The April 21 Iowa Podcasters's Weekly Roundup
The Iowa legislature, mental health, SNAP, and Spencer's top five Iowa athletes
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Welcome to the April 21 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:
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 revisited an old friend this week: Laura Belin with Bleeding Heartland. Part of their discussion was about what George calls Iowa GOP legislators going "blankrupt." Watch that segment here.
Speaking of Laura Belin, 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. 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.
Legendary Des Moines Register columnists Rekha Basu and Julie Gammack offer their What the Hell Happened to Iowa. This week, they are doing SNAPChat…legislation, not the social platform. They interview Anne Bacon, CEO of Impact Community Action Partnership.
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. Her most recent post is with legendary pollster J. Ann Selzer. Here is the link.
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, they discuss guns at Public Schools and Nikki Haley's Path to the White House.
Also, Spencer's Top 5 Iowan Athletes, cutting SNAP, and Clarence Thomas' Sugar Daddy. We also talked about Dominion vs. Fox News, and Dominion has accepted a settlement.
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