That Podcast In Hutch

I was visiting with my producer Christopher Acker about our 3-part series on addiction, alcoholism, and sobriety earlier this week. We got some remarkable feedback on the series, and I’m really thankful for the people who took time to reach out to share how the episodes had touched them.  As we started talking about the upcoming episodes - including this week’s show - Christopher pointed out that...

In this series of That Podcast in Hutch, we're taking a look at the use of alcohol and sobriety through several different lenses.  To conclude our series on alcohol and sobriety, I visit with Seth Dewey, who works as a Health Educator at the Reno County Health Department. He has done incredible work to educate and inform our community about substance misuse. While Seth often speaks about various d...

Jason and Producer Chris head out to Third Thursday to hear from you! We heard from folks about their pets, their summer, or anything else they wanted to share.

In this series of That Podcast in Hutch, we're taking a look at the use of alcohol and sobriety through several different lenses.  In this episode, I visit with Mike and Cammie Rumback. They share their story about dealing with alcoholism - Mike as an alcoholic and Cammie as a wife and mother trying to navigate life with someone addicted to alcohol.  This is a story that's more common than I think...

In this series of That Podcast in Hutch, we're taking a look at the use of alcohol and sobriety through several different lenses.  In this episode, I visit with former District Court Judge and Kansas Representative Steven Becker. He shares the story of his struggle with alcoholism, his time in treatment, and how those moments changed his outlook on life.  I think you'll enjoy hearing this story, a...

This episode of That Podcast in Hutch reaches back a way - to about a year ago when former Hutchinson resident Slade Templeton dropped into the studio while visiting family, in the country from his home in Bern, Switzerland.  Slade is an eclectic mix of interests and skills. He’s the author of horror books - his latest being Truth of the Shadows , which is described as “dark and spiraling journey...

We're excited to launch our next season of That Podcast In Hutch!  For this episode, we go back in time to 2022 - and the time that Sandhills Brewing had to sell an unimaginable amount of food in a ridiculous amount of time to keep its liquor license.  Thankfully, our guest Pippin Williamson, was able to marshal his staff and the community to save this unique Hutchinson brewery from the reach of a...

In this episode of That Podcast in Hutch, I visit with my friends from Beyond Barriers - formerly known as Prairie Independent Living Resource Center.  Erica Rivera, Kelly Miller, and Emerald - a black lab service dog - join me to talk about what it means to live life with a disability - but more importantly what it means to live life independently.  One of the things that really stood out to me a...

In this episode of That Podcast in Hutch, I am interviewing my Mom.  Every Christmas, my Mom brings up the story of the Fisher Price Happy Apple - my one and only Christmas present when I was just 11 months old. It's part of the lore of our family - that we were so incredibly poor the first year of my life, we couldn't afford a proper Christmas Tree or a proper Christmas at all. But my parents man...

This week's episode of That Podcast in Hutch features Marla McKee and Anthony Frischenmeyer with Circles of Hope.  According to its website, Circles of Hope "gathers people who are motivated to move out of poverty and matches them with middle-income and high-income volunteers who can support and encourage them on their journey." But as you'll hear in this conversation, Circles does much more than...

In this week's episode of That Podcast in Hutch, guest host Jackson Swearer returns again for a follow-up interview with That Guy in Hutch, Jason Probst. Earlier this year, I sat down with Jason for a two-part conversation about his life up until he joined the legislature. A lot of people seemed to enjoy those podcasts, and asked me if I would consider interviewing Jason again. What we have for yo...

This week on That Podcast in Hutch, Tyler and I come together for another episode of What's the Big Idea.  This time, we explore a little more deeply the big idea of whether consumer plastics such as water and soda bottles, could be repurposed  for use as filament in an at-home 3D printer. We speculate, and then pull in an answer from someone who actually understands the properties of this materia...

For this episode of That Podcast in Hutch, I decided to publish a recent event I hosted, that featured Chris Courtwright.  For 35 years, Chris was the chief economist with the Kansas Legislative Research Department. In that role, he helped inform legislators about the consequences of changes to tax and spending policies through his research and staffing of the taxation and appropriations committee...

