Beer, Buds, and the Big Sky Podcast

This week on Beer, Buds & the Big Sky, Essy from The Dark Left is back with the boys. Mike, Ryan, Ed, and Steve get into Trump's comments about Iran taking out LA and San Diego, the pro-ICE movie filming in Livingston, $500 Obamacare refund checks, New York's measles emergency, and Sam Altman's case for accepting some harm in the name of progress.

This week, Beer, Buds & the Big Sky hosts a live Montana Senate debate. Alani Bankhead, Kyle Austin, and Seth Bodnar take on healthcare, money in politics, the Supreme Court, energy, cost of living, the debt, congressional stock trading, and the filibuster. Kurt Alme was invited and didn't respond, so his chair was filled by a stand-in. https://www.kyleaustinmt.com/ https://alaniformt.com/ https://www.sethformontana.com/

This week on Beer, Buds & the Big Sky, Essy from The Dark Left returns for round two with the boys. Mike, Ryan, Ed, and Steve dig into Trump's $1.13 trillion state dinner guest list, the White House's latest taxpayer-funded "final battle" ad, mortgage rates climbing back to 7.49%, MLB's plan to play ball in a national park, and Meta's new AI agent that wants to run your inbox.

We're starting with something that should sound pretty familiar to Montanans: data centers.60 Minutes talked to a lifelong conservative Republican in Texas who says a proposed data center near his community is the first issue in his adult life that directly affects him enough to change how he thinks about voting.Then we're talking Kurt Alme and affordability, shifting Republican messaging heading into the midterms, the latest reporting surrounding Susan Collins, "Super Intelligence," and the fig

This week on Beer, Buds & the Big Sky, Todd Achilles crosses the border from Idaho and joins the boys. Achilles is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Idaho and an Army veteran who argues that the two-party system isn't working. We talk about why he's running as an independent, the national debt, affordability, healthcare, public lands, and what he thinks both parties are getting wrong. Then Mike, Ryan, Ed, and Steve dive into Trump's proposed $5,000 dividend checks, John Fetterman's a

Former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer is joining Beer, Buds & the Big Sky tonight.The jeans, bolo tie, ranching former governor spent eight years running Montana — so we're putting him to work trying to help us make sense of this week's political bullshit.Tonight we're getting into mail-in ballot problems and thousands of rejected ballots, the political fight over Mamdani attending 9/11 commemorations, the latest drama surrounding Ken Paxton in Texas, a $533 million taxpayer-funded artillery