Luddite 90, with Matt Fradd
Catching Foxes
Luke and Gomer
4.8 • 769 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What's new with Pints with Aquinas? How much can one man hate technology? Fradd will show you the way. Also, he's got a new book! Plot twist: it's on St. Thomas Aquinas. Post retwist: it's about Aquinas' prescription on how to be happy.
Special Guest: Matt Fradd.
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Links:
- How To Be Happy: Saint Thomas’ Secret to a Good Life: Matt Fradd: 9781645851318: Amazon.com: Books — In How to Be Happy, author Matt Fradd relies on the help of St. Thomas Aquinas to show what will—and what won't—bring us happiness in this life.
- How to Be Happy: Saint Thomas’ Secret to a Good Life – St. Paul Center — “In a couple of my books, I tried to show that St. Thomas Aquinas is both easy to understand and practical; in this book, Matt Fradd makes him really easy to understand and really practical.” Peter Kreeft, Author of Summa of the Summa, A Shorter Summa, and Practical Theology
- St. Thomas Aquinas On Happiness | With Matt Fradd - YouTube — Matt Fradd joins me today to discuss what St. Thomas Aquinas has to say about being happy. Though he is a towering theological figure, the angelic doctor has a lot to say on the topic. Matt lets us know some of the wisdom from this great saint.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's the three best friends that anyone could have. |
| 0:11.3 | Matt, Fred, how the heck are you doing? |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, how are you? |
| 0:14.4 | I'm really, I'm doing pretty well, you know, really well. |
| 0:20.2 | The Lord is doing beautiful. |
| 0:22.2 | You know what it's like when the Lord is doing work in your life? |
| 0:24.6 | It's like, it's good. |
| 0:25.4 | It's messy, but it's good. |
| 0:26.7 | So I'm doing really well. |
| 0:28.0 | What new things are going on with Pints with the Points? |
| 0:31.0 | We are doing kind of in-person interviews every week now. |
| 0:34.0 | So we just kind of have people on a schedule flying into Pittsburgh, staying here in |
| 0:38.4 | Steubenville. I got a full-time video audio guy now. So it's beautiful. There are times that I, |
| 0:48.2 | there's times where there's a part of me that just wants this whole thing to burn down. |
| 0:52.9 | There it is. There it is. |
| 0:54.9 | There it is. |
| 0:57.7 | There's the melancholic fratry love. |
| 1:00.0 | I miss you. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah, man. |
| 1:07.1 | And I don't know if that's because, like, maybe I'm falling into like a, like, it's a, |
| 1:08.0 | it's an act. |
| 1:09.7 | And I want to be free to be myself. |
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