SMOKESTACK LOCAL LEGENDS
SMOKESTACK DOES THE COUNTY FAIR…
After years of struggling to afford the quintessential All-American summer trip to the county fair, Smokestack snuck into the 2024 Kitsap County Fair & Stampede on Thursday night, parked the mobile office amongst the horse trailers and livestock semis, met a one-eyed horse named Mojo and caught up with people doing stuff outside of the rodeo, in the beer garden, waiting for elephant ears, talking baseball, ford trucks and bachelorette parties.
Previous Episodes
GORDON & BART
OF BROTHER DON'S
On the one year episode of the Smokestack’s Local Legends live podcast, longtime local restauranteurs and Bremertonians Gordon Reinke & Bart Bruckman talk about thee Brother Don of the Kitsap Way Bar & Grill Brother Don’s, which is home to some of the top live blues and jazz in the area hosting ‘Music Often’ up six nights a week… Plus the origin of their friendship going all the way back to a teenage road trip to the ocean with a keg of beer in the back of Bart’s Studebaker, in the years when one went to West High and the other went to East… One of them is a Coug, the other is a Husky… One’s a Beatles fan, the other likes the Stones… and more. Recorded in front of a live audience on a Thursday evening at the Manette Saloon, brought to you by Kitsap Quiz Night & Malolo Design.
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Sunny Saunders
of Sunny Jack Events
WAYZGOOZE KITSAP
ANNUAL PRINTMAKERS FESTIVAL
Two of the people behind the Wayzgoose Kitsap Festival talk with Josh about how and why the annual printmaking party came to this town, the experience of the collaborative art making process, creating art with heavy machinery, plus a hint at the meaning of the word wayzgoose and why this town’s festival organizer says she would change it if she could… and more. Two of the people behind the Wayzgoose Kitsap Festival talk with Josh about how and why the annual printmaking party came to this town, the experience of the collaborative art making process, creating art with heavy machinery, plus a hint at the meaning of the word wayzgoose and why this town’s festival organizer says she would change it if she could… and more.
BARRY BLANKENSHIP
NATIONALLY RENOWNED POSTER ARTIST
Barry Blankenship, @barrytheartguy, sits down with Josh Farley over a glass of makers mark on ice to talk about the hustle of becoming a full-time artist, his cinematic style process, his work designing and printing posters and album covers for comedian Jim Gaffigan, his shout out on the Colbert show, printing 2000 5-color posters by hand for Dead & Company, his years of a backwards ferry commute from Seattle to Bremerton, the rickety old manette bridge, Flatstock festivals, free apples at the Fillmore in San Francisco and more…
COLLEEN MIKO
OF BREMERTON KITSAP ACCESS TELEVISION
Bremerton Kitsap Access Television Station Manager Colleen Miko sits down with Josh Farley to talk about giving voice to the community thru a non-commercial television platform, inspiring civic access and participation and celebrating community… plus Colleen’s political science degree, horticulture and the science of rain gardens, her national TV debut appearance on HGTV, putting a lawnmower into the trunk of a 1974 Cadillac Coupe de Ville to begin her landscaping career and more…
Recorded live at the Manette Saloon, Happy 13th Anniversary to Kitsap Quiz Night!
COLLEEN MIKO
OF BREMERTON KITSAP ACCESS TELEVISION
Bremerton Kitsap Access Television Station Manager Colleen Miko sits down with Josh Farley to talk about giving voice to the community thru a non-commercial television platform, inspiring civic access and participation and celebrating community… plus Colleen’s political science degree, horticulture and the science of rain gardens, her national TV debut appearance on HGTV, putting a lawnmower into the trunk of a 1974 Cadillac Coupe de Ville to begin her landscaping career and more…
Recorded live at the Manette Saloon, Happy 13th Anniversary to Kitsap Quiz Night!
