The Busman’s Holiday boys, Lewis & Addison Rogers, have released a new album, Table Talk, this past June. Now in their 20th year performing together, the Busman’s boys will stage a gala album release show in September with special guest bestselling poet and author Ross Gay. The Rogers sibs’ music takes a bit of a turn this time around as they get a little more blues–y and rock-y.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.

She realized how inadequate her formal sex education had been when she took a Biology & Culture of Women’s Bodies course at Indiana University. Indiana schools prioritize abstinence over information when it comes to school sex education classes. Christine Brackenhoff, a nurse formerly with the Monroe County Health Department’s now-closed Futures Family Planning Clinic, interviews people about their sex education experiences in a new podcast, Hoosier Sex Talks.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.

We pick up our conversation with Dave Askins, citizen-journalist and the outsider on the inside, who has resurrected his B Square Bulletin. He hopes to create a 21st century online daily local newspaper employing reporters and photographers covering a wide range of beats. He aims to establish a nonprofit corporation so he can solicit financial support for his operation.

This episode aired Thursday, June 19, 2025.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.

He thought he’d had enough back in December 2024, so Dave Askins quit publishing his daily B Square Bulletin. After two months, he was back on the beat with an idea for a bigger, better online local news publication. Now publishing two or three times a week, Askins aims to fashion a more comprehensive daily online “newspaper.” He’s hiring interns, putting out the call for other citizen journalists, and hopes to create a nonprofit corporation to help finance his proposed operation. This is part one of a two part interview. Tune in next week for part two.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.

For decades now, public libraries have been more — much more — than places where you can only borrow books. Libraries’ collections now include items from baking dishes to pickleball sets and even to seeds for your garden. The Monroe County Public Library’s Library of Things (its formal title) is the repository of the almost innumerable such stuff. Lisa Champelli is the Collections Manager for MCPL and must curate the library’s veritable warehouse of things.

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It was a silly film but Ian Mair was inspired by it. The Linton, Indian native saw “Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein” when he was a third grader. He’s been making movies ever since. Mair and his school chum James Stevenson went on to found Moonlight Films, a cinema factory that’s put out more than 20 movies so far. Armed with a new national distribution deal, Mair and company aim to be recognized, “The Kings of Micro-Budget Horror.”

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.

When Anna Stamm was a little girl, she watched B-movies on TV with her father. She wondered how and why TV stations picked movies to air. Her curiosity has led her to pursue her doctorate in local broadcast history. Bloomington was home to one of the key figures in television and radio, Sarkes Tarzian. Stamm talks about his role in media history.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.

The second part of our conversation with minister, activist, antiwar protester, and advocate for death row inmates, the Rev. Bill Breeden. He earned national notoriety when he swiped an Odon, Indiana street sign honoring President Ronald Reagan’s national security advisor and Odon native, John Poindexter. Breeden began evangelical preaching at the age of 15 and eventually became a pastor in Bloomington’s Unitarian Universalist Church.  Retired now, he’s working on his memoir titled “Billy Pilgrim and the Black Female Jesus.”

This episode originally aired May 15, 2025.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.

He went from being a teenaged country preacher to protesting war and ministering to death row prisoners. Now retired, the Rev. Bill Breeden has lived a wild, loving, socially conscious life. He’s spent time in American jails and a foreign dungeon. He’s stolen street signs and lived in a tepee. None other than Kurt Vonnegut dubbed him a “holy clown.” Part 2 will air next week.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.

We began to explore the iconic musician, producer, engineer, and anti-star’s Bloomington roots and his sojourns to Los Angeles, New York City, and New Orleans last week. Bingham’s back in town now, having served in a “musical boot camp” while performing at the Orbit Room this spring. This edition of Big Talk originally aired Thursday, May 1, 2025.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.