Welcome To Oregon: An Oregon Historical Variety Show

On this episode, we sit down with Michael Calhoun to discuss the Rails-to-Trails project and how you can work towards improving your own town or city!

This week, we talk about the Tillamook Halal Controversy, Bruce talks about the death of saloon man Julius Kuhn, and Marcus tells stories about Pronto Pup, Or-Ida, and Voodoo Doughnuts.

Finn tells the story of a dead guy who led a wagon train to Oregon. Marcus retells Episode 1: Origins

Welcome back, everyone! This week, we are trying out a brand new format that will be explained towards the beginning of the show, but it involves having only one presenter each week instead of two. So, this week David is bringing the story of Oregon's bone wars to the table, and later on we talk about Reddit people and their favorite Oregon stories!

This episode of Welcome To Oregon Live includes stories about Centennial Mills, the Tillamook hangar, the final part of the Van Dran feud, Dayton Leroy Rogers aka the Mollala forest killer, and more Unwritten Law stories!

We are back with another icky serial killer, the shoe fetish slayer himself, Jerry Brudos! Before we get into that, though, we discuss a historic warehouse burning down, David talks more forensics, and Marcus tops off the episode with a long awaited obit on Ken Kesey!

We have a brand new guest interview! We finally pinned down Kami Horton, a decades-long producer with Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), to talk about her, her projects, and random historical tangents. It was an absolute blast that you should not miss!

On this episode, we go into the dark history of Oregon's eugenics program, covering it's origin, Bethenia Owen's Adair, Fairview Training center, and so much more!

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Welcome back everyone to our second episode of our Summer of Serial Killers series! In this episode we will be talking over the meeting that happened during the opening testimony of the Salem data center, followed by part 2 of Bruce's story on the Van Dran feud, our main segment going into the Highway 20 killer himself John Arthur Ackroyd, and then finally Finn caps us off with more Unwritten Law stories! It's a long episode, so sit back and enjoy!

Hey guys, welcome to a bonus episode where Marcus, Finn, and David discuss the imminent ramifications of an invasive data center, from local impacts to historical and archeological ones.