# Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa and NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben Talking Field of Dreams

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Podcast: [Sleeping with Celebrities](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleeping-with-celebrities-6040543)
Published: 2026-06-17T07:00:00+00:00
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We have to imagine that the life of an NPR White House Correspondent does not consistently feel relaxed, homey, sentimental, and warm. But you know what does? Field of Dreams, the 1989 Kevin Costner movie about an Iowa farmer with a field overrun by baseball ghosts. Danielle Kurtzleben, a White House Correspondent for NPR, is from Titonka, Iowa (population 491) and has probably seen the movie eleventy squillion times. She can quote large portions of the dialogue and proved it in our interview by reciting James Earl Jones’ “They will come” monologue in her most sonorous NPR voice. You’ll be asleep soon. By the way, do baseball ghosts sleep? Are there bunk beds out in the corn fields? Am I overthinking this?

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