Independence Day - Remembering the Mayhem, and Counting Flags

Story Forward

This week Larry and Christian get into a particularly memorable July 4th weekend that took place on San Juan Island in 1989. A dozen friends, all dudes. Far too much beer. Plenty of laughter, injuries, fuzzy antics, and stories that have lived on as pieces of the puzzle that was our lives back in our early twenties. We get into how we all remember and tell the story of that weekend from a unique vantage, and how memory has and continues to shape that years-gone narrative as time has marched on.

We managed to wrangle one old friend from that lost weekend to come on as our guest. Eirik Olsen joins us to tell and talk about how he adds up that Independence Day weekend in 1989.

Then, the amazing Kevin Smokler delivers our correspondent piece all about his family's tradition of counting flags every July 4th.

Be safe, smart, and well, and remember, keep moving the story forward, y'all!

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Editing and sound design by Jared Bostrom.

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