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Hey there, folks.

I'm excited because I get to talk to someone that I genuinely like.

Most people I only pretend to like.

Secretly, I don't like them at all, but I pretend.

You know what I mean?

It's all an act.

It's show business.

It's fake.

But today I have someone on that I really like, and I find him fun to talk to.

His name is Father Robert Serico.

Yes, a Catholic priest in the studio to talk about economics because Father

Sirico is or was the head of the Acton Institute. Now he claims to have retired. I don't believe it.

Father Serico, welcome. Good to be with you. Now, I want to talk about this, because we're

going to talk about you have a new book out called The Economics of the Parables. So Jesus' Parables

and Economics, okay, you're big into the free market. You have written a book called Defending

the Free Market. You wrote another book called A Moral Basis for Liberty. I'm kind of big on that. When did you found the Acton

Institute? And what is the Acton Institute? So the Acton Institute was founded in 1990 with my friend

and colleague, the co-founder Chris Mowran, who is now the successor president, so it's a good succession.

And what basically, as I saw in seminary, as you've seen in religious circles, that religious people have a soft place for socialism.

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