Happiness, Thomas Aquinas, and the NBA w/ Fr. Gregory Pine O.P.
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 27. 06. 2024
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Timestamps:
00:00 Jokes and comedy
5:39 Back from Switzerland (and reading)
7:43 Music (and television)
15:00 Conversation (and flourishing)
17:35 Michael Jordan
21:19 Feedback
22:04 NBA (and no electricity house)
29:42 Dominicans (and first impressions)
36:04 Politics (and incensed)
41:05 Taking things on faith
44:21 Patriotism
47:05 News
51:41 Abortion
55:56 Approached (and circumlocution)
1:05:30 Jet lag
1:09:45 Dissertation (how the mysteries of the life of Christ save)
1:21:29 Smack talk in sports
1:23:15 Sports (cricket, volleyball, golf)
1:27:27 Podcasts (Thomistic institute, Godsplaining, Catholic classics)
1:31:48 Catholic meme
1:32:31 Victory channel - ZĂĄbava
Iâm a simple man. I see Fr. Gregory Pine, I click.
Me too!!!
Except I'm a complicated woman. Haha
@@thatguyzwife đ€Ł same
đ€Ł Fr. Pine, sure sign of a good time!
I'm a simple church lady, and when I see Fr. Gregory Pine, I click.
Going to confession with Father Pine:
Me: I've been telling sinful jokes.
Fr. Pine: Can you give me an example?
Me: [Gives example]
Fr. Pine: [Laughs for 10 minutes] Yeah. That's pretty bad. OK. You're absolved.... Ummm... can you give me another example?
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"I want them all to be Catholic." Agreed. Yes. Amen.
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Fr. Gregory Pine, despite his self-deprecating comments, is very funny :D
Funning running into you here. How are you keeping up?
God fashioned Fr Pine to be so disarming in his goofy wit and charm. No one sees him coming with the hammer of God. I love him so much. Iâm reading his book Prudence and keep rereading pages because they are so delightfully written and dense in content. He reminds me of Chesterton. Iâm going to be giving it to a lot of people because itâs so little and big at the same time.
I like how horrified Fr. Pine is after Matt says âyou told me a joke onceâđđ
This is my simple housewife moment of the life of Christ conforming my heart: when my last child was a baby and I would do the rosary so I could pass the time and not start to rage at how long it was taking her to fall asleep. The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple gave me a lot of solace for a few reasons. First off, in today's day and age if a child was lost for three days everyone would talk so much trash about the mother and the parents and how they were absolute trash and that would never happen to me yadda yadda. Except we're talking about the only perfect mother that ever lived, so it makes you think. If she loved Jesus perfectly, and Holy Mother Church says she does, and she LOST Him for three days- that says a lot. Then, there is the fact that the perfect child- the Christ child essentially ran off and still ceased to be without sin and perfect. So when I was interiorly struggling with rage against my naughty child who would not sleep and feeling horrible for the anger I felt toward her and wondering why she was like this my thought was "it's okay." Jesus might've been a colicky baby even and Mary might've been mad or frustrated. So living in those moments with them I feel like (and maybe I'm totally full of it) I learned better of what was expected of my here in this life and how to have peace and glorify God through it.
A very beautiful and honest description of motherhood. Those nights with the croup tent set up, and the croupy baby who can't sleep. And me sitting up all night administering comfort and medicine, and inside, screaming, Please Lord, let us all get some sleep. I wonder if Mary ever cried the same prayer.
@@ivorybow beautifully said
Beautiful. â€ïžâ€ïž
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Thank You, Jesus, for this lighting. Giving Fr. Gregory Aquinasâ hair #answeredprayers
Oh Fr. Gregory, you have no idea how much we enjoy the banters among Godsplaining friars whenever they talk about random, seemingly mundane things. Fr. Bonaventure cracks me up. đ Looking forward to the next episode!
âUnhinged, but in a Very Delightful Wayâ: a memoir
Fr Pine has such a delightful laugh.
