{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ask A Kansan","title":"Every Kansan Has a Story | Looking Back at Our Favorite Moments","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1899,"description":"What happens when you hand two podcast hosts a 20-sided die and ask them to revisit their favorite conversations from nearly 80 episodes? \nYou get a highlight reel of Kansas at its most unexpected. We rolled the dice on some of our most memorable episodes and pieces, and what came back reminded us why we started doing this in the first place: Kansans have a tendency to look down on their own state, and every one of these stories proves they shouldn't.\n\nHighlights\n\nA family road trip tradition of holding your breath at the state border — and the \"My Cows\" game where you count pasture livestock for good luck\nEpisode 35 with Becky Tanner reframes The Wizard of Oz as a love letter to Kansas and explores what \"home\" really means\nEpisode 56 with Leland Danes tackles the heavy reality of children as young as six translating adult concepts — from car insurance to cancer diagnoses — for their parents, and the resources Kansas Spanish Speakers provides\nEpisode 14 with Jordan Romerman delivers the ultimate road trip advice: get off the interstate and explore Kansas scenic byways for rolling hills, chalk formations, and wide open skies\nEpisode 29 with Rex Buchanan, former director of the Kansas Geological Survey, unpacks the Cimarron National Grasslands and proves Kansas is far more than flat and treeless\nEpisode 9 spotlighting SB Mowing's Spencer, a Wichitan who mows overgrown lawns for free and turned one act of neighborly kindness into hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for an elderly woman in need\nEpisode 62 with Jim Gray (\"Beam Me Up, Kansas\") celebrates the quirky side of Kansas, including the Geneseo UFO Festival, the Christmas town of Wakinni, Lucas's Garden of Eden and Bowl Plaza, and Erika Nelson's World's Largest Museum of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things\nEpisode 57 with DJ Carvin reveals the remarkable life story behind the mustache — a New Yorker who found his way to Wichita and chose it as home\nEpisode 51 with Claire Ludus tours...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/31uDhQmE-73zaqpWjXtwnyYffNMsUnDPiL6GtjTddEQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mNzBm/YzFkNDBkODVjNGM2/MzMwMGViYjhmZTY4/Nzc0Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}