Outlaw Beat

Joe Borden & Michelle Veale Borden
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“Outlaw Beat: Stories from the West” scans the horizon for anything worth mentioning. Hosted by Joe Borden & Michelle Veale Borden

  1. 12h ago

    Seth Bodnar (I) for U.S. Senate - MT | Public Lands, Chuck Schumer, and Making Politics Boring Again

    Independent US Senate candidate Seth Bodnar joins Outlaw Beat to talk about the seat Steve Daines is leaving behind and doesn’t mince words about the way Daines is trying to hand it off… “It’s garbage.” Bodnar is a West Point valedictorian, Rhodes and Truman scholar, former Green Beret, GE executive, and the former president of the University of Montana. He's running against Republican Kurt Alme, Democrat Alani Bankhead, and Libertarian Kyle Austin for an open Montana Senate seat — and he says he won't caucus with either party. We get into public lands and why he calls himself a hell no on selling them, the Boundary Waters copper mine vote, the gutting of the Forest Service and BLM, Montana's teacher shortage and the schools staffing classrooms with teachers from the Philippines, housing and affordability in the least affordable state in the country, congressional stock trading, and what Jon Tester actually told him when he said he wanted to run as an Independent. Then we make him take a position on issues both important and incredibly stupid… in eight words or less. You won’t believe where he stands on Q-tips! Watch the full interview: ExploreBigSky.com/episodes/SethBodnar Election Day: November 3. More at SethForMontana.com And dust off your lederhosen for this year’s Big Sky Oktoberfest Sept 18-20! BigSkyOktoberfest.com/ Follow us on instagram: @outlawbeatpodcast Our barn at EBS: https://www.explorebigsky.com/outlaw-podcasts Help us corral more listeners like yourself by subscribing and then reviewing us wherever you get your podcasts. Still need more links? Okay here's one more. https://www.hoarymarmot.net/

    Seth Bodnar (I) for U.S. Senate - MT | Public Lands, Chuck Schumer, and Making Politics Boring Again

  2. 6d ago

    Gold Rush Week on the Bobcat Big Show: Brent Vigen, the 1976 Champs & Mike Hope | Live from the Rocking R Bar

    Joe Borden and Flint Rasmussen kick off the Bobcat Big Show live from the Rocking R Bar on Main Street in Bozeman, previewing Montana State's Gold Rush home opener against the Butler Bulldogs. Head coach Brent Vigen on why his stars stayed, how he'd attack his own team, and a blunt message for fans who don't come back after halftime. Three members of the 1976 national championship team, Tom Powell, John Close and Bert Markovich, on Sonny Holland, the Hawaii trip, the team meeting after Fresno State that changed their season, and the parallels to the 2025 champs. Rocking R owner Mike Hope on the extra point that ended 41 years and the sport coats he bought the team for Washington DC. General manager Will Hope on championship night behind the bar. Plus the debut of “Put the Hat on the Cat,” score predictions, and the Chug of Shame. Bobcat Big Show is live at the Rocking R Bar every Thursday before a home game at 6pm. Back September 17 before Central Connecticut State. Support the team: MSUbobcats.com And grab a Bobcat Collective cap while you enjoy a drink at Rocking R Bar: RockingRbar.com Follow us on instagram: @outlawbeatpodcast Our barn at EBS: https://www.explorebigsky.com/outlaw-podcasts Help us corral more listeners like yourself by subscribing and then reviewing us wherever you get your podcasts. Still need more links? Okay here's one more. https://www.hoarymarmot.net/

    Gold Rush Week on the Bobcat Big Show: Brent Vigen, the 1976 Champs & Mike Hope | Live from the Rocking R Bar

  3. Aug 30

    Remembering Andrea Eastman (1940-2026)

    A sad look back at a special conversation. Our friend Andrea Eastman passed away August 26 and we wanted to remember her in her own distinctive words. Andrea was a legendary casting director (The Godfather, Love Story) and longtime Gallatin Valley local. Health issues ultimately forced her to leave her beloved home in the Patterson Ranch area of Bozeman and return to sunny Southern California. Enjoy this all-too-short chat with her from May 2023 and, if you’re so inclined, order her children's book (based on her true story) "Trooper at the Beverly Hills Hotel" here: https://a.co/d/dDUr0Iu Andrea Eastman’s obituary: https://www.explorebigsky.com/obituary-andrea-eastman/173667 Follow us on instagram: @outlawbeatpodcast Our barn at EBS: https://www.explorebigsky.com/outlaw-podcasts Help us corral more listeners like yourself by subscribing and then reviewing us wherever you get your podcasts. Still need more links? Okay here's one more. https://www.hoarymarmot.net/

    Remembering Andrea Eastman (1940-2026)

