Doty Land
Conversations with people about ideas and their interesting backgrounds. From artificial intelligence assisting those with dementia to the way ham radio benefits local communities, I conduct long-form conversations from the Madison isthmus.
Episodes
Stacy Vaccaro and Jim Lietz (current and former sheriff's deputies) made the Waushara Argus this week with news that begs the question, what does conservatism mean in a red county that purports it desires fiscal austerity? The Badger Project broke the news this month. The Argus, itself, is a focal point for requiring letters to the editor to be paid for, which undermines an open letters policy that is broadly respec...
Is there a case to be made for not supporting the United States soccer team at FIFA games, given what our nation has done from ICE to Iran? A dinner party in Dane County asked what criteria the Germans used as Hitler came to power as a way to measure when citizens need to consider leaving their country of birth. What lessons can Americans learn from the lead-up to WWII as we watch our democracy continuously at...
From the fight over counting mail-in ballots after Election Day to stopping federal aggression against a Milwaukee man who has lived with the correct paperwork in the United States for 30 years but strongly advocates for Palestinian rights, this episode is timely and punchy.
The lack of a national birthday party for the semiquincentennial is troubling, as is the lack of leadership in the Wisconsin statehouse regarding how to use a $2 billion surplus. Also, Elvis made a headline this week. All that and more on Gregory Humphrey's Caffeinated Politics Podcast.
The timely and varied topics this week all strike a theme of accountability. From making sure fluoride again will be in public drinking water, to making sure a homophobic killer is behind bars, and calling out the absurdity of fawning over the president, the Caffeinated Politics podcast provides the perfect tone for the columns this week.
A culmination of the topics that made it into my columns on Caffeinated Politics this week. From the sour notes struck by the Watertown School Board against high school students performing a song honoring a LGBTQ+ activist, a January 6th rioter becomes a criminal again, childhood obesity, and a goodbye to CBS News and the beloved Stephen Colbert.
Warm recollections from friends and fellow conservationists about the former Secretary of Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation. George Meyer proved to be an essential citizen, as he brought people together to shape conservation policies that produced profoundly positive outcomes for the state. Here is a professionally packaged podcast for a gem...
Quick and memorable historical stories with high production values. Bipartisanship comes alive with Harry Truman and Arthur Vandenberg, Thomas Jefferson wants Italian musicians in our military band, and Teddy Roosevelt skinny dips in the Potomac River. Gregory Humphrey makes the past witty and interesting.
Eloquently spoken Sabrina Harris shares stories from a lynching in Alabama that forces her family to become part of the Great Migration. In this movement, approximately six million African Americans moved from the rural Southern United States to the urban North, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. This story strongly echoes the ones from “The Warmth of Other Suns”, the historical study by Isab...
A fire that destroys a large portion of Hancock’s Main Street, the career of Stanley Hamilton, the 33-year tailoring job of Gus Lawandowski who builds a house on S. Lake Street, the tragic death of Frank Sigourney, what is playing at the Hancock Theatre, a Booth family wedding, the trial of Elmer Huckins, local sports scores, how a boy in 1929 wants snow for Christmas, along wirh the comings and goings of vill...
The world's longest-running radio show turns 100 years old on November 28, 2025. From memories of Loretta Lynn, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, WSM radio announcer Grant Turner, and others, this tribute looks at how classic country music still resonates across the land. Heartfelt memories galore! Podcaster and former radio broadcaster Gregory Humphrey takes listeners on a journey from his Hancock home to t...
Without doubt, the most unique swearing-in of any of our American presidents occurs in Vermont with the administration of the oath of office to Calvin Coolidge. Former radio broadcaster Gregory Humphrey sets the mood and then layers on the facts. This is how history should sound and feel.
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was not only something to see, but also to hear! Podcaster and history-lover Gregory Humphrey packages a professionally-produced and quick-paced slice of the past that will leave you asking yourself, "How did I not know that before?"
An uplifting interview with Robin and Wil Guernsey about the joys of owning and loving six beautiful Icelandic horses. The journey to starting a stable and the way these horses connect with others in need of smiles and inner healing. Podcaster Gregory Humphrey produced this professional-sounding episode with the awareness that we need some good feelings and smiles in our daily lives. The horses are...
Stories from history you never learned ranging from Constitutional Convention humor, the first shot that started the Civil War, the headline of Albert Gore Jr. coming into the world, the extra typewriter key needed for Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon and Pussy Galore. Podcaster Gregory Humphrey paces a fast and fascinating podcast episode that will leave you asking how much more about our past is y...
There are many emotions and perspectives about the state of our democracy today. Podcaster Gregory Humphrey suggests that forming your home as an anchor where family and friends can unite and know that shared values will be respected is an essential way to be protected from the bombast and chaos created by Donald Trump and his administration. At his home, near a lake, the loons have returned for a spring...
The thoughts and perspectives about university and college students in the presidential election are examined in an interview with Mira Goodman from New York State, who is spending her fall in the Badger State, helping to engineer a solid turnout at the polls. Podcaster Gregory Humphrey blends political nostalgia through sound and concludes with a commentary on his first vote for president in 1980 in his rural villa...
With thanks to small-town librarians across the nation, this podcast looks at three powerful writers and researchers who have allowed deep insight into the horror unleashed by weather phenomena. From the 1900 hurricane that smashed into a port city killing 8,000, to the freakish winter weather system in 1888 that killed 500 people on the Midwest plains, many of them children, to the 12,000 dead people in Londo...
The softer tone of our politics is recalled from the days when a young WDOR radio reporter put on a shirt and tie to cover national politicians. Driving a Chevet to the Labor Day rally with Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro or thrilling to the enormity of President Ronald Reagan stumping for this tax policy, there is a reminder that our politics while still rough and tumble, allowed for less bombast and mea...
The 1883 blaze at the Newhall House in Milwaukee killed approximately 100 people. The interesting people who had lodged at the hotel the night of the blaze, including Tom Thumb, an actor, politicians along with two chambermaids from central Wisconsin are part of a story about the intersections of life at the time of a tragic fire. What brought those to the Newhall House that night? What caused the fire? ...
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