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Nice Work

The Nice Work Hosts Take Their Time

By Alex Chambers,
Kayte Young, Tyler Lake
Published April 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT
Tyler Lake in a brown chore shirt and jeans standing next to a reddish-brown and black BMW car in a concrete driveway. One hand is in his pocket, one is grabbing a front tire. View of a suburban neighborhood with lingering snow is visible in the background.
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Nice Work host, Tyler Lake, has an unusual car. He worries about possible catastrophic failure. But the car has its charms, and Tyler is smitten.

On a weekend afternoon in late winter, the hosts of Nice Work decided to go to the Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Greene County. It’s been on our list of culturally interesting spots in Southern Indiana that we want to do stories about.

The trip didn’t quite turn out as we planned. But it did get us thinking about how we spend our time.

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Alex Chambers
Alex Chambers runs WFIU’s arts desk, and produces and hosts WFIU’s Inner States, a weekly podcast and radio show about arts, culture, and ideas from southern Indiana and beyond. He’s the co-creator of How to Survive the Future, a podcast about the present, produced in partnership with Indiana Humanities. He has a PhD in American Studies, with a dissertation called Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge, and a book of poems called Bindings: A Preparation, about domestic life and empire. In his spare time, he teaches audio storytelling at the IU Media School. When he’s not in the woods gathering sound, you might see him out for a run on the streets of Bloomington.
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Kayte Young
Kayte Young discovered her passion for growing, cooking, foraging and preserving fresh food when she moved to Bloomington in 2007. With a background in construction, architecture, nutrition education and writing, she brings curiosity and a love of storytelling to a show about all things edible. Kayte raises bees, a small family and a yard full of food in Bloomington’s McDoel Gardens neighborhood.
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Tyler Lake
Producer, Nice Work
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