  4. Aug 27

    The “Roadless Rule” Repeal - Scott Christensen, Greater Yellowstone Coalition

    The USDA has proposed repealing the 2001 Roadless Rule — the policy that's kept roads, logging and mining out of 45 million acres of national forest for 25 years. Nearly 10 million of those acres are in Montana and Wyoming. The public comment period closes September 21, 2026. Thirty days. No public meetings. For comparison: the original rule took years, 600 public hearings and 1.6 million comments. Greater Yellowstone Coalition Executive Director Scott Christensen joins us to explain what's actually in the proposal, what the government admits in its own filing, and what a public comment does when everyone assumes the outcome is already decided. Then we play Best Damn Comment Period — Scott grades quality public comments against, let's say, less effective alternatives. Watch the full interview: ExploreBigSky.com/episodes/roadless Learn more here: GreaterYellowstone.org/ Direct link to make your comment (by 11:59pm on September 21, 2026): https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2025-0001-223869 What makes a comment count: name a specific place you use, describe how this would affect you, and make a concrete ask. Scott's biggest one in this episode: the proposal contains almost nothing analyzing impacts to wildlife, drinking water or backcountry recreation. Ask for that analysis. Note: comments are part of the public record — your name and comment become publicly viewable. And take advantage of the first climate-controlled storage opportunity in Big Sky! BigSkyStorage.com/ Follow us on instagram: @outlawbeatpodcast Our barn at EBS: https://www.explorebigsky.com/outlaw-podcasts Help us corral more listeners like yourself by subscribing and then reviewing us wherever you get your podcasts. Still need more links? Okay here's one more. https://www.hoarymarmot.net/

    The “Roadless Rule” Repeal - Scott Christensen, Greater Yellowstone Coalition

  5. Aug 20

    Lone Peak Film Festival 2026: Why This Big Sky Festival Flies Out Every Filmmaker | Daniel Glick & Dr. Shane Doyle

    The second annual Lone Peak Film Festival hits the Waypoint Theater in Big Sky, Montana, September 17–20, 2026 — and this year it's four days instead of three, with 20 films and a teepee in the park. Outlaw Beat sits down with Emmy-winning filmmaker and festival director Daniel Glick and Dr. Shane Doyle — Apsáalooke scholar, educator, singer, and new LPFF board member. Daniel explains why Lone Peak flies out a filmmaker for every single film and refuses to stop. He gets into Bring Them Home, his Lily Gladstone–narrated documentary about returning wild buffalo to Blackfeet land, and the seven-years-in-progress feature he's making with his wife about whether cultures built on care instead of domination are actually possible. Dr. Doyle talks about growing up in Crow Agency with two generations of boarding schools between him and his own history — and the moment at MSU when he found out Native American Studies existed at all. He explains why Big Sky was a thoroughfare rather than a settlement, unpacks the Hidatsa roots of the name Sacagawea, and walks through the Anzick child: a 12,600-year-old burial discovered by accident near Bozeman in 1968, and what its DNA did and didn't settle. Then we play No Spoilers — Daniel has to sell four films from this year's slate without giving too much away. Watch the full interview: ExploreBigSky.com/episodes/lpff26 Tickets and full lineup: LonePeakFilmFestival.com And enjoy the Vintner Series August 28 at One & Only Moonlight Basin’s Wildwood Restaurant: oneandonlyresorts.com/moonlight-basin/dining/wildwood Follow us on instagram: @outlawbeatpodcast Our barn at EBS: https://www.explorebigsky.com/outlaw-podcasts Help us corral more listeners like yourself by subscribing and then reviewing us wherever you get your podcasts. Still need more links? Okay here's one more. https://www.hoarymarmot.net/

    Lone Peak Film Festival 2026: Why This Big Sky Festival Flies Out Every Filmmaker | Daniel Glick & Dr. Shane Doyle

  6. Aug 6

    Taco & Caden Dowler on Montana State's National Title, the Transfer Portal, and “the Stick Incident”

    Taco and Caden Dowler are twin brothers from Billings who became the faces of Montana State's first national championship in 41 years — Taco caught the title-tying touchdown in overtime, Caden won Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year.  They sat down with Outlaw Beat to break down the final fourth-down play snap by snap, explain why they turned down transfer portal money to stay in Montana, and settle a few things about growing up as each  other's toughest competition.  Plus: the family bloodline that runs through the first Super Bowl, the Taco Dowler Youth Foundation's Backpack to Belong program, and a game of Bobcats Back to Back presented by Stay Montana. Watch the full interview: ExploreBigSky.com/episodes/dowlertwins Learn more about and support the Taco Dowler Youth Foundation: TacoDowlerYouthFoundation.org Come see the Dowlers play this fall: MSUbobcats.com Support Bobcat football by joining the Bobcat Collective: BobcatCollective.com And visit StayMontana.com to book your next Big Sky vacation Follow us on instagram: @outlawbeatpodcast Our barn at EBS: https://www.explorebigsky.com/outlaw-podcasts Help us corral more listeners like yourself by subscribing and then reviewing us wherever you get your podcasts. Still need more links? Okay here's one more. https://www.hoarymarmot.net/

    Taco & Caden Dowler on Montana State's National Title, the Transfer Portal, and “the Stick Incident”

  7. Jul 29

    Jamie McLean & Willie McMillon on Wildlands 2026, the First-Ever Free Family Jam, and the Worst Gigs of their Lives

