And we're live. Welcome to Loopcast. The great paternity leave tour of Pogo continues. We have a great guest today. Welcome Steve Cortez to the show. I'm going to let Josh Mercer introduce you in as far as in the way that you deserve. I'm going to let him do that in just a minute. First, a couple ofkeeping things. Yes, all of you who were asking,

where are you on Wednesday? Mercer and I, we took a day off in the tradition of Pogo and we were

blessed to be able to join together with other Catholic boat staff members. And it was a great,

a great time together. So thank you for. We got a plan for the upcoming year people lock and load. Come on, man. Actually, sometimes greatness requires a little bit of,

you know, rest and recovery and planning. First of all, just continue to pray for our Holy Father,

the Pope. He is still in hospital. The reports coming out of Rome is that there are some

improvements. But of course, double pneumonia at the age of Rome is that there are some improvements, but of course,

double pneumonia at the age of 88 is not a laughing matter. So please continue to join us in prayer

for our Holy Father. Great way. We don't have an ad today. So I want to talk about Champions

Club. You want to support Loopcast. And the best way to do that is to join our Champions

Club. We're going to throw that in the chat. These are our monthly donors who help us really

keep the lights on, help us to plan in a way that we have a planned budget. And as you know,

you can always do more with a planned budget as Doge is revealing to us rapidly. So, and Mercer,

you've got some merch on today. We have a,

this is new merch. I mean, I got, you know, I got to say we, you know, everyone's kind of busy.

And I think you go through life and you think, how many books, you know, you want to read. I mean,

I get a chance to crack open a few books. but I know so many of us are so busy with

our lives and kids and everything going on. And sometimes it can be hard to try to, you know,

I really need to learn more about church history or I need to learn more about, you know, political

thought or whatever. And so I, you know, I saw that email in, uh, in the loop a few weeks ago, but from Christendom College, they have this new series called

Principles. You can just Google Christendom College Principles. They're free online lectures.

You can listen to it. You can watch it or you can listen to it while you're doing an exercise

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