Hollow Earth Radio, Wooden Boats, and a Teen Medic

07/25/2008

We visit the Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union. The Center's founding director Dick Wagner shares how boats have expanded our horizon since the dawn of time. We also get weekend movie reviews and sample the strange and wonderful found sounds of Hollow Earth Radio.

At 2:05 p.m. – Hollow Earth Radio

The messages you leave on an answering machine are little portals into your life. Somewhere in the future, a stranger could construct an entire story around your unanswered phone call. That's what Amber Kai Morgan and her partner Garrett Kelly do in their Fremont basement. They founded an Internet Radio station called Hollow Earth Radio. In an archive interview from 2/29/08 Megan Sukys finds out that much of their programming comes from old answering machine tapes.

At 2:20 p.m. – A Life Around Boats

Imagine a world without boats. A world where the vast expanses of water were the final borders of our exploration. Dick Wagner often thinks of those primitive times as he looks out on the waters of the Puget Sound. Dick is the founding director of the Center for Wooden Boats here on Lake Union. Dave Beck visits the Center and speak with Dick Wagner about some of the boats from their collection.

At 2:40 p.m. – Robert Horton Movie Reviews

If you're thinking about heading to the movies this weekend, hold on a second. Robert Horton joins us every Friday to review films. This week we'll learn about a remake of a classic novel, and Robert will talk about a film that turned out to be a surprising guilty pleasure.

At 2:50 p.m. – Making It

Fifty hours a week, at the University of Washington Medical Center ER, Crystal Patterson is so busy that she barely has time to go to the bathroom. She's cleaning wounds, drawing blood, doing EKGs, all kinds of tasks. All the medical assistants work like crazy, of course, but 18–year–old Crystal is special in that she's been doing this for a year already while her friends finished high school. And, she's going to nursing school in the fall. And, her dad never made much more than minimum wage working as a janitor. She does think her story is significant because not everyone who comes from a low income family makes it. But she did. And she thinks it's largely due to her father's encouragement. Crystal speaks with KUOW's Sara Lerner.