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A Big Sur Podcast — 123 episodes

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# 125 OUT OF THE SKY by Matti Friedman
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# 124 The Language of Trees — and the World We’ve Forgotten How to Read
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# 123 "Condors: Guardians of the Wild" with Joe Burnett
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# 122 Help Kelp: The Mysterious World of the Bull Kelp Forest with Josie Iselin
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# 121 Love, Love, Love: Alison van Diggelen on 'The Love Project.'
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# 120 Shamergence by Rob Somers
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# 119 Walking Toward the Stars — A Conversation with Brita Ostrom (Öström)
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# 118 Andrew Munn: From Experimental Sound to Operatic Myth
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# 117 Kendra and Matt: Here's Your Song!
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# 116 Steve Beck, Master Gardener
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# 115 Kangalee & The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
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# 114 The ENDURING WILD: Journeys Beyond the National Parks with author Josh Jackson.
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# 113 Patte Kronlund, speaking of love and loss.
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# 112 Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy
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# 111 RELAY FOR RACHAEL. A conversation with photographer, neighbor and dear friend Rachael Short.
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# 110 Butch Kronlund (Jan. 7, 1955 - Feb. 1, 2025) from 'Under the Persimmon Tree' September 29, 2019.
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# 109 Rode in on a Hell's Angel Harley: Mary Lu Spigarelli Toren of Big Sur.
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# 108 Clovis Harrod. A replay of this episode from February 2023.
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# 107 Wilderness, Health, Fire, Art, Music, Learning, Food and History : Big Sur Non Profits!
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# 106 Humpbacks, Tide pools, Ed Ricketts, Jan Straley and Wave Shocks!
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# 105 An update from Dan Weiss from his home in Bet Shemesh, Israel.
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# 104 The 'lost' interview with John Carlin: FOUND!
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# 103 God, Jack Kerouac and Steve Edington.
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# 102 We Choose to Reduce Wildfire Danger, Not Because It Is Natural But Because It Is Good
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# 101 The Natural History of Big Sur. A conversation with author Don Usner.
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# 100 The Hermits of Big Sur. A conversation with author Paula Huston
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# 99 Sharen Carey: 40 years of providing healthcare in Big Sur!
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# 98 On the Warpath: My Battles With Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors
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# 97 Breakfast at Deetjen's with Shelley Newell
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# 96 Iguana John speaks about his early life.
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# 95 Dave Nelson: Father, Husband, Naturalist & Big Sur Neighbor...
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# 94 The California Skywatcher: A conversation with author William Selby
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# 93 My Father Shot a Tiger: Talking about Nagaland with Easterine Kire
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# 92 How did it begin...did I meet "Headhunters?" Why, and how, did I travel up into these hills.
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# 91 Listening to Whales breathe! A conversation with Kerri Frangioso, a scientist who does most of her research in the wild of Big Sur.
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# 90 Israel and Gaza. Perspectives on the war in Gaza from Sweden.
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# 89 SMOKESCREEN | Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate
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# 88 California (& Big Sur) Snakes & How To Find Them
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# 87 Sam Goldeen. From the Ukraine, via the Panama land crossing, to Big Sur!
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# 86 Jaime DeAngulo: The Old Coyote of Big Sur
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# 85 FUEL FOR THOUGHT! Is removing vegetation keeping us safe from fire? A conversation with Richard Halsey.
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# 84 Butterflies of Big Sur and Monterey County.
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# 83 A conversation with Corinne & John Handy of Treebones!
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# 82 Wishing everyone a boring 2024!
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# 81 Big Sur's ongoing efforts to protect the landscape : A Conversation with David Smiley
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# 80 Is Big Sur being overused? A conversation with Marcus Foster of Keep Big Sur Wild.
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# 79 Quiet Days in Clichy - Jours Tranquilles a Clichy - A beautiful new French edition. With Charles Ficat and Michael Paduano in Paris.
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# 78 The Burden of Joy. A conversation with author Lexi Kent-Monning. "We were stranded on opposite sides of the crashed Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge!"
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# 77 Paul Kephart: Ecologist and naturalist with a deep history, love and knowledge of the Big Sur coast.
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# 76 My friend Dan Weiss reports from the war in Israel. Please listen.
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# 75 Nocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night w/ José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca and Charles Hood
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# 74 California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline. Magnus is talking with author Rosanna Xia.
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# 73 State Senator John Laird: Once you left Carmel Highlands and went south you were in the Wild West!
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# 72 Feathered Canyons: Big Sur circa 1964! Author Jeanette Hanby at Nepenthe with Bill Hargis, Eric Barker, Gold mining, watching lions! A typical Big Sur story!
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# 71 A conversation at a small café in rural North Carolina
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# 70 Big Sur Women with Rachel Anne Goodman
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# 69 The Manhattan Project, Porter, Jackson, Miller & Oppenheimer
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# 68 Kate Daniels, candidate for the 5th district Supervisor seat. The future of Big Sur is in the balance😊!
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# 67 The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklöf
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# 65 A conversation with Weston Call's Mother on the occasion of his Birthday and the five year anniversary of his passing..
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# 64 From Easter Island to Big Sur: Please welcome Sonia Haoa Cardinali!
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# 63 The Questions That Matter Most with Jane Smiley. Also featuring Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Shakespeare and Alice Munro!
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# 62 Pico Iyer | The Half Known Life | New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur, Jerusalem, Greece, Leonard Cohen, Thomas Merton, Dalai Lama, Cyprian, Japan, Tahiti...
