The Boom Clap Podcast

Latest Episodes:

EP 226: A Software Engineer’s Warning: what you should know about Big Tech & AI with Doug Smith Jul 22, 2026

Show notes

Will you actually be left behind if you don’t embrace A.I.? And as Christian’s, how should we engage?

Today’s conversation is part 1 of 2 with Doug Smith, a Christian, author, and software engineer with over 30 years experience.

Doug will remind you that God created you with unique gifts and purpose. We were never meant to outsource that, especially to a machine.

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Doug Smith

https://thatdougsmith.com

PODCAST MENTIONS:

[Un]intentional: How Screens Secretly Shape Your Desires and How You Can Break Free, Doug Smith

https://a.co/d/0dPbrW3U

Should Christians Use Al? A Dialogical Debate w/Doug Smith and Jay Owen

https://youtu.be/EPCYHsy8SuM?is=ze3uuuDi1ecbxrUt

iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us, Jean M. Twenge PhD

https://a.co/d/03kcHShq

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman

https://a.co/d/01URcEqj

The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids' Learning -- And How To Help Them Thrive Again, Jared Cooney Horvath

https://a.co/d/0gLKsmpa

Open Letter to BibleHub.com: Please Remove LLM-Generated Word Sausage, Doug Smith

Open Letter to BibleHub.com: Please Remove LLM-Generated Word Sausage – Doug Smith

Harvard Business Review: How People Are Really Using AI in 2026, Marc Zao-Sanders

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

Screen Strong

https://screenstrong.org

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EP 225: The (real) Biggest Threat to America Jul 15, 2026

Show notes

Is the far left the biggest threat to our country? Or, is it something more broad and overarching? Today, Rita hashes out the evolving nature of deception with the rise of technology and how the idea of conspiracy can be used to manipulate us.

Proverbs 4 anchors the conversation as a reminder to choose our path carefully and seek wisdom.

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PODCAST MENTIONS:

https://ritarogersco.com/2025/10/06/comfort-and-contentment-in-an-age-of-conspiracy/

https://nypost.com/2026/07/12/us-news/lindsey-graham-toured-top-secret-ukrainian-drone-factory-days-before-his-death/

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EP 224: Why YOU should celebrate America’s 250th big! Jul 01, 2026

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There’s a lot of tension in politics and dissatisfaction with our steady drift away from the constitution… but don’t let that suck you in to having a negative attitude toward the momentous occasion of America’s

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Podcast mentions:

https://ritarogersco.com/2026/07/01/america-250-reading-list/

https://www.dar.org/collections/exhibitions/revolution-their-words

https://jqas.org/jqas-monsters-to-destroy-speech-full-text/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZsput7gFqh/?igsh=MXAwODVxYjdidmJseg==

EP 223: AI in Healthcare, AI surgeons and problems for the average patient, ICU nurse perspective Jun 24, 2026

Show notes

In today’s episode Rita combines her passion for AI and her 15 years of experience as an ICU nurse to discuss AI and Healthcare.

AI is being thrust upon us and sold to us as only being of benefit. Meanwhile, you have legislation being introduced in NY State that leaves the door open to restricting our access to it. You have hospitals replacing staff with AI and you have Elon Musk discouraging young people from even becoming doctors and surgeons because of AI.

Rita encourages us to remember who we are and how we should respond to living through this ever evolving technological landscape.

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PODCAST MENTIONS:

Senate Bill S7263Ahttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S7263/amendment/

World Economic Forum, AI in Healthcare

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYjtHt5Ao8w/?igsh=cXM0cmdtcGtjMnVt

Reddit User’s Uncle is diagnosed by Claude

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWgRea2DTYx/?igsh=MXhiM2kyYmFxeWEwaw==

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EP 222: Using your unique voice vs. living your truth & the contradictory call to take up A.I. Jun 17, 2026

Show notes

By now we’ve all heard the phrase ‘Speak Your Truth’ or some variation of it. As believers we know where our truth derives from. While the world tries to legislate its way into something better, we know that it can’t do any better than what God has already done.

We live in an ever increasing age of technology, AI, self-idolization, and contradictions. In today’s episode, Rita will discuss why Your and Truth can’t go together, the difference between “living your truth” and “using your unique voice,” and why it doesn’t feel possible to embrace your unique self and AI at the same time.

