Dig Deep

By Aaron Brown

What's Dig Deep about?

Our commentators - Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn began the conversation about the State of Rural by telling us about their upbringing, political beginnings and why they choose to live in rural Minnesota

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Dig Deep episodes:

02.15.2021
Dig Deep Extra: 2021 and Who To Believe? Where Do You Get Your Information?
Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - our liberal and conservative commentators respectively continue examining the themes of this new year of 2021. This is our podcast only edition of the conversation, a little looser, a little more off the cuff....
02.08.2021
Dig Deep 2021: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn
Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - our liberal and conservative commentators respectively continue examining the themes of this new year of 2021. Including the idea of democracy.
02.02.2021
Dig Deep 2021: What Does the Future Look Like After The Capitol Insurrection?
Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn continue this month's conversation on the news of the new year of 2021 including the Capitol insurrection.
01.30.2021
Dig Deep: The Beginning of a New Year - Minnesota in 2021 with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn
Dig Deep is a thoughtful conversation from leaders and thinkers in our community - liberal Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn. This time they talk about Minnesota after the elections. As Chuck puts it, "we're at a stalemate".
11.02.2020
What Happens Next? Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown on Dig Deep Podcast Only - Looking Ahead
There's a lot of talking about who will win the elections on Tuesday November 3rd. And there's a lot of apprehension about what will happen AFTER the elections. What do you think? How will your community respond?
10.30.2020
Election Special with Dig Deep's Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn pt 2
With elections on November 3rd, this was the 2nd part of our last conversation with our Dig Deep commentators conservative Chuck Marohn and libera Aaron Brown. Listen in to their perspectives. And then let us know what you think send...
10.30.2020
Election Special with Dig Deep's Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn pt 1
With elections on November 3rd, this was our last conversation with our Dig Deep commentators conservative Chuck Marohn and libera Aaron Brown. Listen in to their perspectives. And then let us know what you think send us an email.
10.18.2020
More from Dig Deep's Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - Elections, Health Care and More
We continue to bring you conversations where people from different ideologies listen and converse with civility.
10.05.2020
Dig Deep - Why Do We Believe What We Are Told Others Believe? Election 2020 with Aaron & Chuck
We continue to bring you conversations where people from different ideologies listen and converse with civility.
10.05.2020
Dig Deep - MN In The National Narrative of 2020 Election: Aaron Brown & Chuck Marohn
Why is Minnesota and the Iron Range in specific part of the national narrative during the 2020 election? Iron Ranger and liberal commentator Aaron Brown and Brainerd native and conservative commentator Chuck Marohn look into how the media covers the...
09.28.2020
Dig Deep with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - the 2020 Election pt 2
In the second part of this Dig Deep conversation with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn they continue the conversation about how different the 2020 elections will be. This conversation was taped before the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader...
09.28.2020
Dig Deep with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - the 2020 Election pt 1
In the first part of this Dig Deep conversation with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn they have a discussion - talking and LISTENING - about how different the 2020 elections will be. This conversation was taped before the death of...
09.21.2020
Dig Deep pt. 3: Listening and Talking to Each Other with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn
We continue the conversation on Dig Deep with liberal Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn. This time, the state of Minnesota when it comes to race, politics and the pandemic.
09.17.2020
Dig Deep pt. 2: Talking and Listening to Each Other "In These Times"
In part 2 of this Dig Deep conversation - we hear more of how Chuck works to actively listen to those who don't share his point of view. Listen to the 1st part of the conversation here.
09.17.2020
Can Liberals and Conservatives Talk to Each Other? Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn on Why We Dig Deep
We began Dig Deep in January of 2017 with a conversation about what it means to be rural.
06.09.2020
Dig Deep: Pandemic, Racism & MN Nice with Aaron Brown & Chuck Marohn Part 2
I rely on Aaron and Chuck to connect the past with the present in our Dig Deep conversations. Our hope is that listening to this conversation will lead YOU to conversations with the people you care about. Email us your...
