Made of Savannah Podcast

Healing after Hurricanes: Anything but Ordinary

In this episode of the Made of Savannah podcast, host Dee Daniels talks with Mickey Hickey, a well-known figure in Savannah's hospitality scene. Mickey shares the story of the Ordinary Pub and its sister establishment, Common, highlighting their journey through various challenges, including a recent crisis involving the pub's basement flooding during a hurricane.
 
The conversation delves into the community's swift response, the support for displaced residents, and the pub’s contribution to local culture. Additionally, Mickey discusses innovative efforts like the Trombone Bakery and ongoing plans for recovery and growth. The episode encapsulates the spirit of Savannah’s community resilience and the unwavering commitment to hospitality.
 
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
Tap HERE for The Ordinary Pub
Tap HERE to help the Go Fund Me for Ordinary Neighbors
Tap HERE for Common Restaurant
Tap HERE for Trombone Bakery
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
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Life, Literature, and Littlest Pigs: A Conversation with Amy Paige Condon

In this episode of the Made of Savannah podcast, we welcome Amy Paige Condon, a prolific writer, producer, editor, and founder of Refinery Writing Studio.
The conversation covers Amy's intriguing career journey, from her time at Savannah Magazine to founding a writing studio and co-authoring best-selling cookbooks. Amy shares delightful stories about her pet pig Gus and her writing process, including working on cookbooks for Back in the Day Bakery and Wiley’s Championship BBQ. The discussion delves into her biography of Bill Baggs, a transformative figure in Miami’s history, and the importance of local journalism. The episode wraps up with heartfelt memories centered around food, illustrating the deep connections that culinary experiences can foster.
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
MEET Amy Paige Condon
BOOK: A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook
The Wiley's Championship Barbecue Cookbook
The Bress 'n' Nyam Gullah-Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-generation Farmer
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

MOS CLASSIC: Ghost Stories of Savannah with Enocha Edenfield

Historian and Savannah Tour Guide Enocha Edenfield has spent years carefully researching Savannah’s haunted history as well as collecting first-hand accounts. She's always a favorite guest on this show - and many others - and she's sitting down with us to celebrate HALLOWEEN!  
Welcome to Season 4 of the Made of Savannah Podcast!
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
Grab your spot on Enocha's Tours
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
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MOS CLASSIC: Capone & Castro - True Fish Tails with Captain Judy

This episode has it ALL! Gangsters, crab cakes, serial killers, and Al Capone - oh my! 
Meet Captain Judy Helmey - once named the youngest captain on the East Coast. She's a Savannah legend, to the say the least - and we got to sit down with her and talk about her wildly colorful upbringing - and her equally as colorful father Sherman Helmey (best known as Moose) who YES ... worked for Al Capone. 
Miss Judy has already written one book, "My Father, The Sea and Me" - and don't worry - we hear another book is on the way. 
When you go fishing with Miss Judy - you'll likely have a chance to book the Good, the Bad and Ugly Tour. She says, "It's not a fishing trip ... it's EVERYTHING!"
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
Meet Miss Judy & Book a Trip
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

"So Come Up to the Lab and See What's on the Slab" - The Rocky Horror Show LIVE is HERE!

