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Welcome to the March 11 roundup of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative. We are your hosts Robert Leonard Amy Russell, and Sara Davis. Hear what’s been happening with the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative with the links below to collaborative members and others:
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. Mary Riche: therapist, women's reproductive health advocate...a must-listen podcast if you want to learn something about IVF and other reproductive health issues. It’s an amazing intervew.
On Podcast by George Meteorologist Chris Gloninger is America's clarion call for climate catastrophe. And this time he's getting real with a new show.
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.
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 - her most recent can be found here: Iowa lawmakers act on religion, gender, school funding, and more.
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 here for A New Way to Honor Native Land.
“Sigh. Life can be hard. But sports continue to inspire…” Check out Rob Gray’s Area podcast with the recent program: Riffing on the spectacle that is state wrestling, ISU's title hopes and more. Iowa's a special place in myriad sporting ways.
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. Listen to Episode 40: The Kids Yearn for the Slaughter House. Trump vs. Biden Redux. Madea Learns AI. Also, kids graduate from Iowa colleges and then get the hell out, Ronna McDaniel we hardly knew ye, and top 5 worst athletes as people.
Talking Paragraphs with Daniel P. Finney has joined the Collaborative. Check out episode: No. 151: RIP Fruit Stripe gum, Taco Bell cereal, and Pizza Hut goes to war.
AgArts with Mary Swander is always interesting Season #3: Episode #57: The podcast explores spirits, the kind you want to lift in the winter, and the kind you want to drink year-round. And the kind that comes back to haunt you. Host Mary Swander explores the history of two bootlegged whiskeys: poitín in Ireland, and Templeton Rye in Iowa, and her connection to both. Readings from Plain Interest. And John K. Corless singing Noreen Bawn.
Here are some other Iowa’s digital media creators we are also watching and/or listening to:
Dave Price, formerly with WHO-TV, is now the editor of the American Farmland Owner. Robert Carman is optimistic about 2024. He must be. “Went though a really, really, really tumultuous 12 months,” Carman said as he sighed before reflecting on 2023. Details at the link:
And don’t forget the legendary John Busbee at the Culture Buzz. Always something new!
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