing that film around the country. Uh, I will be doing more podcasts, more media interviews. Um, I'll be keynoting, uh, after Earth Day at the annual meeting of the United Church of Christ, uh, at the Midwest Renewable Energy fair up in Custer, Wisconsin. Um, I, I'll, I'll, I'll be tired by the time it's all done, but it's, uh, um, it's a good challenge to have and I just, I couldn't be more grateful or excited to have the opportunity to tell my father's story, the story of other activists today. Um, and to encourage people to get involved and, um, be a part of, uh, building a brighter future.Katie Grant: [00:22:40] At what point did you and your family really start getting the sense that Earth Day had become something special? And did you guys ever discuss how big of a deal it had become?Tia Nelson: [00:22:51] Um, well, sure. I talked to my brothers about it, uh, on a regular basis. I'm updating them on the stuff I'm involved in, uh, here.But, uh, as I mentioned a little earlier in our interview, I think it probably first dawned on me, what a big deal it was on, uh, probably the 10th or the 20th anniversary. Um, that it was clearly going to be an enduring, um, event, uh, in a part of an important part of my father's legacy. Um, and the family's talked about it.Um, you know, we talk about it all the time. Uh, so, um, but especially, you know, this time of year. Katie Grant: [00:23:31] What are a few ways Wisconsinites and beyond Wisconsin can embrace your father's legacy and celebrate Earth Day this year? Tia Nelson: [00:23:38] Well, there's an unlimited number of things one can get involved in or be a part of, uh, you in, in your local community, um, or, uh, through, uh, established organizations. And that was one of the things that was really exciting to me about the video we've produced the, uh, the Sunrise Movement is very oriented towards youth activists. Uh, RepublicEN is oriented towards a more conservative audience. What they share in common is prioritizing, addressing the issue of climate change and, um, uh, the future of our environment.There's really literally an organization for anyone and everyone to join, uh, and there's, uh, uh, website, uh, the Earth Day Network has a site where you can go plug in your zip code and it'll show you, uh, local events here in Madison. I invite everyone to attend the University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies Earth Day, um, celebration, which goes on, is really going to be fabulous this year and has a number of significant national speakers, uh, and workshops. And that's on April 20th, all day at Monona Terrace. Uh, there are, um, uh, more local activities one could get involved in, uh, if you don't feel like joining a group. You can, uh, do something with your neighbors or friends um, uh, that, uh, would be probably pretty similar to what people were doing in 1970 deciding, you know, how they wanted to get involved, whether they wanted to go pick up trash or plant trees or join an organization. And, uh, there's sort of an unlimited in terms of, of what one can do because every, every individual action matters and, and people, um, uh, have an opportunity to get involved in any number of ways. Katie Grant: [00:25:48] Yeah. So at Wisconsin DNR, we are embracing Earth Day 365 and encouraging residents to take small steps all year so that taking care of our natural resources isn't just a thing that we think about once a year. Do you have any suggestions for small steps that people can take to make a difference?Tia Nelson: [00:26:05] There's a number of powerful small steps one can take from reducing food waste to avoiding single-use plastic to composting food scraps to using energy-efficient appliances to things like ... Funny little fact to know and tell is that something called phantom power, meaning our devices plugged into the wall when we're not using them probably about 15% of average home owner's electricity consumption. Simply unplugging those appliances when you're not using them, uh, is a way to save energy and it saves money. Um, so, um, being a conscious consumer, uh, being aware of one's impact, uh, on the planet, knowing that, you know, one of my favorite quotes from my father is "the economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment. Not the other way around." And so um, we have to recognize that our natural resource base is finite, um, and that we have to be good stewards of it. And that individual action, how we conduct ourselves in our daily life really does matter. Um, voting for, um, uh elected officials, whether it at the local or state level, who put forward policies that protect our rights to breathe clean air and drink clean water is really important. Outrider.org has a section, um, about how you can help. Uh, it includes a way to assess, uh, your personal greenhouse gas footprint and things that you can do to, um, reduce it.So, um, get involved. Talk about it. Take action and join an organization that suits your particular interest.Katie Grant: [00:28:02] At a time when there can be a lot of doom and gloom in the news, how do you stay optimistic about the future of our environment? Tia Nelson: [00:28:08] I often say I'm in a complicated dance between hope and despair.You can't be involved every day of your life in the environmental challenges that we face today and not be concerned. Uh, the science tells us we have a lot to be worried about. On the other hand, I know the power of individuals to make a difference. I know how on that first Earth Day, a simple call to action, uh, precipitated significant progress in how we manage our resources and, uh, protect our environment. And so I reflect on my father's legacy and work. I reflect on the fact that he worked tirelessly and was, felt a sense of defeat, um, many, many times, but he got up the next day and went back to work and made significant progress.And I believe in American ingenuity. I know that we have a bright future of clean and renewable energy. That today renewable energy is... costs less than fossil fuel energy. We have some big challenges as we make that transition, but we know what the solutions are. And, uh, it's a question of creating the social will and political capital to move forward, uh, swiftly with a sense of urgency to address these challenges. And I believe we can do it, but we, we have to join together. That's why I'm so excited about the film with Bob Inglis and Varshini Prakash. They have very, very different ideas about what the solution is. That doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is that they've come to the table to have a conversation about how we can work together and solve these big environmental challenges. That's what matters. And as long as we're having the conversation and agreeing that the problem requires an urgent response, we'll find a way to build the social capital and the political will to act.And so that is how I think about it and motivate myself to carry on the work. Katie Grant: [00:30:34] You've been listening to Wild Wisconsin, a podcast brought to you by the Wisconsin DNR. Show us on social media how you're celebrating Earth Day this year by using #EarthDayAtHome and tagging Wisconsin DNR in your posts.For more great content, be sure to subscribe to Wild Wisconsin wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review or tell us who you'd like to hear from on a future episode. Thanks for listening.

