Episodes

Monday Aug 22, 2022
Strolling the Streets of Key West
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Moving to Key West, swimming with sharks, Hemingway and wandering around an old cemetery searching for music and stories.
Music
Key West Time - Jesse Rice
I'm From Key West - Mike Stack

Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Eric VanMeter: On Friendship and Community
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Eric and I became friends 30 years ago when we both were fresh off the farm and blissfully ignorant freshmen in college. It's a friendship that has endured and someone I treasure more than gold. He's a writer. He's a thinker. He's a pastor. He's my friend. We talk about being awkward kids from small towns and finally coming into a community of people where we could be ourselves with all our baggage and finally pulling through tragedy as only friends can do. It's a community I wish everyone has the chance to experience.
Eric's Podcast Monday's Penny
Music:
In a Sweater Poorly Knit - MeWithoutYou
Dumpster Divers - The Psalters

Monday Mar 14, 2022
The Lost Art of Discernment - Father Reginald Udouj
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
I met Father Reginald Udouj a few years ago when I was hanging out at the Subiaco monastery searching for a quiet place and I really liked him. So I caught back up with him to talk about the practice of discernment. You see Father Reginald is also a Benedictine monk and I thought he might have some pretty good insights about what it's like to hold an idea in your head and knock it around for awhile. He did not disappoint.
And for good measure I also recorded the original story of when I met him called "A Space in Between" that I wrote for Arkansas Life a couple of years ago. Settle in folks, this is a good one.
Music: Sofi - SomeGuyNamedRobb

Monday Mar 07, 2022
Sometimes You Can’t Go Home Again - Larry Cox
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
A few years ago, I met Larry on my travels to the border and he showed me a deeper side to the immigration crisis and introduced me to people who never made the nightly news. Recently, I traveled back down there and sat down with him to hear his thoughts on the border, immigration and the for-profit detention industry that only seems to make things worse.
Music
The Captain - Kasey Chambers
Long Lost Brother - Over the Rhine

Monday Feb 14, 2022
The Curious Case of John Peter Zenger
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
John Peter Zenger is one of the most important people you've probably never heard of. Back in colonial America, the young German immigrant paved the way for freedom of speech and a free press in what would eventually become the United States of America.
Music:
Gasoline Lollipops - Freedom Don't Come Easy
Over the Rhine - Changes Come

Monday Feb 07, 2022
Advice to My 23 Year Old Friend
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
A few seconds into recording this podcast I received a text from a former student asking, "What advice would you give to 23 year old Reeder?"
Probably this.
Music:
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home in this World Anymore
Gasoline Lollipops - Smoke and Steam

Friday Feb 04, 2022
A Cold Day on the Boat... Rogan, Neil Young and Neil Diamond.
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Can a social media company violate a person's freedom of speech? I toss my two cents in.
Music: Fiddler's Green by Marley's Ghost
America by Neil Diamond

Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Truth and the Chair
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
How do I know something is true? That seems to be the question a lot of people ask these days. So I decided to go back to a lecture that explores Plato's Allegory of the Cave and ask the question how do we know that a chair is a chair and not just a shadow on a wall.
Music:
Ringling Road by William Clark Green
Throw it All Away by Toad the Wet Sprocket

Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Social Media Chapter 9: Grow that Garden
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Technically, the chapter is called "Executing Strategy" but I like my title better. This week I talk about growing a garden, healthy soil, and go off on yet another tangent on why it matters to your social media campaigns. There's good soil here.

Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Social Media Chapter 8: Planning Communication
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Today's episode comes to you from the cockpit of the boat as we talk about the value of staying close to the tangible things in life when we're surrounded by so many things that are fake. Then we dive into the weeds of the elements you need for an effective communication plan.