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The Flyovers is a traveling podcast and radio show driven by a simple idea — everywhere and everyone has a story to tell. The people and places of "Flyover country" are often dismissed as uninteresting or irrelevant.

Hosts Alan Wartes and Issa Forrest set out in their motor home / mobile studio to test that idea for themselves. They go in search of so-called "ordinary" people with one goal in mind: to listen and learn.

Feb 17, 2020

In this special episode of The Flyovers, host Alan Wartes talks with John Wittler, Regional Coordinator and Development Director of Ogallala Commons—a Great Plains region community advocacy non-profit. Wittler shares his vision for an OC program called the Youth Entrepreneur Fair—a kind of business incubator for...


Feb 14, 2020

In this episode of The Flyovers, host Alan Wartes talks with Felix Belmont. Until his retirement from the airwaves at age 101 in November 2019, Belmont was one of the oldest—if not the oldest—working public radio DJs in America. In the 1970s he was instrumental in helping to found community station KVNF in...


Feb 3, 2020

“Adding Some Zip to Rural Economics” is part seven in a series of eight special episodes of The Flyovers, underwritten in part by StartUp Colorado. In this episode, host Alan Wartes talks with Sarah Shrader, owner and co-founder of Bonsai Design in Grand Junction, Colorado. The company is a one-stop shopping center...


Jan 20, 2020

“Mud, Methane and the Mad Scientist” is part six in a series of eight special episodes of the Flyovers, underwritten in part by StartUp Colorado. That's a non-profit organization devoted to serving entrepreneurs who live and work in the state's rural communities. In this episode, host Alan Wartes talks with...


Jan 6, 2020

“Better Fences, Better World” is number five of eight special episodes of The Flyovers. The series is underwritten by StartUp Colorado, a non-profit helping rural entrepreneurs and businesses succeed off the beaten path. In this installment, host Alan Wartes talks with Ray Lyons, founder of Fence Easier, a Hartsel,...