# S1 E1: Grover Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/wild-thing-884461/s1-e1-grover Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/wild-thing-884461/s1-e1-grover.md Podcast: [Wild Thing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/wild-thing-884461) Published: 2018-10-02T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/wild-thing/2314161 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/354400/2314161/wild-thing/2025_11_07_00_05_49_794cf2bb-e590-4859-a66a-accf866b3a9a.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wild-thing-884461/episodes/s1-e1-grover Duration seconds: 1692 ## Resource Laura Krantz is a veteran public radio editor and producer. So how did she end up in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, eyeballing some giant ground nests… that might have been made by Bigfoot? You can place the blame squarely on the shoulders of a guy named Grover. He was a tenured professor of anthropology at Washington State University and one of world’s preeminent experts on Sasquatch. And it turns out that Grover is also Laura’s long-lost cousin. How could she not do a story about this guy? *Become a premium subscriber to Wild Thing ! Premium subscribers get ad all three seasons ad-free, not to mention the warm fuzzy feeling that comes from supporting the show. Go to ⁠ https://wildthing.supportingcast.fm/⁠ to find out more! *Season 1 of Wild Thing is produced by Laura Krantz, Scott Carney, and Kelsey Ray. Editing by Alisa Barba. Music and mixing by Ramtin Arablouei. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wild-thing-884461/episodes/s1-e1-grover/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/wild-thing-884461/s1-e1-grover.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.