This week’s is a special summer vacation edition of On Iowa Politics

On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day’s deadlines have been met.

This week’s show is hosted by The Gazette’s James Lynch and new guests, Zach Oren Smith, who covers local government and politics at the Iowa City Press-Citizen, and Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times.

The show was produced by Stephen M. Colbert and music heard on the podcast is courtesy of Copperhead and Euforquestra.