Best Cobbwebb Media Podcasts (2024)

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Lane Frost & 8 Seconds 10:10

2y ago10:10

10:10

Made famous by the 1994 movie starring Luke Perry and Steven Baldwin, Lane Frost was a cowboy who followed rodeos around the country, his prowess in bull riding being particularly noteworthy. Unfortunately, as those who finished the movie will know, Lane doesn’t survive his 8 seconds on a bull at Cheyenne Frontier Days– join us as we celebrate the …

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Miss Kate Arnold & Sheridan Inn: A Love Story 10:20

2y ago10:20

10:20

She was brought to the Inn on the railroad and stayed for another 60 years. Miss Kate has never really left the Sheridan Inn, with a room bearing her name and a story that you’ll have to hear to believe. This is a story of one woman who loved the Sheridan Inn more than anyone else and the ways in which the historical society helped her share her lo…

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Hollywood’s Wyoming: The Cowboy State in Film 11:54

2y ago11:54

11:54

From aliens meeting at Devil’s Tower to a few cowboys in the mountains falling in love, Wyoming has been depicted many times on the silver screen. Did you know part of the state stood in for an alien planet? Or how Dances with Wolves had the state on its dance card? Let’s explore how Hollywood sees the cowboy state.HOSTDeborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb…

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The Tale of Bomber Mountain: A WWII plane crash in WY 8:38

2y ago8:38

8:38

In 1943, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was flying from Oregon to Nebraska and, when it wasn’t heard from it was presumed lost. Search and rescue efforts commenced in several mountain ranges in Wyoming before a couple of cowboys found the shiny metal wreckage in the Big Horns. The mountain was renamed in honor of the wreckage’s salvage.HOSTDeborah C…

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Big Nose George & The Governor’s Shoes 9:57

2y ago9:57

9:57

A highwayman back in the wild west days of Wyoming, you can see some of Big Nose George’s desecrated remains in Rawlins, where he found his death at the end of a hangman’s noose for robbery. But George’s story doesn’t end there. What are those shoes made of, anyway? Find out why a governor of Wyoming wore them to his inauguration.HOSTDeborah Cobb (…

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Yellowstone’s Zone of Death: How to Get Away With Murder 7:36

2y ago7:36

7:36

This episode was recorded before the devastating flooding in Yellowstone. Please donate here to help Montana small towns affected by the floods. https://www.rlacf.org/donate-2/local-causes/carbon-county-disaster-fund/The “zone of Death,” is a thought experiment by a law scholar about this one weird place in Yellowstone where you could, theoreticall…

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Amelia Earhart’s Wyoming Homestead: Kirwin, Wyoming 6:52

2y ago6:52

6:52

In the years before the famed aviator’s famous disappearance, Amelia Earhart was in the process of purchasing and building her own vacation home in Kirwin, Wyoming— a beautiful ghost town that you need an ATV to reach from the main roads. Isolated and peaceful, what would her life have been like if she returned from a world record flight and settle…

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The Real Oregon Trail: Wyoming’s Landmarks 9:49

2y ago9:49

9:49

The Oregon Trail video game had such a huge cultural impact, some forget that the sights seen in 8 bit original rendering are very real places. Independence Rock, Register Cliffs, Fort Laramie and Fort Bridger. Join us as well check out the real places behind the video game and hopefully learn a bit about how the pioneers made their way out west.HO…

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The Great Buffalo Bill Body Heist 8:36

2y ago8:36

8:36

Many, many towns claim William “Buffalo Bill” Cody as their own hometown boy. Golden was where he was finally laid to rest when he passed in 1917. There were rumors that he had asked to be buried in Wyoming and those requests were denied, so a small group of people claim to have taken it into their own hands to make sure the town bearing his name, …

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Owen Wister & The Virginian 11:12

2y ago11:12

11:12

Considered by many to be the “First Western Novel,” the 1901 book by Owen Wister was written about a fictionalized version of the very real Johnson County Cattle War. The eponymous “virginian,” was a ranch hand and lawman trying to keep the peace at a ranch near Medicine Bow, WY. The town itself holds the TV show in high esteem, and a hotel was bui…

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The Time Garfield Made Me Think Wyoming Was Fake 10:53

2y ago10:53

10:53

I was a 5-year-old precocious kid growing up in Wyoming when I saw the episode of Garfield where the eponymous cat explained that “Wyoming was an old Italian word for “No State Here.” The video has gotta be around here somewhere. I remember in my mind there being a joke about Garfield seeing a bunch of dogs wearing UW Cowboys gear, but I don’t thin…

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What’s the Deal With the Horse? Steamboat, the Brand 9:59

2+ y ago9:59

9:59

Follow us back in rodeo history time to find the real horse the emblem Wyoming is known for was originally based on. Get more familiar with the Bucking Horse and Rider logo, also known to locals as Steamboat. Why is it called Steamboat when the landlocked state of Wyoming likely doesn’t have a single steamboat? Find out here!HOSTDeborah Cobb (debbi…

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Absaroka: The Almost 49th State 11:22

2+ y ago11:22

11:22

It contained parts of Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota and it called Sheridan, Wyoming its Capital. Absaroka today lends it’s name to the fictional county that Longmire is the Sheriff of and a few mountain ranges that pre-date the state, but for two years in the 1940s, it tried to declare itself as its own state in rebellion against the New Deal …

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Douglas & The First Jackalope 14:23

2+ y ago14:23

14:23

Douglas, WY is a small, sleepy town on the edge of the oil fields and the railroad tracks. It has a really rich history and very proud historians and even the old Pioneer Cemetery is cared for and revered. This town loves its Wild West origins, almost as much as it loves the Depression Era joke that got so out of hand, the animal these Douglas boys…

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Notorious NTR 12:59

2+ y ago12:59

12:59

Nellie Tayloe Ross, the First Woman Governor of Wyoming A 1920s icon and beloved by her constituents, Notorious NTR, as I’ve called her for years but no one else seems to pick up, was a badass Wyoming Woman. She was elected to her late husband’s position as Governor after his untimely death and went on to have her own successful career with an appo…

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Introducing Wild Women, Wind & Wyoming Wisdom 1:31

2+ y ago1:31

1:31

A new podcast premiering on April 20th, 2022 Host Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media) Music (music@cobbwebb.media) Wesley Hogg Kaleb Richey Birgit Burke --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/w5podcast/support

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Lane Frost & 8 Seconds 10:10

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Miss Kate Arnold & Sheridan Inn: A Love Story 10:20

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Hollywood’s Wyoming: The Cowboy State in Film 11:54

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The Tale of Bomber Mountain: A WWII plane crash in WY 8:38

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Big Nose George & The Governor’s Shoes 9:57

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Yellowstone’s Zone of Death: How to Get Away With Murder 7:36

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Amelia Earhart’s Wyoming Homestead: Kirwin, Wyoming 6:52

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The Real Oregon Trail: Wyoming’s Landmarks 9:49

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The Great Buffalo Bill Body Heist 8:36

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Owen Wister & The Virginian 11:12

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The Time Garfield Made Me Think Wyoming Was Fake 10:53

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What’s the Deal With the Horse? Steamboat, the Brand 9:59

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Absaroka: The Almost 49th State 11:22

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Douglas & The First Jackalope 14:23

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Notorious NTR 12:59

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Introducing Wild Women, Wind & Wyoming Wisdom 1:31

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