I don't know how this is going to go. It's going to go how it goes. You know, that's how it always goes.

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Essential Presents. In fact, it's not just Essential Presents, it is a 10 year anniversary. And because of that, some of the producers, I said, hey, it would be a great idea if you went back and watched your first ever essential presents video. And I thought, great idea.

So they sent me a link

because I'm like, I don't know which one

that was.

It was literally 10 years ago

with a video every single week.

So 54, 52?

52 weeks in a year?

Right?

Times 10?

Hey.

That's...

Carried the one. 520. I know math. The video is called bromance, comma, pizza, comma, and your mom.

Actually, it's funny because they didn't put an Oxford comma in there.

There should have been, if I would have been in charge of the title, I would put a comma after pizza.

Because I just, that's how, I mean, I know English. Here's the video, the first video I ever made for Ascentra Presents, 10 years ago. Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascension. I'm gonna slow down. The car's driving me crazy. What? You know? Okay. I was like, I'm sorry. I say I'm gonna slow talking so slowly. For Pete's sake, brother, the cars driving by, driving me crazy? Yeah, because right outside this window is the road that is just populated by people and cars and trucks and I remember thinking like, wait, do they hear everything? They hear all the cars driving by? I'm gonna film at a different time of the day so that I can avoid all the cars. And apparently, I can't do that. So I'm so sorry. Nice beard. Nice. Well, also. Hi. My name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. First time I've ever said that. That's pretty cool. Proceed, Father. I had the chance to go to a number of different events. And in each of these events, oh my goodness, A, I do not like listening to the sound of my own voice. B, I've not liked listening to how slowly I'm speaking. This is driving me crazy. Whenever I listen to the Bible in ear, Kedek's veneer, or essentially presents videos, even Sunday homilies, I am speeding them up to 1.5 or 2 times speed. So this is painful. Here we go. Also, so, do, do, do, do, okay, okay, bro, tell us your wisdom. Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom. It was so great because there were at least one or two guys who I don't get to see very often, but I'm really connected with these great Catholic men. And almost every time I saw these guys, someone would say,

oh, look at you two. I can see, got the bromance going on. Like, what? You know what that was?

It was Bobby Angel. What a guy. What a bro. I really dislike that term romance. And not because

of any kind of like sexual connotation to it, but it's because of this. Because I think the term

bromance reveals something

about our culture. We look at everything, every significant relationship or every significant,

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