In this episode, my friend Juan Trevino and I talk about how we learned to embody toxic masculinity, how we became conscious of it in our lives, and how we learned to move beyond it. 

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In a week where the state of California has seen three mass shootings over just three days and my kids high school was locked down for two hours due to the reported threat of a weapon on school grounds, I try to process the madness that is chronic violence in America, and call for us to take action to force change. 

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In this first episode of Season 2 (am I allowed to arbitrarily make seasons?) Jesse lays his spiritual cards on the table. I talk about growing up in the Evangelical Heartland of America, Wheaton, Illinois, and how that experience formed and shaped my beliefs. I talk about how and why those beliefs became insufficient as constructed and how and why I needed to expand the boxes that contained and restrained the truth of the Divine. In the end, as I see it, we're all just waves in the great ocean that is God. 

If you're a doubter, a seeker, or someone who has found it hard to find a home in contemporary expressions of Evangelical Christianity, this episode might have meaning for you. You might also just be curious or interested in spiritual memoir. If that's you, give it a listen.

In this final episode of Season 1, I talk about:

Thanks for listening and making this such a rewarding creative experience for me. I've learned a lot over these first 12 episodes and have exciting things planned for Season 2. See you again in 2023!

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This week I'm joined by Bryan, the infamous B from Beats with B who showed up early and decided to sit in on the episode. After I open the episode talking about what I learned at a DEI retreat last week, Bryan and I start with reading some selections from Glennon Doyle's Untamed  and begin to explore the question, what do women want? Episode 11 features first steps by two white men of privilege towards dismantling the Patriarchy, if only in our own lives. 

At the end of the episode Beats with B features "Afeni" off of the 2019 album Eve by Rapsody.  

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In Episode 10 of the WiMP Podcast I'm joined by novelist, musician and Associate Teaching Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Kate Birdsall. Kate is the author of two books in the Liz Boyle mystery series, The Flats  (2017) and The Heights (2020); she recently released an EP under the band name Nótt called You Only Thought You Were Imagining It (2022); and she is the award-winning Director of The Cube at Michigan State University, an experiential learning initiative that provides real-world large-scale project management, UX, editing, and client relations opportunities for students. She is also Managing Editor of The Current, East Lansing's only student-run arts and culture magazine. 

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Episode 9 of the WiMP Podcasts features a meditation on change and relationship. Change is constant and relationships are central to who we are and who we are becoming. Change is also something that we're often afraid of or resistant to. How might we consider these things and the relationship (see what I did there?) between them in new ways?

Bryan is off this week and next week is still up in the air, so Beats with B will return in two weeks.

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This week on the WiMP Podcast I'm flying solo and diving into a glass case of emotion. First up, in What Deserves a Platform This Week, I talk about a recent CNN article exploring new studies on the trauma experienced by a growing number of Evangelicals brought on by "rapture anxiety." 

Then I talk about why it is so hard for me, not only to express my own emotions, but to be present with others expressing their own. There are a number of reasons why expressing and experiencing emotion is hard for men in general including,

At the end of the episode I'm joined once again by Bryan as we explore emotions in the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar's "Father Time" from his 2022 album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.

I wasn't able to schedule a guest for this week so it's just me. Here's how the episode breaks down:

In What We Learned this Week: the tragedy of factory farming.

In What Deserves a Platform this Week: Patagonia saving the planet and Europe's exportation of misery.

And for the main event: 

Bryan was under the weather this week, so look for Beats with B to return next week when I'm joined by Dr. Ernesto Todd Mireles in a discussion about Xicano studies and activism.

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This week on WiMP I'm joined by two former students, Kiwi and Ryan, who share their experiences of taking an African American history class with me in the spring of 2022, growing up biracial and how that has impacted their lives. The topics we covered included:

Later in the podcast in Beats with B, Bryan and I talk about Aquamarine, a track off of Cheat Codes, a 2022 release by Danger Mouse & Black Thought.

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