The Boom Clap Podcast

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Conversations on truth, values, and living life with faithful intention. We laugh, we go deep, and there's always a boom and a clap.

  1. 3d ago

    EP 228: Could you stand firm on your convictions? Doug Smith walks away from a ‘dream job’

    In a world trying to sell you products and ideals based on fear, it’s never been more important to have a firm foundation.  Today’s episode is part 2 with Doug Smith. Doug is a Christian, author, and software engineer who also recently left his dream job because of his convictions. Rita and Doug discuss the importance of knowing what your convictions are and how to stand in them…before you need to. Doug will also touch on AI’s staying power (or lack thereof), the AI bubble, and the hope we are seeing in the younger generations opposition to AI. SPONSORS: ROWE CASA  Code: BOOMCLAP (20% off first order) Link: https://www.rowecasaorganics.com/?sca_ref=3468709.V2CVRBlBV1 EQUIP FOODS Code: RITA15 (15% off all orders) Link: www.equipfoods.com/rita15 GUEST: Doug Smith https://thatdougsmith.com/ PODCAST MENTIONS: EP 226: A Software Engineer's Warning: what you should know about Big Tech & Al with Doug Smith https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000777883346 [Un]intentional: How Screens Secretly Shape Your Desires and How You Can Break Free, Doug Smith https://a.co/d/07RpaYWL 12 Reasons I Will Not Use GenAI For Software Development https://thatdougsmith.com/2026/05/04/12-reasons-i-will-not-use-genai-for-software-development/ Is AI Profitable Yet? https://isaiprofitable.com FIND RITA/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https:theboomclappodcast.square.site www.ritarogersco.com www.instagram.com/boomclappodcast www.instagram.com/ritarogerscom

  2. Jul 29

    EP 227: Privacy is Power: the digital age is a tyrannical government’s dream with Carissa Veliz

    Dr. Carissa Veliz is an author, keynote speaker, and associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. As a naturally private person herself and in researching her own family, Carissa was lead to the philosophy of privacy…or lack thereof. Being ‘watched’ (monitored, tracked, surveilled) almost continuously has been normalized and BigTech and our own government are working together to do it. Carissa and Rita will discuss why you should care at all and what you can do about it. Today’s conversation will cover privacy, data collection, Big Tech, AI, and prediction and why the future is ours to write. SPONSORS: ROWE CASA  Code: BOOMCLAP (20% off first order) Link: https://www.rowecasaorganics.com/?sca_ref=3468709.V2CVRBlBV1 EQUIP FOODS Code: RITA15 (15% off all orders) Link: www.equipfoods.com/rita15 GUEST: Dr. Carissa Veliz https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/dr-carissa-veliz https://www.linkedin.com/in/carissa-véliz-a5781555?originalSubdomain=uk https://bsky.app/profile/carissaveliz.bsky.social PODCAST MENTIONS: EP 226: A Software Engineer's Warning: what you should know about Big Tech & Al with Doug Smith https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-boom-clap-podcast/id1558282990?i=1000777883346 Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data, Carissa Veliz https://a.co/d/0c7JBkUZ Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to Al, Carissa Veliz https://a.co/d/0dbZzHHJ Technology is not destiny. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DahRDU0MNuv/?igsh=MXFsbTFwN2t4aWRvNg== Proton (email) https://proton.me China and Russia Are Behind the War on AI Data Centers, Ben Shapiro https://youtu.be/Ug4nsMLQ0oc?is=TwRC8ciFIkNaH2ih Something Strange: Data Centers, Big Tech & The American Right, Rita Rogers https://ritarogersco.com/2026/07/25/something-strange-data-centers-big-tech-the-american-right/ FIND RITA/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https:theboomclappodcast.square.site www.ritarogersco.com www.instagram.com/boomclappodcast www.instagram.com/ritarogerscom

  3. Jul 22

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

    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.  SPONSORS: ROWE CASA  Code: BOOMCLAP (20% off first order) Link: https://www.rowecasaorganics.com/?sca_ref=3468709.V2CVRBlBV1 EQUIP FOODS Code: RITA15 (15% off all orders) Link: www.equipfoods.com/rita15 GUEST: 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 FIND RITA/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https:theboomclappodcast.square.site www.ritarogersco.com www.instagram.com/boomclappodcast www.instagram.com/ritarogerscom

  4. Jul 15

    EP 225: The (real) Biggest Threat to America

    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. SPONSORS: ROWE CASA Code: BOOMCLAP (20% off first order)Link: https://www.rowecasaorganics.com/?sca_ref=3468709.V2CVRBlBV1 EQUIP FOODS Code: RITA15 (15% off all orders)Link: www.equipfoods.com/rita15 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/ FIND RITA/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https:theboomclappodcast.square.site www.ritarogersco.comwww.instagram.com/boomclappodcastwww.instagram.com/ritarogerscom

  5. Jul 1

    EP 224: Why YOU should celebrate America’s 250th big!

    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 SPONSORS: ROWE CASA Code: BOOMCLAP (20% off first order)Link: https://www.rowecasaorganics.com/?sca_ref=3468709.V2CVRBlBV1 EQUIP FOODSCode: RITA15 (15% off all ord 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==

  6. Jun 24

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

    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. SPONSORS: ROWE CASA Code: BOOMCLAP (20% off first order)Link: https://www.rowecasaorganics.com/?sca_ref=3468709.V2CVRBlBV1 EQUIP FOODSCode: RITA15 (15% off all orders)Link: www.equipfoods.com/rita15 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== FIND RITA/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https:theboomclappodcast.square.site www.ritarogersco.comwww.instagram.com/boomclappodcastwww.instagram.com/ritarogerscom

  7. Jun 17

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

    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. SPONSORS: ROWE CASA  Code: BOOMCLAP (20% off first order) Link: https://www.rowecasaorganics.com/?sca_ref=3468709.V2CVRBlBV1 EQUIP FOODS Code: RITA15 (15% off all orders) Link: www.equipfoods.com/rita15 PODCAST MENTIONS: 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 FIND RITA/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https:theboomclappodcast.square.site www.ritarogersco.com www.instagram.com/boomclappodcast www.instagram.com/ritarogerscom

  8. Jun 10

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

    “…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. SPONSORS: ROWE CASA  Code: BOOMCLAP (20% off first order) Link: https://www.rowecasaorganics.com/?sca_ref=3468709.V2CVRBlBV1 EQUIP FOODS Code: RITA15 (15% off all orders) Link: www.equipfoods.com/rita15 GUEST: 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 FIND RITA/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https:theboomclappodcast.square.site www.ritarogersco.com www.instagram.com/boomclappodcast www.instagram.com/ritarogerscom

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Conversations on truth, values, and living life with faithful intention. We laugh, we go deep, and there's always a boom and a clap.

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  • Creator
    boomclap
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    231
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © boomclap
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    The Boom Clap Podcast

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