06.09.2020
Dig Deep: Pandemic, Racism & MN Nice with Aaron Brown & Chuck Marohn
I rely on Aaron and Chuck to connect the past with the present in our Dig Deep conversations. Our hope is that listening to this conversation will lead YOU to conversations with the people you care about. Email us your...
04.06.2020
Dig Deep with Chuck and Aaron on COVID-19
On our extended hour of the Thursday Morning Show, Heidi Holtan hosts a conversation on Dig Deep with our conservative commentator Chuck Marohn and liberal Aaron Brown. They talk about this time of pandemic and the state of the world....
03.07.2020
Podcast Only Dig Deep: Presidential Politics
Recorded on February 4th, politics have changed with Iowa finally declaring a winner, South Carolina and Super Tuesday all past us and the final Democratic frontrunners in the race are Biden and Sanders. Listen to our Dig Deep off-the-cuff political...
03.06.2020
Dig Deep Environmental Regulation pt. 3
The final conversation of our Dig Deep series for the month with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn. How should environmental regulations be set up?
03.05.2020
Digging Deep into Environmental Regulation pt 2 with Aaron and Chuck
We continue our Dig Deep conversation with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown . They delve into environmental regulation and suggest a need to rehaul our current system. Sign up for a Dig Deep podcast!
02.18.2020
Dig Deep: The Origins and Purposes of Environmental Regulation with Aaron and Chuck
This week Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn began the conversation on the backstory of environmental regulations. This stems from the current contentious conversations and political movments concerning copper nickel mining in northern Minnesota. Sign up for a Dig Deep podcast!
01.21.2020
Dig Deep Live from the Reif Center - Take a Listen!
In December we invited the community for a conversation about what makes our towns strong in northern Minnesota - Aaron and Chuck are leaders in their hometown communities who want to make these places better. Tune in for a thought...
12.05.2019
Podcast Only Dig Deep: More on Impeachment
More on impeachment on Dig Deep with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown . Don't forget to join us at the LIVE Dig Deep Community Conversation on Strong Towns at the Reif Center on Tuesday December 10th at 7pm. Along with...
12.04.2019
Dig Deep: Modern Impeachment Part 3 With Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn
Listen in to the third part of our Dig Deep conversation with liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn. The conversation moves into impeachment of Presidents Nixon and Clinton. Read more here about the three articles of impeachment of...
11.25.2019
Dig Deep: The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
Today we continued the conversation with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn on the history of impeachment. This time they set the stage for us on the impeachement of President Andrew Johnson who became president with the assassination of President Lincoln...
11.18.2019
Dig Deep - History of Impeachment with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn
Dig Deep is a conversation between our liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn . They come at topics from different angles, but model for us how to talk to people with different beliefs. In this episode, we hear...
11.09.2019
Dig Deep Strong Towns - Podcast Only Discussion
This month our conversation has been about the concepts in Chuck Marohn's new book Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity . In this podcast only edition our commentators Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown go a little...
11.08.2019
Dig Deep Strong Towns pt 3 with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown
What do buildings mean to a town? What does the current model of large parking lots, big box stores, few trees and large signs mean to the residents of a town? Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn continue the Strong Towns...
11.07.2019
Dig Deep with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown - Strong Towns pt 2
We continue our conversation with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn today on Dig Deep about Chuck's book that was recently released "Strong Towns - A Bottom Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity". You can meet Chuck and Aaron and ask...
11.04.2019
Dig Deep - Diving into Chuck Marohn's New Book: Strong Towns
Dig Deep is a podcast of KAXE/KBXE – with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown – Minnesota leaders with different perspectives digging into the way our towns and cities work and don't work. Today we’re celebrating the release of Chuck Marohn’s...
09.13.2019
Dig Deep Podcast Only: Aaron and Chuck Let Loose on Money in Politics
The final podcast-only edition is here of Dig Deep for September as we drill down to money in politics and lobbying, etc. Aaron Brown is our liberal commentator and Chuck Marohn is our conservative - send us your thoughts! Sign...
09.13.2019
Dig Deep-Elections 2020 pt 3: How Candidates are Picked
