Yo, Perre, Shorffins, and Retrogrades, we are inside of one week before the conclave of 2025,

which will elect the 267th Ostensible Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

We're inside of one week because the conclave begins next Wednesday.

Today, as I've been doing since Pope Francis died, I'll bring you more analysis.

I'm going to bring in a guest, my friend Ryan, a southern lawyer, former seminarian,

and guy that I do a lot of backscene figuring with by text and different text

groups. We're friends. We live close enough to see each other occasionally at least. So I'm going to

bring Ryan in. We're going to start out just with general, hello, how are you feeling about the conclave because Ryan and I are

have always been right in lockstep on the Francis pontificate no pope's blaine and nothing like

that but obviously nothing nothing schismatic so Ryan always fell right where I fell I'm literally

checking in without knowing exactly how he's

feeling. Now we'll bring him in. But then we're going to get to some news because there's been

little to moderate importance breaking stories happening over the last 24 to 36. And we'll do those

one at a time. But first, I would just offer

that, well, first off, is Ryan in here, Stephanie? Yes. Hello, Ryan. What's up, dude? How are you?

Welcome to Rules. You're a great, man. What's up? Yeah, what's up Rules for Retrograd? Parish

orphans. So we talk a lot about how we're feeling, generally speaking, with regard to

ecclesiological matters.

And I feel some sort of way.

And I'll explain that in a minute or two.

But I wanted to give you first crack, Ryan.

What are you feeling about next Wednesday's conclave?

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