We start with Christmas recaps where Neil realizes that he’s the true patron of his family now, passing him the torch to be a real Clark Griswold. Neil and I argue about calendars and when the Gregorian Calendar replaced the Julian Calendar for some reason. This brings us to Lent and our Lenten struggles for some reason led us into talking about why Millennials and Gen Xers are so overprotective of their kids and into a segment that we would like to call random story time. In this episode of random story time we tell the story of how my daughter and Neil’s son ran over a three year old in cold blood in a power wheels car. We end the conversation by giving a couple of sneak peaks at some (hopefully) upcoming new Among Wolves episodes and since we don’t know how to land the plan we spend the last 20 minutes talking about the Oscars and Oppenheimer. Gratuitous Sound Clips * Highlander TV Intro Bartok * Die Hard Ellis Negotiation Scene (HD) John Mulaney's Governors Awards Monologue | 14th Governors Awards (2024) The ring - 7 days

Neil teaches me all about March Madness, turns out these are college games and not professional ones. Who knew? The bulk of our conversation surrounded the idea of internal and external goods. How our culture is switching from a focus on the internal goods of their work (perfecting the craft) to a focus on the external goods (recognition, money, etc). Gratuitous Sound Clips Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew Ghostbusters (1984) - The Keymaster Scene | Movieclips The Simpsons - Monorail Town Hall Meeting & Song_

Here Neil and I talk about what we did in Summer 2023 to catch you up on life, then discuss our favorite Indiana Jones films. Enjoy an unorganized discussion reflecting on Summer 2023, Neil spent most of it crying…alone…while watching movies. Gratuitous Sounds Clips Wells Fargo Wagon- The Music Man 1962 A wee youngin' Opie Cunningham in The Music Man Captain Planet - Theme Song HD Austin Powers in Goldmember - Godzilla Scene

Chris is a former child actor turned playwright, turned podcaster, turned mental health advocate and all around good guy. Here we chat about crises of faith as Chris shares life, his work, and his story with us. This is a rare and beautiful episode with a serious discussion and personal wrestling with faith. TRIGGER WARNING Chris does share some stories about abuse in mental health facilities that may be intense for some listeners, discretion is advised. Also, sorry we took so long to release this Chris! You’re great, we’re unreliable. Links to Chris StanD the Play * The Christopher Aguilar Show Chris’ Instagram handle @thechristopheraguilar Gratuitous Sound Clips: * Transformers - The Movie(1986) - The Touch Three Little Maids from School

Neil and I built a top ten of the best Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror segments ever! Happy Halloween everyone! Check out our list and see which ones you agree with! Gratuitous sound clips The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror I (1990) - Introduction The Outer Limits Theme (Instrumental) (High Quality) Frankenstein 1931 - opening scene 3rd Rock from Twilight Zone * Treehouse of Horror III Opening Oh man there are too many Simpsons Clips so I pulled them directly from the show here they are in season order… Simpsons Season 2 Episode 3 - Treehouse of Horror I Intro/Ending, The Raven, Hungry are the Damned Simpsons Season 3 Episode 7 - The Bart Zone, The Monkey’s Paw Simpsons Season 4 Episode 5 - Treehouse of Horror Intro, A Clown without Pity, King Homer, Dial Z for Zombies Simpsons Season 5 Episode 5 - The Devil and Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson's Dracula Simpsons Season 6 Episode 6 - Nightmare Cafeteria, Time and Punishment,The Shinning Simpsons Season 7 Episode 6 - Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace, Homer3 Simpsons Season 8 Episode 1 - Citizen Kang Simpsons Season 10 Episode 4 - Starship Poopers Simpsons Season 12 Episode 1 - G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad Simpsons Season 20 Episode 4 - Untitled Robot Parody

I started a new job with the Archdiocese of Las Vegas! Woohoo! Neil and I talk about my new job, then the state of Youth Ministry and Confirmation and we make arguments for and against restored order 66 (lol, you’ll get it if you listen). This led us to talking about the importance of Youth Group as growth in discipleship. The conversation turns to formation for adults and young adult formation in the diocese and turning the emphasis to small group communities that lead to events rather than events to form small groups and how this might actually encourage continual growth. Gratuitous Sound Clips: Excellent... Exactly

Neil and I are drinking Old Fashions made from Makers Mark 46 Bourbon. We begin by watching the Knights play the Panthers in overtime of game 3 of the Stanley cup, and there is a point in our discussion where the game ends and Neil gets really sad. Then we start talkin about how our diocese has been elevated to become the 34th Archdiocese in the USA. We answer some questions that people have asked us about the change: What is an archdiocese and how did they originate? When was the last archdiocese in the US named? Does this mean we get more money now? Does this mean Archbishop Thomas will have a later retirement date? What changes for us? What new symbols does Archbishop GLT get? Did GLT place a hockey bet with the Archbishop of Miami? Check out this article by The Pillar about her experience in Las Vegas on a Sunday! Gratuitous Sound Clips PANTHERS WIN GAME 3 IN OVERTIME | 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Final Dogs with bees in their mouth

I know there was some cool Catholic stuff about the diocese of Las Vegas becoming the 34th Archdiocese in the US and we’ll get to that and Neil and I plan on releasing an episode about that next week. In this episode Neil and I talk about what’s really important…The Rankin/Bass movie from 1982 “Flight of Dragons”. I know you’ve never seen it, I know you’ve never heard of it, but it’s a fairytale that marks the beginning of the modern broken fairytale and the conversion of Magic into Science. We have an interesting conversion, but keep in mind, we’re both a few whiskeys in at this point… Gratuitous sound clips The Flight of Dragons (Title Song) - Don McLean LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring - Extended Edition - Bree Wizard of Oz, Scarecrow's Mathematical Error... Lionel Hutz V for Vendetta Ending Fight Scene (1080p)

Shout out to the Friendly Film Fireside podcast give us back our howl! I quit my job and don’t know how to feel. On and off we talk about the right ritual to end my youth ministry career interspersed with some comic book and movie references like we do. Neil and I argue about Lent. Turns out Neil is right, but the season of Lent isn’t 40 days, however the start of Lent was put on a Wednesday so that there would be 40 penitential Days even though those day cross two liturgical seasons Lent & Triduum. Gratuitous Sound Clips The Green Lantern is making fun of Batman | Justice League: War Among Wolves Episode XXVI - Boomer? I'm the Edge of Gen X Die Hard - Come out to the coast, have a few laughs… Death of megatron,birth of Galvatron,Death of Starscream

The second half of our “catch-up” episode that we started last year here are the topics we hit this go around: How College is a scam How to write High School Confirmation Retreat talks How CoVid broke Dylan How Michelle Obama ruined school lunches in New York Gratuitous Sounds clips 49 stars Special Guest: Dylan Barnard.