Hello everyone. Happy New Year. Oh my gosh. Can you hear me? Yes! We are podcasting live, baby. Can you get off your phone for once? I'm trying to play the theme song.

This is garbage. All of a sudden, we thought that we were ready. They counted down and you were not ready.

And they were so, okay, here's what happened. Now I have to vamp until you're doing your thing. I had the theme song pulled up on SoundCloud. You had nothing pulled up. Apparently I didn't pay for the premium sound cloud because it started playing a song with the effort in it. And this is a Catholic conference. You know what? Damon Owens made a joke about being buried underneath a jail because he loved his children the same way he loved his wife.

So I think we'll be okay.

Oh my gosh.

Wait, I don't understand that reference.

It's okay.

Neither did we.

Skip to second 40 in the...

You don't want to start it at the beginning.

No, you don't.

Second 40 is where the magic happens.

All right.

This is the call of our people.

If they don't know the podcast is happening.

If you're not vibing and thriving right now to this.

Hey.

I wrote this.

I don't know if you can tell.

All right.

Now we'll just fade it out.

Kyle, can you just fade it out? Can we get a hand for Kyle real quick? Kyle, the man behind the bus. Last year we had Mel. This year we have Kyle. We don't know where Mel went. We think she didn't come back because of us. She went to the great podcasting booth in the sky. But also, she lives in Indianapolis, so she doesn't live here. If you don't know who we are, if you're standing out there, my name's Ethan. And I'm Patrick. And this is the Crunch Catholic Podcast. This is the Crunch Catholic Podcast. Make some noise. Yes. Those were words. Hey, I wanted to, first of all, this microphone stand way too high. So either I'm going to have to get taller or... We didn't have any of it. But something I would like to share with you is that, did you do your PPCO before we started? What's that? Your pre-podcast, colon, clean out. I had to do a little dumper whiskey before we started this because I was... Oh, I hate that this is what we're starting with. I was feeling all kinds of nervy. And you know what happens when I'm nervous? Yeah, I do.

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