I Am Interchange
89 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsI Am Interchange is fostering curiosity, education, and empathy by exploring the controversial and the provocative.
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#38 Kimberly HeavyRunner Loring
December 19, 2019 20:39 - 39 minutes - 91.2 MBIn June of 2017, 21-year-old Ashley Loring Heavyrunner vanished from the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana. She took with her the laughter, joy, and brave-as-a-bear courage for which she is lovingly remembered and left behind an oil-stained sweater and a fathomless void full of questions with no answers. With more than four out of five Native women affected by violence (twice the national average) and one in three the victim of rape/attempted rape, unmitigated violence toward indige...
#37: Compassion Vs. Practicality
November 19, 2019 05:30 - 40 minutes - 93.5 MBOver the past decade, our nation’s political landscape has become progressively polarized, with each side finding increasing comfort in standing its ground rather than finding a common one. In addition, greater pressure on natural and financial resources in light of political strife, violence, and the climate crisis is accelerating global refugees. In this episode, we’ll take an honest look at how the divide between the head and the heart influences perspective on major social issues ...
#36: Paul Nachman
October 03, 2019 19:57 - 57 minutes - 131 MBPaul Nachman is featured in this episode, examining the duality of Compassion Vs. Practicality. Paul grew up in the 50s and 60s in Chicago, attending public schools in the heart of the city. As a young man, he was a voracious reader and taught himself the foundations of astronomy and scientific study that would help inform his career as a Physicist. He's currently an Associate Research Professor of Physics at Montana State University here in Bozeman. As an adult, he became active in the an...
#35: Ed Stafman
September 06, 2019 17:13 - 1 hour - 159 MBEd Stafman grew up in New York City, surrounded by diversity in the burrows of Brooklyn and Queens. After attending law schools both in the States and in Holland, he began his career focused on civil rights law and criminal defense, particularly in death penalty work. He grew up in a secular Jewish family, but after a moving experience at a spiritual retreat, he wound down his law practice and was ordained as a Rabbi. He served as the rabbi at Congregation Beth Shalom here in Bozeman until h...
#34: Father Gregory Smith - Pastor, Counselor
August 27, 2019 15:54 - 47 minutes - 108 MBGreg grew up in Twin Bridges, Montana, reading everything he could get his hands on. He realized early on in life that he was gay, but chose to shut that part of himself down to be socially accepted. Later in life, he decided to enter the seminary for the Roman Catholic Church and served as a priest at a cathedral in Helena, Montana. He ultimately took a sabbatical from the church to more fully embrace his identity while becoming an activist in Seattle's LGBTQ community. He's since starte...
#33: Claire Putnam - Obstetrician-Gynecologist
June 21, 2019 17:36 - 43 minutes - 99.3 MBRecently, we caught up with Claire Putnam, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist who opened NOVA Women's Health here in Montana to help women make informed decisions about their physical and emotional health. Claire has always felt a desire to help others and jokes that she started her career in medicine early in life, playing the role of doctor and dentist to her young friends and stuffed animals. As she progressed through high school in Berkeley, California and went on to UCLA she pursed the scient...
#32: Should We Control Our Population Growth?
June 04, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 35.4 MBIn a world where we argue about the power of an ‘environmental footprint’, why aren’t we concerned about the increasing number of feet making them? Overpopulation and population control has been a source of debate for philosophers and scientists since the 1700s, and became a household conversation in the 1950s with the publication of the book “A Population Bomb”. But in recent decades the conversation has been sidelined by divisive religious and political views. We’re already seeing the...
#31: Danielle Egnew - Psychic
April 02, 2019 10:25 - 40 minutes - 48 MBTate Chamberlin here to kick off this episode of the I Am Interchange morning show, focused on the issue of population control. My guest this morning is Danielle Egnew, a psychic medium and author who’s currently in the midst of a tour channeling and translating angelic messages for people in cities across the country. And, as I came to learn, she’s also very tapped into what she describes as ‘heavy air traffic’ for unidentified flying objects over Yellowstone National Park - just a coupl...
#30: Jack Horner - Paleontologist
March 26, 2019 12:00 - 25 minutes - 31.1 MBTate Chamberlin with I Am Interchange here and this morning I'm talking to Jack Horner, AKA the fossil hunter whose legendary findings inspired Jurassic Park and set my - and the world's - imagination about dinosaurs on fire. Jack has also worked on all the Jurassic Park films to make sure the depictions of dinosaurs and the science discussed are as accurate as possible. Jack is a globally renowned paleontologist and professor that we're fortunate to have as a neighbor in Interc...
