Zoe Kurland
Senior ProducerZoe began her audio career working with the Kitchen Sisters and interning for Marfa Public Radio. After a stint in documentary film, she returned to radio as a reporter and producer in Los Angeles, and now, far West Texas. Zoe’s work has been featured on Marketplace and in New York Magazine, and she’s won multiple Regional Murrow Awards for her feature reporting and podcast work, and recently, a National Murrow award for Innovation.
Zoe is the host, reporter and producer of the station's latest podcast, A Whole Other Country (named one of the best podcasts of 2025 by The Atlantic). She has also produced Marfa for Beginners, So Far From Care, and Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep, in addition to creating and writing the station’s weekly newsletter, The Desert Dispatch.
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During the days after Rick McLaren declared war, what would come to be known as the Republic of Texas Standoff, an unprecedented number of people descended on the Davis Mountains, waiting to see what would happen. And people across the world were all tuned in -- watching their TVs, listening on the radio -- to the real life Wild West drama, playing out in the reaches of Texas.Flavors of this episode: Cameras, kidnappers, car tires, impromptu laundromats, novelty tee shirts, baby aoudads, the horse brigade, satellites, shiny belt buckles, and ham radio. -
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Back in the 1990s, in an off-the-grid neighborhood in the mountains of Far West Texas, a wannabe vintner started his own Wild West nation. He called it The Republic of Texas, and he wanted to secede from the United States. At first, his neighbors wrote him off as a joke, a local eccentric. Then, things got very, very serious. -
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