Bob's Hobbit Adventure

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This week on they that Hope, deacon Bob and I talk about sports and there's not a lot to talk about, except we've got a female MLB umpire, which is really interesting.

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We talk a little bit about where I've been, but most importantly we talk about where.

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I've been, which is all over the other side of the planet, including Hobbiton, the land of the Hobbits.

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We also talk about the Feast of the Assumption and Blessed Stanley Rother.

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You can check out this episode and many more at theythathopepodcast.com.

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Welcome to they that Hope with Father Dave and Deacon Bob seeing humor and hope in a crazy world 2025, the jubilee year.

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Dave and Deacon Bob Seeing humor and hope in a crazy world 2025, the Jubilee year.

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I am Deacon Bob.

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Bob, I can't even recognize you, right, it's been so long it has.

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I'm Father Dave.

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It's good to see you.

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Yeah, it's good to see you and it's great to.

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We don't see you, but hopefully it's good for you to see us or hear us Enjoy it, because that's right.

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Well, faithandreason.com, osvpodcast.com.

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But that's right.

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We're just going to rip the Band-Aid off.

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We have five more episodes of they that Hope we're going to give you a moment to hold yourself.

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Is there tears that could be done?

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I'm sure.

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Don't do the clapping one.

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No, I'm not going to do the clapping one.

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I'm going to do something way more culturally sensitive.

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As everybody probably is aware.

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In fact, we're going to tell you right now we're not going to be able to record next week.

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It's just becoming more and more difficult to be able to.

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Oh, that's helpful.

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Is that better?

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Yeah, that's great.

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It's more and more difficult.

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Oh wait, wait, I got it.

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Okay, Let difficult to be able to get together with schedules and timing and just so many things are going on.

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So we'll talk more about it later.

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And other feelings of satisfaction.

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So these will be conversations in the future, but we'd love you if you've been a listener.

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Send us an email, hope at franciscan.edu and share with us maybe your favorite memory of the podcast.

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Something that made you laugh, something that made you cry.

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We decided 250 was the place to stop.

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So that's been a good run.

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Yeah, except we're only going to go to 225.

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Is that what it?

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was 225?

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I was like, I guess we just decided to do another 30.

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That's what I meant.

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That's a whole other year of podcasting.

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That's a whole other year of podcasting.

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Yes, 225 is where we're going to land.

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That's not a very good run then no, no, 250, we would have been syndicated.

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Yeah, you know, it feels like we haven't been together, we've not been in the same room for like a month.

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Right, it's actually true.

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That's great, and we're going to talk in the middle section, kind of an expanded section on us catching up where we've been in life.

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I love how we actually plan, as if we know when we're going to talk about anything in this episode.

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Yeah, but you know something, there's not a lot to talk about as far as sports or movies.

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Did you end up going on Fantastic Four this weekend?

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No, I did go see Superman, however, and you liked it.

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I did like it, but did you.

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No, I did like it as well.

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Oh, okay, yeah, and I hadn't seen it.

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Oh, crypto stole the show, not the currency, the AI dog or whatever it was, the CGI dog, rather not to be confused with the AI dog.

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I thought it was a really fun movie.

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It hasn't done huge at the box office but I liked the very comic book style approach to the movie.

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It's very colorful.

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Now when you say it hasn't done hundreds of millions, it's kind of been disappointing on how well it's done.

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I think they might be a little disappointed.

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I think it broke even, but it didn't.

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For example, it has not beaten, at least so far, what man of Steel did.

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This was a while ago, so I think they were hoping that this would be a bigger splash, financially speaking of things.

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But all that being said, um, I, I enjoyed, like I said, it leaned more into the comic books.

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It wasn't afraid to be a little bit dumb, yeah, uh, because no offense to dc comic readers, though if you're out there, you know this is true dc comics can be dumb like.

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They have ridiculously dumb characters, like, and they even just having mr terrific yeah, in it right and they just leaned into it like it was like we're not going to even make fun of this, we're just going to have mr terrific and that's why somebody asked me what I thought.

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I said it's a superman movie.

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I mean he saves the day and and the dog is actually a lot of fun, yeah and superman got back, I think, to his Boy Scout-esque, almost naive sense of hope.

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Now that critique about hope.

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You know was it woke.

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You didn't experience that, did you?

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No, I don't even know what that meant.

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And people.

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I think people just have eyes, if I think they use the word alien and there must have been something about being woke, about that, oh right.

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No, there must have been something about being woke about that.

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Oh right, no, so you're right, it was a good movie.

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Yeah, yeah, very enjoyable, our reviews are both the same.

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What I also liked about it and this is more of a trend of superhero movies of the past few years is let's just skip the origin story.

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I'm very glad we didn't see another origin story of a superhero.

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It just started.

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Superman came a while ago.

