Radio/Podcast Show Notes

Brian Gongol


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2003


Keywords not available September 21, 2003 (Ted Turner's worst nightmare)
Keywords not available September 28, 2003 (power outages and Iowa)
Keywords not available October 5, 2003 (the do-not-call registry)
Keywords not available October 12, 2003 (expanding casino gambling)
Keywords not available October 19, 2003 (what stinks about Iowa tax rates)
Keywords not available October 26, 2003 (Iowa Emergency Management Director)
Keywords not available November 2, 2003 (the drought)
Keywords not available November 9, 2003 (paying for the public employees' retirement program)
Keywords not available November 16, 2003 (importing drugs from Canada isn't necessarily a good idea)
Keywords not available November 23, 2003 (how to help our servicemembers overseas)
Keywords not available November 30, 2003 (free trade is really good for Iowa)
Keywords not available December 7, 2003 (lost those darned notes)
Keywords not available December 14, 2003 (Saddam found in a hole)
Keywords not available December 21, 2003 (the last potpourri show we'll ever do)
Keywords not available December 28, 2003 (Gephardt's laughable "international minimum wage")

2004


Keywords not available January 4, 2004 (ridiculous things said at the Democratic debate)
Keywords not available January 11, 2004 (lost those darned notes)
Keywords not available January 18, 2004 (Iowa Caucuses)
Keywords not available January 25, 2004 (Bill Gates says he'll eliminate spam forever)
Keywords not available February 1, 2004 (the worst email worm ever)
Keywords not available February 8, 2004 (Presidents don't create jobs)
Keywords not available February 15, 2004 (raise our speed limits)
Keywords not available February 22, 2004 (save time on your taxes)
Keywords not available February 29, 2004 (the lies behind Social Security)
Keywords not available March 7, 2004 (skyrocketing tuition at state universities)
Keywords not available March 14, 2004 (Spanish voters give in to terrorism)
Keywords not available March 21, 2004 (killer health care costs)
Keywords not available March 28, 2004 (April Fool's Special: comic strips)
Keywords not available April 4, 2004 (find out who's behind high gas prices)
Keywords not available April 11, 2004 (Iowans: You owe $1.4 billion, and fighting graffiti)
Keywords not available April 18, 2004 (Iowa communities could live or die on Internet access)
Keywords not available April 25, 2004 (the English language's Enemies List)
Keywords not available May 2, 2004 (Is a bigger Iowa a better Iowa?)
Keywords not available May 9, 2004 (how to make sure your kids get good jobs)
Keywords not available May 16, 2004 (airfares in Des Moines)
Keywords not available May 23, 2004 (ten things that are going well today - part 1)
Keywords not available May 30, 2004 (ten things that are going well today - part 2)
Keywords not available June 6, 2004 (remembering Ronald Reagan)
Keywords not available June 13, 2004 (ten things to learn from Ronald Reagan)
Keywords not available June 20, 2004 (why the Des Moines/Polk County merger should flop)
Keywords not available June 27, 2004 (stop the "secret Bush draft plans" nonsense)
Keywords not available July 4, 2004 (ammunition for your next argument with a whiner)
Keywords not available July 11, 2004 (how universal health care won't solve our real problems)
Keywords not available July 18, 2004 (the good side of police discretion)
Keywords not available July 25, 2004 (what's making Iowa's small businesses go bankrupt)
Keywords not available August 1, 2004 (what's coming in 25 years)
Keywords not available August 8, 2004 (why you aren't shopping at Montgomery Ward's anymore)
Keywords not available August 15, 2004 (toll roads are great)
Keywords not available August 22, 2004 (where Rock the Vote can go)
Keywords not available August 29, 2004 (how either political party could win my vote)
Keywords not available September 5, 2004 (storm coverage)
Keywords not available September 12, 2004 (federal disaster aid)
Keywords not available September 19, 2004 (how the market solved the CBS/fake documents mystery)
Keywords not available September 26, 2004 (Mao rolls over in his grave...and we solve the battle of the sexes)
Keywords not available October 3, 2004 (buy your ticket to the moon...and why we don't get it about gambling)
Keywords not available October 10, 2004 (the report from New Orleans...and why we should take lessons from The Apprentice and use them to fight terrorism)
Keywords not available October 17, 2004 (we can't solve the Social Security problem by ignoring it)
Keywords not available October 24, 2004 (the hidden costs of a city-county merger)
Keywords not available October 31, 2004 (don't take away the Electoral College)
Keywords not available November 7, 2004 (the election's over, and now the world complains)
Keywords not available November 14, 2004 (jaywalking, fatty foods, and other things government should butt out of)
Keywords not available November 21, 2004 (NBA fighting and smoking bans)
Keywords not available November 28, 2004 (an alternative to the gas tax)
Keywords not available December 5, 2004 (Oliver Stone and his love note to Castro)
Keywords not available December 11, 2004 (Christmas wish lists)
Keywords not available December 12, 2004 (if markets are OK for "Apprentice" betting, why not for preventing terrorism?)
Keywords not available December 18, 2004 (switching to Firefox)
Keywords not available December 19, 2004 (China head-butts us with spam)
Keywords not available December 26, 2004

2005


Keywords not available January 2, 2005 (making 2005 a better year)
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Keywords not available January 29, 2005 (traffic cameras)
Keywords not available January 30, 2005
Keywords not available February 6, 2005
Keywords not available February 13, 2005 (Small Business Development Centers)
Keywords not available February 19, 2005 (computer safety)
Keywords not available February 20, 2005 (Iowa's community colleges a better investment than Vision Iowa)
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Keywords not available March 6, 2005
Keywords not available March 12, 2005 (weblogs)
Keywords not available March 13, 2005
Keywords not available March 19, 2005 (spyware...fat in French fries)
Keywords not available March 20, 2005
Keywords not available March 24, 2005 (cruise ships as retirement homes...the Flat Earth Society)
Keywords not available March 27, 2005
Keywords not available April 3, 2005
Keywords not available April 10, 2005 (Arizona border militias)
Keywords not available April 17, 2005
Keywords not available April 24, 2005
Keywords not available May 1, 2005
Keywords not available May 8, 2005 (government waste and wasting the government's time)
Keywords not available May 15, 2005 (time stuck in traffic, and why we say "clean as a whistle")
Keywords not available May 22, 2005
Keywords not available May 29, 2005 (what to do about the West Des Moines Wal-Mart controversy)
Keywords not available June 5, 2005 (computer fraud, roundabouts, and care packages for troops)
Keywords not available June 12, 2005
Keywords not available June 19, 2005 (why more regulations won't necessarily help solve credit card fraud)
Keywords not available June 26, 2005 (the Supreme Court has a plate of stupid for breakfast)
Keywords not available July 3, 2005 (Minnesota shuts down)
Keywords not available July 10, 2005
Keywords not available July 12, 2005 (filling in for Jan Mickelson)
Keywords not available July 17, 2005 (environmentalists and irrational politicians)
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Keywords not available July 24, 2005 (dry weather and recycled water)
Keywords not available July 31, 2005 (passenger planes that refuel in mid-flight)
Keywords not available August 7, 2005
Keywords not available August 14, 2005 (joking about the "freshman 15" can mean expulsion)
Keywords not available August 21, 2005 (destructive movements rarely last)
Keywords not available August 28, 2005 (Hurricane Katrina on the way)
Keywords not available September 4, 2005 (assessing the Katrina disaster)
Keywords not available September 11, 2005 (the mass migration of Katrina evacuees)
Keywords not available September 18, 2005 (really big businesses often end up failing)
Keywords not available September 25, 2005 (how to evacuate a major city)
Keywords not available October 2, 2005 (broadband Internet everywhere)
Keywords not available October 9, 2005 (how much to spend housing evacuees)
Keywords not available October 16, 2005 (saving lives with the World Food Prize)
Keywords not available October 23, 2005 (drugmakers and their patents)
Keywords not available October 30, 2005
Keywords not available November 6, 2005 (natural disasters don't kill -- poverty does)
Keywords not available November 13, 2005
Keywords not available November 20, 2005 (rehabilitation and punishment)
Keywords not available November 27, 2005 (what our political priorities really should be)
Keywords not available December 4, 2005 (bailing out the big automakers)
Keywords not available December 10, 2005 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available December 11, 2005 (ending the nanny state, from beer kegs to nutrition labels)
Keywords not available December 17, 2005 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available December 18, 2005 (renewing the USA Patriot Act)
Keywords not available December 24, 2005 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available December 25, 2005 (navigating charity)

2006


Keywords No podcast available January 1, 2006 (parents need to just say "no")
Keywords No podcast available January 8, 2006 (on not relying on the Federal government)
Keywords No podcast available January 15, 2006 (socialism moves in down South)
Keywords not available No podcast available January 22, 2006 (government should stop overreaching)
Keywords not available No podcast available January 28, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available January 29, 2006 (Congress wastes time on indecency)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 5, 2006 (what Ben Franklin would think of us)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 12, 2006 (eminent domain and e-mail spam)
Keywords not available Podcast February 18, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 19, 2006 (paying university presidents)
Keywords not available Podcast February 25, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 26, 2006 (Des Moines' thriftlessness)
Keywords not available Podcast March 4, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 5, 2006 (how PowerPoint and bad writing can kill)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 12, 2006 (severe weather)
Keywords not available Podcast March 18, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 19, 2006 (banning junk food in schools)
Keywords not available Podcast March 25, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 26, 2006 (getting real about immigration)
Keywords not available Podcast April 1, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 2, 2006 (we're raiding the emergency fund)
Keywords not available Podcast April 8, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 9, 2006 (Massachusetts's plan for mandatory health insurance)
Keywords not available Podcast April 15, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 16, 2006 (tax day and dependency)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 22, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 23, 2006 (who spies on Internet users)
Keywords not available Podcast April 29, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 30, 2006 (the $100 gas rebate and why it won't work)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 7, 2006 (who gets what deals to stay in Iowa)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 13, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 14, 2006 (offering state-funded incentives leaves us exposed to extortion)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 20, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 21, 2006 (student loans and economic growth)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 23, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 27, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 28, 2006 (preventing identity fraud through smaller government)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 3, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 4, 2006 (only a cruel world cares more about Britney than Borlaug)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 11, 2006 (ratings for doctors)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 17, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 18, 2006 (getting teachers from overseas)
Keywords not available Podcast June 24, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 25, 2006 (technology and freedom)
Keywords not available Podcast July 1, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 2, 2006 (the value of spreading American ideals)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 8, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 9, 2006 (energy savings and air conditioning)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 10, 2006 (Project Destiny)
Keywords not available Podcast July 15, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 16, 2006 (what kind of security a CEO gets)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 23, 2006 (creepy advertising and cash for finding security flaws)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 29, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 30, 2006 (if home prices stay flat, will Americans keep buying stuff?)
Keywords not available No podcast available August 5, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available August 6, 2006 (what FEMA should be buying instead of trailer homes)
Keywords not available No podcast available August 13, 2006 (getting a grip on what really threatens us)
Keywords not available No podcast available August 20, 2006 (how dumb it is to obsess about killers)
Keywords not available No podcast available August 23, 2006 (bad music videos thanks to YouTube)
Keywords not available No podcast available August 27, 2006 (one year after Katrina)
Keywords not available No podcast available August 31, 2006 (dancing on treadmills and other nonsense)
Keywords not available No podcast available September 3, 2006 (real sunlight at your desk)
Keywords not available No podcast available September 9, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available September 12, 2006 (snooty party invitations)
Keywords not available No podcast available September 17, 2006 (no state money for startups, please)
Keywords not available No podcast available September 24, 2006 (fish oil for kids)
Keywords not available No podcast available October 1, 2006 (no progress in a thousand years for some)
Keywords not available No podcast available October 6, 2006 (make Congress bigger)
Keywords not available No podcast available October 8, 2006 (North Korea's nuclear test)
Keywords not available No podcast available October 15, 2006 (why no massive casualties in the Hawaii earthquake)
Keywords not available No podcast available October 29, 2006 (knowing when to shut up)
Keywords not available No podcast available November 5, 2006 (if it has to be mandatory, it probably doesn't save money)
Keywords not available No podcast available November 12, 2006 (who's running for President in 2006)
Keywords not available No podcast available November 19, 2006 (the passing of Milton Friedman)
Keywords not available No podcast available November 23, 2006 (turkey fryers)
Keywords not available No podcast available November 24, 2006 (economics weblogs)
Keywords not available No podcast available November 25, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available November 26, 2006 (the connection between stock-market spam and terrorism)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 9, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 10, 2006 (trans-fat bans and other bad ideas)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 16, 2006 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 21, 2006 (no hugging at school)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 22, 2006 (tips on avoiding identity theft)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 25, 2006 (long live James Brown)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 26, 2006 (what people are doing the day after Christmas)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 27, 2006 (no one uses the old names anymore)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 28, 2006 (best movies and worst role models)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 29, 2006 (year-end planning and celebrity rivalries)

