The local historical society was kind enough to ask me to play a live show, which I did on December 16th, 2017. People actually came, and it was a pretty good time. I thought it was worth sharing.

Here is audio from that night. And the set list:

Thank you to Megan Miller for accompanying on me on a few of these numbers. Thanks to My B.I., Blue Island Arts Alliance, and Blue Island Historical Society for making this happen. Hope you enjoy. New episodes will be coming in the new year.

“These subjects were reasoning. They were working quite hard at reasoning. But it was not reasoning in search of truth; it was reasoning in support of their emotional reactions. It was reasoning as described by the philosopher David Hume, who wrote in 1739 that ‘reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

-Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind

If you want to drink the coffee of the dogs, check out Guadalupe Roastery, coffee for the common good.

Also check out the Monks of Norcia, who we reference.

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“A pipe cleaner is just metal with, like, fur on it.”

-Michael Metz, S6 Episode 10 – Gorp!

Check out Sr. Bethany Madonna’s story about the Golden Gate Bridge here.

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“Like the choice between competing political institutions, that between competing paradigms proves to be a choice between incompatible modes of community life. Because it has that character, the choice is not and cannot be determined merely by the evaluative procedures characteristic of normal science, for these depend in part upon a particular paradigm, and that paradigm is at issue. When paradigms enter, as they must, into a debate about paradigm choice, their role is necessarily circular. Each group uses its own paradigm to argue in that paradigm’s defense.”

-Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Some stuff we mentioned:

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

Christopher Hitchens on why belief in God is illogical

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“Hey, Linc If Scylla really is in there, there’s gonna be security.

I need you focused.

Yeah.

Hey.

Hey.

All clear upstairs.

You find something?

Picture of my mom.

Someone must have known I was coming.

Someone who’s connected enough to be working with Carruth and who knows you well enough to get their hands on that picture.

There’s only one person I can think of that fits that description.

You’re saying my mom’s in Miami? If she was operating out of this house, she certainly had access to money.

She’s a Company agent.

Gretchen said she thought that this could be an inside job.

Linc your mother could have Scylla.”

-Prison Break, s04e17

Some stuff we reference:

Nicaraguan Organic Coffee by Guadalupe Roastery

The tweet that will distract you at Mass

Litany of Trust by the Sisters of Life

The tweet about being real by Tim Glemkowski

I Want to Be Well by Sufjan Stevens

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“You have to correct. To redirect. To point out shortcomings. If your teenage son can’t think of anything to do for fun other than playing video games, then you need to turn off the devices and get him into the real world. You need to educate his desire. You have to teach your child your values rather than allowing him or her to adopt by default the values promoted by contemporary American culture.”

-Leonard Sax, The Collapse of Parenting

Here’s some stuff we mentioned:

Irritating or Inscrutable, an article by Fr. C-bisc

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

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“But what, in conclusion, of Joy?…It was valuable only as a pointer to something other and outer. While that other was in doubt, the pointer naturally loomed large in my thoughts. When we are lost in the woods the sight of a signpost is a great matter. But when we have found the road and are passing signposts every few miles, we shall not stop and stare. They will encourage us and we shall be grateful to the authority that set them up. But we shall not stop and stare, or not much; not on this road, though their pillars are of silver and their lettering of gold. ‘We would be at Jerusalem.'”

-C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy

Here’s some stuff referenced in passing:

Reflections at Nazareth by Pope Paul VI

Introduction: 33 Days to Merciful Love by Fr. Michael Gaitley

Rules for Discernment by St. Ignatius Loyola

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“We are proprietorial (yet also apprehensive) about time, thus we think and speak of ‘my time’. We speak glibly of time, as if it were just another throw-away item of our consumer society…Like our talents and our material goods, time is meant to be shared. Time in solitude and time with others – both are sacred because of God’s companionship.”

-Robin Daniels, The Virgin Eye

The Hobbit (now a major motion picture) by J.R.R. Tolkien

To Save a Thousand Souls by Fr. Bret Brannen

Not About the Beer homily by Fr. Nick Blaha (subscribe on iTunes at “Didde Catholic Campus Center”)

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“If our religion is something objective, then we must never avert our eyes from those elements in it which seem puzzling or repellent; for it will be precisely the puzzling or repellent which conceals what we do not yet know and need to know.”

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Look alive. Speak with authority. Read books. And don’t use Google. At least not, like, 70% of the time.

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“In the midst of tears, she sheds no tears herself. The crowds marvel at her recklessness in throwing away her life untasted, as if she had already lived life to the full. All are amazed that one not yet of legal age can give her testimony to God. So she succeeds in convincing others of her testimony about God, though her testimony in human affairs could not yet be accepted. What is beyond the power of nature, they argue, must come from its creator.”

-St. Ambrose, Office of Readings for the Feast of St. Agnes

Hey, all. Enjoy some of the stuff we mention:

Willa Cather’s 40 Classic Works on Kindle

Hardcore History 50 – Blueprint for Armageddon I by Dan Carlin

Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather

Identity: Lenten Mission with Father Mike Schmitz

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