{"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":"The Dinner Table Is a Liturgy | The Catholic Man Show","slug":"the-dinner-table-is-a-liturgy-the-catholic-man-show","published_at":"2026-04-22T17:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-man-show-1108613/the-dinner-table-is-a-liturgy-the-catholic-man-show","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-man-show-1108613","url":"https://thecatholicmanshow.com//dinner-table-liturgy-catholic-family","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4681f5e6-7c12-472d-858b-341aa2666bdd.mp3","summary":"Adam went out to the shop and heard birds. Which would be fine — except the shop has closed-cell spray foam insulation. Thick stuff. Solid. Apparently it doesn't matter, because the birds had been pecking through it anyway, six spots deep, living inside the walls like they owned the place. He grabbed a can of expanding foam, took his six-year-old Leo out to help seal the gaps, and watched Leo immediately stick his hand in the wet foam. It went everywhere. On Leo. On the shop doors. On a previous car that is now long gone. If you've ever tried to wipe expanding foam off anything, you know how the rest of that goes. He opened the show with that story. Then Jim Spencer showed up — back after a long hiatus, cowboy hat on, ready to weigh in — and they cracked a bottle of Kilchoman's 14th Edition, an Islay scotch that doesn't get the attention of a Laphroaig or Ardbeg but probably deserves it. A $110 bottle. Jim put it at a 3.91 on the yummy scale (it was a prime number recording day, so that's out of 7 — work it out yourself). They all agreed it was legitimately good. Before getting into the main topic, Dave gave an update on Baby Mary. She's been on a paralytic to help her grow, and they're trying to wean her off it. She tolerated the second attempt better than the first, but not well enough. They'll try again Monday or Tuesday. Pray for her blood pressure to stay stable when she comes off, and for her heart and lungs to stop fighting the ventilator. Dave said it directly and without dramatics, and that's the right way to hear it. The episode is about the dinner table. Not as a feel-good idea — as a liturgy. Adam had done a piece on this for his Substack : what makes a good day? Not an emotional high. A good day. He landed on three things: early morning prayer and reading,…","meta_description":"Adam went out to the shop and heard birds. Which would be fine — except the shop has closed-cell spray foam insulation. Thick stuff. Solid. Apparently it…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4675,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-catholic-man-show-1108613/episodes/the-dinner-table-is-a-liturgy-the-catholic-man-show/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/the-dinner-table-is-a-liturgy-the-catholic-man-show.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}