2007


Keywords No podcast available January 1, 2007 (flying saucers at O'Hare)
Keywords not available No podcast available January 6, 2007 (image spam...Windows Vista previews...Google Earth for emergencies)
Keywords No podcast available January 7, 2007 (coaches' salaries aren't formed in a vacuum)
Keywords not available No podcast available January 13, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords No podcast available January 14, 2007 (the Culver inaugural address)
Keywords No podcast available January 20, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords No podcast available January 21, 2007 (why the Presidential race is already on)
Keywords No podcast available January 27, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords No podcast available January 28, 2007 (saying one thing and believing another)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 3, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords No podcast available February 4, 2007 (magazine fun)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 10, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 11, 2007 (notes missing)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 12, 2007 (notes missing)
Keywords No podcast available February 13, 2007 (the day after the snow)
Keywords No podcast available February 14, 2007 (alternative approaches to Valentine's Day)
Keywords No podcast available February 16, 2007 (bad planning through PowerPoint)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 17, 2007 (Security Update)
Keywords No podcast available February 18, 2007 (lower pay could mean more corruption)
Keywords No podcast available February 24, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords No podcast available February 25, 2007 (stupid tax breaks)
Keywords No podcast available March 4, 2007 (a ban on McDonald's?)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 10, 2007 (renewable energy...taxing cable TV...Daylight Saving Time)
Keywords No podcast available March 11, 2007 (carbon neutrality hurts)
Keywords No podcast available March 17, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 18, 2007 (personal debt, calling cards)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 24, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 25, 2007 (advice to a 22-year-old)
Keywords not available No podcast available March 31, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 1, 2007 (special two-hour show)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 7, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 8, 2007 (how much a car company is really worth)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 15, 2007 (notes missing)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 22, 2007 (notes missing)
Keywords not available No podcast available April 29, 2007 (Bill Cosby: our ambassador to space)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 6, 2007 (elections just last too long)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 12, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 13, 2007 (please, no miniature cars)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 19, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 20, 2007 (why we can't wait any longer to fix money problems)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 26, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available May 27, 2007 (Caribbean casino gambling and pirated software)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 2, 2007 (Wise Guys)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 3, 2007 (Democratic candidates' debate...DVD diplomacy...discount wedding gowns)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 8, 2007 (explosives as a bad hobby...protecting kids from abduction...aid to Africa)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 10, 2007 (Republican candidates' debate...Project Destiny...the London Olympics logo)
Keywords No podcast available June 11, 2007 (two sets of simultaneous sextuplets...the Auditor of State tells how bad it is...Google meets the Big Ten)
Keywords No podcast available June 13, 2007 (credit out of control..."Ocean's 13"..."Freedomnomics")
Keywords No podcast available June 16, 2007 (Wise Guys: MST3K, Patch Tuesday, and the new Safari browser for Windows)
Keywords No podcast available June 17, 2007 (the sword and the book...stupid keg laws...94,000 families homeless)
Keywords No podcast available June 23, 2007 (Wise Guys: Google's new data center...MovieMaker...the iPhone cometh)
Keywords No podcast available June 24, 2007 (hurricane predictions gone bad...Google's new data center in Council Bluffs...free speech)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 30, 2007 (notes missing)
Keywords No podcast available July 1, 2007 (the paleo-future...lunch with Warren...Ben Stein's mortgage advice)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 7, 2007 (cracking the iPhone...dragon stupidity...the Wii Exercise Plan)
Keywords No podcast available July 8, 2007 (Project Destiny...Mark Cuban's billions...red-light cameras cause more accidents)
Keywords No podcast available July 14, 2007 (Wise Guys: Internet fraud...the Wii "shortage"...solar cells)
Keywords No podcast available July 15, 2007 (why people leave Iowa...the Presidential field shrinks...the future of energy)
Keywords No podcast available July 22, 2007 (satellite TV and dictators...presumed consent for organ donations...feeding the pig)
Keywords Podcast July 28, 2007 (Wise Guys: space travelling drunk...iPhone sales...the Burj Dubai)
Keywords No podcast available July 29, 2007 (letter to Mark Cuban...less security through more security...talking with one's hands)
Keywords No podcast available August 5, 2007 (no policy without a catastrophe...infinite life expectancy...where the oil is)
Keywords No podcast available August 11, 2007 (space hotels...a replacement internet...free WiFi everywhere - or not)
Keywords No podcast available August 12, 2007 (pre-school for some, not all...the mortgage bump...what kids know about economics)
Keywords not available Podcast August 18, 2007 (notes missing)
Keywords No podcast available August 19, 2007 (preventative health care...sky-high P/E ratios...consumers running out of money)
Keywords No podcast available August 20, 2007 (fishing for pirhanas...voting on the new ISU uniforms...advice for college freshmen)
Keywords No podcast available August 25, 2007 (Wise Guys: efficient cars...the iPhone as IE4...debates on YouTube)
Keywords No podcast available August 26, 2007 (seeing the future...how anti-terror surveillance could make terrorism easier...inflation taxes)
Keywords No podcast available August 30, 2007 (campus safety...Big Brother warning alarms...honkless in Seattle)
Keywords No podcast available September 1, 2007 (Wise Guys: bionic athletes...road traffic...social-networking trolls)
Keywords No podcast available September 2, 2007 (the best place for a job...GM's hybrid SUV...fines for hugging)
Keywords No podcast available September 3, 2007 (Generation Iowa)
Keywords No podcast available September 8, 2007 (Wise Guys: bee death...dancing on the ceiling...a new technique for CPR)
Keywords No podcast available September 9, 2007 (the world labor milestone...carrying cash...why economics really matters)
Keywords Podcast September 16, 2007 (unmanned machines of war...the 13,000-foot building...jaywalking tickets)
Keywords No podcast available September 18, 2007 (the oldest man in the world...China's massive evacuation...headlights with wipers)
Keywords Podcast September 22, 2007 (asteroid defenses...a history of Yahoo and Google...smoke modeling)
Keywords Podcast September 23, 2007 (Obama's tax plan...gas prices of the future...nanotechnology)
Keywords Podcast September 30, 2007 (economic growth...printed organs...stopping nonsense in its tracks)
Keywords Podcast October 6, 2007 (15 minutes of Wise Guys)
Keywords Podcast October 7, 2007 (caucuses and the big states...garbage competition...border fences)
Keywords not available No podcast available October 14, 2007 (notes missing)
Keywords No podcast available October 21, 2007 (Russia's subsidized skyscraper...Coke in China...security screener success rates)
Keywords Podcast October 28, 2007 (falling house prices...the Medicare crisis...the value of a cancer vaccine)
Keywords No podcast available November 2, 2007 (Des Moines community websites...scriptwriters on strike...evacuation plans for Polk County)
Keywords Podcast November 4, 2007 (still no talk of Medicare reform...Federal spending...Citigroup CEO quits)
Keywords No podcast available November 5, 2007 (flooding in Mexico...dancing at work...coup d'etat in Pakistan)
Keywords No podcast available November 11, 2007 (gas prices and passenger rail...wind power at home...popularizing science)
Keywords No podcast available November 17, 2007 (Wise Guys: computers winning Nobel Prizes...trick search links...Patch Tuesday)
Keywords Podcast November 18, 2007 (monkeys like a square deal...restaurant density in Des Moines...censored cartoonists)
Keywords No podcast available November 24, 2007 (bigger airplanes and bigger airports...Internet access for everyone...spam wins the e-mail war)
Keywords No podcast available November 25, 2007 (Chinese espionage...developing Jamiaca...Middle East peace through jobs)
Keywords Podcast December 1, 2007 (genuine software...free presentation programs...heat in a power outage)
Keywords Podcast December 2, 2007 (China spends a fortune on airplanes...Chavez tries for a dictatorship...Google changes gears)
Keywords Podcast December 9, 2007 (stopping war with Iran...using currency to wage war...ice storms)
Keywords No podcast available December 15, 2007 (getting better customer service...drug companies losing money...why websites are hard to read)
Keywords No podcast available December 16, 2007 (peak oil...rising gas prices...incentive prizes)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 22, 2007 (digital television...text-to-speech conversion...free antivirus)
Keywords No podcast available December 23, 2007 (Earthpark misses Federal funding deadline...free programs for new computers...corruption in China)
Keywords No podcast available December 29, 2007 (history of biological weapons...new technology meets old...the new energy bill)
Keywords No podcast available December 30, 2007 (confiscation in Russia...the future for the next President...checking e-mail on vacation)
Keywords No podcast available December 31, 2007 (John McCain...Medicare...New Year's traditions)

