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Bryce attended the Journal of Mormon Polygamy Conference and snagged a few interviews from attendees, organizers, and presenters. It was a fantastic experience! The first issues are printed and ready for purchase at the link below and it's a great conference as well. Come next year! After that we discuss Sense & Sensibilities by Jane Austen to round out the third episode of Women's History Month. We end with some happy news from boxing trainers helping parkinson's patients.

Show Notes:

Journal of Mormon Polygamy website with currently-available issues

https://journalofmormonpolygamy.org/jmp

MOGP: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility : https://janeaustensociety.org.uk/jane-austen/the-novels/sense-and-sensibility/

Jane Austen House: https://janeaustens.house/jane-austen/novels/sense-and-sensibility/

Happy News:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0rjnn24y5o

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on The Unpaid Army of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de543-d9tME

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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It's Women's History Month! We first talk about a few women in history who dared to stand out because representation matters. These are women in science, medicine, and even espionage who did amazing things to further scientific advances, to help heal people, etc and they deserve to be recognized. For the media segment, we talk about the 1993 movie Orlando, starring the amazing Tilda Swinton. Following that, we close out with happy news about Dolly Parton and children's books.

Show Notes:

Books to read:

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers in World War II, by Liza Mundy

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history, by Sam Maggs

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: S. Emma E. Edmonds' Riveting Account of Her Service as a Nurse and Spy during the Civil War, by S. Emma Edmonds

Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of the Revolution, by Maturin Murray Ballou

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, by Shrabani Basu

Websites:

How to celebrate Women's History Month: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-celebrate-womens-history-month

Lost Women of Science: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/

Alice Ball: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-ball

Rosalind Franklin: https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/about/facts-figures/dr-rosalind-franklin/

Photo 51 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51

Jacqueline Felice de Almania: https://www.medievalwomen.org/jacqueline-felice-de-almania.html

Marie Equi: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/equi_marie_1872_1952_/

Sarah Emma Edmonds: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/sarah-emma-edmonds

Elvira Josefina Concepcion de la Fuente Chaudoir: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/the-good-time-girl-who-fooled-the-nazis-9mgbknm2wjz

Double Cross: the True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre

Noor Inayat Khan: https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/the-courage-of-noor-inayat-khan/

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/who-was-noor-khan/

32 Women who Fueled Innovations in the Automotive Industry: https://www.lelandwest.com/blog/listing.asp?2022/3/32-women-who-fueled-automotive-innovations

Celebrating the Women Who Have Driven Auto Innovation

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a35752436/women-driven-auto-innovation/

Mimi Vandermolen – The Mother of Automotive Ergonomics

https://womensinnovations.org/women-innovator/mimi-vandermolen-the-mother-of-automotive-ergonomics/

MOGP:

Orlando: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107756/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_Orlando

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/orlando

Essay on Orlando: https://www.scribd.com/document/237181150/Essay-on-Orlando

Happy News: Dolly Parton has donated more than 270 Million Books to Children: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/dolly-parton-imagination-library

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on The Unpaid Army of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de543-d9tME

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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The time has come for a new apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Clark G. Gilbert; time for your podcast hosts to rise to the occasion with another Apostolic Profile episode. He escaped the religious persecution Mormons often suffer growing up in Scottsdale, AZ, to go to BYU. Then off to Harvard for business, to acquire more useful skills for his forthcoming career in the Church Education System (CES). Before CES, however, Gilbert was responsible for trimming all the fat at Deseret News, which amounted to firing 40% of the workforce and shifting it to an unabashedly apologetic mission statement defending the church. Once appointed to CES, Gilbert instituted a series of Orwellian surveillance systems at BYU to punish thought crime; Ernest Wilkinson would be proud and Jeffrey Holland finally has a man to fire some muskets. Now Gilbert joins as the youngest apostle, securing his future position as prophet circa 2050s-70s. This "disruptive innovator" has a lot of new ideas to keep the church as extremist-conservative as is legally permissible heading into the 22nd century. This call to the Apostleship by Dallin Oaks ensures Oaks' legacy remains long after he's become a shepherd of worms. Patrons get a bonus segment comparing Gilbert's interviews at Deseret News and SL Tribune immediately after his ordination, which tangentially serves as a case study for the deterioration of journalism at Deseret Media, due to Gilbert himself. After that, it's our next installment of Oaks' book, Pure in Heart, where he discusses the importance of mindset and intentionality when rendering service, especially for the church. We end with happy news about a potential future cure for Type 1 Diabetes.