#29: Jacob Schreiner- New Life Foresquare Church
March 18, 2019 20:39 - 47 minutes - 54 MBTate Chamberlin here to kick off this episode of I Am Interchange, focused on the issue of population control, with Jacob Schreiner, a senior pastor with New Life Four Square Ministries. After a tumultuous childhood and a party-filled adolescence he had what he calls an encounter with Jesus and opted to forego material privilege and studying law to forge a closer relationship with the Christian church and Christian principles. Jacob's take on some key topics are outside the mainstream, for...
#28: Can Wildfires Be Managed?
January 30, 2019 17:41 - 41 minutes - 94.7 MBDuring the summer of 2018, the western United States and Canada entered what had previously been an ‘unprecedented’ wildfire season. Walls of flame threatened environments from urban neighborhoods to national parks in fires burning more intensely than we’ve seen in this lifetime. And a generations-old debate rages on: can and should humans be doing more to manage these wildfires before they get started AND while they burn? Or should we decide that 100+ years of fire suppression has led us ...
#28: Should Wildfires Be Managed?
January 30, 2019 17:41 - 41 minutes - 94.7 MBDuring the summer of 2018, the western United States and Canada entered what had previously been an ‘unprecedented’ wildfire season. Walls of flame threatened environments from urban neighborhoods to national parks in fires burning more intensely than we’ve seen in this lifetime. And a generations-old debate rages on: can and should humans be doing more to manage these wildfires before they get started AND while they burn? Or should we decide that 100+ years of fire suppression has led us ...
#27: John Bielenberg- Think Wrong
October 15, 2018 15:22 - 27 minutes - 50.7 MBWe sat down with John Bielenberg, a design guru with more than 250 design awards. From working with some of the world’s top businesses to questioning the practice of design and its function in the world, John is now focused on improving the state of the world through the application of creativity and ingenuity. While humans have the capacity to effect positive change in the world, John believes dysfunctional neural pathways often get in the way. Using this sentiment as the crux behind his de...
#26: Paul Chamberlin- 25 Year Veteran Smoke Jumper
September 26, 2018 17:08 - 43 minutes - 79.6 MBVeteran Smokejumper and Interchange X-Change Panelist, Paul Chamberlin sat down with his nephew, Tate Chamberlin. His 25 years of service in an age of evolving science gives Paul a unique view on if forest fires can be managed. As Tate searches for the answer, he discovers how it feels when a noble idea stops being noble in hind site. Why we must adapt to new discoveries despite how it may contradict our pre-existing beliefs. And, how everything, including a devastating forest fire, can be b...
#25: Unifying Sustainability- Dialogue & Debate
August 17, 2018 14:52 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBWith farming and ranching moving to an industrial scale and model worldwide, the mechanization of all things edible, and the ready availability of foods imported from across the globe, our relationship with our food has become more complex than ever before. Add to that the mind-melting array of different diets espoused as the best (or only) option and deciding “what's for dinner?” has become a question of health, environmental concerns, and ethics. As with anything this complicated, no one s...
#24: Howard Lyman - Former Cattle Rancher and Activist
July 11, 2018 20:44 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBFormer MT Cattle Rancher, Animal Rights Activist and Interchange X-Change Panelist, Howard Lyman sat down with Tate Chamberlin. His background, one in a million surgery success story, and his ordeals being sued with Oprah by the Cattle Industry for $180 million four times gave Howard the right to voice his opinion on the strength it takes to accomplish lofty dreams. In today’s episode Howard and Tate search for the answer, are our food systems sustainable. This while exploring why farming is...
#23: MACHISMO - Live Event
June 05, 2018 16:18 - 59 minutes - 110 MBI Am Interchange hosted a controversial & provocative dialogue on Machismo and the Male Identity in an age when society is coming out of the closet, and women are finding their voices. This thought-provoking conversation fosters curiosity on ideas that include, how much of your identity is entwined in your sexuality? Can a Leather Daddy be submissive? Do abuse survivors ever fully recover? Can a man be a man without being Machismo? The Machismo Panel features fresh and diverse perspective...
#22: Steve Kelly - Alliance For The Wild Rockies
May 22, 2018 12:40 - 27 minutes - 50 MBSenate Candidate, Activist, Alliance for the Wild Rockies Board Member, and Interchange XC Change Panelist, Steve Kelly sat down with me, Tate Chamberlin. Steve’s love of the outdoors and drive to protect it grants the Green Party Candidate an interesting perspective on the question, Can Forest Fires Be Managed? As I search for a deeper understanding of how wildfires should be managed, I discover Steve’s theory on the hidden objective of the Forest Service and their famous mascot Smokey The ...
