Hello, and welcome to Catagance with Live. I'm Si Kellett, your host. Thanks so much for

being here with us. We got open form today. Two hours of open form. Second hour, Mark

Brumley, president of Ignatius Press, will be here. And first hour, Jimmy Aiken with us.

Jimmy, of course, senior polygist here at Catagance and the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's

mysterious world. Hello, Jimmy Aiken. Hello, Si Kellett, and surprise. I promised that

there would be a surprise for people the next time I appeared live on the show. And for

the for those who are viewing us on video, whether on YouTube or Catholic.com or wherever

they view us, the surprise is already visibly manifest. I'm in a different location than

I traditionally have been on the show. People have commented on and seen, you know, the

room from which I normally up to now have done Catholic answers live, but I'm somewhere

else. And in fact, I'm more than 1,500 miles away from where I previously done the show.

That's practically in the middle of the Pacific. Yeah. Previously, I was three miles from

the office of Catholic answers. Now I'm 1,500 miles not in the direction of the Pacific

Ocean, but in in the other direction. I'm 1,500 miles east of of San Diego. And so I

moved back to my hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas. I bought a new I bought a house here.

And it's really great. And I'm much closer to family. And so it I've been in California

for 30 years. I still work for Catholic answers. We have remote apologists, you know, Trent

Horn and Joe Heschmeier and Carlo Bersard and now me are all actually in this part of

the country. We're all in it or either are or are about to be in in Texas and Oklahoma

and Arkansas and Kansas. And so it given the marvels of technology, it's possible for me

to work from a home office three miles from home base or 1,500 miles from home base. And

after 30 years in California, it was time for me to go home and be with family. So I'm

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