Show Notes:

Clark Gilbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_G._Gilbert

Gilbert's likely tenure as future prophet https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/1r8c74x/on_his_first_day_in_the_q15_clark_g_gilbert/

Official press release https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/clark-gilbert-called-quorum-of-the-twelve-apostles

Gilbert Op-ed for ChurchNewsroom

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/how-education-family-and-testimony-are-fundamental-in-the-life-of-elder-clark-g-gilbert

The Parable of the Slope https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/10/16gilbert?lang=eng

Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave

https://hbr.org/1995/01/disruptive-technologies-catching-the-wave

The Disruption Machine by Jill Lepore

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine

Gilbert's profile on BYU Law and Wheatley Institute with law-focused talks

https://www.religiousfreedomlibrary.org/authors/clark-g-gilbert

Gilbert: Stewardship of Our First Freedom

https://www.religiousfreedomlibrary.org/documents/the-stewardship-of-our-first-freedom#note-30

Gilbert: The Courage of Our Convictions

https://www.religiousfreedomlibrary.org/documents/the-courage-of-our-convictions-how-religious-expression-goes-beyond-religious-liberty

Gilbert: Dare to be Different

https://www.deseret.com/2022/9/14/23319209/elder-clark-gilbert-religious-universities-should-dare-to-be-different/

American Disestablishment: The Conclusion by Miles Smith

https://davenantinstitute.org/american-disestablishment-the-conclusion/

Disestablishmentarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disestablishmentarianism

Governance and the Religion Question: Voluntaryism, Disestablishment, and America's Church-State Proposition by Carl H. Esbeck

https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1156&context=facpubs

Becket Foundation "Religious Liberty" SCOTUS victories

https://becketfund.org/cases/?fwp_case_court=us-supreme-court&fwp_case_status=past

Hosanna-Tabor

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/565/171/

Trinity Lutheran

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/582/15-577/

Our Lady of Guadalupe

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/591/19-267/

Carson v. Makin

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/596/20-1088/

How SCOTUS is Dismantling the Separation of Church and State

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-the-supreme-court-is-dismantling-the-separation-of-church-and-state/

American Council of Education

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-council-on-education/

Becoming BYU

https://aims.byu.edu/becoming-byu

LDS Education Boss Touts BYU's Commitment to Religious Freedom by Peggy Fletcher Stack

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/24/byu-will-never-back-away-its/

Spiritual Crackdown at BYU? By RadioWest

https://radiowest.kuer.org/podcast/radiowest/2025-01-16/a-spiritual-crackdown-at-brigham-young-university

BYU New Employment Policy

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/03/10/new-employment-policy/

BYU employment questionnaire

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/ecclesiastical-leader-questions-new-ces-hires

Fine Print: The Deseret News Spins its Circulation Numbers by Rachel Piper

https://www.cityweekly.net/news/fine-print-the-deseret-news-spins-its-circulation-numbers-2207487

Dallin Oaks and Clark Gilbert: Stand Fast with Love in Proclaiming Truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IXLufuAAQ

Gilbert Deseret News interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORUY06HPmfM

Gilbert SL Trib interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPwhJhBJ-A

Ben Park video on Gilbert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXXNeydptg

Gordon Monson: Clark Gilbert has been called as an LDS apostle. Now, we'll see if he's chosen.

