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The ButteCast with Bill Foley
by Bill Foley
Let's get to know some of the characters who make Butte, Montana the "Richest Hill on Earth."
Episodes
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No. 393: Brayton Erickson
Brayton Erickson is the executive director of the Butte Rescue Mission. He started working at that position in March of 2020, and the good things the Mission has done since are obvious. For instance, the Mission opened a new building, the Center of Hope, earlier this year. The Mission works to…
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No. 392: Mike Maesar
Today, we are talking a little soccer and a lot more with Mike Maesar, the director of the Mining City FC soccer club. This past weekend, one of his teams won a tournament in Idaho Falls, earning Leskovar Honda Athlete of the Week honors. When doing some research before this conversation, I found...
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Tap 'er Light Gary Corbin
I take sports way too seriously. My day can be absolutely ruined by a missed tackle, a shanked field goal or a booted baseball. What usually makes those days worse is that I will also have to deal with someone like Gary Corbin. Gary is a troll, and he’s good at it. He has fun cheering against...
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Episode No. 391: Scott Meredith
Today’s guest is the vice president of sales at LLCTLC in Helena, but that has nothing to do with why he is on the ButteCast. Scott Meredith is just one interesting guy. Scott is a historian who graduated from Helena Capital and served as a teacher’s assistant under the legendary Harry Fritz in…
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Tap ’er Light Mike Ditka
Last week’s passing of Chicago Bears legend Mike Ditka really stung. I never got the chance to meet Da Coach, but it feels like I have known him my entire life. I have been a Bears fan since 1970 something, and Ditka was the coach by the time I really started paying attention to football. He was...
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No. 390: Alani Bankhead
Alani Bankhead makes her return to the ButteCast today. This time, she is appearing in person. The Democratic nominee to represent Montana in the United States Senate was in the Mining City Monday for a campaign event. First, she stopped by the Metals Sports Bar & Grill for a conversation in the...
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No. 389: Peyton Meyer
This special Saturday Night edition of the ButteCast does not have a whole lot to do with the Mining City. But it is a story you definitely want to hear. Tonight’s guest is Peyton Meyer, a freshman on the East Helena High School golf team. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Payton after he sent me a...
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No. 388: LOUD
Somewhere between Butte’s Greeley Elementary School and graduating high school in Rigby, Idaho, Daniel Michalsky became LOUD. That is not a commentary on his volume. LOUD is his stage name, and he has been performing hip-hop music since he was in middle school. You can catch him perform during…
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No. 387: UnaBomba
Today’s episode is different than any of the previous episodes of the ButteCast. We are talking with the Unabomba, a new-to-the-scene hip-hop artist who will be rapping during the Twiztid Tuesday performance on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at the Covellite Theatre. (Click here to buy tickets.) The show will…
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Tap 'er Light: Don’t mistake me for the Bill Foley who game money to Aaron Flint
I am not a billionaire, though people often mistake me for a guy by the same first and last name who is. William P. Foley, who goes by Bill, is a billionaire who owns an NHL team, a super-exclusive golf course and a lot of private land you will never get to hunt or fish on. I am William J. Foley,...
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No. 386: Steven Gillespie
Get ready for a different kind of comedy show at the Covellite Theatre. The DOSE: A Psychedelic Comedy Show will perform at Butte’s great theatre at 7 p.m. Saturday, and you have probably seen nothing like this. (Click here to buy tickets) The DOSE is billed as a fully-immersive psychedelic...
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Tap 'er Light John Kovacich
Today, my heart is broken for a man I knew for less than a year. The Mining City lost a true legend last week when John Kovacich unexpectedly passed away at the age of 66. To meet John was to be his friend. The Mining City is a lesser place today. Missoula is a lesser place. The world is a lesser...
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No. 385: Remembering ‘Norty’
If you would have asked me a month ago which of the nearly 400 episodes of the ButteCast are my favorites, it wouldn’t have taken me long to mention the name Jim Norton. His story absolutely blew me away. “Norty,” as he was affectionately known in the Mining City, is exactly why I started this...
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No. 384: Jorey Thatcher
Today we are talking softball and Mariah’s Challenge with my cousin Jorey Thatcher. You won’t see Jorey hitting any home runs Saturday when the police take on the firefighters in the Guns & Hoses softball game at Stodden Park. He isn’t going to play in the game, probably because he got the Foley...
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Tap 'er Light: Don’t fall for Aaron Flint’s hate game
Transgender people do not hurt anyone. Despite what the dark money mailers might tell us, very few of them are trying to compete in girls’ or women’s sports. But here we are a little more than a month before the midterm elections, and Aaron Flint is trying to drum up that time-tested hatred for...
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No. 383: Jason Salmon
Today we begin Season 5 of the ButteCast with a very special guest. Comedian Jason Salmon will be performing at the Covellite Theater in Butte on Oct. 2. (Tickets) The night before, he will do a show in Missoula. This is the most excited I’ve been to see a comedian perform live since I sat in the...
