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​​Counter Position- Episode 309- Heeeeeee’s Back! Andrew Returns from His Hiatus with More Ranting, Musing, and Everything You LoveIn this episode Andrew returns from his break from the show, explains why he took an unplanned hiatus, and gives a forecast for his media endeavors going forward. Then, Andrew tells the story of his friend Mike’s untimely death, his experience of that, the timely blessing that came from this tragedy, and what that all means for him and his project Calix, followed by the story of a FB dust up, a commercial for Disarming Beauty by Fr. Julian Carron with a key idea contained within, his history as the fat guy and a new diet, and finally a rant about people taking too long in the confessional. Plus, so much more!  BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/tt6jhd/Counter_Position_071717.mp3

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In this early morning episode a tired and somewhat punchy Andrew, after the recap of an uneasy weekend, a random scripture meditation on digging, TACers at mass, messing with Duckie about music, a dude watching Youtube on speaker while Andrew tries to eat epic brisket, and FrOLo from HoProMoGo rocks a Theology on Tap. Then, he turns to several sides of the Syria strike and declares “Socratic wisdom” on it, since he knows nothing and knows that he knows nothing. After a bit more political commentary, Andrew returns to his rumination and how shocked his at how not shocked he is and how little he is moved by the bombings in Coptic Churches in Egypt over the weekend and considers whether media is killing our/his reaction. Finally, after an exploration of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Andrew comes to a blinding flash of the obvious that what Plato was using as a metaphor for our relationship to the world of sense experience is our reality now. We in modern society are collectively epitomized by the teenage boy, underground, in the dark, staring at a screen, confusing video games or porn for real life, and in need of being pulled up and into the light…just to get back to the “Cave” Plato is talking about!! He ends with a quick reflection on Palm Sunday and that how those same people that greeted Jesus as a king with the palms were the same people yelling for him to be killed, and that we do the exact same thing all the time. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/dsvrga/Counter_Position_304.mp3

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In this landmark 300th episode, Andrew sits down digitally with his friend Michael Miley, drummer of the band Rival Sons, via the new tool for interviews at Ringr.com. Ringr opens a whole new world of distance interviews for Andrew, since he’s an tech moron and could never figure out the Skype hacks. Watch for way more interviews with super interesting people from inside and outside the Catholic world. In this conversation Andrew and Michael talk about the weather in Ventura County, Rival Sons new major label record deal, the new Rival Sons tour event Teatro Fiasco, our true vocation, utilitarianism, Karol Wojtyla, Viktor Frankl, and so much more. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/ciz8jg/Counter_Position_300.mp3

In this episode Andrew hangs at that house of his friend and Catholic speaker Chris Stefanick and his kids for a raucous episode in which they interview barbarian teenagers about their Lenten practice, get spiritual insight from little girls, witness a cat being put on a chandalier to catch a fly, and Chris let's his 14 year old daughter pour hot wax on his back and rip it off. Finally, Chris talks about the new season of Real Life Catholic coming to EWTN and Netfilx soon. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/dzqe5i/Counter_Position_299.mp3

In this episode, after a rumination on becoming callous to seeing terror on screens,  a tired, kicked, and beaten Andrew tells a late night saga of his day involving coffee, a Grace tune-up, burnt ends, meat candy, a broken and unresponsive iPhone, the universe laughing at his phone-based contingencies, ironic nomophobia, getting kicked by Verizon, being kicked while he was down by Google while down in Verizon, a trip to the mall, malls as casinos without the pure oxygen but with airplane air and no free scotch, being kicked while he was down in mall by Apple, an attempt at phoneless work, a second trip to the mall, being kicked by Apple again, brisket and the momentary solace of REM at Whole Foods, malls from his youth full of new games, cute girls, and dudes who looked like Duran Duran, Agua Preta Brazilian coffee, two Arabic dudes yelling at each to be heard over the music in their ear buds coupled with terror tension, a super loud phone talking guy sits right next to him in an empty cafe courtyard, a third…trip…. to the mall, 4 strikes at trying to buy a Santa Cruz hat, $138, a new screen on the iPhone, more information that he’s ever heard about Raider football, a scary and comforting story about a study on our brains, and………a shout out to Michael Miley. Boom!!https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/ndcs4t/Counter_Position_298.mp3

In this episode Andrew welcomes his new producer Lennon, while bemoaning the loss of his nerdy producer Jennifer, then proceeds with sinus headaches, organic urbanism, Benedictine monasteries as schools of hospitality, The Benedict Option, corned beef canon shenanigans, didgeridoo, putting a cheap bed together and feeling like building a frontier cabin, cleaning his room, adulating like a boss, revisiting a breakdown, St. Jospeh’s feast, reflections on alcohol and numbness of heart,  a lesson in spin, a trans person growing allergic to reduction, low rise vs. mom jeans, picking up chicks at wells in the OT, Ba’al worship, verification, encounter, and soooooo much more. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/pupvmf/Counter_Position_297.mp3

