The Wind

The Wind

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The Wind episodes

  • 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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    3 min
  • A Shout Across the Valley

    The unlikely history of voice breaking in American music, and what it says about us.

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    32 min
  • 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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    20 min
  • Coyote

    Dan Flores and his book Coyote America, dueling press releases, and The Wind Inaugural Coyote Calling Contest.

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    48 min
  • Baixo

    An investigation of subversion by Emily Pratt.

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    26 min
  • Interlogue

    A quick tour of the office, as it snows on my desk. 

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    5 min
  • 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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    37 min
  • 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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    20 min
  • 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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    30 min
  • Frontier Music

    Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kalinak. 

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    In this episode we investigate western film scores from early westerns and singing cowboys (Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Herb Jeffries) to the John Ford Era (Tiomkin, Hageman, Steiner and Bernstein) to Ennio Morricone to Neil Young's score for Dead Man and beyond.

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    50 min

About The Wind

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A podcast from a desk in the mountains.

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