Reckon Interview
The Reckon Interview is the home for the best stories about the South. Each week, National Murrow Award-winning host John Hammontree examines American culture through a Southern lens by speaking with authors, entertainers, artists, leaders and thinkers to better understand the most interesting region of America and learn how we can each craft our own narratives about the South.
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Cara Fitzpatrick on 'The Death of Public School...
55 min
2
Will Alabama execute an innocent man? Beth Shel...
50 min
3
Victor Luckerson on the Epic Story of Tulsa's G...
54 min
4
Frederick Joseph on Patriarchy Blues
43 min
5
Neema Avashia describes 'Another Appalachia'
45 min
6
Andre Henry says we're living through a time of...
43 min
7
Music legend Delbert McClinton reflects on 'Out...
26 min
8
Raising hell with Appodlachia's Chuck Corra
39 min
9
David Dennis Jr. on the ways "The Movement Made...
34 min
10
Emily Bingham on the reckoning of 'My Old Kentu...
The long, strange history of the state song of Kentucky
41 min
11
Michaela Anne found healing and comfort in her ...
And a sneak peak of her upcoming single 'Does it Ever Break Your Heart'
33 min
12
Christian J. Collier finds poetry amidst the te...
The author of "The Gleaming of the Blade" joins the show
34 min
13
Sydney Duncan on fighting the latest wave of an...
"What you need to know is that trans people just want to exist."
32 min
14
Danté Stewart on understanding the gods of the ...
The author of "Shoutin' in the Fire" joins the podcast
51 min
15
The Southernization of the United States explai...
As goes the South... so goes the nation
39 min
16
The Kernal's musical journey started with a red...
His latest album is "Listen to the Blood"
31 min
17
Elizabeth Hughey on transforming Bull Connor's ...
The poet discusses "White Bull"
35 min
18
Aunjanue Ellis and Christine Swanson want to te...
The Oscar nominee describes the hurdles to telling certain stories in Hollywood
32 min
19
Imani Perry takes us 'South to America'
Understanding the 'changing same' of the American South
47 min
20
Behind the scenes of the Righteous Gemstones wi...
Misbehavin' to start Season 6
31 min
21
Clay Risen on bourbon's past, present and future
Plus the best affordable and findable bourbons
39 min
22
Blues artist Adia Victoria on the 'unfinished b...
Adia Victoria's new album "A Southern Gothic" is one of the best records to emerge from the South in several years, deeply rooted in Southern sound and themes. Every song on the album feels like a short story, challenging and remaking th...
36 min
23
Ed Southern explains our college football obses...
Why is the South so obsessed with college football? It’s not a question most of us ever stop to think about. Football has just always been a constant. But this on the Reckon Interview, Ed Southern explains the roots of our football obsession.In a co...
46 min
24
Anne Roderique-Jones examines a shocking story ...
On June 7, 1992 Stacy McCall, Suzie Streeter and Sherrill Levitt went to bed in a small town in the Ozarks. By the next morning, they had vanished without a trace. 30 years later, the mystery remains unsolved. Anne Roderique-Jones is creator and host o...
38 min
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BONUS: David Magee and John Archibald discuss a...
In his new book, “Dear William,” David Magee shares a heartbreaking account of his son’s addiction and eventual death of opioid overdose. In a period where deaths are calculated by the thousands, stories like David's show us how personal grief and...
44 min