Catching Foxes

By Luke and GomerTV & Film Religion & Spirituality Christianity

Catching Foxes episodes

August 06, 2022I'd be temperate if it weren't so boring...
**PROBLEM: **When goes a good thing become a bad thing? What if temperance looks a lot different (and maybe harder) than just not getting drunk or endlessly binging shows? Worse of all, what if temperance bores me to death and I don't want to do it anymore?
CCC #1809: Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will's mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. the temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: "Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart." Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: "Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites." In the New Testament it is called "moderation" or "sobriety." We ought "to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world."
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Catechism of the Catholic Church
— 1809 Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will's mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. the temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: "Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart."72 Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: "Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites."73 In the New Testament it is called "moderation" or "sobriety." We ought "to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world."74
Four Quartets - 1 Burnt Norton
— Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker
Over the strained time-ridden faces
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
Tumid apathy with no concentration
Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind
That blows before and after time,
Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs
Time before and time after.
Bingeworthy on Apple Podcasts
Tea with Tolkien
— Tea with Tolkien is an online community inspired by the works, life, and faith of J.R.R. Tolkien. We invite you to pull up a cozy chair and join us as we dive deeper into the The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and beyond.
Why Abigail Shrier Took on the Transgender Craze Amongst Teenage Girls - YouTube
— Why Abigail Shrier Took on the Transgender Craze Amongst Teenage Girls
1 hr 9 min
August 01, 2022Like Old Times
Main question: What happens after the gimmick is done?
Marvel Problem- a lot has been said in other podcasts, not looking to rehash what other people have said, but looking at the phase four problem under this guise of this quote- something about how god forgives and nature revolts
CD sales are increasing
The exhaustion of the streaming wars- Streaming Fatigue: Too Many Choices, at Too High a Cost? – Media Play News
The death of college football- College Football Is About to Change Drastically
What does a culture of gimmicks do to the human person? What is your culture connecting you to?
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1 hr 14 min
July 24, 2022Principles of Liturgy with Dr. Chris Carstens
Get his book, Principles of Sacred Liturgy and of course read through it. It will open your mind towards right and good attitudes that transcend the silliness of personal preferences and attachments to this or that thing. "Start with the documents" and not our idealogy.
I bring up a lot of cultural issues that go along with liturgy: heretical hymns published in Catholic hymnals, confusion over what the Church is asking of us liturgically, music issues in the Mass, liturgical vs. devotional music, and the role personal prayer plays in the "wild creativity" that Pope Francis blames in part for liturgy wars today.
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1 hr 22 min
July 03, 2022Dr. Abigail Favale on Gender Theory, with surprise guest LUKE CAREY!
I love Dr. Abigail Favale and her work in the Church is much needed. Her new book, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Ignatius Press is out and is poppin' fresh. We discuss the main figures of the feminist movement and the core of their philosophies as it shifts into the gender movement: Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Sanger, and Judith Butler.
Then Luke walks in. Literally, he walked straight into her conference room where Dr. Favale was recording and joined the show. His audio sucks because he's on his phone. I spent 40 minutes just trying to make it sound better. This is what you get.
Anywho, good conversation. And boy do I miss Lukey.
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The Genesis of Gender
— The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderstood. Weaving personal experience with expert knowledge, Dr. Abigail Favale provides an in-depth yet accessible account of the gender paradigm: a framework for understanding reality and identity that has recently risen to prominence. Favale traces the genealogy of gender to its origins in feminism and postmodern thought, describing how gender has come to eclipse sex, and how that shift is reshaping language, law, medicine, sexuality, and our own self-perceptions.
1 hr 29 min
June 26, 2022Nothing Excessive: faith and the sacraments with John DeRosa
John DeRosa is an incredible Catholic who runs the Classical Theism Podcast. He interviewed me for the show and we decided to dual-release it. His version will come out in a couple of weeks or so because, unlike me, he plans ahead for months. We talk about why the sacraments are not "super-added" to simple gospel faith, but are integral to it.
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1 hr 32 min
June 16, 2022Clean My Space interview with Melissa Maker!
Gomer got another YouTube religion: clean my space. So while Luke is away, I decided to email my favorite YouTubers and chat about their life, work, and success. Melissa was the first to get back to me and she does not disappoint. We talk cleaning, our hatred of it, how it can ruin marriages, and then practical products and tips on actually cleaning. It's like therapy.
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About Melissa Maker - Clean My Space
— While Melissa has spent the last fifteen years (and counting) cleaning and talking about cleaning, she is not a cleaning lover. Instead, it’s her goal to help herself and others clean quickly and well, so everyone can spend more time doing what they love and less time cleaning.
Cleaning Motivation Archives - Clean My Space
— Cleaning: We do it because we have to, not because we want to. Our best inspiring ideas make chores as pleasant as humanly possible.
Clean My Space (@cleanmyspace) • Instagram photos and videos
— Simple, practical #cleaning, #organizing & #decluttering advice you can trust 🦠🧽🧹
Clean My Space: The Secret to Cleaning Better, Faster, and Loving Your Home Every Day: Maker, Melissa: 9780735214668: Books
