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Episode 4: Conversion + Combat

Jacob and Ben Cronin are brothers with parents who think God can show the path to the good life, which turns out to be the one straight people are on. …

Backcountry / Long Story / People / Stories

A Madman’s Freedom

David “Madman” Poole earned his nickname in high school in Townsend, Montana. It had even more meaning after he woke up nearly buried in snow following a skiing accident when …

People / Poetry / Short Story / Stories

The Typewriter Poet

Tyler Knott Gregson of Helena starts every day the same way. He gets out of bed, sits down at his kitchen table and pounds out a poem on an old …

Entertainment / People / Short Story / Stories

A Most Spirited Voice

Mary Hickman is a caroling institution outside the Orange Street Food Farm in Missoula. When this longtime Salvation Army bell-ringer was reassigned to a different store, people missed her. Her …

Food / People / Short Story / Stories

The Five-Second Rule

1-2-3-4-5. You still gonna eat that? Here’s a fun story by Ruth Eddy about people who will and why and the science that says it’s OK.    

Long Story / Music / People / Stories

Garage Pop Forever?

This is possibly a love story about two ladies in a band. Or maybe it’s a band story about two ladies in love? Don’t think about it too hard, just …

Long Story / People / Stories

Praying the Gay Away

Jacob and Benjamin Cronin grew up in Helena with the same parents in the same church. Turns out, both of them like boys. But Jacob, who’s older and came out …

Stories / Uncategorized

Roger Cox’s Vietnam

Roger Cox is a Marine who left Vietnam in the fall of 1967. He’d been wounded three times. He went back to where he was when he left, the University …

People / Short Story / Stories / Veterans

Mike Warner’s Iraq

Mike Warner turned 18 in basic training and 21 in Iraq, where he served with the U.S. Marine Corps, Bravo Company, 2nd Tanks out of Camp Lejeune. One of the …

Long Story / People / Stories

Critters, Blobs and Swan Dives

Are babies critters? Are they blobs? These are tough concepts for parents unless parents are being honest. Producer Corin Cates-Carney starts off this feature by getting to the root of …

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