    Two very different musicians, one festival weekend under Lone Peak. Jamie McLean — former guitarist for New Orleans' legendary Dirty Dozen Brass Band, with stages from Madison Square Garden to Japan's Fuji Rock — plays Wildlands Music Festival on Saturday, August 1 alongside Carrie Underwood and Kaitlin Butts, plus a free solo acoustic set at the first-ever Wildlands Family Jam that morning. Willie McMillon of Fader Magavin & the Risky Livers brings underground basement warehouse country from Jackson, Wyoming to Friday night's bill with Riley Green and LeAnn Rimes — and explains why his band keeps writing checks to a festival they're already losing money to play. Jamie comments on being drafted into the Dirty Dozen without a single rehearsal, what Taj Mahal told his tour manager, and why streaming royalties don't fill a gas tank. Willie speaks to the artist donation he started as a dare to richer bands, the tour bus sticker incident that nearly got him uninvited, and the night his drummer set him on fire with a bottle of 151. Watch the full interview: ExploreBigSky.com/episodes/jamiemclean WILDLANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026 July 31 – August 1, Big Sky Events Arena Tickets and full lineup: wildlandsmusic.com Wildlands Family Jam — Saturday, Aug. 1, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Big Sky Events Arena VIP Tent. Free, no tickets, all ages. Pancake breakfast, face painting, balloon animals. Papa Strings with special guest Jamie McLean. JAMIE McLEAN BAND Latest album One Step Forward — featured track "Summer of Who Knows When" [JamieMcleanBand.com / Spotify / IG — @jamiemcleanband] FADER MAGAVIN & THE RISKY LIVERS New album Troubled Blud, out now on all major streaming platforms FaderMagavin.com [Spotify / Instagram — @riskylivers] CHAPTERS 00:00 Roots rock dude 00:52 How the Jamie McLean Band got its name 02:19 The free Wildlands Family Jam (and the pancake bribe) 03:56 Why Saturday morning is solo acoustic 04:47 The Taj Mahal bus does not leave without Taj Mahal 06:05 Six years in the Dirty Dozen, zero rehearsals 08:15 How bands actually make money now 10:38 What happens when weather cancels a show 12:40 Of Monsters and Men, incognito at Pine Creek Lodge 13:32 Fly fishing, coffee, and Montana off-days 14:19 Tales From the Tour Bus: Jamie 20:01 "Summer of Who Knows When" 21:02 Willie McMillon and the rise of warehouse country 22:13 Two years, one new album: Troubled Blud 23:01 The artist donation that started a trend 24:10 The tour bus sticker incident 25:50 Why protecting Montana land is worth the money 27:36 Tales From the Tour Bus: Willie 31:03 Outro #WildlandsMusicFestival #BigSkyMontana #JamieMcLean #FaderMagavin #OutlawBeat And visit Crossbow Hatmakers in Bozeman to get fitted for a hat that's as tough and one-of-a-kind as Big Sky country. ShopCrossbow.com  Follow us on instagram: @outlawbeatpodcast Our barn at EBS: https://www.explorebigsky.com/outlaw-podcasts Help us corral more listeners like yourself by subscribing and then reviewing us wherever you get your podcasts. Still need more links? Okay here's one more. https://www.hoarymarmot.net/

    Jamie McLean & Willie McMillon on Wildlands 2026, the First-Ever Free Family Jam, and the Worst Gigs of their Lives

  8. Jul 23

    The Guitar Fighting to Save a Forest - Rick Bass on the Yaak Valley’s Last Hope

    Rick Bass — petroleum geologist turned Montana Project director — explains how a 315-year-old spruce, felled during a Forest Service clearcut in Montana's Yaak Valley, became the Black Ram Guitar.  Jeff Bridges heard it once and commissioned six more. Now it's touring with a busload of MFA students trying to get the Black Ram region of the Yaak designated as America's first Climate Refuge. We talk old-growth forests, grizzly habitat, the politics behind a proposed 800-acre clearcut, and whether a guitar can actually stop a chainsaw. Watch the full interview: ExploreBigSky.com/episodes/rickbass Buy a ticket to the Black Ram Guitar Festival this October 2 in Bozeman, MT at The Ellen Theatre: BlackRamGuitarFest.org Follow the students’ progress on their journey: GreenCurtainRoadShow.org Check out this story about Rick and the Yaak in Mountain Outlaw: https://www.mtoutlaw.com/songs-from-a-climate-refuge/ And head to the Big Sky Events Arena for the free Wildlands Family Jam Saturday Aug. 1, from 10am to 12pm!  Follow us on instagram: @outlawbeatpodcast Our barn at EBS: https://www.explorebigsky.com/outlaw-podcasts Help us corral more listeners like yourself by subscribing and then reviewing us wherever you get your podcasts. Still need more links? Okay here's one more. https://www.hoarymarmot.net/

    The Guitar Fighting to Save a Forest - Rick Bass on the Yaak Valley’s Last Hope
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“Outlaw Beat: Stories from the West” scans the horizon for anything worth mentioning. Hosted by Joe Borden & Michelle Veale Borden

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  • Creator
    Joe Borden & Michelle Veale Borden
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    202
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Outlaw Beat
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