This song was inspired by a rather one-sided conversation I had on my birthday with Matt Gibson, the destroyer of the Missoula Independent. What a wonderful birthday gift.By Travis Mateer

This is a song version of the first phase of my long, strange trip.By Travis Mateer

Because of legal problems, this will be the last review of weekly headlines for awhile. I'm hitting the road to continue an investigation and to write the book about all this. Thank you for all the support along the way, I will still be updating my blog as regularly as possible, so stay tuned for new adventures!…

I'm a white guy, and I wrote a poem. Do I need to say more? I'm a white guy, so the answer to that question is yes.By Travis Mateer

I had planned on reading this at City Council on the evening of August 14th, 2023, but my current legal restraints enacted by a person who has become unrelentingly vengeful toward me prevented me from entering chambers.By Travis Mateer

Boy, what a week, and what an ending to the week. You can hear all about it, at least the parts I can share without getting myself arrested, in this week's review of the drama. Yes, things have gotten to a very serious point here in Zoom Town, which is why I'm making plans to leave. But not without recording a dead man post in case something happen…

Please enjoy my attempt to better understand the insect world.By Travis Mateer

This week my own personal struggles have collided with my ability to continue doing my work the way I'm currently doing it, so a geographical move might be in order to further an inquiry that began on one-three-twenty. Also, lots of links and looks at drugs, security, and Nick Checota's BIG DEAL with Live Nation Entertainment.…

This is a poem after a dark night of the soul.By Travis Mateer

The review of the week covers a whopping 8 posts and the theme of the week? STABBINGS! Don't worry, one of the stabbings was all female and allegedly in self-defense. The week's reading comes from Jon Krakauer's book about Missoula, starting on page 44. Come get to know Detective Baker's questioning techniques when it comes to a gang-rape victim ju…

This week's review includes articles about possible Fentanyl-related ODs amongst urban campers in the Kim Williams area, local political drama, some 1987 data points regarding the CIA, John Talbot and the International Choral Festival, and my thoughts on re-watching True Detective. For the book excerpts I chose TWO books, Keeping The Peace; Police …

This week's reading is from Alphabet Vs. The Goddess, by Leonard Shlain. I made this selection to compliment several gender/sex related posts, from a City Council public comment to The Matrix franchise. The ukulele cherry on top (at the end of the episode) is ALSO worth listening to.By Travis Mateer

This week has culture analysis, original music, stuff on local issues (of course) like coroner's inquests, and something that might sound strange: law enforcement needs some help!By Travis Mateer

Lots of posts this week, so make sure to get all the details at zoomchron dot com. The reading is an excerpt from the book, Strange, Angel, a biography about JPL founder and occultist, Jack Parsons, written by George Pendle. Then this week's review concludes with an original poem, read my yours truly, titled Jack And Jim Ode. It has a lot of bad wo…

After a short review of the week's articles, I read the first chapter of In Retrospect: A History of Mineral County, by Margie E. Hahn.By Travis Mateer

To all the fathers out there still asleep, it's time to wake the fuck up.By Travis Mateer

This week's review is a new format I'm trying out where quickly go through the week's posts at zoomchron dot com, then read a chapter in a book. The chapter I chose for this week is from the book Keeping The Peace: Police Reform in Montana, 1889 to 1918. I read chapter 6, titled Maintaining Order: Regulating Transients. It's pretty damn applicable …

The conversation on urban camping continues with Mayor Hess' declaration of emergency. Also, selling sex in Zoom Town, along with commentary on other local headlines.By Travis Mateer

This week's review focuses primarily on "urban camping" in Missoula, including a look at the 9th circuit court implications, the zone in Phoenix, and other aspects in preparation for Monday's City Council meeting on the emergency ordinance.By Travis Mateer

Glen Harley Stephens died on the sidewalk in from of the Missoula County administrative building on May 20th, 2023. This song is for him.By Travis Mateer

It's been a rough week for me, so I put myself in figurative quarantine for this solo show that took me two sessions to finish. In between recording I saw Glen Harley Stephens pass away on the street. I knew Harley well, and the end of this episode is my conversation with Harley I recorded two days before Christmas a few years ago. This week's revi…

Music is definitely a form of therapy for me, I hope the cartel and Gomer appreciate it!By Travis Mateer

Things are heating up in Zoom Town. This week we look at the mysterious death of Joey Thompson and how it may or may not fit into the smiley face death pattern, the broken criminal justice system, the deplorable state of local media, and my FANTASTIC urination experience in a Portland Loo!By Travis Mateer

I don't think Missoula understand the nature of the crisis we are in. Maybe this song will help.By Travis Mateer

This week's review includes more discussion of the Zooey Zephyr show, a critical look at local media coverage, and how narrative control is exerted in a famous case, like that of George Floyd, and the efforts to break that narrative control. In the case of George Floyd, I watched a documentary and had my co-host, Allie, watch it as well. Enjoy!…

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This week one topic has skyrocketed to national prominence, so we discuss that, and the other stories of the week, including homeless trash clean-ups and cannabis munching cows. This is an episode NOT to miss.By Travis Mateer

This week Allie rejoins me to discuss matters of Tax Increment Financing and Mineral County updates, including what we learned about a certain Deputy County Attorney and his procurement of marijuana to feed his herd of Highlander Cows. You can't make this shit up.By Travis Mateer

