Unsinkable: The Titanic Podcast

Happy Black History Month! Today we explore the life of Harriet Tubman, who every American school child learns a LITTLE about. Her life was much more complex and grittier than typical textbooks will lead one to believe; her work on the Underground Railroad is just the tip of our proverbial iceberg. During the Civil War, Tubman risked her life to scout and spy for the Union Army as well as worked t...

Join Pablo O'Hana, record-breaking fourth time Unsinkable guest, and me for a lively discussion of the evolution of modern marketing in the US and the UK. We take a look at the strategies used by the White Star Line and her competitors to bolster their reputations of luxury and size ("Have you heard of Dr. Freud, Mr. Ismay?") on the coveted Trans-Atlantic route in the early twentiet...

Help Asheville and its continuing recovery from Hurricane Helene here: https://www.belovedasheville.com/ Find all info related to Titanic: An Immersive Voyage here: https://expo-titanic.com/ Happy holidays! *Note: As a historian and former museum professional, I should make the disclaimer that Titanic: An Immersive Voyage does have some artifacts on display without standard placards and provenance...

Please consider donating to help the victims of this disaster. Our beautiful mountain city is in ruins. Links here: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2024/10/02/asheville-nc-flooding-how-to-help-helene-relief-efforts-in-western-nc/75472474007/ If you'd like to help the pod stay up and running during this time/support our little family during displacement, consider becoming a Patr...

Please excuse some inferior sound, I am displaced from my studio at the moment because of some very disagreeable pipes at our house that decided to flood our bottom floor.  Sex is discussed in this episode, just a heads up, but not in any graphic way. Find our Outlander podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-great-outlander-rewatch/id1655047578 Books referenced in this episode (pu...

*Disclaimer: this episode includes the opinions of myself and my guest and is not intended to reflect anyone else's. We are not associated with RMST, Inc. in any way. When facts about the company are presented, we make sure to note them and mark them separately from our opinions.* Find Pablo here: https://www.instagram.com/pabs94/ For Pablo’s article: https://pabloohana.medium.com/judge-smith...

This was a Patreon bonus episode but too fun to not unlock! I bring you an amazing EXTRA SPECIAL episode with my friend and fellow Titaniac Jamie Didawick. We met on Instagram when she found the podcast a couple of years ago and have since bonded over both Titanic and Disney. She's a travel agent (the best one ever) and she helped me and my family have the time of our lives at Disney World ju...

Thank you for AN AMAZING SEASON! Happy summer and love to you all! Find the Insta for my forthcoming Outlander podcast here: https://www.instagram.com/thegreatoutlanderrewatch/ For Paul's new Titanic podcast collaboration with Titanic Book Club, go here!  https://www.youtube.com/@titanicbookclub Support the show Support Unsinkable on Patreon for as little as $1/month: https://www.patreon.com/...

Join me in an audio essay, a love letter if you will, to the oak paneling made so iconic by the final scene of James Cameron’s Titanic and its new home at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge. A huge thank you to the museum for their support of the podcast for the past two years: I am honored to work with you all and I wish you the best with this exciting new exhibit! Emily Densky joins m...

Join me as I begin to explore the lives of Middle Eastern immigrants on Titanic, something I should have done long ago. The story of Titanic’s “Miracle Boy” is not oft-told, perhaps because it’s so heartbreaking, but the long and triumphant life of Michael Shafiq Peter Yusuf (Joseph is the Americanized version of the last name) is beautiful in its resiliency. Traveling on Titanic with his young mo...

Join me as I reflect on the sinking 112 years later + present to you my live show at Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, an event that will stay a core and important memory to me forever. Thank you to everyone who came out for it and thank you to Steven Schwankert for being the best live show guest I could ask for. Find him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sschwankert/ and make sure...

Listen to me gab with on one of MY fave history podcasts, Salem the Podcast! I was honored to join them for an episode and I know many of you will find their work fascinating. On their show, Salem tour guides and historians Jeffrey and Sarah take deep dives into the oft-dark, always-intriguing history of their town, its mythology and its obsessions. We have much in common in terms of how we approa...

Join me for a conversation with renowned actor Cotter Smith, who portrays Senator William Alden Smith in the new film Unsinkable: Titanic Untold . We discuss how he tackled playing this rather controversial Titanic figure, a man who spearheaded the United States Senate Inquiry in the immediate aftermath of the sinking; we also dissect how Smith has been treated in the ship's historiography an...