This election season, there has been a lot of chatter about education. Much of it centered around the idea that there's a lot going on behind the imposing walls of a child's school that parents aren't aware of, or involved in. And in that general conversation, there are few buzzwords that have been more thrown about than a three-letter acronym - SEL, which stands for Social and Emotional Learning....

This week's episode of That Podcast in Hutch features Hailee Black - and the secret lives of teenagers. Well, maybe not secret as much as mysterious or misunderstood.  Hailee is a soon-to-be 18 year old senior at Hutchinson High School. I first met her last legislative session when she travelled to Topeka with a group of JAG-K students. Hailee explains more about JAG in the podcast - but it's a fa...

In this week's episode of That Podcast in Hutch, I visit with Sgt. Wesley Vaughn with the Hutchinson Police Department.  Wesley has been a friend of mine for quite some time, and I've always enjoyed our conversations. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience in a variety of areas. And everytime we visit, I leave feeling better informed, with a deeper understanding of our community, and the chal...

This episode of That Podcast in Hutch has us revisiting one of my favorite guests and business - Pippin Williamson with Sandhills Brewing.  Earlier this month, Pippin learned that his liquor license was in jeopardy because he hadn't met the 30 percent food sales requirement that was put in place by Reno County voters 36 years ago, in 1986.  This week Sandhills launched an aggressive plan to sell a...

This week’s episode will be abbreviated, but I wanted to take a moment or two to reflect on the past year.  That Podcast in Hutch is 1-year-old!  The first episode of That Podcast in Hutch aired on Sept. 2, 2021. A year later, we’ve cranked out nearly 50 episodes that have covered a variety of topics - from truck drivers to chefs, former drug addicts, single moms, and experts who provided insight...

This week's episode of That Podcast in Hutch takes me up the road a bit, to the Reno County hamlet of Yoder.  If you're not familiar with Yoder, it's worth learning about - a small, Amish community in Reno County, most known for horse-drawn buggies and good food. But my recent visit took me to the Yoder Thrift Shop, located in the heart of downtown Yoder.  As you'll learn, this store is much more...

A few weeks ago, my friend Tyler sat down with me for a new segment we decided to call "What's the Big Idea." Our first topic of conversation centered on the recent chatter on the internet about what happens to wind turbines once they've reached the end of their useful life.  The prevailing thought online is that the wind turbines are disassembled and disposed of in landfills or in some sort of gr...

This week's episode is going to be filled with flavor! On this edition of That Podcast in Hutch, Chef Daniel Downing sits down to discuss the art of cooking and his life as a chef.  I've wanted to visit with Daniel for quite some time, after seeing some of the creative and delicious dishes he prepared as chef for Jillian's Italian Grill, which has since - and quite sadly - closed. He's now working...

I'm really excited about this week's episode! I've brought in David Reed, curator with the Reno County Historical Society to talk about Time Capsules.  On Aug. 15, people gathered outside Hutchinson City Hall to witness the unearthing of a time capsule that was buried in 1972. I was there, and it was exciting to see the old steel vault lifted out of the earth. It was equally sobering to see a new...

That Podcast in Hutch introduces a new segment - What's the Big Idea.  You ever have a conversation with friends, and find yourself asking one of those big "what if" sort of questions. Yeah, me too. All the time. With all sorts of people. So we've decided to turn those otherwise lost conversations into a podcast segment called "What's the Big Idea?" Basically we try to capture those big questions,...

The call of the cicada is in some ways the sound of a Kansas summer. And children inspecting or playing with the discarded skin of a cicada is a sort of rite of passage in these parts.  Greg Holmes has spent countless hours travelling around the country to record and video cicadas. And as you'll learn in this episode there are many different types of cicadas - all of which have unique sounds and b...

In this episode of That Podcast in Hutch, I sit down with a familiar voice - Jackson Swearer.  A few weeks ago, Jackson attended the Aspen Ideas Festival . This is a signature event of the Aspen Institute. Curious and engaging minds from around the world gather in Aspen for the festival to learn from experts, and each other, and to explore big ideas and questions of our day. The Aspen Institute's...