Catching Foxes

By Luke and GomerTV & Film Religion & Spirituality Christianity

Catching Foxes episodes

December 06, 2019Mike Mangione | Throwing in Your Ante
Mike Mangione is an extremely talented musician and a devout Catholic. Now he tours weekly with Christopher West, who is one of his closest friends. This conversation rips open the veil of artistic achievement, family, how work can destroy your vocation, and how secular art can proclaim the glory of God.
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Catching Foxes: Patrick Lencioni Has Opinions
— We interview Patrick Lencioni of The Table Group and The Amazing Parish. You should read all of his New York Times best-selling books, especially "Death by Meeting," "The Advantage," and "Five Dysfunctions of a Team" as well as "The Better Pastor."
Catching Foxes - Derek Webb
— This is HUGE for Luke. We get to interview musician Derek Webb. Luke's been a huge fan of his for years. I remember him chattering on in college. This was a great time together because the man is truly a professional talker.
Bob Seger- Turn the Page
— Turn the Page, Gomer's sad anthem.
"I Am Second" - Brian Welch from Korn
— If you're going to watch the video please take the time to watch the full thing. Crazy how he threw everything away and quit his job the next day. Ony the Holy Spirit can do that. Thanks for watching :)
korn music - Google Search
— Korn is identified as the pioneers of nu metal music, a form of alternative metal music which began in the mid-1990s. While generally considered an alternative metal and nu metal band, the band has also been labeled as heavy metal, grunge, hard rock, rap metal, funk metal, groove metal and industrial metal.
(1) Screwtape Letters- C S Lewis- John Cleese- Audiobook - YouTube
— In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance of taking a deliberate role in Christian faith by portraying a typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, seen from devils' viewpoints. Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts as a mentor to his nephew Wormwood, an inexperienced (and incompetent) tempter.
Korn - Shoots and Ladders (AC3 Stereo) (Official Video) - YouTube
— Korn - Shoots and Ladders (AC3 Stereo) (Official Video)
Home Alone (1990) - Kate Realizes That Kevin Was Left Behind - YouTube
— KEVIN!
1 hr 34 min
November 29, 2019You're Going to Be OK!
Patreon Suggested Topics (Long Answers)
Michael Federman
I’m part of a men’s group who rarely talks about Christ, the Gospel, or the Beatific Vision. Rather, we spend the time really uncharitably attacking Pope Francis, LGBT issues, and talking about the narrowness of who will be saved. To me, we have this backwards. What advice can you give to me about changing the dynamic of this group?
Ian Ludden
Do you have any tips for 20-something-year-old Catholics on how to balance maintaining old (high school, college) friendships with creating new ones? Other than starting a podcast together? :)
Jared Stremel
I am getting married on Saturday, November 30, and would love to hear from you guys some things that would have been helpful to know as a newlywed. I'm going to let that go any direction you want, but I would like to hear something about strengthening the faith of a newlywed couple. Thanks! - https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/183
Katie Ruvalcaba
I’d like to just hear ten minutes of encouragement on how friggin’ slow and plodding raising kids in the faith is. Just like every day adding in those little graces and disciplines that add up to making a child a saint but which seem to be ineffective in the short run. You could probably just say “it’s ok, it’s gonna pay off in the end, you’re doing a good job. I’m so sorry you’re so tired” over and over for 10 minutes…
Paul Martin
Totally agree with Katie. Would Love to hear some encouragement or tips on raising kids in the faith with conviction in a time like this when the world seems to be so far against us. also… Living and showing your faith in a secular workplace. I work in a large defense contractor as an engineer. And I want to know better how to show that I am Catholic.
Anthony Bones
You guys joke about money but how do you stop yourself from comparing yourself to others who make more? Do you ever struggle with jealousy or anything when you look at other podcasts that have more listeners?
Father Brian Hess
An update from Gomer on his prison ministry. (I just started doing ministry at a minimum-security center and I’d be curious about the comparisons)
Brendan Gormley
What is you favorite religious order (can be male or female), and why? Hypothetically, in an alternative universe where you were called to religious life, which do you think you'd join?
