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Sound Effect, Episode 19: Dirt

AP

"Sound Effect" is your weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place we live. The show is hosted by KNKX's Gabriel Spitzer. Each week's show explores a different theme, and this week, we dig into ‘Dirt.’

KNKX's Matthew Streib takes us inside the Monroe Correctional Complex to learn about a program that matches inmates with invertebrates and turns waste into fertile soil.

Gabriel Spitzer interviews Katrina Spade about The Urban Death Project and why she thinks that composting our dead is both viable and noble.

David Montgomery may have won a MacArthur Genius Award for his work as a geomorphologist but his love of rock(s) also bleeds into his work as a musician in the local band, Big Dirt.

And Kathleen Wilson tells Sound Effect senior producer, Arwen Nicks about what it was like to write gossip and how her life has changed since she washed her hands of it.

Joining us for this week’s news panel are Joanne Lisosky, Ansel Herz and Erica C. Barnett.