Episodes

Episode 410 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, and Zach Burcham are your host voices. Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air by ABC after pressure from the FCC. Federal government oversight and regulation of media is explored. Why do we have the local TV on “the airwaves” any more? Will companies like Disney fight back for their 1st amendment rights? Local news stations are continuing to merge. Local reporting and local media voices are dwindling and this is g...

Episode 409 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell, Betsy Mills, and Zach Burcham are your host voices. This is the return of Henry County Sheriff John Sproles. Conversation about departmental chances since he took over. How culture has changed, more ranks have been established and officer pay has increased. In 2021 the County opened a new jail and almost immediately it was at capacity. Since that time the jail population has reduced about 40% and there isn't talk about expan...

Episode 408 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, and Zach Burcham are your host voices. City Councilman Aaron Dicken is back in the building! City finance update, road construction woes. Jeremiah finally got city trash service. This recording takes place on September 11th, we remember the day. National news is around the Charlie Kirk murder in Utah and the aftermath. How can we come together as a country to have honest dialogue again?In more local news, Car...

Episode 407 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, and Zach Burcham are your host voices. Tommy Oakes is in the guest chair this week. He is promoting the fall RV show at the State Fairgrounds on behalf of Walnut Ridge RV. We catch up on some national news with conflict in the Caribbean. Indiana is moving forward with their plan to take on 33 Illinois counties. Governor Braun has appointed members to the committee from Indiana. Lots of sports this week. IndyCa...

Episode 406 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, Zach Burcham, and Sara Morrell are your host voices. Henry County has a proposed data center which might bring in over a billion dollar capital investment. We are joined by Greg Martz and Jonathan Lawler who are here to tell us about the possible project. We discuss how it would produce power, utilize water and wastewater. What taxes it might contribute to the county schools and local governments. What will it...

Episode 405 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell and Zach Burcham are your hosts. Our guests are City Council President Rex Peckinpaugh and Clerk Treasurer Ashley Huffman. Following up on our city of New Castle series, we talk through the city budget process. Recent changes that have been made with insurance, trash, EMS and more. The city borrowed money to meet payroll in 2024, but they seem to have turned a corner. Great conversation an very insightful look into the way a C...

Episode 404 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, Clay Morgan, Brian Nichols, Betsy Mills, and Zach Burcham are the voices. Three main segments this week. Segment 1 is an update on the City of New Castle, evaluating the last 18 months since the most recent city election. Clay Morgan was a candidate for mayor and has his thoughts. Segment 2, Betsy Mills and Brian Nichols break down the possible redistricting that is happening for state and federal legislative ...

Episode 403 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell, Chase Peyton, and Zach Burcham are the voices. We are joined by Indiana Parks Alliance, Tom Hohman is the President and John Goss is the Vice President of Advocacy. They are both retired from DNR Leadership and now working to advocate for funding in the State Parks system. This year park services and staffing have been reduced due to lower reserve funds for the parks. Reports of lack of mowing, pools being closed, and even th...

Episode 402 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell and Zach Burcham are the voices. There is a confirmed case of rabies in Henry County as a bat has been found in Baker Park. Health department officials say you should leash your dogs, cats, and ferrets. Uno is coming to a casino near you, perhaps. Do you want a date night at an UNO party in Chicago or Los Angeles? IndyCar just had an interesting weekend in Iowa, but one driver might not be able to race in Toronto. Will Linus L...

Episode 401 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! This week Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, and Zach Burcham talk with ARCA driver Presley Sorah. Presley is from nearby Cambridge City and will be racing later his month at Indianapolis Raceway Park on Brickyard Weekend. We learn how he put his deal together. Stories of his last two years in moving from iRacing into real racing. Last year his race in Indy ended in a mechanical failure. Bones expects a win. Presley has done everything from social media...

Episode 400 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! It's a landmark episode! Celebrating 400 episodes, lots of reminiscing and a little bit of local news. Jeremiah Morrell, Dakota Davis, Zach Burcham, Bones Harcourt, Chase Peyton, Forrest Plank, and Danny Morrell are the voices. July 4th preparations, Indiana’s new laws, Miles Turner is leaving the Pacers. Is Indiana getting an NHL expansion team? And so many memories of podcast past. Enjoy the walk down memory lane. Dakota obviously had nothing but time...

Episode 399 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! It's an ensemble show this week. Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, and Zach Burcham are your voices. A $30,000 fireworks show is happening at Memorial Park, Jeremiah caught himself a Facebook ban. Lots of state news this week; Governor Braun made some big changes on the IEDC board including some major donors to his campaign. He also froze tuition at all Indiana universities for the next two years. Four years at IU Bloomington is 48, Purdue 40k. The Indi...

Episode 398 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! It's an ensemble show this week. Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, and Zach Burcham are your voices. Today is Juneteenth, the federal holiday. We take a civics lesson to understand what it's all about and how it ties into the civil war. Indiana is going to authorize tolling any interstate highway. An Indiana State Trooper has been arrested for trying to steal from an online retailer, paving bricks and bad decisions are involved. The Stanley Cup is makin...

