Surviving the Wilderness with Producer Nikki Levy

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Writer/producer Nikki Levy (Don't Tell My Mother!) tries to reconnect with her Jewish roots by wandering around the desert near Death Valley. Plus, Christine survives the wilds of Colorado.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Nikki Levy, and you are listening to Storyworthy.
0:13.3	Welcome to the Storyworthy podcast.
0:17.3	Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannah Spinney.
0:29.1	Thank you. Here are your host, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Svign. Welcome to Storyworthy.
0:30.7	My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Svini, and we are coming to you from the Kettlemarain State Park in central Wisconsin. We've set up our mobile tent studio. We have, of course, the mobile home studio, but that's not allowed here. We've actually set up a tent. So it's like podcasting in the woods. It's right. Does a bear podcast in the woods? These are the questions.
0:54.4	Probably.
1:09.8	But there are no bears in Wisconsin. Well, this is great. I'm excited to be here. Wisconsin is a beautiful place in the summer. It is. Oh, wait. Here comes a mosquito. Oh, wait. It's a truck. Never mind. Ow. Hey, that's exciting. You know, we've got a guest tonight. Nikki Levy, Honest.
1:10.7	Nikki Levy.
1:12.2	She brings forth the topic.
1:12.9	The Nicki Levy.
1:10.8	Terrible wilderness experience. Hey, that's exciting. You know, we've got a guest tonight. Nikki Levy, Honest. Nikki Levy. She brings forth the topic.
1:12.3	The Nicky Levy.
1:13.0	Terrible wilderness experience. I think that all wilderness experiences are terrible. Like if she said wonderful wilderness experience, I'd be like, that is bullshit. This is pure fiction. That never happened. Nobody ever had fun in the woods. you should say that because I wrote a short story about it. And one of the first things I say is that, you know, when you go into the wilderness, you are purposely making things more difficult for yourself. You know what I mean? Just the fact that you're going to be eating outside, sleeping outside, and you have like all you have is like a nylon tip that zips it's like a renaissance fairy you are deliberately
1:44.7	stripping away all the advances that people have suffered for for thousands of years like
1:49.7	forks and refrigeration and you know microwaves it's like no no no let's live like our forefathers
1:55.5	did hey they fucking hated it they were like i dream of the day someday when I can be inside.
2:02.4	Honest, I think they were very happy in those covered wagons.
2:05.6	I think they were fucking miserable.
2:08.8	There was no suspension.
2:10.0	First of all, they were just wooden, wouldn't, can you imagine?
2:13.9	But we think, oh, it's tough.
2:15.3	It's not like camping, which is bad enough it's like you
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