Author, and host of the Dismantling Doctrine podcast Clint Heacock returns to the pod to talk about his book "Not So Shiny Not So Happy People, How Bill Gothard, Church, and Family Taught Me Christianity Doesn't Work." Clint talks about turning away from a lifetime of studying and sharing the gospel in favor of an atheistic ideology. After earning a PhD in theology, becoming an elder in the church, teaching at a bible college, being a respected pastor, Clint ultimately came to find the belief system he had been propagating irreconcilable with reality. He deconstructed and reconstructed. He shares some of the revelations of the damage the church wrought on his young psyche and how he got out.

NOT SO SHINY NOT SO HAPPY PEOPLE (THE BOOK)

DISMANTLING DOCTRINE PODCAST

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Former US Attorney, Amanda Marshall returns to the pod to try and make sense of the presidential immunity ruling handed down by the US Supreme Court. She tells a great story about Kamala Harris going to the mat to protect the people she serves. And, she walks us through what led to the reversal of Oregon's drug decriminalization efforts (Measure 110).

US SUPREME COURT DECISION (Presidential Immunity)

ACLU STATEMENT ON IMMUNITY RULING

NPR ON OREGON'S DECRIMINALIZATION RESULTS

MARSHALL ADVOCACY CENTER (CONTACT AMANDA)

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Elyse Maloni, leader in AI Operations at PanasonicWELL, stops by the pod to lament the end of human creativity! We discuss likely job disruptions and displacements caused by AI but soothe ourselves, remembering that militarized superintelligence will be the death of us all, anyhow!

THE NEURON (newsletter)

THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION ON THE BRAIN & BEHVIOR (NIH article)

HOW GENERATIVE AI CAN AUGMENT HUMAN CREATIVITY (HBR article)

ANDREW NG'S COURSERA OPTIONS (mostly free & approachable for anyone who wants to learn how to use & apply AI)

CONCERNING AI (podcast)

Links to popular AI models for people to experiment with (if so inclined):

OPENAI (ChatGPT)

GEMINI (Google)

COPILOT (Microsoft)

CLAUDE

PI

MISTRAL

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