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Send us Fan Mail It's a BYE week for the boys, so we're going to take an "Encore Dive" with Iowa football coach Tim Lester.  Tim Talks about playing Little League baseball with Matt Bowen, having dinner with Chicago Bear great Jim McMahon, and his practice of "Winning Behaviors".  So please enjoy our "Encore Dive" episode with Iowa football coach Tim Lester. (links in comments) #IowaHawkeyes #IowaFootball #Hawkeyes #CollegeFootball #Football You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail - Murphy Quint tells us what we should be looking for when you're doing a formal whiskey tasting.  - Murphy discusses goes into being a master blender. - We're talk about what makes whiskeys taste different and what you can expect if you were to get a bottle of Irish whiskey versus a bottle of rye versus a bottle of scotch versus a bottle of bourbon.  - Murphy walks us through his partnerships with the band Slipknot, the Indiana Fever women's basketball team, and the University of Iowa's NIL program. And then Brad has a Shark Tank pitch for Murphy....... It doesn't include Tang Bomb, but it does include his other passion....... you're going to laugh. #CedarRidge #Bourbon #Whiskey #Distillery #Iowa #Slipknot #IndianaFever #UniversityofIowa #Hawkeyes You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail The boys take a trip to Cedar Ridge Distillery, Iowa's oldest continually operating distillery. Cedar Ridge was the first distillery to open in the state after Prohibition, and one of the most decorated distilleries in the country. #Bourbon #Whiskey #BourbonWhiskey #CedarRidge #Iowa #IowaCity #CedarRapids #Murphy #Quint  You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail This week the boys discuss downtown Iowa City during a home football weekend, the beer band, and going to the Dublin Underground Bar.  They also talk about their field trip to Baxa's Tavern and American Legion Post in Solon Iowa. Lastly they talk about eating Godfather's Pizza after 20 years and end with a speed round of what restaurants of our past are closed and possibly still open. You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail This week the boys catch up after the big Iowa vs. Iowa State football game. They discuss experiencing a Malört Spritzer. They then close with talking about a fieldtrip  to LD's Corner & Truman's KC, both in Des Moines, Iowa. The speedround challenges Brad & John on their knowledge of varieties of apples. #DesMoines #DiveBars #Iowa #IowaState #Tailgate #ISU #Malort   #DeepDive #DeepDivePod You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail Dan McCarney has had a historic career in college football. He's been a player, a coach, a head coach, a program builder, a mentor, and a pretty funny story teller. His coaching career has taken him from Iowa City to Wisconsin, Iowa State, Florida, and North Texas. He's coached in national championship games, taken teams to bowl games after many seasons of loosing, and spent decades around some of the biggest names in college football. He also has the uncommon distinction of being able to say he has coached in 25 Iowa vs. Iowa State football games. #iowafootball #iowastatecyclones #iowahawkeyes #iowastatefootball #collegefootball #collegefootball26 #iowa You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is part of a highly successful food, beverage, and hospitality partnership that has been credited in helping transform the Des Moines bar and restaurant scene. His "destination" restaurants/bars aren't exactly your traditional Iowa Supper Club story. We're talking about a group responsible for places like Fong's Pizza, Mullets, and El Bait Shop. His two establishments the High Life Lounge and El Bait Shop really caught our attention.  Bruning and his partners painstakingly built a patina'd Dive Bar from scratch and created a surreal space that transports you back to the late 1970's.   It's a lot harder than you might think. #HighLifeLounge #ElBaitShop #DiveBar #DesMoines #Iowa  You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is part of a highly successful food, beverage, and hospitality partnership that has been credited in helping transform the Des Moines bar and restaurant scene. His "destination" restaurants/bars aren't exactly your traditional Iowa Supper Club story. We're talking about a group responsible for places like Fong's Pizza, Mullets, and El Bait Shop. His two establishments the High Life Lounge and El Bait Shop really caught our attention.  Bruning and his partners painstakingly built a patina'd Dive Bar from scratch and created a surreal space that transports you back to the late 1970's.   It's a lot harder than you might think. #HighLifeLounge #ElBaitShop #DiveBar #DesMoines #Iowa  You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail Craig Cermak is back to discuss the vehicles of television and cenima of the 1970's and 1980's.  Bigfoot Monster Truck, Ghostbuster Ecto 1, and the A-Team Van are covered in this episode.  Craig's encyclopedic knowledge of vehicles ....... including German Boat-Cars are absolutely amazing...... let us know if there are any vehiles you would like to hear Craig discuss by emailing us at [email protected] You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail This week, we celebrate ONE YEAR of the Deep Dive Podcast! 🎉 To mark the occasion, we’re taking a look back at some of the memorable moments, stories, guests, laughs, and questionable decisions from our first year in the Deep Dive. For our newer Deep Divers, it’s a great way to discover some of the content you may have missed along the way. And for the old, varnished Deep Divers… well, consider it a nostalgic trip down memory lane. It’s also a good reminder that Brad’s voice just keeps getting dreamier. Thanks for diving with us for the past year. Here’s to many more! ENJOY!!!! 🎙️🍻 You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail From the football fields of Ottumwa, Iowa, to the sidelines of college football's biggest stages, Chris Ash has built one of the most impressive coaching résumés in the game. In a remarkably short period of time, he's worked alongside some of the sport's most respected minds—including Urban Meyer, Barry Alvarez, Bret Bielema, Steve Sarkisian, and Marcus Freeman—while also spending time in the NFL with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Las Vegas Raiders.  Chris was the co-defensive coordinator for Ohio State's 2014 College Football Playoff National Championship team before earning the opportunity to become the head coach at Rutgers. Today, he's leading one of college football's premier defenses as the defensive coordinator at Notre Dame.  