Linda Butler (a photographer who's been documenting the effects of climate change for a number of years, most recently focusing on the Great Lakes), and Lynn Whitney (associate professor of photography at BGSU, whose celebrated work consists of black and white photographs of Lake Erie) discuss merging the worlds of fine art and environmental activism.  Transcript: Introduction: From Bowling Green State University, and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas. Intro Song Lyrics: I'm going to show you this with a wonderful experiment. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome to the Big Ideas podcast, a collaboration between the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Jolie Scheffer, associate professor of English and American cultural studies, and the director of ICS. Today, I have the honor of being joined by two women photographers who bring together the worlds of fine art and environmental activism. We have with us Linda Butler, and Lynn Whitney. Linda is a photographer who's been documenting the effects of climate change for a number of years, most recently focusing on the Great Lakes. Lynn Whitney is an associate professor of photography here at BGSU, whose work is in the permanent collections of the Toledo Museum of Art and Yale University. Much of Lynn's work consists of black and white photographs of Lake Erie. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome, and thanks for talking with me today. To begin with, I'd like each of you to talk about how you came to your current landscape work about the Great Lakes, and what motivates you to do this particular work at this time. Linda, you start us off? Linda Butler: Well, I'm going to be a little nervous too, so we'll work through it, but, I guess, my main concern as a human being right now is what's happening to our planet. And, global warming is causing things like unusual storms, and I think this part of the country, for instance, the Maumee River with all its flooding, and the problems flooding causes to the lake itself, because fertilizer is being washed off the fields and going into the lake, I mean, it was an ideal setting to take photographs in. And, it's been a very rich experience for me to work at this end of the state, although, I worked actually around all of Lake Erie. And, I'm tracking both things like renewable energy projects, and which governments are doing more in that area, as well as really heavy industry that uses a lot of energy to make steel or concrete, and finding out where the carbon dioxide is coming from, and, it's heavy industry, and it's also from coal running power plants; coal. Linda Butler: And, if you go around the lake, there a lot of ways that coal is being delivered to barges and so on. And so, it's really evident all around the lake, but less so in Canada, because, the coast of Canada has much less industry, and also the Government of Canada has put a lot of money into renewable energy. Jolie Sheffer: So, in your work, you really show how the Great Lakes are the best and the worst of the current state of climate change and industrial effects on the landscape in some. Linda Butler: Well, I can't comment on the other lakes, because I really know Lake Erie, but there's a lot to learn from Lake Erie and how we're using this water. Jolie Sheffer: What about you, Lynn, how did you come to ... This is a long term project, so what is your story been and getting interested in the lake? Lynn Whitney: My story is interesting, because my story begins with the Maumee River and the bridge construction that happened over the Maumee River. I was commissioned to photograph the bridge that was constructed there, the Veterans Memorial Skyway, from the Toledo Museum of Art, and the river, obviously, factors deeply into that work. After that commission was complete, I was asked by The George Gund Foundation in Cleveland to submit work for a possible commission, and received one which involves Lake Erie, the coastline on Cuyahoga County. I graciously accepted that, because it was a huge honor to be given that commission, particularly because the photographer who had completed Lake Erie before me ... These are all for annual reports, which are really snoozy to read, so the designer ... And Linda also was commissioned by The Gund Foundation; we've shared quite a few stories about that, but the designer was very interested in perking up those annual reports with photographers whose work he respected, and which could break up the sort of snoozy reading that generally, annual reports are. Lynn Whitney: So, anyway, the photographer who came before me making work about Lake Erie was Frank Gohlke, a member of the new topographics movement in photography, and to which I ascribed a great deal of my own practice. And so, it was, like, yikes, coming after him and wanting to, both honor his work, so I would search out where he made certain photographs and go back and re-photograph those places as a way of just getting launchpads for myself, and that mushroomed into just me looking at human interactions with the coastline. I have a very deep interest in American culture studies, because that was my first degree, so, I'm always incorporating themes and issues that revolve around our culture, relative to the lake. So, did I answer it? Jolie Sheffer: Yeah, that's great. Unfortunately, as we're talking about, we live in a time where the effects of climate change are very noticeably harming our environment. We've had that very close to home in terms of the water being toxic, because of algal blooms a couple of years ago. So, in your work, where do you see, and in what ways do you see climate change affecting Lake Erie? What kinds of things were you trying to document, or are you trying to document in your work? Lynn Whitney: For me, climate change and what's happening to Lake Erie is always in my background of my head. However, I don't necessarily point it out with the images that I make. The good ones maybe suggest some crisis there, but they also suggest our ignorance, or our ... Not ignorance, but maybe just, it's just too big for us kind of feeling. It's just too big of a problem kind of feeling for most of us regular folk. And so, I think, if I could say that I suggest those themes, I guess that's what I would say to answer that question. It's certainly in the background of my head when I make my photographs, but I don't necessarily go out and say, "There are the zebra mussels, and there's the algae bloom," because I can't make pictures like that. So, anyway ... Jolie Sheffer: What about you, Linda? Linda Butler: So, I would say that my work on this project has been more explicit than that. I mean, I consciously went around the lake and looked for renewable energy projects, which, of course, are so important because they give us energy that is not related to burning coal, and burning coal is the reason we have more carbon dioxide in the environment. And so, it turns out that Canada has been much more proactive in terms of renewable energy. The Government of Ontario, in particular, put up 5000 wind turbines that gets the breeze off the lake, and as a result of that, they were able to shut down the largest coal burning power plant in the Northern Hemisphere. I mean, that's a big deal. And then, five years later, they completed