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For nearly 4 decades, the U.S. Farm Bill has stood as the most influential piece of legislation for improving waterfowl habitat on private land across America. With it now up for renewal, Julia Peebles and Zach Hartman join Dr. Mike Brasher to share how DU is working with ag and conservation groups to advocate for a Farm Bill that prioritizes the needs of American farmers and ranchers while delivering robust funding for voluntary, incentive-based conservation to benefit ducks, wildlife, and people.

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You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Fiction allows us explore worlds beyond our own, taking us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allowing us to move forward with a wider perspective. So rather than travel physically, Good Scribes Only is traveling to Europe, Africa, Central America, North America, Oceania, the Middle East, and Asia by way of literature. Fourth stop, North America! 

About the Book

Published in 1939 and set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, the Grapes of Wrath follows one family's repeated collisions with the hard realities of America at the time, and what emerges is an intensely human yet majestic, tragic, stirring view into those who find (or fail to find) dignity in hard times. A snapshot of the tension between high and low class Americans, of one man’s inspired responses to injustice, and one woman’s unyielding courage, the novel probes the very core of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic tale, road novel, social commentary, and philosophical discussion, Steinbeck’s magnum opus  may be the most American book in the canon of North America's best literature.

About Good Scribes Only

Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy Streich, Good Scribes Only is a podcast for curious minds to explore, challenge, and think differently through books. Sometimes even traveling to a place doesn't permit you to see it for how it really is for those who live there. Fiction, on the other hand, can. And thus, season 3 is about widening our perspective. We hope you're coming along can help do the same. Be sure to check out the Episode Cheat Sheet for an overview.

 We hope you enjoy this discussion about Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

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0-5 min — Introductory comments

5-10 min — Background on the time

10-15 min — Casting our movie

15-20 min — Character introductions

20-30 min — Religion and runaway capitalism

30-35 min — The “fambly” leaves Oklahoma

35-40 min — California and the American dream

40-45 min — Classism in Grapes of Wrath

45-50 min — The family struggles in California

50-55 min — Themes and devastating conclusion

55-60 min — Title meaning and final thoughts

60-65 min — Ratings and conclusion

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Reels, Booze & Bro’s aka RB2 hosts Jay, Brian, and Reel Bro Fan Shane review the ultimate space traveling movie, Interstellar.  Grab your space suit cause this little podcast is gonna cost you 51 years.  Cheers!

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Lisa lassos Misty of Chincoteague as we tour tiny horse island.

Whitney drifts across the plains with the invasive tumbleweed.

Hayly has a high time with Aimo Koivunen, the Finnish soldier who survived a Russian attack in WWII thanks to a near-deadly dose of government-grade methamphetamines.

Happy Summer, listeners! We're joined by Comedian Ben Katzner, who also wrote the graphic novel "Hello My Name Is Poop" (https://www.amazon.com/Hello-Name-Poop-Ben-Katzner/dp/1638490120), to talk about the New Jersey shark attacks of 1916, the Dust Bowl Summer of 1936, and the most dangerous age to ride a jet ski. 

It's crime o'clock! Cash in for depression-era vehicles, palpable sexual frustration, and hot people doing hot crimes. The person most confused by the film this week was: the oldest woman in the world.

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Wendy and Amy step back into historical fiction with Kristin Hannah's novel The Four Winds. They look at how the power of family and familial love, or a lack of it, can shape generations, and learn just how fitting a symbol like the little copper wheat penny is in the story. Do you believe in the power of family or luck? Pop a cork to the power of family!

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Grapes of Wrath
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 1
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 2
Robert Frost's "A Late Walk"

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The short story "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell  paired with Luna d'Or

In this episode, host Emmy B shares one of her favorite reads published in 2021. "The Four Winds" by Kristin Hannah is a work of historical fiction at its finest. 

Guest Paul Norat, helps Emmy take you through the history behind the historical fiction and shares insights into the "Dirty Thirties" and what we can learn about poverty, immigration, and emergency preparedness, from the experiences of women during the Great Depression era. Protagonist Elsa Martinelli's has a lot to share with readers regarding grit, hope, and courage in desperate times.  Her story along with the many untold stories of women in the 1930s, are ones we can all learn from today!

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Welcome to an uncharacteristically short episode! For our 13th episode Kat covers the unlucky history of the American Dust Bowl and Kaleigh covers the not so unlucky history of the number 13.

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"The most discussed book in years - now comes to the screen to become the most discussed picture in ages"

Acclaimed comic book writer Mark Russell (Billionaire Island, Second Coming, Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles) joins us to talk about Steinbeck, systemic oppression and the powerful legacy of John Ford's 1940 adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath.

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Why civilization after civilization squandered their soils and fell, why soils are even more imperiled in the modern world, and how Edenicity will learn from these mistakes. If Episode 13 was like Stanley Kubrick's "2001", this episode is like The Empire Strikes Back.

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Within our lives, we tell each other that our past is just that our past. But let's be real, this shit haunts us and defines us and needs to be examined. I think? This is Never Tell Your Stories.

In the 1930's President Roosevelt responded to the tragedy of the dustbowl by planting millions of trees in what he called "shelterbelts". The trees were meant to hold water, as well as protect the plains from the effects of over planting and loss of topsoil. Over the last few decades, many of those all important shelterbelts have been destroyed as agriculture has planted fencerow to fencerow. Could we see a second Dust Bowl scenario as climate change advances? Carson Vaughn explains what is at stake and why we can't have too many trees.

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