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He's fighting people and he's fighting this person now.

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And he already has a relationship with Lois Lane.

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They're not falling in love.

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You don't have to discover.

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Oh my gosh, who is he?

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Yeah?

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right, Like it was nice.

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It was just.

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Let's just pretend this comic book series exists, which it does.

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And you know something about it, which you do.

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And you're just going to dive right into it.

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So who doesn't know Lex Luthor, lois Lane and Superman?

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You already know them, we don't need to introduce them.

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That's right, just go for it.

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There you go.

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That was excellent yeah.

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Yeah.

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So Bob texted me.

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I was in Oklahoma.

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We'll talk a little bit why.

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I was in Oklahoma in a moment, but he said let this week.

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Maybe.

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Okay, although you're going to a football, let's go.

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You're going to a football game on Saturday.

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I am yeah.

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I am, it's going to be great.

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So what is this?

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So it's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers versus the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Is this the last preseason game?

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No, I think it's the second preseason game.

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It's the second, okay.

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And now they only do so.

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I usually wouldn't go to preseason games but to have the Buccaneers just down the street.

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Sure, and I like the Steelers too and I love that stadium, so it's kind of a win for everything.

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So we're going to wait until last minute when the seats get really, really cheap.

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Will it sell out?

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Well, you know it sells out with season ticket holders and as a season ticket holder, not of the Steelers but of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they make holder not of the Steelers but of the.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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They make you buy full price all the preseason games.

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It's just part of being a season ticket holder.

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So there's a lot of season ticket holders that, so the game might be.

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Quote unquote sold out but you'll be able to get a seat.

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You will be able to get a seat.

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Just fine, it might be half full.

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Who all is going to go?

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I think the whole fam.

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Good Me, jenny, john, jocelyn.

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They're even going to bring their little kids inside.

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Well, tomorrow or yesterday, depending when you're listening.

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You know, 220 shows ago.

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We had a hard time with that, but we got it nailed now.

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Yep.

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I'm going to.

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Actually, I've got some meetings in La Trobe, which is where the Steelers have their training Okay.

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So I'm going to go to the training camp tomorrow.

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I've never done that before.

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Oh, that's really cool.

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Who are you going with?

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Are you allowed to say no?

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I mean, yeah, Several people from the athletic conference where we belong to, so PAC, so there'll be several presidents there, a couple of friars.

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Try to score me like a dozen preseason tickets for Saturday.

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I'll work on that.

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Just like when you're shaking hands with guys.

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Be like, hey, football is happening.

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I have, honestly, I've been out of loop, so I have no idea who's playing.

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Well, I know there's a question about who's going to throw for Cleveland, but that's always a question.

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That's always the question.

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Uh, is Aaron Rodgers going to be a good team this year?

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So, that's what I'm looking forward to.

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Did you see the massive statue of Tom Brady that they unveiled in front of Gillette Stadium?

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I did see that it was kind of cool.

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It was kind of cool.

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I thought his comment was good.

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It said it gives the Jets fans something to throw at.

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So I thought that was kind of funny.

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Do you know about the statue, like some of the things with it?

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No, I do not.

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It is 12 feet tall.

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Okay, I guess he is 7 feet tall on a 5-foot pedestal, but they did it because they won the AFC 12 times, okay, and his arm is like pointing in the air and his other arm is kind of bent to the side to look like a number 6.

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Oh, I like that, which is the six Super Bowls.

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Okay, I see what you did so they kind of did some little things and he actually looks like himself.

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Sometimes you've seen some of these statues gone very wrong Did you ever see the one of Ronaldo.

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Yes, yes, sometimes they go very, very wrong.

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What do you think the statues of us are going to look like?

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Oh, that's a great question.

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We'll talk more about that.

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We should let AI do a statue of we're going to do that, we're going to do that, we're going to do that, we're going to do that.

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We're going to get all over that.

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Exactly.

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As far as baseball, I think I've been to two games.

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Since the last time we talked, I took a group of actually a woman from Ukraine who had never been to a baseball game before she and her husband Okay, which was a blast.

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I mean Pittsburgh.

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I know you're not a huge fan.

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I was going to say, coming from Ukraine to a baseball game is like out of the frying pan into the fire, isn't it a little bit?

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Pittsburgh is such a great place to go to baseball.

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That's true, and it was lovely, and the Steelers are horrible.

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The other team— hey, as are the Pirates.

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The Pirates are horrible.

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We don't know, but Aaron Rodgers might make the Steelers horrible.

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The other teams that I follow are the Rockies, who are horrible, the Nationals, who are horrible, and the Diamondbacks were playing okay.

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So the interesting thing about baseball is we had the first female umpire in the history of Major League Baseball this weekend.

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Was that with the Pirates?

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No, she actually called the game.

