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In our last episode, What is Faith?, Corey and I began a conversation about knowledge, belief, and saving faith.
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Now, we'll continue that conversation in the next episode, diving into the differences between infallible Catholic dogmas, which we must believe, and Catholic teachings.
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Which are not necessarily binding articles of the faith, but in between, we wanted to sandwich in this bonus episode to bring you some updates about the podcast and invite you to take a free online class in Catholic Church history that I'll be teaching over the next few months.
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Well, Ed, we're sitting out here in the forest.
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We've been out here.
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We just recorded another episode, but while we were doing that, the sun came out.
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Yes.
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It's been kind of a little overcast today.
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And now the.
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The sunlight is filtering down through the pines.
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We crab all year, all winter about how cold it is, and rightfully so.
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And yesterday and the day before, it was unbelievably hot.
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Yeah, it was like muggy and heavy and stuffy, and I don't like that.
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Like, I grew up in the southwest U.
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you know, and so I like...
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The Mediterranean Southern California climate where I grew up or, or I like, I really liked the desert out there.
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Like I've spent a lot of time, lived and spent a lot of time in like Arizona and Colorado and, you know, Nevada.
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And I just like that climate and I love where we live in the great lakes, but you can get a few weeks a year where it gets this kind of feels like Atlanta or something.
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I guess it's kind of a heavy thing, but you know, we're, we're just about now to Labor Day.
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Yeah.
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The next week is Labor Day, and then the best time of the year here, hands down, is September October.
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Yeah.
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Like, if you, dear listener, have never been to this part of the country, in the Great Lakes, on the Shores of the Great Lakes, in, like, September...
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It is, it is like if we could have 10 months of September, you know, maybe, maybe a month of snow around Christmas.
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So we have white Christmas and then like, you know, it'd be hot at the 4th of July.
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But if we, cause it's like this low humidity, it's beautiful kind of breezes off the Great Lakes.
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It's like 72 degrees.
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There's no bugs.
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It's just, it's, it's like.
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It's like dead nuts perfect and it's in get into october and people are starting to burn leaves and there's no The greatest smell in the world is that and then out here in the secret compound, of course Um, some distance away from us over here we have a big fire pit area And so we were just talking about as soon as we get into september here.
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The weather's so perfect You know, in the evenings and fire pit and sweatshirts, marshmallows, oh my goodness.
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And yeah, all kinds of, you know, other things, you know, beverages and whatnot.
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So, you know, it's, uh, it's just a wonderful time.
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So anyway, we're sitting out here, the sun's coming out, but we wanted to update our listeners about a number of things regarding the podcast.
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And uh, so we thought we would maybe kind of have a little conversation about that and bring them.
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And the first thing we want to say is thank you for listening.
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You know, this has been a really interesting journey.
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So we, we launched this podcast about a year and a half ago.
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And by the time this airs, we're nearing 150 episodes.
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We're in the one thirties or one thirty five, which means that we're going to have to start planning our sequescentennial episode.
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Oh, we got to think of something special for the sequescentennial.
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We need, we need, we need merch for that.
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We need to need merch.
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And that's one of the things that has been suggested in, and for you dear listeners is maybe we might.
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You know, have like a, you know, some merch, like, you know, coffee mugs or, or I don't know, hoodies that you could wear at the fire pit with us for considering Catholicism.
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So we, we're just really grateful because the cool thing is that, uh, we started this thing about a year and a half ago, you know, 20 months or something, but it was, uh, January of 2022.
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And like, I think the first month we had like 10, 10 downloads.
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Or something like that.
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You know, I was like, Oh, wow.
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You know? Yeah.
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And then I was like, maybe we'd break like 50.
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But the, the funny thing is I was just showing Ed the little download curve and every month for 20 months, it's gone up like on this growth curve, like 10 or 20% a month, like compounding interest.
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And we're nearing the point now, dear listeners, where, I mean, I know it's still small, like compared to like.
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Joe Rogan or Bishop Barron, you know, we're just like insignificant little, you know, small fry sitting here in the forest, but we're now nearing, you know, five, six, maybe approaching soon 10, 000 downloads a month, which, you know, again, when we started, there were like 10, so it just feels huge.
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It does.
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And they're from all over.
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So we look at our download distribution and they come from all over the United States, like every state and a lot of international.
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So we get a lot of downloads from, well, of course, Canada, which is just sort of like America's hat, right? I've never heard that.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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No, I love that one.
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It's like, and it's just right up here, like, like from where we sit here in the forest with the Sasquatch.
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Uh, if you just drive that way past the gas station where you get the gas station pizza, just keep going right and you'll get to America's hat, but, uh, but I love our Canadian listeners, but also we've got a lot of listeners in Europe has been surprising, uh, a lot of European listeners and the other thing that's been, you know, interesting lately is we've got Bye.