2008


Keywords No podcast available January 1, 2008 (Chris Dodd...Duncan Hunter...manufacturing in America)
Keywords No podcast available January 5, 2008 (Facebook privacy...unwitting downloads...data-collection rules)
Keywords No podcast available January 6, 2008 (long-term health savings...Google knowledge...One Laptop Per Child)
Keywords No podcast available January 12, 2008 (Chinese handheld computers...high-definition DVD types...flex-fuel cars)
Keywords No podcast available January 13, 2008 (living standards...twins separated at birth...Moody's warns us about Federal debt)
Keywords Podcast January 19, 2008 (air-powered cars...rogue nuclear scientists...remote video surveillance)
Keywords No podcast available January 20, 2008 (the economic-stimulus package we can't really afford)
Keywords No podcast available January 26, 2008 (fire in Las Vegas...micro-laptops of the near future...super contact lenses)
Keywords No podcast available January 27, 2008 (losing billions...return of Keynesian economics...durable investments)
Keywords No podcast available February 2, 2008 (bacon salt...missing iPhones...Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo)
Keywords No podcast available February 3, 2008 (Volcker endorses Obama...perpetual campaign season...making money on the Internet, for real)
Keywords No podcast available February 10, 2008 (President Bush goes "Brewster's Millions"...too much state spending...the end of Netscape Navigator)
Keywords No podcast available February 17, 2008 (Bloomberg dislikes the economic stimulus...knee-brace electricity...Ted Turner's buffalo)
Keywords Podcast February 24, 2008 (Fidel finally goes...bicycling...traffic cameras)
Keywords No podcast available March 1, 2008 (laptops for college students...recovering lost e-mail...recording streaming audio)
Keywords No podcast available March 2, 2008 (advertising for the future...what you need to know about Putin...the value of NAFTA)
Keywords No podcast available March 8, 2008 (social networking on the job...invisible circuits...the Netflix Prize)
Keywords Podcast March 9, 2008 (what survived funnel week...Daylight Saving Time...spontaneous traffic jams)
Keywords Podcast March 15, 2008 (Google vs. the old gray lady...portal mergers...newspaper bloggers)
Keywords No podcast available March 16, 2008 (text messages and threats...Chinese cyberterrorism...electrical grid reliability)
Keywords No podcast available March 17, 2008 (divorcing Paul McCartney...protecting your computer for free...fly me to the Moon)
Keywords Podcast March 22, 2008 (Intel's cheap laptop...Safari for Windows...Guerrilla Mail)
Keywords Podcast March 23, 2008 (Bear Stearns bailout...pack mules of the future...viral videos)
Keywords Podcast March 29, 2008 (China's airport boom...curing blindness...antivirus software that won't work)
Keywords Podcast March 30, 2008 (entitlement spending still looms large...bans on junk food...free markets work)
Keywords Podcast April 5, 2008 (X-Prize for Genomics...computer chips with lasers...sunspots and climate change)
Keywords No podcast available April 6, 2008 (consequences of knowing your genes...living much longer...buying microwaves in Cuba)
Keywords Podcast April 12, 2008 (I-235 speeds...file backups...food riots)
Keywords Podcast April 13, 2008 (income taxes...rising food prices...China and Tibet)
Keywords No podcast available April 20, 2008 (more earthquakes will come...storing food...ten things to do in Des Moines)
Keywords No podcast available April 26, 2008 (Mechanical Turk...laws of robotics...Cubs fans aren't crazy)
Keywords Podcast April 27, 2008 (climate change vs. national security...CNN t-shirts...the right communications tool for the right job)
Keywords No podcast available May 3, 2008 (OEM software)
Keywords Podcast May 4, 2008 (new oil refineries...Russia and the natural-gas market...tax competition)
Keywords Podcast May 10, 2008 (PDF files...Microsoft gives up on Yahoo...video on cell phones)
Keywords No podcast available May 11, 2008 (Microsoft needs to stop chasing Google...oil booms run out...the susceptibility of I-80)
Keywords No podcast available May 17, 2008 (not your grandfather's privacy anymore...jet packs and lasers...designing your own websites)
Keywords Podcast May 18, 2008 (unemployment now lower than ever...recovering from a disasater...creative stop signs)
Keywords No podcast available May 24, 2008 (the Gorillaz...Google's energy investments...putting economic-stimulus checks to work to save energy)
Keywords No podcast available May 25, 2008 (show preempted by severe weather)
Keywords Podcast June 1, 2008 (the importance of voting in a primary...running out of Internet addresses...custom copies of the NY Times)
Keywords Podcast June 7, 2008 (motorcycles and efficiency...Automotive X-Prize...the time to switch to Vista)
Keywords Podcast June 8, 2008 (flooding across Iowa...robotic pets for the elderly...Tiananmen Square)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 15, 2008
Keywords Podcast June 22, 2008 (stolen kitchen grease...landfills as banks...time to save)
Keywords not available No podcast available June 28, 2008 (iPhone turns one...alternatives to Microsoft Excel...burning home videos to DVD)
Keywords not available Podcast June 29, 2008 (China has more cell-phone users than we have people...Bill Gates retires...what makes things funny)
Keywords not available Podcast July 5, 2008 (the end of Windows XP...getting Linux...who knows your YouTube viewing habits)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 6, 2008 (fiscal independence for America...education in the future...Chinese troops on Segways)
Keywords not available Podcast July 12, 2008 (no bowling at the Olympics...the next-generation iPhone...Fake Steve Jobs retires)
Keywords not available Podcast July 13, 2008 (big trouble at the mortgage lenders...breakaway movements in China...working for a million dollars a year)
Keywords not available Podcast July 19, 2008 (golden tickets to space...high gas prices change the auto industry...cell phones become CCTV cameras)
Keywords not available Podcast July 20, 2008 (Ireland dumps the EU constitution...Katrina Cottages for Cedar Rapids...new prizes for energy innovations)
Keywords not available Podcast July 26, 2008 (bringing back the Streamline Era...Cuban microwave ovens...the problem with meta tags)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 27, 2008 (bad predictions on gas prices...fixing enery problems...sounding like you look)
Keywords not available No podcast available July 28, 2008 (flood recovery...Cedar Rapids pulls itself up by the bootstraps...free printable tools)
Keywords not available Podcast August 2, 2008 (roller-coaster absurdity...DVD rentals...the Apple Newton rises from the dead)
Keywords not available Podcast August 3, 2008 (China breaches the Great Firewall...free-trade talks fall apart...Bill Gates protects your bread)
Keywords not available Podcast August 10, 2008 (Bush meets Mao...no policy without a crisis...saving the humble penny)
Keywords not available Podcast August 16, 2008 (homemade telegraphy...mold kills family movies...Apple has a security problem)
Keywords not available Podcast August 17, 2008 (Russia's crony capitalism with weapons...incentives for school performance...nearly-universal broadband access)
Keywords not available Podcast August 23, 2008 (iTunes threatens Communism...Seinfeld shills for Microsoft...the electronic bomb)
Keywords not available Podcast August 24, 2008 (the shrinking Register...sunk costs...Obama's text-message stunt)
Keywords not available Podcast August 30, 2008 (stem cells from wisdom teeth...air-traffic control...iPhone pictures from the factory)
Keywords not available No podcast available August 31, 2008 (windmills all over Adair County...electric cars...Hurricane Gustav approaches)
Keywords not available Podcast September 6, 2008 (Google Sites...Microsoft Update...Google Chrome)
Keywords not available Podcast September 7, 2008 (early warning for an aging population...nationalizing the mortgage companies...disaster costs get bigger)
Keywords not available Podcast September 13, 2008 (sidejacking...65-mpg cars...technology and employment)
Keywords not available Podcast September 14, 2008 (reporting from a hurricane...running out of fuel...today's homes on tomorrow's historic home tours)
Keywords not available Podcast September 21, 2008 (getting even with bad management...the $700 billion bailout...getting control of our debt)
Keywords not available Podcast September 28, 2008 (the bailout proposal reaches a vote...feeding astronauts and poor people...Chrysler's electric car)
Keywords not available Podcast October 5, 2008 (higher interest rates coming...paying attention to our southern friends...revisiting "no policy without a crisis")
Keywords not available Podcast October 11, 2008 (Gmail Goggles...backing up your data...technology hits the AP hard)
Keywords not available Podcast October 12, 2008 (financial meltdown meets a time of patience)
Keywords not available Podcast October 25, 2008 (Google's smartphone...Lamborghini police cars...fat cells becoming heart cells)
Keywords not available Podcast October 26, 2008 (the stock market is not the economy...saving General Motors...less independence for the Federal Reserve)
Keywords not available Podcast November 1, 2008 (getting spied on by your own webcam...Google wins a Book Search dispute...CNN's election holograms)
Keywords not available Podcast November 2, 2008 (watching "IOUSA"...a GM/Chrysler merger is considered...India goes to the Moon)
Keywords not available Podcast November 8, 2008 (ants in traffic jams...virus forwards...browsing the Internet safely)
Keywords not available Podcast November 9, 2008 (scoping a GM bailout...borrowing from a drug dealer...saving for a cold day)
Keywords not available Podcast November 16, 2008 (Obama, the brand...recession versus depression...more steps towards the surveillance society)
Keywords not available Podcast November 22, 2008 (bionic limbs...Buckminster Fuller...Gmail's new look)
Keywords not available Podcast November 23, 2008 (the stock market isn't the economy...worrying about Russia and Iran as oil prices fall...the best use of $25 billion)
Keywords not available Podcast November 29, 2008 (lasers in pilots' eyes...technology in the Obama White House...safer online shopping)
Keywords not available Podcast November 30, 2008 (why health care costs so much...how government should use technology...200,000 residential windmills)
Keywords not available Podcast December 7, 2008 (end of the Register's editorial cartoon...putting unemployment in perspective...saving the difference on gas prices)
Keywords not available Podcast December 13, 2008 (Google and the New York Times...unpatched programs...fake vintage advertising)
Keywords not available Podcast December 14, 2008 (a deep freeze...ambulances for Mumbai...the incomprehensibility of our national debt)
Keywords not available Podcast December 20, 2008 (no more Apple at MacWorld...getting updated on time...a little privacy for you)
Keywords not available Podcast December 21, 2008 (China needs more fun...money from the sky...saving lives via text message)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 25, 2008 (charitable giving for the holidays)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 28, 2008 (thoughts from a road trip...China butters up to Latin America...using technology to get out of trouble)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 29, 2008 (payroll taxes or carbon taxes...local income taxes...fixing the levees before the next floods)
Keywords not available Podcast December 30, 2008 (how Iowa could export wind power...Stalin is one of Russia's most-admired...no breakup of the USA)
Keywords not available No podcast available December 31, 2008 (banished words...identity cards become reality...China and greenhouse gases)

2009


Keywords not available Podcast January 3, 2009 (top technology breakthroughs in 2008...saving old family movies to DVD...MP3s and podcasts)
Keywords not available Podcast January 4, 2009 (incentive deals and your bottom line...long-term planning...problems we should get to fixing)
Keywords not available Podcast January 10, 2009 (no big news from MacWorld...Windows 7 on the way...radio on your iPhone)
Keywords not available Podcast January 11, 2009 (incremental steps towards better living...quarter-millennium businesses...the price of a kidney)
Keywords not available Podcast January 17, 2009 (Obama's Twitter page...Windows 7...a ban on plasma televisions)
Keywords not available Podcast January 18, 2009 (getting a lid on spending...sending more Iowans to school...what the NYC plane crash says about progress)
Keywords not available Podcast January 24, 2009 (the coming of 3D-TV...the President keeps his BlackBerry...the Vatican appears on YouTube)
Keywords not available Podcast January 25, 2009 (why Chicago should try not to get the Olympics...the flying car may soon be real...making real investments for the future)
Keywords not available Podcast January 31, 2009 (knowing which language you're using...more online education is needed...how to use antivirus software)
Keywords not available Podcast February 1, 2009 (Keynes vs. the free market...turning down a dictatorship deal...the Cedar Rapids Gazette boldly goes somewhere)
Keywords not available Podcast February 8, 2009 (vertical farms...Internet access around the world...Texas at 50 [million])
Keywords not available Podcast February 15, 2009 (records on X-ray films...size of the stimulus...the "somebody do something" fallacy)
Keywords not available Podcast February 21, 2009 (universal cell-phone charger...Iowa's almost-record-height towers...the space elevator)
February 22, 2009 (notes missing)
March 1, 2009 (notes missing)
March 8, 2009
Keywords not available Podcast March 14, 2009 (regulating flash mobs...Wozniak dances with the stars...choosing the right baby name)
Keywords not available Podcast March 15, 2009 (development and preservation of institutions...the national credit limit...trade wars)
Keywords not available Podcast March 21, 2009 (closed captioning in theaters...speeding up your computer...bacteria in space)
Keywords not available Podcast March 22, 2009 (podcasts only - show pre-empted by basketball)
Keywords not available Podcast March 28, 2009 (Internet Explorer 8 and standards compliance...thermal imaging of your home...universal broadband by mobile phone)
Keywords not available Podcast March 29, 2009 (the three-legged stool of American debt...breaking monopolies...the President fires the president of GM)
Keywords not available Podcast April 5, 2009 (taxes on top of taxes...how Communism might make Google better...teaching about technology in the classroom)
April 12, 2009
April 19, 2009
April 26, 2009
May 3, 2009
May 10, 2009
May 17, 2009
May 24, 2009
Keywords not available Podcast May 31, 2009 (the judgment economy)
Keywords not available Podcast June 6, 2009 (security in the air at the cost of privacy...saving digital and non-digital photos...innovation without domination)
Keywords not available Podcast June 7, 2009 (the government takeover of GM...eroding trust in the economy...debts we can't pay down)
June 14, 2009 (notes missing)
June 21, 2009
Keywords not available Podcast June 26, 2009 (cap and trade...innovation prizes...too much celebrity worship)
Keywords not available Podcast June 27, 2009 (opinion exhaustion...upgrading Windows...Steve Jobs and his liver transplant)
Keywords not available Podcast June 28, 2009 (brand loyalty over the long term...institutional memory and baseball...China's Great Firewall)
Keywords not available Podcast July 5, 2009 (adding new states to the USA...paying for our entitlement programs...how a two-party system always works)
Keywords not available Podcast July 11, 2009 (the Air France black box...cloud computing...the Google operating system)
Keywords not available Podcast July 12, 2009 (eating well at the State Fair...reforming health care...health care investment trusts)
Keywords not available Podcast July 18, 2009 ("One Week in June"...tethering cell phones...the future of skyscrapers)
Keywords not available Podcast July 19, 2009 (reforming health care)
Keywords not available Podcast July 25, 2009 (Redbox for road trips...Google Voice...going back to the Moon)
Keywords not available Podcast July 26, 2009 (reforming health care - part 2)
Keywords not available Podcast August 1, 2009 (fixing India's problems with technology...General Fusion...imperfect searches)
Keywords not available Podcast August 2, 2009 (cash for clunkers...debt...iPhones versus refrigerators)
August 9, 2009 (notes missing)
August 16, 2009 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast August 23, 2009 (great oratory comes from distilling great ideas down to simple messages, not starting from the distillation)
Keywords not available Podcast August 29, 2009 (netbook hacking meets social engineering...copying the crooks to stay safe...the Zune player gets help)
Keywords not available Podcast August 30, 2009 (why Japan's election matters to us...fraudulent conveyance...stock-charting hocus-pocus returns)
Keywords not available Podcast September 6, 2009 (neuroscience and music...online identity...downloading the brain)
Keywords not available Podcast September 13, 2009 (archiving Congressional websites...saving institutional memory...fixing airport security)
Keywords not available Podcast September 20, 2009 (three cheers for the red marks on school papers...put more effort into investing than into buying a TV)
Keywords not available Podcast September 27, 2009 (it's better to know a reporter's bias than to keep it buried)
October 4, 2009 (notes missing)
October 11, 2009 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast October 18, 2009 (it's not hard to make things work better, so we should try harder...a hot-air balloon stunt rewards the wrong people...fix copyright)
Keywords not available Podcast October 25, 2009 (across-the-board spending cuts aren't very efficient...spending "multipliers" are faulty)
Keywords not available Podcast November 1, 2009 (the Cubs are out to win a World Series...the White House didn't "save" a lot of jobs...take H1N1 seriously)
Keywords not available Podcast November 8, 2009 (public options for insurance may crowd out private options...that which cannot go on forever must stop)
Keywords not available Podcast November 14, 2009 (Google Alerts can help watch your reputation)
Keywords not available Podcast November 15, 2009 (don't trust the government to "create jobs"...regulating alcoholic beverages with caffeine)
Keywords not available Podcast November 22, 2009 (velvet suits and Velvet Revolutions..."recovery" spending isn't transparent...too much debt)
Keywords not available Podcast November 29, 2009 (falling computer prices...tax breaks that don't work...iPhones in an emergency)
Keywords not available Podcast December 6, 2009 (halfway between 1990 and 2030...Google officially gets into the energy business...General Motors boots its CEO)
December 13, 2009 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast December 20, 2009 (honesty shouldn't be a news event...how much we owe...replacing the Metrodome)
Keywords not available Podcast December 27, 2009 (Future Scale update...really bad advice from the financial news media...risk-free investing)

