We Crapped In Our Nest | Art Cullen on the Iowa Crisis @pescagist
We Crapped In Our Nest | Art Cullen on the Iowa Crisis  @pescagist
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Iowa's rivers run brown, its cancer rates climb, and its politics tilt redder. Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Art Cullen joins to discuss his new book Dear Marty: We Crapped in Our Nest — Notes from the Edge of the World, Iowa, which serves as both lament and call to arms for a farm state choking on its own abundance. Cullen traces how corn and hogs became economic lifelines and environmental nooses, and explains why Democrats keep losing ground by talking culture instead of livelihood.


This interview is from a Full episode of The Gist Podcast, Hosted by Mike Pesca.
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