IN THE COMPANY OF HUMPBACKS S1:E1

For The Wild

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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“Learning whale language is about being in right relationship.” In the first episode of For The Wild’s In the Company of Humpbacks, we hear from Joe Olson and Dr. Fred Sharpe about their approaches to analyzing whale sound. When we desire to understand whales, what more than human impulse are we activating? Immersing the listener in a world of exploration and investigation, this episode leaves us with the spirit of questioning and a hope for deeper relationality in our pursuit of understandin...

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0:00.0	Hey friends, Iyana here.
0:08.8	It is a crisp new season and we are so excited to bring you a brand new series,
0:14.4	in the company of humpback's.
0:16.6	Over three episodes, we'll wander the waters off Alaska, exploring the lives, the thrums,
0:22.5	and the migrations of humpback whales, with stories and insight from Fred Sharp, Rachel
0:27.9	Mead, and Joe Olsith.
0:29.8	This series is full of sonic exploration, migration, migration stories, and research discoveries.
0:36.1	But it's also about something deeper, curiosity, wonder, and the relationships we build with
0:43.0	the more than human world.
0:44.8	Along the way, we move between science and story, the technical and the magical, between
0:50.7	wail thrums and the questions we carry.
0:53.8	This journey came to life thanks to the generosity
0:56.1	and care of the Five Fingers Lighthouse and the Alaska Whale Foundation. You can learn more about
1:01.8	their work at For The Wild.world. Now episode one begins with a simple impulse, the desire to understand.
1:13.7	For all you whale geeks and sound nerds out there, this is your episode.
1:18.8	Joe Olson and Fred Sharp guide us deep into the technical world of humpback thrums and aerial whale sounds.
1:25.7	They give us the vocabulary and the listening tools that will carry us
1:30.0	through the rest of the series. Along the way, we explore questions like, what is whale communication,
1:36.5	and how do these thrums travel across the ocean, and what might careful listening teach us
1:42.4	about connection with the more than human world.
1:45.3	Think of this episode as your entry point into the sonic exploration at the heart of the series.
1:59.0	There's no doubt an exciting time and there are tools at our disposal right now that we couldn't have dreamed of even a few years ago.
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