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River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail about skateboarding down by the HESCO barriers (good times), the absence of Buried Stories (temporary), and whether TM will make good on an alleged promise and get a tattoo of Julian Assange on his back (will get back to you on that one).
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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.
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On the 22 June 2024 broadcast, Jason Bermas talks with Todd McGreevy about the trials and tribulations of David Hartsuch MD MS, specifically his lawsuit against the Iowa Boards of Medicine and Pharmacy. Dr Hartsuch’s ordeal began in November 2021, when he was included in at least 17 Iowa doctors being investigated by the Iowa Board of Medicine for purportedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and off-label prescription usage to treat said disease. With this June 17, 2024 filing in the Iowa Supreme Court, Hartsuch’s original action and the facts around this case that were previously required to be confidential due to hypocritical policies at the aforesaid board and the Iowa Board of Pharmacy are now in the public domain. Continue reading June 22, 2024 Bermas & McGreevy Discuss Dr David Hartsuch vs. Iowa Boards of Medicine & Pharmacy
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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about his gratitude that Inside Out 2 is still going great guns at the box office. The film’s animated depiction of a panic attack has drawn plaudits from people who suffer from panic attacks, who say it speaks fairly accurately to their experience (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/movies/inside-out-anxiety-adults.html).
The movies he’s seen were:
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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the films he’s watched, the first official day of summer, and today being the 49th anniversary of the release of Jaws — the latter which, incidentally, coincided with a family health scare. Happily, Schulz’s mother wasn’t bitten by a shark. Also, The Goonies is playing this weekend at The Last Picture House, 39 years after the film’s release. If you wish to relive a bit of your childhood, then you might consider some other film for that. Anyhow. Onward.
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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the films he’s reviewed this week. Before they get rolling, Levora informs Schulz that an unidentified, unsolicited caller had texted him to convey to MS that Bad Boys: Ride or Die was his jam. Thanks, Identity Redacted!
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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the latest round of films he’s reviewed. They get right into it, folks. These are professionals at work. They know their jobs. Don’t taunt or gawk at them. They’ve got moves, and they know people.
The films are:
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On the broadcast for the June 1, 2024 TNT Video (podbean.com), Bermas travels back in time with Todd McGreevy to October 15, 2009, to revisit the confirmed first media-pandemic rodeo, the H1N1 flu virus, as reported by then-Managing Editor Jeff Ignatius. If reading Ignatius’s piece gives you a sense of déjà vu, you’re not the only one: Bermas thought he had the scoop back then when he read aloud CDC preparation docs posted at Wiki Leaks back then, only to learn the Reader had beaten him by a month earlier. The two also discuss a National Public Radio broadcast about H1N1 and raw milk https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251647612/a-bird-flu-outbreak-among-dairy-cows-sparks-new-warnings-about-unpasteurized-mil.
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Mike Schulz discusses with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra what a low box-office draw this Memorial Day was — you have to go back to 1995, the summer of Caspar, for a lackluster opening that couldn’t be blamed on a pandemic. Schulz wasn’t expecting Furiosa to break records, being a Hard-“R”-rated film. Still, it must have been tough for him to watch a film crash and burn, financially, in quite the manner that Furiosa, a film devoted to crashing and burning, did.
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River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD Morning Show host Pat Jones, who’s taken over the spot from GM Aaron Dail, re recent highlights, both online and within Issue N° 1021. These include the Reader‘s entries for its Spring 2024 Photo Contest (with the winning entry, Kevin Richard Schafer’s “Secret,” as well as the image you see before you) and articles by Kathleen McCarthy (Scott County Appointments to Elected Offices Keep Records Secret and Not Transparent), Rochelle Arnold (Carbon Wolves Pause, For Now), and Ezra Sidran PhD (What We Know Now a Year After the 324 Main Street Disaster). Transparency is the issue’s theme, in particular the QCA’s perennial observance of it in the breach. Forthcoming regional events include the May 28 show by Chicago, a band that’s been together for nearly sixty years and would likely continue for another sixty, were humans not such frail animals, vulnerable at last to the ravages of age. (Jones mentions how his brother would break out the latest Chicago album every time he broke up with his high-school girlfriend — leaving one to ask, How many girlfriends did he have, really? Because Chicago had an album for every year of the Seventies and every other year of the Eighties. That seems to be the window, anyway.) McGreevy also boldfaces Bruce Walters’s Buried Stories: Louie Bellson (1924-2009) as a recommended feature, as local history shot through the lens of gravesites retains a certain evergreen fascination. Walters, who has contributed essays and illustrations for many years, will submit his final work for the Reader, as he is at work on a book — props, Bruce, and thanks for the memories. . .