- 230
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 58
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 209K
- YouTube views
About The Iowa Podcast
You probably heard about it from a friend getting your morning coffee at Brewhemia or Daisy Chain. Or perhaps you saw your favorite Iowan post about it? Maybe you searched the net for something that interested you. So, what is The Iowa Podcast? It's Real Iowans, talking about real events and stuff within the state worth paying attention to. It seems like even objective news today is pushing some kind of agenda. You won't find that garbage here! We certainly won't shy away from real issues, and we certainly won't stay away from difficult questions, but on The Iowa Podcast we will never take our guests out of context or edit their comments in any way (unless we both agree of course—sometimes people say dumb stuff or cough in the microphone!)
- Publisher
- The Iowa Podcast
- Category
- news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Sept 2022
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
33 of 230 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Iowa's first "no party" candidate, Dave Bushaw challenges party loyalists
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Nate Willems for Attorney General on pollution and wage theft
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Michael Bridgford, running for Congress or GOP & DEM Relationship Counselor?
Inside a recent episode
Iowa's first "no party" candidate, Dave Bushaw challenges party loyalists
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If you look at the Christchurch shooting over in New Zealand, one of the first ones, folks that don't play video games might not understand this, but that was from a first-person shooter perspective. It was mimicking how you would play in a video game. From this view, you see the gun, you see this and that. So I believe that if we want to... curb gun violence in this country. We can't be like the liberals and say, we're going to take your guns. And we can't be like the right and say individual responsibility because right in the middle, there's a lot of folks getting hurt. That's why I'm calling for the common denominator of universal firearm and hunter safety and all publicly funded schools, colleges, and universities. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on The Iowa Podcast
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Dave Bushaw
- Nate Willems
- Michael Bridgford
- Thomas Laehn
- Chris McGowan
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 209,372
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 37 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 21 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 82
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How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
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