To register for my live, in-person show on April 13th, go here:  https://titanicpigeonforge.com/titanic-tribute-week/ Support the show Support Unsinkable on Patreon for as little as $1/month: https://www.patreon.com/unsinkablepod Or buy me a coffee!: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/labeadles Buy Unsinkable shirts here!: https://www.bonfire.com/unsinkable-the-first-t-shirt/ Support the pod via my Book...

As Titanic hit the online news cycles in some wacky ways this past week (Titanic II? Ok…), I pushed the Emergency Meeting button and called Pablo O’Hana, my dear friend and one of our foremost experts on Titanic’s artifacts, its cultural impact and its memorialization. This is a wonderfully meandering podcast chat about what it means to be in the Titanic community, what we all owe to the memory of...

To register for the live, in-person show on April 13, go here: https://tickets.titanicattraction.com/WebStore/shop/viewitems.aspx?cg=PFSPEVT&c=PFTME&companycode=TITANIC Join me for a rather joyful episode today as we look at the life of Artie Moore, Welsh-born wireless enthusiast-turned Marconi employee who began his career by picking up on Titanic's SOS calls from his tiny shack on h...

As a podcaster, a historian, a human, I want to extend my deepest love and sympathies to the family of Nex Benedict in the wake of their untimely and preventable death. We have to ACT and SPEAK OUT against inequality and prejudice in this country. We cannot hide in the shadows or make excuses for our relatives or friends who quietly support hate in the name of God or their church or their privileg...

Join me as I tell the tragic but beautiful tale of two of Titanic's honeymooners--the Marvins, a gorgeous and glowing young couple from New York. In a newspaper interview shortly afterward, Mary said,  unable yet to process Daniel's death: “My God, don’t ask me too much. Tell me, have you any news from Dan? He grabbed me in his arms and knocked down men to get me into the boat. As I was...

I am THRILLED to bring you an interview with Max Miller, whose YouTube Channel is a gorgeously innovative but also accessible look at the local and global histories of food and recipes across time and place. There are equal parts cooking and history! I'll link his Titanic-specific episodes just below, as well as his video for 400-year old Buttered Beere, which we discuss at the end. I'm...

Join me as I FINALLY return to my side series Titanic on Film with a look at 2012’s 12-part miniseries Titanic: Blood and Steel.  Make sure to click the merch/Bonfire link below to grab your original-design Unsinkable tee before they’re retired forever! Recommendations: Salem the Podcast (collaboration coming!): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/salem-the-podcast/id1612165471 Molly Brown: Unra...

Join me for a look at the life of Engelhart and Helen Ostby, father-and-daughter jewelers who boarded Titanic in First Class. Until recently, I had no idea that such a crucial figure in Edwardian fashion and design was a passenger or that he trained his daughter in the business by traversing Europe, a fairly modern and feminist concept. The Ostby story is one of immigration, one of innovation, and...

Thanks to Angie Hung, actor and podcaster, for joining me on a fun rewatch of the Kate Winslet holiday classic (can something 20 years old be a classic?!) The Holiday. This was an exclusive Patreon episode for its first couple of weeks, but I wanted to unlock for everyone. Happy holidays!!! Find Angie on Instagram: @angiehung Find her pod here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-kate...

Join me for an exploration of the life of Third Class Passenger Hilda Hellstrom. In November of this year, a group of Titanic researchers, enthusiasts and descendants assembled to honor her life and memories with a new headstone at Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois. This episode is an amalgam of that experience, with descendant interviews conducted by listener Mia Morgante (an unsinkable...

This is the first of two holiday-inspired December episodes. Join me AT the Titanic Museum Attraction as Emily Densky and I discuss the haunting beauty in recognizing the lives of Titanic's children, both those who survived and those lost. We tell the story of Douglas Spedden, whose survival that night (alongside his family) inspired his mother Daisy to write a children's book at Christm...

Join me for this, an incredible (though heartbreaking) story of how Swedish immigrant Elin Gerda Lindell's wedding ring ended up in the bottom of Titanic's last recovered lifeboat-- I'm not on Facebook, but this is just happened to be a great link straight to a photo as part of the Titanic Exhibition (not, as of April 2023, still in New York): https://m.facebook.com/titanictheexhibi...