Hey, welcome back to the show. This is Phil. Welcome back to the podcast. We're here. We have a panel of three today, three, not two, but three. And I pulled in an extra mic so we could all be on mics at the same time.

Yeah, we have Skye Jatani. Hello Phil. Hi Skye. Happy New Year. Thanks. Yeah, it's probably New Year's as you're listening to this. We have Christian Taylor.

Hi Skye. No, no. Thank Christian. I'm Phil. Hey, how are you? Oh, Phil, you're here. I'm Phil. Hi. Thanks, though. And we have my brother Rob. Hi Rob. Hey, Christian. Hey, this is weird. Let's do this without Phil. Just like the open to Brady Bunch where everyone's looking and glancing around the square at different random people. Anyone but Phil. And we had because my whole family's in

downtown for the holidays, like 17 people are all in town. So I said, hey, I'll invite everyone to come to the taping of the podcast. And we can have a live studio audience. And you know how many showed up? Yeah, one.

You're loving sister. My sister. Say say hi, Christie. Hi, Christie. Say hi, comma, Christie. Hi, Phil and panel. Phil has a funny family. That's my sister, Christie.

She's sitting in the cheap seats and she does not have a microphone. And do not start a campaign for a fifth microphone, because it is not going to happen. No, not this, not in this fiscal budget. Not in this year.

Okay, we need to sing the theme song. We got a request for Chester Wiggett to sing the theme song. Is Chester Wiggett? Is the poppin theater? Oh, Chester Wiggett. Have you ever seen what's in the Bible? I actually produced one of those, I think.

Gosh. Yeah, we've never seen him because he's always behind the popsicle stick puppet stage. I thought he was the popsicle stick puppet. No, stages are not people. He's the puppet master. Sky, you grew up around puppets. You know that.

I'm married into puppets. That's true. You married into puppets. Okay, someday we'll have Sky's wife and or mother-in-law on the show to talk about their history with puppets, which is much richer and more theologically elaborate than my own.

Chester Wiggett. Hey, this is a Chester Wiggett. How's it going, everybody? Let's sing a theme song. He might have turned into Father Guido Sarguido. That's actually what he's based on. Let's find the poppin pizza. He did that once. I thought it was hilarious. Okay. Hey, what is it? It's a podcast. Right, I need a noun. Hey, it's a podcast. But do you know? Hey, it's a podcast.

Hey, it's a podcast. So there's no video. Hey, it's a podcast. So land in here. The field of isher podcast starts right here. We'll talk to Sky and Christian to and even Robert the Vischer who is here for you.

And he's a lawyer and a dean and some other stuff. Hey, it's podcast. So land in here. The field of isher podcast starts right here. The field of isher podcast starts right here.

I love that little extra kick at the end. Yeah, everything needs a little extra kick at the end. I've discovered in life. Hey, congratulations on your whole dean thing. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much. So you're now the dean of that. Do we want to name the school or should we pretend that we don't know what school it is? Do you want it to get out? Because you might I don't think it's a secret. I bet I could look it out. Is it Hogwarts?

They have something called Google. They could probably figure that out on the internet. The internet.

You're the dean. Starting next year, but technically you've kind of started already. You're starting January 1st technically. Okay, which is probably after you're listening to this. So the University of St. Thomas School of Law in beautiful downtown Minneapolis. That's fantastic. And they have a decent St. Thomas.

Doesn't they have a team that did decently this year? St. Thomas is a dominant force in division three sports. Okay, yeah, really? Yeah, football, baseball, basketball. We won women's volleyball this year, but all the other sports are in the finals. They're close to it. How big a school is it? It's pretty big, actually.

It's about 6,500 overall with graduate students, about 10,000 students. Okay, and you can't quite as big as Miami, however. You can't fight your way out of D3 with all those.

Well, you could, but when you leave D3, then you get into the murky waters that bring you into the Ben Rothless burger territory and other. And when using the water, it's quite murky.

Proud Miami of Ohio Alums time to get out of the hot tub. So is this a Catholic school? It is a Catholic school. Yes, hence the Saint. Yes. Well, it could have been a Piscopalian or Saint. Colleges Catholic. Are there any? No, there could be Lutheran. Yeah, Lutheran. Yeah, it could be Lutheran. St. Olaf. St. Olaf is not Catholic. Right. Yeah. Is that Lutheran? It is Lutheran. Okay. So most of them are Catholic. And there's St. Thomas is a diocesan University. I'm sorry. What?

It's a diocesan University, which means it's part of the Diannerv agent. Just keep going, Rob. It's what I have to do. You spread a spree to fight malaria. Is it a Catholic university is either part of an order, like a Jesuit college or a Dominican college or a French siscan college? Wow. Or a diocesan college, which means it's just part of that local archdiocese. Wow. Do you have to be Catholic to be the dean of the law school? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, you do not have to be. Are there any non-Catholic deans? Oh, yeah, yeah. In the college. In the university as a whole. Yeah. I believe there are. Okay. Yeah. I think that they get certainly a priority to maintain Catholics in leadership. Right. It's not a prerequisite. Right. At most places. And you became Catholic to get the job? Yeah. I mean, the paperwork hasn't been signed off on this. You know,

I'm making a good faith effort. Yeah. My brother for the record is Catholic married into a Catholic family, a really cool Catholic family, and was teaching at another Catholic university, and then came home one day and said, Oh, I'm going to be Catholic now. And, and that's when both of my parents passed away. We know, I heard there's a big. There's a big movement. It returned to the Catholic Church is what I've. There's a good book about that. That's an ad campaign. A couple of years ago, a book came out by

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