The Podwits are in the weeds this week- literally! After debating the merits of preservatives, the boys go on about hunting, camping, DIY home projects, and doing manly things to help reinforce their fragile egos and prove they are still in fact MEN! Keep their fire going and download the podcast today! Footnotes: 1970’s Las Vegas Home bomb […]
Posts Tagged ‘Disasters’
The Podwits Pocket guide to Camping and Fishing
Posted: 7th June 2014 by Podwits Administrator in A Case of the Munchies, Art, Books, Celebrities, Electronics, Film, Film Review, Food, Games, History, Housekeeping, Literature, News, Podcast, Technology, Television, Up on The Soap BoxTags: camping, Coleman, Disasters, DIY Projects, Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th The Series, H.P. Lovecraft, Herbert West–Reanimator, hunting, McDonalds, Preppers, science, The Dark Side, The Reanimator, The Walking Dead
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Shattered Hulls, Part 3: Life in Dark Waters
Posted: 30th May 2012 by Podwits Administrator in History, PodcastTags: Andrea Doria, Disasters, Eastland, Edmund Fitzgerald, Scorpion, Thresher, U-869
All aboard for Brian and Dion’s wrap-up of their enthusiastic but respectful journey through the history of maritime disasters. They look back at the great shipwrecks of United States history—some famous (the SS Andrea Doria and the SS Edmund Fitzgerald), some less so (the American nuclear subs Thresher and Scorpion, and the Great Lakes excursion liner […]
Shattered Hulls, Part 2: The War Years
Posted: 9th May 2012 by Podwits Administrator in History, PodcastTags: Bismark, Disasters, HMT Lancastria, PS General Slocum, RMS Lusitania, Shipwrecks, Yamato
Dion and Brian are back with the second of our shipwreck specials. This time they delve into some of the fascinating maritime casualties of the two World Wars, including RMS Lusitania, the German battleship Bismarck, the Japanese battleship Yamato, and the little-known but spectacular disaster that was the HMT Lancastria. Plus, Dion reveals his favorite unknown shipwreck […]
So What Ship REALLY Sank That Fateful “Night to Remember”?
Posted: 28th April 2012 by Dion in Books, History, Literature, NewsTags: Californian, Conspriacy Thoeries, Disasters, HMS Hawke, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, White Star Line
With the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic this month, fellow Podwit Brian and I decided to indulge our fascination with nautical disasters, releasing the first part of our Podwits Podcast Disaster special, with Part Two to drop very soon. In researching these specials, I came across an age-old conspiracy theory linked to […]
Shattered Hulls, Part 1: “Magnificent Compelling Wrongness”
Posted: 18th April 2012 by Podwits Administrator in History, PodcastTags: Cunard Line, Disasters, Edward Smith, Harland and Wolff, HMHS Britannic, HMS Hawke, Olympic Class Fleet, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, Shipwrecks, SS City of New York, SS Morro Castle, USS Maine, Violet Jessup, White Star Line
In the wake of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, Brian and Dion indulge their shared fascination with shipwrecks for your entertainment and edification. Join them for their first Shipwreck Special Podcast, as they discuss at length the majesty and tragedy of various oceanic disasters, concentrating on the beginning of the 20th […]
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