a conversion of that plant to solar power, and that just opened this year. Linda Butler: So, some of this stuff is evident in my photographs. The intellectual stuff, though, is not, so I don't have a picture of that array of solar panels. But, the other direction that I've taken is trying to figure out how climate change is affecting the farmers in the region. And the farmers have been blamed for having too much fertilizer, and when rains come, the fertilizer goes into the rivers, and blah, blah, blah. Well, getting to know a farmer and trying to figure out how he is dealing with this issue, it becomes clear that one of the problems is, they're having extreme weather events in a way that didn't happen in the past. He said, "When I was a kid working on my dad's farm," which is now his farm, "we just didn't have a four inches of rain, or three inches of rain in a single 24 hour period. That didn't happen." Linda Butler: And that's ... Climate scientists are always very careful to say, "I don't know if this event was caused by climate change or not." But, the weather is becoming weirder and weirder. And so, I think of it as climate weirding as opposed to climate warming. And, I think of the world being encased in a huge glass bowl, and the ball is formed by carbon dioxide molecules, and when the sun comes in and heats the world, the heat can't get out, like being in a hot car, or a greenhouse. And, on these farms that have three inches of rain that come down at once, they just can't handle it with the normal ways they've learned to deal with getting rid of water from their farms. And, this farmer that I got to know recently, he said he couldn't even plant this year. I mean, he put in some cover crops, but he couldn't get in his corn. Jolie Sheffer: We had such a wet, wet season that most of the corn crops and soybeans too, I think, couldn't go in. Linda Butler: So, this is a huge loss for farmers, but it's also a horrible problem in terms of runoff. And so, it's interesting to see from a farmers point of view working with this today, what some of the experimental projects have been to help farmers deal with this. Jolie Sheffer: We're going to take a quick break. Thank you for listening to the Big Ideas podcast. Speaker 3: Send us the following. Speaker 1: If you are passionate about Big Ideas, consider sponsoring this program. To have your name or organization mentioned here, please contact us at ics@bgsu.edu. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome back. Today I'm interviewing Linda Butler and Lynn Whitney about their photographs of Lake Erie. So, this is for both of you; how much research and learning about the lakes or climate change have you done for your separate photo series? Does data play a role in your work, Linda? Linda Butler: So, when I started out, I hadn't paid much attention to Lake Erie, frankly. And, I got hold of some history books at a used bookstore, and I read a lot about what people suffered, particularly in this area, because there was the Great Black Swamp, and people got mired in it, and stayed, even though it was so wet, and they got malaria, and all of the things that happened to the poor migrants that decided to go West from here. And so, I do read history, and I ... How do you find a good photograph is another issue, and sometimes it's truly good fortune; the stars are aligned. And, one of the photographs that I really love is a photograph of, I call it luminescence, where there's an image taken from a high cliff, looking down at the lake, on the first day of spring, when there was a big melt of the ice. There was no snow on the lake, and there's a perfect reflection of the sky on the photograph. Linda Butler: Well, that's an unusual occasion. I couldn't have predicted finding that, but as luck has it, and just being out there and working, sometimes you stumble on something that's really great. And, I think, I can't remember ... I guess one of the mottoes I live by is, just do it. It's the Nike motto, I think, but it applies to photography as well. I mean, if you're worrying about things and you're at home, guess what? You're not making change happen at all. But, if you're out there taking photographs, I mean, some of the photographs will move people to think differently about their environment and what's happening to it. And so, that's one of the things that I love about photography, is it's such an accessible medium, and it's repeatable. So, if I give a photograph to you, it's not the only one I have. And so, I can use it in other ways. Jolie Sheffer: What about for you, Lynn? Lynn Whitney: Research. My research is ... I don't know, it's Robert Frost who said that when you walk in a field, it's the birds that stick to your stocks, it's the things that you bring with you. My research; I have some knowledge about the area just by being here, and I'm reading and have read most of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes- Jolie Sheffer: By Dan Egan? Lynn Whitney: Mm-hmm (affirmative), mm-hmm (affirmative). But I'm not researching per se, I'm really interested in the life that's along the lake, and as Linda was saying, it's really about serendipity; where I land up is where I land up. I'm often going to Magee Marsh, I'm looking at, thinking about the population of birders that come in from all over the world and how that represents world peace. Everybody gets along, everybody's helpful with one another, and everybody's looking at these really elusive creatures that are storing up their food to fly across this great big lake, and it's just miraculous to me to have those kinds of events transpire right in our backyard, and that people know about it and people care about those birds that are diminishing. Lynn Whitney: And so, my research, I wouldn't say is really traditional, it's, I read a lot of fiction, I read poetry, I just bring to my practice those words, and thoughts, and music, and try to incorporate that in how I see. Jolie Sheffer: What do you think photography does to communicate our changing environment and our relationship? A lot of what you're talking about is communities and people's relationship to the landscape. What role do you think the arts play in shifting, if not public policy, public awareness? Lynn Whitney: A lot. My work, no, I don't find my work to be very activist, but I do find that I ... My hope is that I slow the world down a little bit, and make people, or help people to consider, not make people do anything, but just help people consider what they're looking at. It's like, if I went to church it would be like that, just calmly-looking, and considering, and being internally changed by having done so. I think ... Is that right? I mean, is that the question I'm answering? Jolie Sheffer: Yeah, yeah. Lynn Whitney: Okay. Oh, I often get off track, you can take that out. So, that would be my answer to that question. Jolie Sheffer: What about for you, Linda? Lynn Whitney: I think you have a lot to say on that, Linda. Linda Butler: So, I think I'm a bit more of an activist with my photographs. So, in the project that I did on Lake Erie, I'm very concerned about global warming, and I wanted the photographs to capture some of the causes of global warming that were affecting the lake. And so, I looked for that material in factories around the lake, coal burning