#21: Dave Atkins - Forester
May 09, 2018 15:52 - 24 minutes - 44.9 MBTate Chamberlin sat down with Dave Atkins, a forest ecologist turned publisher who has worked across the western US for the past 40 years. Dave strives to find the balance between environmental protection and function, economic sustainability, and social needs when thinking about how to create a better world. He’ll be joining us again in May to lend his expertise surrounding wildfires, which we begin discussing during this podcast. How do we live with fire and use it effectively? How do we b...
#20: Mick Burlington - Leather Daddy
March 13, 2018 14:19 - 20 minutes - 46.9 MBIn this episode, Tate Chamberlin sat down with Mick Burlington, a crisis counselor and life coach specializing in trauma. Mick has also been a part of the Leather Community since 1991, and has become a pillar of guidance for gay and bisexual men struggling with identity. According to Mick, there is a separation between macho, machismo, and masculinity. Stick around as he guides us through the gray area between the separation, recalling his own journey of identifying as a gay man and the role...
#19: Timothy Tate - Archetypal Psychotherapist
February 11, 2018 20:53 - 27 minutes - 62.5 MBJoining us today is Timothy Tate, an archetypal psychotherapist based out of Montana. Building from our previous podcast, Timothy takes us on a journey of understanding how we can both leverage and abuse machismo. Using the blending of a matriarchy and patriarchy as a model, Timothy believes the tension of opposites drive both creativity and destruction. Can we use this archetype to better understand the human experience and unshackle machismo as being a mere gender stereotype? This episo...
#18: Erin Schattauer - Domestic Violence Activist
January 31, 2018 01:04 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBJoining us in this episode is the very multi talented Erin Schattauer out of Montana. We’ll be discussing machismo, using Erin’s experience as a domestic violence survivor to shed insight on how we can shatter gender stereotypes. Promoting emotionally aware development during children’s most formative years is a part of this process, which is something Erin both teaches and practices; she’s not only a domestic violence activist, but also a mother of a young son. Photo by: Ben Johnson Pro...
#17: Is It Cultural Exchange OR Appropriation? - Dialogue & Debate
January 22, 2018 17:23 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBBroadly speaking, the term cultural appropriation focuses on instances where elements from a minority culture are adopted by a dominant cultural and re-used outside of their traditional, historical, and native cultural contexts. In this episode of the I Am Interchange podcast, a diverse panel of artists, activists & entrepreneurs examine whether cultural exchange can happen in a way that honors unique cultures and identities, or if the history of using other cultures for financial gain make...
#16: Jordan Fuller - Performance Artist & Activist
January 10, 2018 20:38 - 21 minutes - 20 MBTate Chamberlin sat down with Jordan Fuller, a performance artist based out of Bozeman. From shedding the confines of his past, to retracing his roots, we’ll be exploring Jordan’s performance art as a vehicle to promote positivity. Stick around to hear more about the early stages of his latest project - using multi media to highlight living conditions on reservations across Montana.
#15: Rob Irizarry - Disruptive Technologist / Artificial Intelligence
November 29, 2017 19:04 - 26 minutes - 24 MBRob Irizarry was part of our live "Coal Town" Dialogue and Debate representing technology and artificial intelligence. In this episode, we'll recap our live event, AI, universal basic income and other shenanigans. He spent four decades working with hardware and software technology in both public and private sector organizations building systems, processes and teams in 38 countries, including a decade spent living in Asia. Rob has invested in and coached multiple startups, as well as workin...
#14: Is Water A Human Right? - Dialogue & Debate
October 31, 2017 20:35 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBI Am Interchange and Mountain Time Arts are pleased to present, Is Water A Human Right? A community dialogue & debate fusing artists, activists and entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives coming together to address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. The public is also invited to participate and give their ideas during the event. We’ll develop our dialogue into a podcast that will be available worldwide. Lineup: Susan Duncan- Freelance Teaching & Agriculture Bent...
#13: Meg Singer- ACLU of Montana
October 12, 2017 04:16 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBMeg Singer is the Indigenous Justice Outreach Coordinator for the ACLU of Montana. Meg is a native of Salt Lake City, UT, and a member of the Navajo Nation. After graduating from Westminster College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, Meg moved to Polson, MT, to work as a student advisor for Salish Kootenai College. Meg’s passion for indigenous justice and the rights of Native American and Alaskan Native people took her to Bozeman, MT, to earn her Master of Arts degree in N...
#12: Lori Shaw- Colstrip United
September 26, 2017 16:10 - 10 minutes - 9.3 MBWe caught up with Lori Shaw who is the co-founder of Colstrip United. A pro-coal grassroots movement dedicated to educating the public about the importance coal and coal energy. She is also running for City Council. Check it out!
