Shows
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDBREAKING BAD - PodcastBad Bunny's history-making feast of music, dance, imagery, and elation felt a little like resistance, but more like insistence...a euphoric refusal to accept all the darkness, the divisiveness, the hate, and the oppression, and a persistent assertion of the power of love and goodness.And, because I spent part of my childhood in Puerto Rico, I realized that my early experiences there are part of why I am who I am today.This podcast features two of my original songs: RIVER OF LIFE ©2026, and OH, WE WILL ALL BE THERE ©2025 by Sandi Ault Ge...
2026-02-1211 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDARE YOU OKAY? - PodcastLamenting the murder of Alex Pretti, and championing the brave patriots in Minneapolis, after what we’ve all been through, none of us are okay. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2026-02-0216 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDSANDI AULT and CHRIS ARMITAGE LIVE!A lively conversation with my friend Chris Armitage and several hundred of our closest friends across the country and even around the world.Chris is a great political strategist, and he has powerful ideas about how we can work from the ground up to resist and to create real democracy by building new and rebuilding what works.As I told the audience, I work from how it feels on the ground to awaken and inform, and hopefully inspire people. I bring a lifetime of experience in the WILD to this work: outdoor action-adventure stories paired...
2026-01-3052 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDSANDI AULT/CHRIS ARMITAGE Going Live!SANDI AULT and CHRIS ARMITAGE will be going !LIVE! on Friday, January 30 at 2PMPut it on your calendar NOW! Join with this link:CLICK FRIDAY 2PM TO JOINhttps://open.substack.com/live-stream/106096?r=4xvtpf&utm_medium=iosSee you then! Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-2900 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDGIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN - PodcastWomen have a few things to say about the murder of a bright spark of joy by an ICE agent.#BeGood #IceOut #ReneeGood I really love doing these podcasts because I get to wear a lot of hats: writer, storyteller, producer, musician, and composer. I'm always delighted to include my own original music, as well as voices from the community.The voices joining mine in celebration of the spark of wild joy that was Renee Good come from some of the strongest and best women I know: Channie Peters, Jenna Preston, Stephanie Courington...
2026-01-2419 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDI'LL HAVE THE NUREMBERGER - PodcastWelcome to the Democracy Disaster DinerThis podcast is Episode 32, and we are celebrating our anniversary at SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILD. Our first publication was right around one year ago today, and we are grateful to all our listeners, followers, and subscribers. And watch this space for an anniversary sale on subscriptions.About the podcast versions of our essays: I really love doing these podcasts because I get to wear a lot of hats: writer, storyteller, producer, musician, and composer. I’m always delighted to include my own original music as well as voic...
2026-01-1118 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDHERE COMES THE SUN - PodcastWe have been in such a long night these past months...such a dark, cold, cruel, devastating, unholy night.Here comes the sun. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-12-3010 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDEVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD - PodcastSleepless in the Rockies, I worry...and I hope. You up?Notes:Big kudos to the members of my community who provided voiceovers for this pod: Purple Weather Lady, John Miller, George Jackson, Jr., Ron Schukar, T Kerns, and Tim Courington, and to two members from my team who always make my work better with their edits—Theresa Daus Weber and Eric Brody.All the original music in this podcast is ©Sandi Ault 2025, except for: I hummed around with a couple of bars from the song that this podcast title comes from:C...
2025-12-1721 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDWAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE - PodcastWomen have a thing or two to say about waiting for the Epstein files. We’re not waiting for Godot. Women are waiting on the world to change.Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-11-2720 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDBLUE BOO TO BOBO & THE CAVING SENATE DEMS - PodcastWe will build democracy back better than ever without the likes of you.—With added comments following the SenateDemsCave.Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD is a reader-supported publication. If you value the work I do, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-11-1116 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDPIECE OF MY HEART - PodcastThe moment the demolition retribution images appeared on media and online, one could almost hear a stunned, heart-arresting gasp reverberate across the country, an effect on the people much like seeing the shock waves from Trinity mushrooming in the high desert. All at once, we Americans knew: everything has changed. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-10-2517 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDCONJURE HOPE - PodcastI am by no means an optimist. And yet, I have a hundred reasons to have hope this week. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-10-1825 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDI'VE SEEN ALL GOOD PEOPLE - PodcastLike Jimmy, I have no illusions about changing anyone’s mind. But the power of the truth is undeniable.Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD is a reader-supported publication. To celebrate this 25th Episode of BOTH the blog and the podcast, please show your support by subscribing! And if you already subscribe, let me say how WILDly thankful I am! Won’t you share this with a friend and/or give them a gift subscription so we can continue to do this work? Get full acce...
