Iowa Off-Kilter: Recent Episodes
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From agrarian rebellions to monsters prowling the streets of a small town, hosts Kelly Michael Bevins and Gavin Aronsen explore Iowa‘s weird history and curious culture. Featuring music created and performed by Iowa artists.
From country kink to downtown BDSM, we saddle up for a ride through our state’s BDSM culture — and a scene that’s thriving in spite of a decades-old Iowa court ruling that’s thrust it into murky legal waters.
A newspaper article from 1903, rediscovered decades later, tells the tale of a strange, bat-like creature that terrorized the town of Van Meter over the course of five days. Now, we try to uncover the truth behind Iowa's most famous supernatural being.
Incited by a fiery Muscatine-based charlatan named Norman Baker, depression-era farmers across several south eastern counties assemble to resist a statewide mandate enforcing tuberculosis testing in cattle. As tensions mount between the farmers, veterinarians, and law enforcement, confrontation— and the threat of violence —becomes all but inevitable.