Midmost Coast

Episode 027

We've launched the HistoryCast 5000, a reoccurring segment in which Sean and Allen examine the historical accuracy of movies and other media.

To break in the machine, we have selected a movie widely considered to be one of the most historically accurate films ever made: Sink the Bismarck!

Yes the movie has an exclamation mark at the end of the title. But we're also excited.

Episode 026

Last year the Midmost Coast podcast took a look at the pilot episode of Dawson's Creek, a teen drama produced out of our home base in Wilmington, North Carolina. Its impact to the area's television and film production community was significant, bringing other productions and talent to the area.

Despite this we decided it was horrible and to never watch it again. This month, one year later, we watched it again. This time we chose a Christmas themed episode from the last season. We are joined by two panel guests to help us get through it.

Episode 025

Just upstream from the mouth of the Cape Fear River is a restricted military base, occupying thousands of acres of sprawling and undeveloped wetlands. Within it runs miles and miles of railway that leads to nowhere.

The base is Sunny Point, also known as MOTSU, and the story of its creation begins with three catastrophic explosions in the early and mid twentieth century.

Episode 022

This month we watch and talk about the film that built the movie industry in Wilmington, North Carolina. Firestarter starred a young Drew Barrymore, and was based on a novel by Stephen King. It was produced by Dino De Laurentiis who went on to found DEG, which present day is now EUE/Screen Gems.

We also talk about the complex relationship between Stephen King and the film and TV adaptations of his works.

Episode 020

Shipwrecks. Rocket engines. U-boats. Atom bombs. Regular bombs. There's a lot of stuff in the water off the Carolina coast and beyond, and we talk about them in this episode.

We check in on Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge to make sure it's still there, kick the tires on some World War II practice bombs, find out what a Q-ship is, and talk about so many military shipwrecks.

Episode 019

In 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the fair city of Wilmington, North Carolina to film an old fashioned rampage film called Raw Deal. Mostly mad cap and light-hearted, this film features some of the best and worst tropes of an 80's action film.

Along with the ill-fated King Kong Lives, this is one of the last movies produced by the financially embattled De Laurentiis Entertainment Group.

Special guest Scott Holmquist returns this episode to discuss the movie, as well as Sean's obsession with beefcake.

[Explicit Language and Content]

Episode 018

You might think Greenfield Lake is filled with water, but it is in fact filled with history. And that green stuff on top? Extra history. In this episode we fill out the backstory of Wilmington's once and future playground.

Episode 017

We take a break form being serious with a holiday bonus episode. Our home base of Wilmington has hosted not one but two teen television dramas.

Watching these shows is co-host Sean Gallagher's worst nightmare.

So we make him watch the pilot episode of this teen drama. One Tree Hill made it to nine seasons and featured plot lines about feelings, and things in your heart, and emotions, and also basketball.

This episode features adult language and discussion of adult topics.

Episode 016

The Fort Fisher Hermit was born in the 1890s, lived through the Great Depression, was committed to a mental institution by his in-laws, and ultimately became a local celebrity and tourist attraction on Pleasure Island.

In this episode of the Midmost Coast podcast we examine the life and controversial death of Robert Harrill, known to most as the Fort Fisher Hermit.

Episode 015

With a new King Kong movie in theaters, we look back at the 1986 film King Kong Lives, filmed largely in Wilmington, NC out of Dino De Laurentiis' freshly minted film studio. This movie didn't kill at the box office, but it did kill some careers.

Scott Holmquist and Ana "No Last Name" joins our panel to look back at this production which is steeped in local history.