The April 14 Weekly Roundup of the Iowa Podcasters' Collaborative
The pollster J. Ann Selzer, Julian Assange, the Iowa Legislature, farmer mental health, and more...
Welcome to the April 13 weekly roundup of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative. We are your hosts Robert Leonard and Amy Russell. The purpose of the collaborative is to curate and promote some of the best podcasters and other digital media producers in the state. It’s built upon the model created by Julie Gammack’s Iowa Writers’ Collaborative with its thousands of subscribers in 45 states and 44 countries.
Here are the current members of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative and what they are up to this week:
We are pleased to announce that the legendary Des Moines Register columnists Rekha Basu and Julie Gammack with their What the Hell Happened to Iowa podcast have joined the collaborative. This week, they are doing Rants and Reactions!
Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck offers a weekly Monday Zoom call at noon, and since it is a video digital product, it’s a broader part of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative. She had an amazing guest this week, the legendary pollster J. Ann Selzer. I try to attend as many of the Zoom calls as I can. This one is one of my favorites. Here is the link.
Mary Swander’s Buggy Land focuses on the Amish, sustainability, and the wider rural environment. Mary is the former Poet Laureate of Iowa and the executive director of AgArts.
This week, host Mary Swander interviews Christopher Weatherly, a licensed social worker and Ph.D. candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. Weatherley discusses his research on mental health issues for farmers and others in the rural environment. He details the social, economic, and atmospheric challenges farmers and rural youth face, and the availability of care they receive. Includes a discussion of the arts and how they serve as an emotional outlet.
Podcast By George again advocated for the freedom of Julian Assange. To watch George's "What in THE Hell?" segment from this week's show with Assange activist Misty Winson, click here:
KHOI’s Capitol Week radio broadcast with Laura Belin airs Monday at 7:00 PM, and the archives may be found at the link above. It’s not technically a “podcast,” but we don’t care. It’s great content we are proud to link to. Laura Belin, the author of the blog Bleeding Heartland, updates us on developments in Iowa government, hosted by KHOI’s newsman Dennis Hart. All subscribers to Iowa politics with Laura Belin on Substack receive an audio file and recap of every edition of KHOI Radio’s “Capitol Week.” And please consider subscribing to Laura’s Substack newsletter, Iowa politics with Laura Belin. Laura is simply one of the best political analysts in the country.
Iowa Revolution is hosted by award-winning radio broadcaster Spencer Dirks, and he and Robert Leonard (aka Bob, or Dr. Bob) discuss news, politics, sports, and much, much more. In this episode, Dr. Bob gives Spencer hope for the Iowa Democratic Party. Are gun control and abortion backfiring on Republicans? Iowa is the capital of women's basketball right now, and baseball is BACK! And (spoiler alert for a ton of spoiler alerts) Spencer's Top 5 Movie Twists.
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