Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the co-host and the content director

here at Word on Fire. And with me is Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron. It is always good

to be talking with you. Well, it's a delight, Brandon, to be with you. So thanks.

So let's catch everyone up a little bit on what's been going on in your life. I don't

think we've talked since you've returned from the Philippines. So give us maybe some of

your quick impressions of that long and great trip. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It was, you're right.

It was a long trip from LA to Manila. It was 15 hours. And that was an unforgettable day

because I flew 15 hours. I think I slept for maybe a couple hours in the hotel. And then

off we went because we arrived, I don't know, sometime in the morning. And then what I thought

was going to be one talk became an afternoon with Bishop Barron. So I gave the talk. Then

there was an open kind of conversation. There were about 6,000 people there too. I must

say Word on Fire is very well known in the Philippines. Thank God. So we had the open conversation

and then mass and homily after which I was completely exhausted. And they actually had

planned an evening at the seminary, right? Go ahead and have dinner and then talk to the

seminaries. And I must confess, I said to the organizers, no, I'm not going to the seminary.

I said, I'm just too exhausted. But it was thrilling. You know, talk to 6,000. But then

the next day we flew to Sabu where the international or Eucharist of Congress was held. And I gave

a talk to 15,000 people in the big arena. So that was, that was just a thrill. The, the

third talk I gave was to about 5,000 young people who were gathered in a little town outside

of Sabu. And I get to the arena and it is like, happened with music and there's lasers

going on. There's a pop singer singing. The kids are all jumping around. And I said to

the organizer, now there's something in between this and my talk, right? And she said, no,

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