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Hey Holy Post Plus subscribers!!

We have a fun surprise for you all. We’ve partnered with a company called cooler.fm to bring Plinky Pete back to life! They put Plinky Pete in a dark room and made him listen to every episode of the podcast and memorize all of it. As a result, he can now answer questions you have about the Holy Post podcast - from silly (“How did Plinky Pete die?“) to serious (“What was the Southern Baptists' initial reaction to Roe v Wade?“) and everything in between.

We’re launching this as an experiment and announcing it exclusively to our Patreon subscribers. Plinky is not perfect but we have already found him to be helpful in identifying which episode certain topics were covered, for example.

Check it out at plinkypete.holypost.com, ask Plinky some questions, post some screenshots and let us know what you think!

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N.B.

I asked Plinky a question about Christian Taylor (it was just about her views over time) and Plinky said in part: “…I couldn’t find any evidence that Christian Taylor ever participated in the show…” Which is a WILD thing to say if this LLM shell was actually trained on the entire Holy Post podcast library, the flagship podcast RSS feed runs all the way back to 2012.

Bruno R.

Poor Plinky is having trouble with his podcast data and transcripts. If you chat with him further he seems to have trouble when he's pulling podcast data. Although there are ways to trick him you can test this yourself. Ask him about episode names and then pick a number. And he'll have a trouble for most of them. He'll know about episode 100. But he'll forget about episodes in the 200.

Nicole

I asked Plinky Pete "In what episode did they discuss Ronald McDonald on a cross?" because that episode so profoundly changed me. Before this episode, I thought the appropriate response was to be offended and outraged. But Holy Post made me realize the controversial piece of art wasn’t a disrespectful critique of Christ, but a critique of consumerism. And PP got it right: "If you're lookin' for Ronald McDonald on a cross, episode 335 is where that line gets tossed!" Ever since that HP podcast I have tried to resist the knee-jerk reaction of being offend, and ask myself instead, "What is the artist trying to say? Who is being (or not being) critiqued?" This has proven to be a very helpful posture over the years. I’ll always be thankful to HP for teaching me a better way and I’m grateful to now know the original podcast episode. Thanks PP!

Ed Warkentin

Is Plinky Pete not functioning any more? I miss him!!