S11 Episode 27 – Invitation to joy

Three Dogs North

In this episode, the dogs talk about Connor’s new “dumb” phone (0:55) and his experience living without an iPhone for the past ten days (4:30). Rob poses the question: “How many good friends are you capable of having?” (24:30) and the dogs give their own definition of true friendship (29:00).

Quotes:

• “The iPhone isolates me and it makes me live my life and perceive the world through the prism of artificial reality.” (Connor, 5:04)
• “(A friend is) someone with whom you have no qualms about sharing the entire contents of your heart.” (Connor quoting St. Aelred of Rievaulx, 25:25)
• “I have a more general definition of friendship: someone who, if I was in a pickle, I could call and count on them.” (Mike, 28:55)
• “I don’t have anybody with whom I have no qualms about sharing the entire contents of my heart, only God. God is my friend, but no one else.” (Connor, 30:21)
• “You know how to follow the directions in the video game that is your life.” (Connor on GPS, 35:35)

Media Mentions:

• Wired’s “AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform- Call It Mirrorworld”
• The Office
• Aziz Ansari’s Nightclub Comedian
• Sean Paul’s What Sean Paul Can’t Live Without
• Ready Player One (2018)

Shout- Outs:

• Fr. Nick Blaha
• iPhone
• Oculus
• Verizon
• Andy Bernard
• Dwight K. Schrute
• Atlanta, GA
• Chicago, IL
• Instagram
• TikTok
• St. Aelred of Rievaulx
• Fr. Thomas Byrne
• Facebook
• AIM
• Safari
• Springfield, IL
• Mundelein

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