What’s a Best Friend For?: Episode 938
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What works in online dating, plus keeping yourself safe from AI scams, and how close should best friends be?
Featured musical artist: About a Mile
Roundtable: Win With Dating Apps
Dating apps are an integral part of today’s dating landscape. But in using them, what actually works and what doesn’t? Our panel of app-savvy daters share the latest dos and don’ts in the digital dating world.
Culture: Artificial Intelligence Alert
Keeping yourself safe online is a must in today’s landscape of digital content and application. You need to protect your identity, finances, personal information and more from bots, scammers and snoops. But with the prevalence (and abilities) of AI, doing so is becoming increasingly tricky. What’s real and what’s fake? What’s legal and what’s not? Cybersecurity expert Rhett Saunders offers insight and tips for identifying pitfalls and staying protected.
God, Technology, and the Christian Life
PDF: Guide for Spotting the AI Scams and Imposters
Inbox: The Role of a Best Friend
Are there rules around the function of a best friend? Who says? Lisa Anderson weighs in.
Article: What is a Best Friend?
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| 0:58.3 | slash get help. Well, hey friends. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. As always, it's your friend Lisa Anderson here with you. And a little preview of what is coming up on the show. Later on for our inbox, how close should best friends be? Is there some kind of protocol for that? Well, I'm going to weigh in on that |
| 1:29.7 | question. And then for our culture segment, Rhett Saunders is a cybersecurity expert here to talk about |
| 1:36.2 | keeping your personal information safe and really all kinds of things safe and really dealing with |
| 1:42.7 | the morality of all of it in the age of AI. So you're going to |
| 1:46.4 | want to hear that conversation and a lot of great information that he shares as well as a |
| 1:51.2 | supplementary bit of material that you'll also find interesting. Okay, here we are for our roundtable. |
| 1:57.6 | We have got our dear friends, Chloe, Nathan, and Morgan here. Hey, everyone. Hello. Good to have you. Okay, I don't know if you should feel good or bad that you were selected for this roundtable. We will find out this is going to be like, have you done this well? Have you done it at all? Have you done it poorly? Do you have stories and you've lived to |
| 2:19.6 | tell about it? So we're going to jump into talking about doing dating with technology at your |
| 2:25.9 | fingertips. So the good, the bad and the ugly. And all of you, parents and grandparents who are |
| 2:31.1 | listening because you're spying on your kids and what they talk about and what they think about, you're just aghast that this is even a thing that we have apps |
| 2:39.8 | and we meet people via apps. It's a scary world, y'all, but this is what we're left with. |
| 2:46.0 | Okay, so my first question for you guys is let's just talk about the general lay of the land. |
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