Episode 1001: America 250 – Faith, Farm Life, and the Fight for America with Senator Tim Hutchinso
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Newt talks with former Senator Tim Hutchinson about his new memoir, From Spavinaw to D.C.: A Conservative's Journey Through Faith, Farm Life, and the Fight for America. Hutchinson reflects on his upbringing on an Arkansas farm, the faith mentors who shaped him, and how Ronald Reagan's 1964 "A Time for Choosing" speech sparked his political awakening as a teenager. He recounts becoming the first Republican popularly elected to the Senate from Arkansas in 1996, his role in the "Gingrich Revolution" and the Cracker Jacks freshman caucus, and the dramatic phone call that pushed him from a safe House seat into a Senate run. Their conversation covers the cultural differences between the House and Senate, formative trips to Israel and China, and his enduring friendships across the aisle, including with Senator Russ Feingold over golf. Hutchinson closes by sharing his Fourth of July plans with family.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to Nutz World Podcasts on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:13.6 | The Greatest American Inventions. |
| 0:16.6 | Today's episode carries a weight the others don't. |
| 0:19.8 | Every invention we've discussed has transformed the world for the better, with complications |
| 0:24.1 | sometimes, but ultimately for the better. |
| 0:27.6 | Today's invention is more ambiguous. |
| 0:30.1 | It carries within it both enormous promise and the shadow of annihilation, the nuclear |
| 0:35.8 | reactor. |
| 0:37.5 | On the afternoon of December 2nd, 1942, between the west stands of Stag Field, the football |
| 0:44.5 | stadium at the University of Chicago, a team of scientists gathered around a structure |
| 0:49.5 | they had been assembling for weeks. |
| 0:52.6 | Chicago pile number one, a stack of graphite blocks and uranium pellets, They'd been assembling for weeks. Chicago Pile No. 1. |
| 0:54.9 | A stack of graphite blocks and uranium pellets designed to sustain a nuclear chain reaction. |
| 1:03.2 | The man in charge was Enrico Fermi, Italian-born, Nobel laureate, one of the greatest |
| 1:09.5 | physicists of the century, who had fled fascist Italy with his Jewish wife in 1938 and come to America. |
| 1:17.6 | At two in the afternoon, Fermi ordered the final control rod withdraw. |
| 1:22.6 | Counter as measuring neutron flux began clicking faster and faster. |
| 1:28.8 | The clicking merged into a continuous roar. |
| 1:31.8 | For 28 minutes, Chicago Pile Number One sustained the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in human history. |
| 1:40.9 | It produced half a watt of power, barely enough to light a flashlight, but it proved |
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