This is Father Gregory Pine. This is Father Joseph Anthony Crest. And welcome to God Splending. Thanks to all those who support us. If you enjoy the show, please consider making a monthly donation on Patreon. Be sure to like and subscribe to Godsplining wherever you listen to your podcasts. Father Joseph Anthony. Fire at your boy. So we are jazzed.

We are pumped. We are jumped. We are excited to be here at Sikh 2026 in Columbus, Ohio, with a few of our

friends. Yeah, everybody out there. We appreciate you joining us, live audience, studio audience.

They're sitting in the sun right now. They go gigantic windows and the sun's going right at them. So shout out to all y'all who are rocking your shades inside. Yes. Appreciate that. Love that. So we've got some sunglasses. We've got a high degree of squintitude out there on account of the overpowering sunbeams flooding this space and saturating the shot.

So for those of you viewing on YouTube, you'll notice that there's no real distinction between our tors and our legs because it's just one continuous white blob.

The producers of this podcast did their best to differentiate the shot, but one can barely

contend with the sun.

It's overpowering and its majesty.

Are you more legs than torso? I think I am. I would identify as more legs than torso, yes. Yeah, I believe that. How would you identify? More legs and more torso? Yeah, I slouch a lot, so

we're gonna go from more legs than torso. Okay, this pleases me. People aren't actually

sure whether or not religious have

tors on account of the fact that their only, like, real contact with them is just hands

and maybe socks. Dominicans tend to be a white sock wearing people. That's for reasons of alternate

fashion standards. It's also for reasons of sticking out like a sore thumb for evangelical purposes.

So that way you don't have to do any pre-evangelization. You can just evangelize because people

know that you're not there for the fashion. Yeah. Yeah. You're there for Jesus. So we thought that

today we would talk a little bit about Catholic social teaching, the implications thereof,

maybe consider a little bit like free speech, artificial intelligence,

and what it entails for us as like free individuals, or as agents here.

And sometimes when people hear Catholic social teaching, they're like kind of bored from the outset.

Because when they hear Catholic social teaching, they think about the way in which they were introduced to it, maybe like 15 years ago in a kind of social justice warrior-type

setting.

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