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Tap 'er Light: Michigan's Hail-Hail Mary
How you looked at Michigan’s 13-12 win over Michigan State on Michigan’s Hail-Hail Mary all depends on your perspective. That is what today’s column is about. You can read it for yourself at...
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No. 382: KC 9/11 ceremony
This afternoon, the Knights of Columbus in Butte held a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The event, which was organized by retired Butte firefighters Bernie Boyle and John Paul, was held in front of the KC’s 9/11 memorial in the Felix Madrazo Gym. It drew a...
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No, 381: Callie Boyle, Matt Moore and Ryan Mulcahy talk hurling
Today we are talking hurling with three members of the Wolfe Tones Hurling Club of Butte. Callie Boyle, Matt Moore and Ryan Mulcahy are not just part of that club. They might have taken up the game relatively recently, but the three seem to live and breathe the Irish national sport. It is their...
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Tap 'er light: Email offers a heartwarming reminder
Golf is the sport that I know the best. It is also the one I can, as a writer, put myself in the shoes of the competitor. That is because I was once in those shoes. I know what it was like to be written about as a golfer, both good and bad, and I work hard to make sure do young golfers justice in...
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No. 380: Roy Ivy
Today’s guest is one I have been hoping to land for a couple of years now. He is interesting, to say the least. Roy Ivy is a fellow Gen Xer who grew up in Texas and traveled around the world in a band before making his way to the Mining City. That came after stops in Chicago, where he played…
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No. 379: Remembering 9/11 with Bernie Boyle and Shane Worley
Next Friday will mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. That day, Knights of Columbus Hall will hold a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of that fateful day. A 3:30 p.m. ceremony will include a blessing from Rev. Tom Haffey and remarks from Chief Executive J.P. Gallager, Sheriff…
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Tap ’er Light: Here is one golfer you can trust
Golf is an unfair game, which makes it a lot like life. Just when you think you are sitting pretty in the fairway, you can shank a shot that goes right into the lumber yard. Golf can also tell you everything you need to know about a person. If you see someone cheat at golf, you know that is a...
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No. 378: Meagan Thompson
The past several years, Meagan Thompson of KXLF-TV has proven to be a fearless reporter who is not afraid to ask the tough questions. Last week, she took her camera into a homeless camp filled with potential danger to make sure she got all sides of a complicated story about a neighborhood fed up...
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No 377: Tim Cronnelly
Today’s guest was a teammate of Hall of Famers at Butte Central. He went on to a Hall of Fame career in his own right. He competed on a BC basketball team that placed fourth at the Class A State tournament in Missoula in March of 1982. He was also a high jumper on a Central boys’ track team that...
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Tap 'er Light: Do not blame these ‘Butte idiots’
This column is not meant to trash congressional candidate Aaron Flint, even though I would never vote for him. It is not an endorsement of his opponent, Sam Forstang, either. I have never met Sam, and I have some questions for him. It is also not about whether the Montana Carpenters Union did the...
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No. 376: Cory Johnston
He did not know it at the time, but one overtime loss turned out to be a very good thing for Cory Johnston. Johnston, a senior at Glasgow High School at the time, fell 1-0 to Danny Trujillo of Arlee in the 112-pound championship match of the Class B-C state wrestling tournament at the Billings...
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No. 375: Kelvin Sampson
There is probably no need for an introduction for today’s guest. You know who Kelvin Sampson is. Currently, the 70-year-old Sampson is the head coach of the University of Houston’s highly-successful men’s basketball program. He’s won multiple national Coach of the Year awards, and he took the...
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No. 374: Remembering Larry Hoffman
Larry Hoffman was not originally from the Mining City. He was born and raised in Lewistown, which is smack dab in the center of Montana. Nobody, however, was more Butte than Larry, who passed away at the age of 81 on July 31. Larry was a miner’s miner. His first trip underground came when he was…
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Tap 'er Light Skeez Sullivan
Skeez Sullivan taught me how to juggle ... and so much more When you have a teacher who leaves a positive, lasting impact on your life, you should tell that teacher if you can. Luckily, I was able to tell that to Mr. John “Skeez” Sullivan. He read the column below that I wrote about him a few...
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No. 373: Devin Amtmann
Devin Amtmann had an interesting upbringing to say the least. As the youngest of John and Kelly Amtmann’s three daughters, her life has been an adventure from the start. She does not remember not knowing judo, and she learned how to kayak when she was about 4 years old. Like her older sisters,...
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No. 372: Willie McCarthy
In Butte, we know him as Willie, the 1993 Butte High graduate with award-winning legs. In Missoula, where he is a successful lawyer and renowned Little League coach, he might be called Will, William or Mr. McCarthy. By any name, though, Willie McCarthy is a true Butte character. He is a Butte guy...
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Tap 'er Light: Mr. Toivonen said it best
We should give women the benefit of the doubt when they cast accusations of discrimination and harassment against a man in power. The burden of proof should not solely fall on them to prove to you that they are not lying. It doesn’t matter if it is a Democrat, Republican or independent, believing...
