We're delighted to be joined here by Matt Frad, who hails from Australia, South Australia.

And he was working in, oh yeah, perfect, here we go.

And he was working as a lab tech in a copper mine when he felt drawn to serve the Lord Jesus as a net missionary. So first in Canada and

then in Ireland and it was in Ireland then he met his beautiful wife and they found their way to the United States where

I worked for Catholic Answers in San Diego for a time and then bopped over to the East Coast,

Best Coast to Atlanta area for a time. That's meant to offend some of you.

And then now finds himself in Stubanville, Ohio, not far from the Franciscan University of

Stubanville.

And he hosts a podcast that everyone here knows, except for the people who don't.

And I don't mean to offend you.

So cheers. It's called Pines of Aquinas.

So in that spirit, we are, again, delighted to welcome you here to Washington, D.C.

Again, let's go.

Thank you.

I feel like your...

Is this supposed to be like this?

I don't...

I try to talk over a microphone, so that way, when people don't understand what I say, I can blame it on the tech.

Yeah.

When truth be told, it's all my fault.

So maybe here we are having a podcast. I think me and I like 20 years ago, people just having, having a podcast.

Podcasting, doing a podcast, whatever the appropriate verb is. But I think up, like 20 years ago, people just... Having. Having a podcast. Whatever the appropriate verb is.

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