DAVE & SHAWNA
OF SLIPPERY PIG BREWERY
Dave & Shawna Lambert are old school Poulsbo. They’ve got a street on the edge of town named after their brewery—Slippery Pig. Josh talks with them about both being NKHS grads, how Dave’s family is fifth generation Poulsbo and… plans for their new, second location, in the Callow neighborhood in Bremerton and plans for new stuff with an expanded kitchen in Poulsbo… did someone say deep fried corn dogs?Dave & Shawna Lambert are old school Poulsbo. They’ve got a street on the edge of town named after their brewery—Slippery Pig. Josh talks with them about both being NKHS grads, how Dave’s family is fifth generation Poulsbo and… plans for their new, second location, in the Callow neighborhood in Bremerton and plans for new stuff with an expanded kitchen in Poulsbo… did someone say deep fried corn dogs?
Miranda Pinero of Cafe Corvo
owner of Bremerton’s Cafe Corvo
Miranda Pinero, owner of Bremerton’s Cafe Corvo, answers Josh Farley’s grenade of questions about building a coffeeshop during the pandemic, why she chose Bremerton, the badass ladies over on Callow Avenue, the unorthodox charm of that neighborhood and being ‘weird as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccckk…’ in a good way. Recorded live at the Manette Saloon, brought to you by Kitsap Quiz Night
Eric Morley
THE MAN BEHIND BREMERTON'S KRAMPUS MASK w/ josh farley
Eric Morley, the man behind the Krampus mask and organizer of the burgeoning holiday tradition in Bremerton, talks with Josh Farley about the mythical goat-like creature’s origin story, his own origin story, how much that authentic Krampus mask weighs, being semi-Bremerton famous, overcoming the darkness, moving into the light and more…
Deena Taylor
of the Bremerton History podcast Bremelore w/ Josh Farley
Bremelore Podcast host Deena Taylor is anointed a journalist by Josh Farley, as they discuss the curious and peculiar incidents of Bremerton’s history like ‘bathtub races’ in the early years of the Blackberry Festival, a doctor who kept a lion as a pet for many years on Perry Avenue, and Bremelore’s number one requested topic: Toys Topless, the once-upon-a-time strip club in Gorst.
Recorded live on a Thursday night at the Manette Saloon in Bremerton
Garrett Kelly
of liminal.earth w/ Josh Farley
Garrett Kelly–a Bremerton-by-way-of-Seattle resident who is part of a digital quest to map ‘the strange, wonderful, unusual and unexpected’ at liminal.earth–talks with Josh about Bremerton’s own crustacean cryptid ‘Shrimpy,’ an astral phone booth on Perry Avenue, creating a dream box at a local park, the Oracle of Delphi, creating your own local magical myths and more…
Recorded live at the Manette Saloon, brought to you by the ancestral ghosts of the Smokestack.
Heidi & Lowell
of Hi-Lo's 15th Street Cafe w/ Josh Farley
Heidi and Lowell, Bremerton’s recently retried owners of Hi-Lo’s 15th Street Cafe, talk with Josh Farley about the 17-year life of the cafe and their love for Bremerton, Heidi’s future gig as an amplified kazoo-ist, the secret recipe behind the world-famous, featured-in-People-magazine, Moon Biscuits & Gravy and more…
Recorded live at the Manette Saloon, brought to you by Kitsap Quiz Night.
Mike Herrera
of MXPX w/ Josh Farley
Kicking off The Smokestack’s Local Legends Conversations… Josh Farley talks with Mike Herrera of MXPX about their new album ‘Find A Way Home’ upcoming shows at Furnace Fest and the When We Were Young Fest, plus… Quebec, Tom & Yuri taking over the shipyard, the Bette Midler Theory, Pokinatcha and more…
Recorded live at the Manette Saloon, brought to you by Malolo Design Co.
Bill Man
interviewed by Josh Farley
Dan from Malolo Design Co. got Josh Farley and Bill Man together before one of Josh’s recent Kitsap Quiz Nights at the Saloon. We fed Bill a buncha drinks to get him talking about the story of the smokestack, about people doing stuff and how the hell he ended up here….