2025-09-3020 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDSEE HOW THE RICH RAPE - PodcastThe problem of pedophilia could easily be over with a quick and easy fix. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-09-1310 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDDEMOCRACY'S BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL - PodcastWe might self-sabotage our own intentions by waiting for perfect. The perfect time. The perfect reason. The perfect party. The perfect leader.Or we could do what’s right and say it’s close enough for rock and roll. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-09-0323 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDRUNNING INTO THE SUN - PodcastWe are in dangerous, deep, dark tyranny territory now. What should we do?Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. Your support will help me to continue my work.Run into the sun. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-08-2021 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDCRUISIN' and CROONIN' - PodcastLast week, I just had to get away.So instead of my usual podcast, I created a video podcast with clips of our new wolf cub companion, Zuni, as he moves out from the comfort and safety of our home into the big, wide world. Enjoy!Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-08-0707 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDSHE BREAKS JUST LIKE A LITTLE GIRL - PodcastIn the light of all the news about the Epstein files, the lyrics of an old song have been haunting me. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-07-3023 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDSUBTYRANNY HOMESICK BLUES - PodcastWe're teetering on a rock hoping to survive, needing a miracle, trying to effect our own rescue. The courts, the Democrats in Congress who are fighting without the tools they need, the volunteers and citizens across the country who are giving whatever they have, doing whatever they can do...will it be enough against the chilling torrent of surging tyranny? Will it be in time?Listen to this story from the WILD Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-07-1826 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDLET US PREY - PodcastThe bell tolls for democracy. LET US PREY. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-07-0213 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDYOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE - PodcastThis thrilling tale from the WILD will get your heart racing. And it has a parallel in the danger we face today.In spite of how hard we try to believe in the power of the people over greed and billionaire global alliances, corruption, and general moral decay, the landslide away from democracy has begun, and the ground we stood on yesterday is slipping away. Now, I don't think we can get there from here. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-06-2525 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDBAD BLOOD - PodcastAs they see the gold-tinged glare of greed growing like a pathogen in the White House and the despicable deeds of the richest man in the world, it seems more and more people who voted for this, or who simply didn't vote at all, are already beginning to surrender their stockpile of false beliefs and their foolish faith in their former leader.Some have even joined the demonstrations against the evil empire under which they are now beginning to suffer.And as more of that happens, maybe now we have a chance to turn this...
2025-06-1024 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDYOU MAY FIND YOURSELF - PodcastYou may find yourself worrying about how we will make it. You may find yourself wondering what you can do. Things are not getting better. How can we prepare? You may find yourself inspired by this story from the WILD.Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-05-2222 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDSEASON OF THE WOLF - PodcastI will say this about wolves: there is never much point in trying to shape or tame them. The adventure is more about who we become as a result of loving them. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-05-0915 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDIS DYS-TOPIA? - PodcastHere’s a story that’s stranger than fiction because fiction foretold it. Great truth tellers and freedom fighters from long ago and from today have been forecasting this moment through their work.Today, we are waking up in the worlds they warned us about. What should we do? As one character says in his manifesto: TRY. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-05-0123 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDWE DIDN'T START THE FIRE - PodcastA story from my wildland firefighting adventures compares the state of our nation today with the dangers of a complex fire.When firefighters respond to a wildfire, they don't think about the odds. They employ their skills and devotion to do what they can; they work together to create and hold the line, and they don't quit until the fire is out. Neither should we. Are we going to be too slow, too scared, or too intimidated to defend our democracy?I don't think so. I still have my boots and my helmet, and I still remember...
2025-04-1820 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDWE DIDN'T START THE FIREA story from my wildland firefighting adventures compares the state of our nation today with the dangers of a complex fire.Are we going to be too slow, too scared, or too intimidated to defend our democracy?I don't think so. I still have my boots and my helmet, and I still remember a thing or two about fighting fire with fire...and with good information....and with shrewd strategy and hard work and determination. And I do care. How about you?
