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Ep 198 — Women’s History Month | Orlando 0

Mar 18, 2026

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

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Ep 197 — Clark Gilbert | Pure In Heart pt. 2 0

Mar 4, 2026

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