Iowa: Musical Chairs with Mary Marantz

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Education, History

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharon sits down with Mary Marantz, best-selling author, podcast host, and renowned photographer, to break down the system of the Iowa caucus. Iowa caucuses are electoral events that take place every presidential election among Iowa voters. Compared to the traditional secret ballot most American voters are accustomed to, Iowa has maintained the voting system used by our nation’s founders over 200 years ago. The caucus is a universally confusing concept to voters in states without the practice. Listen to walk away with a better understanding of the Iowa caucus system and how it affects the outcome of our presidential election seasons.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome, welcome, so glad you're here. Today I'm chatting with my friend Mary Marantz and I just love Mary. She's just so wise and she is the author of multiple books. She's a podcaster and we're
0:17.9	chatting about the state of Iowa. I asked her, what do you think of when you think of
0:21.6	Iowa and she immediately names the event that we're going to be discussing today?
0:26.5	So let's dive into this episode which I like to call Iowa musical chairs. I'm Sharon McMan and welcome to the Sharon Says So
0:37.0	podcast. Oh Mary I'm so glad you're here thank you for making time to do this. Oh my gosh Sharon are you kidding me like I would not be anywhere else any excuse to get to hang out with you. I'm here.
0:52.0	That's so nice. I am glad that I carved out a small amount of time in between the 72 books that you are writing.
1:06.0	Tell everybody what I'll be doing for the next hundred years. That's right.
1:07.0	140 years of book writing.
1:09.0	That's what you just wrapped up the manuscript for your second book.
1:12.0	If people don't know who Barry Moran says,
1:14.4	tell everybody who you are and what you do. Oh my gosh, well I feel like we could talk about this for like days. We're both tall girls. We both for those weird girls in great school. We could go into it like that's the real answer to who Mary is but the short version that we'll just serve for now is I grew up in a single eye trailer in rural West Virginia on the very top of a mountain called
1:34.6	Finwick Mountain.
1:36.0	My dad and eight generations deep in our family, he is and they were loggers in the West Virginia
1:42.0	mountains. I was the first of my immediate family to go to
1:44.4	college and I ended up going to Yale Law School. And so my first book, Dirtz, you know, in a short way,
1:50.3	it's humble means to the Ivy League League but that story has been told about a
1:53.5	hundred different ways. Really what I like to tell people is it's a story about
1:57.5	making peace with your past and the parts of your story that you think
2:01.0	disqualify you. I love that. We'll talk more about your
2:04.0	upcoming book in a minute but I have a story I want to share with you. Oh I
2:08.0	cannot wait. I cannot wait. So today we're going to talk about something that makes Iowa super unique.
2:17.0	Okay.
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