power plants, I found out a whole lot of them, [crosstalk 00:18:53]- Jolie Sheffer: But how did you find them? What was your research process for that? Linda Butler: Well, I went around the lake. "Look,..." Jolie Sheffer: Your feet. Linda Butler: "...they have dirty smoke. It's coming from somewhere." And, "Where is it coming from?", trying to get close to it, and so on. And, some of the work was very conscious. So, I saw an incredibly huge refinery in Detroit, and it's on the main I-75, and it's not a place you can readily stop. And, it was a specific time of year, because there was a sunset going on, as well as the cold making the smoke more relevant you could actually see it. And so, I went back with a friend, a year later, and she zipped in with her little Fiat, and I was in the rider's seat. I jumped out of the car with a tripod, I took a photograph really quickly, jumped back into the car, and before police could stop us, we zipped off and tried to not be squished by one of these big trucks that was passing. Linda Butler: So, that was a really conscious effort to get a specific photograph that had to do with global warming. Jolie Sheffer: Do you use your photography to teach viewers? So, we've talked about this a little bit, but explicitly about that idea of teaching, and, if so, what are you hoping people take away? So, Lynn, you were talking about a more of a affective contemplative response, but you are also a teacher teaching students; teaching undergrad and MFA students at BGSU. So, what are you striving to teach them about creating fine art photography about their relationship to the world, and what they can do with their work? Lynn Whitney: I strive to teach them to be present and honest in their approach, and I teach, I hope I teach that, through the history of photography, students learn other artists and how they've approached this medium, but everybody has to really come to it from a place that feels genuine, and relevant to themselves. And, I teach, I think, students to really care about the medium, and about the world and it's place, the mediums place in it. It's a really aggressive tool. We often shoot, we take, we do all those words that are very loaded, in my opinion, which is another word that's aggressive. I try to change the language around the medium, so that there's more of a community that students are involved with in the world, and can then bring that experience alive in an artifact. Lynn Whitney: I don't know if I really got to the point, but I think it's a difficult question what you're asking, because, people hear in different ways, people take in in different ways, and I really hope that they're at least getting a part of what I just said, which was to really use this medium in an empathetic, and honest, and genuine way. Jolie Sheffer: What about for you, Linda, what role does your photography do in trying to teach, or engage, or educate audiences, viewers? Linda Butler: From the beginning, this body of work, I thought, would be able to travel to different sites. And so, I was thinking of it as being a traveling exhibit, and it's become that. And so, when it's a traveling exhibit, I go with it and have an opportunity to talk to people. The photographs in this exhibit are attached to captions, and the place of where the photograph was taken on the lake is identified in the caption. So people can really look at a photograph, see where it was taken, and place themselves on the lake. And, it's been interesting. I've had a number of traveling exhibits. This one, people are pausing longer over the photographs than I've ever seen before. And I think the captions are very intriguing to them, but also, the aerial photographs give a completely different point of view of places that are familiar. Linda Butler: So, if they see that the city of Cleveland, they try to find themselves in it, or ... For instance, one of my favorite photographs in this body of work is called mixed real estate, and its Oregon, which is right at the mouth of the Maumee River, and there is just a strange conglomeration of things that are there that relate to coal and global warming, but also, nice houses right next to the coal, or a golf course. And, it's just a strange mixture, and I think that's kind of fun to see a site that you're so familiar with, but in a different way. But, I think also, my talks, I really spend a lot of time figuring out what message that I'm really most concerned about, and really talking about that, and persuading people to, if they care about these issues like of global warming, to talk to other people about it, their friends, their huge group of friends, and also to vote, vote for people who are supporting renewable energy, and are not taking corporate contributions that will persuade how they vote in legislature. Jolie Sheffer: I want to now turn to our studio audience for some questions from BGSU students. Jacob Church: Hi, I'm Jacob Church, and this question's for Linda. So, in your work a lot, there are these really nice aerial views often, and, I think, formulae and compositionally, they're really pleasing in that sense, but the issue itself, I know is troubling. How do you deal with that in your work, or have you struggled with that in the past? Linda Butler: Let's see. Okay. I'm attracted to beauty, and I consider some of the things that are ugly that I photographed, I mean, or are really spewing carbon dioxide, to be quite beautiful and worth looking at. And, I don't mind that they look beautiful in my photographs, because it gets people to look closely at them. So, the amount of coal and iron ore that's on the [da-zag 00:26:46] island, is really relevant too, when we think about using steel in our lives. I sure deal with that a lot. I drive a car. We're all participating in global warming in one way or another. And so, I think having images of how it happens helps people understand that we're all in this together, and we need to figure out other ways of managing how we create energy. Linda Butler: That's not quite the right answer to ... So, another thing is, I do have quite a few beautiful landscapes of, for instance, marshes, and wetlands. And, I particularly wanted to get those images, because the Great Black Swamp used to look like that, and, I think, for people to realize that it was an giant sponge at one point in the life of the state, not just in one point, in hundreds and thousands of years, it was a Great Black Swamp. And, now it's cornfields, and, guess what? The change in that use of the land has had an effect in terms of how water runs off of it. And so, I think to photograph these beautiful swamps and marshes is relevant to the message that I have. Lynn Whitney: I would just add, I think the beauty in Linda's work is so incredibly there, there, that it allows for an access to it that one might not necessarily be provided with if it wasn't like that. I mean, you have these aerial photographs that, to me, are just incredibly rich with information, and presents the way we've used the land and the way the land is being used, and engages the viewer to take part and be a participant in, and recognize their own participation with the issues. And I think that's what is so compelling about your exhibition; the information is rich and dense and complicated and scary, and yet you kind of