Matt Martin
Podcast Producer
About
Matt is currently a podcast producer for KUOW. Before switching over to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record for two years.
Matt came to Seattle after spending time up in rural Alaska working as a reporter among the salmon and bears. He also has worked as a reporter in upstate New York and got his start in radio as an intern with StoryCorps in New York City.
Matt is actually a native Washingtonian and grew up in the deserts of the Yakima Valley. He got his undergrad degree in Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic from Brigham Young University.
Stories
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The Wild
Where the spirit bears roam
Ian McAllister and his father arrived late to the logging protest at Clayoquat Sound, British Columbia. It was the late 1980s; McAllister was in his teens. When they showed up, they found that most of the activists had been taken to jail in Vancouver.
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SoundQs
Wild coyotes live among us — is your cat on their menu?
Wild carnivores live among us. We may not know the exact number of coyotes here in Seattle but we should get used to them being here because they probably won't be leaving anytime soon.
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The Wild
The hunt to find just one square inch of silence
Chris Morgan goes deep into the Olympic National Forest to find the most elusive creature imaginable: silence.
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The Wild
A harsh life among ‘super over-caffeinated' penguins
Chris Morgan interviews two filmmakers that got up close and personal with Antarctica penguins.
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The Wild
Bombs, guns and sea lions on the Columbia River
Chris Morgan takes listeners along a complicated journey up the Columbia River, trying to piece together the interplay between people, sea lions, orcas and salmon.
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The Wild
The ‘ghost bears’ of Washington state
Chris Morgan explores the ideas and controversies behind reintroducing grizzly bears to the North Cascades.
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The Wild
Chris Morgan sees a forest therapist
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about this magazine article I picked up in a doctor’s office called “Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning.”
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The Wild
These Italian bears survived gladiators and Mussolini
Just two hours from Rome is one of the richest ecosystems in Europe, a little island of mountains that to this day is home to wolves, wild boar and bears.
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The Wild
Let the bear make the first move, and other tips to stay safe in the wild
I’m not someone who looks for trouble, but on my travels I’ve been peed on by orangutans, charged by grizzly bears, treed by moose, bitten by squirrels, stalked by polar bears, followed by wolves, chased by wild boar, and even had my finger sliced open by a leaf-cutter ant once.
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The Wild
Living in a freezing hole, watching for tigers that may never come
Host Chris Morgan travels to Russia to meet the man who captured on film the Siberian tigers that are nearly invisible.