In this episode Andrew hangs at that house of his friend and Catholic speaker Chris Stefanick and his kids for a raucous episode in which they interview barbarian teenagers about their Lenten practice, get spiritual insight from little girls, witness a cat being put on a chandalier to catch a fly, and Chris let's his 14 year old daughter pour hot wax on his back and rip it off. Finally, Chris talks about the new season of Real Life Catholic coming to EWTN and Netfilx soon. ​https://Br [...]

In this episode, after a rumination on becoming callous to seeing terror on screens,  a tired, kicked, and beaten Andrew tells a late night saga of his day involving coffee, a Grace tune-up, burnt ends, meat candy, a broken and unresponsive iPhone, the universe laughing at his phone-based contingencies, ironic nomophobia, getting kicked by Verizon, being kicked while he was down by Google while down in Verizon, a trip to the mall, malls as casinos without the pure oxygen but with airplane a [...]

In this episode Andrew welcomes his new producer Lennon, while bemoaning the loss of his nerdy producer Jennifer, then proceeds with sinus headaches, organic urbanism, Benedictine monasteries as schools of hospitality, The Benedict Option, corned beef canon shenanigans, didgeridoo, putting a cheap bed together and feeling like building a frontier cabin, cleaning his room, adulating like a boss, revisiting a breakdown, St. Jospeh’s feast, reflections on alcohol and numbness of heart,  [...]

In this episode, after a establishing himself as throughly Irish all year long, Andrew says good-bye to his long time producer Jennifer Longworth as she packs up her Pokemon and Star Trek uniform and leaves Breadbox Media for other media pursuits. Then, Andrew sits down with his friend Jon Ervin to talk about how much better the Cardinals are than the Cubs, growing up in a small town, legal drinks, college conversions, FOCUS, the “smell of money” (it’s not what you think), tubi [...]

In this episode a weary and still recovering Andrew, recording from a cool new booth, explores being haunted by one sided conversations, reading on the front porch, real conversation with the guy next door, reminiscing about what cafes used to be like in the stone age of the 90s, scientists who have found order in DNA and are claiming it is alien, revisiting Elon Musk on the us living in a simulation and how he’s not allowed to bring it up to his brother in the hot tub, Kimbal Musk’s [...]

In this episode a sick but recovering Andrew does a freewheeling episode on sickness, NyQuil, sinus medicine vs. meth heads,a commercial for chicken stock,  corned beef, his “erotic” relationship to meat, St. Paddy’s Day, Irish immigrants, diocesan borders, the Divine localism, subsidiarity, John Senior, parishes as geographic reality, parish bells, The Angelus, how CL does the Angelus, wellness vs. not sick, snowstorms, the forceful impingement of the primacy of nature, s [...]

In this episode a sushi-coma-fied and over caffeinated Andrew talks about sushi, Indonesian waiters, Catholic News Agency peeps, being betrayed by babies, the challenges of not drinking on single Catholic social life, the British espresso nap, the reboot shower, liturgical imagination, ENFPs vs ISTJ in prayer, Stations of the Cross, Depeche Mode vs the Alt Right, Unlimited Data vs Wifi, the bots in your Twitter feed, trying to learn to use emojis, Esperanto, Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten [...]

In this episode, after a chatty segment including Spring springing, a Lent update, how he has given up reacting to one small slip in his Lenten practice and just quitting like he used to, how Mark from Over the Counter lost his voice, and an apology over skipping a couple days of shows, a cheery but tired Andrew gets sidetracked on what was supposed to be a passing point on his outline and explores the ramifications of Wikileaks, the problems with digital attribution, the loss of belief in our s [...]

In this episode Andrew, in a bit of a punch mood, after a weekend recap including laments over food and booze, Logan, great conversations, mentoring, 12 monkeys, Cardinal Stafford, and CL, turns to the fact that his Check Engine light came on. He uses this metaphor to explore our own physical and spiritual life, the current Tweeting presidency, the Gary Wilson TED talk on Porn, caveman brains, the availability of sugar, and sexual attraction. Finally, he looks very briefly at an idea in John Sen [...]

Andrew sits down with his friend Jeremy Rivera, founder of The Little J Marketing Company to talk about how Jeremy went from a cultural Catholic party kid at CU Boulder, to a Protestant pastor, then after a confrontation with Archbishop Charles Chaput, to return to his Catholic faith, work for FOCUS, and found an innovative new marketing firm. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/aveqnb/Counter_Position_290.mp3 [...]