mediate that with these photographs that bring that sort of tension alive, and make our awareness that much more acute, and maybe, hopefully, will activate people's feet so that they do get out and vote, and they do get out in march, and they do get out and do things to help with the crisis. I'm really, really proud of your work. Linda Butler: Oh, thank you. Clara Delgado: Hi, I'm Clara Delgado, and my question is for both of you. I guess my question is, how do you deal with human emotion, and/or ambivalence, apathy, to climate change in your photographs? Lynn Whitney: I deal with it a lot. I mean, I think my work is not specific about climate change, though it's there in some veiled way. It is veiled, probably, in me. I care very deeply about climate change, but I'm probably not effectively making a difference with my work in that regard. And the human emotion, I have several photographs where people are pictured, and their relationship to the lake is in the same way that mine is, which is, there's the lake as your backdrop, or your theater, or your stage, and you're in the foreground performing some activity that has something to do with the lake, in terms of your enjoyment of it, or in terms of it's just there. And so, it's suggested that, the issue of climate change, because that lake is rising, is part of the picture, but not necessarily pointed to in a way that makes that point come across. I guess I expect my viewer to already be open to those issues, which is probably not a good idea, but ... It's a tearful. Linda Butler: Well, something that Lynn said earlier about sort of meditative way of looking at the landscape, is something that I also do. I don't think I take good photographs if I'm holding up a big bat and trying to knock somebody over the head with the message. The good photographs have to persuade on their own. And, I think, when I take what I consider to be a really good photograph, is so often coming from a meditative state. I don't like to have people with me when I'm taking photographs, I like to not talk, I like to respond to what I see, and really try to figure out, "How do you pursue to create a photograph that's really well composed out of this?" And, really, just thinking about that; being there in the moment, and trying to work with what's there. Linda Butler: And, maybe, on a given subject, I'll take 20 photographs. It's easy to use a digital camera in that way, because you can take a lot of material, it doesn't cost anything. And then, go home, quickly look at it on the computer if I'm close, and I didn't get it, if my focus is bad, or I've made some technical mistake, I can often go back, and maybe it's a new experience when I go back, but the meditative attitude without an agenda is really important. Ann Toberly: My name is Ann Toberly. I have a question for both of you. Given that you've photographed over many years, both of you, there's been times when you've had limited access to different areas, and, have you ever been denied that area and went ahead and taken the photograph, or what is your perspective of private property, and once the photograph is out, whether or not you should print if it wasn't necessarily given permission? Jolie Sheffer: Do you have that experience? Lynn Whitney: That's a good question and one that everybody needs to pay a lot of attention to, is private property, and, basically, the legality of what we do. I have taken a lot of risks, I'll be honest with you, in my lifetime as a photographer. I've done things I probably should not have done. In my bridge project, just to cite an example, the early days of the bridge project were very different from after the accident where workers lost their lives. In the beginning, I did not need an escort, after the accident, I did. The escort's time schedule limited my ravenousness for the subject matter, and I got restless, and I pushed my limits a little bit with that too much. I don't recommend being me with some of those things. With the Lake Erie work, I am very sensitive to private property. I always ask if I can go, if there's an individual who's out that I can ask permission of. Lynn Whitney: And, if I'm permitted to make work there, I'm always bringing work back to the individual who permitted me to be there. That way you establish yourself as, "I meant it, and here it is, and this is what I did." And it wasn't, in my opinion, anything that might shame them, or do something that was negative towards them. And if it was, in their eyes, because you never really know how what you see and what you understand about what you're seeing is the same for the other person, they have every right to say, "No, that's not, that's not." And I will then not show it. Linda Butler: So, to some extent in my Lake Eerie photographs, I got away from needing permissions by going into the air. And so, with some of the places that would be considered private, I mean, by the company's probably, I got access in another way. And anybody can take a picture of that from the air; who's in an airplane? So, it's not like they own the airspace in my opinion. And so, I don't see any moral conflict with that. With private property, I'm much more sensitive. And so, I knew that I needed to take photographs of a farm, but I didn't have access to a farm in this area. And I was reading the same book that Lynn has read about The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, and the man who wrote it had listed some of the people's names who he approached who were farmers in this area. And so, I started calling them, and nobody called me back, so I called again. Linda Butler: And, finally, somebody actually did call me back. And so, I drove from Cleveland to talk to him, and it was a courting process to some extent. He wanted to know what I was going to do with the images, and he didn't want to be involved with something that wasn't on the up and up. And, we developed a great relationship. I mean, he's a wonderful innovator in how he uses fertilizer, and he's a leader, I think. Probably why Egan interviewed him in the first place, but it's been a really great relationship. Now, sometimes I've gone down a lane that is marked "no trespassing" in order to get to the lake, and I've been chased by a couple of people who say, "You're not supposed to be here.", basically, even before I get out of the car. And, there is ... I don't know, I kind of feel, the lake is a public lake, so people don't own that, and if I'm not really doing anything wrong on their property, like going down a private road, I don't really think that's a moral sin, but if I'm involved with photographing their property, and they don't consent, that's not good. Jolie Sheffer: You're both really talking about the ethics of photography, and that it is a relational practice, and needing to have a set of guidelines for how you engage with others. Linda and Lynn, thank you so much for being here with me today. I really appreciate getting to learn about your work. Jolie Sheffer: Our producers for this podcast are Chris Cavera and Marco Mendoza. Research assistants for this podcast was provided by ICS intern, Eishat Ahmed, with editing by Stevie Scheurich. This conversation was recorded in the Stanton Audio Recording Studio in the Michael and Sarah Kuhlin Center at Bowling Green State University.        

