WOF 300: Why We Need Close Friends

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A recent poll from the Survey Center on American Life revealed that people are rapidly losing their close friends, especially men. The number of American men who view themselves as having "no close friends" quintupled over the last 30 years, increasing from 3 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2021.

Why is this happening, and how can we reverse it? How can we develop closer friendships? Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt discuss those questions today.

A listener asks, why does God love us?

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0:00.0	Good friendship is a matrix out of which the attainment of truth and the attainment of goodness arise.
0:09.1	And so it's essential to human flourishing.
0:20.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.
0:22.3	I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the Senior Publishing Director here.
0:26.1	We are in episode 300, 300.
0:28.9	I can't believe it.
0:30.2	Of course we're joined by Bishop Robert Barron in our Santa Barbara studio, Bishop Barron.
0:35.0	300 episodes, pretty crazy.
0:37.2	Hey Brandon, good morning.
0:38.4	Yeah, it is crazy because I remember the very first one we did, right?
0:41.2	I just come out here to California.
0:43.0	I was still down at the cathedral.
0:45.2	I hadn't moved in up here yet.
0:46.9	And you and I did a, you know, a conversation about an article I written or something.
0:51.2	And no, I, it does seem impossible that it's 300 episodes.
0:55.4	You know, we also hit another big milestone at Word on Fire this week and that's that your
0:59.4	Word on Fire YouTube channel has now reached 1000 videos.
1:04.4	And I meant to go look up the analytics before this I forgot to, but last time I looked at it,
1:10.1	projecting forward to 1000, I'm pretty sure that's like dozens of years worth of watch time
1:15.8	that people have spent on your YouTube channel.
1:18.0	But 1000 videos.
1:19.7	Did you ever think that when you guys uploaded your first one that you would ever reach that milestone?
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