sold something large at work, was going to make a lot of money, and decided I was going to celebrate.

So on Holy Thursday, I called the drug dealer, decided I was going to celebrate one last time,

and that was the last time because the police were waiting outside of his house,

and I was arrested by the DEA, and I started to look at how did I get here?

And very quickly, Jesus started showing me that it was the day that I walked away from him.

Welcome to Loopcast. Today I am joined by John Edwards. John is the founder and executive director of Pew Ministries, which is a Catholic apostolate with the mission of bringing the person of Jesus Christ to the person in the pew. He's known as the guy in the pew, right?

John is a Catholic speaker and evangelist who's spoken in Canada and across the United States and has been featured on Catholic media, such as Pines with Aquinas, one of my personal favorites,

the Catholic talk show in EWTN's Life on the Rock. John is the host of the Just a Guy in the Pew podcast, and he currently travels the country

giving his restored parish missions and training men to start life-changing men's groups.

John's greatest blessing is being a husband to Angela and father to Jacob, Allison, and Caitlin, great names. He and his family

live in the great state of Tennessee in Memphis. So welcome to the program, John. Thank you. It's so

good to be with you, Eric. I'm excited to be on here and to talk about what we're going to talk about

today. I'm looking forward to it too. So I was just telling you before we started, I recently did an interview on feminism and how

the sexual revolution failed women and the different ways in which our culture is kind of

erasing women.

So I wanted to go to the complimentary side of that story now and really dig into, and you see this a lot, I'm sure because your organization

is filling a need. But how has our culture failed men and what are you doing to help restore

authentic masculinity in the church? Sure. Well, I mean, it's a big question. You know, it's kind of

crazy. And I guess where you can start

is this idea of toxic masculinity. You know, we hear that thrown around a lot. Of course, the Me Too

movement and things like that. There's a lot of men who have not been good men. Let's just say that.

There are a lot of men that have not been good men in the world, but there's a lot of men that are lumped into that stereotype into that identification that's not who they are. A lot of men have lost their way, of course, but Jesus is always there for all of us. And the thing that I always tell people is masculinity,

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