2025-04-1820 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDBADLANDS - PodcastWe may live in the BADLANDS now, baby, but we're bad-asses when we all get together to make some good noise and get in some good trouble.Yes, even though we’re living in the BADLANDS, this story comes full circle to hope. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-04-0322 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDBADLANDSWe may live in the BADLANDS now, baby, but we're bad-asses when we all get together to make some good noise and get in some good trouble.Yes, even though we’re living in the BADLANDS, this story comes full circle to hope. Give it a listen. You’ll like the music, the drumming, and best of all… the story.
2025-04-0322 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDROCKFALL - PodcastOur country is falling off a cliff. Take it from someone who has spent some serious time on craggy canyon rims and treacherous slopes: when the structure of the surface beneath you starts to erode, fast-moving landslides can literally take away the ground on which you stand. In this country, we are all perched on the edge of a crumbling precipice right now.Every week or so, I write a blog post on Substack. Then, a few days later, I produce a variation as an audio podcast, accompanied by original music and sound effects. I hope you...
2025-03-2725 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDROCKFALLOur country is falling off a cliff. Take it from someone who has spent some serious time on craggy canyon rims and treacherous slopes: when the structure of the surface beneath you starts to erode, fast-moving landslides can literally take away the ground on which you stand. In this country, we are all perched on the edge of a crumbling precipice right now.
2025-03-2725 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDMONEYBAGS - PodcastGreed, avarice, bloodsucking vandalism, destruction, and dismembering is happening to our democracy… and to the WILD. And we’re expected to keep the moneybags full.Thanks for reading Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD! Please help me build my audience by sharing this podcast with your friends! Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-03-1628 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDMONEYBAGSGreed, avarice, bloodsucking vandalism, destruction, and dismembering is happening to our democracy… and to the WILD. And we’re expected to keep the moneybags full.
2025-03-1628 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDFROM RUSSIA WITH WOLVES - PodcastBetrayed. Abandoned. Screwed over. Heisted. Robbed. Ripped off. Conned. Maybe we need a few more wolves. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-03-0721 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDFROM RUSSIA WITH WOLVESBetrayed. Abandoned. Screwed over. Heisted. Robbed. Ripped off. Conned. Maybe we need a few more wolves.
2025-03-0721 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDKING OF PAIN - PodcastI am going to tell you a WILD story before I am done, but first I have to tell you a bit more of what has got me to the state of remembering the time I had to sit alone a long while with a corpse in the cold at sunset. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-02-2721 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDKING OF PAINI am going to tell you a WILD story before I am done, but first I have to tell you a bit more of what has got me to the state of remembering the time I had to sit alone a long while with a corpse in the cold at sunset.
2025-02-2721 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDA LINE IN THE SNOW - PodcastThis story is about a time when I lived in a high mountain valley. In the middle of the worst snowstorm in years, an infant needed to be taken to the hospital but the roads were closed and packed with three feet of snow. A small band of volunteer firefighters and community members banded together to relay the baby down the cliff-edged mountain road in the driving snow and darkness to meet an ambulance waiting below. When this creative and committed team needed to rescue something precious, they got innovative, bold, and brave.Sandi Ault...
2025-02-1613 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDA LINE IN THE SNOWThis story is about a time when I lived in a high mountain valley. In the middle of the worst snowstorm in years, an infant needed to be taken to the hospital but the roads were closed and packed with three feet of snow. A small team of volunteer firefighters and community members banded together to relay the baby down the cliff-edged mountain road in the driving snow and darkness to meet an ambulance waiting below. When this creative and committed team needed to rescue something precious, they got innovative, bold, and brave.Will we be able...
2025-02-1613 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDTHE HURT LOCKER - PodcastThanks for reading Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD! This post is public so feel free to share it.If you like the unique combination of storytelling, music, sound effects, professional production and political inspiration, please share this with others so we can grow our audience.My friends, most of you have heard this term: hurt locker. It means: a place of profound pain and deep discomfort.And maybe you saw the film by the same name, so if you called up the image of actor Jeremy Renner in his...
