Mara Silvers on Shared State

By Justin Angle

Published March 29, 2022 at 4:33 PM MDT

This week’s guest is Mara Silvers of Montana Free Press. Mara and her colleagues have teamed up with Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio to produce a second season of the amazing Shared State, a podcast about the strange political moment we're living through.

Season one went deep on the meaning of Montana values in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Season two, which just released, explores some of Montana's messiest political quagmires and the people trying to find their way through. In this conversation, we cover Mara’s path to this project, and dive into episode topics from political fires in fly shops to the sovereignty of Badger-Two Medicine.

Transcript here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14eVT2tEX91tPsGbLQ9MHsao-z8quaVCvyXnE_kX47mE/edit?usp=sharing

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