Greetings, parish orphans and retrogrades. Welcome back to the show. I should welcome

myself back because this is the first show I've done since a new retrograde was born into the world.

Penelope Pius, who was born just about four days ago. Yesterday was her first full day at home.

Baby and mother alike are doing extremely well.

Thank you all extremely much for your gracious prayers. It means a great deal to us and it means a great deal

actually, ontologically. So thank you so much, parish orphans and retrogrades. What a great thing for baby number seven to have been born. We have had difficulties in hospitals, particularly in children's hospitals, particularly in newborn wards and OB-GYNs. So we really, really appreciate all of your help and all of your prayers.

And today, while we're moving on because the news cycle moves on,

we just want to say one more thank you to all of the parish orphans and retrogrades out there

who support this program

through prayer, through financial means, and by buying the books that we put out watching our

three shows per week on a typical week, God bless you guys. You are the best audience out there,

and I mean that. I've been a part of other people's audiences.

It is the smartest, most attuned, coolest, truly trad audience out there that is the least

larpy, practical.

God bless you guys.

On a day like today, I'm just appreciative.

I'm an appreciative guy.

And God bless you guys.

That's all I have to say on that one.

So, the D.C. Archdiocese, this is genuinely funny.

Accidentally, they, one of the, I think, boomer parish ladies or one of the boomers in the chancery or in the bishops' employ, sent an email expressing what we basically already knew from Cardinal Wilton Gregory,

who is in charge of Nancy Pelosi's home away from home,

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