We continue on looking at 2020 elections with conservative Chuck Marohn and liberal Aaron Brown on Dig Deep. We look this time at how candidates are picked and the inside baseball of the presidential elections. Is there an issue that...
09.11.2019
More on Elections 2020 with Dig Deep's Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown
More from our Dig Deep commentators Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn on how the system works - how elections 2020 are at this moment - how the primaries and early campaigning actually work. Sign up for the Dig Deep Podcast!
09.09.2019
Dig Deep: The Politics of the 2020 Election with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn
It's time for our next round of our monthly Dig Deep conversations with liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn. They tell us about their summers and then take a look, from their differing political perspectives, at how the...
06.17.2019
Dig Deep PODCAST only on Copper Nickel Mining on the Iron Range
We continue the conversation on copper nickel mining with conservative Chuck marohn and liberal Aaron Brown on Dig Deep. If you have a topic you'd like them to tackle - send it our way! Sign up for a Dig Deep...
06.16.2019
Dig Deep live pt. 3: A Caller on Copper Nickel Mining
For our June edition of Dig Deep we were live on the air discussing national media and what it doesn't get about rural/small towns. Tune in as a caller asks about copper nickel mining with our liberal commentator Aaron Brown...
06.15.2019
Dig Deep Live pt 2: National Discourse on Rural Life
We continue our live Dig Deep Conversation here with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn. Do we become what the national media says we are? For our June edition of Dig Deep we were live on the air discussing national media...
06.14.2019
Dig Deep Live What Does National Political Discourse Miss About Real Issues in Northern MN? pt 1
For our June edition of Dig Deep we were live on the air discussing national media and what it doesn't get about rural/small towns. Tune in for this conversation with our liberal commentator Aaron Brown and our conservative Chuck Marohn....
05.31.2019
Dig Deep Podcast Only: The Education Bubble
In this podcast only edition of Dig Deep, Aaron and Chuck kick back a little bit and ask some pithy questions about education and certification and pose this idea: are we forcing people into debt to get a degree that...
05.31.2019
Dig Deep on Education: The Scandinavian or European Model pt. 3
Conservative Chuck Marohn and liberal Aaron Brown continue the Dig Deep conversation on education by looking at a Scandinavian model. Sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!
05.29.2019
Dig Deep Education: Credentials vs Knowledge and Experience pt.2
Liberal Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn continue the conversation on education. Why do we put so much value on college degrees, especially when it comes to student debt. Chuck calls education a "racket" and you can tune in to...
05.27.2019
Dig Deep - Does More Money for Education Make Our Communities Better? pt 1
Chuck Marohn our conservative commentator for Dig Deep asks a provocative question to liberal commentator Aaron Brown (he's an educator) : does more money for education make a town "less poor"? And Aaron then asks, what do they mean by...
04.19.2019
Dig Deep Podcast Only: Group Selection and Adaptation
Chuck poses the question for our podcast only edition of Dig Deep this month. Is there something special about small towns? Where people pull together? Do you cross groups and have more personal connections that make us more altruistic? Sign...
04.19.2019
Dig Deep #3 Solutions for Social Problems
Dig Deep continues the conversation this time moving into solutions for social problems. Students in Aaron Brown's Hibbing Community College classes have over the last 10 years always listed "there's nothing to do in this town" as one of the...
04.17.2019
Digging Deeper into Social Problems pt. 2 with Aaron and Chuck
So what ISN'T working in small town America? Chuck and Aaron give us their thoughts.
04.16.2019
Digging Deep Into Social Problems with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn, Pt 1
In our April Dig Deep conversation, Aaron Brown talks about an assignment he gives to his students at Hibbing Community College. Identify what you think is one of the biggest social problems, and ways to solve it. Over the last...
04.16.2019
Digging Deep Into Social Problems with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn, Pt 1
In our April Dig Deep conversation, Aaron Brown talks about an assignment he gives to his students at Hibbing Community College. Identify what you think is one of the biggest social problems, and ways to solve it. Over the last...
03.22.2019
Digging Deep: Socialism with Chuck and Aaron part 1
This month the topic is Socialism with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn . Sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!
03.22.2019
Dig Deep: Chuck and Aaron Dig into Socialism pt. 1
This month the topic is Socialism with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn . Sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!

