Podcast
Catching Foxes
Hosted by Luke and Gomer · EN
Luke and Gomer became friends Freshman year at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and 14 years later they started a podcast. The show oscillates between a conversation between just the two of us and interviews that we do together of other, fancier people. Sometimes we get explicit either by being too honest or by being too stupid. Either way, it's fun!
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A Deep Dive into Shakespeare's The Lion King
Sep 2301:19:31Tap to summarizeThis episode offers everything you've ever wanted to know about The Lion King and then some. It's basically a free Shakespeare class. Plus, why music makes you feel certain ways and the Mary Sue character in the new Star Wars movies. Enjoy!Sponsored By:ParishSOFT: ParishSOFT provides comprehensive church management software and innovative tools built by Catholics for Catholics to help parishes and dioceses deepen faith. Support Catching FoxesLinks:ParishSOFT — ParishSOFT provides comprehensive church management software and innovative tools built by Catholics for Catholics to help parishes and dioceses deepen faith, foster meaningful connections, and bring their mission to life. Simplify operations, inspire engagement, and focus on what truly matters—discipleship, stewardship, and guiding parishioners on their faith journey. Saint Kolbe Studios — Thank you to Saint Kolbe Studios for producing this episode of Catching Foxes!
Transcribe →A Catholic Movie that Doesn't Suck? It Happened!
Sep 201:19:45Tap to summarizeAnthony D'Ambrosio of Triumph of the Heart stops by the show to talk about the process of bringing Saint Maximilian Kolbe's story to life. Get the inside scoop on what it takes to make a Catholic movie that doesn't actually suck. Enjoy!Support Catching FoxesLinks:Triumph of the HeartAnthony D'AmbrosioSherwood FellowsSaint Kolbe Studios — Thank you to Saint Kolbe Studios for producing this podcast!
Transcribe →The World is Flat...but Not in That Way
Aug 2601:10:24Tap to summarizeHas our world gotten flatter? Are all the edges of culture rounded out and mass produced to the lowest common denominator? Luke and Gomer discuss how movies have lost their soul and houses have gotten gray and boring (and badly made). Take a shot anytime two men in their 40s discuss interior design on this episode (maybe don't listen to this one in the car). Enjoy!Sponsored By:Support Catching FoxesLinks:Faith Mosher at Dallas Healing House — You can reach Faith at the Dallas Healing House website or by emailing faith@dallashealinghouse.com!Saint Kolbe Studios — Thank you to Saint Kolbe Studios for producing this podcast!
Transcribe →Luddite 90, with Matt Fradd
Oct 29, 2021Tap to summarizeWhat's new with Pints with Aquinas? How much can one man hate technology? Fradd will show you the way. Also, he's got a new book! Plot twist: it's on St. Thomas Aquinas. Post retwist: it's about Aquinas' prescription on how to be happy. Special Guest: Matt Fradd.Sponsored By:Faith Investors: Align your finances and your faith! Call now: 281-674-7394Support Catching FoxesLinks:How To Be Happy: Saint Thomas’ Secret to a Good Life: Matt Fradd: 9781645851318: Amazon.com: Books — In How to Be Happy, author Matt Fradd relies on the help of St. Thomas Aquinas to show what will—and what won't—bring us happiness in this life. How to Be Happy: Saint Thomas’ Secret to a Good Life – St. Paul Center — “In a couple of my books, I tried to show that St. Thomas Aquinas is both easy to understand and practical; in this book, Matt Fradd makes him really easy to understand and really practical.” Peter Kreeft, Author of Summa of the Summa, A Shorter Summa, and Practical TheologySt. Thomas Aquinas On Happiness | With Matt Fradd - YouTube — Matt Fradd joins me today to discuss what St. Thomas Aquinas has to say about being happy. Though he is a towering theological figure, the angelic doctor has a lot to say on the topic. Matt lets us know some of the wisdom from this great saint.
