Daily Breakfast #229
In today’s show: Help us triple our audience; digg the SQPN podcasts on Digg.com! JJ Abrams talks about the new Star Trek movie! SQPN’s Fr. Bill Holtzinger at MacWorld 2007; Feedback on Apple’s iPhone; chocolate covered cranberries; blessed water and simony questions; the right to sacraments; think big.
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PS: He did a really good job 
Hey, Father Roderick! No showlinks!? Is there a problem…?
Wow, that’s weird. I added them, and they disappeared… Anyway, I put them back up.
Dear Fr. Roderick,
Jack
Ann Arbor is situated in the State of Michigan, and this is a beautiful small city about 40 min. drive west of Detroit. Ann Arbor is also where the famous University of Michigan resides.
Enjoy the the chocolate-covered cranberries.
Aaaaaaaaaaah this is better!
Just put in my votes on Digg for Daily Breakfast & Catholic insider a few others.
But hey, Digg is a social website, we can have more fun there by engaging in the social side of it. It’s all about sharing the votes and comments on Digg. I’d love to add fellow SQPN listeners (and hopefully those who create the shows too!) to my friends list.
I’ll start the ball rolling by inviting you to add me as a fried (look for smithco on Digg), and if you post your Digg username here, I’ll add you too.
As far as “spreading the word,” would it be possible to put some sort of advertisement suitable for church bulletins somewhere on the website? I wouldn’t mind copying it and putting it in my parish bulletin, but I wouldn’t presume to create my own SQPN ad (even if I had the artistic ability!) If listeners wanted to place an ad in their parish bulletins, that would support both the parish and SQPN.
I’m qniverse on Digg…been a member there for a while now. Awesome site.
Father,
About having only 4,000 listeners–a lot of people must subscribe through the main SQPN feed, surely? Some other people, like me, also now use podcast aggregators like, BT PodShow (you tipped me off to that by mentioning the DSC), which may skew the statistics (if it caches/buffers it)!
I’m finding my reading stats for blogs are skewed because of aggregators. The content is downloaded from me only once, but serve up to many people. Anyway, digg won’t let me digg twice!
Dear Fr. Roderick,
I added one “digg” for the Daily Breakfast podcast.
I’ll tell you how I started to listen to the DB: I enjoy reading each article written by an American columnist Charley Reese every time his new column gets on the web at http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese-arch.html.
About a half year ago, he wrote about your podcast in a column called “A Good Podcast”, which you can find at http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese305.html. It goes like this: “It’s hard to say exactly why I’m drawn to him. I think it is his unending cheerfulness and enthusiasm for almost everything that comes his way, his unfailing kindness, and his honesty. One shouldn’t be fooled by his lighthearted banter.” The most appealing part to me is, “Father Roderick can still see the beauty even when he’s peddling a bicycle in a cold rainstorm on his way to preach a funeral for a friend.”
Isn’t this a fantastic review for your podcast!
- Mitsuhiko from Saitama, Japan
Fr. Roderick - I think that you are right on target regarding the pathway that many people follow to programs like Catholic Insider and Daily Breakfast. I found them via The Secrets of Harry Potter and The Secrets of Star Wars. When I got my first iPod, the first thing that I did was search for those two topics on iTunes. Both your programs showed up. I didn’t pay any attention to who was creating the programs, it was the subject matter that appealed to me. When I heard that a Catholic priest was the host/creator of the show, I was given a moment of pause. Now, I’m Catholic and have been active in the Church. Up until the birth of my second son I ran the Young Adult group at our parish. Having said that, I had a definite impression of religious broadcasters - and it wasn’t a good one. Religious broadcasting has always creeped me out. It struck me as trying too hard on the part of the hosts, sometimes it seemed a little condescending, sometimes a little sanctimonious, sometimes well-intended, but totally not connected to the world that I lived in. When watching television, my immediate response to a religious program was to turn the channel and I couldn’t fly past a religious radio channel fast enough. Your programming sneaked up on me. I listened to the two programs and by the end I wasn’t thinking - this is a program done by a priest - I was thinking this is a program done by Fr. Roderick and isn’t it cool that this smart, funny, and very genuine person who is interested in the same things that I am is Catholic. I found your take on Star Wars and Harry Potter very similar to my own and your programs intelligent, entertaining, and informative. So, I decided to see what else you had done and started listening to Catholic Insider. I’ve seen my reaction repeated in many of the other people that I’ve told about the programs. Fr. Roderick, you have done more to improve the image of the Catholic church among my non-Catholic friends than anything else that they’ve been exposed to. Through your podcasts you present the world with exposure to a person interested in the things that many other people are interested in who is elbows deep in living a full, challenging, life, fully integrated into the communities in which you live, who has at the center of your life and informing all aspects of your life, your faith. That is the thread that runs through all of the more obviously religious SQPN shows. Rosary Army, Saintcast, Catholic in a Small Town, etc…they do the same thing - these people are teachers, parents, doctors, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, and they share their lives and are active witnesses to the notion of a living faith.
I think, in the end, that is the greatest gift of SQPN: to actively demonstrate that faith doesn’t have to be something to set people apart, but instead is something that can be part of a rich, complex, challenging life informing all that we do and leading us to embrace who we are. In doing so, like the people who produce programming for SQPN, we become a living testament to the grace of our faith.
Looks Like you can add a Digg once a day, or else it’s once in a specific category, and then once in the general
category? Is anyone more knowledgeable than I am in the Digging rules and regulations?
Most of the SQPN podcast are on the top now!!!!
Fr R –
In the Peculiar Bunch, you mention the Sacrement of ‘Unction of the Sick’, which used to be called Extreme Unction, it is now called the Anointing of the Sick.
Thanks to Maureen and to Mitsuhiko for their comments above!