In this episode, after a establishing himself as throughly Irish all year long, Andrew says good-bye to his long time producer Jennifer Longworth as she packs up her Pokemon and Star Trek uniform and leaves Breadbox Media for other media pursuits. Then, Andrew sits down with his friend Jon Ervin to talk about how much better the Cardinals are than the Cubs, growing up in a small town, legal drinks, college conversions, FOCUS, the “smell of money” (it’s not what you think), tubing in TX, having Jesus down the hall, and so much more. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/xm5pfc/Counter_Position_296.mp3

In this episode a weary and still recovering Andrew, recording from a cool new booth, explores being haunted by one sided conversations, reading on the front porch, real conversation with the guy next door, reminiscing about what cafes used to be like in the stone age of the 90s, scientists who have found order in DNA and are claiming it is alien, revisiting Elon Musk on the us living in a simulation and how he’s not allowed to bring it up to his brother in the hot tub, Kimbal Musk’s new project The Kitchen and the attempt to bring real food to the masses, rescuing factory farms one acre at a time, what flying into SBA, oxygen masks, truck stops, and coffeehouses have in common, and a muse on what it would look like if our churches were real places, with real people, actually present to God and each other. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/zssq8k/Counter_Position_295.mp3

In this episode a sick but recovering Andrew does a freewheeling episode on sickness, NyQuil, sinus medicine vs. meth heads,a commercial for chicken stock,  corned beef, his “erotic” relationship to meat, St. Paddy’s Day, Irish immigrants, diocesan borders, the Divine localism, subsidiarity, John Senior, parishes as geographic reality, parish bells, The Angelus, how CL does the Angelus, wellness vs. not sick, snowstorms, the forceful impingement of the primacy of nature, stress, porn, fish’s relationship to water, Gary Wilson, cavemen in tennis shoes, and so so much more. https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/jkh4g2/Counter_Position_294.mp3

In this episode a sushi-coma-fied and over caffeinated Andrew talks about sushi, Indonesian waiters, Catholic News Agency peeps, being betrayed by babies, the challenges of not drinking on single Catholic social life, the British espresso nap, the reboot shower, liturgical imagination, ENFPs vs ISTJ in prayer, Stations of the Cross, Depeche Mode vs the Alt Right, Unlimited Data vs Wifi, the bots in your Twitter feed, trying to learn to use emojis, Esperanto, Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Lo and Behold, universal emotional states, a queer cafe on Kickstarter, the Third Place, Goths in Ventura, what is means to be welcome or safe, and…..he threatens to put tin foil in the ceiling of his cafe so people can talk again!https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/gfe4vb/Counter_Position_293.mp3

In this episode, after a chatty segment including Spring springing, a Lent update, how he has given up reacting to one small slip in his Lenten practice and just quitting like he used to, how Mark from Over the Counter lost his voice, and an apology over skipping a couple days of shows, a cheery but tired Andrew gets sidetracked on what was supposed to be a passing point on his outline and explores the ramifications of Wikileaks, the problems with digital attribution, the loss of belief in our senses, what this all has to do with Trump, how the RNC is a dog who caught up with the car they were chasing and don’t know what to do with it, and much much more political musing and ranting, despite his intentions for the show. Finally, spurred by a recent conversation, Andrew delves into a couple of insight from a talk by RR Reno and David Brooks about life, decisions, freedom, limits, and how to figure out what to do with your life. This show had a mind of its own evidently. https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/es9mtr/Counter_Position_292.mp3

In this episode Andrew, in a bit of a punch mood, after a weekend recap including laments over food and booze, Logan, great conversations, mentoring, 12 monkeys, Cardinal Stafford, and CL, turns to the fact that his Check Engine light came on. He uses this metaphor to explore our own physical and spiritual life, the current Tweeting presidency, the Gary Wilson TED talk on Porn, caveman brains, the availability of sugar, and sexual attraction. Finally, he looks very briefly at an idea in John Senior about “human scale” and “human pace”, along with Senior’s pessimism on technology, but instead of disagreeing wonders if Senior is going back far enough. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/6cfrei/Counter_Position_291.mp3

Andrew sits down with his friend Jeremy Rivera, founder of The Little J Marketing Company to talk about how Jeremy went from a cultural Catholic party kid at CU Boulder, to a Protestant pastor, then after a confrontation with Archbishop Charles Chaput, to return to his Catholic faith, work for FOCUS, and found an innovative new marketing firm. ​https://BreadboxMedia.podbean.com/mf/web/aveqnb/Counter_Position_290.mp3