The Line

For the finale of The Line , Matthew and Sean sit down with the guest who'd been at the top of their list since the beginning: Dr. Tom Pantazes , educational developer at West Chester University and host of the ODLI On Air podcast. Tom draws his first line along a familiar axis — personal versus professional. He uses AI for administrative and disciplinary work but sees little reason to bring it ho...

What happens when an entire school district decides to lean in? In Episode 9 of The Line, we sit down with Dr. Kyle Brun — assistant principal at Garnet Valley School District, adjunct professor, and the man who saved Sean from his 100% Turnitin AI detection score. Kyle brings something we haven't heard from any guest yet: a complete absence of hesitation. For Kyle, AI isn't a tool he decides to u...

What happens when AI meets the body? In this episode of The Line, we sit down with Zach Juliano, physical therapist and owner of Home Team Wellness, to explore where AI fits — and where it doesn't — in the world of movement, rehab, and human healing. Zach is the guy who got Sean back on the ice after herniated discs nearly ended his hockey career. After nine months at a generic PT clinic with zero...

What happens when your own writing gets flagged as AI-generated? Sean kicks off this episode with a rant against Turnitin and AI detection tools after his own papers — written entirely by him — came back marked 90% and 100% AI. The irony of using AI to detect AI sets the stage for a broader conversation about trust, tools, and where we draw lines. This week's guest is Dr. Jess Taraborrelli, a scho...

What if the thing we've been calling "AI ethics" is actually a conversation about trust? Sean and Matthew open this episode with a confession: after interviewing Pastor Andrew last week, they've both crossed a line they swore they wouldn't cross. Claude is now on their computers — organizing files, rebuilding folder structures, generating dashboards that run their lives. Sean asks the uncomfortabl...

What happens when a pastor who loves Claude draws the line at the pulpit? In Episode 5, we sit down with Andrew Esqueda, senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of West Chester, PA. Andrew is a power user — he's had Claude clean up 1,500 files, build a personnel policy manual from three different sources in 35 minutes, transpose guitar music, and serve as a research partner for sermon prep. Whe...

What happens when using AI feels like something you have to confess? In this episode, Sean and Matthew start by doing something long overdue: actually defining phenomenology for the audience. They trace the philosophy from Husserl's "back to the things themselves" through Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, making the case that the question "What is it like?" sits at the heart of everything they do on th...

What do graduate students and Disney tourists have in common? According to Dr. Sarah Williamson, they both need a better roadmap than a robot can give them. In this episode of  The Line , Sean and Matthew open with a conversation that felt inevitable: Anthropic's very public refusal to allow the Department of Defense to use Claude for autonomous weapons systems — and the wave of ChatGPT cancellati...

What happens when we hand off the tasks that quietly shape who we are? In this episode of The Line, Sean and Matthew sit down with Brandon Jacobs, leadership certification program manager at the National Association of Episcopal Schools and former independent school recruiter. Brandon makes the case that education has always rested on three Rs — reading, writing, and arithmetic — but has consisten...

Everyone has a line they won't let AI cross. But most people don't know exactly where it is until someone asks. In our first episode, Sean and Matthew sit down with Jes —instructional designer at West Chester University and EdD candidate researching AI policy in higher education—to find out where her line is. What starts as a conversation about brainstorming and event copy turns into something mor...