Behind the Scenes, Behind the Mic with the Big Sky EDA’s Vault

David Knobel and I have had some great conversations over the years on the radio. One thing David has mentioned before is that he thinks I don't talk about myself and my background much on the radio.

True.

I'd rather talk news, politics, issues, anything Montana etc...but for those of you who do want to hear more about me- I had a great time sitting down with Marcell Bruski and Paul Green from the Big Sky EDA. I got to join them on a recently released episode of their "Vault" podcast.

I can't even remember everything we talked about, but here's how the Big Sky EDA summed it up on LinkedIn:

In this episode, we sit down with Aaron Flint, host of Montana Talks and one of the most recognized voices in Montana media. Aaron shares his Montana roots — from stuffing newspapers at his grandparents’ shop in Glasgow to leading a statewide radio talk show. He reflects on the lessons of growing up in small-town Montana, his years studying in Washington, D.C., and his decades of military service following 9/11, including deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond.

Here was one of the soundbites from the conversation that was featured in the opening segment of the podcast.

Aaron Flint: "So I think there's just a hunger, especially from rural people and farmers and ranchers and people in the timber industry, and that they need somebody who's going to help THEIR voice get into the dialogue, help THEIR side of the story get heard. And so that's a big part of why I wanted to get back into doing this.

One of the questions Marcell asked me was how I got into radio in the first place. I talked about working with JP Donovan, who used to be a producer for David Berg- the host of the show Berg in the Morning, which really kicked off statewide talk radio in a major way. I said- man that'd be cool to do a show like that one day. I was just 19 or 20 years old at the time. Less than 10 years later I was doing just that at 29 years old after getting home from Afghanistan.