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So for this episode of God's planning, we're very

delighted to be joined by Professor Joshua Stucklich. So thanks so much for

joining us on the show. Thanks for having me. And for our listeners who do not yet know you from maybe your contributions to the

domestic Institute podcast would you say just a brief forward as to who you are

and where you are and what you do?

Sure. So I am a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. I've been a member of the faculty there for 12

years now and this year I'm also a fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the US Naval Academy.

So I'm coming at you from Annapolis, Maryland today.

That's awesome. God bless America. God bless America indeed. I've an uncle and a cousin who were midship. I mean, we're commissioned officers in the United States Naval Academy.

So our visits to the Naval Academy, though not frequent,

we're always a source of great, yeah, just great encouragement.

And when the Tomistic Institute started up at the Naval Academy,

I visited there once, and I was just super impressed by,

one, the leadership, but a leadership informed by not just Catholic

principles, but like a genuine Catholic life.

So that's awesome, that's really cool.

All right, so then apropos of your engagement

with the United States military.

We thought that this would be a good opportunity

to talk a little bit about a little bit about

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