{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Main Street Moxie: Stories from small-town founders and entrepreneurs told by students and faculty at Franklin College","title":"Main Street Moxie - A new podcast from Franklin College","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":252,"description":"Welcome to a new pod series from Franklin College: A small, private, liberal arts school in the heart of America’s heartland, in this in-between world of being just 20 minutes from Indianapolis, one of the country’s 25 largest cities, and what you may lovingly refer to as the middle of nowhere.Franklin is the second-largest town or city in Indiana’s eleventh-largest county. We’re the county seat — once a very important distinction in Indiana culture — but the nearby city of Greenwood has exploded in population, doubling in size over the last 20 years to more than 65,000 residents. Franklin still dwarfs the other towns in our area — it’s nearly twice the size of Whiteland, New Whiteland, Trafalgar, Princes Lakes, and Edinburgh combined. Include the up-and-coming Bargersville, which is situated nicely between Franklin and Greenwood along the US highway, and only then does the rest of the county overtake Franklin’s population.Further south of Franklin and Johnson County lies mostly cornfields. The population of the wedge of the state to the south and east from Johnson County is approximately 40% smaller than lives in just Marion County, where Indianapolis is found. The population density in many of those counties is just 30 or 40 people per square mile. So we’re in an interesting spot: Tucked neatly between the biggest city in the state — and arguably one of the most interesting and dynamic cities in the Midwest — and… nothing.Places like this are interesting. Rural America, and, I’d argue, in particular the rural parts closest to Appalachia, are often written off as backward, small-minded, and uneducated or just dumb. Hillbillies. And while literally every place in the world has its share of interesting personalities, that characterization is flat out wrong. Rural America is where you find some of the most creative, resilient, resourceful, and, yes, compassionate people in our great country. And I want you to hear their stories.Starting with this spring semester,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/D2NEexec47iOPnRL01ajYeC3v4ikeYTV_nItqE7t_10/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZjc3/M2IxOTU4ZjMyMDM1/NGQwYzQ2NmFjODFl/OGFkOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}