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EP 221: Modern day eugenics & hardened hearts with Cecily Dickey

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000771983232

The Post Heard Around The World (Jesse Ridgway), Here Are The Headlines

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZLC8PVESUh/

EPISODE 84: U.S. Congresswoman

Mary Miller

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000585260339

EIA: Petroleum & Other Liquids

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCSSTUS1&f=W

FFA

https://www.ffa.org

Dave Eggers, Wild Card with Rachel Martin/Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZdG7xgjxlV/?igsh=MXVzb29oMXJncGJraA==

EP 217: How to Heal Modern Medicine:

COVID and Control over Life & Death with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000767583028

EP 218: Cattle Ranch vs Data Center with Lily Hill Farms' Avery Wrigglesworth

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000768744049

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EP 221: Modern day eugenics & hardened hearts with Cecily Dickey Jun 10, 2026

Show notes

“…you can actually live with peace and hope and courage and conviction if you know you’re living in a world held lovingly by your Heavenly Father.” - Cecily Dickey

Today Rita is joined by her friend and former cohost, Cecily Dickey. One of the main themes of today’s conversation is balance.

How do we, as believers, help unbelievers see what is right and true. How to be in this world but not of this world. How to stay informed but not consumed.

We live in a world that seeks to and encourages the elimination of suffering but as Christians we know that ‘easy’ doesn’t benefit us.

Rita and Cecily touch on the tragic story of YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife choosing to abort their unborn child after receiving a Down Syndrome diagnosis.

Hearts are being hardened {Romans 1:21} and truth is being exchanged for lies {Romans 1:25}. This conversation, between friends, is an encouraging one and another reminder of the importance of a firm foundation.

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Cecily Dickey

https://www.instagram.com/cecily.dickey

Central Women’s Ministry

https://www.instagram.com/central.women.ministry

PODCAST MENTIONS:

EP 200: Will we retreat to our own lives in 2026? Truth, impact & priorities with Cecily Dickey

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000741691552

Jesse Ridgway, YouTube

https://youtube.com/@jesseridgwaymjn?si=rAOmGJMWKAR3fTPF

The Post Heard Around The World, Here Are The Headlines

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZLC8PVESUh/?igsh=MTQ2dnEzbTdrbzcyOQ==

Jesse Ridgway, Dog Instagram Post

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYQL0sWj4k-/?igsh=MTJ5Z3hieXF1b3M4ZA==

Association Between Rates of Down Syndrome Diagnosis in States With vs Without 20-Week Abortion Bans From 2011 to 2018

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10031387/

EP 220: Big Government, your data,

"private" property & the irony of celebrating 250 years of independence

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000770972845

EP 161: RuthAnn Zimmerman: Modern culture, old fashioned work ethic & peace through following Jesus

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000677635545

This Is My Father’s World, Davy Flowers

https://youtu.be/pF0mMpotrFI?si=jD7jkKrRGrDiE-mm

This Is My Father’s World, Central Women’s Ministry Instagram Post

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZNe79rzmbA/

EPISODE 27: 87 Years

Worth of Wisdom...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000535959748

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EP 220: Big Government, your data, “private” property & the irony of celebrating 250 years of independence Jun 03, 2026

Show notes

Eminent domain and property rights, limited government and surveillance state, data centers and anti-tech extremists…Rita’s fired up in today’s episode and by the end of it you will be too!

Does freedom mean the same thing to the government as it does to us? As we near the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence we should be reflecting on what the founders truly intended for this country - a government given authority by the people and meant to protect the rights of those people.

Romans 12:2 tells us not to conform to the patterns of the world. We have only one allegiance and that’s to God. Not any side, person or party.

Today’s episode is short but outside of salvation and faith, one of the most important discussions we could be having.

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PODCAST MENTIONS:

Identity Verification Process is Here

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/registration/identity-verification

Biometric Update

https://www.biometricupdate.com

Stephen Miller: Our Entitlement System Has Been Set Up On the Honor System

https://youtube.com/shorts/paerFatuOoA?si=rAk5hgYfAESFVWfn

Eminent Domain: FAQs

https://nationalaglawcenter.org/eminent-domain-faqs/

Freedom 250

https://www.whitehouse.gov/freedom250/

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EP 219: Are We Good Enough for Liberty? with Lawrence W. Reed May 27, 2026

Show notes

Motivated by his love for liberty, even writing the book, Are We Good Enough For Liberty?, Lawrence W Reed has traveled to 96 countries - reinforcing his view that people should be free. Most recently he’s served as President Emeritus of FEE, Foundation for Economic Education, with the mission of educating youth in freedom, free markets, small government, and personal character.

