Épisodes

  • Prologue • (Start Here)
    Nov 17 2020

    I found a handsaw in the mountains, sticking out of the snow. I carried it deep into the woods and used it to build a desk from a felled tree. This desk is where I produce and record the podcast.

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    3 min
  • Frontier Music
    Dec 1 2020

    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
  • They/Them
    Dec 1 2020

    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
  • A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum
    Dec 8 2020

    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
  • A Tale of Two Mountains
    Dec 15 2020

    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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    36 min
  • Interlogue
    Dec 22 2020

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

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    4 min
  • Baixo
    Jan 5 2021

    An investigation of subversion by Emily Pratt.

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    26 min
  • Coyote
    Jan 12 2021

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

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    48 min