Controlling Chaos
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This episode is about control: control of wildfires, and control of your own life.
My guests are Alex Jablonski and Kahlil Hudson, producers the film Wildland.
We talk about the deeply personal forces that draw people to wildland firefighting; about the mental highs that come with the job; and about the surprising bonds that form between people who seem to have nothing in common.
Finally, we discuss how controlling nature can help you gain control over your own life, too.
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| 0:00.0 | In those moments, I felt like I was at the center of the world. |
| 0:03.0 | I felt like I was at the most important place on Earth, and there was nothing else that mattered. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
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| 0:58.0 | On out there. On today's episode, we're going to talk about control. |
| 1:01.0 | On a very concrete level, we're talking about control of fire. |
| 1:06.0 | My guests are the producers of a film about wildland firefighters. But on a deeper level, we're looking at how people take control of their lives, |
| 1:15.6 | whether that's navigating the shift from childhood to adulthood, |
| 1:19.6 | or figuring out how to get yourself back on solid ground |
| 1:22.6 | when your life has spun off kilter. |
| 1:29.3 | The film that we're discussing is called Wildland, |
| 1:32.3 | and it follows a crew of firefighters in Oregon over the course of one summer. |
| 1:37.3 | It takes us from their initial training. |
| 1:40.3 | Okay, that was a two-hour workout. |
| 1:45.0 | The average shift is 12. |
| 1:48.0 | To the long hours of waiting. |
| 1:50.0 | I absolutely thought there would be a lot more encounters with fire. |
| 1:55.0 | I don't know if I brought enough cigarettes for this, dude. Uh-huh. |
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