Requiescat in Pace, Donald Gormley
Catching Foxes
Luke and Gomer
4.7 β’ 778 Ratings
ποΈ 21 July 2026
β±οΈ 104 minutes
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Summary
Luke and Gomer talk about the passing of Gomer's father, but the episode isn't all doom and gloom (just the appropriate amount). Also included this week: an attempted murder, gray-market drugs, and a review of The Odyssey.
In This Episode:
- Luke and Gomer compare notes on sleep, snoring, and inheriting their dads' blood pressure meds
- The legend of Dave Van Vickel: grocery deliveries, a mid-street knife fight, and a jury summons
- A review of The Odyssey movie, mythology demythologized, and Elliot Page's casting
- Gomer reflects on his father's death, anticipatory grief, the Sirach 38 reading, and the funeral
- Don Gormley's Shell/Texaco career stories, plus Luke's deep dive into nasal breathing, buzz breathing, nitric oxide, and gray-market Redatrutide
Chapters:
00:00: Intro β Sleep Problems and a New YouTube Rabbit Hole
06:09: Blood Pressure Meds, Family History, and Following in Dad's Footsteps
08:21: The Legend of Dave Van Vickel (Knife Fights and Groceries)
16:53: Sponsor β Faith Mosier, Dallas Healing House
18:37: The Odyssey Movie Review
24:41: Back to Dad β Carrying His Ashes and the Sirach 38 Reading
32:11: Anticipatory Grief, Hard Conversations, and the Funeral
1:00:47: Don Gormley's Career β From Skelly Oil to the Shell Tanker Standoff
1:10:04: Sponsor β Cloister Ignatian Prayer App
1:14:16: Welcome to the Dead Dads Club
1:16:34: Nasal Breathing, Buzz Breathing, and Nitric Oxide
1:32:02: Redatrutide, GLP-1s, and Wrapping Up
Resources Mentioned:
Dallas Healing House
Cloister Ignatian Prayer
ParishSOFT
Catching Foxes Substack
Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and I'm welcome to Catching Foxes, a podcast that dares to ask, can you just stop releasing stuff for three to four months and while also doing inconsistent episodes for 12 months before that? |
| 0:15.8 | And will people still support you on Patreon? |
| 0:18.0 | We are happy to tell you that the answer is yes, this is catching foxes. |
| 0:21.3 | I am Luke coming at you from a place that Rachel said is not as sad as she expected. |
| 0:27.5 | Gomer, how are you? |
| 0:29.7 | Hey, Luke. |
| 0:31.0 | Luke, I'm doing okay. Doing okay. |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.9 | How are you? |
| 0:35.1 | You know, I got eight hours of sleep last night in 43. |
| 0:38.9 | I decided it's time to start getting eight hours of sleep at night. |
| 0:42.3 | And I think that might be the source of a multitude of problems, me not getting eight hours of sleep. |
| 0:46.6 | So it turns out that's a waffle, Homer. |
| 0:50.3 | That's a while. |
| 0:51.0 | Can I ask you a question about your sleep? |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, sure. |
| 0:53.9 | Now, you have a very large, pronounced nose. |
| 0:57.4 | What? |
| 0:58.0 | When you sleep at night. |
| 1:01.6 | Gosh, I missed you so much. |
| 1:03.6 | When you sleep at night, are you a nose breather and do you snore? |
| 1:07.7 | I am a mouth breather. |
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