We're Holding Our Own: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, as big freighters go, she was bigger than most with a crew and captain well seasoned...but on November 10th, 1975 she and her 29 man crew were sent to the bottom of Lake Superior. Ric Mixter of Lake Fury tells the story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | Music or wherever you get your podcast. This is our American stories, and our next story comes to us courtesy of Rick Mixter, |
| 0:51.2 | a shipwreck researcher and diver who's explored over 130 shipwrecks, one of which |
| 0:58.1 | is the subject of this story on the most famous shipwreck on the Great Lakes. |
| 1:03.0 | Here's our own Monty Montgomery with a story. |
| 1:10.5 | When we think of the word lake, we often think of a calm, placid, and small body of water, |
| 1:17.2 | but the Great Lakes are anything but that. |
| 1:20.2 | People underestimate them. |
| 1:22.0 | You know, literally, they think they're ponds. |
| 1:24.3 | They think that they're, you know, they're much smaller than the ocean. |
| 1:27.4 | And the truth is that the Great Lakes span over a thousand miles. |
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