Thinking Aloud With Campbell Padgett

Dr. Hunter Baker serves as dean of the college of arts and sciences, a university fellow, and an associate professor of political science at Union University. He is the author of three books (The End of Secularism, Political Thought: A Student's Guide, and The System Has a Soul), has contributed chapters to several others, and has written for a wide variety of print and digital publications. He also ran for the 8th Tennessee District for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2016 election. 

Gregory Ryan has taught International Relations and Comparative Politics classes at Union University since 2010. He received his B.A. from Lipscomb University and M.A. from the University of Alabama. After teaching English for a year in Beijing, he entered the doctoral program in Political Science at the University of Tennessee in 1998 and received his PhD in 2003. Upon completing his doctoral studies, Ryan joined the navy, serving first in Japan and then aboard an amphibious assault ship based in San Diego.

Ted Kluck has an MFA in Creative Writing and teaches Journalism at Union University. Here we talk about youth, entertainment, expectations of ageing, and nostalgia.

Ted Kluck has an MFA in creative writing and currently teaches Journalism at Union University. In this episode we discuss little towns, French football, writing as an art, lifetime anecdotes, and the every-man.

Aaron Hardin has an MFA from the Hartford Art School and current teaches at Union University. You can visit his website here http://www.aaronhardinphoto.com/

In this episode, Joshua and I talk about film' effects, religion, art, social media, social development, and then we quickly skim over the abortion debate because we aren't trying to bum you out completely.

In this episode Tre Tharpe and I briefly talk about life as a black man, some of his religious convictions, ways help to overcome prejudice and the need for friendships to overcome social ills. Tre is a friend and an employment specialist and has a degree in social work. Happy Thanksgiving you bunch of turkey murdering heathens.

In this episode, we talk about race, racial tension, how to talk to other people about the elephant in the room, and other topics.

In today's episode we discuss photography, truth, moral intuitions, social media's effect on self-image, and why it's nice to hear about people's smoking habits. If you like this podcast you can let me know @TheTAPodcast on twitter where you can also suggest topics and such. I hope you all had a good week.

In this episode I speak with photographer Aaron Hardin. He has won the Magnum Photography Fine Art Award for 2016 as well as the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Artist Award. His graduate degree came from the Hartford Art School International Limited Residency Program and he is now currently the Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at Union University. We talk about art, photography, photojournalism, where photography is going, where its been, and what it can be, what graduate school was like, what makes a good artist, and how his past experience inform his work as well as those of other artists. If you like this podcast you can let me know @TheTAPodcast on twitter as well as give me topics or guest ideas. I hope you guys have a nice day. 

In this episode, Jeremiah and I discuss the election, Trump, Hillary, Race, Culture, Religion, where society needs to move to survive the future in an age of nuclear weapons, and why Kendrick Lamar is so cool. If you like this podcast  or have ideas for another episode you can always let me know @TheTAPodcast on twitter and check out my website campbellpadgett.org for more information. There is no place for referenced sites in this episode. Apologies for late timing in this episode and missing last week's episode. The guest had to go to NYC, but I will have the next two episodes ready to go for sure. Thank you all for listening and I hope you all had a good week.

In today's episode we bring Joshua Welsch back to talk about whether God exists, what makes something good or evil, what happens after death, what makes a good album, our mutual enjoyment of The Criterion Collection, and why Gene Wilder was so damn funny. If you like this podcast or have suggestions, ideas, and challenges to the ideas in this episode, you can let me know @TheTAPodcast on twitter. As always you can look up the links to any referenced information at campbellpadgett.org and look for the blog post with the same title as this episode. Apologies for my voice, I'm still coming down from a cold. Thank you all for listening and I hope you had a nice afternoon.

Dr. Seth Drown comes in to talk about the historical trends in modern art, where it has led, if there is any meaning in storytelling, SJW's, micro-aggressions , how Netflix is evolving art, and why the old Star Wars is better. If you like this podcast or this episode in general please let me know @TheTAPodcast on twitter. All referenced sites or information can be found at campbellpadgett.org. Thank you all for listening.

Joshua Welsch comes on to talk about what it's like to teach poetry to lower income people as well as personality tests, Dostoyevsky, and whether or not free will exists.