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Episode 5: Small Town Psychology

Episode 5: Small Town Psychology

FromMarfa for Beginners


Episode 5: Small Town Psychology

FromMarfa for Beginners

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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Oct 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Small towns come with a lot of drama.

When you live in a place like Marfa, there are certain psychological realities specific to having zero degrees of separation between you and your neighbors. People know what’s going on in your life, and you know what’s going on in theirs. Even if they didn’t tell you. This proximity creates a unique reality of deep connection and insane paranoia.

In this episode, Elise Pepple conducts an experiment. One that takes small town closeness and uses it as a tool to address someone’s problem.

This episode was produced by Elise Pepple, Zoe Kurland, and Sally Beauvais.

Music: Selections from W. Creeves, and Leftover Fog and Bright White, by Podington Bear, sourced from the Free Music Archive. License: CC BY-NC.
Released:
Oct 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (16)

What do you know about Marfa, Texas? Whether it’s Vogue magazine, The Simpsons, or I Love Dick, there’s a certain narrative about Marfa: the romantic art town in the middle of nowhere. But there’s more to Marfa than that. Marfa for Beginners is the audio guide to the Marfa you may not know: Virgin of Guadalupe sightings and limited Tinder options. A place where you can feel like a stranger in your own hometown while also feeling like there are zero degrees of separation between you and…anyone else. Marfa For Beginners is an expansion of the narrative, a trip down a different road, a tourism podcast for locals– to find out what that means, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.