WONKS

20/10/2025

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08/02/2025

Tune in ESPN Saturday morning at 10. Gameday is LIVE from Hilton Coliseum just before the Cyclones game!

For the first time in 10 years, ESPN's College GameDay Covered by State Farm will broadcast live from James H. Hilton Coliseum.

08/01/2024

Hah. We’ve just been notified we have 400 followers. On the same
day we decided to shut down the iawonks.com website. So if you’d like to listen to a past show you’ll have a few months to do so, but eventually IAWonks.com will vanish into the vast ethereal netherworld.

It was fun

05/11/2023

Another chance for you to meet, talk with, and hear from author Liz Cooney. Monday Nov 6, 4-6pm
In Tandem Gallery.
The Plaza
300 Walnut suite 6
Des Moines

https://beaverdalebooks.com/events/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

04/08/2019

Since it’s state fair time why not revisit the last WONKS! Which we recorded at and reported from—The IOWA State Fair!!
Politics and the state fair!

Iowa is known for its first-in-the-nation caucuses, but only WONKS! has the infamous war stories of the political wannabes as they out-huckster the midway barkers for Iowans’ attention. Enjoy!

29/05/2019

so should we do another show? or two? asking for a friend

24/08/2018

It’s Friday. We need this.

How White House press briefings sound in Sarah Huckabee Sanders' head... Follow on Instagram and Twitter: Like on Facebook! http://www.faceboo...

19/08/2018

Here it is-- the famous "North Entrance " to the Knapp Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fair. As Matt Strawn pointed out in this months "WONKS! at the Fair" as you walk IN, the Republicans are on the right and the Democrats are on the left. Listen how Strawn says he out foxed the Democrats when it came to signing up Iowans and getting them on the "contact" list. iawonks.com

18/08/2018

Iowa in the national media. A look at Ames with the lowest unemployment rate in the nation. But that still doesn’t solve all the problems and can create a few!
From the Washington Post:

Though Ames, Iowa, has a 1.5 percent jobless rate, widespread prosperity remains elusive.

18/08/2018

WONKS! Wasn’t the only one covering politics at the Iowa State Fair. Enjoy the reporting and great images in this story.

Want to Be President? Just Ask Iowans

One year before the 2020 candidates descend on the Iowa State Fair, attendees had some ideas on how the would-be presidents might win their votes.

14/08/2018

It’s up! Listen Now!
WONKS! At The Fair!
www.iawonks.com

Find out the tall tales of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Bernie Sanders, John McCain, and more! Who didn’t pay for their tickets? Why don’t they count the kernels at WHO-TV’s “Cast Your Kernel?” And who got booed off the Register’s Soapbox stage?

WONKS! drills deeper into the issue of "Sports & the Media" as we hear about college athletics from the business side. When did athletic departments get so powerful – and how did it happen? Are there racial barriers in college sports? And we discuss the plight of the youngest athletes, from partic...

13/08/2018

Hey. It’s called Cast Your Kernel. But...they don’t actually “count” the kernels! Whaaat!!??

And which two presidents had some problems at the admission booth at the fair?

Plus why was Sen. John McCain screaming at a lady and her baby at the fair?

And what’s up with Avenatti? ( we got him too!)

Some of the State Fair secrets on “WONKS! At the Fair.” Sign up at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts etc., the show also at www.iawonks.com now. WONKS! is all about politics and fun- yes they can coexist!