Below Normal Temperatures In The East, Lake Effect Snow, Critical Fire Weather To Continue Over Southern California; Below normal temperatures and the first freeze will occur over portions of the Mid Atlantic and Northeast U.S. early Saturday morning. Lake effect snow and hazardous travel conditions will develop to the lee of Lake Eerie and Ontario over the weekend. Out west, very dry humidity combined with gusty winds will lead to critical fire weather conditions over southern California on Saturday. Stay weather aware at: bit.ly/2P4Z8eS --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/xtremeweather/support

Darkness spreads across The Land. The midway point is close at hand. Broncos crawl in search of blood… to terrorize Baker's neighborhood. What's happening with the Browns and the Buckeyes this Halloween? Brandon and Eric discuss the scary details from the banks of Lake Eerie as the Buckeyes are college football's worst nightmare, and the Browns try to shake off the rigor mortis before the 2019 is ruled DOA. Twitter | @UncleYoungBucks | @GoodForTheBrand | @cavsfan1player | @illstr8r Music: "The Spellbreaker" by Tri-Tachyon (Alexander Naumov) From the Free Music Archive

This week we discuss the horrific, human-caused fires burning in the Amazon, and National Geographic's Natasha Daly tells us how the millions of plant and animal species living in the world's largest tropical rainforest are affected by these fires.  Next, we talk to Dr. Miriam Goldstein, the Director of Ocean Policy at the Center for American Progress, about all the ways that humans are negatively impacting the ocean and the species that call it home. Chad the Bird is back this week to talk about algae blooms in Lake Eerie. As always, follow us on @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion HiFi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Follow Dr. Miriam Goldstein on Twitter @miriamgoldste Follow Natasha Daly on Twitter @natashaldaly Further Reading: Read Natasha Daly's piece on the plight of wildlife in the Amazon fires: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/08/how-the-amazon-rainforest-wildfires-will-affect-wild-animals/ Read Aaron Mak's coverage of the Amazon fires: https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/the-amazon-fires-what-you-need-to-know.html

