People say about the liberal arts that you can't put a price tag on it.

And I like to say, then great, don't put $100,000 price tag on it, you know?

We're literally sending out kind of our brightest and best with the most energy into the most, you know, wonderful decade of their life, limping financially.

Talk about all the industries that have moved off to China or

to India or to Mexico. You can't export the trades to China, to Mexico, to India. The building

needs to be built here. You know, the home needs to be erected here. And so when you have a small

army of competent young Catholic tradesmen actually understanding

how the world around us works, how the systems around us works, that is a very powerful

person in a local community.

The theology of work and you hear everyone say how important that manual labor is and how it's actually sanctifying.

It's all fun in games until all of a sudden you're getting up at six in the morning.

I mean, I've worked landscaping before. We're doing 12-hour days. It's not easy.

This is part of the fulfillment of our human nature. And when we fulfill our human nature, we're happier.

And it is just waiting for us to give these next, this younger generation, the charge, work hard, be a man.

Good men, bad times, bad times, terrible times, terrible times, good men.

It's like the cycle.

Hopefully you could break the cycle.

We're just like, all right, let's just get back to being sweet, you know?

Yeah, yeah.

Let's get to work.

All right. Welcome to the loopcast. Today I am joined by Jacob Amom from the new polity team and also

a founder of College of St. Joseph the Worker, a new school starting in Stubanville, Ohio, Jacob

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