— Melissa Maker is beloved by fans all over the world for her completely re-engineered approach to cleaning. As the dynamic new authority on home and living, Melissa knows that to invest any of our precious time in cleaning, we need to see big, long-lasting results. So, she developed her method to help us get the most out of our effort and keep our homes fresh and welcoming every day. In her long-awaited debut book, she shares her revolutionary 3-step solution:
1 hr 7 min
June 12, 2022Inside the Priesthood
We interview Fr. David Hust to talk about the things priests do and how they should do them well: weddings, funerals, confession, and the Holy Mass. This show is basically in three parts: Confessions, then Mass in general, then the Weddings/Funerals topic. We also reference "Mass of the Ages, ep. 2" which was pretty incredible at explaining how the liturgy when from Latin Mass to Novus Ordo without being jerks about it.
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2 hr 7 min
June 06, 2022Exhausted: Work Doesn't Have to Kill Us
First, you are burning out. Second, it's not entirely your fault. Third, here's how to take steps to change it all.
Brian started his job as one full-time person replacing two full-time people, plus a part-time assistant. The things that were happening on the job were insanely counterproductive, but also looked very busy. Why are certain things happening the way that they are took reframing the context within which much work was done. "Why am I reprinting the Roman Missal? It's right there with you. You don't need 7 copies of 90% of it printed in binders."
Mary ran the bulletin. It used to take 20 hours a week to do and required a minumum of 10 business days for publication. She reduced it to 4 hours and staff members can send her stuff on that Monday morning. She realized the bulk of her work was spent taking parishioner bulletin submissions that were 2-page Word Documents and condensing them. Instead, she created a free Google Form and specified the character limit maximum. Now, parishioners self-edit and create a paragraph of text instead of an essay.
But what if your boss cannot tell the difference between doing good work and looking busy? What if your corporae culture looks like everyone is a damn day trader on Wall Street. Everyone is monitoring 12 inboxes but no one is moving the needle and everyone is stressed out!
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STRIKE! Magazine – On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
— nd these numbers do not even reflect on all those people whose job is to provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries, or for that matter the whole host of ancillary industries (dog-washers, all-night pizza delivery) that only exist because everyone else is spending so much of their time working in all the other ones.These are what I propose to call ‘bullshit jobs’.
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The Burnout Society | Byung-Chul Han
— Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.
Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art” - ArtReview
— The philosopher on how we might respond to a world of digital alienation
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Cranking | 43 Folders
— It's such a funny thing. Threats--like hurricanes and rectal exams--are only scary until they arrive. Once they're over, they're just the basis for funny stories. But, you do nearly always survive them. And, if you didn't survive? It wasn't because of a lack of fear. Like I say, the universe doesn't particularly care whether you're scared.
Frankenstein Syndrome
— Postman calls this the “Frankenstein Syndrome” in
which technology is developed for a limited and
specific purpose. “But once the machine is built, we
discover—sometimes to our horror, usually to our
discomfort, always to our surprise—that it has ideas of
its own”(1982/1994: 21).
Why Do We Work Too Much? | The New Yorker
— How do you decide when to say no? In the modern office context, stress has become a default heuristic. If you turn down a Zoom-meeting invitation, there’s a social-capital cost, as you’re causing some mild harm to a colleague and potentially signalling yourself to be uncoöperative or a loafer. But, if you feel sufficiently stressed about your workload, this cost might become acceptable: you feel confident that you are “busy,” and this provides psychological cover to skip the Zoom.
The Guy Who Invented Inbox Zero Says We're All Doing It Wrong | Inc.com
— The Guy Who Invented Inbox Zero Says We're All Doing It WrongWe used to have one inbox. Now we have dozens, metaphorically. Here's how productivity guru Merlin Mann manages.
On Slow Productivity and the Anti-Busyness Revolution - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
— Seven years ago, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang was a typical overworked, multitasking, slave to the hyperactive hive mind, Silicon Valley consultant. Feeling the symptoms of burnout intensify, he arranged a three-month sabbatical at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
1 hr 39 min
May 28, 2022From Inner City Charter Schools to Homeschooling
Temporary Co-Host, Brian Jones, returns to NOT talk about the liturgy. Instead, we discuss his time in a Cleveland inner-city charter school as a teacher and compare/contrast institutional schooling (public, charter, private, parochial) with homeschooling (hybrid, classical, and Robinson Curriculum).
We also talk about the stupid "super Catholic" pressures we put on each other when it comes to schooling, number of kids, age of marriage, etc.
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1 hr 30 min
May 23, 2022Atonement Theology NERDFEST with John DeRosa of the Classical Theism Podcast
(originally aired 08/2021, "What do Catholics Say about the Atonement?" on the Classical Theism Podcast)
John is a fantastic man. He's a high school math teacher at a public school and defends 2,000 years of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on the side. He really does love the God of classical theism. This was initially aired on his great podcast: Classic Theism Podcast, episode 160.
Here's his show notes about the episode:
What do Catholics believe about the atonement? Why does it matter that some guy died 2000 years ago? How can we distinguish Catholic views from Reformed protestant views of the atonement? How might we understand Leviticus 16, Isaiah 53, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 8:3, and 1 Peter 2:24 in light of the Catholic view? Michael Gormley joins us to tackle these issues head-on.
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Ep. #160 - What do Catholics Believe about the Atonement? w/ Michael Gormley - Classical Theism
1 hr 40 min

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Luke and Gomer became friends Freshman year at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and 14 years later they started a podcast. The show oscillates between a conversation between just the two of…