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

  • Tired With You vs. Tired Of You

    March 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 18 mins

    When society itself is burned out, men and women are no longer tired but exhausted. We experience this as "I'm tired of you". It's hyperpassivity and non-rest. Sabbath is holy because you REST from WORK. The only way back to genuine tiredness is shared prayer, shared mission, shared learning, and shared fellowship.

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    Rent, Economy, and Corruption... and Multiverse of Madness

    February 25th, 2022  |  1 hr 32 mins

    Topic: when the economy crushes our souls. Pre-game topics: Gomer's neighbors, a spat about renting, and The Multiverse of Madness trailer released at the Super Bowl.

  • Ten Minute Talks, Part Deux (Discord Version)

    February 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 33 mins
    catholic, fitness, lord of the rings, prayer

    Opening: Books Gomer bought, Luke Processes the Super Bowl Loss. Ten-Minute Topics: What are your thoughts about the new Lord of the Rings storyline? How are the fitness and reading goals going, Luke? Graduate and professional school students and faith life? Winter Olympics? Ya watchin’? What is the appropriate angst one should feel towards the "once-in-a-lifetime" societal failures happening every 8 years?

  • Mass Misinformation in Our Ten Minute Topics!

    February 11th, 2022  |  1 hr 29 mins

    Luke enters the beauty and grace of "Clean My Space" and gets a sweet-looking kitchen sink! Then we talk about our Apple-Watch-Induced health competition. Then take questions from our Patreon Supporters!

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    30 Minutes for Prayer?! Where?

    February 4th, 2022  |  1 hr 26 mins

    Chapters! Luke is in a magazine and his team is in the Super Bowl! Gomer updates us on his family situation, including depression, exercise, and Reading Aloud. Then we talk about Stress Management, Health, and Prayer.

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    Gomer thinks of quitting the show

    January 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 19 mins
    burnout, catholic, fatigue, work

    (sorry for the audio) "The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash." Gomer contemplated quitting because he's doing a hundred things and realized that so is Luke. It's a bit much, but we are doing this to ourselves. Over and over again.

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    Surprise Guest: JD Flynn from The Pillar

    January 23rd, 2022  |  1 hr 26 mins

    Luke and I are chatting away when JD calls in the middle of the show. So we put him on and talk about what it is like reporting on the Church and for the Church. And why some people don't like it.

  • Groan for the World

    January 12th, 2022  |  1 hr 34 mins

    CF Merch! The sad death of Bob Saget, a birthday quote from then-Pope Benedict, Gomer's back pain and his sedentary life, best WW2 movies that a 12-year-old can watch, and Wendell Barry's "The World Ending Fire".

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    WE'RE BACK! And we bicker like never before!

    January 8th, 2022  |  1 hr 50 mins
    catholic, exodus90, liturgy, mcu, movies

    Christmas stuff, Eucharistic Desecration with Masks, Gomer's new YouTube Religion and Luke's flawless diagnosis of his religious pursuits, Exodus90, Liturgical living, Feasting and Fasting and why we need both, Books Gomer is reading, Spider-Man review, and more!

  • Careerism, the Great Resignation, and Burnout

    December 18th, 2021  |  1 hr 44 mins
    catholic, social teaching, the great resignation

    Check out the show notes and our sponsors! The Great Resignation is leading to over 9 million US jobs unfilled. People are opting out of the workforce right now for a host of reasons- money, unsustainable workloads, pandemic fears- and others are opting out of the very idea of a career. Explore the Great Resignation through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching.

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    Rage is Currency

    December 10th, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins

    We talk about Gomer's general (not specific) malaise in ChurchWork and his fears of "getting out." We talk about "Senlin Ascends", which is Book 1 of 4 in the Tower of Babel Series by Josiah Bancroft. Then we pivot to the show "Heroes" and how it failed us all in season 2. (and it was Isaac Mendez, not Mohinder)

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    Ecumenism isn't Watered Down Christianity, with Nathan Smith

    December 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 54 mins
    balthasar, catholicism, ecumenism

    Nathan is now a Catholic that works for Glenmary doing ecumenical work. He was a Protestant pastor, loves Benedict and Balthasar, and dresses very well. We discuss his conversion, Deconstruction, being Luke's friend at the USMNT game, and Ecumenism.

  • Wait... You thought I was going to propose?

    November 26th, 2021  |  1 hr 28 mins
    nonprofit, proposals, thanksgiving

    Interesting Nonprofit updates. Contract failure and market failure. Gomer rethought his Libertarianism due to the realization that corporations have more money than many governments. Thanksgiving plans for the boys. Epic failures in Proposals for both Luke and Gomer. And we close with comments on Fr. James Jackson's arrest.

  • The Irreconcilable.

    November 19th, 2021  |  1 hr 22 mins

    Surprised by Joy! The AppleTV show, "Invasion." The 20th Anniversary of Band of Brothers. Fiction/Reading as a conduit to understanding. Vinyl Records as Japanese Tea Ceremony, Integrity, and Slowness. Gomer’s Anima Technica Vacua experience at Life Night. Friday Morning at 11am, say a prayer for the Gormley family

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    Enough!

    November 12th, 2021  |  1 hr 11 mins
    anima technica vacua, disney, lithuania, marvel

    Chapters: Worst Marvel Movies, Lithuania loves us! Nearly Nuclear War. Wisdom and Wonder. The Book Saga of Luke. Anima Technica Vacua. Elon Musk's own vacua is showing. Grace vs. Nature. How Media Strips us of Legacy. ENOUGH! Discord Question from our Patreon supporters.

  • What Scares You... besides girls

    November 5th, 2021  |  1 hr 31 mins
    401ks, appletv, audiobooks, books, catholic, investing, podcasting

    We start with a podcast about podcasting and then go into the central question: what scares you? Also, GOMER HAS A CHAPTER IN A BOOK THAT GOT PUBLISHED! Then Halloween, Hope's question on Finances, AppleTV shows, and Luke needs a new book because this Eisenhower biography is halfway done.