Inner States

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Inner States is a weekly podcast and public radio show about art, culture, and how it all feels, in the Midwest and beyond.

Inner States is a weekly podcast and public radio show about art, culture, and how it all feels, in the Midwest and beyond.

The show uses conversations with unconventional artists, thinkers, and doers from the Midwest and beyond as jumping-off points to explore big ideas about place, politics, work, ecology, and memory, among others. We dig into the art, culture, stories, and sounds of the southern Midwest, from the rolling hills to Reddit, from comedians to country dances, getting to know the people, the ideas, and the landscapes that make us who we are. We ask big questions, get caught up in stories, and slow down for sounds.

Inner States is produced and hosted by Alex Chambers, a writer, cultural studies scholar, and long-time bread baker. Alex is the producer of How to Survive the Future, a podcast with Indiana Humanities. He produced the Hoosier Young Farmer Podcast and is a former associate producer on WFIU’s Earth Eats.

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Inner States is a weekly podcast and public radio show about art, culture, and how it all feels, in the Midwest and beyond.The show uses conversations with unconventional artists, thinkers, and doers from the Midwest and beyond as jumping-off points to explore big ideas about place, politics, work, ecology, and memory, among others. We dig into the art, culture, stories, and sounds of the southern Midwest, from the rolling hills to Reddit, from comedians to country dances, getting to know the people, the ideas, and the landscapes that make us who we are. We ask big questions, get caught up in stories, and slow down for sounds.Inner States is produced and hosted by Alex Chambers, a writer, cultural studies scholar, and long-time bread baker. Alex is the producer of How to Survive the... Show full description


32 Pieces

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Caption: Stills from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, from the Bradley Collection at the IU Lilly Library (Jack Lindner)
This week, Jack Lindner on why we should watch old movies on film, and Alicia Kozma on how to approach movies that have outdated attitudes about so...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:30
Caption: Approaching the Tomato Products Company, Paoli, Indiana (Alex Chambers)
This week on Inner States, a postcard from Paoli, Indiana, where a tomato products warehouse has been transformed into a community space and enhanc...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:30
Caption: Diana Hong practiced for 13 years to become a professional golfer. Which is how she ended up on this stage.
Diana Hong practiced for 13 years to become a professional golfer. But at the last minute, she became a stand-up comedian instead. This week, stori...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:30
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Ross Gay and I talk about his new book, Inciting Joy, about masculinity and grief, teaching and survival, and how joy and sorrow are completely, in...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:30
Caption: A still from the televised version of the puppet wedding (Screenshot from video by Bart Everson)
Two performances: the trials of Oscar Wilde on stage, and a puppet wedding. And more.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Underwater imagery from the Golden Age of Comics (Courtesy of Malcolm Mobutu Smith)
Malcolm Mobutu Smith on comic books, collecting, and the exhibit he just put together based on that collection. Then, Bill Carroll uses the quantit...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 52:29
Caption: Funny Times editor Mia Beach and publishers Renae Lesser and Gabriel Piser (Mia Beach)
Why does a print newspaper full of funnies still have tens of thousands of subscribers? When my friend lost her cat, why did so many strangers deci...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:30
Caption: Comedian EJ Masicampo (Courtesy of EJ Masicampo)
Comedian EJ Masicampo on divorce and approaching comedy as a psychologist. Rebel girl poems from Rachel Ronquillo Gray. And chapter 2 of our missin...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:31
Caption: Tess Gunty's debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch, won the 2022 National Book Award for fiction (Courtesy of Knopf)
Tess Gunty about why she set her National Book Award winning novel in Indiana. Austin Davis reflects on houselessness in his poetry. And Chapter 3 ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:29
Caption: Rita the cat, relaxing in a spinal twist (Kayte Young)
Comedian Mohanad Elshieky says stand-up comedy and therapy are not the same thing, but regardless, he really loves his cats. Then (speaking of cats...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:29
Caption: Artist Honey Hodges (Sam Schemenauer)
First, a conversation with artist Honey Hodges about collages, immigrating to the U.S., and the opportunity to care for someone who has always take...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Inside the Bybee Stone Mill (Alex Chambers)
Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 51:59