feeling hot, hot, hot, hot. It's summer. It's feeling hot, hot, hot, especially if you live in the

American Southwest. So I live in Dallas. It can get hot here, but not as brutal as the Southwest,

which is where I grew up, so I'm a little bit more adapted for Dallas's summers than really

anywhere else in the country. I mean, that's why one reason we moved here is

because I prefer hot summers to cold winters. But I want to talk about today about my old stomping

grounds, Phoenix, went back there recently. That was just right at the beginning of June. And it was

already hitting 106 degrees and it's got no signs of slowing down. I also want to talk about that.

Why? Because it's free for all Friday.

Mondays and Wednesdays we talk apologetics and theology.

Friday on the Council of Trent, a long-standing tradition since the beginning of this podcast.

What has it been now?

Eight years.

I talk about whatever I want to talk about.

Today, I am talking to you about the city of Phoenix like the the bird the fiery bird rising from

the ashes something is on fire when it comes to living there and I just wonder is the city just

eventually going to melt so I went back I got to see some friends and it was it was really nice to

see them I was staying at an Airbnb had a pool in the back it's's so funny, actually, when you're in Phoenix. I mean, I've noticed this here in Dallas, too, by the end of the summer. But even just like a month, a few weeks into summer when it's really hot, you'll have a swimming pool, and it will eventually start to just feel like a bathtub. It is not refreshing, like at all to get into.

But this is actually nice when I, because I went there beginning of June. It was warm. The water wasn't that cool even during the day, but at night it was, it was really nice and refreshing to get into. And that's one of the hard things when you live in Phoenix. Like, if you want to enjoy swimming there, You kind of have to go at night.

Now, it is, I will give you this.

It's sort of fun at night there.

Like when it's 100 degrees at night and you don't have the sun bearing down on you, it's just like this warm blanket enveloping you and you just kind of sit out and enjoy the summer nights. It can be, it can be nice because you don't have the sun just like absolutely wearing you down. So I remember once actually in our backyard in Phoenix, I was trimming this

really big set of bushes in the backyard. And I thought I'd be out there only for like five minutes,

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