Bradley Stiver
You’re on death row, what’s your last meal?
Moira Fleming
What is some music you listen to that is ostensibly secular but has inadvertently transcendent themes? Or, more specifically, is Sufjan Steves' " To be alone with you" about Jesus or another man?
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1 hr 32 min
November 22, 2019Self-Numbing Cultural Stasis and The Irishman
We do some follow up from last week’s insanely popular episode and Love and Respect by drawing out the difference between Feminization and Emasculation of the Church today. Then we pull out some great answers by our Patrons when we asked them, “What does Respect mean to you or look like?” Finally, we dive into our central topic: have we forgotten how to tell stories? The contemplative cinema of The Irishman is compared to mainstream superhero movies, and we ask if Netflix can play the role of Cinema Savior or Common Experience Destroyer. Check out the show notes for tons of additional content to watch.
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Dinner with Don Rickles: Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese Reminisce
— AARP had a show called "Dinner with Don" and they talk about all the things. This would be the last interview that Don Rickles did.
Roast: Don Rickles Tribute, from De Niro & Scorsese
— Robert De Niro & Martin Scorsese pay tribute to Don Rickles.
The Irishman Final Trailer
— The Irishman Final Trailer (2019) | Movieclips Trailers
Why Martin Scorsese is Right About Marvel Movies
— // Are Marvel Movies Cinema? //
In this essay I explore Martin Scorsese' claim that Marvel films and other big budget franchise pictures are something different than classical cinema.
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Martin Scorsese on Working with De Niro, Pacino & Pesci on The Irishman
— Martin talks about finally working with Al Pacino for the first time, making The Irishman, and he reveals how he and Robert De Niro got Joe Pesci to do the film.
The Irishman reviewed by Mark Kermode
— Mark Kermode reviews The Irishman. An enforcer and hitman for the mob looks back on his life and his relationship with Jimmy Hoffa.
Grace Randolph: The Irishman Review
— The Irishman Movie Review today! Beyond The Trailer reaction & movie review 2019l! Netflix! De-Aging! Young De Niro, Pesci! Pacino!
Grace Randolph: Joker SPOILER Review
— Joker Spoiler Review today! Beyond The Trailer's reaction & movie review! Ending explained! Talk Show Scene! Thomas Wayne! Alfred!
"Alan Moore, never one to mince words."
— Alan Moore, never one to mince words.
ALAN MOORE WORLD *
— What was the impact of popular heroes comic books in our culture? Why are people fascinated by alternative realities?
I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously embarrassing and not a little worrying. While these characters were originally perfectly suited to stimulating the imaginations of their twelve or thirteen year-old audience, today’s franchised übermenschen, aimed at a supposedly adult audience, seem to be serving some kind of different function, and fulfilling different needs. Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods, or (b) the relatively reassuring 20th century. The continuing popularity of these movies to me suggests some kind of deliberate, self-imposed state of emotional arrest, combined with an numbing condition of cultural stasis that can be witnessed in comics, movies, popular music and, indeed, right across the cultural spectrum. The superheroes themselves – largely written and drawn by creators who have never stood up for their own rights against the companies that employ them, much less the rights of a Jack Kirby or Jerry Siegel or Joe Schuster – would seem to be largely employed as cowardice compensators, perhaps a bit like the handgun on the nightstand. I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race. In fact, I think that a good argument can be made for D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation as the first American superhero movie, and the point of origin for all those capes and masks.
(13) Alan Moore talks to John Higgs about the 20th Century - YouTube
— John Higgs - author of Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century - talks to Alan Moore about how the 20th Century has been portrayed in his work - in particular From Hell, Providence and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century.
Alan Moore has described Stranger Than We Can Imagine as, "An illuminating work of massive insight... I cannot recommend this magnificent work too highly."
1 hr 27 min
November 15, 2019Marriage: Sex, Love, & Respect!
Disney+, Gomer's dog, THEN SEX, LOVE AND RESPECT!
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Fundraiser by Michael Gormley : Catholic Prison Formation
— There are around 110 prison units in Texas and one full-time Catholic chaplain. There are thousands of Catholics incarcerated, but few to serve them. I've spent my life preaching and teaching the Faith but doing the Kolbe Prison Retreat ministry changed my life.
