The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland!

Awwwoooooooooo! 🚀 🐶 Our new adventure kicks off with this exciting episode! 

We are so excited to launch this new season's story this week! Season 2 is as adventurous and exciting as the last, but it's also got some great lessons about friendship, healing from trauma, why it's important to take risks, and how community and family are what makes risk-taking possible. We're also very proud of some great in-show and after-show jokes—one of which made Hank laugh harder than he ever has in his life! His parents had to check on him as he almost passed out from laughing!

We're putting our whole doggy hearts out here for this one, and we're thrilled you'll come along for the ride!

So come with us to Dogland, we've got special tales to tell! And when we come together all our tales will wag as well!

If you're new to our story, please go find episode 1, called "S1E1 | START HERE! | Power Dog Goes To College" as this is a serial story adventure that unfolds throughout each season. This story has been created by a mom+pop+pup team that started as bedtime stories with a toddler and grew and grew and grew! Over time, a whole, wonderful world emerged, and it was filled with good-natured (of course) dogs who believe in community, staying curious, and overcoming obstacles with mindfulness techniques and open hearts. At the center of this lovely pack is Power Dog, who is so named because he has so many powers that he doesn't even know what he is capable of yet.

Special thanks to our creative partner Jason Roark who records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard.

Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank’s Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won’t Give Up!”

Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick.

If you catch a moment, and can follow, rate, and/or review the show, we would be so grateful! It really helps get the word out for our small, indie, mom & pop & pup, family operation.

You can find out more and send us jokes at www.powerdogadventures.com

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support!

Support the show:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/powerdog

https://www.patreon.com/powerdogadventures

We are proud members of Kids Listen, an organization dedicated to high-quality audio content for kids and families.

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

Who's ready to get this party startled?! 

We love Halloween and jokes so much that we decided to throw together one more little bonus episode of just super fun Howl-o-ween dog jokes and some of our favorite regular Halloween jokes for the season! After the past couple of years, we all feel like celebrating just a little more than ever before, right?! 

And, if you haven't yet, be sure to check out our super sweet "Howl-o-ween" special! It’s a fun, exciting, and magical tale of tails- about a pair of young raccoon-type twin dogs living on Dogland. This story can be listened to without having listened to our serial episodes in Seasons 1&2, but it is also how we are choosing to kick off Season 2. Although the story has some mild suspense and Halloween-adjacent fun, it is mostly fun and silly and meant to delight young listeners (age 4+) and old. It will lift your spirits and give 'em pumpkin to talk about!

Special thanks to our creative partner Jason Roark who records, edits, and designs this show. This episode featured a bit of Jason's Howl-o-ween version of a family favorite song, In the Hall of Mountain King by Grieg, who hated the song and wrote it to be a parody of the music of the time that he disliked. We love all of Peer Gynt and encourage you to check it out! Stick around to the very end of this jokes episode to hear a public domain symphony arrangement courtesy of Orange Free Sounds- a great resource for free audio.

This episode's cover art is by Mom Slice.

If you catch a moment, and can follow, rate, and/or review the show, we would be so grateful! It really helps get the word out for our small, indie, mom & pop & pup, family operation.

You can find out more and send us jokes at www.powerdogadventures.com

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support!

Support the show:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/powerdog

https://www.patreon.com/powerdogadventures

We are proud members of Kids Listen, an organization dedicated to high-quality audio content for kids and families.

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

We dedicate this episode to one of the greatest storytellers and joke lovers our family and community knew and worked with, the late, great, David Kennedy. We are supporting The AICF in his honor. Join us in donating via the Paypal giving fund to see 100% of your donation go to the incredible work the AICF is doing: https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/2305076

Here's a quick bit of Halloween fun from Hank's Granny, aka Jeanie Murphy, that we were so thrilled to have her record for us and our Howl-o-ween special with her banjo. We reworked this bit of old poetry over and over until it was ours, and then she set it to music. We feel so fortunate to have a musical Granny, and Hank has been musical since before he was born. The two of them have been noodling on songs together since he was knee-high to a fiddle!

You can find out more about our show and send us jokes at www.powerdogadventures.com

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support!

Support the show:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/powerdog

https://www.patreon.com/powerdogadventures

We are proud members of Kids Listen, an organization dedicated to high-quality audio content for kids and families.

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

Here's a quick bit of Halloween fun from Hank's Granny, aka Jeanie Murphy, that we love to play in our home and sing along with as well!

Jeanie played this old traditional song—that she learned and loved from Jean Ritchie—for and with her kids (that's Hank's mom & uncle) when they were little, so it's great fun to pass it along to another generation. We hope you enjoy it, too! If you love old songs and sing-alongs, we hope that you will check out Jean Ritchie! Here's a recording housed at the US Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/afc9999005.3966/

You can find out more about our show and send us jokes at www.powerdogadventures.com

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support!

