and Oh, Welcome to the Propagana Report. This is Monica Perez with my partner Brad Binkley and this is not only an interview, a conversation, but also a swap cast with one of our favorite listeners, fellow creators,

and actually someone with a new exciting project that I want to lead off with.

So please welcome Travis Matier.

You may know him from Zoom Parties and from, I think you've been on a lot of shows

Sam Tripoli and my family thinks of crazy and a lot of those things and but you are I know you

as a citizen journalist who is exposing in the microcosm of Missoula, Montana, what really, it's actually interesting because you can't get behind the scenes in DC, but it worked, from what I can tell, it's shocking, but it were from what I can tell it's shocking but it simply must be par for the course.

Yeah and thank you so much guys I am so excited to be here sharing information about my new project and making things like tax

increment financing sounds sexy because that's what the documentary is about and

see Monica your reaction right there that I just saw is actually one of the intended

reactions that people have with this average Joe repellent is what I call it

because really what I wanted to kind of lead off with is this larger idea of

narrative control and how this documentary that I spent the last year working on

with some amazing

amazing talented individuals.

One guy being a veteran that sort of helped sculpt

this local uprising against policies that were really impacting negatively the regular people that live in Missoula, Montana, what I call Zoomtown, one of the many communities that's really exploded during the pandemic in terms of people with money coming with the ability to work remotely.

So the period of time that this documentary focuses on is October 2019 to February 2020 and so in this four month

time period there was this this really large scale uprising it's not large scale

maybe but we filled the city council chambers with local citizens that had gotten fed up with how money was being distributed to people that already had a lot of it.

And the thing that actually got people so riled up as the fact that our mayor,

John Engen, so the documentary I should say is called Engen's Missoula.

I clear my throat a little bit.

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