Episodes

  • New From Texas Monthly: America's Girls

    New From Texas Monthly: America's Girls
    Dec 6 2021
    The original Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad burst onto the field back in 1972—the same year Title IX passed, the same year Deep Throat came out, and a year before Roe v. Wade. Sarah Hepola digs into the untold stories behind the global pop culture phenomenon, from the stripper who allegedly inspired the squad’s creation, to a scandalous Playboy cover shoot that was partly a battle over fair wages, to the ongoing debate about sexuality and women’s bodies in a post-#MeToo world. The result is a vibrant mix of history, cultural criticism, and storytelling, featuring interviews with New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, award-winning novelist Ben Fountain, Oscar-nominated director Dana Adam Shapiro, local television sports legend Dale Hansen, folk-writing hero Joe Nick Patoski, and a whole bunch of cheerleaders whose names you don’t know yet—but should.
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    3 mins
  • S1E8: Useful Wild Plants

    S1E8: Useful Wild Plants
    Aug 4 2021
    Two Austinites have made it their life's work to document uses for every wild plant in Texas—a project they say could save humanity.
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    17 mins
  • S1E7: Finding Home in El Paso

    S1E7: Finding Home in El Paso
    Jul 28 2021
    Katie Nodjimbadem on how she was shaped by her family's unlikely choice to make a home in the Chihuahuan Desert.
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    15 mins
  • S1E6: Planting Wildflowers in a Pandemic

    S1E6: Planting Wildflowers in a Pandemic
    Jul 21 2021
    The poet and performer Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton on risking new connections with nature during a year of tragedy.
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    10 mins
  • S1E5: G-L-O-R-I-A

    S1E5: G-L-O-R-I-A
    Jul 14 2021
    Mike Hall tells the story of closing down the legendary Austin club Liberty Lunch in 1999 with a 24-hour performance of Van Morrison’s “Gloria.”
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    14 mins
  • S1E4: Life, in Dog Years

    S1E4: Life, in Dog Years
    Jul 7 2021
    Mimi Swartz remembers her days caring for her father, and the dogs who took care of them both.
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    20 mins
  • S1E3: A Life Surrounded by Vinyl

    S1E3: A Life Surrounded by Vinyl
    Jun 30 2021
    DJ El Dusty traces the origins of the record collection that gave him his signature sound, and is helping to shape the sound of his hometown of Corpus Christi.
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    11 mins
  • S1E2: O Sister, Where Art Thou?

    S1E2: O Sister, Where Art Thou?
    Jun 23 2021
    Skip Hollandsworth tracks down the Goree All Girl String Band, whose dreams of leading normal, anonymous lives required them, first, to become country music stars.
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    15 mins