Trending with Timmerie - Catholic Principles applied to today's experiences.

On this episode of Trending with Timmerie

Episode Guide
Back to school? – new grading trends even at Ivy League schools in the face of AI (2:54)
Pope Leo’s birthday! (24:22)
People from within the AI companies are calling for a slowdown of development (25:38)
AI Intelligence? (39:19)
The Exultation of the Cross – suffering (46:10)
Tomorrow on Trending (50:55)
Resources mentioned:

Episode: The Trades & Catholic Trade Schools
https://relevantradio.com/2024/10/the-trades-catholic-trade-schools/

Who Trains AI?
https://relevantradio.com/2026/06/who-trains-ai/

MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/28/mit-ai-report-calls-alternative-grading

Harvard Will Cap A Grades
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/learning-assessment/2026/05/20/harvard-will-cap-grades

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/technology/anthropic-researchers-raise-alarm.html

Magnifica Humanitas
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Antique Et Nova
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html?curius=1239&utm_

Salvifici Doloris
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html

Dr. Ben Baran – organizational psychologist, award-winning management professor, and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy Reserve joins Trending with Timmerie

Episode Guide
What Heroism Looks like - Visiting 9/11 Flight 93 National Memorial as a naval officer (1:36)
The little-known story of 9/11: the waterborne evacuation of Manhattan – bigger than the evacuation of Dunkirk (18:19)
US Marshals find 79 missing children in Ohio during largest operation of its kind (32:43)
Sunday Mass prep (43:36)
Resources mentioned:

Dr. Ben Baran
https://www.benbaran.com/about

Book : Crucibles: How Faith and Science Help Us Navigate Suffering
https://www.benbaran.com/crucibles

Resilience & Fortitude
https://relevantradio.com/2026/05/resilience-fortitude/

APOSTOLIC LETTER - SALVIFICI DOLORIS
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html

US Marshals find 79 missing children in Ohio during largest operation of its kind
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/us-marshals-ohio-recover-79-missing-children-cleveland-akron-toledo-columbus/95-1fe97892-c4aa-4263-8884-248dca036050?tbref=hp

Jayce Rastrelli co-owner of Grow the Kingdom Gym joins Trending with Timmerie
Episode Guide
Gym culture (2:23)
Mentorship — strengthening mind, body, and soul (16:45)
Why Charlie Kirk is remembered 1 year later (27:01)
Lindsay Clancy mistrial (30:06)
United States vs. Steven Anderegg decision – 1st amendment right to create and be in possession of child pornography (36:42)
The case impacting kids no one talked about – Meta to pay $17.1 billion for harming children, but now what? (42:23)
Gender reveal becomes an live streamed abortion (49:07)
Tomorrow on Trending (50:56)
Resources mentioned:

Grow the Kingdom Gym
growthekingdomco.com

Lindsay Clancy trial & Fauci
https://relevantradio.com/2026/08/lindsay-clancy-trial-fauci/

Motherhood Is Being Labeled as a Psychiatric Diagnosis
https://relevantradio.com/2026/09/motherhood-is-being-labeled-a-psychiatric-diagnosis/

Tech-Enabled Sexual Abuse
https://relevantradio.com/2026/08/tech-enabled-sexual-abuse/

Dr. Leonard Sax – family physical and PhD psychologist joins Trending with Timmerie

Episode Guide
The psychiatric diagnosis of normal personalities – Autism and ADHD (13:11)
Why Are So Many Young Men Adrift? (25:48)
Question on whether or not to medicate for ADHD (41:47)

Resources mentioned:

Dr. Leonard Sax – family physical and PhD psychologist
https://www.leonardsax.com/

Book “Boys Adrift: The Six Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men”
https://www.leonardsax.com/books/boys-adrift/

I’m on the spectrum — and so are you! Definition of autism so broad that it’s meaningless
https://nypost.com/2026/09/04/opinion/definition-of-autism-so-broad-that-its-meaningless/?utm_

Dr. John Gray episode on ADHD
https://relevantradio.com/2025/10/inhibited-dopamine-function-adhd-parkinsons/

On this episode of Trending with Timmerie

Episode Guide
Young People Want Marriage—So Why Aren’t They Dating? (3:17)
Tomorrow on Trending (23:20)
Falling in love with the idea of people rather than people (25:14)
Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary (41:01)
Consecration to Mary (44:48)
Resources mentioned:

Bloom For Catholic Women
https://www.bloomforcatholicwomen.com/

State of Our Unions 2026: The Dating Recession | Institute for Family Studies
https://ifstudies.org/report-brief/state-of-our-unions-2026-the-dating-recession?utm

Consecrate yourself to Mary: 3 simple steps:

Choose a Marian feast date for your consecration to Mary – https://www.marian.org/mary/feastdays.php (next one starts Oct 19 for Presentation of Mary on Nov 21)

Count back 33 days and begin on that date

Start the 33 day consecration with St. Louis De Montfort’s guide – https://smile.amazon.com/Total-Consecration-Jesus-Thru-Mary/dp/1505112982/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=preparation+for+total+consecration+according+to+st.+louis+de+montfort&qid=1599604458&sr=8-2

Feast Days of Mary
https://marian.org/mary/feast-days

What is spiritual motherhood?
https://relevantradio.com/2024/04/facing-infertility-or-miscarraige-what-is-spiritual-motherhood/