The Happiest Job on Earth
What is the happiest job on earth? Listen to the latest episode of The Break with Fr. Roderick to find out. Recorded in Overland Park, Kansas, right before the start of this year’s Catholic New Media Conference!
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New SQPN Show: Secrets of Pan Am
Captain Jeff and Fr. Roderick join forces in a new podcast series about the ABC TV Show ‘Pan Am’, about the world of aviation in the sixties.
The podcast series follows the stories and gives background information and commentary – from the perspective of an airline pilot and from that of a Catholic priest who loves flying.
Click on this link to listen to the pilot episode of the podcast!
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September 22: Hobbit Day!
Dave Kale and Fr. Roderick talk about Hobbit Day and bring you the latest news from New Zealand in a new episode of ‘Secrets of The Hobbit’.
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Jawas and Saint Januarius
Fr. Roderick reviews the Blu-ray version of a movie he already watched over 100 times: Star Wars IV: A New Hope. And what to think of the intriguing liquefaction of the blood of Saint Januarius, patron saint of the city of Naples?
Click here to listen and subscribe to the latest episode of ‘The Break’!
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Jimmy Akin, Pirates and the Flying Spaghetti Monster
September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD), a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.
Today, the initiative still sparks a lot of creativity and many jokes on social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Over time, the parody was embraced by fans of another parody – of religion this time: the so called ‘Pastafarians’, followers of the “Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster”.
According to Wikipedia (link), the Flying Spaghetti Monster “first appeared in a satirical open letter written by Bobby Henderson in 2005, protesting the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to permit the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes.”
“In the letter, Henderson parodied the concept of intelligent design by professing belief in a supernatural creator that closely resembles spaghetti and meatballs. Henderson further called for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism to be allotted equal time in science classrooms alongside intelligent design and evolution.”
Pirates
According to Pastafarian “beliefs”, pirates are “absolute divine beings” and the original Pastafarians. The depiction of pirates as “thieves and outcasts” would be misinformation spread by Christian theologians in the Middle Ages.
In his letter, Henderson presented the argument that “global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of pirates since the 1800s.”
With the addition of pirates to his satire, Henderson parodied the suggestion from some religious groups that the high numbers of disasters, famines and wars in the world are due to the lack of respect and worship towards God.
‘Followers’ of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are encouraged to observe ITLAPD each year and talk like a pirate would for the entire day, even at work.
Jimmy Akin
In a recent episode of his new podcast, Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin offers an in-depth discussion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster phenomenon and its implied reasoning.
Click here to listen and to subscribe:
http://www.jimmyakin.org/2011/09/podcast-episode-011-jimmy-vs-the-flying-spaghetti-monster.html
Photo credit: link
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Captain Jeff Brings Back ‘Catholic Pilot’
Jeff Nielsen, host of SQPN’s show ‘Catholic Weekend’, is back with a new episode of his podcast ‘Catholic Pilot’.
After focusing on his ‘Airline Pilot Guy’ podcast for a while, Jeff decided to bring back his ‘Catholic Pilot’ show to be able to share more personal and more Catholic content.
Click here to listen to captain Jeff’s first new episode in which he explains why he decided to bring back the ‘Catholic Pilot’ show in addition to ‘Airline Pilot Guy’.
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Middle-earth Cosmology
In this episode, the crew of Secrets of Middle-earth looks at the night sky above the hills of Eregion, and explores Tolkien’s cosmology.
Click here to listen and to subscribe.
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9/11 Ten Years Later
The hosts of Catholic Weekend remember where they were on that fateful day, September 11, 2001. This 10th anniversary marks a somber day in American history.
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John Clem
Thanks for the show about 9/11. u00a0Fascinating to here about Capt. Jeff’s experience as a pilot from that day. u00a0I also wrote about 9/11 in my recent blog post: http://www.calltoholiness.us/?p=318u00a0
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John Clem
Thanks for the show about 9/11. u00a0Fascinating to here about Capt. Jeff’s experience as a pilot from that day. u00a0I also wrote about 9/11 in my recent blog post: http://www.calltoholiness.us/?p=318u00a0
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John the Baptist and Babylon 5
In their ongoing episode-by-episode analysis of the classic science fiction series Babylon 5, Beth and Fr. Roderick stumble upon an episode full of veiled references to John the Baptist and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Nooooooooooooo!!
Fr. Roderick gives his take on the changes George Lucas made to the Star Wars movies for their Blu-ray release and talks about the confrontation between Thor and Jesus Christ in 9th century Holland. All that and more in this week’s episode of ‘The Break’!
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Chelsea Forster
Bless you Father Roderick! u00a0I was just cleaning my kitchen while you talked about your new dishwasher! u00a0I too enjoy cooking, but I’m always a bit sad when I finish and it looks like a tornado has come through. u00a0Dishwashers are a truly a gift from God! u00a0Happy Cooking!
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Jclem413, 
San Francisco Pan Am, 
Chelsea Forster is discussing. 
Jclem413 12:08 pm on October 12, 2011 Permalink |
Enjoyed the latest podcasts and appreciated the guest airline attendant’s comments. u00a0Hope that the Acme pilots are not now singing Mr. Trololo Guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
Jclem413 1:29 am on October 7, 2011 Permalink |
My mother was a stewardess for SAS (Scandanavian Airlines) during the 60′s and she enjoyed the show and brought back memories of the times. u00a0She enjoyed trips to Rome and Paris and said she felt safe traveling as a young single woman at the time, but would not even consider it safe today.
San Francisco Pan Am 10:40 pm on October 3, 2011 Permalink |
I enjoyed the show somewhat.u00a0 My dad was a Pan Am 707 captain out of SFO in the 1960′s and flew out of JKF during the 1950′s.u00a0 He as one of first 707 jet pilots in the world and was one of the first 747 pilots in the world too.u00a0 BTW, Boeing always gave the first orders of their planes to Pan Am.u00a0 The other airlines got them later than Pan Am..u00a0 Pan Am was unique.u00a0 Tower radio calls NEVER identified Pan Am as the carrier but always called out Clipper flight XXX instead.u00a0 Further Pan AM’s cockpits had extra room in them for sleeping quarters.u00a0 They never allowed the pilots to sleep in the main cabinet as other airlines do today.u00a0 Lastly because Pan Am ONLY flew international flights (Except inner Germany to Berlin), ALL airline stewardess had to speak fluently a foreign language.u00a0 u00a0 Further my mom was a Pan Am stewardess in the 1950′s.u00a0 She would laugh at the flipant show aspects that they show.u00a0 The inspection thing is completely wrong.u00a0 Pan AM stewardess were not treated like show girls but bright young ladies because invariably they were more educated than typical flight attendents.u00a0 There were men stewards too at Pan Am.
Chris Wiegman 1:01 am on September 30, 2011 Permalink |
So what was the verdict? Worth watching?
Jan 5:35 am on September 25, 2011 Permalink |
This is great!u00a0 I’m subscribing to the show on my DVR.u00a0 This December will be 22 years in the industry for me.