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The BeatiDudes
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A religiously funny podcast for Christian men seeking authentic fraternity. Each week, The BeatiDudes explore life from the perspective of men seeking to follow God's will while they grow closer together in holiness and humor. TheBeatiDudes.com
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Predicting the World Cup With Zero Soccer Knowledge | Bennett Rawicki | Ep. 344
6d ago00:19:06Tap to summarizeBennett Rawicki is back with the BeatiDudes to hand the world’s biggest soccer tournament over to three men who are dangerously confident and only loosely familiar with the rules. Bennett asks Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein to predict a series of potential World Cup matchups, but actual soccer knowledge is not allowed to influence the answers. France retreats, Messi becomes an American landowner, the United States discovers a new national chant, and a USA-Mexico final somehow reaches “NAFTA time.” They also settle the connection between soccer players and NFL kickers, debate whether the World Cup could reunite North America, and hear how Bennett once joined his dad and younger brothers to defeat a team of actual Marines in Australian rules football.SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
Transcribe →Stop Chasing the Most Prestigious Life | Bennett Rawicki | Ep. 343
1w ago00:55:32Tap to summarizeBennett Rawicki had the chance to chase the more prestigious path. Instead, he chose the road that made room for marriage, family, lower debt, and a life he could actually live. Bennett joins the BeatiDudes at the Tiny Table to talk law, family, soccer, St. Thomas More, and what he calls a “joy theory of discernment.” As an active practicing litigator, UD alum, husband, and father of six, Bennett brings a mix of sharp legal thinking and deeply practical faith to the conversation. With Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein, Bennett gets into the real questions underneath big decisions: Are you chasing what looks impressive, or choosing what leads to joy in the fullest sense? The conversation moves from courtroom strategy and legal complexity to marriage, debt, community, and the kind of discernment that quietly shapes an entire family. SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
Transcribe →20 Days Inside the Conclave Chaos | Omar Aguilar | Ep. 342
2w ago00:20:03Tap to summarizeAfter getting the 2:45 a.m. message that Pope Francis had died, Omar was on a plane to Rome within hours. What followed was more than 20 straight days of live coverage with EWTN Español, long days beside St. Peter’s, pilgrims from around the world, and the slow build toward the moment everyone was waiting for. Then the white smoke came. Omar was sitting there alone, his co-host had gone for coffee, and he launched into the broadcast of his life - only to find out later they were not even on air. Around the Tiny Table, Omar tells Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein what it felt like when the bells began ringing through Rome and thousands of people started running toward St. Peter’s Square. Omar Aguilar is back with the BeatiDudes to tell the story of covering Pope Francis’s funeral, the conclave, and the first moments of Pope Leo from Rome. SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
Transcribe →The Former Atheist Who Now Hosts an EWTN Show | Omar Aguilar | Ep. 341
2w ago00:52:44Tap to summarizeOmar Aguilar joins the BeatiDudes this week, and he opens by admitting he used to be an atheist. Omar now hosts Perspectiva Católica for EWTN and leads Hispanic faith formation for the Knights of Columbus, but he tells Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein exactly how he got there. It runs through a Eucharistic adoration night he almost walked out of, a night he came home high at sunrise to find his wife sitting with their one-month-old daughter, and a confession where the priest cut through years of overthinking with one line: "Is Jesus's mercy not enough?" Along the way there's a Mother Angelica story, an 85 percent chance you get stuck on the tarmac, and a hard truth about how God is, in Omar's words, "the worst economist in the world." This conversation lands exactly where it should: mercy is not something you earn, it's something you receive. Subscribe for new episodes every Monday and Friday. SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
Transcribe →60 Acres, 125 Boys, and One Very Important Rule | Tim Casey | Ep. 340
3w ago00:18:45Tap to summarizeBefore Tim Casey was helping build a 60-acre school on a former horse farm west of Boston, he was a 28-year-old sitting on a struggling school board. Four years later, the school folded. He was 32, had three kids, owned a house, and had a lien placed on his residence for obligations the school couldn't meet. He carried it for three years. And then - because apparently he didn't learn his lesson - he did it again. Twice. Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein get the whole story: the charter school experiment that almost worked, the virtues-based curriculum that could say "faith, hope, and love" but had to leave out the rest, and the 60 acres west of Boston where boys climb 20 feet up trees and snowball fights are allowed - as long as nobody aims for the head. Tim also makes the case that real education has to include craftsmanship and entrepreneurship, and that one of the biggest things a school can do is teach boys how to actually have friends. Plus: Jeff performs "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" as a praise and worship song. It goes exactly as well as you'd expect. SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
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28 Million People Prayed the Rosary With This Priest. Who Is He? | Tim Casey | Ep. 339