On this episode Photographer Dave Sandford and I talk about why taking chances is so important, how he was able to capture his famous Lake Eerie series, his experiences in Antarctica, why you should be making the most of every opportunity you get, the power of a series of work versus a single image and so much more. Dave's Instagram: hereDaves Facebook: hereWebsite: here

On our final Halloween episode of the spooky season we are regaled by friend of the show, Amanda Karr. Growing up near Lake Eerie, Amanda led a fairly normal life in an Illinois suburb except for one thing – she shared a room with a ghost. No big deal. Join us for this chilling tale and ask yourself – is there a statute of limitations for ghost hauntings, why does Jason fight to the death for Deschutes Brewery, and most importantly does the Apparition of Caitlyn Jenner really exist? Happy Halloween. Thanks for hanging with us.

Greetings from beyond Lake Eerie! The fellas are back to blow your minds with an antiquated (90s) synonym for female genitalia that Ice T might be partly responsible for! Behold in bemusement as ya boiz discuss Rondo's saliva problem, Venom being mostly unnecessary, Solo being completely unnecessary, scuffles on trains, and what senses one deduces from to indicate whether a person has shat on said train plus much, much, muuuch more!   Missed Erections coming in HAWT from Denver, The Land, and the DFW. Overrated/Underrated makes a triumphant return, and we Power Rank alternate film genres for comic book characters to appear in.   3DickMafia.com to stream, contact, and peep the sweet merch available at 3DickMafia.Threadless.com   @TheSAClubPod on TWITTER and @Gmail.com for general contact if tweeting intimidates you.   RATE   RETWEET   RESPLENDENT

Tonight’s show, from a radically different perspective, is a continuation of last night’s exploration of “potential human origins … off-world.” My guest tonight, Michael Lee Hill, is going to tell us an extraordinary tale: First, of a remarkable “UFO encounter” Michael filmed over Lake Eerie, over a decade ago; second, how this brief episode of public notoriety led to his subsequent personal discovery of an extraordinary “bloodline connection” to a group of human extraterrestrials — “off-world ancestors” to contemporary Homo Sapiens, commonly referred to as “the Anunnaki”; and third, what the Anunnaki are deliberately leaving for Humankind across the planet even now … in the way of ancient “healing” and other sophisticated scientific knowledge and technology–“Coded” … in the crops. Join us. Richard C. Hoagland Show Items Richard’s Items: 1-  Oops! Federal officials divulge secret info about Native American artifacts     2-Astronauts explain why nobody has visited the moon in [...]

Direct from quarantine in the plague house Jess and Sam traverse in tale from the shores of Lake Eerie with the Storm Hag to the tree tops of Germany with Hans My Hedgehog! Grimm’s Grimmest Edited by Maria Tartar Hans My Hedgehog Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_My_Hedgehog Storm Hag & Jenny Greenteeth https://www.quotev.com/story/5416370/Ghost-Stories-and-Folklore/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Greenteeth http://www.fairyist.com/fairy-types/jenny-greenteeth/ Artwork by Amanda Figueroa Music composed by Andrew Jaworski

Hey. I took a long time to edit this and now it is the last day of february so I'd better post it. Its from like 2 or 3 weeks ago. Sometimes I get lazy. You know who wasn't lazy? Oliver Hazard Perry. At least not when it came to mobilizing and directing the forces that fought the British during the Battle of Lake Eerie. He did real well with that. Also, the war of 1812 was stupid. I mean, all war is stupid, but the war of 1812 was real dumb. Ummmm, Jeremiah did a great job. I think we will learn about a civil war general next time. I didn't know when we recorded the podcast but I have been doing some self-searching since then a realized many things. Most of them are food related. I enjoy sandwiches, for instance. But also I need a topic for the next podcast and that it is. So yeah, Oliver Hazard Perry was a Navy man who lead an interesting life and did some impressive stuff so enjoy bye.

Hue Jackson has to jump in Lake Eerie. News News News: LeBron James Turns 33 and the Entire Planet Celebrates, Johnny Manziel One Step Closer to Being Johnny Mapleleaf. Interview: Cleveland Browns Coach Hue Jackson's New Years Resolutions. Wide World of Weird Sports: The Best End Zone Celebrations of 2017.

EPISODE 58: GHOSTS OF ANCHOR BAY COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN 2017 After our clown craziness, we decided to spend the episode with old friend, paranormal investigator and author, Debi Chestnut. Debi was on an episode last year, 20: Shadow Stalkers and she comes back to share some of her new ghost stories from her book, Haunted Anchor Bay, Michigan. Debi’s been busy out hunting the supernatural with her paranormal investigation group, Shadow Stalkers and researching her new book, collecting ghost stories and folklore of Michigan. She shares two stories, narrated by our voice actors: Ouija Board, the story of a demonic game that keeps coming home to its owners and the Demon Dog of Lake Eerie, an ethereal harbinger that shows up aboard ships just before the sink. She also tells many of her ghost stories and updates us on her personal battle with a powerful demon—or a fallen angel. “You’ll be sitting in the cemetery on a bench reading, and all of a sudden, you’re surrounded by all these shadow people.” Check out our improved website at www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com and follow us on twitter at @pfwhatafraidof.

