Hello, and welcome. The Catholic Dance was live. I'm Sy Kelly at your host. Thanks so much for being here with us. Two hours of open form with two of the best. The second hour Tim Staples will be here. First hour Jimmy Aiken and your calls welcome.

888-318-7884. Open form means open to anyone and on just about any topic 888-318-7884. I'm not going to give out that number too much though because there's another number we have to say because throughout the hour because today is the last day of our summer pledge drive.

The way we fund this program and the way we're able to give it away free to anybody who wants to broadcast it anywhere around the world is each quarter we come to you and ask you to help us with that funding and this is the last, these are the last two hours, we will have to do that this summer.

That number to call is 888-291-8000. Triple 8-291-8000 or you can go online to catholicanswersradio.com. So I'll tell you what, if you've got a question for Jimmy then the number to call is the usual number. Triple 8-318-7884.

Just jot it down if you're going to call later because as I said I'm not going to say it very much. Jimmy Aiken is senior apologist here at catholicanswers, the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. Hello Jimmy Aiken.

Hello, so I tell it. That was pretty good. You did a few. My so I tell it impression.

Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you. And the number to call is 888-291-8000.

Wait, I thought I was doing pretty good. You can do it better lately.

I'm trying to internalize that because especially on the last age I get a little too amped and so I just got a cool out and say the number slowly 888-291-8000.

This hour we have a $20,000 match again for this hour. So any pledge in any amount up to 20,000 is matched.

And then we still have that second match which is for any new monthly donors. So perfect time to pick up the phone and call because usually early in the show the lines are open and there are 11 lines open right now 888-291-8000.

And it's especially important that we hear from people today. You don't get to relax their side because this is the last day of the drive. And that means we're not we're only going to be talking about the current fundraising drive for the next two hours.

You know, we really try to minimize it. We only do a drive once every three months, you know, just four times a year quarterly. And we only talk about it on air for six hours and we don't even talk about it for a full six hours because we're also answering questions is in those shows.

So we're not going to we're not going to have much more to talk about it. But we really need to hear from people our goal overall goal for this drive is $220,000 and we're not close.

So this has been drive has been slower than usual. It's a summer drive that may have something to do with it.

But if you're listening, it's really important that we hear from you and that we hear from you today. So the number to call is 888-291-8000.

Once again, that's 888-291-8000. You can also go to catholicanswersradio.com and make your donations safely and securely online. And you can do that, whether it's from your phone or your iPad or your desktop or your laptop or whatever kind of top you've got that hooks up to the internet.

Just go there. It's you know, it's very safe and easy. You'll be done in a minute and you can help catholic answers live be funded and stay on the air because we do need to hear from people we do depend on you for being able to do that and all the other work of catholic answers.

Now, in to give you an incentive to help us out at this particular time, we want to let you know that we have a matching challenge of $20,000 for this hour.

So we've made $500 this hour. So we have $19,500 and technically $1 left to go in order to meet that match. So we really need to hear from you in this hour.

If we're going to meet that match, in which case, your money is effectively doubled. If we meet the match, if you give us $20,000, we have a very generous donor who will supply another $20,000 and that will become $40,000 for us.

That's very important. We make that match. So we do need to hear from you. We also have some additional incentives. We have some very special thank you gifts that we'd like to give you. So I can you tell us about those.

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