Tonight we made the drive down to Des Moines for the first event in Iowa Public Radio's Insight Series, which is bringing personalities from Nation Public Radio to the Civic Center for talks and question and answer sessions. Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition, was in town tonight, and while the crowd probably took up less than a quarter of the Civic Center's capacity, he still gave an interesting talk on the state of public discourse and honesty in the national media. He started off humorously relating his lifelong disappointment as a Cubs baseball fan, and lamented those poor minor league players with the Iowa Cubs in Des Moines who could only aspire to one day move up to the major league team in Chicago where they would be destined to never win a World Series.
Along with his main talk about the media, he also expressed his passionate support for adoption while discussing his book about his and his wife's experience adopting two little girls from China after having difficulties conceiving on their own. The session closed with a question and answer session, with a moderator asking questions that had been submitted by members of the audience ahead of time. We enjoyed the event and look forward to the next one featuring Sarah Vowell in November!
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