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Jared Smith

Jared Smith, known online as "Heliocentric," is an atheist YouTuber and one-man metal artist whose "Atheist Church Audit" series (118K+ subscribers) explores religion from an outsider's perspective.

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PODCASTS

Oct 27, 2026

Paul VanderKlay's Podcast

Paul VanderKlay's Podcast

On Proximity in the Social Media Warfare Battlefield: Jared Smith

Oct 27 · 24m

speaker_2UNKNOWN

6:49

let's talk about that.

Jared SmithGUEST

6:55

Social media is a wildly powerful communication tool.

Jared SmithGUEST

7:00

Nobody's going to dispute that.

Jared SmithGUEST

7:03

But what social media gives us is a particularly pernicious danger.

Jared SmithGUEST

7:09

And that is social media gives us exposure.

Jared SmithGUEST

7:16

Social media gives us exposure without proximity.

Jared SmithGUEST

7:21

And that can be difficult, especially when we seek to criticize.

8 MINS LATER

Paul VanderKlayHOST

15:41

that their own group is doing the same thing.

Paul VanderKlay's Podcast

Paul VanderKlay's Podcast

Why We Hate People Online (And How Proximity Fixes It). Jared Smith plus Panel and Q/A Sac Estuary

Oct 27 · 1h 44m

speaker_3UNKNOWN

10:15

In warfare,

Jared SmithGUEST

10:17

Distance insulates us from the humanity of the people we seek to destroy.

Jared SmithGUEST

10:22

Now pause.

Jared SmithGUEST

10:25

All of this is a gross oversimplification of the history and evolution of warfare technology.

Jared SmithGUEST

10:31

Anyone who knows anything about warfare would scoff at this and say this is a disgusting oversimplification and gross generalization.

Jared SmithGUEST

10:39

Warfare tech has not had a linear progression from proximity to distance.

Jared SmithGUEST

10:44

But I'm working with a meta-narrative here.

10 MINS LATER

speaker_5UNKNOWN

20:19

that their own group is doing the same thing.

Paul VanderKlay's Podcast

Paul VanderKlay's Podcast

Wild Estuary Conversations in a World of Diminished Trust: Sacramento Estuary Plenary 3

Oct 26 · 1h 29m

Dave BusuttilGUEST

4:41

don't

Jared SmithGUEST

4:41

think he's that old.

Jared SmithGUEST

4:44

10 years my senior.

Jared SmithGUEST

4:48

Rob the 32-year-old.

Jared SmithGUEST

4:52

But I'm 31.

Jared SmithGUEST

4:57

But it's like, in what other context would I get to hear somebody's life story like that and remind me that human experience for other people looks so wildly different.

Jared SmithGUEST

5:09

And then it looked so wildly different even just a handful of decades ago.

5 MINS LATER

Paul VanderKlayHOST

10:18

Why is this not just, you know, Paul van der Klee got red-pilled by Jordan Peterson, and this is what he made?