2024 Iowa Podcast Award Winners

This is Only the Beginning

We would like to congratulate not just our 2024 IPA winners but all nominees who submitted to this year’s awards. The time and effort you invest into your projects is nothing short of miraculous and we applaud you. Our community came together on September 15th and we look forward to being your fans into the future.

Thank you for being the Voices of Iowa.

Premium Awards

Podcast of the Year:
The Confused Breakfast Podcast

People’s Choice Award:
On the Pen: The Weekly Dose

Show Recognition Awards

Presented by:

Episode of the Year

  • Confused Breakfast: “Pulp Fiction (1999)”

  • WINNER: Giant-Sized Violence: “It’s Morphin’ Time: On Losing Your Heroes and Trans-forming Yourself Through Power Rangers”

  • Ice Cream Sunday: “The American Dream Takes An Unfortunate Detour Through Chicago (with Cal The Englishman)”

  • Inclusion Series: “DSP at Village Northwest and Dordt University Senior Cara Leichty”

  • Myths of Myria: “The Turning Point/The Pact”

  • Resilient Convos: “Shame! A Crisis of Identity”

Best Limited Series

  • Great American Whiskey Cookers: “A Journey to Cedar Ridge” Series

  • WINNER: JustGoBike: “The RAGBRAI Pre-Ride” Series

  • Southeast Iowa Today with John Bain: “Concern on Wind Turbine Farms” Series

  • Summer Eats: A Tappa Time Podcast: “Summer 2023” Series

  • The Art of Climate Dialogue: “The Art of Climate Dialogue”

Best Interview Podcast - Affiliated

  • Iowa Innovation (NewBoCo)

  • Music Ed Insights (Multiple)

  • Old Man Strength (3 Beards Media)

  • Othered (Upload Media Group)

  • Talkin’ Top Tier (T1 Entertainment)

  • WINNER: Watts Happening with Gary Watts (Watts Group Iowa)

Best Interview Podcast - Independent

  • WINNER: Deck Diaries

  • Domestic Dad

  • Having a Laugh

  • Life as an Outsider

  • The Art of Climate Dialogue

  • The Healthy Project

  • Transcending Comics

Best Comedy Podcast

  • Bret & Tony with Ash & Abe

  • Confused Breakfast

  • Dick Rogers: Space Detective

  • WINNER: REMelations: Comedy Dream Interpretation

  • The Nostalgic Front

  • The Sugarbowl

  • TNT Podcast

Best Business Podcast

  • Iowa Innovation

  • WINNER: Real Success with Nate Kaeding

  • Southeast Iowa Today with John Bain

  • Whiskey and Real Estate

Best Society and Culture Podcast

  • Best Motorcycle Roads

  • WINNER: Breaking Barriers

  • Conspiring to Argue

  • Iowa Basement Tapes

  • Othered

  • The Downtown Dish

  • Watts Happening

Best Entertainment Podcast

  • WINNER: The Confused Breakfast Podcast

  • K Love You Bye

  • Midweek Musings

  • No Internal Monologue

  • The Guitar Department with Joe Alton

  • The Sugarbowl

  • This Week in the 1990’s

Best Sports Podcast

  • 3 Blind Refs

  • JustGoBike

  • Schiestel Speaks Sports

  • The Joe Show

  • The Skol Hop

  • WINNER: Washed Up Walkons

Best Fiction Podcast

  • Dick Rogers: Space Detective

  • WINNER: Myths of Myria: A Live-Play D&D Podcast

  • Robin Hood: Rising to Honor

Best History Podcast

  • Iowa Civil Rights History

  • Mom & Merder

  • WINNER: Relevant or Irrelevant

  • Southeast Iowa Today with John Bain

  • Strange and Dreadful Things

Best Food & Beverage Podcast

  • Do You Want to Start a Tab?

  • WINNER: Great American Whiskey Cookers

  • Summer Eats: A Tappa Time Podcast

Best Pop Culture Podcast

  • WINNER: Big Thunder Podcast

  • RETConversations

  • She Said w/ Katie & Kenz

  • The Hell Razor Handle Bar

  • Wes & Mike Waste Time Watching TV

Best Wellness/Relationship Podcast

  • WINNER: Beautiful View

  • Dear Matchmaker

  • False Starts: Putting Mental Health in the Playbook

  • How’d You Sleep?

  • Menacing Martians

  • On the Pen: The Weekly Dose

  • Southeast Iowa Today with John Bain

Best Education Podcast

  • Captive Health Presents: Healthcare Insights

  • Inclusion Series

  • WINNER: Music Ed Insights

  • Southeast Iowa Today with John Bain

  • The 441

  • The Art of Climate Dialogue

  • The Kirk and Baker Show

Best Video Podcast

  • Breaking Barriers

  • WINNER: Great American Whiskey Cookers

  • Ice Cream Sunday

  • On the Pen: The Weekly Dose

  • Rhymes with Odd

  • Watts Happening

Talent Recognition Awards

Host of the Year - Individual

  • WINNER: Black & Privileged in America: Abena Sankofa

  • Inclusion Series: Dakota Caldwell

  • Real Success with Nate Kaeding: Nate Kaeding

  • Watts Happening: Gary Watts

Host of the Year - Ensemble

  • Beautiful View: Paul Sinar, Candy Sinar

  • Bret & Tony with Ash & Abe: Bret Royer, Tony Miller, Ashlyn James, Abe Kershner

  • WINNER: Confused Breakfast: Mike Schulte, Sean Prior, AJ Vens

  • Othered: Caleb Scales, Sarah Van Cleve

  • REMelations: Mindy Pollack, Brooke Althaus

  • Those Who Do: Zac Barclay, Tony Forsmark

  • TNT Podcast: Tevin Jones, Tone Da Boss

Producer of the Year

  • Breaking Barriers: Maurice Davis

  • Ice Cream Sunday: Corey Bohn, Austin Buckner

  • Iowa Innovation: Rob Merritt, Logan Schultz

  • Relevant or Irrelevant: David Baker

  • WINNER: Sherlock Holmes: Craig Hart

  • Watts Happening: Austin Evans

Best Production - Editing, Sound Design, and Writing

  • Dick Rogers: Space Detective

  • WINNER: Giant-Sized Violence: A Toku Comics Podcast

  • Midweek Musings

  • The Groove Life

  • Watts Happening

Best Original Score/Song

  • Breaking Barriers: Main Theme

  • Music Ed Insights: “From the Classroom to the Podium”

  • Music Ed Insights: “Quick Pro Tips”

  • The 441: Main Theme

  • WINNER: The Groove Life: “Welcome to the Groove Life”

Best Cover Art

  • All Good Stories

  • Myths of Myria: A Live-Play D&D Podcast

  • WINNER: The Art of Climate Dialogue: Stories from Iowa

Honor Awards

Community Impact Award:
My Why: A YPN Podcast

Innovation Award:
The Art of Climate Dialogue: Stories from Iowa

Advocacy Award:
Southeast Iowa Today with John Bain

Emerging Podcast Award:
The Man Stream Podcast