The May 2, 2024 Roundup of the Iowa Podcasters' Collaborative

Welcome to the May 2, 2024 roundup of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative. We are your hosts Robert Leonard Amy Russell, and Sara Davis. 

As April showers make way for May flowers, hear what’s been happening with the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative with the links below to collaborative members and others:

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: Legislative wrap-up and Iowa’s congressional races.

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 49: Republican Rep voted for vouchers, and then created...Also Kristi Noem is a demon, voice clone crimes, and top five Kevin Costner movies.

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. This week hear Randy Evans, Iowa Freedom of Information Council …why it matters.

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 Asking Tax Payers to Foot the Bill.

“Sigh. Life can be hard. But sports continue to inspire…” Check out Rob Gray’s Area podcast with the recent program: Iowa State star Audi Crooks calmly continues to prove doubters wrong — and more from a busy weekend in sports. Crooks earned first-team All-Big 12 honors as a freshman, postseason play began, and the Cyclones' wrestlers embarked on their quest to win their first conference title since 2009.

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.

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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