web01.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:44:35 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Catching Foxes - Episodes Tagged with “Tv” https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/tags/tv Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:00:00 -0400 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! en-us episodic Two guys talking about the collision of faith and culture. Discussion over Instruction. *Occasionally explicit. Luke and Gomer 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! yes Luke and Gomer mjgormley@gmail.com Amusing Ourselves to Death https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/252 86359b06-b099-4488-a24e-90cde396cd14 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:00:00 -0400 Luke and Gomer full Luke and Gomer Luke and I discuss the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, How to Watch TV News, and The Shallows by Nicolaus Carr, and how they build the case against TV and the Internet in terms of conveying information density. Gomer is convinced of the argument because "The Medium is the Message." But, in a fascinating twist, we apply that to the "digital first" online church and what potential pitfalls that can have on a cognitive basis, as well as to the vitality of Christian faith. Luke applies it to British self-hating Soccer fans and to the difference between pop art that passes and the Classics that remain. 1:16:18 yes Luke and I discuss the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, How to Watch TV News, and The Shallows by Nicolaus Carr, and how they build the case against TV and the Internet in terms of conveying information density. Gomer is convinced of the argument because "The Medium is the Message." But, in a fascinating twist, we apply that to the "digital first" online church and what potential pitfalls that can have on a cognitive basis, as well as to the vitality of Christian faith. Luke applies it to British self-hating Soccer fans and to the difference between pop art that passes and the Classics that remain. tv, internet, brain, attention Luke and I discuss the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, How to Watch TV News, and The Shallows by Nicolaus Carr, and how they build the case against TV and the Internet in terms of conveying information density.

Gomer is convinced of the argument because "The Medium is the Message." But, in a fascinating twist, we apply that to the "digital first" online church and what potential pitfalls that can have on a cognitive basis, as well as to the vitality of Christian faith.

Luke applies it to British self-hating Soccer fans and to the difference between pop art that passes and the Classics that remain.

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Gomer is convinced of the argument because "The Medium is the Message." But, in a fascinating twist, we apply that to the "digital first" online church and what potential pitfalls that can have on a cognitive basis, as well as to the vitality of Christian faith.

Luke applies it to British self-hating Soccer fans and to the difference between pop art that passes and the Classics that remain.

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