Originally aired 7/19/2025. Architectural historian James Glass will share insights about the evolution in the Hoosier capital city of skyscrapers, which date back more than 120 years. From the 1960s to the 1990s, a new "tallest building" in the city was constructed each decade.

Originally aired 07/12/2025. Nelson welcomes father-daughter duo, Chris Taelman and Kate Newman to the show. They have been on a quest to hike up to - then climb into - every fire tower that's open in Indiana, many of which are in the state parks. Chris and Kateshare what they have learned about the history of these fire towers, particularly from the 1930s into the 1950s.

Originally aired 07/05/2025. Nelson's guest is journalist Will Higgins, who created a pop-up museum that spotlights obscure history called the Museum of Fabulosity. The exhibit was up at CAMI throughout the summer of 2025. Highlights included an Olympic gold medalist in 1904 who later was a bank embezzler, and rock singer, Jinx Dawson, who in the late 1960s and '70s was associated with the occult.

Originally aired 06/28/2025. A massive sculpture of Bigfoot at Patoka Lake; a horror-themed pizza parlor in Decatur, and a former Presbyterian church in Richmond with 62 genuine Tiffany stained glass windows. All of these and other off-the-beaten-path sites are the center of discussion between Nelson and his guest Jamie Ward. Jamie is the author of "Secret Indiana: Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure."

Originally aired 06/21/2025. Alan Hunter, the history columnist for the Weekly View newspaper that covers the east side of Indy, is Nelson's guest. The two discuss Nazi sympathizers who, during the late 1930s, lived on the eastside of Indianapolis. Families who were members of the German American Bund, a pro-Hitler group, also had connections to Brown County.

​Originally aired 06/14/2025. Although never separate towns, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago often were regarded that way as they evolved into becoming, as guest Joseph Pete puts it, "one of the most heavily industrialized places on Earth." The communities near Lake Michigan also became a diverse area, with more than 100 different nationalities represented in the 1932 graduating class of a high school in Indiana Harbor. Joseph Pete is the author of "Lost East Chicago and Indiana Harbor" and a reporter for the Times of Northwest Indiana newspaper.

Originally aired 06/07/2025. Before the first Indy 500 in 1911, there were auto races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 1910 after the track was paved with bricks. Those thrilling early races and the spectacular aviation shows at the Speedway in June 1910 that featured the Wright Brothers are discussed with Nelson's guest, racing historian Mark Dill.

Originally aired on 5/3/2025. Indiana "went dry" before Prohibition went into effect nationally in January 1920. Guest Jason Lantzer, assistant director of the honors program at Butler University, talks with Nelson about a range of aspects of this colorful and controversial era including moonshine makers and one of the largest raids in the Midwest unfolding in southeastern Marion County.

Thomas R. Marshall was vice president in 1919 when President Woodrow Wilson suffered debilitating strokes that created a crisis. Before that, Marshall had been a popular governor of Indiana who is remembered for his wit, including the line: "What the country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar." Nelson's guest is Ray Boomhower of the Indiana Historical Society.

Originally aired 04/12/2025. The full menu for this show doesn't just include food traditionally associated with Indiana such as tenderloins, sugar cream pie, persimmons and catfish. Nelson and guest Bradley Hohulin, the dining reporter for the Indianapolis Star, also delve into whether restaurant and menu preferences here differ from other regions.