The Wind
A podcast about listening made at a handmade desk in the mountains.
Latest episodes
Mar 9, 2021 • 14min
Bonus Episode: Jessica Bruder (Nomadland)
A conversation with Nomadland author Jessica Bruder from February 2020.
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Feb 2, 2021 • 3min
Epilogue
I sit at my desk and the wind scrapes endlessly through the canyon. Glad that I could capture a little bit of it and fold it up into words and yips and yodels for you this year. Catch you soon.
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Jan 26, 2021 • 32min
A Shout Across the Valley
The unlikely history of voice breaking in American music, and what it says about us.
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Jan 19, 2021 • 20min
Time Flies
Before this patch of Lodgepole Pines became my office, I was walking through the meadow. I heard a small waterfall coming from inside a bush. Since waterfalls don't come from inside bushes, I elbowed my way in to find a Fountain of Youth -- a rusty pipe spouting the coolest, clearest water I had ever tasted.
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Jan 12, 2021 • 48min
Coyote
Dan Flores and his book Coyote America, dueling press releases, and The Wind Inaugural Coyote Calling Contest.
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Jan 5, 2021 • 26min
Baixo
An investigation of subversion by Emily Pratt.
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Dec 22, 2020 • 4min
Interlogue
A quick tour of the office, as it snows on my desk.
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Dec 15, 2020 • 36min
A Tale of Two Mountains
In 2017, Jeff Davis Peak (California) and Jefferson Davis Peak (Nevada) began the process of shedding their names. In this episode, we journey through the bureaucratic network that names places in the US, and try to get a handle on what it means to name a place.
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Dec 8, 2020 • 20min
A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum
Time can wear a word down. If said too much, or not enough, it can begin to mean something else entirely, or start to blend into the words around it. Three such words are hobo, tramp and bum.
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Dec 1, 2020 • 30min
They/Them
How gender neutral language is working for non-binary people, and how it’s developing in English, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Hebrew. Featuring Avery Hellman (Ismay), Cara Nguyen, Dana Dela Cruz, Tyler Broderick (Diners), nwaobiala, Tuck Woodstock (gender reveal), Dan Everton, Jaq Victor, Em Jiang, Lior Gross, Eyal Rivlin (Non-binary Hebrew project).
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