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/02/13/maybe-clark-gilbert-will-be/

Gordon Monson: LDS Church education boss should put down the hammer at BYU and pick up an olive branch: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/06/byu-there-is-too-much-fear-too/

Dark days: New rules have BYU professors running scared https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/05/byu-blue-why-these-are-dark-days/

Sword of Laman: Pure In Heart, by Dallin H. Oaks

The Mansion, by Henry Van Dyke: https://americanliterature.com/author/henry-van-dyke/short-story/the-mansion

Happy News:

A bold new plan could finally cure Type 1 diabetes: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260302030648.htm

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on The Unpaid Army of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de543-d9tME

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

Email: [email protected]

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We

It's February and that means it is Black History Month. And since we are in the middle of the 2026 Winter Olympics, we are going to talk about one of THE most famous African-American Olympic athletes of all time, Jesse Owens. We then discuss the movie 42, the story of Jackie Robinson's first year in the white baseball league in 1947. After that, we'll round out the episode with happy news about a peace march from Texas to DC. Happy Black History month!

Next Live Show: Monday February 23, 6:00 PM (MT) We will talk about the newest apostle. We look forward to seeing you!

Show Notes:

Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics, By Jeremy Schaap

American Legends: The Life of Jesse Owens, by Charles Rivers Editors

Jesse Owens: A Life in American History (Black History Lives), by F. Erik Brooks and Kevin M. Jones Sr.

Jesse Owens official website: https://jesseowens.com/

Biography on Olympics website; https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/jesse-owens

Black U.S. Olympians won in Nazi Germany only to be overlooked at home: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/13/489773389/black-u-s-olympians-won-in-nazi-germany-only-to-be-overlooked-at-home

Race and Sports_ Exposing the hypocrisy of the 1936 Olympics: https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/education/educator-resources/teaching-guides/exposing-the-hypocrisy-of-the-1936-berlin-olympics/

Obama Rights Historic Racial Wrong for Olympic Heroes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji-9PimDLRQ&t=142s

Documentary about the other 17 black athletes, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5068938/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_olympic%2520pride%2520

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/olympic-pride-american-prejudice

American Experience: Jesse Owens (2012 Documentary): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2122879/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_epp_sm_1

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/jesse-owens

1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute

MOGP:

42: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453562/?ref_=fn_t_1

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/42-the-jackie-robinson-story

Happy News:

https://gleam.news/stories/monks-complete-2-300-mile-walk-for-peace-to-washington

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on The Unpaid Army of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de543-d9tME

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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Ready for more Dallin Oaks stuff? First we talk about a letter Joseph Smith wrote to W.W. Phelps. Then we discuss the law review article "Ethics, Mortality, and Professional Responsibility", by Dallin Oaks published October 1975 in the BYU Law Review. For the Sword of Laman, we take a look at the first two chapters of Oaks' book Pure In Heart. We finish it off with some happy news about a judge overturning Trump's block of an off-shore wind project that could power 600,000 homes. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

Letter to W. W. Phelps Jan 11, 1833

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-to-william-w-phelps-11-january-1833/2#historical-intro

Modern D&C 52

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-6-june-1831-dc-52/2

Ethics, Morality, and Professional Responsibility by Dallin Oaks

http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=lawreview

Wickersham Commission

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/wickersham-commission

Criminal Justice in U.S. History

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/criminal-justice-us-history

Sword of Laman: Pure In Heart, by Dallin H. Oaks

Woes of the Pharisees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woes_of_the_Pharisees

Cleansing the Inner Vessel by Ezra Taft Benson (April 1986 GenCon): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1986/04/cleansing-the-inner-vessel?lang=eng

Inspiring Music, Worthy Thoughts by Boyd K Packer (GenCon 1973): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1973/10/inspiring-music-worthy-thoughts?lang=eng

Worthy Music, Worthy Thoughts (1976 filmstrip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ5Z6AoEKuY