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It was the Atlanta Braves against the Marlins.

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Okay, it was kind of a call-up thing.

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Apparently, somebody was hurt so she came up and that's what they often do somebody from the AAA, but it was the first time anybody's ever called it.

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So her first day was at first base.

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She basically got all the calls right.

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There was one call that she made that they challenged and it turned out that she was right.

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The next day she went behind the plate, which was what everybody was waiting for, right.

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To see, you know how she would do and you know, I mean, there was all this buildup Hall of Fame.

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Was there the first pitch?

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They took it, they took her hat.

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It's going to go to the Hall of Fame, so the first pitch comes in.

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She calls a strike.

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It's not.

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It was not even close.

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Honestly, I really felt sorry.

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The batter was kind of like you've got to be kidding me, right, I felt.

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I mean, I just honestly Can you imagine how nervous she was.

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The whole thing was really cool.

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Honestly, the way MLB handled it, the media it was really, really cool and it's just like and of course, every possible meme you can imagine has that first pitch.

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It wasn't even close.

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But she.

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Honestly, she's handled it really, really classy.

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I don't know how long she's going to actually get to stay up, jen , but congratulations it.

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How long she's going to actually get to stay up?

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Yeah, Jen Pawol, but congratulations it was a great story.

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Just she talked.

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She was a kid, she loved softball, she played softball in college, so it was really really cool.

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So congratulations, jen Pawol.

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So and baseball is a little late on this there have been female items in the NFL.

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I think there's a couple now right.

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Yeah, totally Hockey's the one thing I'm not sure about.

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I checked it out.

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Hockey has not had one in the NHL, but they have women's hockey and obviously there's women folks there.

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Okay.

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I've got a question.

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We're not going to spend a lot of time on this because you don't follow some of these sports as much.

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Okay, all right, but there's been one team in the history of sports got somebody drafted in the NFL, the NBA, mlb and hockey all in the first round in the same year.

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It happened this year.

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Who do you think the team was?

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Notre Dame no.

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Oh, because the only team.

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That was a good guess.

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I was actually wondering if Notre Dame has a hockey team.

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They do have a hockey team actually.

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Yeah, they're a quite good hockey team, yeah, yeah, okay, the next one, I would say Okay, I'll give you a hint to narrow it down.

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It's in the Big Ten.

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Oh, it's in the Big.

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Ten Well that messes me up Ohio State, nope Okay.

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Who's their biggest rival?

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Michigan Yep University of Michigan.

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First time it's ever happened.

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Wow, there you go.

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There's a little bit of.

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Congratulations, michigan, whatever yeah we don't like it.

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That's our sports update.

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We don't have a lot.

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What is that?

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Well, I had to be.

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You'd think this is the first time we've ever done this.

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I know it's been a month.

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It's been a month.

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What am I?

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supposed to do?

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What is AI really?

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Or is it Al?

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Now it's AI, but you know it looks like Al as well.

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What are the dangers of genetic engineering?

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Haven't you seen Jurassic Park?

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And how has technology changed the way we interact with others?

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Explore the answers to these questions and more on the newest season of the Purposeful Lab.

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This season, Franciscan University biology professor Dr Dan Keebler sits down with expert guests to talk about all things transhumanism.

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They cover why the movement of transhumanism has grown in recent years, the many ways technology impacts our physical and spiritual lives and the ethical implications of using new technologies to alter our human condition.

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You can watch the newest season of Purposeful Lab at faithandreason.com.

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That's faithandreason.com.

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Okay, that's A.

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That's a really good series.

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B Dan Keebler is really really smart yeah.

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And it's a really relevant topic.

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Did you see the meme?

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Obviously, the Holy Father met with the world the Jubilee Year for the youth.

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Yeah, and one of the lines that he said that just got a lot of attention was he said we're speaking about the dangers of AI and I'm going to bet something his first document is going to be dealing with this in some capacity.

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But he said an algorithm cannot give somebody a hug.

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There was something about that.

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I just thought that was really really insightful and beautiful.

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So what Dr Keillor is doing is good, so I really highly suggest people listen to that.

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There's been a lot of crazy AI things of Pope Leo.

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Yes, there has.

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And.

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LeBron James.

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Actually, lebron James is just recently suing, putting like a cease and desist order on all of the fake AI press conferences.

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I guess there's a lot of things of him pregnant, I don't know what's going on with that.

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Actually, there's stuff that I send to my nephew.

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That's actually really, really funny, all about him.

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But honestly you have to cease and desist that.

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You know you could, ai is going to be.

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It's a really good podcast that Dan's doing and it's a really important issue going on right now.

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Yeah.

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I just was in a meeting with, actually, the congressman from our district, the federal United States congressman.

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He was talking about AI and a lot.