2010


Keywords not available Podcast January 2, 2010 (Nexus One..."psychics" should be shouted down)
Keywords not available Podcast January 3, 2010 (high-speed rail for the Midwest...a genome break for cancer...the rise of the text message)
Keywords not available Podcast January 9, 2010 (Google releases the Nexus One...the Burj Dubai is finished...NASA finds the 422nd planet)
Keywords not available Podcast January 10, 2010 (the "somebody do something" fallacy...privacy as a "social norm")
Keywords not available Podcast January 17, 2010 (Haiti's earthquake made worse by poverty...Pat Robertson is irresponsible...lifesaving properties of economic growth) (partial transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast January 23, 2010 (donating to Haiti...custom manufacturing...free antivirus programs) (partial transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast January 24, 2010 (why McGwire should apologize...making Congress much larger...when government has too much power) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast January 30, 2010 (Apple's iPad...surfing the Internet in your sleep...making the bionic leap) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast January 31, 2010 (Google's plans for the long term...mobile Internet goes mainstream...gasoline and SUVs) (partial transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast February 6, 2010 (Intel vs. AMD...captions at movie theaters)
Keywords not available Podcast February 7, 2010 (Congress damages human rights by racking up debt)
Keywords not available Podcast February 13, 2010 (Winter Olympics...killing mosquitoes)
Keywords not available Podcast February 14, 2010 (lasting success is a matter of getting the little things right with mind-numbing consistency)
Keywords not available Podcast February 20, 2010 (school laptops going home with kids)
Keywords not available Podcast February 21, 2010 (our debt handcuffs are a tight fit)
Keywords not available Podcast February 28, 2010 (save your treasured memories to a digital backup somewhere safe before tornado season)
Keywords not available Podcast March 6, 2010 (how to prep a new computer...reacting to a hacked Facebook account)
Keywords not available Podcast March 7, 2010 (don't ban the specific distraction, ban driving while distracted)
Keywords not available Podcast March 13, 2010 (airships as cruise liners of the sky...using genius into age 115...viruses on flash drives)
Keywords not available Podcast March 14, 2010 (saving money in health care -- can the government really do it?)
Keywords not available Podcast March 20, 2010 (Google Fiber applications...broadband Internet far from the fiber...recovering old Hi-8 movies)
Keywords not available Podcast March 21, 2010 (health-care reform...salaries in perspective...the value of the Century Farm)
Keywords not available Podcast March 27, 2010 (favorite tech news links)
March 28, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast April 3, 2010 (early observations on the iPad)
April 4, 2010 (notes missing)
April 11, 2010 (notes missing)
April 17, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast April 18, 2010 (our collective knowledge of economics is still immature)
Keywords not available Podcast April 24, 2010 (smartphone news...fixing short circuits)
April 25, 2010 (notes missing)
May 1, 2010 (notes missing)
May 2, 2010 (notes missing)
May 8, 2010 (notes missing)
May 9, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast May 15, 2010 (OpenOffice...websites to stop building)
May 16, 2010 (notes missing)
May 23, 2010 (notes missing)
May 30, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast June 5, 2010 (self-driving cars...robots to the Moon...Patch Tuesday and other security updates)
Keywords not available Podcast June 6, 2010 (bad customer communication...Medicare the behemoth...not taxed enough yet)
Keywords not available Podcast June 13, 2010 (the Gulf oil spill...a gift to Haiti...the world's worst bureaucracy)
Keywords not available Podcast June 19, 2010 (how to evaluate cloud backup services...how to pick a smartphone)
Keywords not available Podcast June 20, 2010 (poverty is what kills people, not natural disasters alone...cell phones are aiding labor organizers in China)
Keywords not available Podcast June 26, 2010 (the rapid rise of smartphones...Google Voice is Google's experimentation lab for voice-to-text algorithms)
Keywords not available Podcast June 27, 2010 (cell phone data limits may be coming soon...flooding updates)
Keywords not available Podcast July 3, 2010 (cloud seeding...risk IQ...the voice of your GPS device)
July 4, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast July 10, 2010 (backup strategies...Apple fanatics are like Deadheads...Futurama returns)
July 11, 2010 (notes missing)
July 17, 2010 (notes missing)
July 18, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast July 24, 2010 (whooping cough in California...converting home movies to DVD...herd immunity for computers)
July 25, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast July 31, 2010 (protecting Hotmail accounts...don't post your kids' pictures on Facebook...antivirus options)
Keywords not available Podcast August 1, 2010 (we're as capable as the Founding Fathers...Detroit jobs weren't "created" by the bailout, they were financed at high cost)
Keywords not available Podcast August 7, 2010 (some military links)
Keywords not available Podcast August 8, 2010 (severe-weather coverage preemption...Casey's struggles to remain independent)
August 14, 2010 (notes missing)
August 15, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast August 21, 2010 (tips and tricks for better passwords...Google CEO thinks name changes might be the only escape from digital breadcrumb trails)
August 22, 2010 (notes missing)
August 28, 2010 (notes missing)
August 29, 2010 (notes missing)
September 5, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast September 11, 2010 (how to sign off from a letter or email...halfway to 9/11 babies being able to vote)
Keywords not available Podcast September 12, 2010 (the "Bed Intruder Song"...more stimulus spending)
September 18, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast September 19, 2010 (the best customer complaint letter you'll read today...the past wasn't so great, so stop mythologizing it)
Keywords not available Podcast September 26, 2010 (Nokia's lost lead...hereditary Communism)
October 3, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast October 10, 2010 (no tweeting during an NFL game, and no driving while texting...nobody's a social-media "expert")
Keywords not available Podcast October 17, 2010 (babying big companies...Google gets smart by investing away from search engines)
Keywords not available Podcast October 24, 2010 (the enduring value of Charles Schulz...Benoit Mandelbrot passes away...institutional credibility online)
Keywords not available Podcast October 31, 2010 (Condoleezza Rice visits with Craig Ferguson...the flying car is here...well-educated people are moving to Iowa)
Keywords not available Podcast November 7, 2010 (people blow windfalls all the time -- don't make the same mistake if you ever get the chance)
November 14, 2010 (notes missing)
November 21, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast November 28, 2010 (a 100-year plan for space travel...what may hold back the electric car)
Keywords not available Podcast December 5, 2010 (when offered a chance to sell out, take it...Google and Facebook can't stay on top forever)
Keywords not available Podcast December 11, 2010 (Google overprices Groupon..."Anonymous" starts vandalizing credit-card websites)
Keywords not available Podcast December 12, 2010 (the General Aristo Company...speech-to-text conversion...China buys influence with cash)
Keywords not available Podcast December 18, 2010 (replace the computer, not the BIOS...Kindle vs. Nook: Kindle wins...free programs)
December 19, 2010 (notes missing)
Keywords not available Podcast December 23, 2010 (doing business differently in the Midwest...some good charities...hot rods on the Bush lawn)
Keywords not available Podcast December 26, 2010 (introductions to Facebook...new technology but lazier work...Fred Rogers' asteroid)

2011


January 1, 2011
January 2, 2011
January 8, 2011
January 9, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast January 15, 2011 (iPhones on Verizon...smartphones...vanity domain names)
January 16, 2011
January 22, 2011
January 23, 2011
January 29, 2011
January 30, 2011
February 5, 2011
February 6, 2011
February 12, 2011
February 13, 2011
February 19, 2011
February 20, 2011
February 26, 2011
February 27, 2011
March 5, 2011
March 6, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast March 12, 2011 (five status updates you shouldn't share online)
Keywords not available Podcast March 13, 2011 (building codes don't help much if you can't pay for the technology to meet them)
Keywords not available Podcast March 19, 2011 (being an informed patient...paywalls for the New York Times...get your own domain name)
March 20, 2011
March 26, 2011
March 27, 2011
April 2, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast April 3, 2011 (there may be one thing China does better than we do)
Keywords not available Podcast April 9, 2011 (protect yourself from spoofing)
April 10, 2011
April 16, 2011
April 17, 2011
April 23, 2011
April 24, 2011
April 30, 2011
May 1, 2011
May 7, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast May 8, 2011 (wind power profits -- if we can handle the transmission lines)
May 14, 2011
May 15, 2011
May 21, 2011
May 22, 2011
May 28, 2011
May 29, 2011
June 4, 2011
June 5, 2011
June 11, 2011
June 12, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast June 18, 2011 (United Airlines had a huge computer crash)
June 19, 2011
June 25, 2011
June 26, 2011
July 2, 2011
July 3, 2011
July 9, 2011
July 10, 2011
July 16, 2011
July 17, 2011
July 23, 2011
July 24, 2011
July 30, 2011
July 31, 2011
August 6, 2011
August 7, 2011
August 13, 2011
August 14, 2011
August 20, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast August 21, 2011 (Google wants into making smartphones...a big stock-market plunge)
August 27, 2011
August 28, 2011
September 3, 2011
September 4, 2011
September 10, 2011
September 11, 2011
September 17, 2011
September 18, 2011
September 24, 2011
September 25, 2011
October 1, 2011
October 2, 2011
October 8, 2011
October 9, 2011
October 15, 2011
October 16, 2011
October 22, 2011
October 23, 2011
October 29, 2011
October 30, 2011
November 5, 2011
November 6, 2011
November 12, 2011
November 13, 2011
November 19, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast November 20, 2011 (budget talks collapse and we're back to the beginning again)
November 26, 2011
November 27, 2011
December 3, 2011
December 4, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast December 10, 2011 (hard-drive shortages...Apple's new headquarters...discount tablet computers)
December 11, 2011
December 17, 2011
December 18, 2011
December 24, 2011
Keywords not available Podcast December 25, 2011 (Iowa's low unemployment rate...higher expectations of the Vice President...Roth IRAs are smart)
December 31, 2011

2012


January 1, 2012
January 7, 2012
January 8, 2012
January 14, 2012
Keywords not available Podcast January 15, 2012 (unbelievable interest rates...debt downgrades in Europe...Facebook's blackmail value)
Keywords not available Podcast February 18, 2012 (Apple stock)
January 21, 2012
January 22, 2012
January 28, 2012
January 29, 2012
February 4, 2012
February 5, 2012
February 11, 2012
February 12, 2012
February 18, 2012
February 19, 2012
February 25, 2012
February 26, 2012
March 3, 2012
March 4, 2012
March 10, 2012
March 11, 2012
March 17, 2012
March 18, 2012
March 24, 2012
March 25, 2012
March 31, 2012
April 1, 2012
April 7, 2012
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April 14, 2012
April 15, 2012
April 21, 2012
April 22, 2012
April 28, 2012
April 29, 2012
May 5, 2012
May 6, 2012
May 12, 2012
Keywords not available Podcast May 13, 2012 (shareholders and company supervision)
May 19, 2012
May 20, 2012
May 26, 2012
May 27, 2012
June 2, 2012
June 3, 2012
June 9, 2012
June 10, 2012
June 16, 2012
June 17, 2012
June 23, 2012
June 24, 2012
June 30, 2012
Keywords not available Podcast July 1, 2012 ()
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Keywords not available Podcast July 21, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast July 22, 2012 (the President disrespects business owners...outsourcing gone very wrong...science papers that get read)
Keywords not available Podcast July 28, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast July 29, 2012 (high commodity prices...welcoming Cuba someday as the 51st state...bad grammar as a job disqualifier)
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Keywords not available Podcast August 11, 2012 (getting all-natural...an iPad competitor from Lenovo)
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Keywords not available Podcast August 19, 2012 ()
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Keywords not available Podcast September 1, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast September 2, 2012 (rituals and community)
Keywords not available Podcast September 8, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast September 9, 2012 (lying on the Internet -- even about corporations -- hurts real people)
Keywords not available Podcast September 15, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast September 16, 2012 (stop abusing the word "fundamentally")
Keywords not available Podcast September 22, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast September 23, 2012 (how the Chicago Cubs teach economics)
Keywords not available Podcast September 29, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast September 30, 2012 (a look at the Future Scale)
Keywords not available Podcast October 6, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast October 7, 2012 (what if we gave 18-year-olds a cash endowment instead of promising them Social Security in the future?)
Keywords not available Podcast October 13, 2012 ()
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Keywords not available Podcast November 4, 2012 (why there's nothing wrong with private equity -- or capital in general) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast November 10, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast November 11, 2012 (why a debt jubilee wouldn't really work) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast November 17, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast November 18, 2012 (regulating Google) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast November 24, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast November 25, 2012 (the Hostess bankruptcy) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast December 2, 2012 (some crazy ideas that we should at least discuss out loud) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast December 8, 2012 (Google Plus...Yelp lawsuit...Apple to manufacture at home)
Keywords not available Podcast December 9, 2012 (the need for more innovation prizes...private investment in infrastructure...America's P/E ratio) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast December 11, 2012 (Michigan goes right-to-work)
Keywords not available Podcast December 15, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast December 16, 2012 (mental health and sensationalization, the threat of deflation, and making America 2100 a better place) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast December 22, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast December 23, 2012 (the value of a good brand name) (full transcript)
Keywords not available Podcast December 29, 2012 ()
Keywords not available Podcast December 30, 2012 ()

