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The Wind is a podcast from a desk in the mountains. This episode was recorded live in the woods as a self-titled sort of thesis.This episode is also available as a video -- if you'd like to watch me read this piece at the desk, visit https://thewind.org or head to https://www.youtube.com/@thewind_podcast Thank you to everybody who made this season of The Wind possible. This episode features the voices of Irvin Jim Jr., Jennifer Runyon, Sandra Coutinho, and John Luther Adams.This independent podcast is listener supported. If you’d like to join the community, head to www.Patreon.com/TheWindThank you for being here // and keep listening. To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

This independent podcast is listener supported. If you'd like to help me make this show, visit https://patreon.com/thewind to set up a monthly donation.Thank you to Dean Barlese for trusting me with this story. Also a big thank you to BC Zahn Nahtzu (a co-defendant in the case that also held a long-distance staring contest through binoculars with mine security. BC is an artist with an Etsy store here), Max Wilbert (a co-defendent who provided pictures), Olive Greenspan, Tara Tran, Ray Pang, Kate Cowie-Haskell, Taylor Wilson for talking to me about the chemical properties of Lithium and Daniel Rothberg for speaking about mining’s effect Great Basin water tables. Daniel has a newsletter called Western Water Notes which I highly recommend if you’re interested in that sort of thing. Also a shout out to the podcast Boomtown; a Uranium Story by Alec Cowan.Tags, Topics and Mentions: Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, Ox Sam Camp, Ox Sam, Protect Thacker Pass, People of Red Mountain, Snake War, Fort Mcdermitt, Nevada, Lithium, Lithium Mining, Protest against lithium mine, Dean Barlese, Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, Numaga, Pyramid Lake, Sand in a Whirlwind, Mountain Lion Harrah's Casino in Reno, Sagebrush, Mining, Lithium Carbonate, Winnemucca To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

The sun sets over Sunset Boulevard; the palm trees silhouette. In the front garden of a big house off the main drag, the puppet show begins.••This independent podcast is made with listener support. If you like to become a patron, head to patreon.com/thewind and set up a monthly donation.A huge thank you to all of the residents of Ag Lago for speaking with me and for hosting me over the years. Reve, Jeremy, Vita, Josh, Donnie, Storai, Theo, Arden, Sarah and Eleanor. Also a big thanks to Emily, Spoorthi, Greyson, and all the folks that were part of the puppet show and the countless folks that were part of the Ag Lago community.Music in this episode was Timex by pas Doo, thanks to Pat Mesiti-Miller for letting me use it, Deville by friend of the show Yclept Insan and 2 songs from the public domain, Auld Lang Syne performed by the Princes Band and this song Marionette by Felix Arndt. The chapter markers were read by the great Cal Bannerman of the podcast Stories from The Hearth. Highly recommended.Photos, links and more at www.thewind.org/episodes/aglago To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

Up the freeway a few miles from Downtown Los Angeles, the streetlights flicker on and I approach the warm glow of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Inside, I meet organist Edward Torres.To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewind Subscribe at thewind.org

Cowboy poetry is often very structured. The good poets play with that structure and surprise you with twists or a pauses, jokes, word play. Henry’s poems do somethin’ else entirely. They feel like suddenly you’re walking down a path and you don’t know where it’s goin’, or if it’s goin’ anywhere, but it usually does and then you’re somewhere a little different and he says thanks and puts his hat back on and sits down in a chair at the back the stage.The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering started in 1985, becoming an annual roundup of cowboys, ranchers, poets, artists and the many combinations therein, hailing from all parts the American west and sometimes beyond. Hosted by the Western Folklife Center, the gathering is always held in January/February when folks’ ranches are dormant. Elko’s oft-snowy streets are then marked by the soles of boots, mostly of the cowboy variety, some rounded, some pointed, and most of them pointing into the Western Folklife Center’s Pioneer Saloon, or up the front steps of the Elko Convention Center. To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

Subscribe hereLinks, photos and more at www.thewind.orgA song bounces from slope to slope, emerging from the valley as an echo. Just of out earshot from Spokane Falls we meet star Taiwanese yodeler, Ho Lan.Ho Lan • Bandcamp | Website /// Tags, Topics and Mentions: Ho Lan, Echo from Deep Valley, Yodeling, Yodel, Taiwanese Yodel, Puli, Spokane, Washington, Spokane River, Spokane Falls, Expo '74, Manito Park, Yodeling cowboys, Hawaiian yodel, Mike Hanapi, Vicente Fernandez, Josaya Hadebe, Bulawayo Blue Yodel, yodeling in nature, waterfalls, birdsong, Hsia-jung Chang, the wind, eastern washington, high desert, silent night To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

The word “transit” comes from the Latin “transitus”, meaning to pass across or through. Off the subway in Brooklyn, down the stairs into the busy green room of On Air Fest, we meet Jazmine (JT) Green.|| Ephemera, change, sound. ||This episode features a piece called:Transformation through Repetition (feat. Jemma Rose Brown) - aired on Jazmine’s experimental audio podcast U+1F60CThanks to: Eleanor Qull, Jemma Rose Brown, Ray Pang, all the folks at On Air Fest.Jazmine's album "As A..." available here To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

From the backroom of a Basque hotel in the Great Basin, Tuvan throat singing flows out through the bar, over the train tracks, and into the vast sagebrush steppes.||Topics, Tags and Mentions: Alash Ensemble, petroglyphs, freight train, The Martin Hotel, the martin hotel winnemucca, winnemucca nevada, basque, picon punch, tuva, throat singing, xoomei, tuvan throat singing, seven troughs, ghost town, mazuma nevada, tunnel camp nevada, ghost towns, mining towns, casino cafe, the martin hotel menu, bai taiga, Sygyt, Kargyraa, Xöömei, Ezenggileer, Borbangnadyr, great basin arts and entertainment, throat singer winnemucca, winnemucca throat singing concert To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

Year 5 • Prologue -- notes on maintaining the desk and wandering far from the home mountain.This year you'll hear more of the interviews left long form; more intact. More raw material, collected from the road. To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

LISTENER SURVEY • CLICK HEREThe second Wind listener survey!Plus, a guest episode from our friends at Twenty Thousand Hertz.The guest episode is called Dias Irae, and I think it works as a companion piece to Devil Music.The Wind will be back in the fall -- thanks for listening.  To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org