Catholicism, Tattoos, & Getting Banned From Australia (Shayne Smith) | Ep. 545

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Education, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.8 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 215 minutes

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In this episode, Matt sits down with Shayne Smith—professional stand-up comic, newly confirmed Catholic, and (apparently) political extremist—to talk about how being Catholic is punk rock in today's crazy world. The conversation also touches on prayer, the Latin Mass, online death threats, tattoos, getting banned from Australia, and much more!

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0:00.0	I'm a Catholic. Crimes against Catholics were committed for the crime of being Catholic. I'm commenting on a Catholic issue, criticizing a Catholic person and people are telling me to stay in my lane. People would be like, you're a Catholic, so you're like a Nazi. Yeah, exactly. What? It's the leap there. That was wild of you to do. As you begin to convert, well, at least for me, like, you know, you're letting go the world.
0:22.1	And there's that part of you that's like just afraid.
0:26.4	Like, oh, man, I have a good friend and he's gay.
0:29.7	Is he going to think I hate him now?
0:31.2	I was raised in a generation where Christianity was what had to be subverted.
0:37.3	Right. Question all authority was what we would be subverted. Right.
0:38.3	Question all authority was what we would say.
0:40.3	And now I just so happened to accidentally be raising my children in a generation where to be Christian is to be punk rock, to actually be a Christian.
0:50.3	So you're the cool punk rock dad now.
0:52.3	I don't know if they would say that.
0:55.0	But I...
0:56.0	Hey, welcome to Pines of the Quietness.
1:02.0	Today I interview my good friend and comic, Shane Smith.
1:06.0	We've had Shane on the show a few times before.
1:09.0	Shane converted to Catholicism a few years back,
1:11.9	just got married, wonderful guy. So we speak about everything from, you guessed it, stand-up
1:18.4	comedy to Dungeons and Dragons to what it means to be punk rock. There's a lot that goes on in
1:23.4	this episode. It's fantastic. Hey, and I want to say thank you. A lot of people have started
1:27.3	subscribing to the channel.
1:29.2	And if that's not you, please do us a favor.
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1:33.5	It really helps support the show.
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