Catching Foxes

Two guys talking about the collision of faith and culture. Discussion over Instruction. *Occasionally explicit.

About the show

Luke and Gomer became friends Freshman year at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and 14 years later they started a podcast. The show oscillates between a conversation between just the two of us and interviews that we do together of other, fancier people. Sometimes we get explicit either by being too honest or by being too stupid. Either way, it's fun!

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Episodes

  • Episode 101: A Beautiful Renaissance with Anthony D'Ambrosio

    August 4th, 2017  |  1 hr 6 mins
    art, beauty, catholic creatives, vulnerability

    Anthony D'Ambrosio of Catholic Creatives hops on the shows from a trailer park filled with Evangelicals to discuss life, art, creativity, the New Catholic Renaissance in beauty, and how to deal with insecurity, self-doubt, and envy.

  • Episode 100: Brandon Vogt Responds

    July 28th, 2017  |  1 hr 7 mins
    convocation of catholic leaders, grace, pelagianism, statistics

    After listening to our show on the Convocation of Catholic Leaders, Brandon Vogt reaches out to us to explain and to reach some common ground between what was presented on the "Nones" panel and Luke's take away. Gomer, for his part, doesn't do the nice small-talk thing, and just makes them argue, which is fun.

  • Episode 99: You're a Bald, 18, Chubby, Freak!

    July 24th, 2017  |  1 hr 4 mins
    emotions, game of thrones, nuns, sisters

    Luke and Gomer talk... well... we talk about a lot of stuff. Why does it seem like there are a lot more chill nuns than priests, emotional manipulation in youth ministry, Sister Miriam is incredible, diet fails, and, of course, GAME OF THRONES

  • Episode 98: Are We Getting Superhero Fatigue?

    July 14th, 2017  |  1 hr 41 secs
    film, pop art, spider-man, tarantino, wonder woman

    Art vs Pop, Enthusiast vs Casualist, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We talk Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, "The Watchmen", "The Fifth Element", "Dunkirk," "Guardians of the Galaxy 2", and other blockbusters. We bring up why maybe Wonder Woman did not appeal to us, though we liked it, as much as Spider-Man did, BECAUSE WE ARE PRIVILEGED MEN. Also, "War for the Planet of the Apes" looks awesome and how Andy Serkis is utterly brilliant and amazing.

  • The Catholic Convocation, Barron, and the Catching Foxes Hello

    July 7th, 2017  |  1 hr 12 mins
    bishop barron, catholic convocation, gospel, leaders, sociology, statistics

    Luke, representing 500,000 Catholics, attended the convocation and he represented Catching Foxes well. We explore the suckiness of treating the crisis in the Church as a sociology/statistics problem, the lack of God, when God showed up in the preaching of Sister Miriam, SOLT, and Gomer shares a prison ministry heartbreak. Also: IS SINGLENESS A VOCATION?

  • Episode 96: Danielle Noonan and P Diddy?!

    June 30th, 2017  |  1 hr 27 mins
    abuse, adoption, dads, healing, husband, love, music, worship

    We invited our friend, Danielle Noonan, to talk about her love of music, what it means to be adopted, to be a childhood victim of abuse, and how cheap consolation really, really pisses her off.

  • Episode 95: Spent to Extinction

    June 23rd, 2017  |  44 mins 35 secs
    exhaustion, gambling, loneliness, porn, sex, technology

    It started with a description of the great book, "The World Beyond Your Head" and took us quickly around the anima technia vacua, from gambling to porn to social media, we look at how the psychology of being spent is destroying us.

  • Episode 94: Gomer Starts Greasing!

    June 16th, 2017  |  29 mins 29 secs
    art of manliness, fitness, grease, grooves, health

    My vehicle died. I walked home the three miles today. I'm greasing the groove (or gears), and I want you to join me. Luke is running a huge retreat, so I'm all alone with my audio editor and a series of YouTube clips.

  • Episode 93: You Have to Class Up

    June 9th, 2017  |  1 hr 12 mins
    casualization, fraternal societies, reading, wonder woman

    We talk about work-as-email and Gomer's conflict with research reading. Youth Ministry, and the parish's constant tendency to segregate family, especially by age. We talk about the Art of Life and morality as taught by the Church. This leads us back to the community problem, but focusing on the demise of "The Lodge" and the American Legion type places. Then we talk about The Great Casualization (see show notes), Wonder Woman, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how Gomer is still scared to work out with Luke.

  • Episode 92: Manhood and Music with Ben Walther

    June 2nd, 2017  |  1 hr 27 mins
    art, dads, father, fatherless, music

    I'm pretty sure this episode is clean. It's late. Anywho, Luke and I get to talk to our buddy, Ben Walther of Ben Walther Music. We interviewed his wife and he's been jealous the whole time! Not really. We had a great conversation about what it means to be a man, initiation rites and our lack thereof, dadlessness and the Father, and then we take a hard right turn into music. Luke brings up his new fave that he found out is both Christian and Queer and what that means in our consumption of art. We end with me yelling at Ben to build something great online.

  • Gomer Fails at Sex...again.

    May 26th, 2017  |  1 hr 20 mins
    catholic schools, discipleship, nfp, sex

    10 Minute Topics! Polar Parenting, XLT HOTlanta, Catholic Schools, SEX!, and other stuff.

  • Episode 90: Sarah Nickel on Autism and Food Competitions

    May 19th, 2017  |  57 mins 34 secs
    autism, labels, people first, spectrum

    Sarah Nickel works with children, generally ages 3-15, who have autism. She also applies developmental psychology and behavioral analysis skills to manage her friendship with Luke. Yes, they are besties. No, it's not ALL inside jokes about their time together in Denver. Also, Luke cheated in a food competition.

  • Episode 89: Mr. Carey from the Archdiocese Stops In

    May 14th, 2017  |  1 hr 9 mins
    church, justin bieber, pastoral, prayer, spiritual life

    I politely asked Luke to leave his own apartment so that I could interview Mr. Carey from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Apparently, HR won't let them in the same room. Anywho, two church workers have an intelligent conversation about spiritual life as the center of the workplace. Yes, even meetings.

  • Episode 88: It's Like Your Confessions in High School

    May 5th, 2017  |  1 hr 23 mins
    baggage, healing, high school, nostalgia, resurrection

    A hundred small topics and ONE BIG TOPIC CALLED NOSTALGIA.

  • Episode 87: Arleen and the $30,000 Breakup

    April 28th, 2017  |  1 hr 12 mins
    breakups, dating, depression, holiness, relationships

    "If you're going to break up, Ash Wednesday is a great time to do it!" Luke and Arleen (no Gomer this week) talk about their cooky lives, fun things, and the strange intimacy that comes with breaking up.

  • Episode 86: CryFire Every Two Years

    April 21st, 2017  |  1 hr 34 mins
    big red, catholic, charismatic communities, cry fire

    Luke and Gomer interview a buddy they knew while at college, but who wasn't a student. Yes, he was a townie. A dirty, dirty townie. If you listen to this I think you'll get why the Incarnation and the Sacraments are oh so necessary to a real, and really human, faith. And you'll see why we humans can totally screw things up.