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Episode No. 371: Brian Miller
Brian Miller is running as a Democrat for the House of Representatives in Montana’s second congressional district. That does not include the Mining City, which resides in the state’s first congressional district. Brian hails from a land far, far away called Helena. Still, I thought it would be…
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Tap 'er Light "Dusty Dan" Sullivan
You might have known him as “Dusty Dan.” Others called him “Deep Court,” “Sully,” “Sull,” or “Mr. Sullivan.” Whatever you called Dan Sullivan, who passed away last week at the age of 86, he was a Mining City legend through and through. That is what today’s column is about. You can read it for...
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No 370: Remembering Dan Sullivan
There are legends, and then there are legends. Dan Sullivan fell into the latter category. He was a legend among legends. He was a Butte Sports Hall of Famer and a Montana Grizzly Hall of Famer. He was a Hall of Famer in life. Dan passed away Thursday night at the age of 86, and we already miss...
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No. 369: Reece Cox
If a guy could make a living coaching American Legion baseball, then today’s guest would be a lifer. Reece Cox just seems like he was born to coach youth baseball. In fact, the calling was so strong that Reece put off starting his career as a physical therapist in Denver for a few months so he...
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No. 368: Remembering Don Peoples Sr.
This past weekend, we celebrated the induction of the Butte Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2026. This class of 12 individuals and five teams was the 20th class for the local shrine, which welcomed its first class of Butte sports immortals in 1987. Notably, it was the first class without its…
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Tap 'er Light: The secret of Coach Street’s success
Jim Street has long been a legend in the Mining City. He epitomizes the saying “Butte Tough,” and he just might be the greatest coach who ever lived. In any sport. This weekend at the Butte Sports Hall of Fame induction for the Class of 2026, however, Street took that legend to a whole new level....
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No. 367: Cory Cachola
Cory Cachola is a 1992 Butte High graduate who is doing some great things out in Portland, Oregon. I would tell you what he is doing, but I am not entirely sure. I just know much of his work involves the dreaded artificial intelligence, and those letters “AI” scare the bejesus out of all of us....
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Tap 'er Light: It was just Butch being Butch
The Butte Sports Hall of Fame will induct its 20th class this weekend. It is a class that, in a lot of respects, is long overdue. The class includes the late Jane Pascoe and Greg Salo. It also includes Brian Bolton, Bernie Brophy, Shirley Chesterfield-Stanton, Susie Hogart-Harrington, John...
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No. 366: Janelle Garza
Janelle Garza is one tough woman. That was evident when she completed the Copper Kings 100 in just under 34 hours last month. That is a 100-mile running race with nearly 14,000 feet of vertical gain and loss. Finishing that race in impressive fashion, though, is only part of the story of Janelle,...
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No. 365: Remembering Greg Salo
Next weekend, the late, great Greg Salo will finally take his rightful place among Butte’s greatest sports legends when he is inducted into the Butte Sports Hall of Fame. To say that this induction is bittersweet is a major understatement. The Butte Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2026 was…
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No. 364: Aiden Sorich
In July of 2021, Aiden Sorich won the Sorini 25 at the Butte 100 Mountain Bike Race. With a time of 2 hours, 10 minutes, 20 seconds, the soon-to-be Butte High sophomore beat the second-place rider by 26 minutes. He was just 15 years old at the time. On that day, Sorich said it was his goal to win...
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Tap 'er Light Mick Ringsak
Last month, we lost a true American hero when Mick Ringsak passed away after a battle with cancer. Mick was a Vietnam veteran and a combat engineer in the Army. In Butte, Mick fought for a cleaner environment. He fought, and he helped us win. Mick was a self-described Eisenhower Republican, but…
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No. 363: Kevin Parvinen
Kevin Parvinen was one of the greatest wrestlers in Butte High history. In three years on the Bulldog varsity team, Parvinen posted a 77-2 record. He once held the school mark with 58 straight victories. After taking third place at 98 pounds as a sophomore, Parvinen won the weight class in 1985,...
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No. 362: Don Peoples Jr.
Don Peoples Jr. appeared on episode No. 98 of the ButteCast in June of 2023. So much has a lot changed since then for the president of the Butte Central Foundation, superintendent of Butte Central Schools and head coach of the BC football team. In November of 2023, Peoples nearly left us. In…
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Tap 'er Light: First she called me an idiot
When you cheer the separation of families and deportations without due process, you are at risk of finding yourself on the wrong side of history. When you sit silently, you are every bit as complicit. That is why we should all read the poem "First They Came" by Martin Niemöller. That is what...
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No. 361: Mike Rapp
Long before Mike Rapp was the superintend of the Falcon Crest Golf Club near Boise, Idaho, he had one of the best titles any person could have. He was a Muni kid. Mike grew up playing golf at the Highland View Golf Course in Butte. He golfed and golfed and golfed. He spent so much time on a golf...
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No. 360: Joe Wren
This is easily the most visual of the 360 episodes of the ButteCast. Today, KXLF legend and Anaconda native Joe Wren joined the show via Zoom from Mitchell Stadium in Anaconda. In addition to a great conversation, Joe provided us a bit of a tour of one of the greatest high school football…
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