Welcome, everybody. This is the U.S. Great Sports Podcast. I'm Doug Barry, along with my very good friend, amazing, always incredible, and there he is again, Father Richard Heilman. And we got Monsignor. Pope is back with us from the D.C. area. Yes, there he is, doing the St. John Paul II impersonation, right? There you go. Good to. Have you with this, Monsignor.

Good to be here. Going to be discussing a great book that Monsignor has out. Before we do that, of course, we want to get everything started with prayer. And Father Heilman, we turn that to you. All right. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen. Amen. St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares the devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God,

cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Wonderful. Thank you very much, Father. And we got a big, big thank you to everybody out there.

For those of you who watched the emergency podcast we did with Jason Jones, we put it out just last Friday.

Fantastic response. He was trying to raise some money for some humanitarian aid to get some trucks into St. James Church, St. James Parish in in Gaza.

And he was able to raise.

And he said, he said our followers are the most generous that he's ever experienced.

Yeah, he said that.

He said any of the programs he's been on, he said anytime he's on the Grace Force podcast.

And we just wanted to thank everybody out there who, and we did this in that last podcast, who've been such tremendous supporters of so many ministries that we've had on, especially what Jason was talking about. Well, get this. And Father, I know I just told you right before we started recording, he had contacted me. And he made, he told us anybody out there, if you't watch the podcast you should listen to it. He said that if he was able to raise enough money to get at

least one truck, he would put a Green Bay Packer banner on the truck and drive it in because he

was going to have White Sox banners on the other trucks in honor of Pope Leo the 14th who who's from Chicago, of course, and Jason is a White Sox fan. So he sends me, he gives me, I get a voicemail three and a half hours after roughly, three and a half hours. Three and a half hours after the podcast went out. And in the voicemail, he says, hey, Doug, I'm going to have to do something. I never thought I'd have to do. I'm probably going to have to go to confession for this, but I got to put a Green Bay Packer banner on a truck because we raised over $37,000 in three hours in the time the podcast went out. Wow. Praise God and thank all of you out there who contributed to help with that. What an amazing blessing for one full truck. So yesterday, he texts me Sunday at the time we recorded this on a Monday. And he says, he's on his way over there at the time. And he says in the text that he had raised enough to cover four and a half trucks, so he needed a little bit more to get that fifth truck. But the money was still rolling in. And our podcast had a lot to do with it. He says, thanks be to God and to help all of you people out there. God bless you. If you still want to give VPP Vulnerable People Project, you can go to VPP, vulnerable people project.com. It's in the link, is in the description of the last podcast we did with Jason. But we just can't thank you enough. and the Green Bay Packer banner is going to be on a truck. And he did just say in the text that he may fly it on the church at St. James. Right. I don't know if he's going to actually do that one, but we'll find out. But he said he'd send us some pictures. So we'll get those in upcoming podcasts as soon as we can. But anyway, thank you everybody. And thank everybody who supports the podcast.

You're just a tremendous help. You're like family to us and it means everything to us.

If anybody would like to support us financially, which is also a tremendous help, you can do it

through the Patreon program. There's a link in the description below. And a few dollars,

you know, from a number of people over

time adds up and it helps us pay the bills a lot of technical things behind the lines here that have

to be done and we've got to keep those those the lights on basically uh you know i always used to say

from from the phone bill to fax paper but we don't do fax paper anymore but you get the

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