The December 4, 2023 Roundup of the Iowa Podcasters' Collaborative
Gaza, Methodist Churches, and more...
Welcome to the December 4th weekly roundup of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative. We are your hosts Robert Leonard, Amy Russell, and Sarah Davis. Hear what’s been happening with the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative with the links below:
Podcast By George is proud to be a small part of the patchwork quilt of independent left-wing media in America. Musician, filmmaker and left-wing activist Eleanor Goldfield was on the PBG Live-Line this past week discussing Gaza and much more. Watch as Eleanor explains why she doesn't think electoral politics is any kind of a solution in this 2 minute and 22 second QUICK TAKE. You can watch this entire Podcast By George episode on YouTube.
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. Listen to a conversation with Lee Rood, investigative reporter, takes on Boys Town...Des Moines Register's WatchDog holds a spotlight on a beloved institution
Visit Rob’s Gray Area, Rob covers Iowa State sports for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. He’s co-author (with Ray Cole) of "Hangin' With Winners." Listen here for a Late Night session: Looking at current ISU quarterback Rocco Becht, and former record-setter Brock Purdy, who joined an elite club in having a perfect 158.3 quarterback rating on Sunday. Read here for a crossover of football, women’s basketball, men’s basketball, and wrestling - click here.
Your window to the world of Iowa Politics is KHOI’s Capitol Week radio broadcast with Laura Belin, it airs each 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. Read here for an article titled Summit Carbon Solutions: Five questions for Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson.
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Episode 54 of Mary Swander’s Buggy Land Here Lies Mary Swander. Mary Swander tells the story of buying her own tombstone. She reads from Plain Interests and The Budget about the proper conduct at funerals and wakes, and a deer hunting incident. Then she recites “May I Sleep in your Barn, Mister?” In the second half of the show, she tells about the Amish custom of singing hymns to ill and dying people. Ashokan Farewell by Annie Chapman Brewer (French horn) and her grandfather Keith (dobro). Gott ist die Liebe. Also see her recent piece titled Join the AgArts Fun! And Give a Gift to Further Our Work
Beth Hoffman lives on a farm near Lovillia. Beth is a former public radio journalist and professor from California who now chronicles the farming life in rural Iowa in her substack In the Dirt. She is the author of Bet the Farm: the Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America. Read her recent installation here Cookie Meditation.
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. The duo returns with Episode 33: Thanksgiving Food Rankings. Dr. Bob Wrote About Tim Scott in Time. More Bigoted Methodist Churches. Also, Top 5 funniest bird names, climate change gets worse and worse, and Dorcas Reilly invented green bean casserole.
Host Sarah Davis’s Warmly, Iowa takes a look at Iowa through the lens of rediscovery and exploration of those things that make life in Iowa beautiful and complex.
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