2013


Keywords not available Podcast January 5, 2013 (more self-piloted cars...Apple without Steve Jobs...Twitter may be going public)
Keywords not available Podcast January 6, 2013 (a national attitude adjustment...real infrastructure investments...calling a truce in the economic-development civil war)
Keywords not available Podcast January 12, 2013 (Google Plus isn't going away...higher-efficiency cars mean higher taxes...appreciating the ordinary)
Keywords not available Podcast January 13, 2013 (Venezuela wastes a resource boom...Minnesota doesn't have enough saved for pensioners)
Keywords not available Podcast January 19, 2013 (Java security holes...living in the Judgment Economy era...Des Moines versus Silicon Valley)
Keywords not available Podcast January 20, 2013 (title inflation is stupid...banning energy drinks...rumormongering about Obamacare)
Keywords not available Podcast January 26, 2013 (Boeing 787s...Nokia's troubles...online degrees on the rise)
Keywords not available Podcast January 27, 2013 (hunger and politics)
Keywords not available Podcast February 2, 2013 (Internet routers are at risk...widespread security attacks...bulk file renaming)
Keywords not available Podcast February 3, 2013 (a toast to humility, competence, and curiosity)
Keywords not available No podcast available February 6, 2013 (Van and Bonnie in the Morning - fill-in)
Keywords not available Podcast February 10, 2013 (Paul Krugman gets delusional...spam trails off...bulletproof glass in schools)
Keywords not available Podcast February 16, 2013 (roundabouts...bionic eyes...medals for drone pilots)
Keywords not available Podcast February 17, 2013 (diamonds...North Korea...the minimum wage)
Keywords not available Podcast February 24, 2013 (inflation and unemployment)
Keywords not available Podcast February 25, 2013 (how to give your kids a good start on the Internet)
Keywords not available Podcast March 2, 2013 (dealing with a hacked Yahoo account...know your memes...free websites)
Keywords not available Podcast March 3, 2013 (taxing stock sales...outsourcing our decisions...legal limits on executive pay)
Keywords not available Podcast March 10, 2013 (social businesses...North Korean madness...debt matters)
Keywords not available Podcast March 16, 2013 (Google's flakiness is getting bothersome)
Keywords not available Podcast March 17, 2013 (what we really need to help manufacturing...spending money rationally in pursuit of winning an irrational game)
Keywords not available Podcast March 23, 2013 (BlackBerry goes for broke...Google gets even flakier than before...Twitter turns seven)
Keywords not available Podcast March 24, 2013 (pensions and retirement savings are the 800-lb. gorilla in the room)
Keywords not available Podcast March 30, 2013 (America's true state boundaries...a Facebook smartphone is rumored...Google Maps need timestamps)
Keywords not available Podcast March 31, 2013 (young workers need opportunities to go to work, not obstacles...the "meh" economy...the need for self-piloted cars)
Keywords not available Podcast April 6, 2013 (the best kind of wearable computing...Facebook Home...no contracts at T-Mobile)
Keywords not available Podcast April 7, 2013 (money for nothing...Republicans should be for good government...high-risk mortgages are back)
Keywords not available Podcast April 13, 2013 (stop multi-tasking...virally bad ideas...television networks leaving the airwaves)
Keywords not available Podcast April 14, 2013 (death of Margaret Thatcher...putting the Federal budget in touch with reality...the savings shortfall)
Keywords not available Podcast April 20, 2013 (Microsoft makes money even without being cool...Apple keeps Siri records...Chinese obscenity)
Keywords not available Podcast April 21, 2013 (how to save better when you're not making much money)
Keywords not available Podcast April 27, 2013 (US Cellular customers in Chicago have a grievance...online sales taxes...password checklists)
Keywords not available Podcast April 28, 2013 (tragedy in a factory in Bangladesh...civic pride...bad reasons to cut judges' pay)
Keywords not available Podcast May 5, 2013 (getting comfortable with the natural stages of life and business)
Keywords not available Podcast May 11, 2013 (e-mail newsletters...getting around Internet blockades...hacking The Onion)
Keywords not available Podcast May 12, 2013 (topping off the World Trade Center...the dearth of "Mad Money" billionaires...the risks of youth unemployment)
Keywords not available Podcast May 18, 2013 (ten things everyone needs to consider before Google Glass goes mainstream)
Keywords not available Podcast May 19, 2013 (show preempted by severe weather)
Keywords not available Podcast May 25, 2013 (reflecting on Newsweek's move to all-digital...Yahoo buys Tumblr...cyberwarfare and our outdated infrastructure)
Keywords not available Podcast May 26, 2013 (we have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and get back to work)
Keywords not available Podcast June 1, 2013 ()
Keywords not available Podcast June 2, 2013 (the cliche that can make you rich)
Keywords not available Podcast June 9, 2013 (sharing our knowledge for a personal return-on-investment)
Keywords not available Podcast June 15, 2013 (surveillance...Facebook hashtags...Google's high-flying WiFi project)
Keywords not available Podcast June 16, 2013 (the process is at least as important as the result)
Keywords not available Podcast June 22, 2013 (immortality in many flavors)
Keywords not available Podcast June 23, 2013 (when not to join the family business...is global warming control the right investment?)
Keywords not available Podcast June 29, 2013 (BlackBerry's losing ways...malware on mobile devices...Feedly as a substitute for Google Reader)
Keywords not available Podcast June 30, 2013 (President Obama seeks a legacy via global warming)
Keywords not available Podcast July 6, 2013 (Bing's ecosystem expands)
Keywords not available Podcast July 7, 2013 (the Goldilocks Zone for patriotism...debt challenges our independence...free cities)
Keywords not available Podcast August 3, 2013 (smartphones...Google tries local news...the Boston Globe and Facebook stock)
Keywords not available Podcast August 4, 2013 (minimum wages and low-cost education...really owning your stock investments...a place for everything)
Keywords not available Podcast August 10, 2013 (tablets for every student can be an aimless dream or a real plan)
Keywords not available Podcast August 11, 2013 (buy low and sell fair)
Keywords not available Podcast August 17, 2013 (3D printing...the world's oldest person...Facebook's echo chamber)
Keywords not available Podcast August 18, 2013 (wisdom versus popularity...who really invests in the nation's infrastructure...productivity growth is too slow)
Keywords not available Podcast September 22, 2013 (the wrong kind of innovation in hockey...France's officially-socialist industrial plan)
Keywords not available No podcast available September 23, 2013 (the new iPhone...BlackBerry's knight in shining armor...Nokia goes to Microsoft)
Keywords not available Podcast November 4, 2013 (what to do about ransomware)
Keywords not available Podcast November 17, 2013 (improving quality of life by increments and compounding)
Keywords not available Podcast November 24, 2013 (controlling the inner psychopath...private-sector experience matters in politics...France's auto industry turns to China)
Keywords not available Podcast November 30, 2013 (Twitter Tofu...Yahoo's mail problem)
Keywords not available Podcast December 1, 2013 (open-minded conservatives...NYC property-owners beware...Bill Gates and capitalism)

2014


Keywords not available Podcast January 4, 2014 (Twitter in a nutshell)
Keywords not available Podcast January 11, 2014 ("click like and share" spam will kill Facebook)
Keywords not available Podcast January 12, 2014 (a syllabus for America)
Keywords not available Podcast January 19, 2014 (how amazing the smartphone really is)
Keywords not available Podcast January 26, 2014 (stop the generational stereotyping and adopt real solutions)
Keywords not available Podcast February 2, 2014 (inequality can be a distraction from the real problem of poverty)
Keywords not available Podcast February 9, 2014 (Leno out, Fallon in, and doing something with that soapbox)
Keywords not available Podcast February 16, 2014 (five big leaps in the decades ahead)
Keywords not available Podcast February 23, 2014 (Facebook bets the house...and then China takes over)
Keywords not available Podcast March 2, 2014 ("I've worked in the private sector. They expect results!")
Keywords not available Podcast March 8, 2014 (airborne computer viruses...Pebble watch early review)
Keywords not available Podcast March 9, 2014 (end Daylight Saving Time...the productivity crisis)
Keywords not available Podcast March 15, 2014 (Facebook's attempt to replace the daily newspaper)
Keywords not available Podcast March 16, 2014 (Chinese companies going public in the US stock market as a sign of Chinese slowdown)
Keywords not available Podcast March 20, 2014 (why every smartphone should have antivirus protection)
Keywords not available Podcast March 23, 2014 (a minimum-wage hike won't fix everything)
Keywords not available Podcast March 29, 2014 (four tech takeaways from the Younkers Building fire)
Keywords not available Podcast March 30, 2014 (college in America needs to change -- now)
Keywords not available Podcast April 5, 2014 (Facebook COO cuts her stake)
Keywords not available Podcast April 6, 2014 (the Ukranian-Russian conflict is a struggle over Western values)
Keywords not available Podcast April 13, 2014 (news: a development that materially changes the status quo)
Keywords not available Podcast April 19, 2014 (Heartbleed update)
Keywords not available Podcast April 20, 2014 (if men were angels)
Keywords not available Podcast April 22, 2014 (Uber is coming, and the regulators don't like it; interview with PJ O'Rourke)
Keywords not available Podcast April 27, 2014 (why Yahoo is too cheap: the conglomerate discount)
Keywords not available Podcast May 10, 2014 (six things that can slow down a computer)
Keywords not available Podcast May 11, 2014 (a modest proposal: $250,000 for everybody)
Keywords not available Podcast May 17, 2014 (Pinterest, Google, Apple, Snapchat)
Keywords not available Podcast May 18, 2014 (the new standard should be a 14th-grade education)
Keywords not available Podcast June 1, 2014 (spring cleaning)
Keywords not available Podcast June 8, 2014 (regulations aren't consequence-free)
Keywords not available Podcast June 15, 2014 (bring back the ol' Reagan-style twitchy eye...Trump can't help himself...manufacturing jobs for smart people)
Keywords not available Podcast June 17, 2014 (huge progress in the fight against cancer...the depopulation of rural Iowa)
Keywords not available Podcast June 21, 2014 (Google mapping data...Amazon smartphones...IRS loses email)
Keywords not available Podcast June 22, 2014 (more time with books and less time with Facebook)
Keywords not available Podcast July 13, 2014 (a declaration of personal independence)
Keywords not available Podcast July 19, 2014 (end grief voyeurism)
Keywords not available Podcast July 20, 2014 (the most destabilizing force in the world)
Keywords not available Podcast July 26, 2014 (net neutrality)
Keywords not available Podcast July 27, 2014 (how to tell if you're working for or with a company that's running on borrowed time)
Keywords not available Podcast August 3, 2014 (signs you're in an organization that might actually have a future)
Keywords not available Podcast August 10, 2014 (the saddest sentence in the world)
Keywords not available Podcast August 16, 2014 (Windows 9)
Keywords not available Podcast August 17, 2014 (mini-bonds...blowing up the old...your risk of computerization)
Keywords not available Podcast August 23, 2014 (body cameras for police officers)
Keywords not available Podcast August 24, 2014 (the price is always wrong)
Keywords not available Podcast August 31, 2014 (severe weather coverage)
Keywords not available Podcast September 3, 2014 (how Honda could save Iowa's manufacturing base...technology hygiene)
Keywords not available Podcast September 7, 2014 (paying more attention to Washington with better storytelling...the trouble with a $15 minimum wage)
Keywords not available Podcast September 14, 2014 (call Al-Qaeda-Land what it is)
Keywords not available Podcast September 21, 2014 (the Russians are coming for your PBR)
Keywords not available Podcast September 28, 2014 (why a company shouldn't invest in its people)
Keywords not available Podcast October 5, 2014 (Bill Gates and the need for technocrats...the real meaning of consensus)
Keywords not available Podcast October 12, 2014 (the economy as we know it)
Keywords not available Podcast October 19, 2014 (executives need to show they can execute...practicing the right temperament for good investing)
Keywords not available Podcast October 21, 2014 (Apple Pay)
Keywords not available Podcast October 25, 2014 (the right to be forgotten...Alibaba vs. Amazon...what's good for cloud computing is good for Iowa)
Keywords not available Podcast October 26, 2014 (how Buzzfeed is out to ruin history...China's new development bank...Microsoft kills Nokia smartphones)
Keywords not available Podcast November 2, 2014 (many executives are ignorant about talent development...robots are entering yet more workplaces...the stupidity of Wallenda's tightrope stunt)
Keywords not available Podcast November 9, 2014 ()
Keywords not available Podcast November 16, 2014 ()
Keywords not available Podcast November 19, 2014 (a credible authority thinks that computers are out to get us)
Keywords not available Podcast November 23, 2014 (leaving human capital on the table)
Keywords not available Podcast November 30, 2014 (a university from scratch...cheap oil and its imperfections)
Keywords not available Podcast December 7, 2014 (own your digital identity...Hagel's parting shot)
Keywords not available Podcast December 12, 2014 (oil prices and the big picture for your wallet)
Keywords not available Podcast December 13, 2014 (Firefox breaks up with Google...Facebook takes a shot, too)
Keywords not available Podcast December 14, 2014 (de-commoditizing air travel is basically impossible...Uber as a company can't be worth what people are paying for it)
Keywords not available Podcast December 20, 2014 (FBI blames North Korea for attacking Sony)
Keywords not available Podcast December 21, 2014 (the economy as we know it)
Keywords not available Podcast December 27, 2014 (hackers crash gaming networks on Christmas...Facebook's "Year in Review" fails to please everyone)
Keywords not available Podcast December 28, 2014 (disposable culture and technology...red-light cameras don't really protect people)

