Dear Lander

Season closers al.ways feel special. We owe so many thanks to our guest this week, Tina. We talked about righteous anger, growing up and feeling different in Lander, leaving and learning to love and embrace what makes us...us! and using that in Lander. Tina has plans to return, create community gardens and spaces, ask hard questions, call your representatives, and hold others accountable. We made...

It's the 7th episode of Season 4, and we are shavin' some time with a few deep cuts with Odom Ben, Lander local, artist, barber, Nuggets fan and co creator and accomplice to one of the best restaurants in Fremont County, (and probably all of Wyoming) Romdoul, formerly known as China Garden. He waxed nostalgia on Tony's Pizza, riding bikes everywhere in Lander growing up, and spray painting with th...

In this episode we were bakin' the goods with Jake. We hope you are familiar. If not, now you are with one of the most premier and talented bakers out West! We discussed his early days in Lander and first days of Lander Bread Share, connecting to make Whitebark in a historic Lander building, his passions for hunting, fishing and the outdoors, and never leaving Lander... ever. Let's get it.

SSSSSSup. For this episode, Tina (our amazing guest cohost!) and Jordan hung out at Sinks Visitor Center with Emily Martin, a doctoral student who studies the rattlesnake populations in Sinks Canyon. She talked to us about catching snakes, the big boy snakes, how snakes serve integral parts of our ecosystem, a bunch of common misconceptions about rattlesnakes, the venom of rattlers in The Sinks, n...

In the dead of winter, a guest graced our presence earlier this year that has become an integral part of the Lander community in all facets. Allison casually took us through the motions of ending up in Lander, standing up for herself, doing research at the highest buffalo jump in the nation, maneuvering bears in The Absarokas, and being honest with herself and the rest of the cowpokes out here.

Howdy. This week we are hanging with Jess Oldham: local, cowboy, actor, hard worker... you know the type. He told us about the Wild Horse Sanctuary that his family runs on the Wind River Reservation and all that they have achieved, his acting and modeling career in regards to the industry, co-starring and playing in a couple... really big projects, (to say the least) as well as the concept of land...

Our first guest of Season 4 does some stuff. Lots. All good things, in fact. Mara and us chatted about an amazing family corgi, bumping into Jimmy Chin at the top of the Grand Teton, the art of poop in wilderness, and a kiss with.... Kristen Stewart?! (but not Mara?) We also discussed in depth how NOLS has changed and not changed, as well as running for school board, (and winning!) and how more or...

In the midst of shattering our long hiatus with this episode, we caught up with some Landiego things that have happened since we've been gone: contentious topics in our town and... what even is a Landerite? Is there criteria? Do you gotta wear a badge or something? What is that all about? Who we would interview all time Lander folk: from ALL time periods, as well as some useful information regardi...

Gotcha!! For this surprise episode, The Dear Lander Podcast teamed up with the International Climber’s Festival to interview Val Shao, Director of the ICF and Lander Local! Val, Amara and Jordan discussed her introduction to Wyoming with Ten Sleep vs. Lander climbing, gymnastics and it’s benefits for fine-tuning rock climbing skills, The fusion of cowboy culture and climber culture in Lander, the...

Following the raucous third season and hard follow up news from this fall, our hosts the scary news, new beginnings, and the security and support offered by Lander during life-changing times. We also chatted about how AI ain’t all that bad- especially for brain surgery, Chali 2na’s arrival in Lander, and how it probably couldn’t have happened 10 years ago, the extremely controversial take of Lande...

Well hello! This particular episode features one of Lander's most talented photographers: Carl Cote. This Indiana fella is an avid shredder and storyteller through the lens. He told us about gettin' wicked at the rodeo and snapping pictures of skaters at Venice Beach, being inspired by Jimmy Chin, (please come on the podcast Jimmy golly we love you) screaming barfies and roman candle fights, getti...

Red. For this episode, we talked to Landiego's favorite heady wook: Quinn Cerovski. The brain behind Red Dangit, gamer, DJ, Winds fanatic, and raptor lover. We covered some of the following: Crazy things we've seen, (off of The Falls slide, of course!) the earliest days of Red Dangit, Byron's legendary reputation, Shocktoberfest and the height of Laramie DJs, the story of his album Jupiter, gettin...

Brother crews are dudes. Just a few dudes. Just some dudes. Just doing what we can do. Taur and Wolf stop by and made it seem so easy and perhaps standard, but looking back on all of Amara's cry laughs while editing this one, it seems, in the famous words of Lil Wayne: "We got one." Critics have likened this particular episode to Infinity War, Empire Strikes Back, as well as FarmVille in 2010. It'...

