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

So I got an email the other day from someone saying, hey, Trent, can you check out this video

from Stephen Crowder talking about Pope Francis?

So I thought I would oblige them and it'd be a good subject for today's episode of the

Council of Trend Podcasts.

So welcome.

I'm Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

If you don't know who Stephen Crowder is, he is a conservative YouTube personality and

commenter.

So he comments on political issues, on current events.

And he offers a conservative perspective and kind of a wacky perspective.

He's, I don't know if provocateur is a right word, but he does provoke reactions.

So there's things that he says that I don't agree with.

It's not entirely my sense of humor.

But there's other things he does that I think are really cool, like he'll go to college

campuses and have a table that says, change my mind on X and he'll sit down with people

and he'll have conversations with them.

And he engages them and I've never seen him be aggressive or anything like that.

I think that he takes a more assertive style in his conversations, but at least he's

going and having conversations with real people.

I'm always in favor of people who do that.

So if that being said, I don't agree with everything he says.

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