Audio playback of the video casts with host Jason Bermas the independent film maker, documentarian and journalist, broadcast on the Rokfin.com platform.
December 28, 2025 – Reader Publisher Todd McGreevy joins Jason Bermas for the weekly Deep in the Weeds while Making Sense of the Madness on December 28. Typically Jason is live Friday mornings with Aaron Dail on WQUD 107.7FM at 9am. This holiday week McGreevy joins Bermas for a one hour video broadcast you can watch here or listen to above in the player.
Topics include Automatic License Plate Readers and a new Iowa ACLU Report as well as Election Integrity and lack of transparency in the Scott County Auditor’s office, and much more.
December 16, 2025 original broadcast on WQUD 107.7 FM – River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy and WQUD GM Aaron Dail indulge in their monthly audio tête-à-tête, this one concerning the December edition of the Reader. Dail gets right into it about his distrust of all things AI. Those who see the artistic benefits of AI — as a relatively new platform for art, is it awaiting its Stanley Kubrick? — might want to ask, Will the political consequence of AI necessarily lead us into the plot of a Stanley Kubrick film?
Original broadcast on WQUD 107.7 FM November 12, 2025 – River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy and WQUD GM Aaron Dail bid Neil Young a happy eightieth birthday, extol Gov’t Mule’s cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, and give big ups to the Reader’s promotion of Jason Bermas’s Deep in The Weeds:A Rough Cut — Bermas himself being a recurring feature on WQUD. (JB can also be heard on his podcast, Making Sense of the Madness with Jason Bermas.) McGreevy and Dail run through their disagreement about the influence of AI: Dail thinks it’s insidious all around, while McGreevy believes its application in the arts, particularly music, will be salutary (perhaps as long as musicians use AI to help figure out how their individual arrangements are going to sound, and not act as a replacement for their own creativity, by which point AI will be using other AI results for its search parameters and wind up producing an incestuous beast of tired clichés and banal sounds which no one will want to listen to, and the market will respond accordingly).
In this podcast, Jason Bermas and Todd McGreevy discuss the Summit Pipeline agenda, which was passed on 25 June by the three members of the Iowa Utility Board. In order for Summit Carbon Solutions to build its carbon-capture-and-storage plant — its two-thousand-mile, multi-state plant, in which liquified CO₂ is carried via pipeline from an ethanol plant in Iowa to sites elsewhere, and (you are asked to believe) both satisfies existing energy concerns and reduces dangerous levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere — it needs to persuade the states involved to exercise eminent domain and secure the necessary land from private citizens who, inconveniently enough, happen to own it. So far, as Clark Kauffman of Iowa Capital Dispatch has reported, Iowa has signed off on the permits necessary for eminent domain to be enacted there. Meanwhile, the Dakotas have proved a tougher nut to crack. Whether Dakotan intransigence can be ascribed to a healthy skepticism of the whole capture-and-storage process and a leeriness of the safety concerns that the project raises (and, as Rochelle Arnold has noted, businesses like Summit tend to elide), or merely an insufficient amount of commercial pressure brought to bear on Dakotan attentions— or six of one, et al — what we are watching play out is another instance of “climate crisis” wolf-bait being tossed out to justify any number of extra-judicial actions taken by the state. This time, what’s actually at stake is the right of property-owners to maintain their fair-market asking-price on their land, and not have it driven down artificially by the mere possibility of eminent-domain interference.
On today’s show, originally broadcast live on TNTRadio.live, Todd McGreevy & Jason Bermas discuss the recent cover story in the June 2024 River Cities’ Reader: What We Know Now a Year After the 324 Main Street Disaster. Excerpt: Former Davenport City Administrator (who was paid more than $338,000 annually by taxpayers in 2023) Corrine Spiegel, hired the department heads that mismanaged two of the city’s biggest disasters in modern history – the 2019 flood wall failure and the 324 Main St. building collapse – secured a $1.6MM payment for emotional damages and lost wages in secret without a city council vote until after the 2023 municipal elections. Continue reading May 24, 2024 Bermas & McGreevy Talk $1.6MM Nothing Burger + Fractional Vote Counting in Iowa→
On today’s show, originally broadcast live on TNTRadio.live, Todd McGreevy explains the function and importance of the Grand Jury process. Todd also comments on the tragic 2023 collapse of The Davenport – a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa that was generally considered by residents and the public to be noticeably “not up to code” and suffered as a result of poor management, malfeasance and corruption. Watch then entire Jason Bermas first hour at https://tntvideo.podbean.com/e/todd-mcgreevy-on-the-jason-bermas-show-18-may-2024/
On today’s show, broadcast live on TNT Radio, Todd McGreevy comments on the problem with bureaucracy taking over on the local level as exampled by recent reporting from River Cities’ Reader on how Scott County appointments to elected offices are keeping records secret and not being transparent. Full video episode at this link here: https://tntvideo.podbean.com/e/todd-mcgreevy-bryce-eddy-on-the-jason-bermas-show-04-may-2024/
