The Between the Levees Podcast

07/29/2025

S3:E162 | Capt. Stephen Polk | SCI:CME
The Seamen's Church Institute

Director of Maritime Education and Training for the Seamen's Church Institute's Center for Maritime Education, Capt. Stephen Polk joins me on the show to discuss life growing up in the Houston area, adventures into the maritime world in civilian and military functions spurred by his maritime studies at Texas A&M Galveston, and a long journey with the Seamen's Church Institute that continues through today.

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Director of Maritime Education and Training for the Seamen's Church Institute's Center for Maritime Education, Capt. Stephen Polk joins me on the show to dis...

07/23/2025

Good start with Selena Lebeouf. Capt. Rusty Ball and Cole Bizwell too.

Cheers all! Good to be back. I've got one more episode coming up 8/5. Will update the schedule soon. Planning to work on 5 episodes of The Getting to Know You Podcast for August next. Follow me there too. That's where it all started.

07/23/2025

07/23/2025

S3:E161 | Selena Lebeouf | Landside Ops Mgr (Artco)

From down da bayou in Dulac, Louisiana to frigid Indiana, Selena found a new home in the industry with ADM/Artco. A graduate of the Nicholls St. Maritime program, she found herself interning in St. Louis across a few of Artco's business units and is now Landside Operations Manager for them in Mt. Vernon. She is active in an array of industry organizations including WiMOS and the local Propeller Club. The sky's the limit, it seems.

https://youtu.be/H6V97TwUO3M

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From down da bayou in Dulac, Louisiana to frigid Indiana, Selena found a new home in the industry with ADM/Artco. A graduate of the Nicholls St. Maritime pr...

07/22/2025

Cole Bizwell
Rusty Ball
Jonathan Jackson
Selena Lebeouf

07/22/2025

07/21/2025

Full episode debuts tomorrow night!

Selena Lebeouf

https://youtu.be/xI1pCZzEflc

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3siGp1j2N5L6f2ipBEyNkU?si=va3RcmQtQkqDdZxtx7jR9g

Selena shares a bit about the podcast to preview this week's episode.

07/19/2025

Thanks again!

07/17/2025

Thanks again, everybody. And thank you, Capt. Rusty Ball

07/16/2025

https://youtu.be/j6RFVV7tvoE

Congratulations to Moose Dougherty, Brad Sjostrom, Ryan Church and Tom Dougherty for setting the Fastest Known Paddle “FKP” on the Cedar River (Waterloo to Cedar Rapids) in Iowa.

They paddled 71 miles in 14 hours and 17 minutes.

Excellent write-up and pics at the website.

This is our first FKP in Iowa, which is the 13th state/province to have an FKP.

https://www.fastestknownpaddle.org/cedarriver

07/16/2025

S3:E160 | Capt. Rusty Ball | Retired, maybe...

Coming out of a Summer break, Captain Rusty Ball joins me on the show to talk through a life lived on the water. Since the mid-60s boarding boats with his father as a young child through today, Captain Ball learned a great deal and made a life out there working for many companies over the years, but most notably, he is proud of his time spent developing safety programs for the industry. Down but not out, Captain Ball hopes to be back behind the sticks one day soon.

New intro and outro produced by DronePulse

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Coming out of a Summer break, Captain Rusty Ball joins me on the show to talk through a life lived on the water. Since the mid-60s boarding boats with his f...

07/15/2025

We're back for a few weeks. See y'all in ten...

S3:E160 | Capt. Rusty Ball | Retired, maybe...

Coming out of a Summer break, Captain Rusty Ball joins me on the show to talk through a life lived on the water. Since the mid-60s boarding boats with his father as a young child through today, Captain Ball learned a great deal and made a life out there working for many companies over the years, but most notably, he is proud of his time spent developing safety programs for the industry. Down but not out, Captain Ball hopes to be back behind the sticks one day soon.

Coming out of a Summer break, Captain Rusty Ball joins me on the show to talk through a life lived on the water. Since the mid-60s boarding boats with his f...