Wrestlers, I don't often do solo episodes but sometimes I have more that I want to express as my personal view and this episode is one of those times.

The stock market darling for all of 2025 was Nvidia and all things related to AI holdings. For the first two weeks of this year I have consumed content related to AI that stirred my inner man and made me more aware of the wrestling match I am experiencing over it.

This episode connects the dots through each of these stories:

· ChatGPT commercials aimed at young men

· Physical AI in large machines or mining of our health records

· Peggy Noonan’s theory on America losing its melody

· Russian disinformation and denial to sew division within the U.S.

· AI bias skewing outcomes and creating environmental harm

The question put to all of us is: "Are we fully examining the potential unintended consequences of rushing headlong into the AI world?"

It seems like it's becoming our new idol and at the end of this episode I cover two stories from history as cautionary tales.

No matter what your opinion is about AI this episode might be a great one to investigate so that you can step back and see the forest not just the trees and consider your own personal philosophy about this tsunami heading right for all of us.

You also might want to head back to a previous episode I did with Dr Wallace Henley on his book titled "Who Will Rule The Coming 'Gods'?: The Looming Spiritual Crisis Of Artificial Intelligence" That episode is titled "The Moral Hazard of AI"

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How would you like to have a job where everyone you serve is having the worst day of their life??

That is the everyday truth of a career as a first responder; the police, fire, and EMS folks who we call on our worst days.

If it hasn’t really sunk in yet, let me give you a few more specific examples:

How about a traumatic death, a murder or suicide, where organ donor decisions must be made?

How about the death of a child due to a pool drowning or a neglect or abuse situation?

Or how about having to kill a criminal at a scene before he kills you (mass shootings)?

On a previous episode recently, I had the Chaplain from Camp Hope on the show to talk about veterans suffering with PTSD, something we are all more familiar with from news and PR campaigns to assist them. But we hear almost nothing about the PTSD of first responders or ways to help them cope with it.

This show is going to shed much more light on these people and their wrestling match with asking for help.

My guest is Richard Cary, a Fire Chief for 20 years in a volunteer fire department as well as working as a licensed paramedic. He also served his local community in a 39-year part-time law enforcement career as a Master Peace Officer. Give this episode a listen and be grateful for the people who respond when we need them on our worst days.

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As men, the closest we get to participate in creation as image bearers of God is fathering a child. It is a gigantic moment in any man’s life, regardless of age, when he learns that he has gotten a woman pregnant.

It is a moment of overwhelming joy for married couples who might have been struggling to have children.

It can be a moment of mixed feelings for a married couple who thought they were through having children only to learn they have been blessed again with the “oops baby” perhaps a little later in life than they were expecting.

It can be downright terrifying to a young man, perhaps still a teenager himself, who became sexually active outside of marriage and never considered the outcome of a possible pregnancy.

Back in 2000 there was a very popular song by a band named “Third Eye Blind” called “10 Days Late” with lyrics describing what goes on in a guy’s mind when faced with an unexpected pregnancy. Here are a few of the lines from that song:

I’m in trouble now and it cannot wait

She’s ten days late

Boy, your life got complicated

Give me a minute to figure out my state…..

My guest for this show is Greg Mayo, the award-winning author of Almost Daddy: The Forgotten Story and its companion 12-Step recovery guide for healing after abortion. His work centers on helping men find hope, healing, and a restored relationship with God.

As we celebrate the most important birth in history and consider all those fathers who lost their sons to Herod's edict, let's take time to consider our full role in the creation of new life in this episode.

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