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Listeners from some countries I'm not going to name, but I think there are countries where we have U.
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military bases and, uh, in strange places around the world where we're seeing like 100 downloads or something or 200 downloads and, you know, in a month or something, and I'm starting to think that maybe, you know, maybe we have some service members that are listening and which would be wonderful.
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And if you are, um, we'll keep your location secret, but we're really, really grateful in all seriousness for, uh, You're devotional listening this podcast.
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And then the other thing is the emails that we get I am a terrible, I am a horrible, bad, awful person.
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I'm literally a bad person because I don't get back to people with emails as quickly as I should.
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And it's one of the things that I, I really like a character flaw where I have to reply.
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I'm buried in a lot of stuff because this is not my job.
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I have other jobs and I'll get into that in a moment because we're going to talk about something that's an opportunity for your listeners.
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But, uh, I just, I'm buried.
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Send me those emails, some of them, and I'll write back and make up reasons why you can't reply.
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Why I can't reply.
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Cause I just, I get a lot of emails which I'm super grateful for, but I'm usually just absolutely buried in my work, cause when I'm not sitting in the forest here, I'm, I'm doing a lot of stuff.
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But we're really grateful and we're gonna get better.
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I promise to get better about it and maybe Ed, you can help with some of the emails too.
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But we're really grateful for The stories that you share with us and they're really touching and stories about how this podcast has really affected people and impacted their lives.
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And, um, uh, so, yeah, we're grateful for your listening.
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And then the last thing is your support.
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So look, we, we are not financially supported.
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This podcast or this ministry is not financially supported by.
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By any organization, we don't have a church or a parish or an, uh, agency that supports us.
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It's a 100% listener supported.
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So, you know, we do have a link that you can contribute.
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And, uh, as we'll get into a little bit here today, uh, there's a lot of things that we would like to do, um, where we feel like this ministry is growing and growing and growing and more and more people are downloading and more and more people are writing and saying this is making a real big difference in their lives and the lives of their friends.
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And we would like to kind of put more effort into it, but you know, we're listener supported.
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So if you would, you know, consider, um, supporting.
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Uh, the podcast, the more that you support it, the kind of more we can do.
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You have run some ideas past me.
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I won't say any of them, but you have from time to time said, Oh, I have an idea.
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We could do this.
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And without fail, I think, Oh man, that would be so cool.
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I think there's a lot of ways that this ministry can grow.
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And in all fairness, you know, I love if you've ever like, uh, listened to or clicked through anything from Bishop Barron and I love Bishop Barron, then you're going to get about like six emails a day.
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from, uh, Bishop Barron, and we're on fire asking you to support their ministry and they do great work.
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Uh, but we, uh, we are literally a shoestring operation running on like, you know, pennies.
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So we would like to devote more time and effort and resources to expand this ministry.
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And so anyway, enough of that.
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I don't want to talk about that.
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I want to talk about an offer.
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And I, boy, as soon as you say that, hey, I have a proposition for you, like it's going to cost you, no, this is 100% not going to cost you anything and it's not a scam.
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So one of the other things that I do, well, yeah, one of the other things that I do, uh, in my work, uh, my day jobs.
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Is, I'm the Dean of the Lakeshore Academy for the New Evangelization, and what it is is an online learning platform for, uh, children, adults, and families, uh, that teaches the Catholic faith.
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And we've been around for about five years, and we have courses, uh, online courses all about the Catholic faith.
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And we traditionally, up until now, the Lakeshore Academy of Therapeutic we call it, has been, there was like a little subscription fee.
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Like, people had to pay 20 bucks a month or something.
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And that was to offset the operational costs.
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I mean, it was like the hosting and the softwares and all the different stuff.
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And it's supported by our parish.
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Uh, Our Lady of the Lake, well, we have decided to make that the Lane Catholic Adults program available for free to anybody, including you listeners, which means all you have to do is go to a lanecatholic.
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org and basically sign up with your email and you get access to the courses.
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And what I wanted to do is talk about a course that I'm going to start teaching this fall It's an eight week course and you can log in live and participate.
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You can watch me teach the course on video in a webinar format, uh, but when then we also archive it.
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So if you don't log in while it's live, you can, you know, log in afterward and, and download it or watch it that way.
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And um, so I want to talk about that course and then the fact that we have, I have dozens of other courses that I've taught that are archived.
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Hundreds of hours of courses about Catholicism, Catholic history, Catholic literature.
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So if you enjoy the things that we talk about here, and if you enjoy hearing me talk about these things, well, guess what? I've got a lot of stuff that you can now have access to.
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This was my introduction to actually stepping foot in the Catholic church was your, uh, two Two falls ago in the fall of 21, you did, you started a 12 week course about Dante's divine comedy, and I was there for almost all of them watched the ones I missed on later on on the website, but that was they were wonderful.
