Thomas Aquinas doesn’t teach you how to have a holly jolly Christmas, and other insights from the AMDG Jesuit podcast

Had a very enjoyable pre-Christmas conversation with Mike Jordan Laskey, the host of the Jesuit podcast for Canada and the US. It was a pretty wide-ranging chat, covering having adult children, dealing with materialism and other Christmas-related anxieties, managing and building traditions, my favorite Christmas carol that I couldn’t quite remember at the moment, CAKE … Continue reading “Thomas Aquinas doesn’t teach you how to have a holly jolly Christmas, and other insights from the AMDG Jesuit podcast”

Double Feature with the Fishers, new podcast episode: MORTAL KOMBAT and MORTAL KOMBAT

New podcast! For this episode, Damien’s out and our oldest daughter Lena is in, as our resident expert on . . . MORTAL KOMBAT. Both of them! There’s a new movie and and old movie and maybe something is wrong with us, but we loved them both, and we had a certain amount to say … Continue reading “Double Feature with the Fishers, new podcast episode: MORTAL KOMBAT and MORTAL KOMBAT”

Movie Night with the Fishers: The podcast returns!

Believe it or not, not our podcast is back! After a horribly long hiatus, Damien and I have started recording weekly podcasts again. We still begin by pouring a drink, and it’s still politics-free, but we’ve tightened it right up, and now the entire podcast is about movies. Although we have very disparate tastes, we’re … Continue reading “Movie Night with the Fishers: The podcast returns!”

Today I’m on The Catholic Podcast . . .

talking with Joe Heschmeyer and Chloe Langr about Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, for their series on the way of the cross. This episode, #57, is called “The Women of the Way,” and includes passages by the great Josef Ratzinger. You can hear and download the episode here. I talk about how I came to … Continue reading “Today I’m on The Catholic Podcast . . .”

Check out my featured interview on the Mystery Through Manners podcast

Here’s the latest Mystery through Manners Podcast episode, featuring me! I truly enjoyed talking to the gracious and intelligent host, Jules Launi, and was very impressed at how she made something coherent out of my rambling. (I sound like a heavy smoker because I had bronchitis.) Definitely subscribe to this podcast. I don’t know anyone else … Continue reading “Check out my featured interview on the Mystery Through Manners podcast”

Contest winners + I’m on The Catholic Podcast with Joe Heschmeyer

Sorry for the delay in the list of winners! Everyone on this list has been notified using the email they provided to enter the contest. Monday Christine Dumouchel Julie Von Rotz Tuesday Victoria Treboschi Theresa Hardy Wednesday Lori Magelky Stacia Demeulenaere Thursday Jamie Piper Jake Casey Jessica Marsh Friday Rachel Nesbitt Debbie McGeehan Catherine Burnham … Continue reading “Contest winners + I’m on The Catholic Podcast with Joe Heschmeyer”

Podcast #58: Thank you, Chachi!

Who can even say what’s in this podcast? What isn’t in this podcast? Not Chuck Norris, that’s who! And not a poem by Donald Justice. Photo by Carlos Killpack via Flickr (Creative Commons)

Podcast #57: And then the internet took off.

It’s a stone cold sober podcast! And in honor of how much we suck, it’s free. Damien and I incisively analyze the dead hand of Mother Angelica, how Facebook pranks all of Australia, newspapers that were not metaphors, a small disappointment about sharks, cocktails, lyme disease, toxic masculinity, and so much more. And a poem … Continue reading “Podcast #57: And then the internet took off.”

Podcast #56: Glory be. (free! free!)

Matt Walsh, Cape Cod, Tony Montana, baked beans, fat girls, football pooper, LEONARD BERNSTEIN! It almost works. And a poem by John Bargowski.

Podcast #54: Faulknersauce!

In honor of FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO RECORDING A PODCAST FOR ONCE, we’re making this one free to all comers. (Normally, podcasts are for closers, I mean patrons.) Sorry it’s been so long! Or, you’re welcome! You’re welcome! This evening, we snickered our way around hybrid wolves, Vienna sausages, the town with no bootstraps, cellulite, … Continue reading “Podcast #54: Faulknersauce!”