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Beneath the Obvious
by Rick Hoppe
Beneath the Obvious is a long-form interview series built around a simple idea: take questions that appear straightforward and keep looking until they aren't. Host Rick Hoppe talks with researchers, scholars, practitioners, and people with unusual experience about subjects ranging from artificial intelligence and consciousness to conflict, science, history, technology, faith, and the strange corners of human experience. The goal isn't to tell you what to think. It's to ask better questions, challenge comfortable assumptions, and follow the evidence wherever it leads. Look at the world, differently.
Episodes
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Bruce Ramos | Why Warriors Hate War
Why might the people most prepared to fight be the least eager to go to war? Retired Army Counterintelligence Special Agent Bruce J. Ramos joins Rick Hoppe to explore what military service teaches about strength, restraint, and the human cost of conflict. Drawing on 35 years in…
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Dr. Mike Siegel | Bridging the Gun Debate Divide
Can Americans talk about guns without immediately choosing sides? The American gun debate is often treated as a contest between two irreconcilable positions: gun rights on one side and gun control on the other. But what happens when we stop arguing about which side is right and start asking where...
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Tom McClelland | Can an AI Become a Person
Can AI become a person? We’re getting remarkably good at building machines that can talk, reason, solve problems, and sometimes behave in ways that seem surprisingly human. But appearing intelligent and being conscious are two very different things. In this episode of Beneath the Obvious, Rick...
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Words From the Tailgate | Billion Dollar Data Centers and Community Impact
A billion-dollar data center is coming to town. Great. But where does the billion dollars actually go? Announcements about new data centers often come with enormous numbers: billion-dollar investments, new construction, jobs, tax revenue and economic growth. But a billion-dollar project doesn't...
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Words From the Tailgate | AI and Historical Upheavals
What if they’re right this time? Every generation seems to meet a new technology with the same fear: This one is going to replace us. Machines were going to replace workers. Television was going to destroy conversation. Computers were going to eliminate jobs. The internet was going to change...
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Gina L. Osborn | When Crisis Calls, Culture Answers
Gina L. Osborn spent her career leading through high-stakes environments in Army counterintelligence and the FBI. She joins Rick Hoppe to explore leadership, organizational culture, crisis, and what happens when the expected way of doing things is no longer enough.
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Beneath the Obvious - Official Trailer
Beneath the Obvious is a long-form interview series that looks past easy explanations and asks what happens when we keep digging. Join host Rick Hoppe for conversations with researchers, scholars, practitioners, and people with unusual experience. Premieres September 29, 2026.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Beneath the Obvious is a long-form interview series built around a simple idea: take questions that appear straightforward and keep looking until they aren't.
Host Rick Hoppe talks with researchers, scholars, practitioners, and people with unusual experience about subjects ranging from artificial intelligence and consciousness to conflict, science, history, technology, faith, and the strange corners of human experience.
The goal isn't to tell you what to think. It's to ask better questions, challenge comfortable assumptions, and follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Look at the world, differently.
HOSTED BY
Rick Hoppe
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