Podcast #529, Religion: The American Pope
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In our Religion Block we talk about Bishop Robert Prevost's election to the papacy as Pope Leo XIV, addressing the question of to what degree, if any, the conservative trajectory among American Catholics informed or influenced the Vatican's decision to choose him to fill the office.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dude, what's up? |
| 0:02.0 | What's good, baby? |
| 0:03.6 | Everything is good right now. |
| 0:06.1 | It's all good. |
| 0:07.8 | It's funny. |
| 0:08.8 | One of my constant struggles, just in my own head, is balancing out just general overall happiness with with the need to earn money. |
| 0:23.3 | Because every single day is great. |
| 0:27.7 | Like I'm not unhappy in the least, you know? |
| 0:31.2 | Like I exercise, I eat, I read, I talk to people, I hang out with people, I think about things, I'm constantly |
| 0:39.8 | learning and discovering new ideas. Like, everything is amazing. But when you start thinking |
| 0:46.2 | about money, then you're like, oh, that, it's the one source of stress. And it's like, do you, like, do you just surrender everything that's good about your |
| 0:59.1 | life to take some, you know, 40 hour a week job with a hour and a half long commute both |
| 1:05.1 | ways or one way? |
| 1:08.9 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:10.0 | Like, it's like finding that sweet spot. Like, yeah, so everything |
| 1:13.5 | is good. Like I, like, I like, I think about that a lot, especially recently with my job, |
| 1:20.3 | the future of my job being up in the air. And what do I want to do? Would I look for another job? |
| 1:25.8 | You know, what I try to do a side business or what? |
| 1:28.4 | And I was trying to think of the things that make me happy, like apart from money, because it's |
| 1:33.5 | the same thing, whereas I would, you know, I would not have that great of income, but I could |
| 1:39.7 | have a lot of time if I was to lose my job of Moss Adams. And I realized that for me, part of happiness |
| 1:47.7 | is like, it's not even like being, like, I don't think I'm ever going to be wealthy, but I like |
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