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December 2023: From Peru, to New York, to Missoula – The Journey of a Music and Dance Educator Creating Communities Along the Way
Join Udo and his guest, Christian Moya, a Peruvian music and culture educator for the last podcast of this year. Moya has lived for many years in New York City, surrou...
November 2023: The Value of Language and Culture Training and the Benefit it Brings to U.S. Foreign Relations - Major General (ret.) Donald Loranger, United States Air Force
For the November podcast episode of International Voices, Udo is joined by Major General (ret.) Donald Loranger, who was appointed in 2012 to the National Security Edu...
October 2023: Bringing International Experience to the Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale – Maestro Julia Tai
Udo talks to Julia Tai, the Music Director of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale. Maestro Tai is also the Music Director of Philharmonia Northwest, and the Co-A...
September 2023: International Voices in Missoula
With the start of every fall, students are returning to the University of Montana, in Missoula. Among them are international students from around the world, either ret...
August 2023: Remembering John Engen
In August 2022 beloved Missoula major John Engen passed away at the age of 57. This August episode is dedicated to Mayor Engen, who was known for his wit, his kindness...
July 2023: Delegation members from Missoula’s Sister City Palmerston North, New Zealand, talk about the many benefits twinned cities bring to their communities.
During their visit in June, Udo invited five members of the delegation from Missoula’s sister city Palmerston North (Palmy), New Zealand, to The Trail studio, to talk ...
June 2023: Regents Professor Ragan (Ray) Callaway: Global Ecology: Interactions Between Exotic Invaders and Native Ecosystems.
Udo talks with Dr. Callaway, an internationally renowned plant and community ecologist, who was one of three Montanans on a prestigious short-list of “The World’s Mos...
May 2023: Turning Tables and Switching Microphones (PART II) An Interview with Dr. Udo Fluck, the creator of the popular GROW K-12 Outreach Program
After exactly a year, Mike Smith and Udo Fluck are doing it again for the May podcast! Turning the Tables and Switching the Microphones. Mike is talking to Udo in this...
April 2023: Latisha Buck Elk Thunder and Dacia Griego, Co-Founders of Indigenous Made Missoula - Making Missoula a More Diverse Community
This is the third and final episode in a three-part series, on organizations, services and products that have aided Missoula in becoming a more diverse community. In t...
March 2023: Susan Hay Patrick, Chief Executive Officer of United Way of Missoula County - Making Missoula a More Diverse Community
This is the second episode in a three-part series, on organizations, services and products that have aided Missoula in becoming a more diverse community. Listen to Udo...
February 2023: Eamon Fahey, Deputy Director of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Missoula Branch - Making Missoula a More Diverse Community
This is the first episode in a three-part series, on organizations, services and products that have aided Missoula in becoming a more diverse community. Udo talks to s...
December 20222: Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock – An Insightful Conversation with the Refugee Congress Delegate for Montana
This is the 3rd and final episode of a series focusing on “Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock”. In this last episode of 2022, Udo visits with Paul Mwing...
November 2022: Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock – A Local High School in Missoula for Students from Around the World
This is the 2nd part of a multi-part series, focusing on “Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock”. Last month Udo was fortunate to talk to Shiena Greata Medra...
October 2022: Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock - From Manilla to Missoula
Udo is joined by Shiena Greata Medrano, an Accounting and Management Information System Major at the University of Montana, and, if that was not enough for a full-time...
September 2022: Gabrielle Nguyen and Kate Harridge on the 40th Sister City Anniversary of Palmerston North, New Zealand and Missoula
Tune in this episode and learn more about the 40th anniversary of the sister city connection between Missoula and Palmerston North, New Zealand through Gabrielle Nguye...
August 2022: Introducing the new Executive Director of Arts Missoula - Heather Adams
Join Udo, as he is visiting with Heather Adams, who founded and was Executive Director of the Downtown Dance Collective for 13 years, has danced, taught, directed, cho...
June 2022: Music as Cultural Diplomacy – Spreading Important Messages from Missoula to Audiences in Europe Through Music as the Universal Language
Join Udo, as he is talking, to Dr. Coreen Duffy, Conductor of UM’s Chamber Chorale, Dr. James Randall, Director of UM’s School of Music, Chorale Member Saxon Holbrook,...
May 2022: Turning the Tables and Switching the Microphones: An Interview with the Host of International Voices – Udo Fluck. PART 1
Mike Smith is talking to Udo Fluck in this special episode, celebrating more than two years of International Voices podcasts. Enjoy their conversation about why and ho...
April 2022: Food as Cultural Diplomacy – Those who passionately train, guide, and inspire the next generation of culinary artists and those who study, experiment and create at the Big Sky Culinary Institute
Join Udo, as he is talking, for the first time, with six individuals in one episode. His guests are: Dr. Thomas Gallagher, Dean and Professor of the Missoula College, ...
March 2022: Food as Cultural Diplomacy – United We Eat in the Missoula Community
In part 2 of a 3 part series on Food As Cultural Diplomacy, Udo is joined by Beth Baker, program manager, and Rozan Shhib, kitchen assistant of Missoula’s Soft Landing...
February 2022: Food as Cultural Diplomacy – Two Local Chefs Share Their International Culinary Passion
Join Udo, as he is talking, for the first time with two guests in one episode, that is all about international cuisine. Meet Silvia Wirick and Wisam Raheem, two foreig...
December 2021: Matan Zamir, Deputy Consul General of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco
Deputy Consul General Zamir talks about Israel’s leadership role in technology, innovation, and the arts, how they have impacted the country and how other countries in...
November 2021: Tammy Sandhu, MBE, British Deputy Consul General of the British Consulate in San Francisco
Join Udo for his conversation with Ms. Sandhu, as she talks about the British Government’s mission in the US, the United Kingdom hosting the United Nations Climate C...
October 2021: Dr. Volker Rachold, Head of the German Arctic Office, provides valuable insight into land-ocean interactions
Udo talks with geochemist Dr. Rachold, from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which serves as an information and coop...
September 2021: NPR Journalist Nathan Rott weighs in on the warming climate and the changing footprint of wildfire now and in the future.
This month's podcast with guest Nathan Rott, NPR journalist, focuses on international reporting on wildfires and how recent fires have burned areas flames aren't usual...
August 2021: Lake Missoula Tea Company creating global connections through tea
Jake Kreilick, from Lake Missoula Tea Company in Missoula, MT talks about his interactions with small tea producers in Indonesia and Kenya and how their artisan loose ...
July 2021: Larry Pirnie, Missoula artist, shares his artistic journey and why it is important to listen to “The Kid”.
Join Udo for his conversation with the artist, known for his highly colorful acrylic paintings of horses and cowboy figures in western landscapes, about how the "Red R...
June 2021: Willow Kipp, Native American Artist with International Reach and Environmental Researcher
Udo is joined by Willow Kipp, who shares with him who inspired her as an artist and how her passion for Native American dance regalia design, beadwork, ledger art and ...
May 2021: "Creativity During COVID" with Dennis Kozeluh of Vienna, Austria (part 1 of a 3 part series)
Udo visits with Dennis Kozeluh, in Vienna, Austria, where he lives and has been active in the theater, music and musical theater world throughout central Europe since ...
April 2021: Annita Lucchesi, founding Executive Director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute
April 2021: Annita Lucchesi, founding Executive Director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute, who started the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement. T...