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We were talking about how we can get involved and he was talking well, ucla is doing this and I said we're not going to get involved in that.

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What we think we have to offer is what can be done and what should be done.

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How does a?

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human person, not get lost in this.

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What does it mean to ethically use AI?

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So, with all of this going on, there's going to be these Carnegie Mellons that are going to do all the technology behind it.

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We're going to have to ask the question is what's right, what's wrong, how do we protect the human person?

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And it's just going to be a mess.

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Although you said something and I want to.

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Maybe let's not go down this rabbit hole if you don't know or we don't know.

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But what's the difference between AI and CGI?

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Oh well, cgi is….

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Because crypto is CGI, right, but is that also not an AI type?

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No, because CGI is computer-generated image and it's used in special effects for movies.

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Okay, now somebody could create a AI version of crypto, which then you'd be able to talk and ask crypto questions.

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But if you're just watching it in a movie— yeah, I could ask crypto questions, you could, but the dog won't answer.

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She sure will.

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Well, okay, is it a she?

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I don't know.

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So we've both been away.

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So I was in California for a conference for a couple of days.

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It was beautiful to be able to visit with some of our alumni.

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So there was that.

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And I traveled, yes, more than I've ever traveled in my entire life, your entire life?

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Yeah, it was amazing.

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He texted me Bob, went to what was your first stop, Philippines.

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So my first stop was in Manila.

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In Manila, so he crossed the international line.

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He was talking about how you skip a day, which is kind of cool.

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And then I texted back and I said when you come back, you arrive earlier than when you left.

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Yeah, so weird.

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It's really weird.

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I kept texting go to spend a number of days in Manila, a couple days in Singapore, about five or six days in Perth, then two days in New Zealand and then two days in Sydney before flying home.

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So we were gone about two and a half weeks.

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I got to go with Jenny, which was great.

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Okay, so let's call it 17 days.

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And of those 17 days, probably 10.

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You were doing some kind of ministry.

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Yes, and then so you did get— 10 or 11.

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Yeah, I only got like three down days in the whole trip, okay, but the ministry was so exhilarating, it was a gift.

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Yeah, and in really unique places and peoples.

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That's what was awesome just to meet brothers and sisters in Christ with a similar passion for evangelization and just a hunger.

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I think you know, living here in Steubenville, we can get so used to everybody being Catholic and things that might be obvious in our normal conversations are life-giving in other situations.

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Yeah, in the Philippines I spoke to youth leaders.

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They gathered them from around the country.

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There was about 90 of them.

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And this was actually at the tail end of a typhoon, and what I mean tail end of a typhoon is like I landed an hour after the typhoon fully hit I mean trees were like horizontal.

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My mom's pastor got stuck in that.

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He wasn't able to get to his little village, his native town.

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Yeah yeah, it was absolutely nuts, and so the organizers were understandably concerned that they're not going to have much of a turnout when there's a typhoon and everybody still turned out for the most part.

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Some of the more distant islands weren't able to, and then we got them on Zoom and they'd never done this before in the Philippines, getting everybody together.

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It was led by the Evangelization Foundation, which Michael Del Prado, who's one of our Board of Trustees members, put together, and just the joy and the gift of talking about ministry.

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I mean, I went in there and saying, and I said this everywhere I went, so I'm not from around here, but I can talk about principles of ministry as the church teaches them.

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And then we're going to have conversations about what you heard that I said, that can be applied.

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I'm not going to try to tell you this will work.

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This is what you should do, right yeah, whether it be in the Philippines or Perth or New Zealand.

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It's like I'm not that dumb, but I can at least say here's the biblical principles, here's the magisterial teachings, here's some of the good pedagogical principles of ministry, particularly to young people.

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And let's talk about it, and then they were coming up with the ideas of just the insights, of how they can apply it to the young people that were present.

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So Manila was great.

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We went to Singapore just because we had a couple days between conferences.

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Have you been to Singapore?

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No, my mom and dad loved it.

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You want to talk about AI.

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It feels like that city was built by AI.

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There's a boat on the top of a building like just a mass.

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It's a fake boat, but it's-.

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Why wouldn't you?

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Yeah, exactly that's what I love.

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Like somebody just said well, why wouldn't we do that?

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And I just think in America there'd be so many people like, hey, yeah, it's too much money here.

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Who wants a boat up there?

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Okay, what did you eat?

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Oh, thank you for asking yeah.

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I got a text from you three days in and they said don't worry, father Dave, they have pancakes and bacon and the bacon was questionable at times.

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I had to keep saying streaky bacon and very crispy, and very crispy was just cooked normally, you know, normally it was just kind of a thing of fat.

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So I'd always get a hamburger with bacon and I usually didn't eat the bacon because the bacon was questionable.

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But, between hamburgers, which is a universal love language apparently and the pancakes.

