WOF 351: Recapping Lex Fridman and Shia LaBeouf

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Friends, on today’s episode of the “Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I recap two recent discussions I shared with Lex Fridman and Shia LaBeouf. With over two million views combined, these discussions struck a chord with people and I think they reveal several lessons for Catholics interested in drawing others closer to God.

A listener asks, how do you get so many things done?

Links

Lex Fridman discussion
Shia LeBeouf discussion
The Holy Hour: Meditations for Eucharistic Adoration edited by Matthew Becklo
With All Her Mind: A Call to the Intellectual Life edited by Rachel Bulman
Wonder Conference

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0:00.0	maybe we don't have to be in the stance of kind of mutual suspicion and animosity.
0:06.4	But someone from the tech world, the science world can ask a religious person,
0:13.3	tell me about your thought world. That can produce a wonderful result. And I think it did in this
0:21.1	case. I think it was a really good conversation. Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon
0:32.7	Vat the host and the senior publishing director here at Word on Fire. Bishop Baron has recently had
0:38.4	two major discussions with very interesting people. Over a million views combined,
0:44.4	one of them was with Lex Friedman, the professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at MIT.
0:49.7	Also a very popular podcaster. The second one was with Shia LaBuff, the Hollywood movie star who
0:56.0	has journeyed to the Catholic Church. So what did Bishop Baron think of these two discussions and
1:01.2	what lessons can Catholics take away from them? That's what we'll be talking about today on the
1:06.1	podcast. But before we get there, Bishop, I want to welcome you. It's good to see you.
1:10.7	Hey, Brandon. Good to see you. And now for the second time from Minnesota,
1:14.0	we're a little physically closer than we were in the Santa Barbara days.
1:18.0	Yeah, give us an update on how the new diocese is going. What's been happening there?
1:22.3	Well, a lot. I've been here now for a month as Bishop and the ship is still floating. So that's
1:26.4	a good sign, I suppose. I've been just going to a lot of places. So one of my priorities is just to
1:31.0	get around to parishes and to see as many people. I think I've been to nine parishes now. I've been to
1:36.7	one of our high schools. I was at St. Mary's University last week. So that's a high priority,
1:41.7	just getting around. Meeting with our consultants, the College of Consulters tomorrow, as well as the
1:47.1	Presbyteral Council. I'm just back from Duluth. I was up in Duluth. I've never been there before.
1:52.9	It's a lovely city right on the shores of Lake Superior. I was there for the provincial meeting.
1:57.9	So all the bishops of Minnesota and the two Dakotas got together every summer. So we had three days
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