{"podcast":{"title":"The Catholic Man Show","slug":"the-catholic-man-show-1108613","podcast_index_feed_id":1108613,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/thecatholicmanshow/","website_url":"https://thecatholicmanshow.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/b0037744-79c6-4ce5-a704-06213a5ac03f/itunes_logo-630.png","author":"The Catholic Man Show","episode_count":300,"summary":"Promoting the virtuous life. Adam and David have been best friends for 30 years and love being Catholic, husbands, and fathers. They enjoy whisky, beer, bacon, flamethrowers, St. Thomas Aquinas, virtue, true leisure, and authentic friendship. The show is typically broken down into 3 segments - A drink, a gear, and a topic. We are on the Lord's team. The winning side. So raise your glass. #CheerstoJesus You can support our show by going to www.patreon.com/thecatholicmanshow","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T08:18:20.859917+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-man-show-1108613"},"episode":{"title":"Dante, Wonder, & Raising Kids Who Love Truth","slug":"dante-wonder-raising-kids-who-love-truth","published_at":"2026-03-04T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-man-show-1108613/dante-wonder-raising-kids-who-love-truth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-man-show-1108613","url":"https://thecatholicmanshow.com//dante-and-wonder","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4b92848b-426c-4f80-8fff-5141afd0b002.mp3","summary":"Adam Minihan and Dave Niles open this episode with a story about two broken-down vehicles, a newborn daughter named Mary, and a prayer over a dying engine that — Amen — actually worked. From there they settle in with some Basil Hayden bourbon and turn to a piece of Dante most people have never read: the Convivio , his unfinished philosophical treatise written during his exile from Florence. The main topic: wonder. What it is, why Dante considered it the most critical virtue to cultivate in adolescence, and what we lose when we crush it in our kids... often without realizing it. Dante divides life into four stages: adolescence (birth to 25), youth (25 to 45), old age (45 to 70), and extreme old age (70 and beyond). Each stage has its own virtues and tasks. But it's adolescence — the age of obedience, wonder, and ordering loves — that Dante treats with the most urgency. Because wonder, once crushed, is very hard to resurrect. Adam and Dave unpack why screens flatten the imagination, why GK Chesterton's wonder at green grass wasn't eccentricity but sanity, and why Dante's most devastating line about education still applies today: if you raise kids without wonder, you may make them competent... but not wise. Also in this episode: the connection between Dante and Aquinas, the KU Integrated Humanities Program and David Dean, a monk at Clear Creek who hadn't read his prior's book and why that was one of the wisest things Dave has ever seen, and the difference between knowledge and wisdom in the age of AI. Deacon Harrison Garlick's Ascend the Great Books podcast is working through the Purgatorio right now. If you're not following along, this episode is a good reason to start. This episode brought to you in partnership with Select International Tours — selectinternationaltours.…","meta_description":"Adam Minihan and Dave Niles open this episode with a story about two broken-down vehicles, a newborn daughter named Mary, and a prayer over a dying engine…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3987,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-catholic-man-show-1108613/episodes/dante-wonder-raising-kids-who-love-truth/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-man-show-1108613/dante-wonder-raising-kids-who-love-truth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}