Hidden Language Podcast

15/10/2022

An automobile drives along a paved rural road. JAY: Okay, we’re about to hit one of my favorite parts of the trip. Wait for it… The automobile continues as the paved road abruptly turns to gravel and dirt. JAY: This narrow mountain road, sprinkled with gravel and rocks, leads my cousin Travis and me to Cooper’s Gap for a weekend at our—whoa, look out....

http://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2022/10/15/coopers-gap/

​An automobile drives along a paved rural road. JAY: Okay, we’re about to hit one of my favorite parts of the trip. Wait for it… The automobile continues as the paved road abruptly turns to gravel …

30/09/2022

Happy ! Season 2 of Hidden Language coming soon.

31/03/2022

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15/03/2022

In our last episode of Season 1, Jay takes us along on a climb up a mountain in search of nature, solitude, and perspective.
http://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2022/03/15/something-about-a-mountain/

JAY is walking upon a gravel trail. “We Ants Can be Friends” by Lobo Loco plays JAY: It’s the first day of March. I should be thinking about spring, about the buds that will soon appear on the tree…

04/03/2022

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01/03/2022

Episode 13 of Hidden Language is on! Skip down the sidewalk while you listen to some "Good Words".

http://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2022/03/01/good-words/

YOUNG SCOTT, at six years old, SKIPS DOWN a SIDEWALK along his grade school playground, DRAGGING A STICK along a CHAIN LINK FENCE. HE sees his GRANDPA waiting for him up ahead and RUNS to him. SCOT…

15/02/2022

Music: “Sunset” by Kai Engle JAY: Charles Bowden is credited as one of the first journalists to predict that Mexico’s brutal drug wars would wash across the desert landscape and spill into America. He authored four books about Juarez, the cartels, and the human cost of the war on drugs. He also wrote books about the deserts outside of Tucson, Arizona, the Colorado Plateau, blood orchids, and coyotes....

http://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2022/02/15/a-clear-and-just-thing/

Music: “Sunset” by Kai Engle JAY: Charles Bowden is credited as one of the first journalists to predict that Mexico’s brutal drug wars would wash across the desert landscape and spill into America.…

01/02/2022

SCOTT: Back in 1999, I was writing and editing and photographing and eventing for a nonprofit in Chicago. We served people with disabilities throughout the city, helping them with housing and employment and counseling and other needs. My job was to produce a lot of public relations material — and this was before everything went digital, so we were still producing mainly print-based stuff: trifold brochures, annual reports, newsletters that were mailed to stakeholders....

http://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2022/02/01/capital-standards/

SCOTT: Back in 1999, I was writing and editing and photographing and eventing for a nonprofit in Chicago. We served people with disabilities throughout the city, helping them with housing and emplo…

30/01/2022

Hidden Language “Hear the Corn Grow” (S1, E2) Released September 15, 2021 JAY: When he was a boy, my Uncle Dave spent a lot of time on his grandfather’s farm. One still and warm July evening, Uncle Dave and great-grandfather—both exhausted and sore from a hot day’s work baling hay—sat on the front porch of the old farmhouse in Central Pennsylvania....

http://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2021/09/15/hear-the-corn-grow/

Hidden Language “Hear the Corn Grow” (S1, E2) Released September 15, 2021 JAY: When he was a boy, my Uncle Dave spent a lot of time on his grandfather’s farm. One still and warm July evening, Uncle…

15/01/2022

MUSIC: Rain and Thunderstorm at Lallgarh Palace, Bikaner by Samuel Corwin MUSIC: Cold Summer Landscape by Blear Moon JAY: On June 20, 1864, The Compiler, a newspaper out of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, published an article called “Storms After Battle” which noted an odd pattern: strong rain and thunderstorms almost always followed Civil War battles. The Compiler looked back at three years of a brutal war to prove, anecdotally of course, that the theory was true: brutal clashes at New Market, Malvern Hill, Shiloh, both meetings at Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Murfreesboro, and Gettysburg were all followed by torrential storms....

http://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2022/01/15/shoot-out-the-rain/

MUSIC: Rain and Thunderstorm at Lallgarh Palace, Bikaner by Samuel Corwin MUSIC: Cold Summer Landscape by Blear Moon JAY: On June 20, 1864, The Compiler, a newspaper out of Gettysburg, Pe…

01/01/2022

Happy New Year! Begin 2022 with a story about beginnings -- in our latest episode.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-language/id1578564760?i=1000546633131

“WWII ALLIES: USS LEXINGTON in the Coral Sea before her loss on May 8, 1942 – Goodwin Coll. MV.” by Kookaburra2011 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 SCOTT: The newspapers don’t sa…

25/12/2021

One of our favorite storytellers was born on Christmas Day 1924. Happy Birthday, Rod Serling! Catch another great show over at The Twilight Zone Podcast hosted by Tom Elliot.

15/12/2021

The latest episode is up! Check out Jay's celebration(?) of holiday music.

http://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2021/12/15/a-defense-of-christmas-music/

“Winter Walk” by Podington Bear plays Jay: It’s been fourteen years since my buddy Patrick Culliton and I launched a music blog called 77 Santas. We took a slant-angle view on Christmas and holiday…

01/12/2021

Stop what you're doing. And listen. What do you hear? Let us know while you take in Episode 7, "Sound Body."
https://hiddenlanguagepodcast.com/2021/12/01/sound-body/

A CAMPFIRE crackles. BECCA: We went camping a couple weekends ago and it was a very quiet place. I think it was in the evening and we were all sitting around the fire, and one of the kids made a co…

25/11/2021