In this episode, the dogs discuss the heroes journey (12:45 ) and Rob asks the question: If we’re made for home, then why do we leave (14:00 )? Rob gives his favorite Summer Reading combinations (7:55 ), Connor references the gospel of Luke (19:00 ) as well as SNL (24:30 ), and Mike shares what it’s like to maintain values while developing his career in the army (28:22 ).

Quotes:

“Culture without substance is empty.” (Mike, 1:30 )

“There’s nothing you can do but kick your horse.” (from Lonesome Dove, 10:45 )

“Life is about relationship.” (Mike, 18:09 )

“That’s the cross and resurrection. The way to life is death.” (Connor 19:30 )

“My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours.” (Luke 15:31 , 23:15 )

“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you.” (from Augustine’s Confessions, 25:20 )

“The ways that we live in “untruth” for some “greater good” can actually mar us and change us.” (Mike, 28:41 )

“The framework for the question of growth is off if it’s just about you.” (Rob, 32:50 )

“To be the truly human image of God, where you’re an unselfconscious gift to God… that’s holiness… you just have to receive it and step into that river with Jesus.” (Connor, 36:50 )

“You’ve answered all my questions because now I’ve seen you.” (Mike, 40:20 )

Media Mentions:

• Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)


• Pride & Prejudice (2005)


• A River Runs Through It (1992)


• Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice


• Downton Abbey (2010- 2015)


• Art of Manliness Podcast #871: Jane Austen for Dudes


• Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited


• Matt Fradd’s interview with Peter Kreeft


• J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings


• Unbroken (2014)


• Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women


• Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn


• Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove


• Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces


• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)


• Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It


• Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild


• The Prodigal Son


• C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce


• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)


• Last Supper Discource (John 14- 17)


• Romano Tours – SNL


• Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions


• Jordan B. Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life


• Joe Pug’s After Curfew


• Peter Kreeft’s lecture on Till We Have Faces


• C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces


• Job (38:3)

References:

• Jane Austen


• WWI


• Therese of Lisieux


• Samwise Gamgee (Sam)


• Peter Kreeft


• USS Indianapolis


• John Steinbeck


• University of Chicago


• Montana


• Adam Sandler


• Rule 7: Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.


• Rule 8: Tell the truth- or at least don’t lie.


• Franz Jägerstätter


• Maximilian Kolbe


• Thomas More


• Pope John Paul II

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