Making CASH

Tessa Cooper is a freelance lifestyle writer. Her work appears in places such as 417 Magazine (Sign up for Tessa’s Table Talk Newsletter!), Apartment Therapy, and The Spruce⁠.

Tessa and I discussed our top picks for our favorite categories on 417 Magazine’s annual “Best of” ballot. – Everything from best patio, to best sandwich, to best cocktail. Do you agree with my and Tessa’s picks?

Tessa is 2016 Missouri State graduate who studied Public Relations and Design, is my guest for episode 15 of the Fall 2023 season. This is the third installment of the Alumni Series.

I ask Tessa the hard questions in this interview, including: “Is there any upper limit to the number of throw pillows that should be on a bed?”

We talk about secret menu items, travel writing, and house tours. Tessa also gives a shoutout to some of her most memorable professors during her undergraduate career at Missouri State.

Djene is co-host of Talking History, a radio program and podcast created by KSMU. Each month, Dr. Bajalan and Patrick Needham speak with historians and scholars about the ideas, people, and events that have shaped our world. (https://www.ksmu.org/podcast/talking-history). You can hear the program on the radio on Thursdays, or tune in on the website to hear the radio spot plus “Talking History Extra.”

Djene is also a contributor on several other podcasts, including This is Revolution (https://open.spotify.com/show/0EGnAcDc6f13xJey7nRYPD) and American Prestige podcast where he hosts a series about the history of the Kurds (https://www.americanprestigepod.com/p/the-history-of-the-kurds-w-djene).

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Maybe Scar was the good guy?

We discuss The Lion King at about 36 minutes into the conversation. I ask Djene why the MSU general education world history classes are the way they are, with HST 103 covering up to the year 1600, and HST 104 covering 1600 on. Why 1600? The answer is multi-pronged, but one thing Djene talks about is the difference between premodern societies and modern.

Djene points to the Lion King as an analogy of how pre-modern societies worked: “Everybody is in their place in society and should stay in their place. And the bad guy, Scar, his big sin is bringing the hyenas into the ruling elite, and destructing the natural order of things.”

Djene notes that people did move up and down in pre-modern societies sometimes, but, in general, “if you were a peasant, you would expect your children to continue being a peasant. If you were an aristocrat, you would expect your children to continue being aristocrats. You have a society which was hierarchically organized into different social classes […] There was no concept of a universal right, as it were. But in modern society that's really different.”

 So, Scar could be cast as the good guy in the Lion King “because he's trying to bring more people in that ruling elite of society, that's challenging the hierarchies of society.”

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Housekeeping

We also discuss Djene’s other classes, his research interests, and the History department more generally.

Please note that this episode was recorded earlier in the semester, prior to the October 2023 Hamas attack.

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Jack and I discuss:

• A student newspaper’s role in campus community.
• The impact of COVID on campus and on the Standard,
• The history of Standard and how its operations have changed over time,
• The now-defunct MSU readership program that used to provide the Wall Street Journal, NYT, and the News-Leader daily to students and the campus community,
• Some of the controversies the paper has covered,
• The classes Jack teaches, and
• Freedom of the press.

This was the first episode I’ve ever recorded in the Standard’s podcasting studio, and the equipment there is great! I’ll definitely be back!

We also talk about Books to Keep, a charitable community organization that sponsors book fairs in our community. Check out Books to Keep here.

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Instead of recording a housekeeping segment this week, I thought I’d put housekeeping here in the show notes and let the episode start right off with the guest. What do you think of the format? Can I get away with putting the housekeeping only here in the shownotes (shoutouts, announcements, previews of the episode conversation topics, etc) or do you prefer to hear me talk about it at the top of the episode? I think it can work well both ways, but sometimes I like it when a podcast host omits the preface and get right to the meat. Let me know all your thoughts. jayhoward@missouristate.edu. As always, I want to say a hearty THANK YOU to everybody listening. The podcast audience continues to grow. Thank you for telling your friends about the podcast. Analytics show a lot of Springfieldians are listening. And beyond the campus community and the Springfield area, we’ve got people listening from as far away as Germany. Very cool. Please take a moment to like and follow the podcast on facebook. Rate and review the pod on facebook and/or Apple Podcasts. Subscribe on your platform of choice, especially if your platform of choice is Spotify.

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MSU Public Affairs Conference schedule. I mention the upcoming virtual panel plenary session with Diego Senior titled The Very Real Implications of AI Chatbots and Mental Health. He worked on a podcast called Bot Love.

The Making CASH podcast was featured on the Reynolds College blog. Check it out!

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On January 18, 2023, the FCTL blog posted a piece by Stacy about artificial intelligence and its role in education: ⁠FCTL Blog post: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Its Impact on the Classroom⁠

Stacy's post was the first of its kind that I found. At the time, I had only just discovered ChatbotGPT, and I wondered whether my students were using it or not. Today, exactly eight months after the FCTL published the post, Stacy's insights are more relevant than ever. In today's conversation, we talk about all things related to AI in higher ed.

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It's such a joy to speak with Dr. Shawn Wahl, the Dean of the Reynolds College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Jay Howard and Dean Wahl talk about Tent Theater, the John Goodman Amphitheater, The Reynolds Scholarship, the completion of the Grant Street Underpass, upcoming college celebrations, the new college's footprint on campus and throughout the community, marching band, and the recent announcement of the largest one-time gift in Missouri State history to support the construction of a new state-of-the-art facility to enhance arts, social sciences and humanities education. Follow the podcast on facebook here.

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Nathan is an RCASH Alum! He holds an MA in COM, same as me.

Know another alum who should be featured on this podcast? Let me know!

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