Live, From the People's Republic of Illinois

In a turn of events that was a surprise even to me, I went from occasional snarky blogger to radio show host. If you had told me three years ago, when I first started blogging, that I would one day be doing a live weekly broadcast from the People's Republic of Illinois, I would have told you where you could stick it. Of course, that was also back when I was still in the Army and I thought Twitter was the devil. On further consideration: I was probably right about Twitter.

After getting a taste of radio from gracious hosts Dana Loesch and Tony Katz, I knew that I wanted to learn more. And much in the same way that I handle the book(s) I intend to write, I put it off. I went to school. I homeschooled kids. I cooked dinner. I did laundry. And I put radio on the back burner.

Well, a few weeks ago I co-hosted The McNally Show with my good friend Tyler McNally of Misfit Politics (where I also contribute on occasion), and I was reminded that there was something I was supposed to be doing. And the next day I set up my show through Blog Talk Radio, Stovetop Politics. 

My show, if you’ll forgive the crude analogy, is different from shows like Hannity's or Beck's in that it's more like soft-core politics, if that makes any sense. That’s not to say that I don’t have hardline positions on certain issues or that I won’t hit hard on the issues I discuss. But part of the reason I came up with the name “Stovetop Politics” is that I want to be able to talk to families who are sitting down to dinner or women who are working in the kitchen about issues that matter without getting so technical policywise that I lose them. I want to focus on the issues that affect the average family - schools, guns, religion, small business regulations, etc. There are so many pundits talking about government overreach and supreme court cases and what have you that average people - particularly women - tend to tune them out because they don’t see how it affects their daily trips to the bus stop and kids’ swim practice or the occasional night out with their husbands. I want my job to be to make them connect the two things by talking about the little things that make all the difference - like the EPA regulations that could shut down small family businesses, or new sex ed standards (and apparently biology assignments) that are teaching kids that promiscuity is normal. They don’t care that John Kerry thinks Global Warming is a weapon of mass destruction - but they do care that their state might ban sack lunches for school kids. 

And thanks to my one-man wrecking crew and totally unpaid (but invaluable) publicist Jimi (you can find him at @Jimi971 on the Twitters), by the end of my first show I was handed an invitation to join the fabulous crew at AltCon Politics Radio.

So starting Monday, March 3, Stovetop Politics with Ginny Kruta will be airing Mondays at 8pm CST. You can always check here for updates and teasers for upcoming shows, and for archived podcasts of previous episodes.