2015


Keywords not available Podcast January 3, 2015 (suing Apple over iOS 8...China blocks Gmail...sharing videos)
Keywords not available Podcast January 4, 2015 (Kirk Ferentz's contract is a sunk cost)
Keywords not available Podcast January 10, 2015 (MS-DOS game emulator...satire online makes the entire world an audience...reporting the "help desk" phone scam)
Keywords not available Podcast January 11, 2015 (a choice that people make in every age: whether to be open, civilized, and enlightened...or not)
Keywords not available Podcast January 18, 2015 (self-service at Hardee's...Iowa needs more people...ethanol prices versus gas prices)
Keywords not available Podcast January 24, 2015 (Windows 10 is revealed)
Keywords not available Podcast January 25, 2015 (the Ministry of Dissent Management...we should be better at understanding risk)
Keywords not available Podcast January 31, 2015 (episode preempted by winter storm coverage)
Keywords not available Podcast February 1, 2015 (the nerds will save us -- just not the nerds you might expect)
Keywords not available Podcast February 7, 2015 (episode under development)
Keywords not available Podcast February 8, 2015 (a perfect economic system -- and what's imperfect about the others)
Keywords not available Podcast February 14, 2015 ()
Keywords not available Podcast February 15, 2015 ()
Keywords not available Podcast February 21, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast February 22, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast February 28, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast March 1, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast March 15, 2015 (what you study, not where...digital-first publications)
Keywords not available Podcast March 21, 2015 (goodbye to MSIE)
Keywords not available Podcast March 22, 2015 (checking our language...failure to care for sick veterans is shameful)
Keywords not available Podcast March 29, 2015 (the value of STEM...Germanwings plane crash...conference-call ignorance)
Keywords not available Podcast April 4, 2015 (ten laws of technology)
Keywords not available Podcast April 5, 2015 ()
Keywords not available Podcast April 11, 2015 (how we email...a cyberdefense branch of the military...Apple Watch)
Keywords not available Podcast April 12, 2015 ()
Keywords not available Podcast April 19, 2015 (America's best days...bullet trains are real...the juror is excused)
Keywords not available Podcast April 26, 2015 ()
Keywords not available Podcast May 2, 2015 (bad week for Twitter...Microsoft goes big...Google's new phone service)
Keywords not available Podcast May 3, 2015 (the latest lessons from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger)
Keywords not available Podcast May 10, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast May 16, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast May 17, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast May 23, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast May 24, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast May 30, 2015 (@potus on Twitter...Google Now on Tap...roads for cars without drivers)
Keywords not available Podcast May 31, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast June 6, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast June 7, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast June 13, 2015 (Twitter takes on email...Netflix releases series early)
Keywords not available Podcast June 14, 2015 (socialism in Scandinavia...Generation X and money)
Keywords not available Podcast June 21, 2015 (student loan defaults)
Keywords not available Podcast June 27, 2015 (self-driving Uber cars...the rise and fall of emojis...Gmail enables "unsend")
Keywords not available Podcast June 28, 2015 (rising living standards and GDP)
Keywords not available Podcast July 4, 2015 (crooked apps mine your smartphone's processor...setting up feedback loops for social good)
Keywords not available Podcast July 5, 2015 (Greece defaults on debt payments...criminal behavior inside the TSA...text messages for positive feedback to donors)
Keywords not available Podcast July 6, 2015 (robogrocery for Des Moines...a refugee crisis brewing...China's stock market panic...the data of Iowa weather)
Keywords not available Podcast July 25, 2015 (remotely-hacked vehicles...Lindsey Graham gets in on the joke...Amazon almost erroneously turns a profit)
Keywords not available Podcast July 26, 2015 (the hidden costs of government overreach)
Keywords not available Podcast August 1, 2015 (Windows 10 is out)
Keywords not available Podcast August 8, 2015 (generic top-level domains...politics on Facebook...a week with Windows 10)
Keywords not available Podcast August 9, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast August 22, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast August 23, 2015 (the rise of the stupids)
Keywords not available Podcast August 29, 2015 (how we've all entered the editorial decision-making process)
Keywords not available Podcast August 30, 2015 (no reason to panic as stock prices slide)
Keywords not available Podcast September 12, 2015 (Apple release announcement)
Keywords not available Podcast September 13, 2015 (Federal Reserve interest-rate decision looming)
Keywords not available Podcast September 20, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast September 27, 2015 (Future Scale)
Keywords not available Podcast October 4, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast October 11, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast October 18, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast October 25, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast November 1, 2015 (the skills gap)
Keywords not available Podcast November 8, 2015 (notes forthcoming)
Keywords not available Podcast November 14, 2015 (the attack on Paris...what to ask the Presidential contenders...huge new tablets)
Keywords not available Podcast November 15, 2015 (under development)
Keywords not available Podcast December 30, 2015 (police shootings...three cheers for Paul Ryan...remembering Cheryl Pannier)

2016


Keywords not available Podcast January 2, 2016 (WG: Predicting technology in 2016)
Keywords not available Podcast January 3, 2016 (BGS: Giving to charity...politics, markets, and compromise...checking in on the Future Scale)
Keywords not available Podcast January 9, 2016 (WG: Virtual reality; saving old VHS tapes; countering terrorism with technology)
Keywords not available Podcast January 10, 2016 (BGS: The stock market isn't the economy; Saudi Arabia and Justin Bieber; who's just not looking for work)
Keywords not available Podcast January 16, 2016 (WG: No more "brain games")
Keywords not available Podcast January 17, 2016 (BGS: The next President should be a governor)
Keywords not available Podcast January 23, 2016 (WG: ##)
Keywords not available Podcast January 24, 2016 (BGS: Having a plan at the caucuses)
Keywords not available Podcast January 30, 2016 (WG: The world is growing ever more complex and sophisticated -- it's no time for dummies in the Oval Office)
Keywords not available Podcast January 31, 2016 (BGS: The problem with "free college")
Keywords not available Podcast February 6, 2016 (WG: Sky-high oil taxes aren't a serious proposal)
Keywords not available Podcast February 7, 2016 (BGS: The Great Asset Sale continues)
Keywords not available Podcast February 13, 2016 (WG: Should the government have special privileges to break encryption?)
Keywords not available Podcast February 14, 2016 (BGS: three immutable laws of politics and property, the trouble with a $10-per-barrel oil tax)
Keywords not available Podcast February 20, 2016 (WG: Apple should resist encryption hacking, even if they're not angels)
Keywords not available Podcast February 21, 2016 (BGS: Why doesn't DC use game theory?)
Keywords not available Podcast February 27, 2016 (WG: Cyberspace is a wonderful adjunct to democracy, but a terrible substitute for it)
Keywords not available Podcast February 28, 2016 (BGS: If you think people are cynical now, wait until a Trump administration fails to deliver)
Keywords not available Podcast March 2, 2016 (BGS: Donald Trump's most rational choice is to quit while he's ahead)
Keywords not available Podcast March 5, 2016 (WG: A year in space, less free shipping from Amazon, Netflix and binge-watching)
Keywords not available Podcast March 6, 2016 (BGS: Is this how we should pick a President?)
Keywords not available Podcast March 12, 2016 (WG: Making broadband affordable for everyone)
Keywords not available Podcast March 13, 2016 (BGS: "I wouldn't be good at doing what you need to do to get elected")
Keywords not available Podcast March 19, 2016 (WG: Automatic brakes by 2022, lay off the kids on social media, GM makes a deal with Lyft)
Keywords not available Podcast March 20, 2016 (BGS: Manufacturing isn't dead -- but it isn't stupid, either)
Keywords not available Podcast March 26, 2016 (WG: What occupies our time is what fills our minds)
Keywords not available Podcast March 27, 2016 (BGS: A ceremonial head of state)
Keywords not available Podcast April 2, 2016 (WG: The real Silicon Prairie movement we need)
Keywords not available Podcast April 3, 2016 (BGS: If Sharp couldn't evade Foxconn, technology alone isn't enough to save a company)
Keywords not available Podcast April 9, 2016 (WG: The future of Yahoo; Google's product graveyard; your-name-dot-com)
Keywords not available Podcast April 10, 2016 (BGS: So much human potential, so many ways it's under-utilized; saving newspapers; Netflix subscription rates are rising)
Keywords not available Podcast April 16, 2016 (WG: QR codes come to the Blue Screen of Death)
Keywords not available Podcast April 17, 2016 (BGS: Expert tracks versus management tracks in the labor force)
Keywords not available Podcast April 23, 2016 (WG: ##)
Keywords not available Podcast April 24, 2016 (BGS: We've been under-paying our social-cohesion taxes)
Keywords not available Podcast April 30, 2016 (WG: A politician gets a lot of things right about technology -- Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska)
Keywords not available Podcast May 1, 2016 (BGS: Brian Dean's final show with us)
Keywords not available Podcast May 7, 2016 (WG: No, we are not dumber than people who lived 30 years ago)
Keywords not available Podcast May 8, 2016 (BGS: Korean Air's super-tall tower in LA signals that the US is the world's best place to invest)
Keywords not available Podcast May 14, 2016 (WG: Facebook's new live-streaming is headed toward creating huge trouble)
Keywords not available Podcast May 15, 2016 (BGS: TSA shortcomings create a huge deadweight cost for the economy)
Keywords not available Podcast May 21, 2016 (WG: Technology making jobs better for humans to do)
Keywords not available Podcast May 22, 2016 (BGS: Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations)
Keywords not available Podcast May 28, 2016 (WG: Undersea data cables, responsibility for robotic errors)
Keywords not available Podcast May 29, 2016 (BGS: Public infrastructure and private infrastructure, scaling back the Executive Branch, an honorable alternative)
Keywords not available Podcast June 4, 2016 (WG: Microsoft password rules and a European "code of conduct" for social networks)
Keywords not available Podcast June 5, 2016 (BGS: Chicago revives my faith in humanity somehow)
Keywords not available Podcast June 11, 2016 (WG: Gawker, social media, and challenges to free speech today)
Keywords not available Podcast June 18, 2016 (WG: Microsoft buys LinkedIn, IBM enters weather forecasting, Uber and Airbnb face restrictions)
Keywords not available Podcast June 19, 2016 (BGS: ##)
Keywords not available Podcast June 25, 2016 (WG: Tronc and the future of news; smartwatches for cheapskates; Solar City and Tesla)
Keywords not available Podcast June 26, 2016 (BGS: Commentators and pundits must stop using the word "elites" ASAP)
Keywords not available Podcast July 2, 2016 (WG: Facebook revises its news feed -- and publishers are going to go nuts; your next accountant may be an AI; ten rules for the coming era of technology)
Keywords not available Podcast July 3, 2016 (BGS: "The pursuit of happiness" has a lot of deep meaning; the colonies left England in part because we wanted more free trade, not less; trial by jury today and yesterday)
Keywords not available Podcast July 9, 2016 (BGS: An NTSB for police-involved shootings; "free college" isn't free; Trump's sympathy for the devil)
Keywords not available Podcast July 16, 2016 (BGS: Polk County gets a texting-while-driving conviction; the nation's governors in Des Moines; selling Paramount Pictures to the Chinese)
Keywords not available Podcast July 23, 2016 (BGS: Unpredictability is usually a character flaw on the world stage; too many itchy trigger fingers; the Russian connection to the DNC email leak)
Keywords not available Podcast July 30, 2016 (BGS: Lots of young men who have nothing productive to do; tolerance is ambitious, but necessary; what Putin wants to gain from election interference)
Keywords not available Podcast August 6, 2016 (BGS: The real heroes serve on community boards; we fail ourselves when we fetishize, professionalize, and corporatize too much of our charity; libertarianism is centrism; establishing yourself online)
Keywords not available Podcast August 13, 2016 (BGS: Insist on seeing Johnson and Weld on the stage; Olympic swimmers from the "refugee" team)
Keywords not available Podcast August 15, 2016 (BGS: We need an NTSB for police-involved shootings; Google Fiber, minus the fiber; threatening to flake out on mutual aid fundamentally undermines our alliances)
Keywords not available Podcast August 20, 2016 (BGS: Baton Rouge flooding vs. the Floods of 1993; the teach-yourself economy; big debt and the worry for states)
Keywords not available Podcast August 27, 2016 (BGS: The wrong kind of protest doesn't bring attention to your point; lies about "bringing back" manufacturing jobs; unaccompanied kids in self-driving cars)
Keywords not available Podcast October 29, 2016 (BGS: Making peace with the probability of a Clinton election; the honorable alternative; higher minimum wages in Polk County and beyond)
Keywords not available Podcast November 5, 2016 (BGS: Noticing economic signals around us; vote, then pay your civic rent; police officers, innocent Des Moines kids, and drowned refugees all deserve to be mourned because all lives have equal value)
Keywords not available Podcast November 12, 2016 (BGS: Economic policy doesn't have a lot of altitude, airspeed, or options if things go wrong; the political parties are weak; make Social Security a top priority)
Keywords not available Podcast December 3, 2016 (BGS: Don't count on 4% economic growth; the dignity of the Oval Office is like a bonsai tree; Republicans should sound the alarm about Russian attacks)
Keywords not available Podcast December 17, 2016 (BGS: A billion Yahoo accounts were compromised -- a billion! What you should do.)