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Disney, Guns, and Civility
Feb 12, 2021Tap to summarizeADHD creates a funny side-effect of distraction that can lead to hilarious places and regrettable obsessions. Gomer and Luke share theirs. Then Luke brings up the main topic of our latest critical review and the absence of civility today. Sponsored By:The Catholic Card Game: We are making an online version of the Catholic Card Game in both ENGLISH and SPANISH! The goal is to fully fund it in February, so head over to the website and pre-order the game and you can back the project directly from there. Stereo Jan-Feb: Again, join us Live every Sunday night at 9 central for the Catching Foxes after party. Find me at stereo.com/gomer. The Stereo app is simple and a lot of fun. I’m loving it. Follow me so that you get notified every time I go LIVE and you can join me!BetterHelp.com: Get 10% off your secure, specialized counseling at BetterHelp.com/foxes Support Catching Foxes
Transcribe →Matt Fradd Goes Amish
Jul 27, 2018Tap to summarizeSupport Catching FoxesLinks:Privilege | THR Blog — But what this injustice consists of is usually not elaborated. If one presses for details (and this is already a breach of etiquette), the reasons offered are often tendentious. The term privilege is used not to make a case but rather to convey a mood. Why is there so much political opportunity to be had by deploying this mood, as a weapon? What accounts for our susceptibility to being cowed by it, or indeed to indulging it ourselves, this fuzzy indignation? In particular, we need to account for the fact that accusations of privilege are most prominent among…well, the privileged. (For example, Ivy League students.) Hold that thought. Virtual Reality as Moral Ideal - The New Atlantis — These early cartoons present a rich phenomenology of what it is like to be an embodied agent in a world of artifacts and inexorable physical laws. The tendency of these things to thwart the human will is exaggerated, and through exaggeration a certain truth gets brought forward. As the stand-up comics say, only the truth is funny. In depicting the heteronomy (being ruled by something other than yourself) that the world of objects inflicts on us, the slapstick sufferings of Donald Duck acknowledge, and thereby seem to affirm, the human condition as it is, beneath the various idealisms that would transport us out of that condition.
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The LAST Jedi? The Last JEDI? THE Last Jedi?
Dec 22, 2017Tap to summarizeGreg Iwinski, a comedian, film reviewer (he gave Balboa 5 Stars), and podcaster, comes on the show to attack all those who think Rian Johnson's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" should have serviced the fans' expectations more than made a great movie (minus the casino scene) and set up a world-class franchise for decades to come. Film, art, and culture are all explored. What does a corporation, or an artist, owe to the fans that support and love and even identify with someone's art? George Lucas gave us Star Wars, then tried to mess with it. As an artist, he's allowed to. But as a fan, I beg him not to mess with the originals (which he's said the original film footage is even lost). "Special Editions" should be just that, and not replacements for the originals that now connect to our cultural Zeitgeist. That said, our expectations of who Luke Skywalker is and is not is informed by decades of fan-fiction and the expanded universe of books and comics, setting the stage for the rage-monster nerd reaction against Rian Johnson's fantastic new film. So many people came to the movie expecting one thing and Rian Johnson wanted to give us something new. Insert conflict here. Even a rant about maintenance-mode Catholicism comes in to play! The frog-nuns are caretakers of a dead religion and are fussy when young blood is messing with the buildings. Luke wants to burn down the sacred Tree, but find that he cannot, until Pope Yoda does the thing himself. Yet! The sacred texts survive and endure. So with the Jedi. Fascinating.Special Guest: Greg Iwinski.Support Catching FoxesLinks:The Rotten Tomatoes score for "The Last Jedi" may be rigged — Quartz — The latest Star Wars film scored a 93% on the Tomatometer, which shows the share of critics who gave the movie positive reviews on the site, and a lowly 55% with audiences who submitted more than 116,000 user reviews since the film’s US release last week, as of the time of this writing. One angry, anti-Disney Star Wars fan is proudly claiming the credit for the disconnect. An anonymous individual who runs the Facebook page “Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys” claims to have used bots to create fake Facebook accounts that logged into Rotten Tomatoes and posted negative reviews of the film to lower the audience score.