The September 24, 2023 Weekly Roundup of the Iowa Podcasters' Collaborative
Okoboji music, Summit Carbon hearings, and more...
Welcome to the September 24th weekly roundup of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative. We are your hosts Robert Leonard, Amy Russell, and Sarah Davis. Welcome the official start of fall this weekend! Bring on the flannels, colorful leaves, and all things pumpkin.
Hear what’s been happening with the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative with the links below:
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. A recent conversation about dining, Iowa restaurants, chefs, and tipping with Wini Moranville, food writer, can be found here. Also, check out some personal news as two aging baby boomers take on raising a puppy named J. Dudley Gilbert here.
Podcast by George has been busy the past couple of weeks. Okoboji Music: Stellar musicians write a song about the Great Lake, and more. Click here. Also Podcast By George hosts Economist Dr. Peter Orazem discussing economic recovery, kids going hungry, the rich getting richer, and more - listen here. Podcast By George had an exclusive recently. Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West came on the Liveline to discuss his candidacy. George asked Dr. West if he would consider a "Get One" strategy just before the 2024 election. See that question and answer here. To see the entire exclusive interview with Dr. Cornel West, watch it on YouTube.
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 a piece titled Summit Carbon hearings: Who’s behind the curtain?
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.
On her most recent installment of Buggy Land, host Mary Swander writes You Didn’t Keep Score? Here’s an excerpt: In Buggy Land, cooperation is underscored—all the way to the grave. Yes, working together for the good of the group is a regular, expected part of rural life, Amish or English. Life in the country entails a lot of literal heavy lifting and neighbors are more dependent on each other. But I have seen how the Amish, who live a semi-communal existence, weave cooperation smoothly and tightly into their lives like the warp and weft of their rag rugs.
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 24: 24 is Spencer's Lucky Number, and Dr. Bob Has a Weird Thing With Numbers. Trump Got a Bunch of Double Birds in Ames. We'd Love to Give Brenna the Bird. Also, Iowa’s bridges are BAD, Iowans picked purple as their luckiest color, and an unimpeachable top 5 Iowa governors list.
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 about meditation and goats here: Farm Meditation: All Tangled Up.
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.
Listen to What the Hell Happened Iowa with Julie Gammack and Rekha Basu. Two Iowa journalists investigate what the hell happened to Iowa, a once progressive state that, as of 2023, has swung far right. Why? We'll be asking Iowans just that question.
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