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Bi-weekly podcast from Racket, the Twin Cities news/arts/culture publication. Featuring hyper-local recaps, reviews, interviews, debates, hot takes, and more from the crew behind your favorite reader-funded, worker-owned media org.
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Recent Episodes
Fighting Google's Data Center Feat. Pine Island Residents Aubree Derksen & Nicole Mills
We're halfway through the Year of Data Center Backlash. Americans hate the massive AI factories, yet tech giants continue to foist them on communities amid the current AI arms race. That negative…
Girl Gone HOW Wild? Feat. Author/Comic/Actor Courtney Kocak
Right after high school Courtney Kocak left sleepy Jackson, Minnesota, to chase her dreams in Hollywood. Did everything go as planned? Sure didn't! And in her brand-new memoir, Girl Gone Wild, Kocak…
Weather, Climate, and Getting Ripped Feat. Meteorologist Sven Sundgaard
We've had investigative reporters, sportswriters, food critics, and music writers on RacketCast, but never anyone working the beat every Minnesotan actually cares about: the weather.Remedying that is…
2026 Timberwolves Playoffs Explainer for Dummies Feat. Podcaster Dane Moore
Is it unwise to keep calling our listeners "dummies"? Perhaps, but that's what we did with our Twins preview pod, and we're doing it again for this Timberwolves explainer featuring the great…
2026 MN Twins Preview for Dummies Feat. The Athletic’s Aaron Gleeman
🎶 Take me out to the ball game 🎶🎶 Take me out with the crowd 🎶🎶 Buy me some peanuts and RacketCast (?!) 🎶Calm down! RacketCast will remain free of charge for this (slightly delayed) season preview of…
Celebrate Fancy Ray Day Feat. Local Comedy Legend Fancy Ray
Happy Fancy Ray Day!Well, actually, that honorary calendar date—as previously decreed by the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul—isn't until March 28. But we wanted to get "The Best Looking Man in…
Mapping MN's Hidden City Feat. YouTuber Chris Parr
What the hell is going on in North Oaks, Minnesota?That's the question Minneapolis-based videographer/YouTuber Chris Parr set out to answer. In a video from last month titled "I Mapped Google’s ONLY…
Livestreaming a Crisis Feat. Unicorn Riot
Ever read this week's Racket feature story and think to yourself: "Boy, I'd sure love to hear an entire hour-long conversation about how Niko Georgiades helped launch Unicorn Riot, provided…
Covering the MN ICE Invasion Feat. Reporters Madison McVan & Max Nesterak
Small but mighty, the Minnesota Reformer continues to deliver some of the best Operation Metro Surge coverage in the state. We're fans, we suspect you're fans, so we figured: Let's get reporters…
Bonus: Life In Occupied MN Feat. Pod Damn America
You've heard Racket's Jay Boller co-hosting RacketCast, certainly. But have you ever heard him guesting on another podcast entirely?That's the not-so-rare opportunity presented to you here, where…
No Work, School, or Spending This Fri. Feat. Local Labor Leaders
Summoning our best Jocko Conlan voice: Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-rike!You won't hear our guests—Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation President Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou and Amalgamated Transit Union…
Bonus: What’s Going on in MN? Feat. Never Post
You've heard Racket's Em Cassel co-hosting RacketCast, certainly. But have you ever heard her guesting on another podcast entirely?That's the not-so-rare opportunity presented to you here, where…
2025 MN Food/Drink Trends, Triumphs, Catastrophes, and Curiosities Feat. Critic Kirstie Kimball
It's our last podcast ep of 2025!As such, we invited new Racket dining correspondent Kirstie Kimball of beyond beurre blanc to join fellow critic Em Cassel of Racket to hashbrown out the year that…
Avoiding Death, Getting Weirder, Releasing Memoirs Feat. Mary Lucia
Wishing you and yours a joyous and spiritually fulfilling Black Friday. Make sure your frenzied consumerism arrives at What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To, the brand-new…
Biggest MN Turkeys of 2025
A sincere and gratitude-stuffed "gobble, gobble" to all our RacketCast listeners ahead of this, one of the final episodes before Thanksgiving.As such, we're talkin' turkey—local folks deserving of…
Bonus: Twin Cities Election Guide Spectacular Feat. Naomi Kritzer
Naomi Kritzer, author of the best Twin Cities election guide for 20+ years, drops by the pod to assess mayoral races, City Council races, Park Board races, and even the surprisingly exciting Board of…
The Parkway Pervert Feat. John Waters
Eternally cool director/author/personality John Waters—aka the “Pope of Trash” aka the “People's Pervert” aka the “Prince of Puke”—makes his triumphant return this Saturday to the Parkway Theater.…
BookCast, Vol. 1
Sometimes, when you're a tiny media outlet with a biweekly podcast, several interview requests fall through and you're left with... three microphones and an hour to fill. And nobody can accuse us of…
The Surprising Afterlife of Alt-Weeklies Feat. Journalists Tricia Romano & Emma Silvers
Alt-weeklies: The four Racket founders/editors used to work at one, City Pages, before Star Tribune Media Co. flushed it and its 40-plus-year legacy down the tubes five years ago. And that fate more…
2025 MN Vikings Preview for Dummies Feat. Arif Hasan
In the grand tradition of this still-kinda-new podcast, we're bringing you conversations with smart and cool local sportswriters to preview upcoming seasons. The "for dummies" framing? The guests…
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