Tag Archives: Big Talk

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:55 — 8.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe son of a single mother, he dropped out of high school and played in a rock ’n roll band for ten years. Then he got serious about life and put himself through college and law school. In 2015 he argued before the United States Supreme Court …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:58 — 8.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe call them the homeless, as if they’re all alike and their entire lives can be reduced to a single descriptive word. Thousands, hundreds of thousands, up to half a million people in America may not know precisely where they’re going to sleep tonight or where their …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:53 — 8.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePhil Ford is the author of “Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture.” He takes the reader on a tour of the cutting edge world of jazz musicians, Beat writers, and style arbiters who make up what is hip. Ford is a professor of musicology at the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:30 — 7.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLike countless people before her, Shelly Westerhausen came to Bloomington to study at Indiana University and wound up staying here. A vegetarian since she was a young girl, Shelly grew up in a town that didn’t even have a vegetarian restaurant. She was drawn to Bloomington by …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:02 — 8.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSouth Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has gained national attention for reviving his once-dying city and for his spirited run for Democratic National Committee chair this past winter. Major publications and television news programs have speculated on his chances to become a valid candidate for his party’s nomination …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:28 — 7.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePrisons are a big business in America today. A number of recent books have addressed the burgeoning inmate population as well as the growing profits to be had in what many are calling the “prison industrial complex.” A group of activists in Bloomington hopes to remind us …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:55 — 8.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe John Hartford Memorial Festival, a celebration of bluegrass music and its many variations, is happening now through Saturday night in Bean Blossom. WFHB’s Hondo Thompson is the new main stage emcee, taking over for the legendary Sam Jackson. The veteran host allowed Thompson to introduce American …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:14 — 7.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAn article about a bike ride through New Zealand in an airline magazine inspired Ron Eid to dive into the then-changing world of journalism. Now, more than thirty years later, journalism is still in the process of becoming — although what it’s becoming hasn’t yet been fully …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:55 — 8.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFive years ago two Indiana University alumni and one student at the time started making their own soap in the kitchen of the apartment the three shared. Now, their soap is sold in grocery and specialty stores around the region and is used in numerous hand-washing stations …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:34 — 7.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreJeff Isaac is an opinionated scholar. A professor of political science at Indiana University, he has written many books, is a regular contributor to respected journals, and takes to social media to share his feelings and bring political science just a bit closer to the average person. …