Welcome back everybody to Religion on the Mind.

I am your host, Dr. Dan Cook, licensed therapist.

And today, another installment of religion on the news, which is generally a mix of serious and more lighthearted

stories today.

They're mostly serious.

Pretty serious.

But that doesn't mean that we will be serious because joining me on this journey, host of a

People's Theology podcast, he would love nothing more than to finally just get fired by President Trump

so he can transition to a much needed and important new job in the private sector.

It's Mason Menninga.

That was a good one, Dan.

You were setting me up for that one.

I like that one.

Well, Pam Bondi.

I did have another one, and I'm going to do them both because they're both like really current events.

The other one was going to be joining me on this journey.

His ex-phangelical takedowns have gone viral so many times that he should be a guest star on the pit.

It's Mason.

Because, you know, by the time the next one comes out, the pit season will be over. So we will have lost the momentum there, the pop cultural momentum. Yeah, I get that. I like those. I like those. We should, you know, every time I'm on this show, you should do one of those little, you know, fun little zingers. I don't know if you've been paying attention, but I have been doing one every time that you're on the show. I like the bit. I like the bit that you're rolling with. I also wanted to share one, like, what AI thinks of you a little bit. So I recently made the switch from ChatGPT to Claude because of the Pentagon kerfuffle. Oh, it wasn't because of the Super Bowl ad that you were convinced by? I actually don't. I didn't watch the Super Bowl ad. What? Oh, it was like, there was like a Super Bowl ad of it. And it was like one of these like kind of feel goody kind of commercials. And you're like what, but it's like not clear what it's trying to advertise. Yeah. And it was like at of these like kind of feel-goody kind of commercials and you're like what,

but it's like not clear what it's trying to advertise. Yeah. And it was like at the very end that you find out, it's this AI service thing. And everybody was like, oh, that's what it is. Yeah. I heard through osmosis that a lot of the ads were basically AI tech ads. A lot of AI ads this year. no, but I, so I switched over and it doesn't know like all the stuff.

You know, it's like I use it for podcast prep and research as well as like just, just, you know,

similar kind of research stuff.

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