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Between the Levees

The Living History Collection

In this podcast, we discuss the living histories of maritime industry personnel in all areas of the business.

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All Episodes

01:01:09

S3:E153 | Joey Swords | Captain

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2025/02/05

Captain Joey Swords joins me to talk through his career and experiences from a furniture factory in Mississippi to a week-long deckhand school, placement with Magnolia Marine, a deck position with Artco, and a chance in the wheelhouse at Jantran. His twenty-year career has seen time on most every river, but nearly ten years later with Jantran, he is one of a handful running the Arkansas.

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01:09:49

S2:E152 | Capt. Rudy Ward (Ret., maybe) | Towboater

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2025/01/01

Closing out Season 2 of the show, Capt. Rudy Ward joins me to share memories of a 50-year career out there on the water. From making $12.50 a day in the mid-70s when minimum wage was about $2/hour to the pilot house, Pilots Agree and beyond, he recalls a few stories about life on the water back then and on through to the present day. His illustrious career brought him to work for a ton of companies on nearly every waterway that supported barging, and he maintains a positive outlook on the industry

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00:02:54

S2:SR | Tim Tregle | Quick Update on Charlie

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2024/12/30

Quick update on Charlie and what he's been up to lately. We'll see him again, I'd imagine, sometime early next year.

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00:03:35

S2:SR | Tim Tregle | Announcement

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2024/12/24

Quick update on things.

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01:18:57

S2:E151 | Doug Jackson | S/V Seeker

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2024/11/26

From St. Augustine, Florida, aboard the S/V Seeker, Mr. Doug Jackson joins me on the show to discuss the adventures that shaped his life from childhood through today. He chronicles his early travels across the southern border of the United States, to Columbia and West Africa, and all across the southwest region of his home country. He eventually landed in North Tulsa, Oklahoma well into an IT career when he had an idea to build a boat. For about 13 years in his front yard in Tulsa, a triple-masted

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00:11:50

S2:E151 Intro: Doug Jackson | S/V Seeker

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2024/11/24

Mr. Doug Jackson joins me on the show this week to discuss the ongoing project that took over his life many years ago. He is the owner and builder of the SV Seeker, a triple-masted Chinese junk rig sailboat, that came together over many years in his front yard in North Tulsa. In this short introduction to him and his project, among other things, he discusses the building process, the boat's specifications, and the help he's had along the way, including, not least of them, Captain Brandon Phillips

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00:07:05

Kenny and Kannon Brown | Maritime Throwdown |...

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2024/11/18

Kannon Brown joins me on the show to chat through his life and career thus far, and his involvement in the Maritime Throwdown program his father, Kenny, created a few years ago. Kenny hops on as well to chat about the 2024 Wildcard Qualifier that took place at Workboat in New Orleans, and some updates about his program. If you missed it, you can check out the exclusive livestream (not great) of the MTD Wildcard Qualifier competition here: https://youtube.com/live/ytLiVPHbqEw?feature=share There

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00:12:57

Harley East | Riverbank Professionals | Workboat 2024

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2024/11/18

Harley East joined me at the Workboat Show in New Orleans last week. She discussed her life growing up with a father in the wheelhouse, her life today, and her involvement with Riverbank Professionals, the all-new crewing and social media platform created to connect mariners with companies and one another. Become a Pro today @ https://riverbankpro.com/ To watch the livestream of the Maritime Throwdown Wildcard Qualifier from the Workboat Show, please check it out @

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01:22:26

S2:E150 | Capt. David Greer (Ret.) | Race

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2024/11/12

Retired Captain David Greer joins me on the show yet again - this time to discuss some of the societal issues that have plagued our American history from the beginning - and of those, primarily, race. He covers his early life growing up in rural Mississippi, the emotionally charged 1960s, desegregation, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an assimilation within the towing industry in the late 70s and early 80s, professional advancement of minorities over the years, broadcast news of

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00:23:31

S2:E149 | Dennis Springer II | Captain

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2024/11/05

Captain Dennis Springer II joins me on the show to share his story through life thus far. We hear about his familial history in the industry, a troubled childhood that found him emancipated and out of school by the age of 13, a 9-year prison term in young adulthood, and his journey into and through the industry thereafter with ample mention of a handful of previous podcast guests.He touches on the entrepreneurial efforts of Kenny Brown's "Maritime Throwdown," Gerald East's "Riverbank

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00:31:20

S2:E148 | George Nelson Jr. | Industry Man

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2024/10/30

I'm joined by Mr. George Nelson Jr., a logistics planner (among other things) for Cooper Marine and Timberlands. We talk through his early life growing up around a coal terminal in Mobile, AL, his great grandfather's experience on paddlewheel steamers back in the day, his father's career, his first time on a towboat, and his journey through the industry to today.