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I did pretty well.

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Sometimes I could get just like chicken breasts, all right there you go.

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And that worked out well.

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Everybody had French fries.

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Perfect, yeah, which is thank you, you did great, I did great.

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I might have gained weight.

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Did you, did you try anything that you've never had before I mentioned the bacon.

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I mean, when you were in the Shire, did you try like porridge.

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They didn't have porridge.

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What did they eat in the Shire?

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They had like a meat pie or something like that Okay, so tell them real quick you went through the.

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Shire.

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I was actually walking through the whole trip.

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Oh okay, so then I went to Perth, which was awesome, Great, had a great conference in Perth and then from Perth, just a seven-hour jaunt to New Zealand, where I met one of our alumni who directs youth and young adult ministry for the Diocese of Hamilton.

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I always had a great time with the bishop there.

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Sometimes when I visit places the bishop just says hello, but he was so friendly and available both nights drinking.

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He makes like cool whiskeys and things like that.

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That's actually a unique diocese in that the local clergy choose their bishop.

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There's only a few places in the world where that happens.

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Is that right?

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Yeah, I had no idea.

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Well, that's cool If I was him.

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I would say that a lot if.

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I was him.

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I think that's the case.

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You know, my clergy picked me.

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I don't know, but he is from there, so that could make sense, as was the previous who was one of our alumni.

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Oh, who's that?

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Bishop Mike Gehlen.

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Oh, okay, right, that's right he was, and now he's in Christ Church, yeah, so then I got to go to Hobbiton, which was a bucket list.

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If you're not familiar with Hobbiton, it's where they filmed the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, the shyer part, the opening scenes and the very closing scenes, where they're in their little hobbit holes and places like that.

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So, apparently, when it's on this massive farm oh my gosh, there's so much cow and sheep in New Zealand.

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It's absolutely crazy More sheep than cows I saw more cows than sheep.

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Go to Instagram and see this.

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Oh yeah At Deacon.

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Bob Rice.

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I made a three-minute movie montage of my walking through.

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Hobbiton and then running at the end.

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Yes and running at the end.

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I'm going on an adventure.

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It was magical.

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First of all, new Zealand has just dropped it gorgeous, so just being there is cool.

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And they built the set for Lord of the Rings and, like they do mostly for movie sets, they make it out of like styrofoam or very disposable materials, just so it looks good on camera.

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They can immediately take it down, and so that's what they did.

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And then, as that movie got to be so popular, people would just start going to that farm just to try to figure out the hills and all the stuff.

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It started to become this little side business.

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If you build it, they will come.

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So then, when they announced they were going to make the Hobbit, they were going to recreate that set, and they said the people owning the farm said, could you make it permanent?

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Like I think people would want to keep doing it.

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They're not dumb and so they did.

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So it's the actual set of it and it's just all Amazing and you're literally walking around the Shire.

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They added a thing where you could go into one of the Hobbit holes, and they did that.

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The interior scenes were filmed somewhere else for the movie the Green Dragon Inn.

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It was about a two hour tour.

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This is probably going to bug you, but I drove by it and I said, oh, there it is Now.

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You should be haunted by that, jenny, my wife is not a huge Lord of the Rings fan.

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That might shock people but it's true.

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But she loved it.

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She said you know she said honestly.

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She said I was going because you wanted to go.

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She said it was amazing.

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And it really was.

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It was like walking into.

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It was just so special.

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Were there a lot of people there?

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Well, thankfully no, Normally they do tours of about 40 people, so you have to get in a bus and drive to where it is, and they only had 12 people and only half of them spoke English.

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Perfect, just the way you like it.

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Just the way I like it.

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It was just great so yeah check out my Instagram at Deacon Bob Rice, you can find the little movie I made of it and yeah, definitely a bucket list.

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It was happy I didn't get to travel quite as extensively.

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Sure, oh, I need to just mention.

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And then I went to Sydney, met with some great young adults, and then I flew home.

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Okay, and you saw the Sydney Opera House.

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I did from the outside.

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I didn't go outside.

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It's beautiful, isn't it?

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Yeah yeah, sydney is another gorgeous city.

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It really, really is.

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It's just a beautiful, beautiful city.

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Yeah, yeah, no it and you saw a koala bear and Jenny.

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Jenny got to pet a koala bear.

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That was a big deal.

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We saw kangaroos went to a zoo and things like that.

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We saw the cathedral in.

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Beautiful, oh my gosh.

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It's absolutely, absolutely gorgeous.

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But the coolest thing was, I realized at the end, as I was praying, you know, I got to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth, like it kind of hit me like, oh my gosh, I just did this.

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And it really the ministry was amazing Again, and you felt this too right, father.

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There's just a time when there's an anointing to your preaching that you know is not of you, because the Lord wants to say something to the people in the room.

