The Supper Club with Zachary Oren Smith

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October 2025

🌽Iowa's economic crash out - Cornhole Champions #46
Toss some bags about Iowa’s economic woes… health insurance costs going up… and some reflection on a year of Cornhole Champions.
 • Zachary Oren Smith
45:10
🌽Jennifer Konfrst on building power in the minority - Cornhole Champions #45
Toss some bags about Iowa's 3rd Congressional District, Susan B. Anthony's mobilization for Nunn, and what getting things done looks like when you lack…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
20:54
🌽 Art Cullen: How big Ag broke Iowa... and what comes next - Cornhole Champions #44
Toss some bags about Iowa’s petrochemical farm economy… the hollowing out of our small towns… And the politics of pollution and power…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
46:26
🌽 What could Iowa do to reverse high cancer rates? (w/ State Rep. Austin Baeth) - Cornhole Champions #43
Toss some bags at Iowa's cancer emergency... Why $20,000 for radon testing disappeared in two months... And how special interests are hurting Iowans...
 • Zachary Oren Smith
22:11
📻 Different states, different justice (w/ Sarah Hedlund and Diana Mondragon) - Cornhole Champions
Toss some bags with two survivors who discovered that seeking accountability for the same abuser looked completely different because of where they…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
25:35
📻 A $400,000 scandal: How research on Iowa's ag pollution got buried (w/ Carey Gillam) - Cornhole Champions #41
Toss some bags at Iowa's cancer crisis cover-up… Trump's EPA reversing water protections… And why farmers are fighting back on their own…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
21:08

September 2025

📻 Newsroom to classroom: Ty Rushing on teaching journalism - Cornhole Champions #40
Toss some bags with a pioneering Iowa journalist about trading the editor's desk for the professor's podium and why being a beginner again might be the…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
29:52
🌽 What Charlie Kirk's killing brought to Iowa - Cornhole Champions #39
Toss some bags at city-school elections this fall... Iowa's response to Kirk's assassination... And what about Gov. Kim Reynolds' emails?!
 • Zachary Oren Smith
46:27
🌽 Red states really showed ‘em…: Iowa loses out on research funding - Cornhole Champions #38
Toss some bags at Iowa losing research funding... why your congressman is skipping out on town halls... and the musical chairs of 2026 as Iowa's biggest…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
46:24
📻 Politics and big money make Iowa sicker (w/ Dr. Andrew Nish) - Cornhole Champions Interview
Toss some bags about why politics and big money block solutions to Iowa's cancer crisis and and what one doctor thinks we need to change to save lives.
 • Zachary Oren Smith
47:46
🌽 Senate shakeup: Ernst to retire. Hinson to hop in.
Catch up on the Iowa's US Senate shake-up. A look at how Ernst's open seat shuffles seats across the state.
 • Zachary Oren Smith
2:59
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