This week, Adam sits down with musician and video game designer Malcolm McDonough. The two talk about Malcolm's music, the game he's designing and the glories of 90s video-game-based television. Plus, one of Malcolm's original songs: "Beacon of Hope." All this and more on The Coffee Hour.

This week's episode deals with Chess! Adam interviews chess aficionado and history student Camron Alten-Dunkle about the origins of chess, the popularity of chess post-Queen's Gambit, Soviet Chess and the complicated legacy of Bobby Fischer. 

All this and more on The Coffee Hour. 

This week, on The Coffee Hour, Adam sits down with Denison student Jeff Stevens to discuss Cult Game, the video game that Jeff is designing about... you guessed it... cults. The two discuss what it takes to design a game, how the game came to be and what Jeff's plans are for the game and his LLC.

All this and more on The Coffee Hour. 

This week on the Doobie, Adam sits down with Patrick Fina from the Community Leadership and Involvement Center (CLIC) to discuss campus organizations and Patrick's work on the Doobie in a behind the scenes episode. Through this, they discuss Patrick's background with campus radio in Chicago and what makes campus orgs succeed or fail.

Note: In the recording process, some error occurred causing Adam's voice to sound slightly distorted. Patrick's vocals are, for the most part, untouched by this error and the interview still plays as it should.

In this episode of The Coffee Hour, Adam sits down with Denison Cinema Professor Sabrina Renkar to discuss Don't Fence Me In, the film she is making with her mother, documentarian Mary Elaine Evans, the story two young women who rode cross country on horseback on a dare. 

The two discuss the popularity of documentaries, the fluctuating popularity of various genres and how young filmmakers might revamp older films, as well as the just-announced Oscar noms.

All this and more on The Coffee Hour. 

This week's episode is all about ROCKS. Or rather, Sediment. Or rather, the sedimentological research being done in Louisiana's Bonnet-Carré Spillway. Adam sits down with Denison Geo-Science student, Laura Lapham to discuss the multi-university research being done on the spillway, what learning about its sediment could tell us about the health of the region, how the Mississippi delta is slowly sinking and how climate change has impacted flooding near the spillway.

All this and more on The Coffee Hour.

This week, on The Coffee Hour, Adam sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Klainot-Hess, a professor of Sociology at Denison University and OSU to discuss labor stratification in modern America. They talk about "good" and "bad" jobs, how the gap between them is getting smaller and smaller, how automation has uprooted certain jobs, the rise of casualized labor how work might be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. All this and more on The Coffee Hour. 

Adam sits down with Denison alum Ethan McAtee ('20) to discuss Ethan's upcoming novel The Stolen Stone, as well Ethan's early film, on which it's based. Along the way, they cover the democratization of art, working under COVID and how our brains change in college. 

All this and more on The Coffee Hour. 

On this week's episode, Adam interviews Denison student Lucy Sullivan, founder of the film instagram @filmbysully. The two discuss influential film makers, religion and psychology in film, Lucy's own screenwriting and the deadly friendship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. All this and more on the Season 4 premier of The Coffee Hour. 

Adam, William and Josh talk about the best film soundtracks. 

Adam and Josh (now Seniors and therefore tired and elderly) reflect on things they wish they'd done as Freshmen.

This week on Genrecast, Adam and Josh focus on a very distinct and odd kind of film: Movies about Movies, a unique (and often polarizing) sort of  film that occurs when Hollywood turns its cameras back on itself. They discuss the good (Sunset BLVD.), the bad (Hail, Caesar!) and the baffling (Inland Empire) as well as what do good and bad films in this genre seem to have in common.  Hint: Bad metafilms are more sentimental. 

The period between November 3, 2020 and January 6, 2021 has marked one of the most fraught times in American politics. In the last days of the Trump administration, the pressure has been raised by claims of election fraud by the President, and possibly some actual election fraud committed by the President. All of this came boiling over on the 6th of January, 2021, as the Senate sat down to certify the 2020 election results, when armed protestors stormed the Capitol building.

Adam is joined again by Dr. Paul Djupe, of the Denison Political Science department, to discuss the past two months, the events of the capitol and what it may mean for Donald Trump, both the Republican and Democratic parties and the future of elections.

This interview was recorded at 1:00 PM EST on January 7th. As this is a developing story, details may have changed by the time you hear this. 

For New Year's, Adam, Josh and special guest star William Main (N. Main Street) review the best films of each year they've been alive. 

Adam and Josh profile some weird animals... and some exotic eats.

On the final episode of this season, Adam sits down with Steve Feke (Denison class of 1969), the screenwriter behind the cult classic horror film When A Stranger Calls (1979) starring Carol Kane, Colleen Dewhurst and Charles Durning. The two talk about Steve's days at Denison, his starting out in Hollywood, and how to succeed in showbiz based on networking and bluffing.

All this and more on The Coffee Hour.