What makes a person screw up enough courage to try open mic night at a brewery, where people are there mostly to drink beer and not hear you sing? You might be surprised and even impressed with what expert pint-pourer and audio producer Colin May watched evolve on the small stage of one Missoula brewery.

Also in this episode: Runners with a drinking problem. You think pounding beer and running a mile is easy? Photographer and filmmaker Erik Petersen lived to tell the tale. Barely.

[credit: Open mic photo of Jeff Overturf by Colin May. Beer Mile photo by Erik Petersen.]