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Emergency MN State Fair New Food Roundtable!
Episode 33
No time for extensive show notes—this is an emergency! Listen to all four Racket owner/editors gab for an hour-plus about all the Minnesota State Fai…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Wheels on the Bus Feat. Metro Transit
Episode 32
How does public transit work in the Twin Cities?
To find out, we invited Metro Transit GM Lesley Kandaras and bus driver Al Chang to our St. Louis Pa…
1 year, 2 months ago
Bonus: How’d Lutsen Lodge Really Burn Down? Feat. Journalist Joe Friedrichs
Episode 31
For many Minnesotans, it wasn’t just another building on the North Shore—it was the beating heart of the North Shore. Over its 144-year history, Luts…
1 year, 2 months ago
Can Epstein's Ghost Sink Trump? Feat. Sen. Tina Smith
Episode 30
The ghost of Jeffery Epstein, sex-trafficking buddy to the elites, continues to haunt Trump World.
Just this week the Wall Street Journal reported tha…
1 year, 2 months ago
Having Cancer Feat. Wedge LIVE!'s Taylor Dahlin and Racket's Keith Harris
Episode 29
After Racket's Keith Harris was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2022, he noticed how much the actual experience of having cancer differed from how we …
1 year, 3 months ago
Bonus: No War With Iran Feat. Rep. Ilhan Omar
Episode 28
War: There's nothing worse. Yet the U.S. can't seem to stop waging it, with our latest target, Iran, being subjected to around dozen 30,000-pound GBU…
1 year, 3 months ago
Politickin’ and Puntin’ Feat. Ex-MN Viking Chris Kluwe
Episode 27
Punter. Activist. Rocker. Writer. Gamer. And, now, politician.
Ex-Viking Chris Kluwe endeared himself to (most) Minnesotans for eight seasons as he bo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Our Big Forever Chemical Problem Feat. Reporters Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin
Episode 26
Two veteran reporters from The Hill—Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin—drop by the pod to discuss their new book, Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemic…
1 year, 4 months ago
How to Launch a Writer-Owned News/Arts/Culture Publication
Episode 25
It's a Very Special Episode of RacketCast!
No guests this week. Instead, three of Racket's four co-owner/editors—Jay Boller, Em Cassel, and Keith Harr…
1 year, 4 months ago
Terrorized In Your Own Home Feat. Davis Moturi
Episode 24
The horror Davis Moturi and his wife, Caroline, experienced after moving into a cute white house on Grand Avenue in south Minneapolis has been well-d…
1 year, 5 months ago