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Join Bryce Blankenagel and Shannon Grover as we walk through deep Mormon doctrine and history, headlines in and out of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), and explore the lighter side of current events. We hope to provide good feels and a burning in your bosom that'll leave you wanting to download the next episode.
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Oct 29, 2025

At long last Shannon gets to talk about the book she’s been planning on since the last Halloween episode — The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. We first discuss the Aesthetic Movement of the 19th century and a tiny bit of the life of Oscar Wilde before we jump into the book itself. Then Bryce gifts you with an abbreviated history of metal music. Get a notepad ready to take notes because he gives you a LOT of information! Happy Halloween! 



Show Notes:  

 

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: 

Oscar Wilde Official Website: http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/ 

Oscar Wilde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde 

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

Decadent Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadent_movement 

The Aesthetic Movement by Fiona McCarthy: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/26/aestheticism-exhibition-victoria-albert-museum 

Aesthetic Movement in England by Walter Hamilton: https://archive.org/details/aestheticmovemen00hamiuoft 

Oscar WIlde’s Cello Coat: https://oscarwilde.blog/2018/01/04/oscar-wildes-cello-coat/ 

The Picture of Dorian Gray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray# 

 

Metal music: 

VH1 Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR78XBi_nAE&t=13s

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath#History

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

This is Spinal Tap amps go to 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMSV4OteqBE

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/behind-the-murder-of-dimebag-darrell-233541/

 

Songs list:

Little Richard, Tutti Frutti - Here's Little Richard 1957

James Brown, Shout and Shimmy - Good, Good Twistin' With James Brown 1962

Chuck Berry, School Day - After School Session 1957

The Beatles, Love Me Do - Please Please Me 1963

Black Sabbath, Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B. - Black Sabbath 1970 

Led Zeppelin, Good TImes Bad TImes - Led Zeppelin I 1969

Led Zeppelin, Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin I 1969

Tenacious D, Karate - Tenacious D 2001

Worm Shepherd, The Anguished Throne - Hunger 2024

Humble Pie, As Safe As Yesterday Is - As Safe As Yesterday Is 1969

Deep Purple, Smoke on the Water - Machine Head 1972

Back Sabbath, Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 1970

Black Sabbath, War Pigs - Paranoid 1970

Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild - self titled 1968

Alice Cooper, Poison - Trash 1989

KISS, Sure Know Something - Dynasty 1979

AC/DC, TNT  -  High Voltage 1976

Judas Priest, Realms of Death - Stained Class 1978

Motorhead, Ace of Spades - Ace of Spades 1980

13th Floor Elevators, You're Gonna Miss Me - 7th Heaven Music of the Spheres 1966

Chelsea Grin, Cursed - My Damnation 2011

The Damned, New Rose - Damned Damned Damned 1977

Judas Priest, Breaking the Law - British Steel 1980

Candlemass,  Solitude - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus 1986

Venom, Black Metal - In League With Satan 1981

Van Halen, You Really Got Me - Van Halen 1978

Black Sabbath, Neon Knights - Heaven and Hell 1980

Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 1973

Def Leppard, Photograph - Pyromania 1983

Quiet Riot, Cum on Feel the Noize - Metal Health 1983

Mercyful Fate, Evil - Melissa 1983

Frank Zappa, We're Turning Again - Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention 1985

Cannibal Corpse, Hammer Smashed Face - Tomb of the Mutilated 1992

Kreator, People of the Lie - Coma of Souls 1990

Napalm Death, Suffer the Children - Harmony Corruption 1990 

Helloween, I Want Out - Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2 1988

TOOL, Sober - Undertow 1993

Linkin Park,  One Step Closer - Hybrid Theory 2000

Pantera, Walk - Vulgar Display of Power 1992 Finntroll, Jaktens Tid - Jaktens Tid 2001

Slaughter to Prevail, Demolisher - Kostolom 2019

 

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. 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: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com 

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 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/ 

Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop

Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html

One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com 

Venmo: @Shannon-Grover-10

 

 

 

Oct 16, 2025

It’s that time of year! 195th Semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We see what slipped through the cracks!

 

David Bednar Q12 – Moral Agency means doing what you were coerced to agree to do

 

B. Corey Cuvleier Q70 – The correct name

 

Matthew S. Holland Q70 – Jonah, Adam and Eve, and Biblical literalism

 

Carlos A Godoy Q70 – He’s helping impoverished Africans who pay their tithing

 

Dale G Renlund Q12 – Surgeon-scholarship-recipient really like Rusty Nailz

 

John D Amos Q70 – Put more Tonys in it

 

Ozani Farias Q70 – Read your sticks

 

Dallin Oaks rounding it out – A prophet-elect ascends; no more new temples; make more big Mormon families



Saturday Evening for Patrons!

 

Patrick Kearon Q12 – Stop sinning already and embrace your hundredth start

 

J Anette Dennis FC RS GP – Depression and atheism

 

Steven C Barlow Q70 – His brother mowed some lawns

 

William K Jackson Q70 – Counting and Accounting; white supremacists making lists

 

Neil L. Anderson – idk, something about atonement



Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. 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: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com 

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 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/ 

Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop

Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html

One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com 

Venmo: @Shannon-Grover-10

 

Oct 15, 2025

It’s that time of year! 195th Semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We see what slipped through the cracks!

 

Jeffrey R. Holland – Book of Mormon is miraculous and stop being so mean to me about it

 

James E Evanson Q70 – Go on your mission, even if you have to settle for a service mission

 

Ulisses Soares Q12 – Temperance and quoting MLK Jr.

 

Peter M. Johnson Q70 – Priesthood ban blindsided him

 

D. Todd Christofferson – FSY and Family Proc; masturbation is evil

 

Andrea M. Spannaus SC YM GP – We’re a doomsday cult; the end is coming

 

Henry B Cryring – Proving steel in pre-Columbian Americas

 

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. 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: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com 

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 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/ 

Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop

Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html

One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com 

Venmo: @Shannon-Grover-10

 

Oct 15, 2025

It’s that time of year! 195th Semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We see what slipped through the cracks!

 

Ronald Rasband Q12 – Family: A Proclamation to the World is ‘doctrine’

 

Chad Webb FC SS GP – Gospel not a ‘list of demands’

 

Jeremy Jaggi Q70 – Chaplain’s altar is Mormon symbol

 

Kevin Brown Q70 – Moral agency; we are agents

 

Gerrit Gong Q12 – Fortune cookies are American?

 

Michael Cziesla Q70 – Funeral potatos and green jello are weird

 

Quentin Cook Q12 – Tale of Two Cities; we live in turbulent times

 

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. 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: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com 

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 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/ 

Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop

Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html

One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com 

Venmo: @Shannon-Grover-10

 

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