Hey guys, welcome to Pines of the Quines. My name is Matt Fraad. Glad you could stop by for this kind of exciting episode.

What I want to do is share with you some of the goals that we've met over the last few months and then a couple of goals that I'm looking at that I'm really excited about.

If you've been listening to Pines of the Quines for a while now, you know that in when was it? November, December, I quit my job.

That's still fun, that funny. And started doing Pines of the Quines full time. And I reached out to you at the time and I'm like, if you guys want to support me now's the time to do it.

And so many of you stepped up to the plate and I'm so grateful to you all. And your supporters enabled me to do different things.

So I just want to kind of go over the things that we've accomplished and then two exciting announcements that I haven't really announced yet.

So one of the things I said I would do once we got a certain amount of patrons is that we would begin Pines of the Quines chapters around the world.

This obviously takes some back end work because I have people sending applications. I have to have a reference from a priest. I have to contact that priest.

Make sure that that person is a faithful Catholic. But right now we have several Pines of the Quines chapters in the country.

And these people have, they meet for beer and friendship and they read a book that we assign them. And it's good classical Christian literature, right? Like Augustine's Confessions or Boethius's constellation of philosophy or things like that.

So that's really exciting. So that is now underway. By the way, if you want to apply to be a Pines of the Quines chapter director, go to Pines of the Quines.com to figure out how to do that.

Now another thing I said we would do is once we get a certain amount of patrons, I would hire somebody to manage my Instagram account to create inspiring Pines of the Quines memes. And we've done that.

This has been happening now for several weeks. If you don't follow me on Pines of the Quines on Instagram, actually I think it's Matt Fraad is my name on Instagram. But yeah, be sure to because I've got this guy. He's awesome and shout out to Keenan Doyle, you're the man.

But yeah, you'll notice that we've started that. And this is just a way to kind of inspire you. And we use quotations directly from some Thomas Aquinas. So if you follow us on Instagram, you'll get that kind of, we do it like about post about four times a week.

And so that's something we've been able to do.

Another thing I said that I would do once I got a certain amount of patrons is I would start recording high quality professional videos similar to those of father Mike Schmitz.

And I'm happy to say that we are about to release the first one very soon next month. You'll see the first one and then they'll start coming out weekly.

All of this takes totally money, right? But it takes time. Like I, if I wasn't able, if I didn't have your support, I would have to travel a lot more.

And that wouldn't allow me to do a number of these things. So that's happening. And I'm really excited about that.

All right. I want to tell you about two projects I want to do. And I'm really excited about them.

So here's the first one. The second one's even more exciting, but here's the first one. I want to record a 182 part series on Bible history.

So my kids go to a classical hybrid school where they read really good books. And there's a book published by Tan by Ignatius Schuster, father Ignatius Schuster, called Bible history.

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