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What if you could sit down at your favorite coffee shop with the most interesting people in Washington State?
Every episode does exactly that. Host Scott Cowan has unhurried conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, historians, and makers—people doing fascinating work across the state. These 60-minute episodes feel less like interviews and more like catching up with a friend who has great stories to tell.
No scripts. No time limits. Just curiosity and good conversation.
340+ episodes and counting. There is always more to explore.
Every episode does exactly that. Host Scott Cowan has unhurried conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, historians, and makers—people doing fascinating work across the state. These 60-minute episodes feel less like interviews and more like catching up with a friend who has great stories to tell.
No scripts. No time limits. Just curiosity and good conversation.
340+ episodes and counting. There is always more to explore.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 19 days
Average audio length:
65 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
350 episodes
since May 29, 2020
episodic
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Brian Alley spent years on the road with Never Come Down, a Portland band that played bluegrass instruments and anything from Gillian Welch to Ween. They played Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco and a hostel stage in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves. Then Brian settled in the Methow Valle…
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John Shephard has spent three decades photographing Washington State on Fujichrome Velvia 50, using two cameras nobody makes anymore. One of them has a lens mounted on a rotating cylinder that takes two minutes and twenty seconds to complete a single exposure.
It started at five in the morning in a…
Kate Miller is the executive director of the Okanogan Land Trust, a nonprofit with two staff and an intern that protects working farms and ranches, wildlife habitat and water resources across Okanogan and western Ferry counties. Scott recorded this in their office in the town of Okanogan, in the co…
Kelsey Lang looks after the museums at Fort Flagler and Fort Worden, and she lives at one of them.
She grew up in central Florida, an hour north of Orlando. Her husband went looking for the rainiest place in the country that also had mountains, Washington came up, and after years of applying they m…
Remember me? After six months off, the Exploring Washington State podcast is back, and we're kicking things off with a caffeinated twist. Scott dragged his buddy Brooks Smothers from RV Out West to four very different coffee shops in downtown Everett to drink too much coffee, talk even more, and fi…
During peak summer season, Lake Chelan State Park can host nearly a thousand campers every night. Behind the scenes, that responsibility falls on one park manager.
In this episode of the Exploring Washington State Podcast, I sit down with Brian Frahm, the park manager at Lake Chelan State Park, to…
Spokane Built the Dodgers Dynasty
Show Notes:
Author and researcher Eric Vickrey returns to the Exploring Washington State Podcast with a story most baseball fans have never heard — how Spokane helped build the future Dodgers dynasty.
In his new book, Before They Wore Dodger Blue, Eric uncovers t…
Ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes at one of Washington’s most visited state parks? In this episode, Park Ranger Kevin Leese shares what he sees every day at Wallace Falls that most visitors completely overlook.
From seasonal crowd patterns and trail management to the unexpected c…
What happens when you shine a spotlight on the wonderfully odd, the creatively brave, and the musicians who refuse to fit the mold?
In this episode of the Exploring Washington State Podcast, we sit down with founder Rachel Crick and photographer Chris Pugh from As Many Weirdos As Possible — a proj…
Stories shape how we explore the Northwest, and some of the region’s most memorable outdoor books start at Mountaineers Books. In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Kate Rogers joins us to share how adventure, community, and curiosity guide the publishing process.
Kate talks about finding writers who c…
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