Podcasts

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: Now Hiring

April 21st, 2021

Pat Barkey, director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana, shares his insight on the Flathead Valley's labor shortage

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: The Music Issue

April 14th, 2021

North Valley Music School Executive Director Deidre Corson on how the nonprofit expanded its reach during the pandemic and its plan to 'take over the world with music'

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: Community of Inclusion

April 7th, 2021

Bryan Bebb of the Glacier Queer Alliance on how the local LGBTQ community is responding to targeted bills advancing through the Legislature

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: The Jobs Issue

March 31st, 2021

Economist Barb Wagner shares her thoughts on Montana's relatively rapid rebound from the recession and what a post-pandemic job market looks like

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: On the Road to a Record Year

March 24th, 2021

Tristan Scott talks about what Glacier National Park officials are doing to prepare for what everyone expects will be an extremely busy summer

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: One Year Later

March 17th, 2021

Editor in Chief Kellyn Brown looks back at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and how the last 12 months have impacted our community and our newsroom

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: The Brothers Gelande

March 10th, 2021

Brent Wilson, the oldest member of the flying Wilson brothers, talks gelande jumping, the sport he and his siblings have dominated for decades

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: Roadmap to Reopening

March 3rd, 2021

Flathead County's schools have been open for in-person learning since August so we share just how that's happened and how safe it's been, plus the biggest stories from the last week

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: An Unforgiving Winter

February 24th, 2021

USGS scientist Erich Peitzsch talks about what has been a deadlier than normal avalanche season and a study that revealed what kind of backcountry user seems to be getting caught in deadly slides most often

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: This Land is Whose Land?

February 17th, 2021

Tristan Scott talks about his cover story and the earlier news that prompted it, word of a major land acquisition by a billionaire Texas couple that elicited fears from conservations and recreationists alike

The Flathead Beacon Podcast

Podcast: Mabuhay Oriental Market

February 10th, 2021

Glenda Hamilton has run her Mabuhay Oriental Market since 2005 and it's the personal attention she's given her customers that's kept the store growing ever since

Podcast: Last of His Kind

February 3rd, 2021

Furrier Brian Osterday, one of the only remaining fur craftsmen in the country, shares what drew him to such a unique profession, plus the biggest stories from the last week

Podcast: Next in Stein

January 27th, 2021

No one can hold a beer quite like Kalispell's own Dave Sturzen, the U.S. Steinholding Association's 2020 National Champion, who joins the show this week

Podcast: Care in Crisis

January 20th, 2021

Whitefish Care and Rehabilitation Center's Reid Crickmore talks about the facility's tragic experience with COVID-19 and how it's trying to rebuild its battered reputation; plus the biggest stories from the last week

Podcast: Their Moment on the Mat

January 13th, 2021

Girls wrestling is a sanctioned sport in Montana for the first time this year and Amber Downing joins the show to talk about it, plus the biggest stories from the last week