The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce's board chair Paul Caragiulo will host the Chamber’s newly launched podcast—titled Chamber Podcast—in an effort to facilitate dialogue between business leaders in Sarasota and the community at large. The podcast, the first episode of which will go live in mid-January, will address political and infrastructure issues. At the center of the broadcast is Caragiulo’s boisterous political persona, acting as a facilitator for guests from a number of institutions around town in addition to covering the upcoming city elections and policy issues impacting Sarasota. A sound enthusiast from a young age (the former Sarasota City and Sarasota County commissioner is also an amateur singer with a considerable amount of studio experience),Caragiulo is curating the show’s guests and purchasing the necessary audio equipment on his own. “We’re going to cover some of our legislative priorities—affordable housing, water quality," says Caragiulo. "I know for sure that we’ll be doing an episode on transportation, including the new I-75 infrastructure. I kind of have mixed feelings about the I-75 buildout because it feels like a paleontology project; but it's an infrastructure issue, so it’ll be a part of the new podcast.” Up until recent years, the Sarasota Chamber had been seen as spending the last few decades as a largely silent convener and participant in city and county politics, but the new podcast signals that this stance is about to change. The community could see a more vocal, publicly-engaged Sarasota Chamber voice emerge in the coming months.