{"podcast":{"title":"Cowboy Crossroads","slug":"cowboy-crossroads-769389","podcast_index_feed_id":769389,"rss_url":"https://cowboycrossroads.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.andyhedges.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/0/1/6/d0161d163d5ed477e5bbc093207a2619/CowboyCrossroads-20240208-r4pm0oyc9m.jpg","author":"Andy Hedges","episode_count":122,"summary":"Andy Hedges interviews a different guest on each episode and asks them to share stories from the working cowboy West and beyond. Cowboy poets, ranchers, working cowboys, musicians, songwriters, artists, historians, and western legends.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T08:20:40.724786+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cowboy-crossroads-769389"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 114: JM Cates","slug":"episode-114-jm-cates","published_at":"2025-11-05T15:59:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cowboy-crossroads-769389/episode-114-jm-cates","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cowboy-crossroads-769389","url":"https://andyhedges.com/cowboy-crossroads/blog/7658998/episode-114-jm-cates","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cowboycrossroads/JM_Cates_-_11425_5.19_PM.mp3?dest-id=549917","summary":"Old-time cowboy and fiddler JM Cates was born in 1936. This interview was recorded on August 22nd, just 8 days before his 89th birthday and a little over a month before he passed away on October 2nd. On this episode, JM talks about learning how to work from his father, his early cowboyin' jobs, playing music on ranches and at the Western Cowpunchers Association, and shares cowboy stories and wisdom from a lifetime of experience. This episode was sponsored by Flint Custom Hats. Check them out online at www.flinthat.com Thank you to my friends at the Western Cowpunchers Association for arranging this interview. Check them out online at www.westerncowpunchers.com Learn more about Cowboy Crossroads at www.andyhedges.com Become a Patron at www.patreon.com/cowboycrossroads","meta_description":"Old-time cowboy and fiddler JM Cates was born in 1936. This interview was recorded on August 22nd, just 8 days before his 89th birthday and a little over…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4813,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cowboy-crossroads-769389/episodes/episode-114-jm-cates/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cowboy-crossroads-769389/episode-114-jm-cates.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}