THROUGH THE
LOOKING GLASS
ROUND 2 WITH WALRUS AUDIO
WORDS BY NICK RAMBO
Colt Westbrook hails from the heart of
tornado alley.
“They come every year and it’s
inevitable,” he says.
He calls the local TV weatherpeople demi-
gods and says they can usually offer fair
warning a few days out—but things get
scary.
“We don’t all walk around in fear from
April to July, but when it happens, it’s
literally all we talk about.”
Everybody he knows knows someone who
has lost a home—or worse—he says, and
recalls the times he’s had to shut the shop
down early, only to head home, crack
open a few beers, watch the storm chaser
feeds and wait on whatever comes next.
And yet, even with the potential for
chaos lurking in every springtime storm
cloud, Walrus Audio is as much a part of
Oklahoma as Oklahoma is a part of it.
Perhaps it’s an innate Sooner-state
stubbornness that keeps the tight-knit
team of circuitous friends together. Or
maybe it’s some kind of Midwest-meets-
Southwest creative energy that keeps
them going. Either way, since we last
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caught up with Colt three years ago,
some 239 twisters have touched down
in Oklahoma—but Walrus Audio is still
standing. And while a few things have
changed, others haven’t changed at all.
“Everything is still made here in OKC by
a handful of guys that really care about
Through the Looking Glass: Round 2 with Walrus Audio