In this episode, the dogs talk about finding awe in a transcendent universe [5:50] and their varying experiences of childhood boredom [8:50]. Rob brings up a farmer who recites Paradise Lost while ploughing the field [19:45] and Connor talks about settling into humanity as a way to find true joy [21:30]. Mike shares about a recent hiking trip [25:50] and they all discuss moments that transcend the subjective. 

Quotes:

[11:20] “Boredom is running up against the poverty of humanity. We are a question mark to ourselves and we do not have the capacity to fulfill what we ultimately desire. We are dependent on some transcendent other to provide the thing we want the most: permanent, eternal communion.” (Connor)

[7:40] “Sloth is the inability to love something that is lovable” (Peter Kreeft)

[35:25] “Sooner or later, we enjoy only souls” (from Letters to Young Men as cited in The Priest is Not His Own)

Media Mentions:

G.K. Chesterton’s Everlasting Man
Matt Fradd’s interview with Peter Kreeft 
PTI (Pardon the Interruption) from ESPN
Dragon Ball Z
Dr. Stephen Blackwood on the Jordan B Peterson Podcast
Boethius
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Paperboy on the NES
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
Fulton J. Sheen’s The Priest is Not His Own
Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire’s Letters to Young Men

Shout-outs:

Gable the Great (Dane)
Fr. Paul Porter
5th graders at Connor’s home parish
Anthony Esolen
Rabun Bald
Foster’s Beer

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