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The Process with Alex Beightol
by Alex Beightol
Stories build our society. Stories can change them. Looking at the books, ideas, and the people that made them that have changed everything. Conversations about the facts and fictions of our ideas of religion, gender, race, and selves in America.
Episodes
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The Compound: an Interview with Aisling Rawle
Aisling Rawle's 2025 debut novel THE COMPOUND took on the dystopian brutality of reality TV. She graciously joined The Process for a conversation about the book, Love Island, and the dystopias we invite into our own living rooms.
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The Arrests
The question so many of us are asking is where on earth did the sentiment of "Don't Tread On Me" go, and why are First and Second Amendment defenders so silent? A brief moment to process this and a reminder to pick up Carol Anderson's work on this THE SECOND.
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The Hunger Games, Minnesota, and Public Memory
Did the future of "The Hunger Games" actually prepare us for the present? Is being disappointed at the state and public response to injustice missing the point within the series that has made a serious comeback? The Process takes a light gander.
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Evil Influencer: Jodi Hildebrant
Did we miss the context that made Family Youtuber Ruby Framke sink by her own hand? Skye Borgman's documentary on Netflix focuses on the life coach Jodi Hildebrant whose influence led to a shocking crime.
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Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing?
The Process podcast is back with a new cohost, Caera Beightol. We tested out long-distance podcasting while having a conversation about Chante Joseph's viral Vogue piece on the embarrassment of boyfriends.
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A Note on Fear and Shame
A good poem when we don't have words.
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Calico Critters At The End Of The World
It's election week. One adorable imaginary world has me thinking.
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For Our Daughters
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is the writer and historian behind the best selling deep dive into how Evangelical American men have been formed to wield power. This last week, she released her short documentary with Emmy award-winning Carl Byker called FOR OUR DAUGHTERS. It's a concise reminder to think...
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FAIR PLAY, a thriller
Thoughts on a 2023 film by Chloe Domont on the lies we tell ourselves and each in modern dating.
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A Thought on "Turning" Black
A former US president questioned a presidential candidate's Blackness at the National Association of Black Journalists. Alex responds with a reflection in this episode.
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Fiasco! A Recommendation
It's been a stressful week and everyone is tired. Here's an uplifting, funny recommendation from This American Life about some people who witnessed some things go very, very wrong in the best way possible.
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The Road: Revisting Cormac McCarthy's Novel During an Election
A novel I find helpful when everything feels like it is on fire. A short reflection on how it ends, and what it could be telling us about the work we must begin.
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The Improvement Association
This is a weekend recommendation from me to you, from producers I love. It's about a lie that took root and shook up an entire community. I hope it makes you think about the facts and fictions that we allow to guide us.
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The Violent Answer We Live With
A brief thought on the normalcy of violence as an American answer and how the status quo does not trend to change unless we decide to change and reflect on our inheritance. A shortlist of thinkers who can help us overcome this. This content contains adult themes on gun violence and terrorism.
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The Perfect Wife Nightmare
Sherri Papini and the case that captivated the nation in 2016 has a new documentary. I watched it and have some thoughts. Is what happened really all that out there? Or does this story rely on dynamics that existed long before a car pulled up and whisked the perfect wife away?
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CLIPPED: Thoughts on Hulu’s Story of a Scandal
We’re looking at how the villain narrative gets murky in the previously released episodes of CLIPPED on Hulu and how that tendency might lurk in all of us.
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Emergency Session: A Supreme Court Ruling and You
You might have to save your own life here. In this emergency session we’re breaking down in SIMPLE terms the recent Supreme Court ruling that sent shock waves through the country and the mental framing we need to deal with the coming fall out.
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CLIPPED: The scandal that shook the NBA.
This is an overview and quick commentary on episode one WHITE PARTY of Hulu’s new show CLIPPED. Donald Sterling was on top of the world. A real estate empire, owner of an NBA team, and beloved businessman. And then his wife waged war on his mistress and assistant.
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Reading Wendell Berry While Black: an introduction.
It’s rough out here. In this episode we sit with a poem from farmer, philosopher, and poet Wendell Berry and look at what kind of good life it invites us to.
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MAY DECEMBER: What’s this film about exactly?
An overview and companion to the movie MAY DECEMBER, loosely inspired by an American scandal and abuse case.
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The Other Black Girl
We watched Hulu’s take on The Other Black Girl. Today we dive into some of the themes in Zakiya Dalila Harris block buster story.
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They Were Her Property: an Intro to (White) Girl Power
What power is vested to our White girlies? Where did it come from? We can understand this better by looking at the original, economic relationship between women deemed White and Black through the first three chapters of Professor Stephanie Jones Roger’s book “They Were Her Property”. In this...
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They Cloned Tyrone: Processing Juel Taylor’s 2023 film
An introduction to the themes and ideas in the hilarious, sharp film They Cloned Tyrone from writer and director Juel Taylor and co writer Tony Rettenmaier,
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Getting Out: How To Tackle “Reverse Racism” conversations
In this episode we’re attacking the Big Question: Reverse Racism by looking at the work of Dr. Beverly Tatum, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, and the 1975 film Stepford Wives. Change your conversations about race for good and don’t get trapped in endless cycles of nonsense.
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Getting Out: Revisiting A Theme in Jordan Peele’s Nightmare
When I first watched Get Out, I assumed it was about a horror we couldn’t really run from. Looking back seven years later, there’s a warning and a message in it for today.
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The Fight You Can Win
Introducing the mental shift that can change how you see the systemic challenges we all face and why sitting down and resting is critical.
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Ease In This Economy? Nara Smith and the True Trad Wives
Why does Nara Smith baking in designer gowns irritate people? What’s with the need to police Black women’s time and energy? In this episode we introduce the context that helps us understand why women’s time and energy is a resource politically fought over.
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When Love Is Racist
Love Is Blind, a popular Netflix TV show, is about relationships without the social pressure of stereotypes or assumptions. And yet, so many fascinating assumptions are made in small ways that speak to larger cultural ideas about who we are and what we owe each other. We break down two of the...
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What Can “White Rage” Teach Us?
A couple years back, as cities burned in protest, historian Carole Anderson wrote a viral opinion piece on the kind of social rage that has quietly undermined democracy and civil rights in the USA. That piece became a best selling book, which we break down in a short address to a community within...
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Stories build our society. Stories can change them. Looking at the books, ideas, and the people that made them that have changed everything. Conversations about the facts and fictions of our ideas of religion, gender, race, and selves in America.
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Alex Beightol
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