This week's episode is a solo show review of what went down in Zoom Town (Missoula) this past week, beginning with a bonus movie "review" of Southland Tales. There are posts on competing TIFs, their Tax Increment Financing vs. Travis' Impact Fund, and the coming legislative showdown in Helena on Tuesday. Oh, I also talked to a NYT journalist about …

This week's review of local headlines looks at a business uprising against local transportation policies, the compounding of tragedies when families have to hire their own investigators, a threat to local school kids and the continued efforts to control narratives around development and homelessness.…

This week's episode covers Tax Increment Financing legislation in Helena, the first two reports from the fund I'm operating with the same letters (Travis' Impact Fund), an anecdotal look at a mentally man back in jail, and examples of fucking around and finding out. Also, there are TWO songs at the end of this week's review, so enjoy!…

This week's review is full of breaking down the St. Regis Travel Center shootout, how this event impacts Mineral County Mandamus dynamics, Cognizant gentrification and artist sell-out opportunities, water priorities, two kinds of TIF, and a fascinating conversation about AI and the movie Ex Machina with additional material coming from Ray Kurzweil …

This week's review is packed with a decoded movie review, multi-modal snow insanity, Paris Hilton and private boarding schools, Ryan P. Cooney and public schools, the Christian Savior Complex and the imminent banking collapse possibly making this the last weekend ever. Also, a song for Jesus!By Travis Mateer

I hope the Christians who speak and read those Bible words but fail miserably with their actions get some inspiration from this song, because it's for them.By Travis Mateer

This week's review has highlander cows, shade at local Republicans, evidence the LifeGuard Group hasn't served a victim of human trafficking yet, and much more, including an analysis of the analysis of the 10 year plan to end homelessness and some questions for Mayoral candidate Sean McCoy.By Travis Mateer

In this special episode of narrative analysis, Lowell and Tami provide a RESPONSE to a woman in need. We take a critical look at this RESPONSE and what it says about a couple who claim to be taking their fight against human traffickers across the state of Montana.By Travis Mateer

The first 37 minutes is my solo review of the week's Zoom Chron articles. Am I a butt-hurt podcaster in need of some narrative attention? Yes, but I'll get over it. Allie joins me for the final wrap-up where we discuss cars, kids and Farmer Josh, NOT Josh Farmer, who is a musician in Missoula, unlike Farmer Josh, who is a County Commissioner. Also …

This interview with Elise E may have triggers due to the discussion of sexual abuse and other matters of trauma as it relates to their book, Our Live Beyond MKUltra. We recorded on the morning of March 2nd, 2023. I greatly appreciate the time and perspective on a topic everyone should be interested in, since we're all being conditioned by the traum…

This week's review is packed with posts on property taxes, law enforcement training, commentary on the implosion of Project Veritas, a post-analysis of our William Ramsey interview, the significance of February 24th, Rabies, Mineral County updates, and our County Commissioner's poetry to pigs. Seriously.…

Travis and Allie interview author and occult researcher, William Ramsey, about a range of topics dealing with the occult and our human response to the spread of evil.By Travis Mateer

This week's episode looks at some personal strife, along with transportation developments with Missoula's bus service and the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority.By Travis Mateer

This week's review includes the public comment that got me point-of-ordered, bridges, the curious story behind the empty Taco Johns, and the literary ambitions of Missoula's Lead County Attorney, Kirsten Pabst.By Travis Mateer

This week we discuss a new documentary, Murder In Big Horn, but not after examining local development updates, Mineral County Mandamus updates, and one man's tireless search for race-based funding, but who is watching the criminal justice system grinding people down? We do, and it's discussed in this episode!…

Visit the blog www.zoomchron.com for the articles discussed in this podcast episode.By Travis Mateer

This week's episode mostly focuses on the conclusion of Lee Nelson's murder trial, but the week's blog posts at Zoom Chron dot com are also briefly discussed. The original music concluding the episode features a clip from a podcast called Tip of the Spear where Sergeant Prather (representing the Sheriff's Office) discusses his opinion that law enfo…

This week the entire episode is dedicated to the murder trial of Lee Nelson. I'm joined by author and victim's advocate, Allie Harrison, who knows the criminal justice system better than I, and gives her perspective on the week of action in Courtroom 3 inside the Missoula County Courthouse.By Travis Mateer

Here's a link to some info on the John Lewis Barkley exhibit at the WWI Museum in Kansas City. And here is a link to a very accurate assessment of the Oread Hotel on the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.By Travis Mateer

If you liked this conversation, check out this interview Mystic Mark did with me last year. And if you REALLY like Mark's mystical approach, support him at his Patreon page.By Travis Mateer

The post that first shows me flirting with this idea of "journo-tuning" is titled On The Ground Reporting And Song Making: Reaching Where? and an example of the cartoon clown world reporting that inspired the song SHERIFF MAN GUY (featured at the end this podcast episode) is titled If Mineral County Sheriff, Mike Toth, Went Missing, Would Anyone No…

Here are some link: CDC Gives School Board Coward Cover; An Open Letter To Daniel Carlino; Missoula County Joke Of A School Board Meeting; Missoula School Board Member Alarmed over Proposed MCPS Policies; New Pedestrian Bridge Emerges As Top Priority for MissoulaBy Travis Mateer