Fr. Gregory's laugh warms my lonely heart. Been binging on your videos, my sir, Matt, since I stumbled upon your channel.. God bless
"Very delightful" listening to Matt and Fr. Pine. My favorite listening experiences include Fr. Pine and the entire Godsplaining crew.
This was a wonderful conversation. I felt like I was with friends. Thank you
Father Gregory continues to always analyze his words and movements, even when it obvious that they mean nothing. Interesting how his mind functions, he really like to mean what he says
Itâs so cool to see Fr. Pine know things about basketball to the detail like the current state of a team like the jazz. Really helps me with having made the sport a true idol in the past, to see that it doesnât need to be totally abandoned as itâs not evil itself but being watched in moderation, to the glory of God, could still be done. Really nice! Thank you guys both for this great episodeđđŸ.
My favourite conversation are the ones you do with Father Gregory â€ïž
1:25 Bruh the look on Fr. Gregory Pine's face is priceless. Someone NEEEDS to turn it into a meme template!
0:19 too
Fr. Gregory has a great sence of humor!
This episode of Pints w Aquinas I especially love. It's two brothers sharing life together â€ïž it covers a whole gambit of subjects but most of how God's calling us where we're at; either in our vocation or station on life. Thank Matt, Fr Gregory Pine & the hands that make this possible. âïžđ
I need more long form with or of Fr. Pine. He's amazing. So are you Matt
Fr. Gregory Pine, thou dasnât sloweth thy speech! Thou hast enraptured mine ADOS (attention deficitâŠooh, shiny!) mind with thy rapier wit and primrose laugh, which bringeth a deeper appreciation of our Lord and the Holy Scriptures. Changeth not a thing, good sir, I implore thee! God bless you!
Youâre cool too, Matt, donât worry! Your channel is helping to bring this wayward wandering, increasingly disavowing Protestantism Christ follower home to Rome. Thank you for the great content, and please keep it coming!! đ
As a Protestant Christian, I have to say, Pints with Aquinas has become my top favourite CZcams channel, alongside with Matt and Fr Gregory Pine becoming two of my favourite gentleman, well, also Dr. Alex Plato because I am a bit of a philosophical nerd. đ God be with you đ€
I am a Trump fan! He gave us a SC that allowed for the overturning of Roe V Wade. Thank God truly there are patriots out there who see his value! Also, we conservatives do feel like underdogs. Famous people are angry about Roe V Wade being overturned. Saw a writer who said she has no words for her rage. She donates to abortion clinics and itâs just disappointing and discouraging to see people who have influence over others with their death views!
I am (a Trump fan) too...although, in a qualified sense. I agree with you about Roe v. Wade, and a lot of other good SCOTUS decisions. That said, I'm not a fan of every aspect of his character or personal history! To me, what mattered was "the mission, not the man": The country needed rescuing from various dangers. For that purpose, Trump was better than Clinton would have been; and would've been better than Biden has been; and that's why he got my vote both times. (Admittedly, "better than Clinton" and "better than Biden" are VERY low bars.)
In 2024, I'm confident Trump would again be better than anyone the Democrats could plausibly field...BUT, not necessarily better than anyone the Republicans might offer in the primary. At each stage, I think it's our responsibility to vote for the candidate whose administration/governance would be the least bad. For example, if (God forbid!) the two candidates were Mussolini and Hitler, I'd happily vote (!) for Mussolini (!!), not because I'm an Italian fascist (I'm neither!), but because the Italian was somewhat less genocidal than the German. Similarly, if it were Hillary Clinton vs. Hitler, I guess I'd have to vote for "Her" even while suppressing the urge to regurgitate. (In a different matchup between Clinton and an egg-sucking dog, I'd probably go canine.)
Another thing we have to consider is that, with chief executives, we're not really voting for the individual. The individual mainly gives speeches; but his allies and picks do the actual work. So, a vote for Trump isn't primarily a vote for him and his addiction to Tweeting. It's a vote for the whole cavalcade of persons who'll make up the cabinet and the congressional allies and the SCOTUS nominees and so on, because "personnel is policy." It's even a vote for a particular kind of press-treatment! ...since Clinton would have had adoring press running interference for her every illegality, whereas Trump had a hostile press conducting proctology with an electron microscope on a daily basis.
