This conversation starts with fictional candidate Willy Stark, a favorite subject of our guest, Steve Ealy.

Steve has written on how to read the Qur'an, the Federalist Papers and constitutional interpretation, the philosophers Jurgen Habermas, Michael Oakeshott, and Eric Voegelin, and the writers C. S. Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Fyodor Deostoevsky, James Fenimore Cooper, John Steinbeck, and Robert Penn Warren. He is currently working on a book-length study of Robert Penn Warren.  In other words, he is qualified to dicsuss Donald Trump in the perspective of history.  

From responding to new legislative requirements, some contained in bills over 800 pages long, to visiting homes and handling aggressive property owners, Judy Sharp has been doing it all for almost four decades.  

Michael Claytor has served as an auditor of public activities since 1974, including being a candidate for the position of Indiana State Auditor in 2014.  

The Trimedx Foundation sends volunteers around the world to install and maintain sophisticated medical equipment.  It is affiliated with Trimedx, an Indianapolis company with more than 3000 associates, which has relationships with most hospitals in Indiana.  The foundation will conduct about 40 medical missions this year.  Our guest, Audra Plopper, is director of the foundation.  

Government is changing philanthropic activities by suspending federal economic support and taking direct charge of administering programs especially of arts organizations.  Our guest Gene Tempel is Founding Dean Emeritus of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a Professor of Philanthropic Studies.  

Indiana University Teaching Professor, and founding member of The Society, tells us all about the many genres suitable for guitar, and about this society, which has a special event the night of April 16.  

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are just three of the many subjects in this wide-ranging discussion of performing arts, with D. Paul Thomas, an actor, producer, director and more.  

For two years, Mr. Thomas taught acting at the historic Lamb’s Theatre in New York City, serving as its first Artistic Director while premiering Noel Paul Stookey’s, Puff the Magic Dragon. This was followed by seven years as President of Victory Films, directing over twenty productions including the video series, Celebration of Discipline; One Is A Whole Number (Religion in Media Award); the docudramas They Cry in the Night, filmed in Swaziland, Africa, and The Calling, filmed in the Amazon jungles of Peru; the dramatic musicals, The Fanny Crosby Story, Man of the Morning and Love Divine. Feature films include Kiki, starring Emmy Award winner, Michael Moriarty, and Years of the Beast. He has written, directed or performed in seven “one-person” shows, including A Heart Strangely Warmed and Who Stands Fast?

How do we know what we need to know?  In the mythical "old days" local newspaper editors selected stories for us to read, and, in Indianapolis, people read only three sources, The Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis News, and The Indianapolis Times.  Therefore, everyone shared common information.  Not so today.  No one tells us what is important.  We must seek it out ourselves, usually without a foundation from which to seek.  Meanwhile,  the magnitude, the quantity of news sources, the diversity, has increased exponentially which means that a person seeking information must work hard, must check multiple sources, to find and evaluate.  

Larry Deboer,  Professor and Extension Specialist in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, who has consulted about taxation of property for decades, describes Indiana's property tax and various issues about it.  

Rob Walch describes the podcasting business nation wide.  We also learn how to start a podcast, the different types of programs, the three basic formats, plus a number of specifically recommended listening experiences.  Rob is Vice President of Podcaster Relations for LIBSYN (Liberated Syndication), which provides the technical services for podcast publication.  (Libsyn.com)