All right, we're alive.

Matt, what are you doing?

Father Parks, what's up?

How are you?

Doing well.

So I am currently, I'm, I have an, okay, hi everybody, we're alive, yes, you said?

Welcome to Pines with Aquinas.

Oh, wow, we are live, I just had that up.

And I'm here with my good friend, Father John Parks, and we are going to be discussing my quitting the internet for the entire month of August

You're doing this. Yeah, you're quitting the internet quitting it. This is like the fourth year, I think. So just to answer your question, I'm I have to so by the end of this live stream

Neil is changing the password on the desktop. I already changed it actually.

Thank you.

I'm giving him my laptop and my phone.

Please don't lose or break them.

And he will give them back to me in September.

How are you feeling about this?

How did you feel into it?

I know you said it's fourth year.

So what I'm doing right now is I'm cut just so I can finish this thought because I feel like it's not that interesting now that I've tried to say it. But I'm just cutting and pasting this text message to all these people in my phone book. And it says, hi, I'll be giving up the internet and my phone for the month of August. I'm sending you this text in case you think I'm ignoring you or something. Because there's no automated responder on text messages.

Yes. So I got to do that before I go. That's the thing that causes me the most anxiety.

Let me begin at the beginning. What inspired this the first time? Four years ago.

So about seven years ago, I just started to feel very overwhelmed by the internet. And I just had this thought,

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