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- Online Creators Need Incarnate Relationships | Kyle Whittington | Episode #353
Kyle Whittington joins The BeatiDudes to share the unlikely path that took him from converting to Catholicism at 18, studying at Franciscan University, and serving ten years in the Air Force to becoming a husband, father, Catholic creator, and founder of the Catholic Creator Conference. What began as a simple desire to bring Catholic YouTubers together has grown into an event that blends professional development, spiritual retreat, and authentic friendship. Kyle explains why face-to-face relationships matter so much in an online world where disagreement can quickly turn toxic, and how simply encountering another person's humanity can change the way we communicate.
Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein also explore the entrepreneurial side of Kyle’s story and his willingness to start before having everything figured out. Kyle reflects on learning through mistakes, trusting God through setbacks, and seeing the Lord produce outcomes better than anything he could have planned. The conversation ultimately turns toward the larger mission of Catholic media and Kyle’s conviction that faithful content cannot settle for mediocrity. If Catholics hope to influence culture through media and the arts, the message must be paired with excellent storytelling, serious craftsmanship, and a willingness to keep getting better.
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47 min - 12 Steps that Led to Rome | David Hanson | Episode #352
David Hanson is back with The BeatiDudes, Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein, to share the long, deeply personal road that led him from a Protestant seminary to the Catholic Church. David explains how his experience in 12-step recovery first opened his eyes to the power of confession, surrender, accountability, and having another person walk alongside you. A chance friendship with another man exploring Catholicism, followed by an encounter with St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, became major catalysts for a conversion process that ultimately spanned nearly a decade.
The conversation ultimately returns to one of David’s strongest convictions: men often resist recovery and confession for the same reason: pride. His encouragement is remarkably simple. Take the first brave step. Walk into the meeting. Stand in the confession line. Surrender what you have been carrying and discover the freedom that comes from hearing the words, “Your sins are forgiven.”
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17 min - Breaking the Cycle of Shame | David Hanson | Episode #351
Psychotherapist David Hanson joins The BeatiDudes at the Tiny Table for a remarkably candid conversation about pornography, sexual compulsion, betrayal, trauma, and the patterns that keep men trapped in destructive behavior. Alongside Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein, David shares his unexpected journey from college mascot and basketball coach to Protestant seminary and eventually a career helping men, women, and married couples navigate some of the most painful moments of their lives. The conversation explores David's deceptively simple description of addiction as a habit with serious consequences and why those habits often become attached to much deeper questions of identity, childhood wounds, shame, and the human need for connection.
David explains why sexual betrayal can create genuine trauma within a marriage and why healing requires much more than simply telling someone to stop the behavior. The BeatiDudes explore the relationship between habit, ritual, identity, and even liturgy, including the unsettling idea that addiction can develop its own repeated rhythms and rituals. David also explains why recovery often involves separating spouses initially so each person can heal, replacing destructive behaviors with healthy "outer circle" behaviors, examining family-of-origin wounds, and slowly rebuilding trust and intimacy.
At the heart of the conversation is a message of hope for anyone who feels trapped by shame. David challenges men to stop hiding and begin telling the truth, emphasizing that honesty can become the first major step toward restoring safety in a wounded relationship. The discussion naturally returns to confession, grace, mercy, and the God who already knows the worst parts of our stories and still calls us toward freedom. It is a serious conversation about some of the darkest struggles facing marriages and men today, delivered with an almost inappropriate amount of Tiny Table laughter.
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1 hr 2 min - A Priest Overcoming PTSD | Fr. Sam Medley | Episode #350
Father Sam Medley is back with the BeatiDudes to share the deeply personal story of his own trauma, healing, and physical transformation. While serving as one of a small number of priests entering COVID hospital wards during the height of the pandemic, Father Sam regularly encountered death, fear, grief, and families facing unimaginable uncertainty. The experience eventually left him struggling with PTSD, emotional breakdowns, and the realization that he had been carrying far more than anyone around him understood.
Father Sam explains how his own wounds gave him what he calls a “library of consolation” that now allows him to accompany others through trauma. He discusses the importance of a loving, listening presence, the courage required to mourn, and the need to bring Jesus directly into the places of pain that people often try to avoid, medicate, or ignore. Sometimes the most powerful thing a person can say is not an explanation or a solution, but simply, “Jesus loves you, and so do I, and we are going to walk out of this together.”
Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein also explore Father Sam’s remarkable 130-pound weight-loss journey, the physical and spiritual discipline of fasting, the formation of virtue through exercise, and the relationship between bodily healing and interior renewal. The conversation somehow also includes autophagy, homemade saunas, excessive earwax, an airborne camping mug, and Nick’s newly discovered second forehead.
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25 min - How this Punk Rocker Became a Missionary Priest | Fr. Sam Medley | Episode #349
Fr. Sam Medley joins Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein at the Tiny Table on the eighteenth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. A member of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, also known as SOLT, Fr. Sam shares how the community brings priests, sisters, and laity together to make disciples through Mary in areas of deepest apostolic need.
Long before becoming a missionary priest, Fr. Sam was a green-haired punk rocker who assumed he would eventually get married, have children, and pursue the American dream. Everything changed when he fulfilled a deathbed promise to attend a retreat and encountered Jesus Christ in a way that made the faith unmistakably real. After offering God a blank check for his life, Fr. Sam heard a clear invitation to the priesthood and discovered a freedom, peace, and joy that continue nearly three decades later.
Fr. Sam also describes his ministry on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, the deep Catholic faith of the people he serves, and the importance of approaching missionary work through relationship rather than stereotypes. Along the way, he discusses his ability to communicate in fourteen languages, unexpected experiences with the gift of tongues, healing from trauma, Catholic pilgrimage, priestly dad jokes, and why every person should have the courage to ask God, “What do You want me to do with my life?”