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Dig Deep episodes:

Dig Deep Extra: 2021 and Who To Believe? Where Do You Get Your Information?

Dig Deep 2021: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn

Dig Deep 2021: What Does the Future Look Like After The Capitol Insurrection?

Dig Deep: The Beginning of a New Year - Minnesota in 2021 with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn

What Happens Next? Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown on Dig Deep Podcast Only - Looking Ahead

Election Special with Dig Deep's Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn pt 2

Election Special with Dig Deep's Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn pt 1

More from Dig Deep's Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - Elections, Health Care and More

Dig Deep - Why Do We Believe What We Are Told Others Believe? Election 2020 with Aaron & Chuck

Dig Deep - MN In The National Narrative of 2020 Election: Aaron Brown & Chuck Marohn

Dig Deep with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - the 2020 Election pt 2

Dig Deep with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - the 2020 Election pt 1

Dig Deep pt. 3: Listening and Talking to Each Other with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn

Dig Deep pt. 2: Talking and Listening to Each Other "In These Times"

Can Liberals and Conservatives Talk to Each Other? Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn on Why We Dig Deep

Dig Deep: Pandemic, Racism & MN Nice with Aaron Brown & Chuck Marohn Part 2

Dig Deep: Pandemic, Racism & MN Nice with Aaron Brown & Chuck Marohn

Dig Deep with Chuck and Aaron on COVID-19

Podcast Only Dig Deep: Presidential Politics

Dig Deep Environmental Regulation pt. 3

Digging Deep into Environmental Regulation pt 2 with Aaron and Chuck

Dig Deep: The Origins and Purposes of Environmental Regulation with Aaron and Chuck

Dig Deep Live from the Reif Center - Take a Listen!

Podcast Only Dig Deep: More on Impeachment

Dig Deep: Modern Impeachment Part 3 With Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn

Dig Deep: The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

Dig Deep - History of Impeachment with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn

Dig Deep Strong Towns - Podcast Only Discussion

Dig Deep Strong Towns pt 3 with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown

Dig Deep with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown - Strong Towns pt 2

Dig Deep - Diving into Chuck Marohn's New Book: Strong Towns

Dig Deep Podcast Only: Aaron and Chuck Let Loose on Money in Politics

Dig Deep-Elections 2020 pt 3: How Candidates are Picked

More on Elections 2020 with Dig Deep's Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown

Dig Deep: The Politics of the 2020 Election with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn

Dig Deep PODCAST only on Copper Nickel Mining on the Iron Range

Dig Deep live pt. 3: A Caller on Copper Nickel Mining

Dig Deep Live pt 2: National Discourse on Rural Life

Dig Deep Live What Does National Political Discourse Miss About Real Issues in Northern MN? pt 1

Dig Deep Podcast Only: The Education Bubble

Dig Deep on Education: The Scandinavian or European Model pt. 3

Dig Deep Education: Credentials vs Knowledge and Experience pt.2

Dig Deep - Does More Money for Education Make Our Communities Better? pt 1

Dig Deep Podcast Only: Group Selection and Adaptation

Dig Deep #3 Solutions for Social Problems

Digging Deeper into Social Problems pt. 2 with Aaron and Chuck

Digging Deep Into Social Problems with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn, Pt 1

Digging Deep Into Social Problems with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn, Pt 1

Digging Deep: Socialism with Chuck and Aaron part 1

Dig Deep: Chuck and Aaron Dig into Socialism pt. 1