Podcasts about Indiana, United States

Partway through Journal Gazette - April 11, 2026, an episode of The Journal Gazette, a volunteer reader reaches a question-and-answer feature. They read it in the same even voice the recording gives obituaries and horoscopes: "Why was the name of the company behind the data center project kept secret for so long?" The answer covers non-disclosure agreements and insider-trading rules, and someone quoted in the piece says required procedures were followed "100 percent." The argument lives in the question, and Indiana's podcasts keep asking versions of it: who decided, and who heard last.

Much of the talk here is sports talk from Indianapolis, and the autumn episode titles lean hard on the Colts. The team opened with two losses and stood 2–2 through four games in early October 2026. The Fever run through the same weeks. At the turn of October 2026 they forced a third playoff game against Las Vegas, then saw their season end there.

Off the field the talk is about money and control. Private-school vouchers became available to Indiana families regardless of income in August 2026, and the civic shows here take up school budgets, property taxes and data centers. This guide's working idea is modest. On the sports desks and at county tables alike, the best minutes come when someone asks who is accountable for a decision and who has to live with it.

What Indiana is

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern United States, with an economy strongly associated with manufacturing. It had an estimated 6,973,333 residents on July 1, 2025, and 35,826.03 square miles of land, measured in 2020.

The Colts, the Pacers and city sports radio

Most of the shows below are about places inside Indiana, and the largest group is about Indianapolis. The Indianapolis page goes further into that city.

The Colts are covered from three distances:

• The team's own feed. Indianapolis Colts Podcasts shows its access in small things. In Cam Bynum looks ahead to year 2 & one fan's 18-year Colts tradition | The Last Word, a season ticket holder describes a 165-mile drive each way from Owensboro, Kentucky.
• A beat reporter's memory. Colts Blue Zone Podcast comes from FOX59/CBS4's Mike Chappell, Dave Griffiths and Matt Adams. In EP 460: 2 Weeks Out from the NFL Draft, a host recalls leaving the stadium around 3:30 in the morning after the press conference where Andrew Luck spoke of losing his love of the game. The host uses that night to weigh Eric Ebron's claim that Chris Ballard gave Luck a play-or-retire ultimatum.
• Radio argument. Colts Corner With Kevin Bowen meets the same claim with more heat in Episode 597 | Eric Ebron & Shaq Leonard Criticize Colts + 2026 Positional Mock Draft!

Locked On Pacers - Daily Podcast On The Indiana Pacers, hosted by Tony East, treats the team as a problem in numbers. Why Indiana Pacers could not stop Charlotte Hornets three-point shooting | Kobe Brown pops, Kings win again calls the defeat "a rare math problem loss." It also notes the two teams' shooting percentages were not far apart. It is dense, and best for listeners who already know the roster.

Query & Schultz Podcast is looser. Jake and Derek record at 42nd and Boulevard. Final Four set in Indy, where Braylon Mullins epic shot ranks, Purdue closing takes! is civic pride with sponsor reads folded in: Indianapolis takes hosting seriously, the episode insists, and the 2021 Final Four "doesn't count."

College basketball, argued in public

Query & Company, Jake Query's midday show on The Fan, used Final Four week for guests with Indiana roots. In Former Indiana Hoosier & Current Nevada Head Coach Steve Alford Joins Query & Company!, Alford compares the transfer portal to Indiana's split into class basketball and calls for antitrust law: "There are no guardrails. There basically are no rules. And that's always going to favor the ones that have."

CrimsonCast approaches the same tournament from Indiana University's fan world and its numbers. Sweet 16 Analytics Preview: What the Numbers Say About the Contenders (Torvik/T-Rank Trends) explains how Illinois can rank 365th in forcing turnovers yet first in opponent free-throw rate. It then turns that statistic into a plain account of strategy.

Who decides, and who pays

Indiana Week in Review, WFYI's panel show hosted by Brandon Smith, maps state power most clearly. Governor Braun Reflects on the 2026 Session reports Mike Braun giving himself a B+ after 51 of his 58 priority bills passed. A panelist then calls the Bears stadium bill "a nice pivot for them away from redistricting." In A $1Billion Investment in Bioscience Growth, a promise of over 100,000 jobs in ten years meets a panelist's warning about "asking people to choose between rent and medical bills." In these episodes, reports come first and opinions after, and you can hear the seam.