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01:05:38

S2:E147 | Capt. David Greer (Ret.) | 50 Years on the...

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2024/10/19

Retired Captain David Greer joins me again on the show to talk through the changes he saw in the country, the industry, and the river, itself, over the decades he spent shoving cargo up and down the waterways of the Americas.He'll open up the new show, "The Merchant Mariner Podcast," in early January. The first series on the MMP will focus on the History of Steamboats in the United States. Between the Levees will continue as well as guests find time to sit down with me. Thanks for sticking

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00:48:23

S2:E146 | Jim Fox | Industry Man

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2024/10/12

After a 35-year career that started in the early 70s as a watchman for SCNO Barge Line, Mr. Jim Fox joined the industry during college and was called back to it after a brief jaunt as a teacher. After ACBL acquired SCNO barge line, he found himself in Venezuela helping develop an improved river transportation system for their bauxite mine and alumina production facilities with a few previous guests from the show, went into Argentina for similar pursuits, and later found himself in Colombia surveying

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01:29:11

S2:E145 | Miguel Spinola | Mate (Artco)

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2024/10/05

Joining me from Paducah, Kentucky, Miguel Spinola shares his incredible story. Born in Madeira off the coast of Portugal, he grew up near the water and was well acquainted with the local maritime industry there. At the ripe old age of 6, he moved with his family to London, England where his life would change for the better and for the worse. He eventually made his way overseas to the finest city on the planet, hot and humid just outside the Louis Armstrong International Airport, and soon found

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00:01:59

S2:SR Miguel Spinola | Intro

Between the Levees ·

2024/10/03

Miguel Spinola's full length episode debuts Saturday, 10/5 @ 06:00. In this clip, we cover a question I missed in our main interview, and he comments a bit on the experience interviewing with me here on the show.Stay tuned!

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00:34:05

S2:E144 | Mark Veum | Steam Engineer

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2024/09/28

Recorded on July 14, semi-retired Steam Engineer Mark Veum joins me to share memories of some previous podcast guests who'd made up a cast of characters that converged aboard the storied AMERICAN QUEEN. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and still living there today, Mark tells stories of time spent on vessels sailing the Great Lakes, some others down in the Gulf of Mexico, and a few in the passenger vessel industry cruising up and down the western rivers of the United States. We also discuss a few

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01:09:21

S2:E143 | Frank Rivera | Riverlorian

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2024/09/21

Recorded on June 23, another New Yorker joins me on the show whose father was a longshoreman on Staten Island. Frank Rivera found himself in boot camp for his 18th birthday looking to become a United States Marine, two decades later he'd become Watchman and Riverlorian on the AMERICAN QUEEN, and is now driving delivery trucks in his semi-retirement. He joins me to discuss his early life in a northeast fishing town, his adventures in the Marine Corps that began in the late 80s, and he talks us

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00:47:44

S2:SR | Charlie Kulage | Part 8

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2024/09/17

Charlie and I wrap up a few more questions from last week's episode. He shares some additional insights on his experiences a few years back that led him to his current place in life, how the "good old days" weren't necessarily all that good, and he tells me about Captain Brian Hamilton and the great memories he has of working with him and paying him a visit some years ago.Captain Brian: if you're out there and want to get on the show, please get in touch with me at

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00:35:43

S2:E142 | John Fox | Industry Man

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2024/09/14

Recorded on June 9, Mr. John Fox joins me on the show to talk through his time in the industry from washing barges for SCNO Barge Line to dispatching liquids for ACBL and beyond. His 45 years mostly in shoreside roles has developed in him an appreciation and respect for the industry that supports our way of life, and the people out there on the water that make it all happen.

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02:41:13

S2:SR | Charlie Kulage | Part 7

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2024/09/10

Charlie joins me again to update us on his life and an array of developing opportunities. He covers, among other things, his physical and mental health, religion, morality, wants and goals, as well as the Veterans Administration and the potential for detox, rehabilitation, and recovery. It's a long one, so buckle up and hear him out. The first 42 minutes or so were recorded with a not so great connection that ended up dropping, but the two hours that follow didn't face those issues. Another

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