Richard G Scott in April GenCon 1992: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1992/04/healing-the-tragic-scars-of-abuse?lang=eng

Happy News: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/trump-halted-offshore-wind-project-to-proceed

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on The Unpaid Army of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de543-d9tME

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

Email: [email protected]

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Well, it's time. Let's talk about President Dallin Harris Oaks, the Hoaks man, the Mormon Gollum. First, we cover the biography In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks by Richard Turley. Then we take a look at Hoaks' book The Carthage Conspiracy, as well as a presentation from 2021 where he actually uttered a prophecy! And after all that, we share some amazing science news. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have uncovered a surprising new way to influence brain activity by targeting a long-mysterious class of proteins linked to anxiety, schizophrenia, and movement disorders. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

Cyrus Dallin Sculptor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Edwin_Dallin

Cyrus Dallin: https://dallin.org/about-cyrus-dallin/

Stella Oaks Foundation: https://www.stellahoaks.org/

Law Review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_review

Supreme Court case 1957-1958: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1957

Chief Justice Earl Warren: https://www.oyez.org/justices/earl_warren

The Sit-In: 40 years later: https://chicagomaroon.com/22887/grey-city/the-sit-in-40-years-later/

Studying the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure: https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/studying-exclusionary-rule-search-and-seizure

Why Dress and Grooming Standards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56pD3WMPQao

Talk of the Month: Standards of Dress and Grooming: https://bhroberts.org/records/0spyAV-0Dx8uN/dallin_h_oaks_explains_byu_grooming_standards_in_the_new_era

Internal Revenue Service Investigations of Unidentified Persons, Denver Law Review: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2923&context=dlr

United States vs Brigham Young University: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/485/534/1377372/

The Wall Between Church and State: https://archive.org/details/wallbetweenchurc0000oaks/page/n5/mode/2up

MoGP:

Carthage Conspiracy by Dallin Oaks and Marvin Hill

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p007620

Dallin Oaks Lecture Nov 12, 2021 @ University of Virginia Mormon Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0r2YIAsOQs

Happy News: A "dormant" brain protein turns out to be a powerful switch: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260118233607.htm

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://youtu.be/iJWirjCyWdk

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

Email: [email protected]

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Welcome to 2026! We start out the year talking to an interesting person — Chris Mitsch — a Professor of Computer Science, whose focus has been on AI ethics. We discuss a variety of technologies known as AI, the limitations, costs, potential uses, who stands to benefit, and a litany of related issues. This leads to our MOGP segment, where we watched A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, of course! And we close the episode with a round-up of good energy news from 2025.

Show Notes:

Papers mentioned during the interview:

Does Liking Yellow Imply Driving a School Bus? By Gonen et. al.

https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.35/

The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A" by Berglund et. al.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288

Seeing like a State by James C. Scott

https://files.libcom.org/files/Seeing%20Like%20a%20State%20-%20James%20C.%20Scott.pdf

The Mechanic and the Luddite by Jathan Sadowski

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite/paper

Empire of AI by Haren Hao

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/

MOGP:

A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/

Happy News:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/clean-energy-renewables-charts-2025

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://youtu.be/iJWirjCyWdk

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

Email: [email protected]

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod

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BlueSky: @glassboxpodcast.bsky.social

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As per tradition, we're talking all media to round out the year! Our theme is past, present, future; we're discussing what influenced both of us the most in each category. Thanks for hanging out with us this past year!

Shan:

Past: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Present:

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore.

