Catching Foxes

Luke and I are chatting away when JD calls in the middle of the show. So we put him on and talk about what it is like reporting on the Church and for the Church. And why some people don't like it. The third part of the show we recorded the following morning. We talk about a new "healthy focus" in our lives (which involves Apple Watches), screen time for kids, and more! Special Guest: JD Flynn.

CF Merch! The sad death of Bob Saget, a birthday quote from then-Pope Benedict, Gomer's back pain and his sedentary life, best WW2 movies that a 12 year old can watch, and Wendell Barry's "The World Ending Fire".

TOPICS COVERED Christmas stuff (Luke's tired, Gomer napped), Eucharistic Desecration with Masks, Old Man Problems, Gomer's new YouTube Religion and Luke's flawless diagnosis of his religious pursuits, Exodus90 and liturgical life Feasting and Fasting and why we need both, the Original Fairy Tale stories, Books Gomer is reading, which leads to... Liturgy and Pop Culture, Spider-Man and all things s...

The Great Resignation is leading to over 9 million US jobs unfilled. People are opting out of the workforce right now for a host of reasons- money, unsustainable workloads, pandemic fears- and others are opting out of the very idea of a career. Luke and Gomer chat about the reality of work/life balance when the whole economy is built upon workaholism-as-virtue. Thanks to Catholic Match, Betterhelp...

We talk about Gomer's general (not specific) malaise in ChurchWork and his fears of "getting out." Let me remind you, this is not about Gomer complaining about work per se, but the general feeling of impending doom and his inability to get the hell out of Dodge into a non-churchy job. We talk about "Senlin Ascends", which is Book 1 of 4 in the Tower of Babel Series by Josiah Bancroft. Then we pivo...

Guest : Nathan Smith, Director of Ecumenism for Glenmary Home Missioners and the Field Representative for USCCB on Ecumenism Podcast : Glenmary Unity: “Interviews and discussions from Christian ministers and theologians on ecumenical efforts between Catholics and Evangelical and Pentecostal groups.” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glenmary-unity/id1561579846 * How Luke introduced us via emai...

Interesting Nonprofit updates at Luke's Notre Dame ongoing studies. We talk about a fascinating thing: contract failure and market failure . Gomer rethought his Libertarism due to the realization that corporations have more money than many governments. Anarcho-capitalism sounds nice (if you have money). Thanksgiving plans for the boys. Luke goes to the Cabin in the Woods. Gomer invites The Woodlan...

Surprised by Joy! AppleTV show, Invasion 20th Anniversary of Band of Brothers Fiction/Reading as a conduit to understanding Vinyl Records as Japanese Tea Ceremony, Integrity, and Slowness Gomer’s Anima Technica Vacua experience at Life Night Friday Morning at 11am, say a prayer for the Gormley family

Use chapters to skip around the show: * Marvel/Disney Topic: * The Three Worst Marvel Movies Meta : Lithuania loves Catching Foxes Also, we chat about US nearly going to Nuclear War. Gomer's chapter-in-a-real-book: Wisdom and Wonder is now on sale! Which leads us into The Book Saga of Luke . * Main Topic: Anima Technica Vacua . * What it is, how it's got ahold of Elon Musk, why it's Grace vs. Natu...

Meta Podcast Time -"meta" is good enough for Facebook! -Audio not loud enough, so now Gomer researched LUFS -Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann’s Back to Work means a lot to us Scared Shitless -Gomer's two greatest fears now -Luke's Newest Fear -High School: what was your biggest fear? -Fears Gomer has learned to overcome? So I have a book! -Gomer is now a published author! -but it is just one chapter i...

What's new with Pints with Aquinas? How much can one man hate technology? Fradd will show you the way. Also, he's got a new book! Plot twist: it's on St. Thomas Aquinas. Post retwist: it's about Aquinas' prescription on how to be happy. Special Guest: Matt Fradd.

Catholics in History: WW2 and the French vs. Americans, World History is Paved in blood, * How do we move on after sin, violence, war, tragedy? * Hahn's "The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture" The Human Condition is not erased because we are Catholic (Original Sin still undoes humanity), Modernity's Mindsets, Then : Movies! which leads us to THE BATMAN Trailer , Finally : Live Show in Houston (...

Things are getting dark for Luke.

Managing Decline? : 2% drop in Mass attendance per parish, per year. Average Sunday Mass is 1/3 full. This has been getting worse - and it's be tracked and known - for 20 years, but no one has done anything. They got used to the decline. They got used to the emergencies without the urgency that crises can motivate. Beacons of Light, criticized by Rod Dreher as trying to put a nice spin on dire cir...

We chatted with Jonathan Blevins as he takes the plunge from full-time parish Director of Evangelization to full-time Twitch Streamer. We talk about online culture, the dangers of VR, the importance of Catholics being in this space, and what's it like being Ninja's brother, the most famous esports gamer in the world.

Topics include: What do you do if you're afraid of sex? How do you cultivate the right kind of knowledge of your partner before marriage? "Noone could be a man unless his father has died. "- Freud

First : We got an update for Gomer's family and Luke's return to grad school work. Also : "Fundraising is a Grind" and Parish Development. Baby Boomers got 70% of the wealth, but are the most generous. Gen Xers set the culture and Millennials drive Pop Culture. Then : Erin, Luke's wife, ruins their car out of stubbornness, Gomer spent hundreds on his latest YouTube hobby (lighting), and we discuss...

Four parts: Gomer's latest YouTube obsession, but it's more altruistic. Then 3 practical, yet sexy questions from Patreon supporter Moira. Luke discusses an awful picture of an employee and posits: "being miserable is not a personality." Finally, we conclude with Woodstock 99.

The Artist plays with symbols without necessarily knowing fully what they mean. And when Art is bent to tell a moral and not a story, it becomes Propaganda.

We start the show talking about the recent Provincial Assembly (thanks for the invite, Fr. Roberts and Fr. Cahill!) and then stuff about Church life and not giving a crap about a bunch of Church stuff. Then Luke brings up some documentary on the Traditional Latin Mass (that's not anti-Vatican 2) and Luke goes off on a rage about those who seem to think that the TLM is magic and will fix everything...

Milli Vanilli, The Darkest Timeline, Millennial Analogies; Bishops and their Gomer; Classical Theism Podcast (this monday with gomer); Gomer's Intimidation by Luke; Peak Gomer Peak Luke A Redemptive Story from that night Luke wears Grandpa's pants (and Grandma's blouse) Forgotten Ruin book series and Gomer's Daughter talking about "suppressive fire" Patreon Question : How do you get over a very se...

Luke and Gomer talk money and the Church (not the Vatican, but fundraising). Then Gomer updates everyone about Shannon and what's next there (minute 40ish). Finally, as Luke tries to hang up, Gomer demands Luke tells him all about the new audiobook Luke's listening to about the Late Night wars between Leno and Conan.

Kevin Heider is the best and we owe him a TREMENDOUS amount of gratitude.

"U.S.S. Gloria, this is Mission Control, do you copy?" "Houston, this is the U.S.S. Gloria, good to hear your voice We are coming out of the eclipse now I see the sunlight, it's beautiful The sunlight is beautiful" Jesus Christ, light of the world, You never did forget me. And when I bled in darkness, You held me, still held me. When desperate nights I cursed You, You loved me, still loved me. Jes...