# Writing the West: Episode 32 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/monday-matinee-723159/writing-the-west-episode-32 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/monday-matinee-723159/writing-the-west-episode-32.md Podcast: [Monday Matinee](https://stenobird.com/podcast/monday-matinee-723159) Published: 2026-06-15T05:03:00+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0b9ddebe Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/0b9ddebe/f01dedc9.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/monday-matinee-723159/episodes/writing-the-west-episode-32 Duration seconds: 587 ## Resource This episode includes the following stories: Great Equalizer: the end of the cattle baron era... Sacajawea: the woman who opened the West to whites... The Cure: A sickly boy takes on the wilderness... Daredevil: An Eastern author takes on a log flume... ...and the poem "Eyes of Night" by Rick Steber. All stories and poems by Rick Steber. Used by permission of the author. Theme music is "Slobro Daze" by Danny Lee Allison. Sound effects found on YouTube and the Freesound Project. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/monday-matinee-723159/episodes/writing-the-west-episode-32/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/monday-matinee-723159/writing-the-west-episode-32.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.