EJ Engler / Is Water A Human Right? :: Episode 11
August 25, 2017 18:09 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBEJ is featured in the I Am Interchange 'Morning Show' podcast. As a panelist in the upcoming Interchange debate, 'Is Water a Human Right,' EJ offers a preview of his views of what a 'Right' is. Episode produced by: Chris Griffin, Tyson Lunn & Tate Chamberlin. Music by: Nintendeaux
Human Migration And Displacement :: Episode 10
August 22, 2017 15:48 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBWelcome to I Am Interchange, fusing artists, activists & entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives coming together and address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. Welcome to I Am Interchange, fusing artists, activists & entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives coming together and address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. Today's topic: HUMAN MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENT. Our world hit a milestone in 2016—not one with the fanfare and excitem...
Bently Spang: Modern Warrior
August 07, 2017 22:23 - 9 minutes - 9.03 MBIn advance of our next I Am Interchange event: Is Water a Human Right? August 29, at The Filling Station in Bozeman; Tate Chamberlin sat down with Bently Spang, A Northern Cheyenne Artist, to preview the discussion on Water. In this podcast Bently provides a brief history of the Northern Cheyenne, the role, importance and respect of water to his tribe and to his artistic work. Produced by: Mountain Time Arts, Tyson Lunn, Chris Griffin & Tate Chamberlin
Kareen Erbe- Permaculture :: Episode 08
August 02, 2017 18:48 - 7 minutes - 8.36 MBIn our latest podcast, Kareen Erbe local Permaculturalist, speaks to the value of sustainability of food production, yes, gardening and farming. As you will hear, Water plays an important role and there are apocalyptic visions should we mismanage the sacred resource of Water. Hear more from Kareen, and other panelists, at the I Am Interchange dialogue & debate: Is Water a Human Right?, August 29th at the Filling Station in Bozeman, Montana. This episode was produced by: Tyson Lunn, Chr...
Brit Fontenot :: S01E07
July 12, 2017 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBWelcome to another episode of I Am Interchange. If you are tuning in for the first time ever, I Am Interchange is a community dialogue & debate fusing artists, activists and entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives coming together to address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. Along the way, we’ll be producing a series of mini episodes that feature guests of our debates and other interesting project goers. Today I have Brit Fontenot, who is the economic development di...
Coal Town :: S01E06
June 07, 2017 15:55 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBI Am Interchange is a humanities project and talk show style event where artists, activists & entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives come together to address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. Though a good mind flush of new ideas and creativity can offer wisdom and perspective to our own process and development. By doing so, we create a level platform for history, politics, religion, philosophy, criticism, ethics, self-consciousness, reason, creativity, human valu...
Wilmot Collins / Former Refugee :: S01E05
May 14, 2017 13:56 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBIn our latest podcast Wilmont Collins, a refugee from Liberia, and I explore the vast difference between: Refugee and immigrant. This conversation dispels many common misconceptions about the experience. Wilmont Collins, has been living in Montana for more than 20 years and is currently seeking the office of Mayor in Helena. Produced by: Tyson Lunn, Chris Griffin & Tate Chamberlin
Ken Johnson / Sons of Odin :: S01E04
May 09, 2017 01:41 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBI Am Interchange has an upcoming dialogue and debate on Human Migration and Displacement. We will be producing a series of mini episodes that feature the back story of our guests for upcoming events. For this episode, I Interviewed Ken Johnson with the Sons of Odin. The Sons Odin is an anti immigrant & refugee street patrol group that originated in Finland. The group was established as a response to thousands of asylum seekers arriving in Finland amid the European migrant crisis. The binar...
Standing Rock :: S01E03
March 27, 2017 17:55 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBTopic: Standing Rock Interchange is a humanities project and talk show style event where artists, activists & entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives come together to address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. We don’t necessarily need a solution when we’re finished, though a good mind flush of new ideas and creativity can offer wisdom and perspective to our own process and development. By doing so, we create a level platform for history, politics, religion, philo...
Guns :: S01E02
January 19, 2017 00:43 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBTopic: Guns Interchange is a humanities project and talk show style event where artists, activists & entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives come together to address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. We don’t necessarily need a solution when we’re finished, though a good mind flush of new ideas and creativity can offer wisdom and perspective to our own process and development. By doing so, we create a level platform for history, politics, religion, philosophy, cr...
Cannabis-Xchange-S01E01
October 25, 2016 23:06 - 49 minutes - 114 MBInterchange is a humanities project. It introduces contrasting, sometimes polarizing, ideas into the same pot and gives them a stir. “We don’t necessarily need a solution when we’re finished,” remarks Tate Chamberlin, “though a good mind flush of new ideas and creativity can offer wisdom and perspective to our own process and development.” By doing so, Interchange creates a level platform for history, politics, religion, philosophy, criticism, ethics, self-consciousness, reason, creativity, ...