The Lamp and Liquor Podcast: Recent Episodes
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We fully admit the Know Nothings were right about us Catholics. Peter, Thomas, and Michael host a plethora of conversations with friends and guests to discuss society, culture, and Catholicism all through the lens of a whiskey or wine glass. The conversations evolve from athletics to Aquinas with ease, self-deprecation is abundant, and the comradery mirthful. While this may seem a counterintuitive method for lampooning the decadence of society, it's certainly the most enjoyable. The Lamp and Liquor Podcast: Conversations, Catholicism, and Alcohol. lampandliquor@gmail.com to donate bourbon.
- Why do we care about gas?
- Cobalt mining
- New impersonation
- Middle part of various sorts.
- No PDA at the gym
- What Y2K was really about
- Can we get some stimmies from the new Speaker of the House?
- Requiescat in pace, Pope Benedict 16th
- Peter accidently slips into heresy
- Thomas (might?) slip into heresy
- The Eucharist
- Marriage
- More marriage
- The pod argues for polygamy (sort of).
- The beer pot is empty
- Due to Thanksgiving Break, we have no ideas. Other than a full episode of Dynamic vs. Decadent
- Post, post election analysis
- Recorded last Thursday, November 10th
- Life happens, and we have no money for editors
- Leaving Italy
- Italian gun culture
- Election predictions
- We get all the predictions correct
- Lotteries
- Three weeks to late, but here none the less
- The Atlantic article
- Baseball
- We all hate the Angels
- An Atlantic Article
- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/taken-series-is-every-fathers-worst-nightmare/384467/
- 401Ks again
- Always travel coach
- So, I'm not sure how long ago we recorded this, but I had stuff going on. No time to edit. So some of the conversation about China is dated. That's just how it goes
- Thomas needs to buy a lottery ticket
- Is it moral to invest in a 401k?
- That was obviously (for us) facetious question
- LOUD NOISES
- Usury vs Business
- China
- Pelosi
- We're sorry if we were offensive
- None of this should be understood as financial advice.
- Michael is engaged and nowhere to be found
- Scotus Surprises
- Oklahoma v Castro
- Textualism vs Originalism
- What is substantive due process
- Don't talk to cops unless you're married to one
- L&L's past life of crime
- New Scotus judges
- Legal revolution
- (Not Cleric) Andrew is back
- Thomas and Michael are not
- Alt Utah history
- Three types of Catholic movies
- Censorship and movies
- The market will regulate itself (?)
- Peter hums day of wrath
- Anime
- Is Star Wars dead?
- USC to the Big Ten
- The Rings of Power show
- Peter's wifi is certainly dead
- Pelosi and communion
- Thomas is about to be homeless
- Peter's D.C. adventure
- Union Station
- Thomas has issues at the Supreme Court
- Movie discussion
- Peter finally feels represented in the James Bond universe
- Discussion of "It's the Moral Theology, Stupid"
- https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/understanding-pope-francis-it-s-the-moral-theology-stupid
- A philosophical fight breaks out.
- Proportionalism vs Natural Law
- Thomas vs. Peter
- Peter vs. Michael
- Thomas retreats to folding laundry
- Biblical precedents on killing
- Bookish centerpieces
- Michael hates horses
- Gas prices, time for cocaine
- Homelessness in S.F.: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/
- "How to be a 1% male", is there gold to steal from the Egyptians here?
- A debate ensues
- Having kids with climate change
- The podcast gets hijacked (by friends)
- Michael probably has the monkey virus
- Wearing the collar
- The moment of ordination
- Communion of saints
- The Joy of Christ
- Andrew hates Head and Shoulders
- Cheers
- Michael is gone, who knows where
- The stock market
- Bitcoin's blunders
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger on the Blessed Virgin
- Dividing lines at the Second Vatican Council
- Don't me a modernist positivist
- Getting into the archives
- Why Michael was really gone last week
- SCOTUS leak
- Some less than admirable responses
- Are there multiple Pro-Life issues?
- Depicting Jesus
- Elon Musk and Twitter
- Executive Easter Rabbits
- Marky Mark talks to Matty Matt
- Making it in media as an immigrant group
- Fr. Stu
- Confessionals in movies
- Drunk bugs
- Note, some mild spoilers for Calvary and Silence**
- Josh joins the podcast to talk about his time studying history at St. Andrew's in Scotland.
- Three non experts, (of course) give their non expert opinions on essentially the direction of Ukraine/Russia/the world/humanity.
- Amy, a PhD candidate in English, joins the podcast to stake out the purview and end of Literature
- Thomas has a tab problem
- The mamba mentality
- Toxic winner?
