Channel 3900 Podcast Network

Channel 3900 is a network of podcasts feature professors from a variety of fields who teach at Bethel University in Minnesota. Shows range from the sublime to the ridiculous and cover topics that are cultural, scholarly, spiritual, and personal.

Subscribe to Channel 3900 via iTunes, Spotify, Sticher, PlayerFM, Blubrry, and Podbean.

E-mail the network at channel3900@gmail.com, and follow us on twitter @Channel3900.

Channel 3900 (formerly Live of AC2nd) is the flagship show of the Network.  It features faculty discussions, round tables, and perhaps a few other things you might not expect.

Election Shock Therapy features Political Science professors Chris Moore, Andy Bramsen, Matt Kuchem, and Mitchell Krumm discussing the latest political happenings.

Bookish @ Bethel is the official podcast of Bethel’s Western Humanities Program. Bethel History Professor AnneMarie Kooistra and Philosophy Professor Carrie Peffley are joined by guests each week to talk about some of the great works of the western tradition and beyond. For more information check out the Bookish @ Bethel blog.

The 252 is sports talk radio as done by academics. Bethel History Professor Chris Gehrz and Political Science Professor Chris Moore discuss the history and politics of sports with an eye on current events and issues.

Each week in the Video Store, Bethel Academic Dean Barrett Fisher recommends a film for Sam Mulberry to watch. The two engage in a conversation about the film and then Barrett closes the show with his recommendation for the next week. For more information, check out the Video Store website and on Letterboxd.

In Sara Shady Public Philosopher, Bethel Philosophy professor Sara Shady and Sam Mulberry team up to apply the tools and knowledge of a professional philosopher to the ideas and issues that shape our lives.

The Modern Story Podcast features student hosted episodes made in conjunction with classes in Bethel University’s English and Journalism Department. Listen to Bethel students’ stories as they read and discuss their written work.

In each episode of Avatar with Academics, Bethel History Professor Annie Berglund (Millennial) is join by Sam Mulberry (Generation X) to discuss each episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender in minute and painstaking detail. To learn more visit the Avatar with Academics website.

In Nothing Rhymes with Gehrz, History professor Chris Gehrz and Sam Mulberry fee associate around six words that definitely do not rhyme with Gehrz.

Bethel History Professors Amy Poppinga and Sam Mulberry are The Latchkey Kids. Join them as they discuss the pop culture and life experiences of growing up in the 1980s.

In each episode of Tweet Victory, Bethel History Professors Annie Berglund (@Annie_Berglund) and Sam Mulberry (@CWCRadio) use a tweet from Annie’s twitter feed to propel them into a brief but far-reaching conversation whose destination is almost impossible to predict…even for the hosts.

Pandemics and the Liberal Arts features Bethel History Professors Amy Poppinga and Chris Gehrz discussing how pandemics like COVID-19 are understood and studied by various academic fields in the Liberal Arts.

Autobiography is an attempt to engage fellow teachers, scholars, colleagues and friends in conversation and to collect their intellectual autobiographies in a attempt to learn as much as we can about teaching and life.

As part of our “Kids in Podcasting” initiative, Channel 3900 presents Into the Pensieve: A Harry Potter Podcast.  In this podcast series, middle-schoolers Esme Mulberry and Vicky Farmer talk their way through the Harry Potter book series.