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And if you and I have listened to Greg preach for years now, and I...
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Gosh, you've been listening to me drone on for like 20 years or something.
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I have.
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I have.
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Um, I never get tired of it.
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I, I've never...
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Listen...
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When did we start, like, we started working together in that one, like, the hipster coffee house church where I used to teach, like, back in the early 2000s? I think, yeah, I think, I think 2006, 2007, something like almost 20 years that you've been hearing me drone on about stuff.
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Right.
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And I still, I still reference things you said in sermons.
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I went and looked for them online.
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They're no longer there.
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I wish they were.
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So I downloaded some of them.
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Anyway, a lot of that stuff has stuck with me.
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Anyway, uh, without me interrupting Greg, he, he's even better.
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Um, so I've, I've, I would encourage you to go check it out.
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The, uh, that Dante thing was fantastic.
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The thing about, uh, the life of Mary.
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Was, uh, Mary After Jesus, that was great.
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Yeah, I mean, the Dante course was cool, so, so we've got, I think, in the last five years, I think I have, I think it's close to two dozen courses that I've taught, and those are archived.
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In video format, so you can, and, and each course is like anywhere from four to 12 weeks long.
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Right.
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And it's everything from church history, doctrine, literature, I mean, that was the Dante course.
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We did a whole, like Ed said, a whole 12 week exploration of the Catholic vision of the world and Catholic theology through that, you know, so many things that we've talked about.
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Um, well.
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Anyway, I've got a class coming up this fall, and it starts on September 11, so it runs for, uh, it's eight Monday nights.
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It's called the eldest daughter of the church.
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What's the course about? Well, uh, the eldest daughter of the church is an old description for the country of France.
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We're going to organize those and at least once a month once a month We'll have a special q a episode And, um, we actually had this idea, I don't know if it would work, to maybe occasionally go live and have people, you know, do like a, you can do like a live thing on Twitter Spaces or YouTube or whatever, but I don't know, there are people, like, I look at the distribution of our downloads and they're so spread out around the country and Europe and everything, like, I don't know what time zone people are in, like, if I said we're gonna do it at 7 o'clock Eastern time, like, half the people in Europe are, It's the middle of the night.
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The historic Catholic faith and again, we have zero resources and we would like to do more.
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But in the short term, this is what we can do.
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So I want to invite you to take part in the class, sign up for a lane membership and, and take part in this eldest daughter of the church class and the archive of other courses.
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And then I'll be teaching another course in the spring.
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So you have that.
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And then the Q and a episodes and um, I don't know, maybe we'll do.
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You know, swag or merch or something.
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Will people really do that? I don't know.
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But anyway...
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We need the tour jackets.
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That's what we need.
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What we need to do is, is we need to have one of these things, like these tiers.
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Like, if you will donate so much...
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To right considering Catholicism that, uh, so we can, you know, scale up here that then we would like, uh, you'll get an autographed copy of one of Ed's guitar picks or, um, you know, you know, I should do because because people I have people who say they like my voice.
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I had somebody for another podcast that I host.
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Uh, uh, say, uh, I would like to have you read bedtime stories because I can do this with Mike.
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I can do, I can do like the NPR voice, but you know what I'm saying is I could do, I could do your, um, your, uh, voicemail.
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That's what I'm saying is like the, the first tier is the voicemail.
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The voicemail.
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Like if you, if you contribute so much, then Greg will think, hi, you've reached Susie.
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And she's not available right now because she's considering Catholicism.
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Oh, I like that.
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When she's done, she'll get back to you.
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So leave your number.
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Right.
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You know, I could record stuff like that.
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And then, you know, if people gave enough, we could give them directions to the secret compound and they could come out here and sit with us and do a bonfire.
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And talk about Catholicism.
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We could have a little, like, a Greek chorus, you know? Yeah, well, you know, we could sit around here and, you know, gotta be chill and, like, talk about Catholicism while we sit by the bonfire in the forest and look for Sasquatch.
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So, there's all kinds of possibilities out there, but, like, take away, big one, lanecatholic.
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org.
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Sign up for the Eldest Daughter of the Church course and all the other courses on archive and coming.
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Uh, write in your questions for the Q& A.
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And we'll do those and we promise to get better about responding to your emails and at least please consider donating through the link that's in the description.
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I think that's it.
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Well, talk soon, Ned.
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Bye.
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Thank you for listening.
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My name is Greg Smith, and if you've enjoyed this podcast, would you please hit the like and subscribe buttons wherever you get your podcasts, and please share it with others.
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And if you're curious about the Catholic worldview and faith, the church and its saints, or Catholic history, culture, and art, then visit consideringcatholicism.
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