2017


Keywords not available Podcast January 7, 2017 (BGS: President Obama and the soggy egg roll; if Trump is tweeting, assume he could be trading, too; even digital publishers struggle to profit)
Keywords not available Podcast January 14, 2017 (BGS: The President-elect shouldn't be fighting with Rep. John Lewis; "tariffs" seem like something other people pay, but you're on the hook for "import taxes"; China's aircraft carrier)
Keywords not available Podcast January 28, 2017 (BGS: What's wrong with the immigration executive order; capitalist reading recommendations; backing out of trade deals makes us look weak)
Keywords not available Podcast February 4, 2017 (BGS: Are we planting elm trees or oak trees?; the President gets only one type of discretion; courts are a process, not an outcome)
Keywords not available Podcast February 11, 2017 (BGS: The Constitution must come first in the President's mind; we must let the nerds save us; systems beat individual leaders)
Keywords not available Podcast February 18, 2017 (BGS: What's local matters, because it sets us up to handle larger things like adults)
Keywords not available Podcast February 25, 2017 (BGS: Warren Buffett vs. Donald Trump; high-value manufacturing vs. low-end factories)
Keywords not available Podcast March 4, 2017 (BGS: How about we get to work building some agreement about emerging issues that haven't gotten the attention they deserve?)
Keywords not available Podcast March 11, 2017 (BGS: Bugs Bunny is the iconic American cartoon character; compulsory education for everyone; reforming health insurance from a blank sheet)
Keywords not available Podcast March 18, 2017 (BGS: Values aren't hereditary; it's perfectly fine for us to be different nations from one another, but we need to be cooperatively different; Russian FSB officers charged with hacking Yahoo)
Keywords not available Podcast March 25, 2017 (BGS: The rhetorical antidote to reckless populism is a tone of confident aspiration; animals have instincts, but smart people have intuition -- the culmination of habit, study, experience, and reflection; co-locating libraries with public housing)
Keywords not available Podcast April 1, 2017 (BGS: Noah Smith on preventing "American economic sclerosis"; regulating workplaces to death; it's still about Russia)
Keywords not available Podcast April 8, 2017 (BGS)
Keywords not available Podcast April 15, 2017 (BGS: Government should be constrained to those things it has a unique capacity to do; Emilee Richardson on "ocean worlds" beyond Earth; what's with the President threatening war on Twitter?)
Keywords not available Podcast April 22, 2017 (BGS: The "do-nothing Millennial" problem)
Keywords not available Podcast April 29, 2017 (BGS: Lower tax rates might easily feel good, but their real impact really just won't be enough to pay for itself; Simon Lester on saving NAFTA from disaster; Chinese aircraft carriers and Swedish meatballs)
Keywords not available Podcast May 6, 2017 (BGS: Nobody celebrates Small Business Week with ostentatious parties; Bloomberg and Twitter enter a joint venture; upskilling and the social-safety net)
Keywords not available Podcast May 13, 2017 (BGS: Pledge allegiance to the Constitution, never a President; Grant Campany on the Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize; rethinking college in Iowa and beyond; I'm not a Mormon, but I want them in the Boy Scouts)
Keywords not available Podcast May 20, 2017 (BGS: A media guide for the skeptical conservative; Iowans don't wait for others to do the job; Tim Miller on winning on principle; Iowa needs more big cities)
Keywords not available Podcast May 27, 2017 (BGS: There's no excuse for a politician's physical assault on a journalist; a $15 minimum wage isn't a solution; what happened at the Manchester concert should never be normal)
Keywords not available Podcast June 3, 2017 (BGS: Practicing honor in little ways so we're ready when it's needed in big ones; Amazon at $1,000 a share; the good and bad of a guaranteed basic income)
Keywords not available Podcast June 10, 2017 (BGS: Don't let Iowa decide for Alabama or vice-versa; enemies within and enemies without; Iowa's highways aren't just for trucks)
Keywords not available Podcast June 17, 2017 (BGS: Look out for the imposter conservatives; the future of retail is automated, and that could be trouble for small-town Iowa; Rep. David Young on trade)
Keywords not available Podcast June 24, 2017 (BGS)
Keywords not available Podcast July 1, 2017 (BGS: Federalism and the rule of law trip up bad ideas like Federal overreach into state voter rolls because they're supposed to; Illinois in trouble -- how a neighbor's fiscal house fire threatens Iowa; in search of a big, constructive national goal)
Keywords not available Podcast July 8, 2017 (BGS: The "West" worth defending is rooted in openness; Sen. Ben Sasse speaks in Nevada; convincing fake videos are just around the corner)
Keywords not available Podcast July 15, 2017 (BGS: Until the dignity of the individual is respected everywhere, sometimes we're going to have to step in; rural broadband is a modern-day transcontinental railroad; what Helsinki and Des Moines have in common)
Keywords not available Podcast July 22, 2017 (BGS: Younger voters are losing faith in the First Amendment; bosses without boundaries; would your kids mock a drowning man?)
Keywords not available Podcast July 29, 2017 (BGS: Reince Priebus got fired because of James Madison; technology is neutral, but bad users aren't; Mitt Romney can go waterskiing anytime he wants)
Keywords not available Podcast August 5, 2017 (BGS: Be a proud "guardrailer"; Mark Zuckerberg isn't running for President; red hat, white hat, blue hat, black hat)
Keywords not available Podcast August 12, 2017 (BGS: Model railroads at the Iowa State Fair and the nostalgia for proprietor capitalism; "Dunkirk" reviewed; debt-to-GDP will soon be 100%)
Keywords not available Podcast August 19, 2017 (BGS: Respect isn't a finite resource; to really appreciate history is to struggle with questions of context, meaning, and choice)
Keywords not available Podcast September 23, 2017 (BGS: Taking a knee at the National Anthem is form, but defending the Constitution is substance)
Keywords not available Podcast October 7, 2017 (BGS: Don't surrender to despair after Las Vegas)
Keywords not available Podcast October 14, 2017 (BGS: Girls in the Boy Scouts, struggle is the price of things worth having )
Keywords not available Podcast October 21, 2017 (BGS: Snapchat's truly gross contribution to the hostile environment for women)
Keywords not available Podcast October 28, 2017 (BGS: If your idea of a good outcome is that people should be punished according to your personal animus, then you don't really believe in the rule of law; Amazon's "smart locks"; Arthur Rizer on the annual crime report)
Keywords not available Podcast November 4, 2017 (BGS: RTFM for your political system; only if you think that you have no reputation to protect do you deflect to the shortcomings of others when caught for wrondoing; a Tweetless President for 11 minutes)
Keywords not available Podcast December 2, 2017 (BGS: Bad behavior should be purged, not excused; Sears, Amazon, Meredith, and Time; tax reform is good, but not enough)
Keywords not available Podcast December 16, 2017 (BGS: Any civilization worthy of the name must be eager to find out why and how the system failed to protect Natalie Finn and her siblings; don't fall for the Bitcoin bubble; California's giant fires)
Keywords not available Podcast December 23, 2017 (BGS: Roads, bridges, and people; tariffs, taxes, and takeoffs)
Keywords not available Podcast December 30, 2017 (BGS: What's happening in Iran and what we should be prepared to do; slobbering devotion to any President is a bad idea; Library of Congress will stop archiving all public tweets; Gordon Fischer on year-end giving)

2018


Keywords not available Podcast January 6, 2018 (BGS: fighting crime by cutting regulations)
Keywords not available Podcast January 13, 2018 (BGS)
Keywords not available Podcast January 20, 2018 (BGS: a government shutdown is not a victory)
Keywords not available Podcast January 27, 2018 (BGS: a huge difference between being principled and being obstinate)
Keywords not available Podcast February 3, 2018 (BGS: the stock market isn't the economy)
Keywords not available Podcast February 10, 2018 (BGS: North Korea tensions)
Keywords not available Podcast February 17, 2018 (BGS: the Russian indictments matter)
Keywords not available Podcast February 24, 2018 (BGS: the generational turning point on gun violence)
Keywords not available Podcast March 3, 2018 (BGS: justice and humanity)
Keywords not available Podcast March 10, 2018 (BGS: what to do with a time machine)
Keywords not available Podcast March 17, 2018 (BGS: "Safe Passage" by Kori Schake)
Keywords not available Podcast March 24, 2018 (BGS: Facebook and a flying chair)
Keywords not available Podcast March 31, 2018 (BGS: "Is journalism also activism?")
Keywords not available Podcast April 7, 2018 (BGS: China knows which tariffs cause the most pain)
Keywords not available Podcast April 14, 2018 (BGS: Syrian missile strike, good and bad)
Keywords not available Podcast April 21, 2018 (BGS: teaching kids to deal with complexity)
Keywords not available Podcast April 28, 2018 (BGS: when trust breaks down, so does the economy)
Keywords not available Podcast May 5, 2018 (BGS: "Woodstock for Capitalists" weekend in Omaha, but capitalism is neither completely triumphant today, nor permanently triumphant forever; Scouting's change to integrate girls is a small but very real flashpoint; the Upper Midwest is fighting a low-growth situation)
Keywords not available Podcast May 12, 2018 (BGS: "Genius-bias" is a real problem, why police don't drive Crown Victorias anymore, professional reading lists and their limits)
Keywords not available Podcast May 19, 2018 (BGS: Commerce makes us nicer, the ongoing public-health emergency of violence in American schools, we need a technological solution to children being left in hot cars)
Keywords not available Podcast May 26, 2018 (BGS: Federal government workers have lost track of 1,500 migrant children and heads should roll for it; Dr. Megan Reiss on the North Korean nuke problem; if the President won't turn over his cell phone for a security review, he's responsible for what happens when it's hacked)
Keywords not available Podcast June 2, 2018 (BGS: Tariffs aren't what America really wants, ideas matter as much as ever, Iowa's energy is almost as green as our tractors)
Keywords not available Podcast June 9, 2018 (BGS: Iowa's institutional progress on mental health needs to be matched by personal understanding; Nicole Flatow of CityLab; pardon me, but what is legal is what the law says at the time of the act)
Keywords not available Podcast June 16, 2018 (BGS: Move over and slow down because every individual deserves a little leeway; can the republic survive the LOLs?)
Keywords not available Podcast June 23, 2018 (BGS: We will never be post-national, but don't be surprised by the return of the city-state; decriminalization may be the answer for marijuana; 47 of 99 Iowa counties have naturally-declining populations)
Keywords not available Podcast June 30, 2018 (BGS: The thing we ought to consider this Independence Day is just how little it was that the Founders started with; John Stineman of the US Trade Council)
Keywords not available Podcast July 7, 2018 (BGS: Marc Goldwein on the ever-rising Federal debt, America is neither doomed nor perfect, remembering Larry Cotlar, how socialism can work by meeting six different tests)
Keywords not available Podcast July 14, 2018 (BGS: The world is better with friends/zero-sum isn't the usual way, density and Des Moines, innocent children ought never to be subjected to malicious cruelty or endangerment)
Keywords not available Podcast July 21, 2018 (BGS: Jay Cost on "The Price of Greatness", Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison; Emily Barske on tornado recovery in Marshalltown; a better country is only the product of better people)
Keywords not available Podcast July 28, 2018 (BGS: A person without a code never knows when they're in truly uncharted territory; more true Federalism, please; tariffs aren't "the greatest")
Keywords not available Podcast August 4, 2018 (BGS: Egalitarianism defines Iowa behavior, Apple reaches a $1 trillion market capitalization, filling the void for moral leadership when the President abdicates)
Keywords not available Podcast August 11, 2018 (BGS: National leaders should start as local leaders, wildfires in Canada darken Iowa skies, Iowa City Public Library shares "books we hated")
Keywords not available Podcast August 18, 2018 (BGS: Passing of Rep. Leonard Boswell, Rep. David Young at the Iowa State Fair)
Keywords not available Podcast August 25, 2018 (BGS: When you become aware of criminals in your orbit, you should welcome the chance to purge them; the problem with Sen. Warren's "Accountable Capitalism"; Jim Golby on civil/military relations; Congressional candidate Cindy Axne)
Keywords not available Podcast September 12, 2018 (BGS: Open-minded conservatism, Ed Wilson on Hurricane Florence, Matthew Hennessey on "Zero Hour for Gen X")
Keywords not available Podcast September 15, 2018 (BGS: Paul Manafort flips, Mark Zuckerberg needs to know that technology isn't enough, 12% of Americans don't value democracy)
Keywords not available Podcast September 22, 2018 (BGS: Turning feelings into words enables us to share)
Keywords not available Podcast September 29, 2018 (BGS: Nationalizing every fight leads to paralysis, ignore the ransom notes in your email, memory is a complicated thing)
Keywords not available Podcast November 24, 2018 (BGS: Government's real job is to preserve and protect human rights, Varsity Theater to close, finding moral imagination)
Keywords not available Podcast December 1, 2018 (BGS: Passing of George HW Bush, the GDP sugar high is wearing off, the unpardonable pardon of Paul Manafort)
Keywords not available Podcast December 15, 2018 (BGS: Our little tribes are good for us, except when we let the Internet misdirect us; national unity requires common purpose; decide what you want, limit your wants as much as possible, and pay for everything in full)
Keywords not available Podcast December 22, 2018 (BGS)
Keywords not available Podcast December 29, 2018 (BGS: Small can be beautiful, saving Sears, another vote on the Local Option Sales Tax)

