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Hello folks, welcome back to God's planning.

I am Father Gregory Pine hosting here with Father

Jacob Bertrand on our most recent episode of guest planning. Father Jacob Bertrand

how are things in DC? Things are good. Yeah pretty standard working through the academic year working through vocation stuff

Surviving the swamp that's it nothing more nothing less. Yeah, the ush

Okay, you've navigated the summer without suffering heat stroke or exhaustion or any heat related, you know, accidents of sorts for which we are grateful.

Exhaustion from lack of sleep but not heat.

So, our things in Switzerland?

Oh, they're good.

Yeah.

I mean, lack of sleep is our common course and I don't so much sleep, we say as wait for morning but you know whatever things here are as they have been and we're grateful for that at a recent sojourn to the United States

so I'll take any opportunity to sit and seat 43B on a United Airlines flight surrounded by my two closest friends who have many questions about Eastern metaphysics.

So another

name that was my favorite carrier. But you have no desire to hear any of those things

because you, listener, clicked on this episode because there was another name that was not Gregory or Jacob Bertrand.

It was one far more important and far more telling. So we're very

delighted on this episode to welcome Bishop Baron. So Bishop Baron, thanks so much for

joining us on the show. Thank you. I'm delighted. I love the international quality of this show. We go from

Washington to Switzerland to Santa Barbara, so that's pretty good. It is indeed. I

think we're spanning nine time zones, which might be a record so we thank you for bringing us into a new

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