Podcasts · Society & Culture

A Whole Other Country

7 episodes · 7 with AI analysis

A Whole Other Country is a new podcast from the award-winning Marfa Public Radio Studios. Back in the ‘90s, in an off-the-grid neighborhood in the mountains of Far West Texas, a wannabe vintner started his own Wild West nation. Reporter and host Zoe Kurland drives the long, bumpy roads of the Davis Mountains to talk to a cast of neighbors and onlookers who watched the story of the standoff unfold in real time -- the myths of the frontier crashing violently into reality.

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Global Land Development Corporation×2 Marfa Public Radio×2 Overland Network The Walt Disney Company SeaWorld San Antonio Nature Conservancy Midland Reporter-Telegram Shell Oil NBC Discovery Cove Florida New York Times Washington Post Fort Davis Winery Big Bend Sentinel Universal Music Library Flying J ABC CNN Fort Worth Star Telegram

Topics · top 10

Republic of Texas separatist movementDavis Mountains Resort off-grid community1997 Texas standoff and hostage situationFrontier mythology in American cultureGovernment sovereignty and secessionLaw enforcement response to armed standoffsMedia coverage of regional conflictsOff-grid living and alternative governanceWest Texas culture and identityTexas Separatism and Militia Movements

Analyzed Episodes

Sep 29, 2025

Welcome to A Whole Other Country

Republic of Texas separatist movementDavis Mountains Resort off-grid community1997 Texas standoff and hostage situation

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Oct 8, 2025

A Very Long Road

Texas Separatism and Militia MovementsRemote Community Governance and Law EnforcementAmerican Frontier Mythology in Popular Culture

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Oct 8, 2025

Gentle and Sweet

Property Title Disputes and Survey InconsistenciesAdverse Possession Law and Squatters' RightsLien Filing as Legal Harassment Tool

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Oct 15, 2025

Getting Squinky

Texas Secessionism and Independence MovementsSovereign Citizen Legal StrategiesHistorical Myth-Making and Political Ideology

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Oct 22, 2025

King of the Lean-To

Sovereign Citizen Movements and Legal FraudEarly Internet Radicalization and RecruitmentMilitia Movements and Armed Standoffs

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Oct 29, 2025

The Standoff

Republic of Texas militia movement and separatismArmed standoff negotiation tactics and law enforcement responseMedia coverage of armed conflicts and extremist movements

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Nov 12, 2025

I Die Laughing

Texas separatism and independence movementsArmed standoffs and militia activity in rural AmericaRural community reputation management and media coverage

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