Wildness
When is wildness on our side, and when does it have to be eliminated? We’re not be talking about wilderness but wildness. We examine wildness as both a place of terror and a place to find meaning. And, as you’ll hear later, we don’t have to go into nature to find it. We’ll hear a story about what happens when you venture into nature for the first time. We’ll hear from a graduate student who holds some nontraditional ideas about his clothing and is a modern day outlaw because of it. We’ll introduce you to someone who studied Muay Tai in a gritty gym in Oakland. He has to be wild, right? We meet a wilderness rites of passage guide who tells us what happens when we don’t have elders, and finally, we’ll meet Tea. She may or may not raise wolves.
Hosts/Producers: Christy Hartman and Joshua Hoyt
Featured: Andrew Forsthoefel, Dr. Richard White, Andrew Todhunter, Osvaldo Murro, Mason Alford, “Jordan,” Annalise Lockhart, Liam Purvis, Darlene Franklin, Martin Shaw, Melina Lopez, Teresa Yammamoto, Joshua Hoyt
Release Date: 5 June 2013
Music: Ian Brown, Monk Turner and Fascinoma, Gasnoprod
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Teaser Story: What is Wildness?
In this two-and-a-half minute voxpop, we hear how thirty turkey vultures inspire one moment of pure feeling, a wildness that isn’t meant to last.
Featuring: Andrew Forsthoefel
Producer: Marnie Crawford Samuelson
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Intro Story: No Place to Hide
Christopher Dorner was a policeman who turned his gun on society itself as he fled into the woods for refuge. This story asks, just how wild was he?
Featuring: Dr. Richard White
Producer: Joshua Hoyt, Sophia Paliza, Christy Hartman
Music: Anji
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Story 1: With Shovel and Saw
But sometimes we do find wildness IN wilderness. Where that wildness comes from can be surprising. Stanford Freshman Mason Alford bring a microphone along to find out what happens when we go into the woods for the first time.
Producer: Christy Hartman
Featuring: Andrew Todhunter, Osvaldo Murro, and Mason Alford
Image courtesy of Caleb Kruse
Story 2: Invisible Lines
Pretty much everyone lives in “the village” nowadays. But who gets to decide what’s normal? We’ll introduce you to a Stanford Graduate student who is VERY frustrated by what “the village” considers normal behavior and abnormal, or wild behavior. It has to do with something very simple.
Featuring: “Jordan,” Annalise Lockhart
Producer: Rachel Hamburg
Music: Podington Bear, Max McClure, First Time Out, DJ Ra So, and Jahzzar
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Story 3: The Cage
Fighting is one of the most quintessential wild behaviors, somewhere up there with survival of the fittest and conquering that which is trying to eat or destroy you. And yet, in some ways it’s no different from Basketball or tennis. It’s just another sport.
Featuring: Liam Purvis, Darlene Franklin
Producers: Darlene Franklin, Charlie Mintz, Christy Hartman
Music: Anitek, Kevin Macleod, Zapac, Broken Gadget ,cdk
Image courtesy of Rachel Hamburg
Story 4: Wild vs. Savage
Dr. Martin Shaw, mythologist and guest lecturer at Stanford, has invested considerable effort in listening to the land. What stories does the land have, and how can we listen? Martin Shaw shares his stories about his work with at-risk youth and why we should pay attention to the lack of elders.
Featuring: Martin Shaw, Melina Lopez
Producers: Melina Lopez, Rachel Hamburg
Music: Sláinte
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Story 5: Wolftown
A show on wildness wouldn’t be complete with at least one story about wild animals. In this story, Joshua Hoyt connects with someone from his past. Someone who he thought might be able to shed some real light on wildness. She’s the kind of a mentor, or an elder, like Dr. Martin Shaw talked about in our last story. Her name is Teresa Yammamoto, or Tea. And she’s going to school, I mean, mentor, Joshua Hoyt in the ways of the natural world.
Featuring: Teresa Yammamoto, Joshua Hoyt
Producers: Joshua Hoyt, Christy Hartman, Charlie Mintz
Music: Holly Cole Trio
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