The Rob Burgess Show

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 230th episode, our guest is … me! This is my 16th solo episode of the podcast. The others were Episode 41, Episode 62, Episode 84, Episode 117, Episode 131, Episode 135, Episode 182, Episode 189, Episode 194, Episode 200, Episode 205, Episode 215, Episode 220 and, on Episode 100, I was joined by my wife...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 229th episode our guest is Eli Merritt. A political historian at Vanderbilt, Eli Merritt has written about the dangers of demagogues to democracy for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsday and Philadelphia Inquirer, among dozens of other news outlets. He writes a...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 228th episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 227th episode, our guest is Jeff Guinn. Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Go Down Together, The Last Gunfight, Manson, The Road to Jonestown, War on the Border and Waco. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. A quick programming...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 226th episode, our guest is … me! My first solo episode of this podcast was Episode 41, the second was Episode 62, the third was Episode 84, the fourth was Episode 117, the fifth was Episode 131, the sixth was Episode 135, the seventh was Episode 182, the eighth was Episode 189, the ninth was Episode 19...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 225th episode, our guest is Sen. Todd Young. Todd Young is the senior United States senator from the state of Indiana. Thank you to Sen. Young and his staff especially Indiana communications director Jay Kenworthy for taking the time and helping to set this up. Follow the podcast on Mastodon at: https:/...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 224th episode, our guest is Tom Maxwell. In the 1990s Tom was a member of the hot jazz indie band Squirrel Nut Zippers and wrote their hit song “Hell,” which peaked at no. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and propelled the band to multi-platinum status. The Zippers were inducted into the North Carolina Music...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 223rd episode, our guest is Dan Grossman. Dan Grossman is an adjunct professor of English at Marian University in Indianapolis and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger from 1992 to 1994. He has published often in NUVO, a news publication covering the central Indiana area. He also served as managing e...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 222nd episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello, and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host Rob Burgess. On this, our 221st episode our guest is Gov. Eric Holcomb. Eric Holcomb is the 51st governor of the state of Indiana. Starting in March 2020, I had the opportunity to participate virtually in dozens and dozens of televised press conferences with Gov. Holcomb and other state officials. These were mostly centered aro...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 220th episode, our guest is … me! My first solo episode of this podcast was Episode 41, the second was Episode 62, the third was Episode 84, the fourth was Episode 117, the fifth was Episode 131, the sixth was Episode 135, the seventh was Episode 182, the eighth was Episode 189, the ninth was Episode 19...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 219th episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 218th episode, our guest is T. E. Breitenbach. T. E. Breitenbach, born in 1951 in Queens, New York, is a self-taught American artist best known for his painting "Proverbidioms", a raucous and comical depiction of over 300 common proverbs and clichés. He also collaborated with Jim Morrison of The Doors,...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 217th episode, our guest is Melissa Maerz. Melissa Maerz has worked as an editor at Spin and Rolling Stone, a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, and a supervising producer on HBO’s Vice News Tonight. She was a founding editor at New York magazine’s Vulture website. She live...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 216th episode our returning guests are Ash Burgess and Jonathan Fowler. You first heard Ash Burgess and Jonathan Fowler together in Ep. 82, recorded in 2017. You first heard Ash Burgess on Ep. 16, Ep. 26, Ep. 27, Ep. 39, Ep. 58, Ep. 63, Ep. 77, Ep. 86, Ep. 91, Ep. 100, Ep. 124, Ep. 130, Ep. 136, Ep. 142...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 215th episode, our guest is … me! My first solo episode of this podcast was Episode 41, the second was Episode 62, the third was Episode 84, the fourth was Episode 117, the fifth was Episode 131, the sixth was Episode 135, the seventh was Episode 182, the eighth was Episode 189, the ninth was Episode 19...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 214th episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 213th episode our guest is Ray E. Boomhower. Ray E. Boomhower is senior editor of the Indiana Historical Society Press. He is editor of the IHS’s quarterly popular history magazine, “Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History.” Boomhower has been with the Society since 1987. A native of Mishawaka, Indiana...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 212th episode our returning guest is Frank Vogl. You first heard Frank Vogl on Episode 210. Frank Vogl is the co-founder of one of the leading global organizations fighting corruption, Transparency International and the chairman of another, the Partnership for Transparency Fund. He teaches at Georgetown...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 211th episode, our guest is Samuel Clowes Huneke. Samuel Clowes Huneke is an assistant professor of history at George Mason University. He is a historian of modern Europe, with a focus on the social and political history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. He is broadly interested in how every...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 210th episode our guest is Frank Vogl. Frank Vogl is the co-founder of one of the leading global organizations fighting corruption, Transparency International and the chairman of another, the Partnership for Transparency Fund. He teaches at Georgetown University, writes regular articles on corruption fo...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 209th episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 208th episode, our guest is John Leshy. John Leshy became deeply involved with America's public lands soon after his graduation from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He was solicitor for the U.S. Department of Interior from 1993 to 2001, is co-author of the standard textbook on public land and re...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 207th episode, our guest is Jonathan Malesic. Jonathan Malesic is a writer and a former tenured college professor, sushi chef and parking lot attendant. His essays have been recognized as notable in Best American Essays (2019, 2020) and Best American Food Writing (2020) and have received special mention...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 206th episode, our guest is Howie Statland. Here is how he describes himself and his store, Rivington Guitars: “This year we are celebrating 23 years of business – 23 years of finding guitar players the guitar of their dreams. Located at 73 E. 4th St., our store is right in the heart of the East Village...