Indianapolis business, explained with local depth.
The IBJ Podcast with Mason King treats local business news as a way to understand how Indianapolis works. Episodes move from headlines into practical detail, with interviews on sports, downtown development, education, AI, nonprofits, personal finance, and arts events.
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The IBJ Podcast with Mason King is a steady, interview-driven guide to business and local life in Indianapolis. It starts with local stakes. Then it gets specific. Recent conversations have used the Indianapolis Indians, Red’s Classic Barbershop, Purdue’s business programs, Lumina Foundation, Daymar Services, Christel House, and the city’s arts calendar as entry points into larger questions about growth, work, education, and community investment. The show is not built around hot takes. It works through detail. A conversation about minor league baseball becomes a look at ticket offices, attendance, ballpark history, and the business of getting people into Victory Field. A recession discussion moves through energy prices, inflation, hiring, GDP, mortgage rates, and what those signals mean for households. Episodes about AI avoid treating the technology as a novelty and instead ask how students, executives, workers, and institutions may have to adapt. The Indianapolis focus is strong. So is the institutional memory. When the show turns to downtown development, conventions, hotels, or the Final Four, it asks how those forces reach ordinary storefronts and service businesses. When it turns to philanthropy and schools, it follows the money, governance, student support, and long-term mission. The pacing is measured, with guests often given enough time to explain how their organizations actually operate. The host’s role is to frame, clarify, and keep the conversation moving from broad claims toward concrete examples. That makes the show especially useful for listeners who care about Indiana business but also want the local context around it. It can be dry in the best sense. The value is in the patient accumulation of facts, not in theatrical urgency. Across episodes, the show treats local news as a system of people, budgets, institutions, incentives, and timing. It is a practical listen for anyone trying to understand how Indianapolis changes week by week.
Made for: Best for listeners who follow Indianapolis business, local leadership, higher education, downtown development, nonprofits, sports operations, and arts institutions. It suits people who prefer grounded interviews over fast commentary.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its local specificity: broad economic and institutional stories are traced through named Indianapolis organizations, business owners, reporters, and local leaders. It connects policy, finance, operations, and neighborhood effects without turning them into slogans.
A weekly take on business news in central Indiana from the Indianapolis Business Journal. The IBJ Podcast is brought to you by Taft.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A grounded local sports business story built around the old mechanics of selling a seat.
This PlayNext review finds its footing in the everyday business of the Indianapolis Indians, using a 1994 ticket-office internship to make the club's front-office world feel concrete.
An energy shock opens into a practical look at mortgage rates, economic uncertainty and the timing of a spring home search.
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Purdue's Indianapolis expansion meets a sharper question about preparing business leaders for AI-shaped work.
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Jim Dalton's move from aspiring preacher to third president and CEO of Daymar Services gives this episode a sturdy leadership frame, with growth treated less as ambition than as a response to need.
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A measured look at the Colts' next generation and the business, family, and civic responsibilities around succession.
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A grounded look at Purdue's Indianapolis growth and the skills AI may make harder to ignore.
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Mitch Daniels discusses Purdue University's expansion of business programs to downtown Indianapolis following the IUPUI split.
This episode examines the succession plan for the Indianapolis Colts following owner Jim Irsay's death.
Benjamin and Mariah Nagengast discuss their journey from a family pumpkin patch to owning multiple theme parks, including Indy Scream Park, and their recent $300,000 investment in upgrades.
West Street’s eight-lane stretches separate downtown Indianapolis assets, and the Indy Chamber proposes reworking the corridor and its I-65 and I-70 gateways.
Baseball is the frame here, but the draw is the work behind it.
IBJ Podcast host Mason King and IBJ personal finance columnist Peter Dunn spend the episode on recession risk, oil shocks, mortgage rates, and tariff refunds.
The IBJ Podcast with Mason King interviews Mitch Daniels about Purdue University’s downtown Indianapolis expansion, AI in white-collar work, the value of a college degree, and Social Security.
IBJ host Mason King interviews barbershop owner William Hogg about how downtown Indianapolis businesses benefit from the Final Four and broader tourism and development trends.
Jamie Marisotis discusses how AI will disrupt the workforce faster than expected and the need to redesign education and training.
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