The Bean Pot
Episodes
11 episodes
Emily Blejwas: The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Season two of the Bean Pot. I’m thrilled to be able to continue this journey for another season, and excited to explore several new topics that will, hopefully, help us all to see our world from new perspecti...
Dr. Jay Valentine: Philosophy, Buddhism, and Pandemics
Dr. Jay Valentine is my special guest for this Season 1 bonus episode. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Troy University, and an expert in Buddhism, eastern religions, meditation, and philosophy. We recorded this episode just as Ala...
Dr. Aaron Hagler: Middle East History, Israeli–Palestinian Conflicts, and Peace Process
In the July of 2000, President Bill Clinton hosted a summit meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. Five months later, in December, President Clinton, and the two leaders publicly anno...
Dr. Govind Menon: Black Holes, Plastics, and STEM
It’s hard for me to imagine a world where everyone believes the earth is basically shaped like a snow globe. That water is trapped above a dome, and it rains when windows open in the sky to let water in. That the lights in the sky rotate like a...
Stephen Stetson: Beyond Coal
My guest today is Stephen Stetson, who is a Senior Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club, covering Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. The Sierra Club, is America’s oldest and largest environmental organization. Stephen's primary focus is t...
Tori Lee Averett: The Importance of the Arts
Thank you for joining me on this journey of self-reflection and personal growth. I’m enjoying making this podcast, and reflecting on the things that are important to me. I want to keep improving the podcast and you can help me do that by visiti...
Andrew Maraniss: Games of Deception
Andrew Maraniss discusses his new book Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany.This is the true story of the invention of a game, created by a thoughtf...
Dr. Richard Nokes: Professor Awesome, and Zombies
Dr. Richard Scott Nokes, professor of Medieval Literature at Troy University. In this interview we discuss his Professor Awesome persona, and how his intellectual outreach to connect his academic work to the general public lead to much bigger t...
James Radford: Boll Weevil — A Novel
Civil rights attorney, documentary film maker, and novelist James Radford talks about his new book “Boll Weevil", a fascinating courtroom and political drama that draws attention to life in the rural South, race relations, social justice, and e...
Dr. Luke Ritter: America’s First Nativist Movement
Adam sits down with Dr. Luke Ritter to discuss his forthcoming book “The Origins of Nativism in the Antebellum West”. Dr. Ritter completed his Ph.D. in American History at Saint Louis University, and currently teaches at Troy University.&...