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Out of the Wild is a podcast hosted by writer Ken Ilgunas. We discuss nature, adventure, simple living, culture, history, and politics.  https://kenilgunas.substack.com

Spoken has transcripts of 29 Out of the Wild episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 5, 2026.

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26. Antonia Malchik on poverty, shame, and identity wars in the American West

October 5, 2026

Ken Ilgunas (0:05)

This is the Out of the Wild podcast with Ken Ilgunas.

My guest today is Antonia Malchik, a writer based in Montana and the author of A Walking Life, reclaiming our health and our freedom one step at a time. Antonia writes the sub-stack Trespassing, which explores ownership, power, and the privatization of the commons. Her work examines how walking connects us to the…

Antonia Malchik (2:47)

It does, hugely. I think of every person I've ever gotten in touch to interview formally or just ask questions, like David Bollier, who's a real, very influential scholar on the Commons, spent a lot of time with me and introduced me to some other people.

I hadn't thought about the question in exactly those terms before, but now that you phrased it that way, like is there a core personality trait? I'm kind of wondering, because I run into a lot of things where I think, you know, I've written about this for so long now and really believe in the Commons and kind of the…

Ken Ilgunas (5:11)

Yeah. And it makes me think, just like you and I, for example, like we grew up in very different places, probably very different backgrounds. I mean, you come from Montana, I come from suburban Western New York. So we're separated by a vast geographical distance, but yet you and I, we end up kind of thinking about…

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