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# 61 A new book by Henry Miller! The Book of Conversations with David Edgar.
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# 60 Big Sur Ronna Rio Riding Water Buffaloes, Giraffes & Teaching Art!
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# 59 Israeli journalist and writer Yossi Klein Halevi.
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# 58 Darryl Purpose: Writing Songs, Playing Blackjack, Telling Stories and the Great March!
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# 57 Joshua Yaffa of the New Yorker magazine speaks with Magnus about journalism in wartime Ukraine and Russia.
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# 56 Stranded, Finding Nature In Uncertain Times by Maddalena Bearzi
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# 55 The Revolt of The Public. A conversation with author and former CIA analyst Martin Gurri.
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# 54 Betty Withrow. From as high up, and deep, in Big Sur as one can get!
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# 52 Palestine's leading writer, Raja Shehadeh. From Ramallah, West Bank/Judea
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#51 Big Sur Wild Woman! Dana Carnazzo Godbe. Chapter 2! 😊
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# 50 You And Me And The Rain On The Roof / Raining in Big Sur!
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# 49 Zad and Laela Leavy: Protecting the Big Sur coast by creating the Big Sur Land Trust.
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# 48 Dana Godbe Carnazzo, a Big Sur Wild Woman! Part 1.
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#47 Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. A conversation with author Matti Friedman
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# 46 The Heaven Beyond Heaven: William (Bill) Ashley about publishing and collecting Henry Miller.
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# 45 BIG SUR FIRE ADAPTED COMMUNITY TOWN HALL, October 25, 2022
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#44 A conversation with Kerri Maher, author of The Paris Bookseller
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#43 Big Sur Fire Chief Matt Harris in a conversation with Magnus Torén.
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#42 MY SECRET PLACE: A conversation with author, songwriter and performer, Mac Talley.
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#41 Lovers of The Place: A conversation between Pico Iyer and Cyprian Consiglio
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#40 Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb. A conversation with author Togzhan Kassenova
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#39 Big Sur Softball League History w/ Chris Counts, and the cliffhanger final game 2022!
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#38 Kelly Sorenson, Executive Director, Ventana Wildlife Society
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#37 Marcos Ortega, Big Sur resident and Big Sur District Superintendent of California State Parks.
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#36 Driving the Abano Pass in Georgia
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#35 First Violin in the Big Sur Symphony: Edwin Huizinga
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#34 Jack Kerouac at 100! Big Sur at 60! With Steve Edington and Jerry Cimino
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# 33 Novelist, Poet and Journalist Barbara Quick in a conversation with Magnus Torén
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# 32 Author and Artist Robin Lee Carlson. THE COLD CANYON FIRE JOURNALS
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# 31 Letters to Emil Schnellock from Henry Miller. A conversation with Michael Paduano.
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# 30 The BiGSuRCuS, Burning Man, Fire Dance, Belly Dance, Rosalia and Jessica!
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# 29 Indrajit Banerjee, Master Sitar player and Clay Caroon, Sitar student
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# 28 Big Sur Woman, Sula Nichols
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# 27 Anders Lindberg, Political Editor-In-Chief, Aftonbladet, Sweden
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#26 Professor Elizabeth Weiss. Anthropologist from San Jose State University currently locked out of a collection of bones.
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# 25 David Price. Update from Legnica, Poland.
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# 24 The Coasts of California w/ Obi Kaufmann
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# 23 Richard Hamlin Mole III / Surfing the pacific...living by the water.
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# 22 A chat with neighbors Jake, Katie Rose, and Tristian about the newly reborn BIG SUR OPEN MIC!
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#21 Emile Norman Arts Foundation. A conversation with Heather Lanier, Kim Stemler and Heather Rose Engen..
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# 19 From Fernwood to Krakow, Poland. Dear friend and neighbor Tom Lis.
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#20 Welcome back David Price! A conversation with Magnus about Esalen, Acting, Music, Babatunde Olatunji, Family, Poland...
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#18 Jeffrey Lewis, Prof. at MIIS and author of The 2020 Commission, in a discussion about Nonproliferation, Nuclear arms, Biological warfare...
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# 17 Our friend David Price speaking to us from Legnica in Poland
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#16 Arthur Hoyle, author of The Unknown Henry Miller, A Seeker in Big Sur.
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#15 Anna Vassilieva, Head of the Russian Studies Program at MIIS.
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#14 Sanna Björling, former Swedish foreign correspondent in Washington DC for Dagens Nyheter in a conversation with Magnus Torén.
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#12 Peter Rosen: Flying with the Hawks!
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#11 Steve Beck, Master Gardener
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#10 Martha Diehl. Big Sur resident & Planning Commissioner for Monterey County
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# 9 Big Sur Kate! https://www.bigsurpodcast.org/
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#2 (v2) Kenny Comello. Long time South Coast resident. Remote family living, Wildfires, Hippies, Jade & Bears!
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#8 Bill Burleigh about Big Sur, the Marathon, Hippies and much more!
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#7 A conversation with the author of Savage Journey, Peter Richardson.
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# 1 Introduction to A Big Sur Podcast/updated
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# 3 Peggy Horan, Mother, Massage Therapist, Midwife, Author and long time Big Sur resident.
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#5 Brian Steen, the first Executive Director of The Big Sur Land Trust
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#4 Stefan White, son of Emil White, the Henry Miller Library Founder.
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# 6 Butch Kronlund, Executive Director of the Community Association of Big Sur (CABS)
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# 2 (v1) Kenny Comello, a long time South Coast resident and the owner of Big Sur Jade Co.