The Whaley Show

The Whaley Show

The Whaley Show is a podcast by Andrew Whaley, founder of the apostolate Calix. Andrew brings his unique take on things from over 20 years of studying philosophy, theology, art, business, and design while processing those ideas daily over the bar in his coffeehouses with people of all walks of life, most of them being the unchurched/dechurched.

Episodes

November 2, 2018
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In this episode: double culpa, travel shenanigans, SoCal bliss, keto fails, Thomas Fire, Shobefest, his happiest place in the universe, commentary on the Kavanaugh circus, $1.50 for air and the loss of service culture, 48, disappointing Indian Food, Chef’s Table, the loss of culture, killing chickens, college towns, a muse on the concept A Movable Feast, and so much more.
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September 14, 2018
In this all chat and muse episode Andrew breaks his rule already about talking about the scandal, but covers fasting, cell death, weight loss, break-fast, being on fire, Santa Barbara Keto Crawl, Mom makes her own tea, Mr. Man gets attacked by inanimate objects, half a bowl of food = the apocalypse, Perception vs. reality, LSD, faculties and objects, The Abolition of Man, Matrix in the seminar, being loved as self disclosure, Fr. J...
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September 7, 2018
In this episode: The Mom Report: Mom turns “41”, gets a shot, and eats a bunch of fried fish; 40lbs down, Calix blowing up, what happened to last week’s podcast, the early Church, it’s been worse, can’t do commentary on the darkness anymore, and shifting to beauty. Then, Andrew interviews Dr. Beau Braden about his attempt to build a small community hospital near Ave Maria, FL, the resistance from a larger hospital 45 miles away, sa...
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In this episode: cold and rainy is good, a very religious Sunday, visiting the Orthodox, forgotten seeds all sprouted, funerals as the memory of fire, campus ministry blowing up in here, big fat birthday shout out to Miley, recap and new rules for the drinking game, John Senior and the Restoration of Realism, guilt and reading, Is is, Augustine + Kerouac = Merton’s Seven Story Mountain, a muse of the good of being, going back to gr...
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Chat: Mom's on Team Altra, going out, Ebb & Flow Fermentations, Dewayne Schaaf and being German as a superpower, Tanya’s fresh eyes, in praise of long country drives, American Grassfed Beef, Family Friendly Farm, back to being an almost college town, in praise of Fall, Chesterton and Pimlico, loving discontent, The One Thing You Really Need to Know, and getting the itch. Chat/Muse: Andrew embarks on a confusing and possibly ill...
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In this episode, after an extended chatty travelogue about his trip to Denver including: feeling like a Hertz big shot, STAAAAHHHHGAAAZZZUUUUHHH, “goging”, a beautiful wedding for beautiful people, “chubbahockas”, digits, the Divine Liturgy, suuuuushiiiiii-ish, getting loved on, being surprised by getting to hang with his best friend Justin Schneir (drink.), and travel karma. Then, he addresses his last show, revisits married pries...
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In this episode: travel mea culpas, Denver plans, priests as wingmen,Northeast Minneapolis reflections, Edith Stein, vocation and waiting, coffeehouse reports, Gamay in Burgundy, ethnic parishes, and a lot more. Then, Andrew talks about the current flare up of scandals in the Church, McCarrick, the new PA grand jury report, abuse in the Church, the tone deaf responses from bishops, and frustration over this all again. Finally, he k...
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In this episode: back on planes, getting swoll, a recipe for meta beef stock, didn’t blind trust of the intelligence community get us into Iraq?, the irony of guys in Che Guevara shirts protesting a rich white capitalist not taking a former KGB agent to task like Ronald Reagan did the USSR, Obama’s speech on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mandela, Obama vs. the shout down culture, Fox shout down culture, callout/shoutdown vs...
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In this episode: 30 days on the diet, nightshades are shady, ugly vs. fat, a scandalous story of Andrew accidentally picking up a model in a bar, fashion advice for historical Steve Jobs, Mac purging as a spiritual discipline, being accosted by beauty with affection at Aldi and other public places, Facebook questions about toilet paper, climate’s effect on worldview, and the Jaques Maritain/Saul Alinksky correspondence, Thai soccer...
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In this very Whaley episode with something offend or confuse everyone: mea culpas for a week off, DNA and humidity, lemons as transporter/kick in the gut, Mom report = Mom is killing it, diet on track, massive shout out to Shrine Coffee, StoryBrand, Unrepeatable, narrative as a pattern, political rant with border babies, abortion, defending Trump by saying Obama did it, the last honest journalist at NPR, ICE, Obamas immigration re...
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In this episode, after an update on keto, weight loss and hope, Missouri weather acclimation, The Long Cut, Father’s Day grub getting, the joy of horseradish, annoying giggly girls, the new office, StoryBrand, Fr. Leo and Shoot the Shiitake, and a super huge birthday shout out to Hope Schneir, with epilogue on Catholics making good music, Andrew settles in for a good old fashioned rant, with moments of musing, but still ranting….”...
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In this episode: Altra running shoes revisited, meditations on keto, being fat and interventions, a family reunion, fights about Wal-mart, the little UN of Jay’s Crispy Chicken, on the killing of chickens, the Peloponnese in Southern MO and IL, the Civil War, a hack for automotive technology as a communication of human intention, Trump in Singapore and a recalling of predictions, Anthony Bourdain, suicide revisited, on being remove...
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In this episode Andrew talks about Spring making him homesick, traffic filled with retired farmers, the healing power of Pearl Jam, sushi-ish, a new discovery of the largest organ in our body, life as the hermeneutic, Charles DeKonnick, teleology, a magic abortion video, what it means to be an Irish Catholic and what that has to do with where you get married, Big Chicken, hunter/gatherer savings accounts, weird running shoes, Austr...
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In this episode a tired and very non-linear Andrew covers the difficulty of numbering during an epic time shift, the new iTunes feed, being ripped out of being a selfish bachelor and into making another first, braving the bra section at JC Penny, The Grateful Dead, a strange and arresting encounter with some deer, attention as a super power, Dr. Blum imitating an analog rhythm in a digital communication, Ireland breaking his heart,...
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In this episode, Andrew limps and trips through his rusty yet triumphant return to the world of podcasting with his newly rebranded show. He covers where he’s been, where he is, his mom’s BFS (Big Fat Stroke), The Royal Wedding, liturgy and fashion, homiletics and Mad Libs, the Trinity, deification, Troy:The Fall of a City, Facebook questions and shout outs, and so much more.
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