‘The Last Jedi’ Subverts Some Of The Worst ‘Star Wars’ Tropes — I’ve become so inured to it that when a Last Jedi character fired up the Randy Quaid mobile to drive it straight into that gun barrel/alien gun/portal and incinerate himself to save the galaxy/rebellion/rec center (I’m keeping this vague to avoid the no spoiler Gestapo), I’d already prepared myself to accept this bit of momentarily lazy plotting. Like giant portals or the expanded universe, I thought suicidal characters were just something I would have to learn to accept in order to enjoy a blockbuster in 2017. But this time, just when the would-be Quaid mobile was about to save Earth (so to speak), another character swooped in and stopped Quaid, nearly suiciding to prevent a suicide. We could argue about hypocritical tactics, but Rian Johnson gave the Quaid stopper the perfect line, about how The Resistance is “about saving what we love, not destroying what we hate.” Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Alternate Ending : Alternate Ending — Indeed, I'd almost go so far as to say that The Last Jedi is only good when one of either Luke or Rey is in a scene, and it is always good when one of them is in a scene, though this ignores the setpieces that work with neither of them being involved.The Last Jedi Doesn't Care What You Think About Star Wars — Legends Bleed Mark Hamill famously disagreed with Johnson on the direction of Luke Skywalker when he first read the screenplay for The Last Jedi, and it’s clear why. Luke, the farm boy who became a war hero who became a warrior knight who became his father’s savior, has fallen into disgrace. While The Force Awakens featured a Han Solo falling back into his old scoundrel ways (a position of comfort for those worried about a watered-down take on a character who was at his best when he wasn’t playing nice), The Last Jedi features a Luke Skywalker that is unlike anything we’ve seen before – a broken shell of a man who believes that everything he fought for and achieved was for naught. By telling young Rey that none of this matters, he’s also telling the audience the same thing. The stuff you love? The details that have reshaped pop culture and created a geek language that everyone speaks? Yeah, they’re wonky. Or rather, they’re broken. Your faith was flawed.
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Matt Fradd, A Free Agent
Dec 8, 2017Tap to summarizeShow Notes! We talk about Circadian Fasting, which is a thing Gomer is doing. NO, it's not a fad diet. He's just trying to impose some order in his life and join it to a fasting discipline. And no, it's not a life hack TIM FERRISS! Matt shares the joys of marriage when becoming a Free Agent and living the dream (and various levels of nightmare). A THING WE ARE DOING If you head over to www.Patreon.com/CF and donate at least $1 to us (Friday only), then Matt Fradd will personally call you in the next week or so and say "Thank You!" Special thanks to Videos.Church for sponsoring this episode. Use the coupon code "CF" for %15 off your purchase.Special Guest: Matt Fradd.Sponsored By:Videos.Church: Andy Lesnefsky, the genius behind #ShareJesus on YouTube and Facebook, has a new project called Videos.Church and it is great! The first course is for Catholic parents that helps you communicate the faith to your kids in a powerful way. Plus, Gomer's in it! Head over to Videos.Church and use the promo code "CF" for a 15% discount on your order. Promo Code: CFSupport Catching FoxesLinks:Love People Use Things — LOVE PEOPLE USE THINGS IS THE NEW PRO-LOVE/ANTI-PORN PODCAST FOR THOSE WHO ARE TIRED OF FANTASY AND ARE READY FOR REALITY. Pints with AquinasKen Henderson in Power Team with Triple Break. - YouTube — Ken Henderson in Power Team with Triple Break. Entering Moria LOTR 1.15 [HD 1080p] - YouTube — And they call it a "mine." BAH! A MINE?!Catholic Parenting 101 — It's here. Finally a course on Catholic Parenting that is created for you. Our Catholic Parenting Class is a one of a kind online educational tool for your family. We are so confident you are going to love this, it comes with a money back guarantee. BUY NOW Introducing “Zero,” a new app to help you fast – Kevin Rose – Medium — Introducing “Zero,” a new app to help you fast My interest in intermittent fasting (IF) started several years ago when I learned that Hugh Jackman used a daily 16-hour fast to lean up for his role in Wolverine. I knew this was a fun body hack to lose weight, but that doesn’t mean it’s healthy for you.
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