PICTURE THIS: It's June 2022. Laughter and saucy humor fills the halls of Amara's house. Three individual concoct the most steamy and unarguably spicy Dear Lander episode yet. Cristina joined us to discuss her work as nurse and activist for Chelsea's Fund, leaving a first impression on her NOLS course with a particular.... thingy.... watching her kiddos grow up in Lander, and finally, a powerful i...

Class is in session, Lander. On the fine day of this recording, Paul Primrose came over and schooled us on some very good stuff: the glory days of Fluffy Buffalo and favorite ever shows, nearly teaching at Mountain View, how cell phones are..... not so chill sometimes.... AND the truth about life after high school. Go Paul.

On this instant classic, Amara and Jor were chillin at Kris Hampton's humble abode, discussing his journey: How climbing kept him out of trouble, the Hip-hop single he released that went viral and eventually landed him a gig at the International Climber's Fest, The Houlihan Narratives, Writing "Float" and getting to know Todd Skinner's family. We also touched on him and his daughter meeting Lizzo,...

THIRD SEASONS A CHARM.For this laid-back Season 3 opener, Amara and Jordan cruised around Lander, The Baldwin Loop, and Sinks Canyon while chatting about the sights and sounds: mostly the nostalgic type. In addition, we covered the terrible Death Camas and our favorite wildflowers, that time Amara was drunk in DIA, weaselin' at Sinks Canyon Camp, Northside, Westside and Southside and... (LCA?) pol...

Season 2 Big Boss. Better Halves and Calves. Cherry whiskey and 2 pups wrastlin’. Plays in the Parks as well as Student Leadership Camps. A Horse going wild and secret spots. What we Love, Wish and See. The artists and the gravitational pull towards The Winds. Bears. Gettin’ paid. Knowin’ all the stuff. Change on our lil’ mountain town doorstep. Knowin’ none of the stuff. Sun went down and we’re s...

This week's episode we were pitchin' some HEAT with Lander Local and Legend, Doris Murray. Both Doris and her father had a huge deal to do with baseball in Lander in the 1950s, and more specifically, with The Lander Pioneers— our very own amateur league team. Doris traveling around the country and talked playing amazing baseball teams, watching the Brooklyn Dodgers, and recruiting some notable Hal...

Our seventh episode of Season 2 features Letara Lebeau: super badass activist, Lander Chamber member, business owner and mom. She was joined by her daughter on the show and we talked about being Western Wyoming mesmerized by tornadoes in Oklahoma, being on the White House task force for MMIP, her work and research in decolonizing data, and growing up with Amara near Pavillion. So wonderful having...

To continue our super strong Season 2 roster, we are joined by an artist, advocate and hero in Lander to many: Oakley Boycott! She talked about traveling around as a kid with her parents performing and attending different elementary schools, impressing crushes by eating grasshoppers, the big time similarities towards New York City and Wyoming (as well as the bubbles and echo chambers in both or an...

This thing shreds. Our 5th episode of Season dos features Alan Mandel, Lander local, Canadian, wise and joyful fella, insanely talented mountain biker and trail builder. He enlightened us on his journeys biking down volcanoes and in the Andes at 19,000 feet, pioneering new lines at the Red Bull Rampage and building for some of the world's finest, his gnarliest wipe-out ever and how it changed him,...

For this very mayoral episode, Amara and Jordan deliberated with Monte Richardson, the current Mayor of Lander, Wyoming! He wowed us with his stories as a bull rider when he was a young buck, we talked about the time he helped Jordan with his broken leg, and we big time talked about prep for the Lander 4th as well as the second annual Pig Roast. Oh yeah, and there is a.... big surprise at the end...

Ladies and Gentlemen..... we have the footage. In the third installment of Season 2, Jordan sits down with Sasquatch experts John and Dr. Jeff to go into detail about the evidence suggesting the existence of Bigfoot. Meldrum, a Professor of Anthropology at Idaho State University, discusses the physical characteristics of these specimens, as well as evidence in the classic Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot...

Our earliest recorded episode during Lander wintertime was with a couple of artists that have been heating up the Wyoming music scene lately: Christian Wallowing Bull and Fiadh! Both of them touch on their roots and what inspires them to create, the hardships they have overcome, and how their incredible artistic intuition has helped them out. We chat about recording in moving vehicles, freezing up...