2025-02-0916 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDTHE HURT LOCKERMy friends, most of you have heard this term: hurt locker. It means: a place of profound pain and deep discomfort. And maybe you saw the film by the same name, so if you called up the image of actor Jeremy Renner in his blast-resistant suit making his way towards a suicide bomber, you have it about right. That's where we are now. Except... few of us have the suit. Some of us are bare-assed naked. But the richest among us have bunkers in the mountains in New Zealand, or they ow...
2025-02-0916 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDTHE SOUND OF SILENCE - PodcastI have a story to tell you about how—when things can change suddenly in your path—you can find your way around the danger.Too many have been too silent as the new oligarchy takes power in Washington, including our elected representatives. This has left us with the sound of silence and a vacuum in leadership. But how about you? Are you still silent, or have you sprung into action to defend our democracy? Or are you someplace in-between?We can meet this challenge together.Welcome back from the silence to the WILD.
2025-02-0110 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDTHE SOUND OF SILENCE I have a story to tell you about how—when things can change suddenly in your path—you can find your way around the danger. Too many have been too silent as the new oligarchy takes power in Washington, including our elected representatives. This has left us with the sound of silence and a vacuum in leadership. But how about you? Are you still silent, or have you sprung into action to defend our democracy? Or are you someplace in-between?We can meet this challenge together.Welcome back from the silence to the WILD.
2025-02-0110 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDA WILD ROBBERY—I WISH I HAD A RIVER - PodcastThis is Sandi Ault, reporting from the WILD. And this is the audio podcast companion to my blog on Substack. This is episode 3: A WILD ROBBERY—I WISH I HAD A RIVERI'm going to tell you a story that really happened. It's about the time when I went to the post office, the bank was robbed, a baby was born, and—at least initially—a criminal got away with stealing in plain sight. And even though this is one of those you-can't-make-this-stuff-up stories, I promise you there's something real-life-true about the lesson we can all take from i...
2025-01-2512 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDA WILD ROBBERY—I WISH I HAD A RIVERIn Episode 3, I'm going to tell you a story that really happened. It's about the time when I went to the post office, the bank was robbed, a baby was born, and—at least initially—a criminal got away with stealing in plain sight. And even though this is one of those you-can't-make-this-stuff-up stories, I promise you there's something real-life-true about the lesson we can all take from it.
2025-01-2412 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDBABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR - PodcastEpisode 2 of the companion podcast to Sandi Ault’s Substack blog SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILD… wherein I tell the story of a time when my husband and I barely survived a flood from monsoons in a remote desert canyon, because we got distracted and missed the warning signs. With so much at stake in our lives now, we need to pay attention to those alerts and warnings on our own inner dashboards. Get full access to Sandi Ault - Reporting from the WILD at sandiault.substack.com/subscribe
2025-01-2309 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDBABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY CARI'm worried about all those flashing lights on my dashboard. And I'm not talking about my car. These past few weeks, the alarms have been never-ending.The thing about this dashboard lights is they are heralds of eminent trouble or potential harm. We ignore them at our peril.In this episode, I tell you about a time when my husband and I barely survived a 500-year flood from desert monsoons that suddenly dropped a deluge in a remote canyon we were exploring. we were were lucky to survive... to get out... and to have a car parked o...
2025-01-1809 min
SANDI AULT—Reporting from the WILDHOW TO FEEL WHEN THE WORLD IS FALLING APART - PodcastSANDI AULT, award-winning author of the WILD Mystery Series, tries to make sense of a country that is torn apart following the 2024 election cycle. As the 2nd largest (and one of the most beautiful) cities in the country burns in a catastrophic result of decades of client denial, we can all see apocalyptic signs around us. An ex-president who was an exceedingly decent man dies just as an exceedingly indecent one prepares to rule, along with an plethora of billionaires who openly plot imperialism and discuss how they will divide the earth up among the oligarchs. The same vultures...
2025-01-1207 min
The VJ Books PodcastMichael McGarrity discusses The Last Ranch, the 3rd book in his prequel series.Order the author's books here
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When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating war injury, but he must also battle attempts by the U.S. Army to seize control of his land for expanded weapons testing.
Forced off public grazing lands, banned from gathering his cattle on high mountain pastur...
2016-05-1933 min