Born from years of chasing sun-soaked granite and stormy powder days, each episode of the

Dirtbag Dyeries is a tiny love letter to the outdoors.

I'm your host, Fitzgahall, and this season we're talking about an economist turned indie rock

musician canoeing the length of the Mississippi, a community-led effort to buy an iconic Pacific

Northwest ski resort, and much more.

Silly or serious, find your favorite episode in our 18-year archive.

Listen and subscribe to the Dirtbag Diaries wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Samir Patel, editor-in-chief at Quanta magazine.

Our mission at Quanta is to cover what we call basic or fundamental research in science and math.

That means the kind of work that's driven by curiosity and discovery and the search for knowledge.

We're interested in how and why everything around us works the way that it does.

On our brand new show, the Quanta podcast, you'll meet the writers and editors behind the magazine,

and together we'll explore the biggest and editors behind the magazine, and together

we'll explore the biggest ideas and the tiniest details. Join me for the Quanta podcast,

your weekly dispatch from the frontiers of science and math. Hi all. Thanks for listening to The Wild.

If you want more wild content, you can visit our Patreon. We we've got extended interviews a behind-the-scenes

podcast with my buddy ken live discussion chats and so much more it's a wonderful community we're

building over on patreon and i hope you'll join us you can find the link to patreon in the show notes

okay enjoy the show in the town where i Okay, enjoy the show.

In the town where I live, Bellingham, Washington, there's a beautiful urban creek.

It flows four miles, just four miles, from a lake through a city park with swings and big trees, green foins and waterfalls, and it meanders down through the

town, its homes and businesses to the sea. Salmon swim here and children too. It's a sliver of

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