This is for the CV

In this month’s episode, Anthony and I sit down for a much needed catch up and we chat about politics, TV, and Texas.

Dr. Marian Houser is a Professor at Texas State University in the Department of Communication. She joins us to share her knowledge on motivating and connecting with students, helicopter teaching, swearing in the classroom, and living mental wellness.

This month we are joined by Dr. Timothy Nokken. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University, and the Department Chair. He joins us to talk about his career researching Congress and we explore topics of trust, deliberation, and party dynamics as they relate to Congress.

This month we are joined by Dr. Michael Burns. He is a communication professor at Texas State University, where he is also the Director of Career Readiness in the Department of Communication Studies, Co-Director of CoSearch, and co-curator of TEDxTexasSateUniversity.

He shares with us about being a professional agitator, his collaborative problem-solving research program, covering the Olympics, the importance of general education courses and rural education, and of course throwing a birthday party for the pap smear.

In this month’s episode we are joined by Dr. Ryan Neville-Shepard. He is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and the Director of Graduate Studies at the at University of Arkansas. He speaks with us about third party candidates, conspiracy theories, and his path to education.

We’re back after a short break! In this month’s podcast, we chat about changes to the podcast so that we can keep this going, and we dive into the Supreme Court and some of our summer binges.

New monthly release schedule: Every third Friday of the month. Thanks for listening! 

This week we talk about being fully vaccinated, the Johnson and Johnson pause, and getting back to some of America's "normal" problems - like shootings, voting restrictions, and corporations as people. 

This week is our one-year podcast anniversary. We reflect on you, our guests, and the unique things that have occurred over the year. We also chat Chauvin trial, shootings, and vaccinations. Thanks for spending some time with us!

This week we are joined by Dr. Clarence Williams. He joins us to talk about his path through and to education. He shares his experience and wisdom as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and now administrator at all different levels of K-12 education in the Dallas Fort Worth area, and explains his life-giving approach to research through his work on a new documentary that tells the often untold stories of the DFW sound and the impact it has had on the world.

This week on This is for the CV, we chat governors. We talk about Greg Abbott’s executive order to reopen Texas to 100% and end the mask mandate, and explore Andrew Cuomo’s recent descent through personal and political scandal.

This week we chat about the rifts in the GOP, Marilyn Manson, DACA, and the minimum wage. We also began recording on Wednesday nights, so our new release time will be Friday evenings.

This week, as we record on the day before the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, we reflect on the attack on the Capitol, how we got here, impeachment, and the final days of the Trump presidency. We also look to some of the things that keep us hopeful. 

In our first episode of 2021, we chat about our intentions for this year, what we binged over the holidays, the Georgia run-off elections, the phone call between Trump and the Georgia Secretary of State, and the future of the Republican Party and politics in general. 

Note: We recorded this episode on Tuesday 1/5, the day before the attack on the United States Capitol. We are angered and saddened along with most of the rest of the country. 

This week we are joined by Dr. Kristina Mitchell, an expert in curriculum and publishing, instructor of political science, and former boss lady of Rebecca at Texas Tech. She joins us to talk about equity in higher education. We chat about parental leave, evaluations, and best practices. Content Warning: sexual assault is discussed briefly in the episode.

This will be our final episode of the year. We are grateful to our guests who shared their time and expertise with us and to our listeners for supporting us as we tried to stay connected and engaged this year. Thank you for listening! 

This week we talk PhD programs and vaccine hopes. We keep it a bit lighter by chatting about what we’ve been watching, including Fargo, the Mandalorian, and the transformative experience of Selena.

This week we talk about our voting process, the transition of the presidency, Covid-19 spikes and vaccines, and the early days of party in-fighting.

This is an impromptu, unedited episode to discuss our take on the week of election results, where we are, and where we go from here. 

This week we are joined by Dr. TJ Geiger, an Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University. He joins us to talk about inoculation in political arguments, religious rhetoric, maintaining the humaneness in education, and hope. 

This week we are joined by Dr. Erik Bucy, a Marshall and Sharleen Formby Regents Professor of Strategic Communication at Texas Tech University. He joins us to talk about media participation, how to have better political discourse, the primacy of visuals in presidential campaigns, and real leadership vs. visuals of dominance. 

This is an impromptu episode to discuss Trump, Covid-19, and the dangers of his dismissiveness and misinformation. We'll be back next week at our usual Thursday release with a full episode. 

This week we reflect on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, shenanigans in the U.S. Senate, Trump's taxes, and the lack of indictments for the killing of Breonna Taylor. 

This week we talk about hysterectomies of immigrant women, capitalism and Covid, and how we are in need of a serious leadership hug.

This week will be our last weekly episode. With the end of summer, we are shifting to releasing episodes every other week. In this episode, we breakdown the first night of the DNC, Kamala Harris as VP pick for the Democratic ticket, and those Sopranos. 

As our intro jokes about, Anthony and I had very different reactions to the film The Joker. This week we get to the bottom of why  and argue about whether this film was great or not.

In part two of our political ad pod, we look at ads from the Lincoln Project. The Lincoln Project is a group of conservative individuals who are not fans of President Trump. 

In part one of a conversation where we listen to and review presidential ads, this week we discuss ads directly from the Trump campaign and the Biden campaign. Rebecca is also finally watching the Sopranos and Anthony is jealous. 

This week we are joined by Dr. Brian Ott. He is Head of Communication at Missouri State University and a leader in the field of communication. He joins us to talk about what inspired his career as an accomplished scholar, how passion drives his research, and his recent book the Twitter Presidency. Also, it turns out that we all need to watch the film the Bothersome Man.

This week we talk about cancel culture, re-opening the schools at the expense of a lot, and Anthony's special connection to Bruce Lee. 

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.