Now and in recent years, the persons who glom on to Democrat presidential candidates include some of the worst postmodernist, plutocratic, neo-Marxist, elitist, rent-seeking swamp-dwellers in all of American politics: The kind of psychopathic actors that get fat by propping up dictators around the world. That's one reason why even a relatively likable Dem like Tulsi Gabbard would be hard-challenged to get my vote: She herself might be pleasant enough (and the ending of Roe v. Wade renders her pro-choice-ism less relevant), but the crew who'd influence her and the congresscritters whom she'd empower might be just as bad as the crowd who're currently using Foggy Joe as their sock-puppet.
Anyway, those are just my thoughts on being a "Trump fan." It used to be that I had the luxury of voting for persons whose policies I liked, who also happened to have good family-friendly personal lives, pleasant personalities, and whose behavior in office would carry a Washingtonian kind of stable dignity. Back then, I could have said, "This is easy: vote for the better man!" ...and the judgment would have been holistically true in most areas of life. But in many years, one doesn't get that kind of easy choice, so I've had to evolve my standards towards the "lesser evil" approach. I wouldn't want to hire Trump as a dog-sitter (provided I had other better options). But I'd still vote for him in 2024 over any Democrat I'm aware of, if he were the candidate (because in that scenario, I'd have no better options).
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Understandable. I'd feel the same if I'd grown up Catholic, and the good SCOTUS justices were all Protestant. đ
(As it happens, I grew up in mostly Baptist and Baptist-esqe non-denom churches, with a little admixture of Reformed and Methodist. I only became Catholic as a result of some independent Bible & Patristics study in my late 30's, and I still speak the faith "with a Protestant-Evangelical accent," so-to-speak. So from my perspective, I'm kinda equally happy so long as it's any kind of Trinitarian Christian.)
I suppose we should both regard that kind of thinking as a temptation, though. After all, early Christianity had a habit of doing what they called "plundering the Egyptians" (in reference to the Exodus): Finding good and wise aspects in any culture, and taking the best from it while discarding the bad parts, in obedience to the Apostle Paul's dictum, "Test everything, hold fast to what is good." (1 Thess 5:21)
So if a smart idea, or a good SCOTUS decision, should happen to come out of Madagascar or the Incas or a big crowd of Apple Fanboys, or any other strange-and-exotic culture, we should still recognize it as a good thing, give thanks to God for it, and not be prejudiced against it on account of its origin. How much more so, if it comes from our fellow Christian brothers and sisters? đ
Best regards,
CW
I just had a convo with my friends and told them I want them to be Catholic and I have all the answers to their Protestant objections and Iâm ready for them if they want to. But I also respect them, so I donât come on too strong. We had a really good convo! It was nice. I hope they come to it in time.
I'm glad Australians made the first maps. That's how it should be. Good on you, Matt!
I love love love father Gregory. Pls father pray for my three sons to be as holy as you. God bless
Wow. I love listening to his crystallized explanation of his dissertation. So passionate and that makes me passionate and appreciative of Godâs plan. What I would give to be in Father Gregoryâs presence to converse with him!
Very happy to see the greatest comedian being praised by my favourite CZcamsrs. â€ïž
2 of the things I love - talking/thinking about Aquinas and the NBA.
Adding onto Gregory's point at 15:36, I feel like I've really learned from Matt how to engage interesting people well. I have not perfected it, by any means, but I hope that I've increased in my ability to have meaningful conversation with my friends and even people that I disagree with, rather than just shooting the breeze. I give a large amount of credit to PWA.
SO PUMPED FOR THIS EPI
Fr. Pine: You were in BogotĂĄ... So probably you could hang out with Fr. Nelson Medina???? đ
I love our Church!!! âïžâ€ïž
God bless this all the people behind this channel đ
Fr. Gregory is in the mood for dancing.
I almost exclusively watch k-dramas. One of the many things I love about them is that they're usually around 16 episodes long, so they're a concrete story divided in episodes. There's rarely a second season. Good stories with good characters and moral values aren't lost in them. They also tend to be really funny.