Support the show:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/powerdog

https://www.patreon.com/powerdogadventures

We are proud members of Kids Listen, an organization dedicated to high-quality audio content for kids and families.

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

Thank you for tuning in to this spooktacular special! It’s a fun, exciting, and magical tale of tails- about a pair of young raccoon-type twin dogs living on Dogland. This story can be listened to without having listened to our serial episodes in Seasons 1&2, but it is also how we are choosing to kick off Season 2. Although the story has some mild suspense and Halloween-adjacent fun, it is mostly fun and silly and meant to delight young listeners (age 4+) and old. It will lift your spirits and give 'em pumpkin to talk about!

We wrote the song that plays at the end of our episodes along with Hank’s Granny,  aka Jean Murphy! The song is called “Howl-o-ween!” We took story inspiration from A Tale for Halloween by Loretta Ellen Brady from the collection, The Green Forest Fairy Book (1920.) 

Special thanks to our creative partner Jason Roark who records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard. This episode featured a bit of Jason's Howl-o-ween version of a family favorite song, In the Hall of Mountain King by Grieg, who hated the song and wrote it to be a parody of the music of the time that he disliked. We love all of Peer Gynt and encourage you to check it out!

This episode's cover art is by Mom Slice and features our original Power Dog illustration by Matthew Hayes.

If you catch a moment, and can follow, rate, and/or review the show, we would be so grateful! It really helps get the word out for our small, indie, mom & pop & pup, family operation.

You can find out more and send us jokes at www.powerdogadventures.com

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support!

Support the show:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/powerdog

https://www.patreon.com/powerdogadventures

We are proud members of Kids Listen, an organization dedicated to high-quality audio content for kids and families.

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

We dedicate this episode to one of the greatest storytellers our family and community knew and worked with, the late, great, David Kennedy. We are supporting The AICF in his honor. Join us in donating via the Paypal giving fund to see 100% of your donation go to the incredible work the AICF is doing: https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/2305076

We are so pleased to share this first episode from this incredible, utterly beautiful, fun radio play story series, Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater.

We are so pleased to share this episode of one of our favorite shows for kids, a fellow Kids & Families pick for Apple podcasts, Dorktales Storytime Podcast!

Hosted by Jonathan Cormur, this podcast is a fellow member show in the wonderful organization we belong to dedicated to high-quality audio for families called Kids Listen. It is also one of Hank's favorite shows. He loves listening to Jonathan & Mr. Redge discuss stories and historical figures, and he often has questions for both of them. The show creators love getting questions from kids, so if you and your family have any, be sure to reach out to them at this link!

We asked the fine folks of Dorktales Storytime if we could share this episode about Merlin Tuttle because it is one of our favorites and because bats play a key role in keeping our planetary ecosystem in balance. We love bats so much that we also collaborated with Jodi from Dorktales Storytime to compile a list of great show episodes about bats for Bat Appreciation Day that you can read here.

HIDDEN HEROES OF HISTORY | MERLIN TUTTLE

written by Molly Murphy and performed by Jonathan Cormur

A story of bat caves, field notes, and righting a wrong reputation! Merlin Tuttle has spent his career studying bats and proving why they are an incredibly vital part of the ecosystem. His research, books, lectures, and National Geographic style photography have led to the knowledge that bats are not spooky but spectacular! Meet the hero who showed the world that some of the smallest creatures are making the biggest contributions—the real “batman” and champion protector of nature’s delightful, dark-winged, do-gooders.

~Audio Engineering by Jermaine Hamilton and Illustration by Arthur Lin 

We are so pleased to share this mini-episode from one of our favorite shows for kids and adventure lovers of all ages, Stories For Wonderful Children! Hosted by Dan Wendelin, this podcast is a fellow member show in the wonderful organization we belong to dedicated to high-quality audio for families called Kids Listen. This story, called The Lost Puppy, was first published as part of Dan's celebration of his 100th episode!

We are so pleased to share this fantastic episode from one of our all-time favorite shows, Buttons & Figs!

We are so pleased to share this episode of one of our favorite shows for kids, the critically acclaimed At Your Level! Hosted by big kid Ari Kelly, this podcast is a fellow member show in the wonderful organization we belong to dedicated to high-quality audio for families called Kids Listen. It is also one of Hank's favorite shows. He loves listening to Ari's interviews, musical breaks, a segment called "bizarre ASMR," and more.

If you'd like to be a guest on At Your Level, Ari would love to meet you. There are two easy ways to do it: you can record a pitch on the big mic on the homepage, or email [email protected] and tell us about yourself. At Your Level is produced by Art & Light Society.