Welcome to Season 4 of the Made of Savannah Podcast!
Get ready Savannah, we're about to do TIME WARP again! We're on-location at CLUB ONE just before rehearsal for The Rocky Horror Show LIVE with The Bay Street Theatre. Director Rick Garman along with Stage Manager Gwen Leahy and Choreographer Hannah Dodson sits down with us - on center stage - to give us the inside story of 16 years of this cult classic in Savannah. 
Hannah talks about her peak moment playing the role of Janet Weiss last year when she looked out in the audience and spotted "special high-top tables" with a couple of VIP audience members. It wasn't until the scene "Over at the Frankenstein Place" when Hannah was singing a solo that she truly spotted the one-and-only Susan Sarandon who played Janet in the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 
When you attend the show this year, you'll be able to get in on the auctions of Rocky Horror memorabilia and merchandise. All proceeds from the auctions will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit fundraising and grant-making organizations.  Since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people living with HIV/AIDS, struggling with COVID-19, and facing other critical illnesses and humanitarian crises in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and in countries around the world.
SHOW RUN and TICKET LINKS:
Friday, October 18 7:30pm
Saturday, October 19 3pm
Sunday, October 20 3pm
Friday, October 25 7:30pm
Saturday, October 26 3pm
Sunday, October 27 3pm (18+)
Thursday, October 31 7:30pm
Thursday, October 31 11:59pm
This show contains adult themes. Most performances are 21+. Sunday 10/27 3pm show is 18+.
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!!
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
Visit Bay Street Theatre
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

HUZZAH Mateys! The 20th Annual Tybee Island Pirate Fest Brings all the Yo-ho-ho

Welcome to Season 4 of the Made of Savannah Podcast!
AVAST! The time has come! The Pirates are celebrating their victorious takeover of Tybee Island, Georgia ... for the 20th Annual Tybee Island Pirate Fest. 
Festival Director Charissa Murray has invited us to her gallery just off Tybee's main road at The Shops at Tybee Oaks. We're talking about the history of the festival as well as the amazing local lineup of entertainment and fun that is about to land on the island this weekend.
The Pirate Fest has grown year after year - and this year promises to bring even more attention for a grand 20th year celebration. The festivities kick off Thursday, October 10th at the Crab Shack at 6 p.m. with the Buccaneer Ball. Check out the full schedule of events in the links below. 
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
TAP HERE for the Full Schedule of Events
TAP HERE for General Info for Tybee Island Pirate Fest
TAP HERE to find Tybee Island Pirate Fest on Instagram
TAP HERE to see Charissa's Shop
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

Do we REALLY want to know?! Secrets of Savannah's Haunted History Revealed with Enocha Edenfield

Welcome to Season 4 of the Made of Savannah Podcast!
Thrilling tales and historic facts aplenty on this episode with a Made of Savannah FAN-FAVORITE ... Ghost and History Tour Guide Enocha Edenfield. 
Enocha Edenfield Tours is one the most popular tours to experience in Coastal Georgia. Enocha worked in print and broadcast news for nearly two decades prior to deciding to shift paths. During the 2020 shutdown, Enocha started sharing some of Savannah's ghost stories on TikTok. It wasn't long before she was getting requests for tours. 
In this episode, Enocha explores Savannah's ties to all things "Friday the 13th". She also takes us to an area called Spring Hill - the site of the Spring Hill Redoubt during the American Revolutionary War. Here, on October 9, 1779, one of the bloodiest engagements of the Revolution was fought when repeated assaults were made by the allied troops of Georgia, South Carolina and France in an effort to retake Savannah from the British. 
Also in this episode, we have a brush with a possible "Intersex icon" - Casimir Pulaski.
From the Smithsonian Magazine:
"In the 1990s, researchers exhumed a set of human remains from a Savannah, Georgia, monument believed to belong to Casimir Pulaski, the swashbuckling Polish cavalryman who fought for the Americans during the Revolutionary War. The circumstances surrounding Pulaski’s death and burial in 1779 were murky, and for more than 150 years, doubts had swirled over whether his body was, in fact, the one that had been interred at the monument built in his honor. The researchers hoped to finally put the debate to rest. But what they found only deepened the mystery surrounding Pulaski’s identification.
The skeleton unearthed from the site appeared characteristically female—particularly the pelvic bones and delicate facial structure. It was possible, the researchers theorized, that the body buried at the monument was not Pulaski’s, as some had suspected. But many of the skeleton’s traits were consistent with Pulaski’s known features: the age of death, the height of the skeleton, a healed injury on the right hand, changes to the hip joints common in frequent riders. So the team came up with another theory: perhaps Pulaski was intersex."
Enocha offers a history/ghost tour combo discount. All tours are private and can be family-friendly and dog-friendly by request. 
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
Meet Enocha Edenfield & Schedule a Tour
Enocha on TikTok
Enocha on Instagram
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