Join us as we go back to where it all began in southeast Iowa and trace Chris Ash's incredible coaching journey—from Drake University to the Big Ten, the SEC, the NFL, and now South Bend. We'll talk about the mentors who shaped him, the lessons learned along the way, and what it takes to succeed at the highest levels of football. #notredame #notredamefootball #collegefootball #Iowa #Ottumwa  You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail Brad, John, and Tab rehash memories the 2026 Riding of the Idiots, ( Ragbrai 2026 ). - Brad Becomes Deputy in Dunlap Iowa - We visit Jan Jensen's family bar in Kimbleton Iowa - Riding the High Trestle Bridge Trail - Brad and Tab Exists In Parallel Universe  - The absolutely amazing The Dig Inn in Reinbeck Iowa - Team Solid is late for the party and the reek of disappointment  - John Pulls a GREAT Ragbrai Prank on Brad - John Carries a Lit Fire Pit  - Field of Dreams - Wrap Up #Ragbrai #Ragbrai2026 #Iowa #Bicycle You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail The road to becoming the offensive coordinator at the University of Iowa doesn't usually begin in a high school math classroom. But then again, Tim Lester has never taken the usual path. Before joining the Hawkeyes, Lester's football journey wound through just about every level of the game imaginable. He starred as one of the most prolific quarterbacks in Western Michigan history, played professionally in the XFL and Arena Football League, taught high school math, served as a Division III head coach, led a Division I program at Western Michigan, worked in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers, and ultimately found his way to Iowa City. Along the way, he built a reputation as an innovative offensive mind who sees football through the lens of both a coach and a mathematician. In this episode, Tim shares stories from that remarkable journey, from growing up in football-rich Wheaton, Illinois, to discovering that his love for the strategy of the game outweighed his original plans to become a teacher. We talk about the numbers behind play-calling, the lessons he learned at every stop along the way, and why taking an unconventional route ultimately prepared him for one of college football's most scrutinized jobs. Now, as Iowa's offensive coordinator, Lester has become part of one of the sport's most respected coaching lineages. The Hawkeyes' coaching tree stretches back to the legendary Hayden Fry and includes names like Bill Snyder, Barry Alvarez, Bob Stoops, Kirk Ferentz, and countless others who have shaped college football for decades. Tim Lester's story is a reminder that while every branch of that coaching tree grows a little differently, the best coaches often arrive with experiences that are anything but ordinary. #Iowa #IowaFootball #Football #CollegeFootball You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/

Send us Fan Mail Deep Dive: RAGBRAI with Ride Director Matt Phippen Iowa's biggest summer tradition is 13 days out, and we sat down with the man steering it all. Matt Phippen has served as RAGBRAI Ride Director since January 2022, guiding what's known as the oldest, longest, and largest recreational bicycle touring event in the world across the state each July. This will be his fifth ride at the helm.   Phippen grew up in Oelwein, where his parents once hosted a ride team that pitched 50 tents in their front yard during a 1990 overnight stop. That childhood memory hooked him for life, even though his own first RAGBRAI ride in 1998 was, in his words, "the worst experience of my life."  Before taking the reins, Phippen managed the cycling division at Scheels sporting goods, joining the annual June route-inspection rides that precede every RAGBRAI. Now he's the guy who took riders off-route into Minnesota for the first time in event history, opened up Iowa's gravel roads to the pack, and launched new weekend rides that spread the RAGBRAI spirit statewide well beyond its official week. In this wide-ranging conversation, Matt breaks down: What RAGBRAI really is — Iowa's rolling family reunion, connecting small towns of 70 people to riders from 50 states and 20 countries, plus the unscripted magic of it (like the year he ended up selling ice cream out of the back of a Peppy's van in Waterloo)The safety machinery behind the fun — how RAGBRAI's relationship with Iowa State Patrol, DOT, and county law enforcement starts every September, why 20,000 registered riders really means planning for 40,000 people on the road, and the "super sag" protocol (semis, school buses, and staged pickup points) built after the grueling 50th-anniversary rideA day in the life of the director — up at 3–4 a.m., waking Dream Team kids with a cowbell before sunrise, then riding the route town to town in a state trooper's cruiser until the last riders roll in at nightDream Team — the youth cycling program that pairs kids from all backgrounds with mentors, gifts them a bike if they complete training rides and RAGBRAI itself, and gives Matt one of his favorite parts of the dayHis fingerprint on the ride — expanding gravel routes across the whole week, and the story behind taking RAGBRAI across the border into Minnesota for the first time, including the logistics nightmare (and reward) of coordinating two states' worth of troopers, ambulances, and vendorsCelebrities, politicians, and the "20,000 celebrities" line — how RAGBRAI handles VIP requests without turning into a political event, and why guests from David Robinson to Patrick Dempsey have quietly blended in with the packThe evolution of RAGBRAI's culture — from the harder-partying "Animal House" years of the '80s and '90s to today's more family-friendly ride, and how Matt's approach has changed the relationship between riders, law enforcement, and host townsRig-of-the-week stories — from decrepit yellow school buses to six-figure RVs towing Jeeps towing side-by-sides, and the time a support-crew wife got an RV "high-sided" on the bike route and raced the tow truck to fix it before her husband rolled throughGrab your helmet, fill your water bottles, and — if you're in spandex — know that this is a judgment-free zone. It's RAGBRAI, straight from the ringmaster himself. #Ragbrai #Ragbrai2026 #Bicycle #BikeTour You can communicate with us at [email protected] or be part of the Deep Dive Community in our Facebook Group Deep Dive Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JGiMUC7bq/