The Patrick Madrid Show: May 08, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick examines tough choices in life, like breaking away from friendships that don’t bring us closer to God, and brings personal stories and listener testimonies into focus, as one man shares how he broke free from addiction through confession and daily Mass, and another caller seeks clarity on annulments and the Eucharist. He takes unpredictable turns from generational attitudes about marijuana to skepticism of profit-driven charismatic prayer movements, weaving together real-world struggles, faith, and the surprising ways technology emerges in daily routines. Candid conversations and unexpected reflections push listeners to question comfort, seek faith, and recognize how quickly the landscape of daily life can shift.
- Audio: If you actually change your life for the better, you might have to let go of your friends - https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2050575128438689987?s=20 (00:19)
- Patrick and Cyrus share moments from their past where they choose to move on from certain friends (05:35)
- Patrick shares an email from Sean in response to his article, “Why Confess Your Sins to a Fellow Sinner?”
- Ken - I was married in the Catholic church and got a civil divorce but never an annulment. What do I need to do now? I have taken communion, but I don't do it anymore because I know understand that is a mortal sin. (10:44)
- David - After talking about Hal Lindsey yesterday, could you talk about the concept of 'The Great and Terrible Day' (19:07)
- Malory (email) – Should I be concerned about the growing number of Catholics believing they can lay hands and heal peoples ailments and speak in tongues? (28:10)
- Audio: Adam Carolla on weed – If you ask California moms what’s better, nicotine or pot, they will say pot. – 45sec - https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2052462613775180184 (39:32)
- Frank - In the prayer of St. Gertrude, how are we able to 'offer' the blood of Jesus to himself? (45:06)
- California highway now controlled by AI: https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/california-highway-ai-controlled-22245548.php (49:26)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Come on, man. |
| 0:04.2 | Come on, man. |
| 0:09.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations. |
| 0:12.7 | Encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.8 | You know, one of the, I guess, difficult realizations of people who want to change their life is that if you do it well, you might have to go through a period where you let go of all of your friends. |
| 0:30.9 | But the really bad realization is if you do it really well, you might have to do that multiple times throughout your life. |
| 0:36.8 | You find a group of people, finally, I've landed after, oh, that period where I was on my own and I didn't really understand, I'm still going. I've over, and I now need, you mean I've got to do it again? I've got to do it again. I just thought that I'd found my group and I've got to do it again. It's a big deal and I think that it |
| 0:55.1 | explains why so few people make big changes because the temptation is always going to be to just |
| 0:59.9 | go back to what's normal, go back to what I know. It's difficult and when you get to the stage where |
| 1:05.0 | you're faced with some personal growth decision, you're always going to have to make this value |
| 1:09.6 | exchange of do I want to move forward value exchange of, do I want to |
| 1:10.9 | move forward on my own or do I want to go back with my friends? Keep going. That's what he's saying, |
| 1:18.4 | right? Basically, you could summarize that 45 seconds of advice into two words, Cyrus. What do you think |
| 1:24.5 | they would be? Keep going. Yeah. Keep going. Have you ever had to do that, Cyrus? do you think they would be keep going yeah keep going have you ever had to do that |
| 1:29.7 | cyrus have you ever had to like walk away from a circle of friends because you realize they're holding you |
| 1:35.6 | back oh i'll put my cards on the table i've had to do that before um looking back on it i think wow |
| 1:42.5 | that was in my best interest at the time. Maybe it doesn't |
| 1:45.8 | feel that way. I don't know if everybody goes through that. I have. Have you? I absolutely a couple |
| 1:51.2 | of times in my life. But I remember the very first time was in elementary school. And I was growing |
| 1:57.0 | up on the wrong side of the tracks. And all of my friends were on the same side of the tracks as all of my friends were on the same side of the |
| 2:02.0 | tracks as me and we were up to no good and I could see the way that they treated each other |
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