This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Dan talks about the difficult subject of eternity--and what did God do before creation? Did God create us and simply step back? Dan comes up with an analogy to help understand it.

Also discovered in this podcast: Dan is a beer snob.

In current events, Trump puts pressure on Mexico to guard their southern borders… and gets results. Renewed restrictions on Cuban travelers. Scot Peterson is arrested for his inaction during the Stoneman High School shooting. Ralph Northam takes the occasion of a shooting to grandstand. NASA plans to open ISS for commercial use.

In the Land Of Nonsense, a Canadian is pulled over by a Mountie. A giant cloud of lady bugs passes over California.