The Patrick Madrid Show: December 10, 2024 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Patrick speaks with Kiva, a 17-year-old who has never had a phone. Her Catholic family prioritizes real-life interactions and values. From attending Latin Mass to ballroom dancing, their choices bring genuine joy and connection instead of digital distractions. Kiva’s experience highlights the benefits of living intentionally and may inspire parents to rethink giving smartphones to their children.
- Al (email) - I quit porn cold turkey and did it at first by myself. I don't know if I could have kept it up by myself. Something has to fill the void. I chose Relevant Radio and have been growing every day. It's been 5 years. (00:31)
- Richard (email) - When I pray the rosary, do I have the pray the five mysteries within each day every time I pray the rosary? Or can I just pray one within each (joyful, sorrowful, glorious, luminous) every day? (01:55)
- Kiva (17-years-old) - I have never had a phone. (07:07)
- Nick – We have a 14-year-old and 16-year-old. My son is finding it hard to get his friends off their phones to play football. (17:21)
- John - When I was tempted by pornography, I would pray. Eventually the desires went away. (24:09)
- Maria - I have a grandson who is 11 and I gave him a cell phone but ended up taking it away. He now uses a smart watch to communicate and to keep track of him. It’s a great way to avoid phone use. (26:25)
- Katie - I have 6 kids, and we have a shared phone for the entire family. We try to minimize our phone usage but I still feel it is useful. We don’t want to depend on the phone for everything. (29:52)
- Rachel - My mom tried to do everything right, but we were still exposed to some bad things. (35:28)
- Steve - I gave my kid a smart phone at 11. The parental controls do have pitfalls. (41:36)
- Monica - Our younger son didn’t have a phone. Colleges asked him for his social media accounts, but he didn’t have a social media footprint. (44:53)
- Heidi – I’m reading The Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. Can you speak a little about evil friendships? My husband thinks we can keep these friendships to bring them to Christ but I am concerned about their bad influence. (46:18)
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| 0:00.0 | It's not big. It's just full. Yeah, that thing wouldn't fit in our yard. Not going in our yard, Russ. It's going in our living room. |
| 0:09.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. It's the Patrick Madrid show on relevant radio. |
| 0:18.2 | I just like to smile. Smiling's my favorite. Make work you you favorite. Hey, man, brother. Hey, welcome back. This is the Patrick Madrid show. The number to call is 888-914-9-149. Do your kids have smartphones? I'm not here to judge you. No heat, no judgment. But I'm just a guy who likes to say, don't give your kids |
| 0:38.5 | smartphones. And we're hearing from some people who've had just really terrible experiences. |
| 0:43.9 | And it all started with an email from an anonymous listener who's in the throes of an uncontrollable |
| 0:51.9 | addiction to pornography and the other things associated with that. |
| 0:56.0 | And his life is miserable. |
| 0:57.5 | He shared some of it in this email, which I read at the beginning of the program. |
| 1:01.0 | And that causes to branch out into different areas. |
| 1:03.8 | Here's a note that came in just a few minutes ago. |
| 1:06.3 | This is from Al. |
| 1:07.0 | He says, good morning, Patrick. |
| 1:08.0 | I was identical to that email guy you, the email you received |
| 1:12.4 | earlier. I quit cold turkey, and I did it at first by myself. I don't know if I could have kept |
| 1:18.3 | it up by myself. Something has to fill that void. So I chose relevant radio and have been growing |
| 1:24.9 | every day. It's been five years now. God bless Al. Well, God bless you, Al. That's wonderful. Isn't that interesting? I never would have thought of, you know, what do you replace pornography with? I know, relevant radio. But that makes sense. It does. Like when people are quitting cigarettes, they'll, you know, chew gum. They have to do something to, so if you're, if you're |
| 1:46.5 | addicted to, man, it's sad. Yeah, yeah. Well, Al, more power to you. Thank you for that. |
| 1:52.9 | This is from Richard. He says, Patrick, when I pray the rosary, do I have to pray the five mysteries |
| 1:57.7 | within each day every time I pray the rosary, or can I just pray one |
| 2:02.0 | within each every day? And by each, he's referring to the joyful mysteries, sorrowful mysteries, |
| 2:06.9 | glorious mysteries, et cetera. Well, I mean, there's no hard and fast rule. The tradition is that |
| 2:12.8 | you would pray the mysteries altogether, you know, the joyful mysteries there are five, et cetera. |
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