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That was a constant the entire trip.

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I mean, I kept walking away like wow, that was like something else.

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My experience is the Lord gives us what we need.

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So, on experiences that I've had such as that, there's, I think, a particular grace for that and for that moment.

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Yeah.

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It's very anointing and there's something about being in another culture.

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You know it cuts through cultural norms and you just get to the gospel, yeah right.

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You know that.

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Thing which un norms, and you just get to the gospel.

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You know that thing which unites us and you don't worry about this, that or the other, it's just Jesus and what Jesus has done for us, and how he saved us and how he's rescued us and how he loves us.

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And it's just a really cool opportunity.

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Yeah, so blessings to any of you that I got to meet along the way there.

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Shout out to Rain.

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Her name is Rain.

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She lives in New Zealand.

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She heard.

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I was coming to speak and she drove five hours.

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That's awesome she got two other youth ministers from another diocese and they just drove to hear me give a report.

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I'm fine.

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But that was part of the enthusiasm.

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Like I can't believe that you're here.

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Somebody from Steubenville is here.

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Isn't that crazy.

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I had to come hear you and it's like really.

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Okay, that's awesome.

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That's so cool.

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Yeah, that's so cool.

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Yeah, all right.

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Well, I went to Oklahoma City.

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No, so I was out.

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I spent a couple of days.

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I went home and baptized a couple of great nieces which was lovely, and a few mediocre ones, yeah which was really sweet.

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One of them was almost a year old because I wasn't able to get there earlier, so I said she walked to her own baptism, wow, and she was fine with the whole thing.

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The next one, amelia, was maybe six weeks old.

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She was not happy.

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Yeah, sure she was not happy with this whole baptism thing and let everybody know it so there's a great picture of everybody smiling and Amelia's just-.

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She's just screaming.

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Yeah, so that was great.

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Spent a couple of days with my mom and my sister and my brother and their kids, so that was great.

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Then I actually went to the National Knights of Columbus Conference, which I've never done before, but the university was kind of honored.

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We were given this little platform Were we or were we not?

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Well, it wasn't this honoring, so it's not like we got this plaque or anything like that, but they talked about and they wanted me there because of it about the work that we've done with the helping of the education of Nigerian priests.

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Yeah.

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With everything that's going on in Nigeria right now.

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I think we will have 20 priests from Nigeria here next year and they basically wanted me to be there to be able to say thank you.

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Yeah, you know, thank you, that Franciscan University cares about this and that they're doing it.

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But something about it.

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Yeah cool, which you know something?

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Knights of Columbus sometimes get a bad rap.

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They just do a great deal of really really good work, so it was wonderful to be there with that.

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I just got back from Oklahoma City and had a wonderful—it's just a great—you've been out there already as well so.

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I think—I don't know how many times I've been out there.

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But first off, their archbishop is fantastic, paul Coakley is just a rock star, and they have a conference, an entire conference, on discipleship.

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Okay, and it's just so fantastic.

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They invite people in diocese, whoever.

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I think they have 1,300 people.

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Wow, 1,300 people are coming to a conference for the weekend on discipleship, which was great, yeah, but a couple of things that were really powerful about it.

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You obviously remember the bombing of Oklahoma City.

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Did you go to that memorial when you were there?27:49.207 --> 27:52.110


Yeah, years ago, I mean, that happened 91, I think is what I want to say.27:52.150 --> 27:53.138


It was a while back, yeah.27:53.944 --> 27:56.320


I can't remember, I think it was 1991.27:56.340 --> 27:58.809


Which I mean, everybody remembers that whole.27:58.840 --> 28:00.081


It was just an awful, awful thing.28:00.722 --> 28:02.383


Though I bet some of our listeners might not remember.28:02.403 --> 28:03.524


Yeah, some of the younger people, right?28:03.644 --> 28:08.649


Yeah, yeah, so it was a bomb that was done by an American citizen.28:08.769 --> 28:10.331


He killed 168 people.28:10.391 --> 28:14.975


It was outside the Moreau building, which is a federal building, so I wondered how close I was.28:15.075 --> 28:16.477


As it turns out, it was about four blocks away.28:16.817 --> 28:16.897


Okay.28:18.820 --> 28:19.682


So I walked to it and it's really moving.28:19.702 --> 28:20.966


And, like you said, you've seen it, it's really moving.28:21.026 --> 28:24.235


But what I didn't realize, it's right across the street from the Catholic Church.28:24.275 --> 28:25.438


I mean literally across the street.28:25.458 --> 28:29.128


I don't know if I remember that Well, that statue that you mentioned is at a Catholic church.28:29.269 --> 28:30.332


It's at the base of it.28:30.860 --> 28:36.232


So there's this large statue of Jesus weeping over it and the memorial is very simple.28:36.332 --> 28:47.396


