In this episode, we explore global forces collide in the iowa heartland. If you were to stand right in the middle of Iowa about 16 ,000 years ago, you definitely would not be looking at perfectly straight green rows of corn stretching to the horizon. No, not even close. Right. You wouldn't see a farm at all. You'd actually be standing on top of a massive glacier just staring out at this frozen Arctic wasteland. Ice as far as the eye could see. Exactly. Welcome to this deep dive. Today, our mission is to basically give you a shortcut to being genuinely well -informed about a place that is so often stereotyped as just endless, quiet agriculture. Yeah, the endless cornfield stereotype. We are diving into a really comprehensive historical text on the history of Iowa, and the landscape we are uncovering is, well, it's chaotic, dramatic, and anything but  ...