The Patrick Madrid Show: May 20, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick opens the hour reflecting on the impact of simply asking for help, sparked by a story about Steve Jobs at twelve, then shifts seamlessly from questions about Catholic college choices to the moral considerations of AI tools like ChatGPT. He answers a listener wrestling with where to find hope in a world full of suffering, explores purgatory and eternal life in a memorable call, and weaves in practical insights for faith, whether at home or behind bars.
- Audio: Steve Jobs on the power of asking for help - https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2056784257431785744?s=46 (00:33)
- Rosendo (email) – Can our kids attend Christian colleges because my daughter wants to get her degree in nursing (06:08)
- Lena (email) - Is using ChatGPT a sin? (10:41)
- Tracy - In Purgatory, could the holy souls actually be floating around among us as people and we just don't understand or are they in a different dimension? (19:51)
- Matthew - My nephew is in prison. Are there any books that I could recommend to him? He doesn't know much about religion. (31:27)
- David (email) - In a country that is increasingly skeptical of helping people where do you see Him? In a country that only rewards brutality in spirit, money, and power where do you find Jesus? (39:20)
- Michael (email) – Where’s your movie list? (45:45)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let me hit you with some knowledge. |
| 0:09.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.9 | I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked him for help. I always call them up. I called up, this will date me, but I called up Bill Hewlett when I was 12 years old, and he lived in Palo Alto. His number was still in the phone book. And he answered the phone himself. He said, hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school, and I want |
| 0:39.1 | to build a frequency counter. And I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have. |
| 0:43.9 | And he laughed, and he gave me the spare parts to build his frequency counter, and he gave |
| 0:47.8 | me a job that summer in Hewlett-Packard, working on the assembly line, putting nuts and bolts |
| 0:52.4 | together on frequency counters. he got me a job |
| 0:54.5 | in the place that built them and i was in heaven and i've never found anyone who said no or hung up |
| 1:00.9 | the phone when i called i just asked and when people ask me i try to be as responsive you know |
| 1:07.1 | to pay that that debt of gratitude back. |
| 1:13.8 | Most people never pick up the phone and call. |
| 1:14.8 | Most people never ask. |
| 1:19.5 | And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. |
| 1:21.7 | You've got to act. |
| 1:26.3 | And you've got to be willing to fail. |
| 1:32.5 | You've got to be willing to crash and burn you hear that cyrus well i've got the crashing the crashing burn part down pat yeah a lot of practice for a lot of us on that that was |
| 1:40.7 | steve jobs by the way nice of him to drop by. May he rest in peace. |
| 1:45.3 | Yeah, Patrick Madrid here, by the way, good morning. Thank you. Welcome. Everything's fine here. How are you? So you're saying if someone needs help, all they need to do is call the Patrick Madrid show and ask for it? See, that's what I was thinking. I thought that was a good tie-in. And by the way, thank you for responding to my request for help that you, I asked you to play that for me. |
| 2:03.3 | Thank you. thought that was a good tie-in. And by the way, thank you for responding to my request for help that you, I asked you to |
| 2:02.1 | play that for me. |
| 2:03.3 | Thank you. |
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