Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J-10 initiative.

Hey, welcome to the podcast. Father John, joined by Father Sean, as always. You're not going to let me say my name?

Well, it's always a little stifled at the beginning, so I thought, you know, a new chapter. There's just three of us. We're going to try and kind of do the introductions. This is Catholic stuff you should know. And today we are joined by a third special guest today, our friend, Bo Breskern. Welcome, Bo. Hello, fathers. It's such a pleasure to be here. Great to have you.

We are recording at Our Lady of Lords, as always, Father Sean, just up from his new parish, kind of settling in now, same time as more. How are things going? Things are good. Settled in. School year started, which is great. I'm working with the middle schoolers, which there's pros and cons to that. the middle schoolers could care less about you.

At least they pretend that they don't care about you,

but they kind of like me. uh, which there's pros and cons to that. The middle schoolers could care less about you. Uh,

at least they pretend that they don't care about you,

but they,

they,

they kind of like me. Middle school, so Bo is the father, uh, so he can kind of actually give some insights on this, but middle school is, it's, I think it's a niche thing that the, being able to connect with the seventh grader is just my brother's really good at it like he's an

example just like he just knows i i i thing that being able to connect with the seventh grader is just my brother's really good at it like

he's an example of just like he just knows i i i don't know how to even start i walk around the school

here in the middle school and they just look at me like the thing is you got to play football at recess with

them okay and when you're six five they're like they think you're a god they're like how did you

catch that i'm like uh i don't even have to jump, you know? Well, and not to mention, you're an incredible athlete. Well, thank you. Don't tell them that. They don't think I'm that great yet. Bo is notorious for being very complimentary. So let's not let this get to your head, Father Sean. So, Bo, you've, you've walked several of your children through.

You don't have any middle schoolers now because Canty's young, but.

That's right.

I'm in between.

Do you,

did you feel like you had the touch for the connecting with that age?

Interesting.

I was actually going to share a story that doesn't relate to football, but my grandmothers,

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