It's the Catholic Guy Show starring Lino Ruelly with co-host Mark Hart the Bible Geek

and me, the executive producer Tyler Vecty.

Today, Lina welcomes Dave Batista, basketball player Tiny Archibald, and puppeteer Sherry Lewis, featuring music by the Foo Fighters.

Now, from Minnesota, where even Canadians think they talk with a funny accent,

here's your host, Lino Ruling.

Hello Catholics.

And everyone else, welcome to your home for pure Catholic pleasure. It is the Catholic Guy Show.

This summer will be, well, right now I guess, 15 years since taking on the reigns of the Catholic guy show here on the Catholic Channel.

And of course, you know, we didn't know what we were doing when we started.

And for the most part, people would say, hell, we don't really know what we're doing today.

Shut up.

Truth, please.

This is a time where I don't need support from the choir, Tyler or Mark.

That would be the time you want to preach.

No, don't preach.

Tyler's an atheist.

This is the time I don't want to hear Tyler talking about him wanting to hear preaching.

Usually if I say something, boy, aren't I good-looking crickets or argumentation. Boy, we don't know what we're doing. Tyler and Marker, yes, this is correct, Lino. You keep telling them. No true words have ever been spoken on this channel. But you know, you try, you try, you try. Or hell in a lot of cases on the shows on this channel, you don't try, you don't try, and the check still clears. And one of the things that, well, I guess I had it in the back of my mind, but didn't know if anybody would ever really do this, is listen. In other words, I thought, oh, wouldn't it be neat if people listen, but I don't know if anybody really will. And then over the course of the first several years of the show, especially, you go, okay, sure, the people who are going to listen to the Catholic channel will be your hardcore Catholics, your very devout Catholics, your priests, your bishops, your cardinals, your lay people, this kind of thing. But I did think it would be neat if what, you know, what if an outside group listened? What if a little, a slightly younger demographic, I mean under 50. What if? What if? What if? That's almost a fetus in the Catholic world.

Right. And so you go, well, who, you know, you never know. And then over the years, you hear people

listen into the show, you go, oh, that's cool. And we've come up with a lot of dumb ideas over the many years of these shows, whether it be me being a confirmation sponsor for a kid every year, or in-person events, or pilgrimages, or online events. And almost every time we come up with an idea, we go, boy, that is dumb. Let's try it. And sometimes it works.

Well, in the last year or so, we've had a segment called What's on a Listener's Mind.

And if we're to be completely honest, it's just a way for me to talk to listeners because I have a good time talking to people.

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