This week’s guest is Dustin Lind, Director of Hitting and the Assistant Hitting Coach for the San Francisco Giants. Dustin is a graduate of UM’s School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, and we’re grateful to chat with him in the off season during a visit to his home state of Montana.

This week’s guest is Ryan Busse, former senior executive in the firearms industry. Ryan's new book, Gunfight, is an intimate and revealing account of his experience in that industry, his growing disillusionment with it and his ultimate exit.

Today’s guest is Tailyr Irvine, a Salish and Kootenai photo journalist from the Flathead Indian Reservation. She is a National Geographic Explorer and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, ESPN, CNN and the Smithsonian, among other prominent outlets.

This week’s guest is the one and only J.K. Simmons, Academy Award-winning actor and 1978 graduate of the University Montana.

This week’s guest is Katie Deuel, Executive Director of Home ReSource, a non-profit community sustainability center in Missoula, Montana. Home ReSource offers reused building materials, job training, education and zero waste programs.

This week’s guest is Rick Ridgeway: legendary alpinist, adventurer, activist and writer.

Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which host Justin Angle speaks with economist Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. For the month of December, Bryce and Justin are joined by Dr. Sara Rinfret, professor of Public Policy and Administration, and Acting Dean of University of the Montana's Blewett School of Law.

This week’s guest is Doug Chabot, director of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center. He’s put up new climbing routes around the world, rescued countless stranded mountain travelers and built an invaluable community resource at the Avalanche Center.

Justin recently did an interview with Ashby Kinch, Associate Dean of the University of Montana Graduate School, for the Confluence Podcast.

In our conversation, we discuss Elliott’s recently released podcast, Third Squad: a powerful and sobering account of the war in Afghanistan and its enduring effects. The series chronicles his journey to reconnect with a group of Marines Elliott embedded with in 2011.