2019


Keywords not available Podcast January 5, 2019 (BGS: People who don't understand the Electoral College don't understand Federalism, Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Iowa records first flu-related fatality of 2019)
Keywords not available Podcast January 19, 2019 (BGS: If we're aware of the vulnerable at our door, let's not confuse them with the bad people we might be trying to keep out; a $15-an-hour minimum wage can't be imposed without consequences; Jack Bogle, capitalist revolutionary)
Keywords not available Podcast January 26, 2019 (BGS: Don't assume powers when you're in charge that you don't want to hand over to your opponents when they're in charge; modernizing the draft; authenticity in office)
Keywords not available Podcast February 2, 2019 (BGS: Iowa twins born 18 weeks early, the floodgates open on the 2020 race, ice quakes in the night)
Keywords not available Podcast February 9, 2019 (BGS: Congress ought to discuss really stupid ideas once in a while, Google pulls the plug on Fiber in Louisville, maybe we need a partisan press once again)
Keywords not available Podcast February 16, 2019 (BGS: Believing in "consequential gravity", remote-controlled snowblowers, Emilee Richardson on the Opportunity rover)
Keywords not available Podcast February 23, 2019 (BGS: Philip Wallach on when branches collide, Drew Klein on the local option sales and services tax, enlarging the House)
Keywords not available Podcast March 2, 2019 (BGS: Was the big tax cut just a big sugar rush? Technology is only as good or as bad as the people using it. Send in the governors!)
Keywords not available Podcast March 9, 2019 (BGS: Our military servicemembers are professionals in service of a just and free world, not mercenaries; Facebook's leadership still doesn't get what they really are; moderation doesn't mean an absence of principles)
Keywords not available Podcast March 16, 2019 (BGS: Burdens are meant to be carried together; you can't pick your parents, but you can pick your heroes; land values in Iowa are slipping, and trade wars are partly to blame)
Keywords not available Podcast March 18, 2019 (BGS: Values have to cost something more than just lip service, Greg Edwards on the NCAA tournament, John Benson with Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management on flooding)
Keywords not available Podcast March 19, 2019 (BGS: Nolan Gray on "8 things your town can do to add more housing without spending a dime", Dr. Kori Schake on "America vs. the West", Arthur Brooks on "Love Your Enemies")
Keywords not available Podcast March 23, 2019 (BGS: The Mueller Report while we're under the veil of ignorance; John McCain wasn't perfect, but his memory deserves better than the way the President speaks about him; ideas for a new generation of research universities to revive rural America)
Keywords not available Podcast March 30, 2019 (BGS: We just don't have the population density to make high-speed trains work; there's yet more flooding season yet to come; Brexit, the Electoral College, and the big question nobody likes to answer, but should -- "And what happens next?")
Keywords not available Podcast April 6, 2019 (BGS: Property assessments are up 10%, but I'm determined not to complain; Heather Butterfield of the Iowa Donor Network; cancer isn't a punchline)
Keywords not available Podcast April 13, 2019 (BGS: Technology developers need to be good people, and good people need to know about technology; Erin Murphy of Lee Enterprises and James Lynch of the Cedar Rapids Gazette on Rep. Dave Loebsack's retirement; refugees aren't helpless)
Keywords not available Podcast April 20, 2019 (BGS: Flooding in southwestern Iowa, Paul Rosenzweig on the Mueller Report, measles is basically a weapon of mass destruction)
Keywords not available Podcast April 27, 2019 (BGS: Are we asking candidates the right questions? What would you do to protect your kids? Who was the best James Bond?)
Keywords not available Podcast May 4, 2019 (BGS: Getting better at what we do is a moral duty, property-tax hikes in Iowa, differences with China aren't a "clash of civilizations")
Keywords not available Podcast May 11, 2019 (BGS: We need to learn more, better, and for longer than we used to, tariffs aren't going to protect the American economy, Iowa's strangest foods)
Keywords not available Podcast May 18, 2019 (BGS: Don't do what you love, Dave Swenson on how small towns in Iowa are going to survive, what does the President have against Toyota?)
Keywords not available Podcast May 25, 2019 (BGS: Patriotism should be more than paper-thin, the new Federal courthouse is insufferably dull, SpaceX launches a swarm of satellites)
Keywords not available Podcast June 1, 2019 (BGS: Re-watching "The Tank Man" in light of today's China, Dollar Tree adds booze and closes stores, disagreeing decently)
Keywords not available Podcast June 4, 2019 (BGS: Simon Conway Show fill-in)
Keywords not available Podcast June 8, 2019 (BGS: Yes, Millennials could fight WWII today; capitalism is great but freedoms are even better; can Des Moines stop the new Federal courthouse?)
Keywords not available Podcast June 15, 2019 (BGS: Pay attention to Hong Kong as it fights back, Instagram preserves a deepfake, why Iowans don't walk to work)
Keywords not available Podcast June 22, 2019 (BGS: George Will on "The Conservative Sensibility", our head of state doesn't have to be the President, gender-reveal parties have gone too far)
Keywords not available Podcast June 29, 2019 (BGS: Against the cult of disruption, what should happen at the old YMCA site, the unviable prospects for many newspapers)
Keywords not available Podcast July 3, 2019 (BGS: RJ Lehmann on flood insurance in Iowa and beyond, Adam White on the Supreme Court's latest decisions, flags don't belong on shoes or any other clothing)
Keywords not available Podcast July 5, 2019 (BGS: It's Independence Day, not just the Fourth of July; Eric Burmeister on the shortage of affordable housing in Polk County; what if we opened the door to additional states?)
Keywords not available Podcast July 6, 2019 (BGS: Amanda Kolson Hurley on "Radical Suburbs", MAD Magazine is fading away, integrity isn't a part-time thing)
Keywords not available Podcast July 13, 2019 (BGS: Emily Barske on the anniversary of the Marshalltown tornado, choosing which Ross Perot to remember, why we can't just show up when a crisis emerges)
Keywords not available Podcast July 20, 2019 (BGS: Good Americans are good cosmopolitan citizens, "meth gators", the President's failure to "just say no")
Keywords not available Podcast July 27, 2019 (BGS: One good thing about Quentin Tarantino films, Baltimore isn't a cartoon, Robert Mueller's testimony wasn't just a television show)
Keywords not available Podcast August 3, 2019 (BGS: Old gas stations and cities in revival, Josh Lamel of the Re:Create Coalition offers the case for "balanced copyright", Emilee Richardson on "Live from the Moon", Laura Sarcone on the Citizen Water Academy)
Keywords not available Podcast August 10, 2019 (BGS: Why is the Iowa State Fair a monarchy?, the Iowa Caucuses and dangers to our elections, Jeffrey Epstein's victims deserved better)
Keywords not available Podcast August 17, 2019 (BGS: Maximum freedom of movement for people, money, goods, and ideas; the oldest portable computer storage you remember; the inverted yield curve for dummies)
Keywords not available Podcast August 24, 2019 (BGS: "Recession" is just an anagram for "Oi, screens!", buying Greenland is a stupid idea, my new favorite ride at the Fair is a street)
Keywords not available Podcast September 11, 2019 (BGS: 9/11 will always be with us, but its memory just achieved adulthood; Kathryn Waldron on global terrorism and threats to the homeland; Jodie Warth and Kendra Allen of the Boys and Girls Club)
Keywords not available Podcast September 12, 2019 (BGS: Presidential debates should be essay contests, taxing consumption makes more sense than taxing wealth, big tech wants to be regulated like a utility, Troy Price of the Iowa Democratic Party)
Keywords not available Podcast September 21, 2019 (BGS: ##)
Keywords not available Podcast September 28, 2019 (BGS: Carson King and room for error, know your tech or the wrong people will regulate it, it comes to impeachment because choices have consequences)
Keywords not available Podcast October 12, 2019 (BGS: Why a conservative would axe the Tomahawk Chop, Phil Collins is Not Dead Yet, using Facebook's rules against itself)
Keywords not available Podcast November 2, 2019 (BGS: Twitter kills political advertising, $23 trillion in debt and it's all your fault, Jon Haggerty on "The conservative case against Trump's immigration policies")
Keywords not available Podcast November 30, 2019 (BGS: Small Business Saturday isn't enough, good policies start at the state level, the market economy should blossom in many ways)
Keywords not available Podcast December 7, 2019 (BGS: Internet access isn't a human right, affordable housing in the suburbs and the city, police shootings deserve an NTSB)
Keywords not available Podcast December 19, 2019 (BGS/Jeff Angelo fill-in: Casey Burgat on impeachment and obstruction of Congress, passing of Hayden Fry, gift-giving off the list)
Keywords not available Podcast December 20, 2019 (BGS/Jeff Angelo fill-in: Home security cameras, trade deals, returning Americans to space)
Keywords not available Podcast December 21, 2019 (BGS: Hate crimes in Clive, Amazon as a threat to business, what impeachment means)
Keywords not available Podcast December 27, 2019 (BGS/Jeff Angelo fill-in: Antibiotic resistance is a major killer, social media is the new battleground, Adam White on impeachment)
Keywords not available Podcast December 28, 2019 (BGS: The President is tweeting about "homeless problems", but housing affordability is mainly a matter solved close to home)

2020


Keywords not available Podcast January 4, 2020 (BGS: It's never enough just to say that an old policy wasn't working, on Iran or otherwise)
Keywords not available Podcast January 11, 2020 (BGS: Let's elect a Citizen of the Year to serve as head of state; late-night drone sightings in Nebraska could be headed Iowa's way; Iowans are a fair people, so let's live up to the earned reputation)
Keywords not available Podcast January 18, 2020 (CI: America makes mistakes, but it's our capacity to fix them that makes us better)
Keywords not available Podcast February 2, 2020 (CI: Caucus Eve in Iowa; the State of the Union is a job report)
Keywords not available Podcast February 9, 2020 (CI: Nobody should be afraid of a "foreign" film, least of all Hollywood; China's dishonesty about coronavirus could be a game-changer)
Keywords not available Podcast February 16, 2020 (CI)
Keywords not available Podcast February 23, 2020 (CI)
Keywords not available Podcast March 1, 2020 (CI)
Keywords not available Podcast March 8, 2020 (CI)
Keywords not available Podcast March 22, 2020 (CI)
Keywords not available Podcast June 7, 2020 (CI)
Keywords not available Podcast June 28, 2020 (CI)