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, by Sonia Purnell

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel, by Rachel Holmes

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of the Women at the CIA, by Liza Mundy

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore

Ten Days in a Mad-House: The Original 1887 Edition (Nellie Bly's Experience On Blackwell's Island) by Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly: Daredevil. Reporter. Feminist by Brooke Kroeger

The Secret Life of Dr James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon, by Rachel Holmes

Future: Star Trek

Bryce:

Past: Grand Theft Auto

Present: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaquui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda

Future: Age of Disclosure

Show Notes:

History of Grand Theft Auto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKPUS7pu5Y

The Teachings of Don Juan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teachings_of_Don_Juan

The Aliens are Here (Again)! A Review of The Age of Disclosure by Michael Shermer

https://www.skeptic.com/article/the-aliens-are-here-again-a-review-of-the-age-of-disclosure/

Skeptic debunks of UFO/UAP videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHDlfIaBEqw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuhkVTJ6A_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om0d0u1ASJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64zlyzojpPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs&t=1093s

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://youtu.be/iJWirjCyWdk

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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Yes, the CIA tortured inmates suspected of terrorism in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Two of the primary men involved with creating this program are Mormon, one was called to be a Bishop after taking $81mn from the government to torture people. We discuss the report, how it came to light, some of the key figures along the way, and the fight over the FOIA release of the report in the courts. After that we talk about The Report, wherein Adam Driver plays Dan Jones who led the investigation at the direction of Senator Dianne Feinstein. Then we have some happy news about libraries getting funding that was promised to them.

CW: torture, suicide

Show Notes:

Torture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture#Punishment

Torture in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_in_the_United_States#History_of_U.S._Accession

US Senate report on CIA torture "The Torture Report": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Senate_report_on_CIA_torture

The Torture Memos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos

7 Key Points form the C.I.A. Torture Report by Jeremy Ashkenas, Hannah Fairfield, Josh Keller, and Paul Volpe: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/cia-torture-report-key-points.html

Jay Bybee: The man behind waterboarding, by Randy James: https://time.com/archive/6914445/jay-bybee-the-man-behind-waterboarding/

Bruce Jessen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Jessen

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques

Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival,_Evasion,_Resistance_and_Escape

Torture, Ethics, Accountability? By David R Katner: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2791&context=luclj

CIA Paid Torture Teachers More Than $80 Million by Robert Windrem: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/cia-paid-torture-teachers-more-80-million-n264756

Torture victims will bear psychological scars long after CIA report scandal fades: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/dec/13/learned-helplessness-enduring-effects-torture-haunt-victims

The Torture Debate by David Anderson: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2005/12/23/the-torture-debate/21435/

The CIA and the Church: https://mormonr.org/qnas/H2jKm/cia_and_the_church

The senate torture report is a condemnation of Mormon moral reasoning: https://bycommonconsent.com/2014/12/10/the-senate-torture-report-is-a-condemnation-of-mormon-moral-reasoning/

The Role of the LDS church in developing torture by Cherry O Top: https://churchofthefridge.com/role-lds-church-developing-torture/

Mormonism and Torture — Paradoxes and First Principles by Boyd Petersen: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/69-71_Petersen_torture-3.pdf

Christopher Hitchens tries waterboarding via Vanity Fair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPubUCJv58

Nixon Tapes "Cancer on the Presidency" - Dean and Nixon discussing blackmail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnUJa6uuL_Y

Nixon "I'm not a crook"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCEQP2-qOJk

Electronic Frontier Foundation on OPEN Governt Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/key-open-government-reform-legislation-becomes-law

ACLU Torture Report landing page

https://www.aclu.org/cases/senate-torture-report-foia

Executive Summary of the Torture Report

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-documents-crpt-113srpt288.pdf

NPR on Abu Zubaydah

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084161762/supreme-court-rules-against-disclosure-in-torture-case

NSI info sheet on FOIA

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/foia/guide.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation on history of FOIA

https://www.eff.org/issues/transparency/history-of-foia

Privacy Act of 1974

https://www.justice.gov/opcl/privacy-act-1974

https://www.justice.gov/opcl/overview-privacy-act-1974-2020-edition

1966 hearing on CIA and FBI invasions of privacy

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-89shrg61406p6/pdf/CHRG-89shrg61406p6.pdf

MOGP: The Report: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8236336/

The portrayal of CIA in 'The Report': Separating Truth from Fiction by Brian Greer https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/portrayal-cia-report-separating-truth-fiction