3w ago00:45:56Tap to summarizeTim Casey is a lawyer and CPA who spent his whole career in corporate America, and now he's the CFO of Holy Cross Family Ministries, an organization built by a priest who might be one of the best kept secrets in American Catholicism. Tim joins Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein to talk about Father Patrick Peyton, the Holy Cross priest who set out to say the rosary with 10 million people and ended up reaching 28 million, started a movie studio in Hollywood that's still making films 80 years later, and is now buried in a rotunda outside Boston that's becoming a real pilgrimage stop. Tim explains how Peyton went from a dirt-poor childhood in Ireland to filling stadiums with two million people overseas, why his ministry has 29 centers in 18 countries and barely any name recognition in the US, and how a broken statue of Mary turned a Chicago shock jock's life around so completely that Pope Leo gave Our Lady a new title because of it. Along the way: Boston accents, a geography rant that somehow becomes a Father Patrick Peyton catechesis, a bilingual cartoon worm, and a game of Blessed Are the Joke Makers that gets weirder by the round. Check out Holy Cross Family Ministries: https://hcfm.org SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
Transcribe →Stop Trying to Solve Your Marriage | Nicholas Stumphauser | Episode #338
4w ago00:26:16Tap to summarizeNick Stumphauzer rejoins the BeatiDudes, and the conversation lands on something most guys get wrong about marriage: treating it like a problem to be solved. Nick and the crew dig into why "solvable" is the wrong frame entirely. There's no checklist that ends conflict for good, and there's no finish line until you're delivering each other to heaven. Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein land on something more useful instead: marriage success isn't the absence of tension, it's knowing where your teammate is, even when things are hard. Stick around for the part on vulnerability. They talk about getting hurt by people they trusted and choosing to stay open anyway, and why that posture is what actually makes a marriage work, not avoiding conflict in the first place. Subscribe for new episodes every Monday and Friday. SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
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The App Apple Said Was Impossible to Build | Nick Stumphauzer (Shift) | Ep. 337
Jun 2201:01:43Tap to summarizeNick Stumphauzer joins the BeatiDudes with a pitch nobody believed could work: a phone-blocking app so locked down that even the user can't hack their way out of it. Nick never went to college. He trained as a filmmaker, made seven documentaries, and along the way got free from a pornography addiction despite being an atheist at the time. A few years later he had one question that changed everything: what would he pay each month to remove self-control from the equation entirely? That question became Shift, a tool built on the idea that the user should never be the administrator of their own willpower. Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein dig into why most "tech minimalism" tools fail, why Nick gives the porn-blocking side away for free while the doom-scrolling side funds the company, and why he calls doom scrolling "the inverse of prayer." It's a conversation about addiction, attention, marriage, and the theology Nick didn't realize he was building into his own software until after he became Catholic. Funny, sharp, and more than a little convicting. Check out Shift: https://shiftyourphone.com SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
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He Lost $125,000. Then God Showed Him What Hope Actually Means | Joey Kramer | Ep. 336
Jun 1900:25:30Tap to summarizeJoey Kramer lost $125,000 in his first year in business. Went bankrupt. Moved his family into his parents' rental house. And named his clinic Hope. Joey runs a chiropractic clinic built around a single principle, a Matthew Kelly book, and a lease buyout that showed up the exact day he needed it. He sits back down with Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein to tell the origin story of Hope - why the clinic is named that, why it's purple, and why most of his patients assume it has something to do with TCU. Along the way he breaks down why upper cervical care works (32 trillion nerves all pass through that one bone - if it's off, everything downstream is off), what Michelangelo's Creation of Adam is actually depicting (hint: it's not just theology), and why he requires every priest who comes in for free care to exorcise the building first. Somehow Paul, Nick, and Jeff also manage to work in chicken wings, cervix jokes, and kangaroo anatomy. If you missed Monday's episode, go back and watch it too. Find Joey: hopesouthlake.com | @HopeSouthlake on all socials SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
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Going All in on Marriage and the Sacrifices that Come Next | Joey Kramer | Ep. 335
Jun 1500:55:19Tap to summarizeJoey Kramer knew he needed to change his life the morning his construction boss walked in with Whataburger in one hand, a Route 44 Sonic in the other, bragging about the fifth of Jack he drank the night before. That was the pivot. From construction to chiropractic school, with no money, a wife who kept the family afloat, and a sheet of paper with three career options on it that he and Katie worked through using Ignatian discernment until one bucket filled up higher than the rest. Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein dig into all of it - including how Joey met Katie in the first place, which involved crashing soccer study hall at TCU and a girlfriend who got sent home the moment his future wife called. The conversation also goes somewhere most podcast episodes don't. Joey and his wife lost a pregnancy. Felt rage, grief, and confusion. And nobody stopped to ask how he was doing. He talks about what it's like to carry that as a man, and what finally made him say it out loud. Find Joey: hopesouthlake.com | @HopeSouthlake on all socials SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music
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