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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