Come as You Are, Birds of a Feather: Thunderbolt HOT SPOT making friends & delicious sandwiches

For some, it might be hard to believe that the quaint, often-called quirky (in a great way) town of Thunderbolt, Georgia is only five miles southeast of downtown Savannah. Thunderbolt runs along the western shore of Wilmington River - which is a tidal river that is part of the U.S. Intracoastal Waterway. The town's picture-perfect atmosphere and much talked about restaurants certainly keep its residents beaming with joy - and visitors coming back for more.
One of those famous restaurants is called FINCHES Sandwiches and Sundries - owned by our guests today - Rebecca Gawley and Jamie Pleta. The pair share a passion for serving the community with a side of fun and flare. 
You'll hear the stories behind coming up with the name, building the dynamite menu, and how the customers quickly become family. Jamie and Rebecca also talk about the challenges around running a business - and a restaurant - during COVID as well as during an intense political season. 
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
Check out FINCHES Sandwiches and Sundries
You can EVEN order online HERE
FINCHES on Instagram
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

Cruisin' in Savannah: A Yacht Captain, A Yogi, and a Little Skipper named Ginger

Welcome to Season 4 of the Made of Savannah Podcast!
There's something magical, even mesmerizing about being on the water in Coastal Georgia. It's a way of life that so many people crave - and so many of us who live in Savannah, Georgia enjoy to the fullest. 
We have the pleasure today of sitting down with Captain Jason DeShay and Jamie Coffey who are the proud owners of the new boat charter experience called Sweetwater Charters of Savannah. We are excited to have Jay and Jamie - and Sweetwater Charters - as one of our sponsors this season. 
Captain Jay brings 25 years of professional experience as a yacht captain across the globe and Jamie Coffey brings over 20 years of event production, along with a decade of teaching yoga and leading retreats to the team. While both are world travelers, their love story began right here in Savannah, and they knew instantly they wanted to share their passion for a life on the water with the local community and visitors from near and far – and from this inspiration, Sweetwater Charters was born! Jamie and Jay reside in beautiful Thunderbolt with their Jack Russell puppy named Ginger, who also serves as "little skipper” on board.
There are so many adventures you can choose from like: 2-6 Hour Cruises, Daytripping to Daufuskie Island, Mermaids & Mimosas, and Sharktooth Island. The beautiful 27' Crest Pontoon is truly a "living room on the water". Captain Jay and Jamie are also rolling out the red carpet for locals by giving them a BIG DISCOUNT on their first booking! 
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
BOOK YOUR TRIP here with Sweetwater Charters of Savannah
Meet Captain Jay and Jamie Coffey
Cruises & Pricing for Sweetwater Charters of Savannah
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

Dedication to the Craft: Top-Producer in Savannah Real Estate with a front row seat to your success story

Welcome to Season 4 of the Made of Savannah Podcast!
Jennifer Crumpton is pulling back the curtain on Savannah real estate and giving us insights into her journey of becoming a top-producing agent in one of the most sought-after places in the country. Originally from Tifton, Georgia, Jen is deeply dedicated to helping guide her clients in their success story. 
Her background as agent with home builders gave her a unique foundation - pun intended - of truly understanding the "dream home" scenario from the ground up. Today, Jen loves to share that knowledge with her clients as they navigate the landscape of buying a home, finding investment property, or selling their current home in order to start new chapters. 
Learn more about the voices and topics in this episode: 
Meet Jen Crumpton
Catch up with Jen on Instagram
Proudly produced by Dee Daniels Media
The Made of Savannah podcast is a creative production of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty!
Season 4 SPONSORS - thank you Great Nate's Handyman Service | Sweetwater Charters of Savannah | and Savannah Cabaret
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!