The Patrick Madrid Show: February 13, 2026 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick takes listeners into the effects of modern loneliness and emotional manipulation, revealing how social media preys on suggestibility and deepens isolation. He offers practical wisdom to Grace, a concerned mother, wrestling with her daughter’s interfaith relationship, while also reflecting on personal stories and near-death accounts that blur the line between supernatural encounters and ordinary life. Conversation flows from raw parental anxiety to spiritual wake-up calls, never shying away from uncomfortable questions or the hidden costs of everyday choices.
- Audio: Fractionation – we are in a loneliness epidemic - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WWL7n-D7JKI (01:19)
- Grace - What is the best way to receive my daughter's boyfriend. He is Christian and not Catholic. How can I talk to him about the faith? (10:26)
- John - Why do Bible leave out the verse about Jesus and fasting? Why do some Protestants never see Purgatory, yet Catholics do. Why is that? (22:12)
- Patrick shares some words from St. Teresa of Avila (26:30)
- Maureen - Thank you for promoting University of Mary. Also, I lost an heirloom ring. I had a dream that I found it, and then I found it in real life several hours later. What do you think? (44:23)
- Joshua - How do you answer non-Catholic Christians who say that 'we are Church'? (48:12)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, all right. I'm Hans. And I am Franz, and we just want to pop. You are. |
| 0:09.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:17.9 | It's a household now. |
| 0:19.8 | That's what I like to think. Welcome back, 88-9149. If you call that number, we can get you on the air. |
| 0:27.2 | Do you need a second opinion? Would you like some, I don't know, info, whatever it may be, that's what I'm here to help with. |
| 0:33.8 | 88-914-9-149-49. We talk here and there about loneliness. |
| 0:39.7 | And Cyrus, let's get audio clip 68 ready to go. |
| 0:43.0 | This is a very interesting take on the phenomenon of loneliness |
| 0:49.6 | and the way in which social media especially is, I don't know, you might say rigged to |
| 0:59.0 | exacerbate that problem. Do we have that audio ready, Cyrus? |
| 1:02.7 | Yes, sir. |
| 1:03.5 | Okay. So this is a little commentary from a wider interview on what's called fractionation. |
| 1:11.5 | Have you ever heard that phrase before or that term fractionation? |
| 1:14.0 | He's going to explain it and how it ties into this epidemic of loneliness. |
| 1:18.8 | I will give anybody listening one big piece of advice that I've passed down to my kids. |
| 1:22.5 | If you are exposed to a product that can't tell you the problem that they're solving. |
| 1:27.9 | You need to be terrified. |
| 1:29.2 | So, like, if I look at DoorDash or Uber Eats, they get food to me faster. |
| 1:33.6 | I don't have to leave my house. |
| 1:35.0 | I don't have to do anything. |
| 1:36.0 | I can continue writing my book or doing something on my computer, and the food just shows up. |
| 1:41.0 | They tell you the problem that they're solving, right? |
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