{"podcast":{"title":"Doc Walks","slug":"doc-walks-7327673","podcast_index_feed_id":7327673,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/576985/rss","website_url":"http://www.docwalkspod.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/8/b/3/88b35d9d7d68506bd959afa2a1bf1c87/DOCWALKS_Artwork.png","author":"Doc Walks","episode_count":67,"summary":"Documentary filmmakers, Keith Maitland (TOWER, DEAR MR BRODY) and Ben Steinbauer (WINNEBAGO MAN, CHOP & STEELE), host this lively walk & talk podcast featuring conversations with today's best non-fiction storytellers. DocWalks takes the conversation to the street (or nature trail), offering candid insight into the art & industry of documentary filmmaking for an audience of emerging filmmakers and doc-lovers alike.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T00:19:13.407990+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doc-walks-7327673"},"episode":{"title":"EP054 - Stories Are Everywhere w/ Pete Muller","slug":"ep054-everybody-s-molting-w-pete-muller","published_at":"2026-05-21T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doc-walks-7327673/ep054-everybody-s-molting-w-pete-muller","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doc-walks-7327673","url":"https://docwalkspod.com/ep054-everybodys-molting-w-pete-muller","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/769d52a5-d399-4750-a0ce-f637076f16a6/Sequence_12-esv2-34p-bg-34p-music-53p.mp3?dest-id=4997995","summary":"We duck inside for the first time ever — into the Blanton Museum of Art, because it's pouring in Austin and Pete Muller had the brilliant idea to bring our show into a gallery. Pete is the National Geographic photographer behind BUCKS HARBOR, his five-years-in-the-making debut feature about lobster fishermen in Downeast Maine, premiering at Berlinale and playing Doc Days at the Austin Film Society. We wander past Jacob Lawrence and Andrew Wyeth and Jerry Bywaters' OIL FIELD GIRLS while Pete walks us through the family that made him: his grandfather Leon Kelly (one of the pioneers of American surrealism), his art-conservator father (who once paid him to spit into a beaker so he could clean centuries-old paintings), and the paternity bombshell in his twenties that preceded his career embedded in conflict zones in Africa and the Middle East. We dig into BUCKS HARBOR's sea critter metaphors, the editor Noel Paul who shaped hundreds of hours with a special structure, the Hiss Golden Messenger song that lands just as it's needed, and Pete's gentle insistence that \"fly on the wall\" is a lie — the camera is always doing something. Plus: the most admissible form of male feeling and why art belongs to everyone (no whispering required). DISCUSSION LINKS: BUCKS HARBOR (2026) | THE FEARLESS FREAKS (2005) | BOMBAY BEACH (2011) TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Whispering into the Blanton — our first indoor episode 01:00 Jacob Lawrence and the Great Migration 03:00 Andrew Wyeth's SEA LEGS, painting the same people for decades 06:00 Pete's grandfather Leon Kelly — American surrealism 08:00 Crescent Fellowship, Paris 1925, André Breton 11:00 Why Pete won't call himself an artist 13:00 Mom the nighttime newspaper photographer in Lynn, MA 14:00 Dad the art conservator (and the beaker of spit) 17:00 Maki…","meta_description":"We duck inside for the first time ever — into the Blanton Museum of Art, because it's pouring in Austin and Pete Muller had the brilliant idea to bring ou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4208,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/doc-walks-7327673/episodes/ep054-everybody-s-molting-w-pete-muller/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doc-walks-7327673/ep054-everybody-s-molting-w-pete-muller.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}