(I haven't watched Squid Game, nor do I intend to, I'm talking about the more typical Korean dramas here)
I feel like Kdrama is more wholesome and less dependent on hyper sexual themes
Matt, can I come on and chat with you at length about music? What it's for, what is good and bad music, what's the purpose of art in general, why progressive metal is the best genre ever, etc., etc.
I think Fr. Pine (like most people) greatly underappreciates just how massive the United States is in terms of landmass. A tiny, extremely wealthy country like Switzerland can easily implement solid public transportation. You can fit over 238 Switzerlands into the United States.
He's American so I suspect he understands that.
Sure, Switzerland is small, but the European continent is similar in area to the U.S. The industrial revolution and the railroad system (starting in 1827) in the U.S. changed our country (made it "smaller") for its citizens. That was almost 200 years ago. Would be nice if the U.S. would invest in it's national rail again and make it more robust.
That âplucking of the eyebrowsâ comment killed me đđ
Finished the Camino last week! Still reeling from the changes back to real life haha
Florida Georgia Pine đ the OG and best recurring PWA guest
It is difficult being attacked by a "fallen away" Catholic. Sometimes saying the beads for then is the tactic.
24 is truly remarkable. I am glad this was recognized here.
J'aimerais bien entendre pÚre Gregory parler français!
Totally agree with Fr Pine on the subject of music and TV, and Matt's comment on the 800th Marvel installment đ Love Pints discussions đ
English guy here. I love the cricket chat
Thumbs upđ for "SHIELA". đ€Ł
Is it the lighting, or is it that Fr. Pine is developing a natural tonsure?
Dr. Pine is talking salvation and Iâm thinking, âCan we get a hallelujah up in here!â.
I can totally relate to Fr. Pineâs feelings towards golf. Sadly.
Iâm thinking about studying theology in Fribourg next year. Shame I mist Fr. Pine
Speaking of music have you heard 'to his eternal servant, God grants one final glimpse of the morning star'?
Is a homage to Bach.
Michigander joke (sports related):
I want the Lions to be at my funeral...so they can let me down one last time.
24 is the greatest TV show from a major network!
Songs from the American Civil War are good like Garry Owen, The Grant Pill, Yellow rose of Texas and others.
Interesting to watch this episode a year later.
Yes to Stranger Things. It gets (IMHO) more and more biblical each season. Dr Michael Heiser has written a book about it.
I havenât watched it but what exactly is biblical?
@@DavidOrtiz-fd2lb If youâve read the whole Bible, itâs striking that the subtext of the show is alluding to many biblical themes, events and people.
How?
@@AngelBien "just trust me bro"
@@dargosian đđ
Oh noooo, why did i learn this just now.... You were in Bratislava last month? If only I had known...
Matt, if youâre reading this, listen to Wes Montgomery!
Is catholic classics not available yet?
I think an uncomfortable portion of this talk was Matt Fradd complaining about how everything is political and how tired he is of having these conversations, and then following up with those exact type of questions. Like it would have been cool to talk more about the Camino and not get interrupted with questions like, "What were the conversations with the Feminist Marxists on the Camino like?" Maybe a sign of addiction?
What's Father Gregory know about ultimate? Good bid! That's at least a league or two of experience.
0:00 I thought the young pope was being interviewed.
I am dull. I beg someone to please explain the baseball joke!
Iâve been a huge baseball fan my whole life and I didnât get it either lol
It's funny because you think the guy's name is Wayne so when he keeps hearing someone call for him it's natural for him to look around, thinking they are talking to him. But then you realize his name isn't Wayne.
30:35 Can anyone explain the 'SSPX types' comment?
Siri tells good jokes
it's good to have the band back together again
Lmao Matt with no filter talking about sports.
15:00 - John Vervaeke "dialogos"
One faith to rule them all in a non bad way XD
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17:00 a monk doesn't like stories where people die and come back.
Australia is upside down on the background đ
Yesterday's video with Charbel Raish explains why.
Matt: being Amish would be so cool!
Fr. Pine: No!