It's this really a layer of water just over a bunch of stone and then just memorial for each of the people killed, but it was just really, really beautiful, very moving to be there.28:47.480 --> 28:52.565


Whenever you see something like that, it's just you try to imagine what was going on in that town that day.28:53.041 --> 28:55.160


It's just just really really.28:55.180 --> 28:56.350


Yeah, it's kind of unfathomable yeah.28:57.201 --> 29:02.824


But probably the highlight was we went to the shrine of Blessed Stanley Rother.29:03.104 --> 29:22.657


So he was a priest from Oklahoma City that was doing ministry in Guatemala in the 70s and the 80s, and as things were getting really difficult there in the 80s with the rise of some of the communist groups that were really persecuting the church, the archbishop called Father Rother back and he said you know, it's not safe to be there.29:24.440 --> 29:37.365


Father Rother did not want to come back, but under obedience he came back and one of his lines to the archbishop was a shepherd cannot leave when things get dangerous, and so I was just actually really, really touched by his story.29:37.465 --> 29:47.281


So maybe just to back up, one point is that he failed Latin in seminary, and for most places, places if you fail latin you get.29:47.401 --> 29:48.967


I mean, this was in the 60s, you're done.29:49.810 --> 29:52.480


And the bishop said we'll find some way to get you ordained.29:53.081 --> 29:54.505


So they went they ended up sending them.29:54.545 --> 29:56.350


They just knew something about him, right right.29:56.851 --> 30:08.527


And then so this, this, the other bishop, um, he's saying you know, I want to go back to Guatemala and Bishop knew it was not safe for him to go back and the bishop said, okay.30:08.888 --> 30:09.049


Yeah.30:09.220 --> 30:10.726


He went back and was killed three months later.30:10.927 --> 30:11.048


Wow.30:11.400 --> 30:15.211


But one of the things I was touched by was that there were two bishops get such a bad rap.30:15.620 --> 30:23.687


There were two bishops that just cared about him cared about the people of God, cared about what God was doing and it was really really beautiful.30:24.480 --> 30:25.885


But cared about the people of God, cared about what God was doing, and it was really, really beautiful, but yeah.30:25.804 --> 30:26.341


So he went back to Guatemala.30:26.381 --> 30:35.291


He said he needed to be with his people, he was speaking out against the corruption, and he was murdered in the rectory in July of 1981.30:36.541 --> 30:40.973


The Holy Father, pope Francis, declared him a martyr, I believe, in 2016.30:41.174 --> 30:41.394


Okay.30:42.542 --> 30:45.710


And he was beatified as a martyr, first American martyr.30:46.091 --> 30:46.312


Wow.30:47.121 --> 30:49.187


So Father Stanley Rother, google him if you want.30:49.207 --> 30:50.711


But the shrine they built is just-.30:50.900 --> 30:52.050


When did they open the shrine?30:52.130 --> 30:53.340


Two years, okay, that's why I haven't seen it.30:53.380 --> 30:55.508


Yeah, yeah, because you didn't see it, right, Bob City.30:57.221 --> 30:59.261


Oh yeah, it's a little thing in the Catholic Center.30:59.281 --> 31:02.202


I mean it was just kind of marooned that they put really cool stuff in.31:02.222 --> 31:04.323


I mean not that money matters, but it's a $50 million.31:04.423 --> 31:14.347


Actually, one of the things that they did is it's a $50 million compound in the middle of impoverished Oklahoma City and it's largely a Hispanic population.31:14.367 --> 31:15.928


They have five masses a day.31:15.948 --> 31:26.392


Three of them are in Spanish, two are in English and they're packed, and I love the fact that they didn't put this in the most beautiful part of Oklahoma City, right, right and as you saw the picture, google this.31:26.452 --> 31:27.492


It's just a beautiful story.31:27.672 --> 31:29.833


Blessed Stanley Rother, but you saw that.31:29.973 --> 31:31.053


Yeah, it was amazing.31:31.073 --> 31:32.214


It's stunningly beautiful.31:32.334 --> 31:34.695


Yeah, one of the things that was really, really interesting.31:34.735 --> 31:41.718


So I'm talking to the Archbishop about relics Okay, because there's relics, but we're always on the other side of the relic.31:41.738 --> 31:44.919


So they've got this body that they realize is going to be beatified.31:46.901 --> 31:47.603


So I said how do you do this?31:47.623 --> 31:56.048


And he said, well, they exhume the body, they identify to make sure that it is who they believe it is, and they took a rib and that is where all the relics are coming from.31:56.180 --> 32:01.082


And there is a group of sisters at a convent in Italy and that's what they do.32:01.423 --> 32:03.086