Tony Katz + The Morning News, on 93.1 FM WIBC, closes that seam. Tony Katz and the Morning News 2nd Hr 4-16-26 covers a WIBC report on a Madison County school district's $195,000 settlement of a former counselor's lawsuit over a directive on student names and pronouns. In the same breath comes the host's plug for his own speaking date at a Madison County Republican Party event.

Noon Edition, a call-in program, slows the school-finance argument down. MCCSC entering new school year amid tighter budget, new laws features two school leaders:

• The Monroe County Community School Corporation's board president estimates that property-tax reform will cost the district "probably about $30 million between now and 2031."
• Teachers' association president Jenny Noble-Cucera says the most rural and most urban corporations are hit hardest.

The same pressure turns up in Fort Wayne. The April 11 Journal Gazette reading quotes Fort Wayne's public works director blaming Senate Enrolled Act 1 of 2025 for $25 million less revenue. It also reports plans for the first drop in neighborhood infrastructure spending from the previous year since 2014.

County tables and small towns

The Boss Hog of Liberty, with Jeremiah Morrell, Zach Burcham and Bones Harcourt, hands its table to candidates. In BHOL 436: Rush County Sheriff Candidate Night:

• One candidate says the department bought a UTV to replace two golf carts that could have been repaired.
• Another wants water rescue back for the Flat Rock River.
• Near the end, a host credits them with avoiding "a coronation instead of a conversation."

On The Boss Hog of Liberty's BHOL 435: Steve Dugger for Commissioner, a possible data center is set against Henry County's memory of the fight over the Duke power plant. The conversation calls that plant the county's biggest taxpayer.

Southern Indiana Now, centered in these episodes on Seymour and Jackson County, works like a sponsored community calendar. In 20 Years of Slices, S&B’s Wall-to-Wall Hustle, No Vulture Auto Sales, and Jackson Co. Recycling, a county recycling guest settles the greasy pizza box question: "if you're in doubt, throw it out." A Vermillion Reasons In Indiana has an odder vantage. In Eddie Thompson, the host signs off from Inglewood in Los Angeles, thanks the county commissioners who sponsor the show, and describes it as bridging the gap between both places.

Speed, songs and the long memory

The Speedway runs through several feeds. A Vermillion Reasons In Indiana's Episode 44- Speed Capital Indianapolis Auto Racing has author Brian M. Ingrassia on Carl Fisher and the roughly 3.1 to 3.2 million bricks that paved the track. In Best Of JMV 4-9-26, the Speedway and IndyCar president tells The Ride with JMV that Honda and Chevrolet will both be back from 2027 through 2030.

Cultural Manifesto, Kyle Long's WFYI show, hears Indiana music as living history. Exploring the history of Winchester, Indiana’s Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival introduces a Randolph County festival the episode says has run for over 50 years. A guest recalls refusing the steel guitar as a child because it was their father's instrument, then taking it up 20 years later.

Art On The Air does comparable work for Northwest Indiana. In This Week on ART ON THE AIR features artists Roman and Maria Villareal exhibit at Miller Beach's Marshal J Gardner Center spotlight ion the Area Artists Association exhibit, Anything Goes, a guest recalls a father's 30 years in the mill. Roman describes the two snapping turtles he made for Porter County.

Where to start

• For statehouse politics: Indiana Week in Review, Governor Braun Reflects on the 2026 Session, a session reckoning with reporting and argument kept apart.
• For a county race up close: The Boss Hog of Liberty, BHOL 436: Rush County Sheriff Candidate Night. Listen for what each candidate says the department actually needs.
• For the football faithful: Colts Blue Zone Podcast, EP 460: 2 Weeks Out from the NFL Draft, where a reporter's memory tests a resurfaced claim.
• For music lovers: Cultural Manifesto, Exploring the history of Winchester, Indiana’s Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival.
• For civic life at reading pace: The Journal Gazette, Journal Gazette - April 11, 2026. It runs 114 minutes; find the data center questions and listen for who was told, and when.

The Indiana feed on this page plays clips from these shows.