Our latest round of surfing has brought us some strange delights – an invasion of Alaska, a river’s life history, the storied existence of writer Dashiel Hammett, the deadliest plague in human history, and a nightmarish trek down the Amazon River. Oh, and did we mention that Brandon gets changed into an actual river? Yea…this is a fun episode. Join us =)
Unalaska, Alaska – population center of the Aleutian IslandsAttu Village during the WWII period.Battle Of Dutch Harbor during the Aleutian Island Campaign, on nearby Amaknak IslandYou can see Attu and Kiska to the left of this map.
Emergency Hospital in Camp Funston, KansasSpanish paper depicting biologists pleading with the flue virus.Advice on what to do if you have the flu, from a hospital in New Zealand
Depiction of the Orellana Expedition building a ship to sail the river.One of the first maps of the Amazon Basin, done in 1707.One of many geoglyphs on the Amazon floor. Image by montgolfière
CREDITS
Intro and outro by Amanda Smith
Big thank you to our voice actors: Michel Robertson, Alan McCormack, Matthew Essary, Philip Cushing, Priscilla Blossom, Eddy Fernandez Jr, Arturo G. Codina, Thiago Fragoso, Nathaniel Delk, Kei Nohara, and TKC.
Various bird calls via Gabriel Leite, Jeremy Minns, Felipe Arantas, Christopher Zohler, and Doug Gochfeld via xeno-canto.org.
Additional thanks to Patrick Sullivan and David Zagardo for their input and work.
Additionally, we use portions of a radio version of The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet, and Mary Astor, broadcast live on the Academy Award Theater radio show, July 3, 1946.
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