Iâm glad I found you, real question, wouldnât Jesus be communist?
Do a marathon episode with Trent about TV and films.
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I totally didnât get the baseball joke at the beginning of the video
Fr Pineâs face is the best during the joke
Agreed
Iâm pretty sure (could be wrong) the joke is just the fact that his name isnât Wayne. He has no reason to be startled no reason to get up because heâs not the person the guy behind him is yelling for
@@sebastiand7952 oh okay, so itâs just not funny.
@@marysanchez6382 indeed. It was a bad dad joke lol
I recall Dodgers executive Al Campanis lost his job speculating about why African Americans arenât better swimmers.
I have been watching this podcast for a long time.And as an African-American woman as a Catholic sister .I am scandalized.To realize that two prominent Catholics could say such racist comments hurts my soul.And especially a Dominican priest.
@@Iwas11 science!
@@Iwas11 I am not happy with the state of science, especially the social sciences. The science is never resolved.
Was the teacher whose house you went to happen to go by Magister? Does he refer to his wife as "The Queen"?
Is that a tonsure or just male pattern baldness? đ
Beach Boys:
God only knows what Iâd be without you
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Just a couple of quick questions. Why is the map of Australia upside down? Where is Tasmania?
We're a communal people so we all pushed on Darwin and Cairns to rotate the country and then we nuked Tassie. Shame about all those apples
Australia is upside down because if the Australians had made the maps, that's the way it would be. See the video titled something like "I called jimmy akin to settle a debate" for full context.
Can you give me a French jazz playlist as an example? đ
Why is Australia upside down?
I saw NBAâŠI click
Explain the Wayne joke
The guy had no reason to get so stressed out and drop his food etc. since the call was not for him. He should have just ignored it.
@@nedwards3409 why did he think the call was for him
@@danielm1991 Iâm pretty sure thatâs the joke lol
Why is the wooden map of AUSTRALIA upside down. Smack in the middle of the frame.??????
Watch the long form discussion right before this.
Is Fr Pine tonsured now?
Wait, Luisa Piccaretta name drop??I really want a weighted pastoral response regarding her writings. They seem super heretical and yet they are taking the church by storm.
I love Mussorgsky- whatâs with the Mussorgsky?
147 words per minute is low-balling it Fr. Pine
Can you imagine him and Fr. Mike having a conversation? đ
@@julielee9959 đ I'd die listening to that convo
You'd be glad to know they did have a conversation if not multiple ones. Maybe more glad to know that they recorded said conversation, which is shared on the Godsplaining channel under the series 'Guestsplaining'.
Jordan remarried and has twin daughters His older kids actually work with their dad in Jordan brand.
Why is Australia upside down đ
Yesterday's video with Charbel Raish is why.
Why is Florida correct way up ?
What's devil's favorite reality TV?
It is Florida Man.
Do it do it tempt it.
Tsk- And you call yourself Australian?đ What about Cold chisel? Their catalogue constitutes a modern Australian folklore (khe sahn for insurance)
MTV, Sony and Warner ruined music.
I loved Norm McDonald too even tho MOST of the time he was too vulgar. But when he was funny, he was hilarious. But why I liked him was because he was so politically incorrect-went after leftist sacred cows. And Matt, of course we had moth balls in America. Not sure we still do.
Very late, but here's a dumb joke for you, told as "advice for husbands" by a Canadian comedian.
Husbands, if you are ever out a little too late with the boys, it's always the same: You try to quietly sneak in the house, only to be caught, right? Well, here's what you do instead when you've been out late...
You roar in the drive way, pile on the brakes. Whip open the door and slam it closed. As you make your way up the stairs or down the hallway to the bedroom, stomp around making as much noise as you can. Burst open the bedroom door and cry out "My sweetness, your lover-boy has arrived!"
Nine times out of ten, she'll over and pretend she's asleep.
There is no verse in the Hebrew Bible nor the New Testament about abortion.
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his facial expressions are confusing lol
Honestly did not get that joke? Am I missing something. What does Wayne have to do with baseball?
Came here looking for the same thing! I donât get it.