Greetings, Parish Orphins and RetroGrates.

Happy belated International Women's Day.

We celebrate privately in the Gordon household.

Actually, this is a day that started in Bolshevik Russia in 1917, just before the revolution.

So comrades and women out there, women workers of the revolution. So comrades and, uh, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,

international women's day, the Pulitzer Bureau wants you to enjoy it by hating men or

something like that. What we originally had lined up for you in all seriousness on international women's

day was supposed to be a panel of Christian feminists who were going to pepper me with questions

and probative, uh,ocratic lines of reasoning and maybe pepper spray if they...

Who knows?

I mean, it depends.

It depends.

And here's the thing.

I was open to all of it.

That didn't come through the probative line of questioning, reasoning, or pepper spray.

And so we just didn't wind up having a show that day.

And I was disappointed.

So today, any Christian feminists out there, please, at the end of the show, hit us with

your FAQs.

Today, there's another timely topic that has been coming up lately, largely because it came up on one of the bigger

Catholic channels, a great Catholic channel that I like and almost always endorse, Matt

Fred's channel, Pines with Aquinas, a good priest, goodly priest, Father Gregory Pine, he treated of this topic, which makes the titular substance of today's show on Rules for Retrogrades.

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