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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.

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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?

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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).

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