{"podcast":{"title":"Life with Fire","slug":"life-with-fire-744999","podcast_index_feed_id":744999,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/wMFLKTDa","website_url":"https://lifewithfire.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ff872a5e-c247-4d9d-99c7-e18642da1e7b/3786cd9b-ae22-4df0-ae12-1a051e116736/3000x3000/7dad79de-ff28-4fdb-acb5-4575c0b10a83.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Amanda Monthei","episode_count":80,"summary":"What are the benefits of prescribed burning? Why have wildfires gotten so severe lately? How can I help protect my home and community? Life With Fire podcast aims to answer these questions (and many others) while deepening our understanding of the critical role fire plays in America’s forests, lands and communities. Hosted by writer and former wildland firefighter Amanda Monthei, Life with Fire features interviews with everyone from scientists to fire management experts to Indigenous practitioners and folks doing the work on the ground. Through these interviews, Amanda hopes to explore our relationship with fire, as well as ways we can better coexist with it in the future.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999"},"episode":{"title":"Braiding The Personal with the Ecological, with HOTSHOT Author River Selby","slug":"braiding-the-personal-with-the-ecological-with-hotshot-author-river-selby","published_at":"2025-10-17T14:27:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999/braiding-the-personal-with-the-ecological-with-hotshot-author-river-selby","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999","url":"https://lifewithfire.simplecast.com/episodes/braiding-the-personal-with-the-ecological-with-hotshot-author-river-selby-RkkmUKtj","audio_url":"https://chrt.fm/track/3G5CD6/cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e64b7a70-510f-4a3b-8b79-94ad9ae877d7/episodes/fbc4fa21-3fb7-44ea-a86e-c0a7c6aae007/audio/a28ac06b-4af5-4b3f-b755-203fe38df092/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=wMFLKTDa","summary":"Welcome to our second episode with women and non-binary firefighters who have written books about their experiences working both in fire and on hotshot crews more specifically. Our guest for this episode is HOTSHOT author River Selby (they/them), who spent seven years as a wildland firefighter—four of which were as a hotshot—from 2000 to 2010. They've since gotten their undergrad and MFA (in fiction) at Syracuse, and are currently working towards a PhD in Nonfiction with an emphasis in postcolonial histories, North American colonization, and postmodern literature and culture. This unique background allowed River to create a phenomenally in-depth book that covers not only their own experiences of working on crews and personal vignettes of life on and off the fireline, but it also paints a rich history of different fire ecologies across the American West (and world), and how colonization and fire suppression in the Western US (and elsewhere!) have set the stage for our modern relationship with fire.","meta_description":"Welcome to our second episode with women and non-binary firefighters who have written books about their experiences working both in fire and on hotshot cr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4125,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-with-fire-744999/episodes/braiding-the-personal-with-the-ecological-with-hotshot-author-river-selby/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999/braiding-the-personal-with-the-ecological-with-hotshot-author-river-selby.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}