Host Gabriel Spitzer celebrates some of his favorite stories from past shows on today’s episode. We’ll meet a punter who thought he was a linebackerfor a minute, a composer working in an empty 2 million gallon water tank, a cowboy who “met” Bigfootand a Balkan rock star who staged an antiwar musicalin a war zone.
Johnny Hekker is a punter for the Los Angeles Rams, though he grew up in Bothell. A few years ago he was back home playing against the Seahawks, when, in a moment of exuberance, he took the burly Cliff Avril to the ground. Cliff’s teammates weren’t pleased.
Stuart Dempster is a well known composer and trombonist. He says some of his favorite work came together inside a massive World War II-era cisternin Port Townsend, where the reverb can stretch out for nearly a minute.
When you picture Sasquatch, chances are you imagine a specific image of a bipedal humanoid, mid-stride, arms swinging and head turned back to look behind it. Bob Gimlin, one of the men behind the iconic Patterson-Gimlin film footage, says Sasquatch was looking back at him.
During the war in Yugoslavia, Gino Jevdjevic found himself locked down in Sarajevo as bombs and artillery fell. So naturally, he chose to stage a productionof the antiwar musical “Hair.” Gino now fronts the Seattle-based “Gypsy Punk” band Kultur Shock.
And in the full broadcast version below, we’ll also meet a woman who discovered her Native rootsafter being adopted, and learn about the forgotten “War on Monkey Island.”
