The Fighting Moose

We were swarmed by minks! Not really, but we had about 6 or 7 minks running around us the other day when we were on a walk. It was pretty cool because we saw them climb up over the sea wall and then start running away from us on the boardwalk. After that incident, I knew what I was going to do today's podcast about. So today, we read the story “Two Famous Swimmers” and this story comes to us from the book “The Burgess Animal Book for Children” and is written by Thornton W. Burgess.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode215.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/fjrlvcAWqZc/

Book(s):

“The Burgess Animal Book for Children”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2441

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

This week, we celebrate the formation of two countries. The first happened on July 1. Our friends to the North celebrate the formation of Canada that occurred back in 1867. The second, is the formation of our great country, The United States of America, which occurred on July 4, 1776. Today's story, which is titled “The End of the Struggle” comes to us from the book “True to the Old Flag” written by G.A. Henty. This story relates the end of the war with Britain and how that secured our independence here in the United States.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode214.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/4xJhAjZAw7I/

Book(s):

“True to the Old Flag”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8859

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

If you haven't seen it yet, I would recommend seeing the movie “Luca” that was recently released by Disney and Pixar. We watched it last night and I liked it. It kind of reminded me of the 1989 Disney film “The Little Mermaid.” Anyway, today, we read the story “The Sea Serpent.” This story comes to us from the book “The Sea Fairies” written by L. Frank Baum.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode213.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/fRPnurGZJq8/

Book(s):

“The Sea Fairies”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48778

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

Artist – grapes

http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/grapes

http://www.facebook.com/grapes510

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

Camping, lighthouses, and lightships, oh my! Well, we were camping, next to a lighthouse, and we compared that lighthouse to a lightship. That's how we got to today's story. Today, we read the story, “The Lamp-Posts of the Great Lakes of North America.” This story comes to us from the book “Lightships and Lighthouses” and is written by Frederick A. Talbot.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode212.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/icDgbQFfen0/

Book(s):

“Lightships and Lighthouses”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52817

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

Today marks the 250th episode for the podcast! Thank you for your patronage to the podcast. Today, we read the story “A Landslide in the Cut.” This story comes to us from the book “The Steam-Shovel Man” and was written by Ralph D. Paine. This topic suggestion came from John in which he referenced the book “Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel,” a book written by Virginia Lee Burton in 1939. I don't know if he read this book recently or not, as we have a copy at home, but I have fond memories of reading that book when I was a kid so a story about steam shovels I will do.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

https://youtu.be/NQjHJKNyoUE/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode211.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/VVdZMB2pbzk/

Book(s):

“The Steam-Shovel Man”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60740

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

So for a family movie recommendation, I would recommend you watch “Raya and the Last Dragon” release by Disney in 2021. We watched it last night and it was pretty good. Of course, you guessed it, it is the inspiration for today's episode. Today we hang out with Jason as we read the story “The Brass Bulls” and the story “Jason and the Dragon.” Both of these stories come from the book “Old Time Stories, Fairy Tales, and Myths Retold by Children” written by E. Louise Smythe.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode210.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/w7-ApBajb1I/

Book(s):

“Old Time Stories, Fairy Tales, and Myths Retold by Children”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7841

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

Start To Grow (cdk Mix) by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2013

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/43815

Ft: Jeris

Strike Three, you're out! That's a sound of summer, at least for me anyway. Nothing is more summer than a game of baseball. For my family and I, we have already been to two games with plans on heading to more. Well, in today's episode, we get to see what happens when two bears play the game of baseball with the story “The Roosevelt Bears Play Baseball” from the book “More About the Roosevelt Bears” written by Seymour Eaton.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

United Shore Professional Baseball League

https://uspbl.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode209.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/mNR9mYWhkh0/

Book(s):

“More About the Roosevelt Bears”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65424

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

Today's episode was a total accident. I originally intended to do a King Arthur story but when I went in search of that book, I found this book instead and then I found this story. It was like that story titles just jumped off the page at me. Today's story is titled “A Parrot That Had Been Trained to Fire a Cannon” and it comes to us from the book “The Junior Classics, Volume 8, Animal and Nature Stories” and these stories were compiled by William Patten.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode208.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/tHlSby9AyUQ/

Book(s):

“The Junior Classics, Volume 8, Animal and Nature Stories”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8075

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

If you are ever in Grass Lake, MI, I would recommend taking a trip to “The Lost Railway Museum.” It's a nice little museum and you can learn about the history of mass transportation in the early 1900s. That is what inspired today's stories. Up first we have the story “A Train of Thought” written by A.A. Milne and comes from the book “If I May.” Batting second, is the poem “The Song of Steam” written by George Washington Cutter and this comes to us from the book “Great Inventions and Discoveries.”

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

Lost Railway Museum

https://www.lostrailwaymuseum.org/

Michigan Activity Pass

https://tln.lib.mi.us/map/

Youtube Video (Train Room Gary)

https://youtu.be/7tWs0x5cduc

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode207.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/wChKOseQ84M/

Book(s):

“If I May”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7365

“Great Inventions and Discoveries”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37574

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

Ethereal Space (cdk Mix) by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2011

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/34151

Ft: snowflake

Today's story comes to us from a suggestion from a listener. This listener is probably the most avid listener of the podcast. That's right, it's my son. He made the suggestion about doing a story about Orpheus or Theseus, the guy who played the harp and defeated the sirens. This was a great suggestion because that kid is definitely mine, he loves mythology! Anyway, today, we read the story “Orpheus and Eurydice” from the book “Old Greek Folk Tales Told Anew” written by Josephine Preston Peabody.

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Website:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/

Blog

https://thefightingmoosepodcast.blogspot.com/

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fighting-moose/id1324413606?mt=2/

Story (PDF):

http://ww.thefightingmoose.com/episode206.pdf

Reading List:

http://www.thefightingmoose.com/readinglist.pdf

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/uZEfWh440lg/

Book(s):

“Old Greek Folk Tales Told Anew”

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9313

Music/Audio:

Artist – Analog by Nature

http://dig.ccmixter.org/people/cdk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

http://www.nasa.gov

Song(s) Used:

cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature

(c) copyright 2016

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755