Journalist, author and filmmaker Crash Barry podcasts from the foothills of western Maine. Season One features Devils and Dirtbags, his on-going true crime investigation of the criminal priests and bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts. Season Two, aka Tough Island, is his comparatively light-hearted but still gritty tales of living and working on a remote Maine island when he was a much younger man. Season Three includes in-depth looks at Disinfomaniacs, along with interviews, conversations and independent journalism focused on the intersection of culture and politics.
Episodes
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 11
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
A tragedy strikes the sheep living on Wheaton Island and a perfect Matinicus wedding where Captain Edwin and Crash show up wearing the same outfit. Content warning: this episode contains the death of animals and domestic abuse.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 10
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
CONTENT WARNING: This chapter contains cats, poetry and a bizarre suicide. Also, Crash's wife sings a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 9
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
One of Crash’s partying pals decides to return to church, only to experience God’s wrath. Thanks to Captain Edward and Nan, (and some psychedelics) Crash’s life gets better.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 8
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Crash and Captain Donald have a disagreement, Crash ends up working on a presidential campaign and someone Crash loves, dies.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 7
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Crash realizes he can’t pass the Able-Bodied Seaman’s drug test, Mary-Margaret gets in trouble and so does Captain Donald.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 6
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
The “Perfect Storm of 1991” strikes outer Penobscot Bay, Crash almost dies (a couple of times) and the story of the January 1992 sinking of the tugboat Harkness during a winter gale. Luckily, Captain Vance Bunker, a true hero, willingly heads into the storm.
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 5
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Crash trades cigarettes with some Russian sailors, scratches Captain Donald’s truck and almost gets stranded on a deserted island.
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 4
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Crash wrestles with a cougar, Captain Donald rescues mariners-in-distress and a flock of puffins surround a shipwreck.
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 3
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
In Chapter 3 of Tough Island, Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Jerold Day gets run off the island and Crash almost crashes Captain Donald’s boat. Plus, an underwater graveyard and how to dispose of an old vehicle or an ancient washing machine, island-style.
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Season 2: Tough Island Chapter 2
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
In Chapter 2, Crash moves into his room in Captain Donald’s fishhouse. Also, he goes for a motorcycle ride. And we meet Deputy Jerold Day, the first cop to ever live on Matinicus, Maine's most remote inhabited island.