Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Welcome to the Reason and Theology Show.

Everyone on your host, Michael Lovkin, on a Saturday evening.

Sorry that we had a little bit of a late start here.

I thought that it had went live like I've told the gentleman here backstage.

Out of nearly 400 shows, this has happened maybe three times.

So I apologize there were a little late there, but here we are.

We're doing a Catholic economics round table joined by Trent Horn,

who is going to be representing the Catholic,

capitalistic perspective, Thomas Hackett, who is going to go over Catholic distributism,

and then Jose Mena, who will represent the Catholic socialist perspective.

And just kind of a brief idea on how we're going to do this thing.

We're going to have three seven minute openings.

We'll do capitalist perspective, then distributism, then socialism.

For the next round, it's going to be the same order, three 20 minute blocks to discuss each view.

It's going to kind of just be a free for all.

But you know, we definitely won't have any kind of overtocking or anything like that,

but it's going to be pretty loose format.

And then for closing thoughts, we'll have three five minute closing statements,

again, same order capitalism, distributism, socialism.

Finally, we'll have the audience Q&A.

And I want to just kind of warn y'all, if y'all start putting in your questions now,

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