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Glass Box Podcast

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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Dec 8, 2021

We take on the next recommendation from the 2019 NPR broadcast Hidden Brain episode. Shannon tells us how our beliefs can be informed by people we trust and how resilient they prove. Then we get into the next segment of Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball telling us about the benefits of forgiving folks who wrong us. Then we wrap with happy news about green power from India!

 

July 22, 2019 episode: Facts Aren’t Enough: The Psychology of False Beliefs. 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/743195213/facts-arent-enough-the-psychology-of-false-beliefs

 

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, by James Weatherall and Cailin O’Connor https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300234015/misinformation-age 

 

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (because it is too funny!):  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary

 

Happy News: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-achieves-target-of-40-power-generation-capacity-from-non-fossil-fuel-sources/articleshow/88057024.cms

 

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Nov 24, 2021

Our main segment features a piece done by NPR on their Hidden Brain podcast a few years ago. We discuss the type of mindset people need in order to be influenced for various purposes. Hope and fear feature in informing the mindset of a receptive brain when facts simply aren’t enough. After that we get into the next segment of The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball. We read a couple of the most infamous passages from the book including the level of sin assessed on survivors of sexual assault and the implication that those who choose to end their own lives are unforgivable. This is a heavy segment but we lighten it up with some fun and a poetic reading by Shannon from the book. We finish the episode with happy news about black Santas! Be sure to join us next Monday Nov 29th at 6 p.m. MST for our first live hangout!

 

Main topic: Facts Aren’t Enough: The Psychology of False Beliefs, From the podcast, Hidden Brain: A Conversation About Life’s Unseen Patterns.

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/743195213/facts-arent-enough-the-psychology-of-false-beliefs

 

The Influential Mind, by Tali Sharot: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627792653 

 

Happy News: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/black-santa-disney-parks/index.html

 

WE MET OUR FIRST PATREON GOAL!! Quarterly live Q&A’s are now on the program!  First one is Monday Nov 29th at 6 p.m. MST 

 

Naked Mormonism YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopxTiqSmR9YUCTKXURvPtA

 

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iTunes reviews: We need more!

Nov 10, 2021

Let’s chat about some funny Mormon stories! We start from the earliest days of the church. We hear about missionaries raising the dead, Joseph Smith training a dove to eat grain out of his ear, and then going for a swim while covered in phosphorus oil. After that we talk about funny stories told about Mormons by the genius minds of Matt Stone and Trey Parker in the Mormon South Park episode and The Book of Mormon musical. We wrap with a story about lasers saving agriculture and discussing some listener mail.

 

Main topic: 

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/OH/miscoh08.htm

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/OH/miscoh03.htm

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/miscNYSi.htm#072044

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/miscNYSb.htm#060635

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/wayn1830.htm#062230

http://www.solomonspalding.com/docs/Wil1878a.htm#Moss1

 

Happy News:   https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/02/self-driving-farm-robot-uses-lasers-to-kill-100000-weeds-an-hour-saving-land-and-farmers-from-toxic-herbicides/?sh=4f3d316e4070



WE MET OUR FIRST PATREON GOAL!! Quarterly live Q&A’s are now on the program!  Monday Nov 29th at 6 p.m. MST

 

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Oct 27, 2021

Welcome to today’s show. This episode contains another installment in the dangerous shitshow that is the Miracle of Forgiveness. Because the chapter we discuss is about bishop’s interviews, for our main segment, we interviewed Sam Young to talk about his Protect LDS Children movement — now named Protect Every Child. We also go over some of the answers you, our wonderful listeners, gave us on our survey about bishop’s interviews. Then to cleanse ourselves and you, we finish up with some happy news about cleaning up trash in the Pacific Ocean. And we should point out a content warning for the main segment as well as MoGP. 



Show Notes: 

 

Main topic: Sam Young’s Blog: https://invisiblescubit.com/ 

https://protectldschildren.org/

 

Happy News:   20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/20000-pounds-of-trash-removed-from-pacific-garbage-patch/

 

WE MET OUR FIRST PATREON GOAL!! Quarterly live Q&A’s are now on the program!  Monday Nov 29th at 6 p.m. MST

 

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

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/glassboxpodcast

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Merch store: https://exmomerch.creator-spring.com/ Be sure to use discount code GLASSBOX for a tithing off your order!!!

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