Lawrence explains why character is crucial to maintaining liberty and reminds us that maintaining optimism is essential to creating change.

Today’s conversation will reassure you that economics isn’t too complicated a topic to understand and discuss what economics and small government should look like from a Christian worldview.

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Lawrence W. Reed

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PODCAST MENTIONS:

FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

https://fee.org

Are We Good Enough For Liberty?, Lawrence W. Reed

https://a.co/d/02ocyA8b

Real Heros, Lawrence W. Reed

https://a.co/d/0fy3qGTd

US Debt Clock

https://www.us-debt-clock.com

Universal High Income, Elon Musk on X

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2044990537145753894?s=20

Ep 164: Forensics investigator to rescue in Cambodia, Working for Jesus with Brian McConaghy

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000680832173

{Marco Rubio reference}

EP 218: Cattle Ranch vs Data

Center with Lily Hill Farms' Avery

Wrigglesworth

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000768744049

Nathan Hale volunteers to spy behind British lines

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-8/nathan-hale-volunteers-to-spy-behind-british-lines

Was Jesus A Socialist, Lawrence W. Reed

https://a.co/d/05EnTIS2

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EP 218: Cattle Ranch vs Data Center with Lily Hill Farms’ Avery Wrigglesworth May 20, 2026

Show notes

Avery and Marc Wrigglesworth gave up their careers in international finance to become owners and operators of Avery’s family cattle ranch, Lily Hill Farms.

Pivoting from a system that was failing to selling their beef and tallow directly to you, Avery and Marc have been able to create a profitable business - one with care and intention from start to finish.

Even after being able to avoid losing Lily Hill Farms, Avery and Marc continue to face some very big obstacles...AI and Data Centers.

In today’s episode you’re likely to learn something new about the farming industry and how its collision with AI is likely to affect us all.

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GUEST:

Avery Wrigglesworth, Lily Hill Farm

Lily Hill Farm

https://www.lilyhillcattle.com/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

Lily Hill Tallow Co., Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/lilyhilltallowco?igsh=MWl4YXJmbWN4ODc2dA==

Lily Hill Cattle, Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/lilyhillcattle?igsh=MXhoOXBua29mcXVlNg==

PODCAST MENTIONS:

EP 146: Food Supply # 2 | Foreign Beef, Deceptive Marketing and mRNA with Bill Bullard of R-Calf & Rich Brazil, DVM

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000657924432

Bill Bullard, R-Calf USA

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C79rjPquTbc/?igsh=MWNxcXAzYTM2eXRqMw==

Troup County Anti-Data Center Coalition

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/17UsF1bEhX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Kevin O’Leary, Data Centers

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXr1r1SCN39/?igsh=MXB0NDI4NmtxZ2Jucg==

Melanskia (AI Amish Instagram Influencer)

https://www.instagram.com/melanskia?igsh=MTA1N29iZnhqZHJ4ag==

US Debt Clock

https://www.us-debt-clock.com

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EP 217: How to Heal Modern Medicine: COVID and Control over Life & Death with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty May 13, 2026

Show notes

Today’s guest, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is a physician specializing in psychiatry and author of 5 books. He’s also had significant roles in medical ethics and public policy.

In today’s episode, Rita and Dr. Kheriaty examine some of the current problems with contemporary medicine - including how it relates to free speech, being allowed to challenge people and institutions, MAID (or Euthanasia), and the abandonment of the Hippocratic Oath - and how we might begin to start fixing it.

They also, unexpectedly, discuss Covid. For better or worse, Covid is an easy and recent example of how acknowledging issues within the system, asking questions, and having these conversations is often frowned upon - if not completely discouraged and censored. It was also an example of why it is absolutely vital, especially in a day and age when the moral separation in society and lack of a common foundation seems to be growing, to have conversations just like this.

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GUEST:

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, MD

Human Flourishing - Substack

https://substack.com/@aaronkheriaty?r=z8tdq&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=light

Aaron Kheriaty - X