The Alignment System - Chaotic Good
— A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he's kind and benevolent. He believes in goodness and right but has little use for laws and regulations. He hates it when people try to intimidate others and tell them what to do. He follows his own moral compass, which, although good, may not agree with that of society.
(13) Timothy Gordon | The Matt Fradd Show Ep. 11 - YouTube
— Married women shouldn't work?
THE CATECHISM OF TRENT: The Sacraments -- Matrimony
— "To train their children in the practice of virtue and to pay particular attention to their domestic concerns should also be especial objects of their attention. The wife should love to remain at home, unless compelled by necessity to go out; and she should never presume to leave home without her husband's consent."
Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) | LEO XIII
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If a workman's wages be sufficient to enable him comfortably to support himself, his wife, and his children, he will find it easy, if he be a sensible man, to practice thrift, and he will not fail, by cutting down expenses, to put by some little savings and thus secure a modest source of income. Nature itself would urge him to this. We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.
(13) The Godfather: Part 2 (3/8) Movie CLIP - You're Nothing to Me Now (1974) HD - YouTube
— The Godfather: Part 2 (3/8) Movie CLIP - You're Nothing to Me Now (1974) HD
(13) OTIS REDDING-respect - YouTube
— OTIS REDDING-respect
1 hr 36 min
November 08, 2019Moleman in the Morning
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Gratuitous Simpsons Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W647gDp-u-s
One of Luke's favorite soccer podcast is back! 'JD & The Rod' are of one several podcasts that gave Luke the courage to pitch to Catching Foxes to Gomer. American Soccer fans need to listen to this. Talking to you, Andrea.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jd-the-rod/id1484028236
SIbling Horror
Short horror stories written by Emma and Matt Fradd. Our plan is to release one per month.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1483594858
Decent Films
http://decentfilms.com/
American Footall
Im waiting for the file to finish, so here are three songs that I love from a band I love.
So lets just pretend
Everything and
Anything between you and me
Was never meant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NfnXdXpjL0
What's the alure of inconsequential love?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgVws0xZkc
Truth or dare
Love is the cross you bear
J'ai mal au cœur, c'est la faute de l'amour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCP2Lh2L5Ac
Why wont this file load, its almost 4 am. I just want to go to bed.
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1 hr 23 min
November 01, 2019EWTN Has-Been, Rebecca Murphy!
We are joined by Rebecca Murphy, former Frannie, former EWTN star, former Youth Minister, current badass. Come and learn from her wonderful life how the Church can suck and how it can be amazing. Thanks to CatholicSocial.Media for sponsoring this show.
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1 hr 56 min
October 25, 2019Pssst, the Best Meat's in the Rump.
Pssst, the Best Meat's in the Rump.
Relationships and Time (Why We Changed Everything on Patreon)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/relationships-we-30844143
'Ohio' the new album from Kevin Heider
The amazing Kevin Heider made a Bruce Springsteen triubute album in the style of Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' It's fantastic. You've love it if you like beauty and important music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovIJRloWAhk&list=OLAK5uy_mV4_RALWhHBLm6dggLMAGHn4ybXNoNwhw
'Nebraska' by Bruce Springsteen
One of my favoriet albums of all time. Just the best. - Luke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxsHA0M8gtM&list=PLiN-7mukU_REqiENrjkvrz8IjpBwQKgSl
Gratuitous Simpsons Clip
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e36cef25-372d-4015-928d-1a043614ec1c
'Best Dad Ever: How My Kids Introduced Me to God the Father' Audiobook Podcast by Brian Kissinger
Our good buddy Brian Kissinger wrote a fantastic eBook. The audiobook is aailble for free in podcast form. You need to listen. Now available via Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Podcast Player as well as Apple Podcast. Because God even loves people without iPhones. Just search ‘Best Dad Ever.’
https://podcasts.apple.com/…/pod…/best-dad-ever/id1482224008
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1 hr 28 min
October 18, 2019Jeremy Renner did What?!
