Episode 287: The Witch of November

November 13, 2020

Episode 287: The Witch of November

This week, Host Dave Bledsoe lies when he tries to convince the bartender he was a sailor on the Edmund Fitzgeral and should not pay this bartab, only to learn the 23 year old NYC bartender has no idea who this “Edmund Fitzwhatever” is. On the show this week, we mark the 45th anniversary of the loss of the Pride of the American Side with a whole new theory on what happened to The Fitz. (Hint: corporations=bad)

Along the way we learn that a young Dave was very bad at playing guitar. (Shocking!) From there we jump into the history of SS Edmund Fitizgeral with everything you newer thought you wanted to know about the big ship and origins. Then we sail along her ill fated final voyage into the teeth of a hurricane west wind! (Are there Gordon Lightfoot lyrics sprinkled throughout? You know it!) Finally, we examine the failures and blame shifting of everyone involved in the tragedy from the Coast Guard to the corporate masters of the Might Fitz. We also learn that you should never Google “Toledo Express”. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you!)

Our Sponsor this week is the Columbia Transportation Division, Oglebay Norton Company of Cleveland, Ohio who wants you to know we were just a shell corporation for the big player! We open the show with NBC news coverage from 1975 and close with Headstones ringing the church bell 29 times.

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Citations Needed:

NBC Nightly News December 11th 1975

https://youtu.be/z7tzntwy0_8

Wikipedia SS Edmund Fitzgerald