Happy News:

https://ilovelibraries.org/article/all-federal-library-grants-previously-canceled-by-federal-agency-restored/

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://youtu.be/iJWirjCyWdk

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

Email: [email protected]

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The new apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taken his seat at the table. Gerald Caussé spent his life in corporate business before his call to the Presiding Bishopric in 2012. In 2015 he ascended to Presiding Bishop and has been the money manager of the church since then. During his tenure, numerous scandals have hit the church related to finances, including a fine from the SEC for falsifying business records to conceal wealth. In the wake of these numerous scandals, Gerald takes his position on the board of the wealthiest religion on the planet. Let's discuss! After that we chat about Catch Me If You Can, a movie about a con man starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks that does a great job of concealing the truth. Then we have happy news about pain management medications and promising research in that field.

Show Notes:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-18/how-the-mormons-make-money?embedded-checkout=true

https://religionnews.com/2025/11/07/im-cautiously-optimistic-about-the-new-lds-apostle/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqt-k5lbrQhddAne7du47HHB6Gfpstoh_gnkML4Mjyb2cciCqUeR9lh0geUR_aem_j1UGWxzM9qQmQJTCjHRRfg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rald_Causs%C3%A9

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/14/21133740/mormon-church-finances-billions-presiding-bishopric-ensign-peak-tithing-donations-byu-real-estate/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_E._Stevenson

https://archive.ph/20130102082820/http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695267801,00.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXbPxIHkijg

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/gerald-j-causse?lang=eng

https://speeches.byu.edu/speakers/gerald-causse/

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/4636873Z:FP?embedded-checkout=true

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/08/16/lds-churchs-ensign-peak-reports/

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/feds-fine-mormon-church-5-million

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023-35

https://ldsflow.com/the-lds-church-a-year-of-global-service-and-impact-w-infographic/

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-mormon-church-owns-the-most-valuable-property-portfolio-in-america-ff590d405dd6

https://www.livescience.com/18094-perceptions-mormonism-americans-infographic.html

https://exploringmormonism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Corporate-structure-image-400.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/8nwznm/breakdown_of_the_humanitarian_aid_vs_church/

https://mormonfamily.net/2666/mormons-in-america

https://mormonwiki.com/Farms_Owned_By_The_Mormon_Church

https://mormonwiki.com/Farmland_Reserve

https://github.com/jsoma/data-studio-projects/issues/287

https://mormonbillions.com/

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/feature/templesquare/dining?lang=eng

https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=54478720&itype=cmsid

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-statement-church-finances

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/church-donations-and-reserves?lang=eng

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-finances-and-a-growing-global-church

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-financial-independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mitt-romneys-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-campaign/

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leader/keith-b-mcmullin?lang=eng

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leader/keith-b-mcmullin?lang=eng

https://www.polynesia.com/packages?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19311784&gbraid=0AAAAAD_ZKoaNHFjLk9c46VTzwjPJppfQq&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoZDJBhC0ARIsAERP-F_GnjI9U3f9gVGjpeQI6kspteXwPXuh-5JdDFi3aiUVpxghq9HZMZgaAnBREALw_wcB

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/8n8dd3/mormonleaks_has_uncovered_13_llcs_limited/

MOGP: Catch Me If You Can: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/?ref_=ttpl_ov_bk

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/catch-me-if-you-can

Books:

The Greatest Hoax on Earth – Catching Truth, While We Can, by Alan C Logan

Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, by Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding

Frank Abagnale Jr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale

Happy News: A tiny enzyme may hold the key to safer pain relief: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251123085557.htm

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://youtu.be/iJWirjCyWdk

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

Email: [email protected]

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod

Patreon page for documentary: https://www.patreon.com/SeerStonedProductions

BlueSky: @glassboxpodcast.bsky.social

Other BlueSky: @bryceblankenagel.bsky.social and @shannongrover.bsky.social

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