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
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
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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
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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
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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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