Well, I just want to introduce myself and my name is Father Mike Schmitz. I'm a priest of the Dices of the Luke up in Minnesota.

And I'm being joined by my brother, Father Josh Johnson, from the Dices of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

So I come from the beginning of the Mississippi River and he comes from near the end of the Mississippi River.

And Father Josh, thank you a ton for, for, for, well, thank you a ton for you and for all the things that you do in your ministry and all the things that you do.

Not only for your parish, which is just like blows my mind, but all things you do online and your podcast and what you're doing here with this

engine. So first of all, just thank you.

And, and thank you, Father Mike, because you've always been a good older brother and a good friend of me and, and it's just a great witness.

A lot of people, so like, when we speak at conferences, sometimes you meet people and they have a care is most speaking, but offstage, they're like, they're jerk.

They're not too nice. That's not you. Like you are a genuinely good dude and you strive to be an authentic disciple of Jesus Christ.

So it's a great gift for me. I'm grateful to have known you not only on stage, but all stage as well, because you are an authentic disciple of Jesus.

That, that, thank you for that. That means a lot. Because I'm like, I am more comfortable kind of sometimes given the talk than I am kind of just like just having a talk sometimes, you know,

Oh, no, I'm an introvert. So I can give a talk to thousands of people and I'm told it fine. But if you want like offstage, there's no boundaries.

I'm so exhausted, so quick. So yeah, same thing. I think we might have had this conversation before we did.

When I bear true in the elevator, remember the time elevator, I'm bearish on purpose.

Yeah. And I was like, he must do this all the time. I was thinking about this earlier, because last night I listened to the year your conversation with Jeff Kavins on what we're going to be talking about today.

We're talking about really, I know we're starting off kind of light, but we're talking about a serious, serious issue that is prevalent in the world in the church and in our own hearts on a racism and the consequences of that in our life.

But before we get into that, I think that it is helpful, maybe to establish those who are joining us or are joining us right now that I think we have this mutual brotherhood and a mutual respect for each other.

And I sometimes am in awe. And again, this is we're going to get into the content, but I just want to need to say this.

So when we first got to know each other, it was through a video that Ascension had made for a program called Alteration.

And it was a promotional kind of vocational promotional thing called I Will Follow.

And so highlighted me, highlighted you in the kind of these guys are priests. Here we are. Two things about that.

One is we talked about this that afterwards people are like, oh, how long have you been father Josh been friends?

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