meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Why It's Important to Laugh at Yourself

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Do you take yourself too seriously? Are you unwilling to acknowledge your faults and weaknesses to others- or even to yourself?

Today Fr. Mike shares with us some lessons in humility and being willing to laugh at yourself.

Support The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

It is still on. I'm going to turn it off in a second. It like doesn't move. I have to like put a pencil on there and like keep flicking the

0:05.1

the you know what I'm saying? Yeah, so I have to do that with this one. So I'll turn it off now because it's got

0:11.5

there we go. Now it's off. Here we go. Hot

0:15.0

Hi, my name is Father Mike Smith and this is a sentient presents. So not too long ago. I had just it was such a gift

0:20.5

I got the chance to spend some time with my family not just with my just with my parents, but also my uncle

0:25.5

with some of my cousins and their wives and their kids, but my siblings and their kids as well. So as

0:30.6

conversation normally does we were talking about everything under the sun and at one point

0:36.3

they brought up they said, so hey one of your videos you got a chance to talk to a marquee mark

0:42.9

and of course Mark Walberg right but all my siblings and I are like oh yeah marquee mark in the

0:46.4

funky bunch in this whole thing and I'm like yeah and I knew what was going to happen. I knew they

0:51.0

were like because they had this look on their face. I've just my brother my older brother had this look

0:55.2

of just like he was smiling at me and just shaking his head just yep that did not go well, did it

1:00.2

and my sister-in-law she was so good. She said I started listening. I was like oh yeah wow

1:04.7

Mikey got to talk to you know Mark Walberg and you even intro and you say something like I'm not good

1:10.2

at interviews. I've never done this before whatever and she's like I got help me through and I had

1:15.2

to turn it off. I was so embarrassed for you and I was like it was I mean everyone was laughing. I

1:20.0

was laughing very hard because it's true and that they kept saying no no we're sorry you know

1:24.3

that we're giving you hard time but it was such a great I said no you guys listen I'm making a

1:30.2

video about this and so appreciate it thank you for giving me some content because I was thinking

1:36.3

about I mean even as we were laughing even as they were saying this because they kept going layer upon

1:40.0

layer of like how badly I interviewed a Mark Walberg because again as I think I said in the video

1:46.9

like that's that's not something I typically do typically I don't come up with the questions a lot

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ascension, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ascension and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.