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Shaping Opinion
The Shaping Opinion podcast helps you see through the spin. It reveals things you may not know, and it exposes other things some may want to keep hidden. Its focus is on how your thoughts and attitudes are influenced to create change in the culture, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Host...
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Bishop Joseph Strickland on Keeping the Faith
Our guest is Bishop Joseph Stirckland. He is a Roman Catholic Bishop, the Biship Emeritus of Tyler, Texas. He he’s the Chairman and the Founder of a n...
Timothy Sandefur on Free Speech and Your Employer
Our guest is Timothy Sandefur. He is the vice president for legal affairs at the Goldwater Institute’s Center for Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutio...
Patrick Breyer on Proposed EU Surveillance of Private Messaging
Our guest today is Patrick Breyer. He is a self-described freedom fighter and a former member of the European Parliament. He served on the Committee o...
Bunni Pounds on Free Speech from the Pulpit
Our guest is Bunni Pounds. She is the Founder and President of Christians Engaged as well as the Senior Vice President for Family Policy Alliance and...
Ingrid Jacques on Late Night TV
Our guest is Ingrid Jacques. She is a columnist at USA Today.
She wrote a column recently about those late-night comedy shows. She argues that t...
Jennifer Huddleston on AI, Free Speech and the First Amendment
Our guest is Jennifer Huddleston. She is a senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute.
In her work, she focuses on the law in rela...
Dr. Carole Lieberman on Mass Psychology
Our guest is Carole Lieberman. She is an accomplished psychiatrist and a forensic expert witness. Board certified in both psychiatry and neurology. Sh...
Ari Paparo on Google's Digital Dominance
Our guest is Ari Paparo. He is the CEO of a company called Marketecture Media, which is a network of podcasts, newsletters and events covering the dig...
Aaron Bandler on Bias at Wikipedia
Our guest is Aaron Bandler. He’s an investigative journalist who is based in the Bay Area. He’s written for several leading national news organization...
David Smokler on School Teachers and Free Speech
Our guest is David Smokler. He’s the executive director of the K-12 Fairness Center, which is a division of an organization called StandWithUs. StandW...
Mark Joseph on Canada’s Censorship Push
Our guest is Mark Joseph. He is Litigation Director at a group in Canada called The Democracy Fund. It’s widely considered the leading voice in the ba...
David McGarry on European Online Censorship
Our guest is David McGarry. He is Research Director at an organization called the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. He is a pundit and a frequent contrib...
Stacy Malkan on Propaganda in Public Health
What you don’t know can hurt you.
Our guest today is Stacy Malkan. She’s the co-founder and the managing editor at a nonprofit public health res...
Greg Schlueter on the Culture of Victimhood
We are back after a long hiatus, and we’re ready to go!
As before, this is a video and an audio podcast. We’re on Substack at ShapingOpinion.com...
Zantac and Cancer, with Brent Wisner
One of the nation’s leading trial attorneys Brent Wisner talks about his role in current litigation against several big pharma companies who’ve all be...
ChatGPT is Bullshit, with Michael Hicks
One of the co-authors of a groundbreaking academic paper, Michael Hicks, makes the case that “ChatGPT is bullshit.” That’s not only the title of his p...
Do Schools Care About Kids’ Safety Anymore?, with Mo Canady
The head of the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO), Mo Canady joins us to talk about a self-inflicted safety crisis at many Amer...
Defeating Anxiety through Courage, with Janet Jackson Pellegrini
If you suffer from anxiety, you may be given a lot of options. Drugs, illegal or legal. Alcohol. Therapy. But one thing most may not bring up to you i...
Don't Cancel the SAT, with April Bleske-Rechek
University professor and researcher April Bleske-Rechek makes her case for standardized testing in college admissions at a time when there’s an aggres...
How Private Companies Target & Censor You, with JP Messina
Author and university professor JP Messina talks about how private companies and others have emerged as the new censors in society. JP wrote the new b...
Why is School Choice Gaining Traction?, with Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf joins Tim to shed light on why school choice is exploding across the country. The list of states passing or pursuing legislation for more...
Why School Choice is Gaining Traction
Patrick Wolf joins Tim to shed light on why school choice is exploding across the country. The list of states passing or pursuing legislation for more...
Bursting the Overpopulation Myth
Marian Tupy joins Tim to burst the myth that the world is overpopulated. Through his work, he has demonstrated that as the world’s population has grow...
Why Isn't ESG Living Up to the Hype?
Author and university professor Sanjai Bhagat joins Tim to talk about his research findings on ESG investing and what he calls “an inconvenient truth”...
What's Going On with Vatican Art?
Catholic artist Eric Armusik joins Tim to talk about the current trend at the Vatican to embrace ugly art at the expense of so much beauty it could sh...
Are Doctors Overmedicating Kids?
Author, writer and advocate Brooke Siem joins Tim to talk about her own experience with doctors prescribing anti-depressants to long-term negative eff...
Is Cancel Culture Killing Comedy?
Author and crisis manager Evan Nierman joins Tim O’Brien to talk about cancel culture and its attacks on comedians and comedy in general. Will it kill...
Parents of School Shooter Convicted
Attorney Mark Chutkow joins Tim O’Brien to talk about a rare case where the parents of a mass shooter are prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to priso...
Bursting the Overpopulation Myth, with Marian Tupy
Marian Tupy joins Tim to burst the myth that the world is overpopulated. Through his work, he has demonstrated that as the world’s population has grow...
Why Isn’t ESG Living Up to the Hype?, with Sanjai Bhagat
Author and university professor Sanjai Bhagat joins Tim to talk about his research findings on ESG investing and what he calls “an inconvenient truth”...
What is Going On with Vatican Art?, with Eric Armusik
Catholic artist Eric Armusik joins Tim to talk about the current trend at the Vatican to embrace ugly art at the expense of so much beauty it could sh...
Are Doctors Overmedicating Kids?, with Brooke Siem
Author, writer and advocate Brooke Siem joins Tim to talk about her own experience with doctors prescribing anti-depressants to long-term negative eff...
Is Cancel Culture Killing Comedy?, with Evan Nierman
Author and crisis manager Evan Nierman joins Tim O’Brien to talk about cancel culture and its attacks on comedians and comedy in general. Will it kill...
Unprecedented: Parents of Mass Shooter Convicted, with Attorney Mark Chutkow
Attorney Mark Chutkow joins Tim O’Brien to talk about an unprecedented case where the parents of a mass shooter are prosecuted, convicted and sentence...
Preview: Shaping Opinion 2.0
If you follow us on social media or have subscribed to our new Substack page you may already know we’ve been on hiatus in recent months. Most of the e...
Encore: What They Won’t Tell You About Socialism
Economist, professor and author Paul Rubin joins Tim to talk about the impact of socialism on the future, particularly among young people who tend to...
1979: City of Champions
This is a Special Edition of the Shaping Opinion Podcast called “1979: City of Champions.” In this extended episode (90 minutes), we take you to when...
Encore: She Spied on the Germans in WWII
Julia Parsons joins Tim to talk about her role as a code-breaker during World War II. Julia was part of a a team of Navy women stationed in Washington...
Encore: CNN’s Aaron Brown Tells His 9/11 Story
Former CNN lead news anchor Aaron Brown joins Tim to tell his story from September 11, 2001, where he brought the event to 1.4 billion viewers around...
Encore: Free Speech is the Most Basic Human Right
Author and professor Eric Heinze joins Tim to talk about freedom of speech and expression at the most fundamental level. He recently wrote a book on f...