Speaker 1: The West seems to fascinate the world in a way
Speaker 1: no other American region can touch. Why can't you get
Speaker 1: your John Wayne fixed on TV at any sleepless three am?
Speaker 1: Why is a soap opera Western like Yellowstone so wildly successful?
Speaker 1: How do shoe store sell five thousand dollars cowboy boots
Speaker 1: that'll never see a stirrup? And why is the phrase
Speaker 1: It's just like the Wild West cause all of us
Speaker 1: to imagine full freedom of action, that no one's regulating.
Speaker 1: The American West with Dan Floores is the latest show
Speaker 1: from the Meat Eater podcast network, hosted by me writer
Speaker 1: in historian Dan Floores and brought to you by Velvet
Speaker 1: Buck Wine with a backbone. By focusing on deep time
Speaker 1: and wild animals and the West's unique environments, this podcast
Speaker 1: looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode, I'll
Speaker 1: be diving into some of the lesser known histories of
Speaker 1: the West, such as North America during the Pleisscene epoch,
Speaker 1: the distribution of the first paintings and images of the region,
Speaker 1: and Thomas Jefferson's second Lewis and Clark Expedition. I'll then
Speaker 1: be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian
Speaker 1: doctor Randall Williams and best selling author and Meat Eater
Speaker 1: founder Steven Ranella.
Speaker 2: Oh, correct, my kids now, and then they'll say when
Speaker 2: cave people were here? And I'll say, it seems like
Speaker 2: the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a
Speaker 2: real affinity for caves.
Speaker 1: So jointly, starting Tuesday, May sixth, for the American West
Speaker 1: with Dan Flores on the Meat Eater podcast network, where
Speaker 1: we'll delve into stories of the West, gain a deeper
Speaker 1: appreciation of its history, and come to understand how it
Speaker 1: helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today.