Being a musician is all about balance. Knowing your notes while looking at the bigger picture of the score. Perfecting your performance as an individual artist while harmonizing with an orchestra. For IU student Dylan Naroff, it's about finding his own sound in the hustle and bustle of life at Jacobs School of Music.

Dean Shanahan speaks with Tampa Bay Times food critic, Laura Reiley, a Pulitzer and Beard finalist, about changes to our food systems and whether food in restaurants is always what it claims to be.

James Farmer, associate professor from IU SPEA, and Julia Valliant, a postdoc researcher from the Ostrom Workshop, talk with Dean Shanahan about farm transfers, capturing the stories of Hoosier farmers, and sharing those stories in the media.

In this special guest interview, Terri Francis, Media School associate professor and director of the Black Film Center/Archive, talks with long-time film and television director Michael Schultz. They cover Schultz's youth, industry experience and storytelling philosophy.

Dean Shanahan sits down with journalist and documentarian Elena Volochine to discuss Russian politics, her experiences reporting in Moscow, and her film Oleg's Choice, which follows Russian fighters in Eastern Ukraine.

In Ep. 108, join the entire Through the Gates team has Dean Shanahan hosts our third annual holiday quiz show. Listen along and see if you can beat our high score!

In episode 107, Dean Shanahan and Jon Racek, senior lecturer in the IU School of Art, Architecture + Design's comprehensive design program, talk about Racek's start as a firm-owning designer, his foray into playground building and his most recent work in 3D-printing prosthetic hands.

In this episode of The Sample, Abbie and Emily try to figure out why so many students can't get enough of a 1994 holiday tune. Photo by Drew Coffman on Unsplash.

In Ep. 106, Dean Shanahan talks with Jacobs School of Music Senior Lecturer Andy Hollinden. Known as the "Professor of Rock & Roll," Hollinden talks about his love affair with music, his admiration of Frank Zappa, and teaching the next generation about music legends.

In episode 105, Dean Shanahan and Angel Escobedo, the new head coach of IU wrestling, talk about Escobedo's background, the life of a wrestler, and where IU's team is headed.