{"id":698,"date":"2012-06-18T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=698"},"modified":"2012-06-18T08:57:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:57:46","slug":"podthoughts-the-portland-adventure-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: The Portland Adventure Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.netcastia.com\/Galleries\/43678491042012122833914.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vital stats:<\/strong><br \/>\nFormat: Portland-related gab sessions and interviews<br \/>\nEpisode duration: 30-38m<br \/>\nFrequency: weekly<\/p>\n<p>As soon as my feet touch Portland soil, in flood the good vibes. Every time I emerge from a car, plane, or MAX train into the fresh, cool, only slightly moist Portland air, I echo the words of Brigham Young reaching Salt Lake City: \u201cThis is the place.\u201d These feelings only intensify when I\u2019ve sat myself down in the nearest McMenamin\u2019s with something locally brewed in hand. Yet I live not in Portland but Los Angeles, a city whose neighborhoods Portlanders either denounce as Portland\u2019s moral and aesthetic enemies or deride as mere brittle simulacra of Portland. In search of convenient shots of Essence of Portland when I can\u2019t fit in an actual trip north, I discovered a new, highly suitable-sounding podcast called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portlandadventurehour.com\/\"><em>The Portland Adventure Hour<\/em><\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"feed:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/PortlandAdventureHour\">RSS<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/portland-adventure-hour\/id511221907\">iTunes<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>At first listen, the show sounds like a typical three-man gab session where you can\u2019t tell which voice belongs to whom and don\u2019t bother because it will peter out in eighteen months anyway. But, being Portland residents, these three men make occasional reference to the things they see and do in their fair city, which immediately ups the interest level. (Usually, this sort of production emanates from spare rooms fifteen or twenty miles outside my own fair city, not that that stops the hosts from griping about \u201cliving in Los Angeles.\u201d) The format quickly takes on an unusual hybridity: some episodes go with the gab, while others present one-on-one interviews with Portland-resident creators and businessmen, like a comedian [<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PortlandAdventureHour\/~5\/KcEO1dOzp2g\/Episode_6.mp3\">MP3<\/a>], a wildlife photographer [<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PortlandAdventureHour\/~5\/G-nnuZMH05w\/PAH_Episode_8.mp3\">MP3<\/a>], a ski-builder [<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PortlandAdventureHour\/~5\/lPcfWSBlDrA\/PAH_Episode_10.mp3\">MP3<\/a>], and the proprietor of something called a bouldering gym [<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PortlandAdventureHour\/~5\/eYanglxhDv8\/Episode_4.mp3\">MP3<\/a>].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2012\/06\/18\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-portland-adventure-hour\">Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vital stats: Format: Portland-related gab sessions and interviews Episode duration: 30-38m Frequency: weekly As soon as my feet touch Portland soil, in flood the good vibes. Every time I emerge from a car, plane, or MAX train into the fresh, cool, only slightly moist Portland air, I echo the words of Brigham Young reaching Salt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}