The Indiana Century Podcast
What if Indiana didn't just participate in the next century... but built it?
Join the conversation as we transform Indiana from a crossroads into a command center of American innovation. This isn't left versus right. It's forward versus stuck.
Each week, we explore practical, sovereign solutions to our most pressing challenges: from energy independence through next-generation nuclear power, to revitalizing our heartland with high-speed rail and a circular hemp economy, to guaranteeing healthcare access in every county.
This is more than a podcast. It's a blueprint for Hoosier Sovereignty: a vision of state-led investment in public-owned infrastructure that creates permanent competitive advantage. We're talking concrete engineering, detailed financing, and a workforce trained to build what we'll own.
Forget partisan politics. We're building the Indiana Innovation Triangle. Join us as we chart the path from extraction to ownership, from dependence to sovereignty.
Subscribe to hear how we build the next century of Indiana, on our terms.
Topics include: Energy Sovereignty (SMRs/Nuclear) • High-Speed Rail & Connectivity (Fiber Optic Network) • Agricultural Renaissance (Hemp/Carbon Farming) • Healthcare System Overhaul • State Banking & Finance • Workforce Development (Indiana Century Corps) • Community Benefits & Anti-Corruption
For listeners of: Practical infrastructure policy, state politics innovation, energy independence, heartland economic development, and anyone who believes solutions should be built, not just debated.
The Indiana Century Podcast
1,067 Conversations: Hearing Indiana's Truth | Indiana Century S1E1
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How do you build a new future for Indiana? You start by listening to the people who live here.
In this foundational episode, host and Navy nuclear veteran Kory Easterday shares what he learned from 1,067 recorded conversations across all 92 counties; from factory floors to family farms, from small town diners to college campuses.
You’ll hear the three universal patterns that emerged from these conversations, completely transcending partisan politics:
- The Math That Doesn’t Work: Why wages have stayed flat for decades while costs for housing, energy, and groceries keep climbing
- The Infrastructure of Loneliness: How crumbling roads and vanished community spaces are isolating Hoosiers from one another
- The Succession Crisis: Why farmers, small business owners, and teachers fear their legacy (and Indiana’s identity) won’t be passed on
We begin with a story: a grandmother’s journey from rural Indiana to downtown Indianapolis that should already be possible with today’s technology, but isn’t. We trace how a builder’s mindset, forged in the Nuclear Navy, leads to a systems-view of our state’s decline. And we arrive at the core insight from a thousand voices: Hoosiers don’t want dependency. They want sovereignty.
This episode lays the diagnostic groundwork for the entire Indiana Century project. Before we discuss reactors, rail, or hemp, we have to agree on what’s broken. The solutions start next week.
Listen to understand why “Crossroads of America” has become a trap, and how we can transform it into our greatest platform.
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