The Process with Alex Beightol

By Alex BeightolArts Books

The Process with Alex Beightol episodes

August 04, 2024 Fiasco! A Recommendation
It's been a stressful week and everyone is tired. Here's an uplifting, funny recommendation from This American Life about some people who witnessed some things go very, very wrong in the best way possible.
3 min
July 29, 2024 The Road: Revisting Cormac McCarthy's Novel During an Election
A novel I find helpful when everything feels like it is on fire. A short reflection on how it ends, and what it could be telling us about the work we must begin.
9 min
July 21, 2024 The Improvement Association
This is a weekend recommendation from me to you, from producers I love. It's about a lie that took root and shook up an entire community. I hope it makes you think about the facts and fictions that we allow to guide us.
3 min
July 15, 2024 The Violent Answer We Live With
A brief thought on the normalcy of violence as an American answer and how the status quo does not trend to change unless we decide to change and reflect on our inheritance. A shortlist of thinkers who can help us overcome this. This content contains adult themes on gun violence and terrorism.
10 min
July 08, 2024 The Perfect Wife Nightmare
Sherri Papini and the case that captivated the nation in 2016 has a new documentary. I watched it and have some thoughts. Is what happened really all that out there? Or does this story rely on dynamics that existed long before a car pulled up and whisked the perfect wife away?
32 min
June 24, 2024 CLIPPED: Thoughts on Hulu’s Story of a Scandal
We’re looking at how the villain narrative gets murky in the previously released episodes of CLIPPED on Hulu and how that tendency might lurk in all of us.
12 min
June 16, 2024 Emergency Session: A Supreme Court Ruling and You
You might have to save your own life here. In this emergency session we’re breaking down in SIMPLE terms the recent Supreme Court ruling that sent shock waves through the country and the mental framing we need to deal with the coming fall out.
13 min
June 10, 2024 CLIPPED: The scandal that shook the NBA.
This is an overview and quick commentary on episode one WHITE PARTY of Hulu’s new show CLIPPED. Donald Sterling was on top of the world. A real estate empire, owner of an NBA team, and beloved businessman. And then his wife waged war on his mistress and assistant.
17 min
June 03, 2024 Reading Wendell Berry While Black: an introduction.
It’s rough out here. In this episode we sit with a poem from farmer, philosopher, and poet Wendell Berry and look at what kind of good life it invites us to.
16 min
May 27, 2024 MAY DECEMBER: What’s this film about exactly?
An overview and companion to the movie MAY DECEMBER, loosely inspired by an American scandal and abuse case.
20 min

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Stories build our society. Stories can change them. Looking at the books, ideas, and the people that made them that have changed everything. Conversations about the facts and fictions of our ideas of…