How to pronounce “podunk” in English

I had to figure out these little Podunk stops along the way and calculate how long it would take me to get them.

I mean when you're playing Podunk, Iowa, I mean if anybody's from Iowa I'm not knocking it I'm just saying, you know what I mean like I feel like, I feel like they kind of watered

She thought back to home and the perpetual motion of her life as a Podunk pariah.

to be something that was the equivalent in English, of Nowhereville or like Podunktown or whatever.