Red Dirt and Round Bales is a podcast about the people, places, history, and everyday grit that shape rural Oklahoma. Built for listeners who love agriculture, small towns, country roads, and the stories tucked between wheat fields and cattle pastures, the show connects Oklahoma’s past with the lives of the farmers, ranchers, families, and communities carrying it forward today. Each episode blends rural storytelling, ag insight, and a deep sense of place — celebrating the red dirt, hard work, humor, resilience, and heart that make Oklahoma feel like home.
Red Dirt And Round Bales
Claim This Podcastby Dave Deken
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23 episodes
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Podcast Overview
Red Dirt and Round Bales is a podcast about the people, places, history, and everyday grit that shape rural Oklahoma. Built for listeners who love agriculture, small towns, country roads, and the stories tucked between wheat fields and cattle pastures, the show connects Oklahoma’s past with the lives of the farmers, ranchers, families, and communities carrying it forward today. Each episode blends rural storytelling, ag insight, and a deep sense of place — celebrating the red dirt, hard work, humor, resilience, and heart that make Oklahoma feel like home.
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5/21/2026
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Recent Episodes
July 9, 2026
County Fairs Still Raise Rural Kids
As county fair season begins in Oklahoma, Red Dirt and Round Bales visits Craig County, where fair week is more than livestock shows, exhibits, food, and ribbons. This episode reflects on the work behind every animal, quilt, jar of jelly, garden basket, photograph, and baked good — and the families, volunteers, buyers, and young exhibitors who make county fairs a lasting part of rural life. Dave Deken takes listeners to Vinita, where the Craig County Fair opens Oklahoma’s fair season and reminds us why these events still matter. From early-morning calf rinsing to premium sale support, the episode celebrates the responsibility, pride, tradition, and community investment that show up every summer in fair barns across the state.
July 9, 2026
Oklahoma Skies Built Space Pioneers
Oklahoma has always had a way of making the sky feel close. In this episode of Red Dirt and Round Bales, Dave Deken looks at the Oklahomans whose small-town roots, military service, schooling, grit and curiosity carried them into America’s space story. From Gordon Cooper flying Faith 7 by hand, to Tom Stafford helping pave the way for Apollo 11, to Fred Haise’s fight for survival aboard Apollo 13, this episode connects Oklahoma places like Shawnee, Weatherford, Claremore, Enid, Okemah, Bethany, Wetumka and Norman to some of NASA’s most memorable missions. It is a story about astronauts, but also about open skies, rural ambition and the kind of upbringing that teaches people to cross distance instead of fear it.
July 3, 2026
The President Who Loved Oklahoma Early
This week on Red Dirt and Round Bales, Dave Deken takes listeners back to the years before Oklahoma statehood, when Theodore Roosevelt found something in the Twin Territories that felt like the living West. The episode follows Roosevelt’s Oklahoma ties through the Rough Riders, his 1905 train stops across Indian Territory, his famous visit to Frederick, and the wolf hunt with Jack “Catch-Em-Alive” Abernathy near Deep Red Creek. The story also connects Roosevelt’s love of rough country with one of Oklahoma’s lasting conservation landmarks: the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. From Quanah Parker and the Big Pasture to Roosevelt signing Oklahoma into statehood in 1907, this episode is a Fourth of July reflection on wild country, hard places, complicated history, and the promise Roosevelt saw in Oklahoma before it was fully a state.
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