Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vat the host and the content director

here at Word on Fire joining us is the Bishop in the Santa Barbara region of the Archdiocese

of Los Angeles Bishop Aaron. Good to be talking with you.

Hey, Brandon. Always joy to be on with you. How are the kids doing?

Oh, we're doing great. You know, we just found out. I don't think we talked about here

in the show. We're expecting our seventh child in August. So that'll be the great tiebreaker.

We got the three boys and three girls. Yeah. How about twins?

Well, ask my wife how exciting that would be.

One of each. That's great. Congratulations.

Thank you. Now, let's catch up a little bit. We just last episode talked about your trip

home for Christmas and the bishops are treat. We're recording this here in early January.

You got a couple of things coming up in the next week or two.

The next week is an event. I think we've talked a little bit about you're going to the headquarters

of Amazon. Give us a quick reminder what that's about.

Yeah. You know, I've been to Facebook and to Google. So Amazon invited me to come up and

talk about the new book, our green religion in a kind of fish bowl setting. So I guess

I'll be on a stage with an interlocutor who asked me questions about the book and then

we opened it up to the crowd that's there. So I was delighted, more than happy to do it.

I've always loved Seattle. And of course, you know, Amazon is one of the great four

meters of culture today. So happy to do that. And then the second thing coming up is the

following week is not is world youth day, which I wasn't planning on going to, frankly,

and then I got invited just maybe about a month ago to give a talk at the final.

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