Two battles this week: An American naval victory at Lake Eerie and Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was a United States victory in the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom and Tecumseh's Confederacy

The United States is in the throes of a heroin and opiate epidemic. For Crossing Continents, India Rakusen travels to Lorain County, in the state of Ohio, where addiction has become part of everyday life. West of the city of Cleveland, Avon Lake is a wealthy suburb – its large, expensive properties back onto the shores of Lake Eerie, and wild deer frolic on neat lawns. But behind this façade, there is a crisis. Many families have felt the damaging impact of addiction. And across Lorain County, opiates – pharmaceutical and street heroin - have killed twice as many people in the first six months of 2016 alone, as died in the whole of 2015.Producer Linda Pressly.

The United States is in the throes of a heroin and opiate epidemic. For Crossing Continents, India Rakusen travels to Lorain County, in the state of Ohio, where addiction has become part of everyday life. West of the city of Cleveland, Avon Lake is a wealthy suburb - its large, expensive properties back onto the shores of Lake Eerie, and wild deer frolic on neat lawns. But behind this façade, there is a crisis. Many families have felt the damaging impact of addiction. And across Lorain County, opiates - pharmaceutical and street heroin - have killed twice as many people in the first six months of 2016 alone, as died in the whole of 2015. Producer Linda Pressly.

In this edition of Nowhere California's 2015 Comikaze coverage, the guys from Nowhere talk with a girl from Jersey. As Phil and Josh have a conversation with actress, Marilyn Ghigliotti. Ghigliotti entered the pop culture world with her work in the cult classic "Clerks" and has built a great career that continues, with such movies as Alien Armageddon and the upcoming Lake Eerie http://lakeeeriemovie.wix.com/lakeeerie It was a pleasure talking to her about her career and the roads she has traveled for her craft. Tell us your thoughts on this installement.. www.nowherecalifornia.com

The Discussion: A dismissal of paranoid woo-pedalling, following what seems be an upsurge in space-based pseudoscience this month, and we introduce you to the first in our series of astronaut interviews recorded at Cosmiccon. The News: This month we get a little disappointed at the lack of news from the New Horizons team after the initial press releases of NASA’s Pluto flyby. We take a look at the nearest confirmed rocky exoplanet to Earth, at 21 light years away, and ask ‘could we send a probe there within the span of a human lifetime?’ New evidence from many of the world’s most productive telescopes that shows the steady heat death of the universe. And a happy story to end on as NASA are offering the public the opportunity to send their names to Mars encoded on a microchip on the Insight Mars Lander next year. The 5 Minute Concept: We follow up on last month’s first back-to-basics 5 Minute Concepts with an introduction to what you can expect to realistically achieve with amateur telescopes – and Paul gives you his own ‘patent pending’ formula to help you decide if you’re likely to resolve that faint fuzzy. The Interview: This month we wrap the whole show around our interview with 4 time Shuttle astronaut, Dr Don Thomas. Veteran of 4 Space Shuttle missions (STS-65, STS-70, STS-83, STS-94), Don tells us about how he never gave up in his pursuit to become an astronaut, the incredible views from space (including Mount Everest, meteors and Comet Hale Bopp!), what’s in the Lake Eerie water that Ohio produces to many astronauts, flying through the Challenger & Columbia disasters, the future direction of NASA to the moon, asteroids and Mars and hanging out with Neil Armstrong in the run up to a launch. Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month Ralph & Paul answer: · This blew my mind! With a small telescope you can track some binary stars orbiting each other over the years. If I was going to watch a double star year to year looking for movement, what would be my best bet?Andrew Burns, from Reading, England & Randy Anokye from Kumasi, Ghana via the Facebook Group

In this episode, host David Gordon chats to authors Roisin O'Donnell and John Ahern. Geoff Harrison hears about fishing in Australia and Arthur and the ATW team hear about Theme Parks in Lake Eerie.

View the full Show Notes Here: http://www.hauntedattractionspodcast.com/ep02/ Jayme Criscione, along with her husband Bill, own and manage some of the best haunted houses in Ohio! Based in Sandusky, OH the newly expanded Ghostly Manor Thrill Center joins with The Lake Eerie FearFest opening September 26, 2014. The Ghostly Manor Thrill Center has won many awards, including being featured on the travel channel’s “Best Places I’ve Ever Been” and “Top Ten” by FORBES in 2013. Located three miles away from Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, Ghostly Manor Thrill Center (an indoor, multi-attraction family entertainment center) is open all year round. Lake Eerie Fearfest bands the mysterious legends of Lake Erie together under one roof to create the area’s most unique, most feared haunted destination in all of Ohio. You don’t want to miss the nationally recognized Ghostly Manor, and all new haunted encounters brought in from around the world including Darkmare, Caged, Quarantine & Eerie Chateau!

Video 9 in the series "A History of the Navy in 100 Objects" presented by the United States Naval Academy. This is discusses a sextant used in the Battle of Lake Eerie in 1813.