The 10 most-downloaded IBJ Podcast episodes of 2024
At the top of the list is host Mason King’s interview with Chick McGee, who has been a fixture on Indianapolis radio for 38 years as a cast member of “The Bob & Tom Show.”
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IBJ Podcast: The latest on downtown soccer stadium, $78M Fever facility and Simon hotel/concert venue
The Indiana Fever Sports Performance Center has joined the roster of projects announced for the southeast quadrant of the Mile Square, which includes the prospective site of a Major League Soccer stadium.
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IBJ Podcast: Pete the Planner on Trump’s second term, rising inflation and the impact of the LA wildfires on housing
IBJ columnist Pete Dunn outlines the challenges of rising inflation, stubbornly high costs for consumer goods, the meandering stock market, mass deportations and what could be the biggest economic story of 2025.
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IBJ Podcast: Inside the mind of a rising Indy apartment developer
After five years with Indianapolis-based Birge & Held, Jarod Brown decided he wanted a business with his name on the door. For his HQ, he bought the former Broad Ripple Library.
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IBJ Podcast: Dave Lindquist previews can’t-miss entertainment in 2025
IBJ Editor Lesley Weidenbener sat down with IBJ’s arts and entertainment reporter Dave Lindquist to find out what’s on the docket this year in entertainment.
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IBJ Podcast: Mission of Indy furniture maker ‘is about building other people up’
More than 240 people who have struggled with addiction, homelessness, incarceration and other obstacles have been employed and trained by Purposeful Design. And sales of its high-end furniture cover most of the cost of operation.
IBJ Podcast: Josef Newgarden, Indy 500 champ and avid investor, also races against S&P 500
Newgarden enjoys being a hands-on caretaker of his financial life, including managing his investment portfolio. He says if he weren’t a racer, “I think I’d be an equity trader or some kind of strategist.”
IBJ Podcast: Why size matters when it comes to Indy concert venues
IBJ arts and entertainment reporter Dave Lindquist talks with MOKB Presents partners Josh Baker and Dan Kemer about the venue — their third — they plan to open in the Murphy Arts Building and why musicians and their management care about venues of different sizes.
IBJ Podcast: Inside jeweler’s decision to close one of downtown’s oldest businesses
Windsor Jewelry has operated within a stone’s throw of Monument Circle since 1919. Owner Greg Bires details his decision to close after the store survived the pandemic and the 2020 downtown riots.
IBJ Podcast: Pete the Planner on Trump’s potential impact on investors, taxes, inflation and the auto industry
The president-elect is expected to employ tariffs to influence trade, loosen government regulations on companies and try to lower corporate taxes. Pete weighs in on potential winners and losers.
IBJ Podcast: Inside the plan to extend life expectancy for residents of five Indy neighborhoods
The Indy Health District’s leaders want to find solutions for the issues weighing heaviest on these neighborhoods, including housing, transportation, land use, safety and food deserts.
IBJ Podcast: What Indy tourism guru Chris Gahl learned from his father’s murder, surviving cancer
Under the care of a legend in the Indianapolis medical community, Gahl got a clean bill of health last year. But he’s still sorting through the repercussions of the loss of his father.
IBJ Podcast: How Taylor Swift will give Indy a massive platform to promote itself
About 80% of ticket holders over the three concerts will come from outside Indiana, presenting an immense marketing opportunity for Visit Indy, the agency in charge of promoting Indianapolis for conventions and other tourism.
IBJ Podcast replay: The story behind booking Taylor Swift’s tour as Indy prepares for ‘phenomenon’
In this encore presentation of the IBJ Podcast: Eric Neuburger, the director of Lucas Oil Stadium, discusses the advance work required to prepare for the shows and the staff of more than 2,000 people required to stage and host each concert.
IBJ Podcast: What’s the potential impact of Lilly’s $4.5B ‘medicine foundry’ in Lebanon?
Lilly wants to know how to improve new medicines and speed them to market more quickly. The project promises hundreds of high-paying jobs and could help lift Lilly among a handful of the most valuable companies in America.
IBJ Podcast: Indy’s ‘A Couple Cooks’ on becoming internet famous, publishing new cookbook
From the kitchen in their home south of Broad Ripple, Sonja and Alex Overhiser have created, tested and posted more than 3,000 recipes to their 14-year-old food-influencer website, which receives millions of pageviews per month.
IBJ Podcast: From the Army to finance to tech to excavation, Andrea Sloan says ‘yes’ and takes big leaps
Sloan didn’t know much about the utility-services company she agreed to lead and then acquire, but now it’s one of Indy’s fastest-growing firms and expanding into other states.
IBJ Podcast: Fever’s sales guru on preparing for Caitlin Clark, using data and AI to win over fans
Todd Taylor explains how the Indiana Fever and Pacers are using rapidly advancing technology to build customer profiles of attendees, customize the communication and offers they receive and adjust ticket pricing.
IBJ Podcast: Orr fellows leverage networking to boost value of tech, entrepreneurial positions
Now in its 23rd year, the Orr Fellowship program has helped develop an eye-popping number of leaders in Indiana’s tech and entrepreneurial ecosystems. It now counts 624 alumni who have worked at—and in some cases founded—nearly 300 significant companies and organizations.
IBJ Podcast: Pete the Planner on the best places to stash your cash
IBJ personal finance columnist Peter Dunn details the options for keeping cash close at hand while allowing it enough space to grow, in light of the Fed’s impending decision on interest rates.
IBJ Podcast: ‘Swiftianapolis,’ 10 more can’t-miss arts events, and what they all say about Indy
Yes, the Eras Tour is a huge deal. But IBJ’s Dave Lindquist is recommending 10 more music, literary, film, visual arts and theatrical events that also speak volumes about how Indy’s entertainment ecosystem has changed.
IBJ Podcast: Why is Indiana’s population growth in danger of cratering while the Indy area adds 405K people?
Meager population growth would have serious repercussions for the labor force and economy, putting pressure on officials across the state to make Indiana as appealing a place to live as possible.
IBJ Podcast: Fever emcee’s story of getting the gig is the ultimate in moxie, initiative
Olivia West developed an entrepreneurial mindset as a 4-H champion in La Porte and honed her talent for working crowds on a makeshift stage in her family’s barn. Now she’s hosting Fever and Pacers games—and that’s just her side job.
IBJ Podcast: JW Marriott’s manager on surviving pandemic, saving March Madness and facing new competition
Phil Ray also weighs in on the new taxing district the city is considering for beautification and public safety efforts downtown, plus the city-funded construction of an 800-room hotel that would become the JW Marriott’s biggest competitor.