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49 min - Fr. Jason's Cargo Life-Changing Call from God #348
Father Jason Cargo is back with the BeatiDudes to explore the meaning and purpose behind Catholic sacred spaces. As chair of the Diocese of Dallas Sacred Places Commission, Father Jason helps parishes evaluate church renovations, new construction, altars, ambos, tabernacles, seating, and the practical movement required for worship, funerals, and the sacraments. He explains why church architecture must account for beauty, harmony, accessibility, parish culture, and, most importantly, the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
The conversation moves from brutalist architecture and steep sanctuary floors to altar rails, Eucharistic chapels, sacred art, and the growing desire among parishes to return the tabernacle to a central place behind the altar. Along the way, Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein investigate double-decker baptismal fonts, disembodied Sacred Heart socks, the Second Council of Nicaea, and why the BeatiDudes might qualify as a quasi-podcast with a brutalist design.
Father Jason then shares the remarkable story of his vocation. After falling away from the faith, rediscovering Jesus through Protestant Bible studies, and encountering the Catholic teaching on the Eucharist during a frat party, he repeatedly heard the invitation, “Jason, be my priest.” While studying meteorology at Texas A&M, he told God that a scientist could not become a priest. At that exact moment, a Catholic priest with a meteorology degree walked into his classroom. Father Jason’s story is a powerful reminder that God speaks personally, persistently, and sometimes with a sense of humor when calling each person to a unique mission.
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30 min - The Healing Nobody Talks About After Abortion | Fr. Jason Cargo | Ep. 347
Some wounds stay hidden for years because people are afraid God will not forgive them.
Fr. Jason Cargo joins the BeatiDudes at the Tiny Table for a conversation about the pain people carry after abortion, the lies shame tells them, and the healing that can begin when they finally bring it into the light. He talks with Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein about what he has seen as a priest: people who stop going to church, bury the hurt, turn anger inward, and believe the wound is too deep for mercy.But the heart of this conversation is not condemnation. It is healing. Fr. Jason explains why the truth has to be spoken with love, why mercy does not erase the truth, and why confession can become the place where someone finally hears that they are not beyond forgiveness.The conversation also touches on difficult pastoral questions around family, boundaries, gender identity, marriage, and how to love people without pretending truth does not matter. And because it is still the BeatiDudes, there is also parish jealousy, Aggie ring theology, St. Mark’s “bomb shelter” parish, obscure Roman saint names, and possibly the worst diaper-related parish tagline ever spoken into a microphone.SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES
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50 min - God Doesn’t Need Another St. Thérèse. He Needs You. | Tanner Kalina (Saints Alive) | Ep. 346
It’s easy to look at the saints and feel inspired… but also a little discouraged.
St. Thérèse became a doctor of the Church. St. Ignatius helped change the world. The saints did incredible things, and sometimes their lives can make us wonder if we’re falling behind.In this Friday episode, Tanner Kalina joins Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein for a hilarious and surprisingly deep conversation about family, comparison, achievement culture, and what it really means to become the person God made you to be.They talk about growing up in the faith, the pressure to find your worth in what you accomplish, why comparison steals joy, and how the saints should inspire us without making us feel like we have to become someone else.Plus, there’s a Catholic improv game, saint socks, bath bomb theology, and a surprise call with Jeff’s daughter about Saints Alive.Subscribe, comment your favorite moment, and until next time, we’ll see you in the Eucharist.Check out Saints Alive:https://www.saintsalivepodcast.comGet Tanner’s book All Your Heart:https://ascensionpress.com/products/all-your-heart-how-to-live-for-christ-without-holding-back?srsltid=AfmBOopw9kAqvH-a6j4XKv6tWRPVGV6Znm2x95DyWQHwKw_yNFTKfExeSUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES
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31 min - He turned down a MANSION for friends who loved Jesus | Tanner Kalina | Ep. 345
What would you choose: a mansion by the beach with your own private jacuzzi, or a crowded house that costs more but is full of men who actually love Jesus?
Tanner Kalina joins the BeatiDudes to talk about the decision that changed his life. After moving to Hollywood for acting, comedy, and film, Tanner found himself in a place where lukewarm faith did not really work anymore. As he puts it, in Texas you can be lukewarm and still look like you’re doing great. In Los Angeles, you’re either on fire or you’re out.That became real when his housing situation fell apart and he had two options. One was the dream setup: a mansion near the beach, next door to Don Cheadle, with a private jacuzzi. The other was a small house packed with guys who prayed, read Scripture, and talked about Jesus like they knew Him. Tanner chose the second one.Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein also talk with Tanner about Saints Alive, the power of storytelling for kids and families, why the saints are already the greatest stories ever written, his new book All Your Heart, and what it means to live for Christ without holding back.Check out Tanner's book:https://ascensionpress.com/products/all-your-heart-how-to-live-for-christ-without-holding-back?srsltid=AfmBOooeDVOt7Hc7wYU7-ZBcXTeyi8AB-9VYXhHFSRhKzhXERJocY_trSUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES
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57 min - Predicting the World Cup With Zero Soccer Knowledge | Bennett Rawicki | Ep. 344
Bennett Rawicki is back with the BeatiDudes to hand the world’s biggest soccer tournament over to three men who are dangerously confident and only loosely familiar with the rules.
Bennett asks Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein to predict a series of potential World Cup matchups, but actual soccer knowledge is not allowed to influence the answers. France retreats, Messi becomes an American landowner, the United States discovers a new national chant, and a USA-Mexico final somehow reaches “NAFTA time.”They also settle the connection between soccer players and NFL kickers, debate whether the World Cup could reunite North America, and hear how Bennett once joined his dad and younger brothers to defeat a team of actual Marines in Australian rules football.
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