#12436 Shrinking Population and the Catholic Answers Cruise – Flannel Panel! - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Can non-Catholics be saved?” This episode explores this crucial question while also touching on the Catholic Answers Cruise and the implications of a shrinking population. Additionally, we delve into intriguing topics like the Louvre heist and Jud Apatow’s experience with ahawaska and his vision of Jesus, offering a diverse range of insights.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:00 – Shrinking population (continued)
- 07:30 – Catholic Answers Cruise
- 08:46 – Shrinking population (continued)
- 29:00 – Louvre heist
- 41:15 – Jud Apatow says he took ahawaska and saw Jesus
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:03.0 | Catholic Answers live. |
| 0:18.0 | It's Flannel panel today. You wouldn't know it by looking at the shot of Joe Heschmeier on the screen where he is wearing his Halloween shirt, but he's still, uh, sartorial, is that the correct pronunciation, or are you going to correct my pronunciation? No, that is correct. Sartorial, his sartorial choice is always win the day here. Do you have a Halloween? |
| 0:38.5 | I don't have a Halloween shirt, Sire. |
| 0:40.9 | Kind of an American doesn't have a Halloween shirt. |
| 0:43.5 | No, I don't have a Halloween shirt. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm just kidding. |
| 0:46.5 | A grown-up. |
| 0:48.7 | This is an adult size. |
| 0:50.3 | That's all I'm going to... |
| 0:51.3 | Look, the existence of this speaks for itself. Race, Ipsi, |
| 0:55.4 | loquitur. The thing about it is, we know for a fact that your wife opposed you buying it, |
| 1:02.3 | which means you, this is your own, whatever funds she allows you to have for sandwiches and |
| 1:08.1 | stuff. You saved that up and got yourself a Halloween shirt just to stay out of trouble with your wife, but also to get the thing that you want it. Yeah, this one is actually like two years old, too, so I'm getting a lot of mileage out of it. Well, look, how many days a year are you wearing it, Joe? Like, if you're wearing it enough to that you're wearing it about wearing out your Halloween shirt. |
| 1:44.6 | It's a fair point. You might need a second Halloween shirt. I think you should wear it. You can do it for all of October for the Halloween Advent that you're just with that I'm getting for. Halloween event. Yeah, wear it to midnight mass, Joe. They don't have midnight mass anymore. Nobody does midnight mass anymore. 10 p.m. Mass, whatever it's called, yeah. Can I make a correction here real quick? |
| 1:46.7 | Oh, yes, please. |
| 1:47.6 | John Rock was actually working in the 50s. I thought it was earlier than that. |
| 1:51.3 | Oh, you're talking about the birth control pill or the, what we call it, oral contraceptives? |
| 1:56.0 | So less than a century, in less than a century, the effect of this man's work. |
| 2:02.7 | I mean, you can, go ahead. |
| 2:04.1 | The sex revolution was almost immediately after. |
| 2:06.9 | Yeah. |
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