- Ends vs Accidents
- Peter bounces
- Michael isn't worried about radiation fueled alligators
- Alejandra Garcia, one of the producers for Ascension's Bible in a Year Podcast, joins L&L to discuss her experience working on BIAY.
- Gators
- Private vs Public
- Religion vs Philosophy as a way of Life
- Faith and Reason
- Dynamic vs Decadent
- Betting on lawsuits
- Muppets' Christmas
- Proper dress
- Shopping karts vs. the Law of Nature
- Don't let Mike merge
- https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/06/dress-up
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8QZwnJZTgQ&t=519s
- Discussing the recent Dubia document
- Thomas responds to a declaration of war over books
Brooke Soares, a FOCUS missionary, comes on the pod to talk about the day to day workings of evangelization on a college campus.
- Meme philosophy
- Hollowing out the Midwest
- Sailing truckers
- Cow logistics
- Parisian light show
- Catholic tourism
Liz Slaten, the managing editor for Catholic East Texas magazine, comes on the podcast to discuss the magazine, new evangelization strategies, and what true success looks like.
Liz Slaten's Instagram: @liz.slaten
Catholic East Texas: https://www.catholiceasttexas.online/
- We've made 50 of these things?
- Liturgical fad, or the fate of the communion straw
- The Godfather
- Favorite episodes
- Andrew comes on the pod to talk about his time in Guatemala
- Free will in Heaven?
- If Graham Greene wrote James Bond.
Max, a church choir director and musician, joins a braying donkey and dying walruses (plural), to impart wisdom about Sacred Music.
- St. Francis and the liturgy
- Sound off time
- Hardee's vs Chick fil a
- Latin languishing in the Latin rite
- Bl. Carlo Acutis
Deacon (now father), John Paul and Seminarian Andrew join the pod to talk about Vatican II, correct interpretation of the documents, and how to be a missionary in a post Christian world.
- Joe Rogan (who?) doesn't understand boxing
- Logan Paul vs Floyd Mayweather, the expert opinion
- Punch some people in the face (in the face). Please don't
- Zoomers and boxing
- Distributism
- Means of Production? Families? Sounds like Mafia to me
- What is a good capitalist?
- How to invest
- Michael's (hard) lemonade stand
- Why Chesterton actually didn't like the Ford motor car
- Catholic Capitalism or just bad Capitalism?
- Bloomberg terminals in Fro Ro, yo
- Pod's one year anniversary
- Put the Mormons in charge of the Vatican Bank already.
Subdeacon Philip Gilbert is a seminarian in Ukraine studying to become a Ukrainian Catholic priest. He joins the podcast to talk about how he discerned his vocation(s), the importance of liturgy, and living in Ukraine.
Eric Jenislawski, a theology professor from Christendom College, joins the podcast to talk about Universalism.
We are joined by Ofelia Franco-Foreman who talks about growing up in Cuba, and escaping to the U.S.
- Baroque cathedrals
- James Dean
- Freezing bodies
- Ted Williams
- Money, so much money
- Ted Williams vs Juan Soto
- Death
- Humpty Dumpty vs Frankenstein's monster
- New business idea
- Do angels play baseball?
- Do angels play chess?
- CBDS in heaven
- Do angels line dance in heaven?
- Is competition good?
- Michael proves the theory of evolution
- Celestial weight rooms
- Humility
- St. Michael
Josh Van Hecke comes on the podcast to discuss his artwork. We get into a long conversation about relics in rugby fields, the philosophy of art, and Josh's own work.
Follow Josh! https://www.instagram.com/joshvanhecke/
https://www.joshvanhecke.com/
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We conclude the series, Lessons in Liturgical Literacy, discussing the Byzantine rite with Fr. Richard Armstrong.
Peter's brother Andrew joins the pod to talk about environmentalism in the American West, and how to take a Catholic perspective to the subject.
Fr. Jason comes on the podcast to discuss the Divine Worship of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, his conversion, and the importance of the Anglican patrimony in the Catholic Church.
The first episode of the Lessons in Liturgical series, the extraordinary form of the Latin rite. Fr. Michael joined Peter, Thomas, and Michael to discuss the TLM, it's role in his vocation, the spirituality of the TLM, and how it is better to overflow then to simply be a canal.
Michael, Peter, and Thomas introduce a new Lenten series focused on the different liturgical expressions of the Catholic Church.
In which Peter Jesserer Smith, a staff reporter for the National Catholic Register, joins the podcast for a conversation about Catholic journalism. We discuss how he first broke into the business, his journalistic philosophy, the challenges facing Catholic journalism, and the situation faced by the Christians in the Middle East.
In which we have a Janus type episode, Thomas interviews Fr. John Richetta, former pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, we discuss his time in the seminary, the liturgical changes of the Second Vatican Council, his travels, and the importance of language.