The WALKING podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Election Night '24 Special Coverage Special!
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The acclaimed WALKING Podcast returns with its acclaimed "Special Election Night Coverage Counterprogramming Special." A fine hike for tumultuous time...
REBROADCAST: Holiday Special!
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here, in the darkest, dourest, deadliest, bleakest doldrums of Winter 2020, I don't feel like making any more podcasts, because what's the point, but ...
A Minefield
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Walking on the beach, in a contemplative mood, I gaze out on what used to be an undersea minefield and discover an atrocious-looking jelly fish, oozed...
Step Into Liquid
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I accidentally walked into a creek. This week's walk is sponsored by Chris Funk's new solo record, "Songs for Dog Fitness." Pandemic music for walking...
Coffee Regular
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I see many funguses. I encounter a massive buck hopping improbably high out of the ferns. Isaac tells me about someone he just met while walking, and ...
Election Night Special Coverage Special
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Four hours, 10.4 miles. I had to stop at a bakery in the middle. This election night special coverage special is, as always, just a recording of me ...
Dolphins!
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While investigating mushrooms at Yucky Pond, I lean over, somehow unleashing the voice of Matthew McConaughey from the phone in my pocket. Then: off t...
Walk of Shame
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I put the word out on social media that if people made a donation to a cause they believed in, and sent me the receipt, they would be entitled to one ...
The GOATs
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Missing one cohost (medically excused from action; foot injury) the two of us soldier on, and decide to visit the neighbors' goats. Will they bleat? W...
A Bad Case of the Downhill Giggles
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second episode of the third season of The WALKING Podcast, a special pandemic mini-season where I am walking with my daughters and giving ...
Dad, What Does 'Trespassing' Mean?
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of this special pandemic mini-season of The WALKING Podcast. And this time, it's a family affair! I've hired my two daugh...
SEASON FINALE: You're All WALKING Now!
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is a season--turn, turn, turn. A time to listen to someone else take a walk, a time to take a walk yourself. We are now in the latter. As I t...
Please buy my book THIS IS CHANCE!
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm sorry but you can't come along on this walk. This one's just for me. My new book is out today. It's called THIS IS CHANCE! You can buy it here on...
America's Designated Walker
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing much to say here. This--as always--is a recording of me walking in the woods. Maybe it's helpful to you. Maybe you'd like to take a walk but c...
Let Me Take You Safely Outside
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I never knew what this podcast was for; I was always surprised that people listen to it. Maybe it has a purpose now? Maybe it has something small of v...
Forest Quarantine
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Not a very relaxing moment here in Washington State. And yet, thankfully, the trails feel (and sound) exactly the same. This week's walk is sponsored ...
Who Else is Gonna Bring You a Bow and Arrow?
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Off we go: into the woods, toward the harbor, up the hill, through the old cemetery, and onto my newish pal Berg's house--or, his "almost-house," as h...
Straightforward-Forward
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Not much to say about this walk: just putting one foot in front of the other. Particularly after the accursed misadventures of last week, this walk wa...
Dive-bombed by Bats!
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THIS IS NOT A VERY GOOD EPISODE OF THE WALKING PODCAST. A few weeks ago, for reasons I explain in this episode's ad break, I decided to try somethin...
Snow Falling on Seavers
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I was thinking about Growing Pains on this walk--the old TV show. I was thinking about how the dad, Jason Seaver (Alan Thicke), worked at home; he was...
Grief Mistaken for Joy
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes you're walking in the woods and stumble upon a wedding. Sometimes what looks like a wedding is a memorial service. This week's walk is broug...
BONUS: Holiday Special!
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Exploding the usual format of the show to bring you a star-studded, Yuletide spectacular that harkens back to the homespun, holiday podcast specials o...
Put 'Em In a Tree Museum
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The school carpool collapses last minute, scrambling my morning agenda, but I manage to sneak in a walk anyhow before getting in the car and journeyin...
Cold Open
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! It's Season 2 of The WALKING Podcast. Brrrrrr. The theme of Season 2 will be BUILDING BRIDGES (SEO interlude: Jeff Bridges, Phoebe Bridg...
BONUS: Scary Crossover Episode
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I'm proud to present this very special crossover episode of the WALKING podcast, in collaboration with 10 Things That Scare Me from WNYC Studios. Wel...
"Things Have an End, But Feeling is Infinite"
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Season 1 Finale of the WALKING podcast, and possibly the last one period. I read some prepared remarks at the ad break, while sitting on a...
Bottle Episode! Road trip!
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Sometimes finding a key is not the start of a grand adventure, but the end of one." - Jon Mooallem, right now. Friends, I bumbled my way into a high-...
Mr. Cool
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a busy couple of weeks here at Mooallem SuperValue™ (That's my private nickname for myself when I'm working hard to meet deadlines, and wh...
Hearts and Thoughts They Fade
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I continue to be confused as to whether anyone reads these summaries. Anyway: It's been almost four years since we moved to the island from San Franci...
You Like Me? You Really Like Me?
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Busy week here on the Internet, with a sterling write-up of the show on Vulture and oodles of new listeners. Meanwhile, in real life, the same old sil...
The Snowy Day, by Ezra Walk Feets
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We had tremendous snow. Historic snow! A back-to-back-to-back #snowmageddon scenario. School was cancelled, life was disrupted, the power went out and...
I Fell Down
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It was bound to happen. In 1864, Captain William Renton arrived on Bainbridge Island and built what would soon be lauded as the largest sawmill in the...
Walk of the Rising Sun
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It was one of those Saturday mornings when the wide, blue sky begged to be walked under. So out I went. And I wasn't alone. This episode features seve...
"What's Sour in the House a Bracing Walk Makes Sweet"
27 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The quote is taken from Thoreau. The walk was taken out of stress. I took this walk after getting an email from my editor which (long story) made my w...