Longtime Gallatin Valley locals Michelle Veale Borden (Broad Comedy) and TV comedy writer Joe Borden (Tosh.0) are the voices behind Outlaw Beat. Their wit, local knowledge and conversational style guarantee a laugh while you’re learning something new.
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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.
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.
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.
For 38 years, Mike Heard was the most trusted voice in southwest Montana weather — chief meteorologist for KBZK and KXLF, the forecast an entire region planned its week around. In June 2026, his position was eliminated in a statewide downsizing. He didn’t see it coming: “0% chance,” in his words.
On this episode of Outlaw Beat, we sit down with Jessica Veach — Regional Executive Director of the Epilepsy Foundation covering Montana, Nevada, and Utah — and Dr. Karla Mora Rodriguez, neurologist with Billings Clinic, to talk about one of the most common neurological conditions most people know almost nothing about.
Meet Jeff Marks, senior author of “Birds of Montana” – the first comprehensive state bird reference since 1921. Jeff is the executive director of the Montana Bird Advocacy, a former editor of The Auk, and has spent decades studying everything from Long-eared Owls to Bristle-thighed Curlews in the Pacific.
We’re talking home building and AI-proof trades for Gen Z with President of Southwest Montana Building Industry Association slash owner of Rivers Landscaping Riley Rivers and Career Outreach Coordinator for Bozeman and Gallatin High Schools Karl Schwartz, architect of the new Bozeman Construction Academy.
We sat down with Daniel Bierschwale, Executive Director of Big Sky Resort Area District (BSRAD), to break down how resort taxes work and while we’re talking dirty details, Karl Johnson, owner of YES Compost, joins to explain vermicomposting is. It’s hundreds of thousands of worms eating your food scraps and pooping out garden gold.
Residents of Big Sky, Montana have an increasing number of options and opportunities, and on this episode, we’ll feature a couple of great examples.
Dr. Syd Desmarais of Lone Peak Veterinary Hospital and Jeremy Harder, head of school at Big Sky Community School, join us to talk about what it actually takes to serve a resort town of pet owners with active, sporty kids.
