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Marketing in an AI World: The Skills Students Still Need to Build

EPISODE DESCRIPTION When AI can write copy, analyze campaigns, generate research, and produce video, what should students still learn deeply enough to do themselves? Da

Sex, Drugs, and Social Media Bans

SEX, DRUGS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA BANS Meta’s multibillion-dollar settlement over alleged harm to young users raises an uncomfortable question: What happens when an algorithm

Agentic AI Is Turning Knowledge Workers Into Managers, Ready or Not

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Agentic AI is changing the job description of ordinary knowledge workers before most companies have prepared them for it. Employees who once complete

AI in Education: Will Students Build the Future or Just Consume It?

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Young people can use AI to build businesses, solve hard problems, and create things previous generations could not imagine. They can also spend the n

Weekly Blitz: AI Should Remove Desk Work, Not People: A Real Workflow Test

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Jason promised Julie Koehrer an AI workflow that could take prospecting, proposal prep, order entry, and follow-up off her desk. The first two attemp

Why AI Systems Fail: Employee Buy-In Before Automation with Olga Zippa

EPISODE TITLE Why AI Systems Fail: Employee Buy-In Before Automation with Olga Zippa EPISODE DESCRIPTION If the people doing the work are the last people consulted, yo

When AI Cuts Entry-Level Jobs, Who Builds the Senior Workforce?

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Companies cannot remove the bottom rung of the career ladder and expect a senior workforce to appear five years later. Shabbir Qutbuddin of Ivy Tech

Julie Opens Up On: Brand Voice, Community, and Connection

Voice, Community, Connection: Meet Weekly Blitz Co-Host Julie Koehrer Julie Koehrer believes a local radio station should do more than fill airtime. It should use its vo

Become an AI Orchestrator: Harrison Painter on the New Most Valuable Human Skill

What happens when people without a software background learn to direct AI agents, build working systems, and solve real business problems? Harrison Painter says they beco

AI Is Already Here: What K-12 Teachers and Students Need Now

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAI is already inside the world children inhabit, and waiting for perfect policy will leave teachers alone and students unguided. Indianapolis Catholic

Who Gets to Shape the AI Future? | AI4, Agents, Open Source, and Small Business

AI is changing the rules faster than most people can make sense of them. In this Weekly Blitz, Jason Padgett talks with Nirav Nimish Shah, co-founder of Quantal AI, about

AI Clarity for Businesses with Chakra's Adam Staples

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAdam Staples spent 25 years in revenue operations before he watched a $100 million SaaS company hand every employee an AI license and call it a strateg

How to Grade Student Work When AI Can Write It

Grading student work got harder the moment AI could write it. Mike Jones has a fix, and it starts with grading something other than the finished artifact.Most courses sti

Uncle Sam Buys Into AI Chips and ChatGPT Finally Sounds Like Jarvis

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJulie caught the story Jason missed: Washington took equity in seven AI chip firms. Then ChatGPT deployed an app to his Mac from 20 minutes away. On th

Beginner’s Mind vs. the Engineers: The Non-Coder Rewiring Mental Health with AI

EPISODE DESCRIPTION "In the beginner's mind the possibilities are limitless. In the expert's mind they are finite." Jason opens his new show with Suzuki Roshi because hi

Rural Schools, Real AI: A Teacher’s Blueprint for K-12 AI Literacy

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONRensselaer, Indiana has about 5,400 people, one high school, and a wrestling coach who built one of the more disciplined AI implementation models in th

OpenAI's Paperclip Maximizer Moment and UAPs: Jason & Julie Go Full Mad Max

EPISODE DESCRIPTION OpenAI ran a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym with the usual safety refusals turned down, and the model under test decided the fastest route

Launching Wooden Boy Industries: CitizenAI, Open Models, and the Midwest AI Opportunity

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason is launching Wooden Boy Industries, his own AI consulting practice focused on AI consulting, education, workforce development, and solution archi

AI in Catholic Education: What K-12 Schools Owe Their Students

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Schools should not race to keep pace with the digital world. They should give students what the digital world cannot: shared time for learning and tr

Eighty Hours in Ninety Minutes: What AI Agent Teams Change

ABOUT THIS EPISODE This Weekly Blitz episode explains how non-technical professionals can coordinate AI agents, choose among current frontier and open models, and identi