{"podcast":{"title":"Beginnings","slug":"beginnings-712871","podcast_index_feed_id":712871,"rss_url":"https://beginnings.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://beginningspod.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/7/7/a/9/77a9ce61a5a84663e55e3c100dce7605/Beginnings_Logo_Perfect_Square_for_Libsyn.jpg","author":"Andy Beckerman","episode_count":500,"summary":"We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and on-their-way-up comedians, musicians, writers, artists and thinkers about their earliest creative acts, their formative childhood experiences, and how they've developed both creatively and emotionally over the years. Beginnings is part therapy, part philosophy and almost all fascinating (95% according to FDA studies).","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T16:17:50.333758+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beginnings-712871"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 708: Mary Lattimore","slug":"episode-708-mary-lattimore","published_at":"2026-02-13T06:04:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beginnings-712871/episode-708-mary-lattimore","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beginnings-712871","url":"https://beginnings.libsyn.com/episode-708-mary-lattimore","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/beginnings/Beginnings_-_Mary_Lattimore.mp3?dest-id=73019","summary":"On today's episode, I talk to harpist Mary Lattimore. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, Mary began playing the harp as a tween and eventually attended the Eastman School of Music to study it more seriously. In 2012, Mary released her first album, a self-titled cassette, on Fred Thomas' Life Like imprint. This was re-released a year later on Desire Path Recordings with a new title, The Withdrawing Room. Since then, she's released almost a dozen more albums and collaborations on labels like Ghostly International, Three Lobed and Thrill Jockey, and her latest, Tragic Magic, an album she made with Julianna Barwick, was just released in the middle of January, and it's fantastic! This is the website for Beginnings , subscribe on Apple Podcasts , follow me on Twitter . Check out my free philosophy Substack where I write essays every couple months here and my old casiopop band's lost album here ! And the comedy podcast I do with my wife Naomi Couples Therapy can be found here ! Theme song by the fantastic Savoir Adore ! Second theme by the brilliant Mike Pace ! Closing theme by the delightful Gregory Brothers ! Podcast art by the inimitable Beano Gee !","meta_description":"On today's episode, I talk to harpist Mary Lattimore. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, Mary began playing the harp as a tween and eventually att…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3946,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beginnings-712871/episodes/episode-708-mary-lattimore/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beginnings-712871/episode-708-mary-lattimore.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}