Episode 397 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! It's an ensemble show this week. Jeremiah Morrell, Forrest Plank, and Zach Burcham are your voices. Our guests are Brenda Grider, and Jeff & Cindy Cross who are board members of the New Castle cruise in. Every month from April to October the first Saturday is a community festival car show and parade with vendors, sponsors, and hundreds of spectators. They also have given away over 300 bicycles to youth in the community at the August event. We also have ...

Episode 396 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! It's an ensemble show this week. Jeremiah Morrell, Dakota Davis, Bones Harcourt, and Zach Burcham are your voices. We are joined by Lee Marcum, CEO of Jack’s Donuts. Lee was with us back in 2018 and things have changed. Jack’s has grown and the podcast is in a new studio. Friday is national donut day so they are expecting a crazy busy day at the New Castle store. Jacks’ Donuts is a third generation family business that has expanded and become a regional...

Episode 395 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! It's an ensemble show this week. Jeremiah Morrell, Bones Harcourt, and Zach Burcham are your voices. This is the legislative wrap up episode. Joining us are Senator Jeff Raatz and Representatives Cory Criswell and JD Prescott, who all represent Henry County. We talk about the new Indiana budget, property tax changes that are coming. Local income tax increases that are likely coming our way. Union School corporation is closing, we got the background on ...

Episode 394 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! It's an ensemble show this week. Jeremiah Morrell, Forrest Plank, Bones Harcourt, Mike & Blake McKown, and Nick Vance are the voices. This is Indy 500 race week. Bones made his first visit to the track to see actual IndyCars in competition. Nick Vance came from New York for his first qualifying weekend. He comes race weekend, but got to spend the week here. Mike will be in photographer mode again. Forrest, Jeremiah, Zach, and Blake are just fans this ye...

Episode 393 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! Jeremiah Morrell, Dakota Davis, Forrest Plank, and Bones Harcourt are the host voices. Zach Burcham is the producer who makes it all sound good. State Road 3 is covered in orange barrels. We have a new pope…From the Midwest. The federal government appears to have gone corrupt. We all pretend to be shocked. The Pacers and racers are in full swing. Pete Rose is probably going to the Hall of Fame. Our program is community supported on Patreon. Do your par...

Episode 393 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! Jeremiah Morrell, Dakota Davis, Forrest Plank, and Bones Harcourt are the host voices. Zach Burcham is the producer who makes it all sound good. State Road 3 is covered in orange barrels. We have a new pope…From the Midwest. The federal government appears to have gone corrupt. We all pretend to be shocked. The Pacers and racers are in full swing. Pete Rose is probably going to the Hall of Fame. Our program is community supported on Patreon. Do your par...

Episode 392 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! Jeremiah Morrell, Forrest Plank and Bones Harcourt are the host voices. Zach Burcham is the producer who makes it all sound good. A couple more days of gridlock as SR 3 is still shut down. Slate electric vehicles are coming to Indiana. Would you spend $20,000 on a brand new truck? Real ID is finally being implemented. Which host still doesn't have their star on their license? We look back at the Kentucky Derby and Bones explains why our betting went wrong. IndyCar is at Indianapolis this weekend. The Pacers stole game one in Cleveland. Zach tells us about his Mini marathon! Our program is community supported on Patreon. Do your part by chipping into the cause by donating monthly at any level at www.patreon.com/bosshogofliberty and receive even more BONUS coverage and content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 391 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! Jeremiah Morrell, Betsy Mills and Bones Harcourt are the host voices. Zach Burcham is the producer who makes it all sound good. Indiana Lieutenant Governor, Micah Beckwith had more development in his SUV scandal as his office asked for one with “All the bells and whistles”, he also caught arrows for statements on the 3/5ths compromise, including from Governor Braun. Former Congressional candidate Gabe Whitley is going to federal prison for a few months....

Episode 390 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! Jeremiah Morrell, Mason Rottinghaus, Betsy Mills and Bones Harcourt are the host voices. Zach Burcham is the producer who makes it all sound good. This is a “join in progress episode” as Bones missed Patreon as he was at a bourbon lottery, and Betsy joins halfway through. Topics today: SR 3 is shut down, Indiana is balancing the budget with a cigarette tax increase, NFL Draft is happening, we have the Colts pick LIVE. We have odds on the next Pope. Ind...

Episode 389 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! Jeremiah Morrell, Chase Peyton, and Bones Harcourt are the host voices. Zach Burcham is the producer who makes it all sound good. Indiana passed property tax reform. Governor Braun is not getting the expected warm reaction. Local income taxes are likely to increase. School funding is likely to decrease. Indiana is now faced with a 2.4 billion dollar revenue forecast dip as the state budget is being finalized. It is a perfect storm that just might lead ...

Episode 388 of Boss Hog of Liberty is out! Jeremiah Morrell, Forrest Plank, and Bones Harcourt are the host voices. Zach Burcham is the producer who makes it all sound good. State Road 3 has partially washed out and is going to have an emergency closure. New Castle might get a “DORA” district, which could help with local tourism. Indiana Property Tax reform is coming, reviews are mixed, but a local school corporation is getting eliminated because of it. Union Schools has a local enrollment of l...