Dr. Kyle Eichas is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Tarleton State University. He joined us this week to talk about mentoring, motivation, perspective in a pandemic, and why he doesn’t give multiple choice tests. You can find his research at https://www.eichas.net/.

This week we have a chat like we used to pre Covid times, where we would pop into the other’s office and say “Can you believe this?” and “Did you hear about that?” Our stream of consciousness covers bounties on American soldiers from Russia, recent Supreme Court decisions, exponential growth of Covid-19 in our communities, and push polls.

This week we talk all things Confederacy – the Civil War, Lost Cause revisionism, meanings of monuments and the context around which they emerged, and the Confederate flag.

This week our guest is Dr. David Perlmutter who is the Dean of the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. He is the author of ten books, including Policing the Media and Blog Wars. He is currently serving as President for the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Dr. Perlmutter talks to us about political polarization, the politics of Covid-19, and how Covid-19 is shaping higher education responses at the administrative level, from budgetary concerns to advice for recent graduates to our economy going forward.

This week we talk about policing in 2020, how power normally responds to social movements and why this moment is much different, and the hard conversation America is having about what we were, who we are now, and if we want to be any different in the future.

This week we have our first guest, Fernie Ceniceros, to talk faith, work, education and when the three converge. He shares his path to the Diocese of El Paso and the important work he's apart of in support of his city during refugee policies, a mass shooting, and a pandemic. 

This week we talk all things Waco. The show, the town, the myth. At the top, we also process some initial reactions to the murder of George Floyd. 

This week is crap job pod. We talk bad bosses, crap pay, and terrible work. 

This week we talk about how graduate school ain’t undergrad but why you should still consider it. Still don’t even mention Covid-19, but we do get honest about money, feeling like an impostor, and why Bs are OK.

This week we talk all things going to college and share our own experiences deciding to go, applying, paying for college, getting through, and what to do when facing graduation. We don’t even mention Covid-19 once. Promise.