They just take a rib and they just make.32:03.106 --> 32:08.226


Well, they take whatever bone, whatever you know, and then they make the small relics and they put them in the breast.32:08.287 --> 32:08.969


That's what they do.32:09.380 --> 32:10.345


That's a weird job.32:10.480 --> 32:15.341


Because, like the Vatican is very specific about it, has to be the chain of command and who is it with?32:15.421 --> 32:18.764


And then make sure that it's possible, with all the identifications and all that.32:18.804 --> 32:22.387


So that was just a whole fascinating conversation about how that went.32:22.427 --> 32:26.511


But it was wonderful, just a really really moving, and the conference was fantastic.32:26.692 --> 32:27.452


The Lord is good, yeah.32:27.632 --> 32:31.556


Yeah, amen, praise God, and we've got some fun religious things coming up.32:31.656 --> 32:32.037


Yes, we do.32:37.060 --> 32:42.845


On Friday we have the Feast of the Assumption of Our Blessed Mother, which is wonderful to pray for the Assumption, but also I find it interesting that it's the day that Putin and Trump are meeting in Alaska.32:42.865 --> 32:43.785


So let's keep that in our prayers.32:43.885 --> 32:54.694


And I remember was it Fatima that we consecrated Russia to Our Lady so that's a wonderful prayer intention for peace and resolution in that horrible, horrible conflict.32:54.754 --> 32:55.174


That's right.32:55.254 --> 32:59.378


And then the big thing here on our campus, unfortunately, you're not going to be here.33:00.480 --> 33:05.793


No, I'll be flying away Is we're going to have the blessing of the new, renovated, expanded Christ the King Chapel.33:06.194 --> 33:09.607


Very, very excited I was in it this afternoon Of course you are.33:09.888 --> 33:11.091


We need to pray, oh no.33:12.542 --> 33:13.405


I mean it's going to be.33:13.686 --> 33:14.469


No, it's not going to be done.33:14.560 --> 33:17.685


I mean, as you know, there's always little things that are going to have to be done, but we'll be ready.33:17.725 --> 33:19.848


The pews got here Saturday.33:20.029 --> 33:21.491


Okay, plenty of time they're there.33:21.651 --> 33:22.753


Yeah, peers are going to be there.33:23.074 --> 33:24.857


But honestly, bob, you're going to be.33:24.877 --> 33:26.499


I think you're just going to be blessed when you come back and see this.33:26.519 --> 33:26.920


Oh, that's fantastic.33:26.960 --> 33:28.266


It's really, really going to be beautiful.33:29.893 --> 33:41.393


And yeah, praise the Lord, it was a joy to be a part of that committee that tried to make some good decisions about it, yeah, back on Tuesday.33:41.734 --> 33:44.358


So we're not going to have a podcast next week either.33:44.619 --> 33:47.328


We have faculty staff meeting on Wednesday, where we're at Mass there.33:47.721 --> 33:48.343


Oh, fantastic.33:48.404 --> 33:51.228


So that'll be my and many other people's first time there.33:51.321 --> 33:58.125


I'm going to do a catechetical conference for the Diocese of Superior out in Michigan Good.33:58.447 --> 34:06.050


And then, after I come back, wednesday for the thing, and then over the weekend I'll be speaking to permanent deacons in Corpus Christi.34:06.190 --> 34:07.814


Texas, nice, excellent.34:07.960 --> 34:11.431


Getting a few more gigs in before we roll into our school year.34:11.720 --> 34:13.347


Amen, which begins pretty quick.34:15.320 --> 34:17.689


Returning students later start arriving on Saturday.34:18.301 --> 34:22.130


New students arrive a week from tomorrow, depending on when you're listening to this.34:22.251 --> 34:22.772


So there we go.34:23.080 --> 34:24.322


Yeah, so it'll be awesome.34:24.362 --> 34:24.923


God bless everybody.34:24.943 --> 34:25.464


Yeah, so it'll be awesome.34:25.484 --> 34:25.965


God bless everybody, yeah.34:25.985 --> 34:26.787


Would you close us in prayer.34:26.927 --> 34:30.974


Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift of faith that you continue to shower upon us.34:31.341 --> 34:36.866


We pray for the intercession of blessed Stanley Rother, that we be faithful to everything you ask and invite us to.34:36.980 --> 34:41.764


And, lord, we pray for the meeting of Trump and Putin that it would bring an end to the war.34:42.004 --> 34:44.146


I make this prayer, jesus, in your name, amen.34:44.806 --> 34:45.406


Amen.34:45.447 --> 34:49.390


Well, thank you, father Dave, and thank you everybody Right, we got five more episodes.34:49.550 --> 34:54.293


Shoot us an email, hope@franciscan.edu, with your favorite memory of our podcast.34:54.674 --> 35:02.222


That's hope@franciscan.edu, god bless, see you in two weeks.