There goes Hawkeye! Jeremy Renner reportedly coked out and was horribly abusive to his now ex-wife. Then, Luke starts a new segment about how moving back to your high school town is weird. Finally, Luke asks Gomer how scared he is to mess up his kids.
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57 min
October 11, 2019Joker Review and Catholic Social Justice
Spoilers. The horn sounds, so you have been warned. We skip any sort of plot summary and assume you've seen the movie. Three themes of economic injustice, mental health, and isolation interweave into one amazing character study called JOKER.
Economic Justice
Wayne Employees (coming home from work) beat up the Joker (coming home from work)
Chapter 3 of CARITAS IN VERITATE by Pope Benedict XVI
FRATERNITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
“In fact, if the market is governed solely by the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods, it cannot produce the social cohesion that it requires in order to function well. Without internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust, the market cannot completely fulfil its proper economic function. And today it is this trust which has ceased to exist, and the loss of trust is a grave loss.”
“In the global era, the economy is influenced by competitive models tied to cultures that differ greatly among themselves. The different forms of economic enterprise to which they give rise find their main point of encounter in commutative justice. Economic life undoubtedly requires contracts, in order to regulate relations of exchange between goods of equivalent value. But it also needs just laws and forms of redistribution governed by politics, and what is more, it needs works redolent of the spirit of gift. The economy in the global era seems to privilege the former logic, that of contractual exchange, but directly or indirectly it also demonstrates its need for the other two: political logic, and the logic of the unconditional gift. (Caritas in Veritate, 37)
“My predecessor John Paul II drew attention to this question in Centesimus Annus, when he spoke of the need for a system with three subjects: the market, the State and civil society[92]. He saw civil society as the most natural setting for an economy of gratuitousness and fraternity, but did not mean to deny it a place in the other two settings. Today we can say that economic life must be understood as a multi-layered phenomenon: in every one of these layers, to varying degrees and in ways specifically suited to each, the aspect of fraternal reciprocity must be present.” - 38
Catholic Church on Mental Health
“Christ took all human suffering on himself, even mental illness. Yes even this affliction, which perhaps seems the most absurd and incomprehensible, configures the sick person to Christ and gives him a share in his redeeming passion” Pope John Paul II, International Conference for Health Care Workers, on Illnesses of the Human Mind, November 30, 1996
“...stretch out a hand to the sick, to make them perceive the tenderness of God, to integrate them into a community of faith and life in which they can feel accepted, understood, supported, respected; in a word, in which they can love and be loved.” - John Paul II on Depression
From the California Bishops : Catholic World Report
Christ’s public life was a ministry of hope and healing. As Catholics, in imitation of our Lord, we are called to provide hope and healing to others,” they said. “We profess that every human life is sacred, that all people are created in the image and likeness of God and, therefore, a person’s dignity and worth cannot be diminished by any condition, including mental illness.” The bishops called the spike in mental illness, suicide, and drug overdoses a “heartbreaking” crisis, and urged Catholics to help end the social stigma for those seeking support and help in these areas of their lives.
“Persons with mental illness often suffer in silence, hidden and unrecognized by others,” the bishops said. “We clearly proclaim that there is no shame in receiving a diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder. We affirm the need for education in our communities to remove the unjust prejudice and stigma often associated with mental illness,” they said. Instead, all Catholics should use their unique gifts and talents to help alleviate these problems and to accompany those who suffer, the bishops noted, whether by providing friendship, spiritual support, or professional support if appropriate.
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California bishops: We must accompany those with mental illness – Catholic World Report
— Instead, all Catholics should use their unique gifts and talents to help alleviate these problems and to accompany those who suffer, the bishops noted, whether by providing friendship, spiritual support, or professional support if appropriate.
Joker Director Breaks Down the Opening Scene | Vanity Fair
— Todd Philips, director of Joker, breaks down the opening of the movie
49 min
October 04, 2019Confidence: Painful Art of Self-Acceptance
[We cuss a lot.]
Confidence: Gomer thinks it's linked to violence and Luke to self-acceptance. Then we show how Nice Guys and Jerks are the same, but just one of them is better at hiding it. Finally, we talk Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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1 hr 30 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…