In this episode, the dogs discuss the heroes journey (12:45) and Rob asks the question: If we're made for home, then why do we leave (14:00)? Rob gives his favorite Summer Reading combinations (7:55), Connor references the gospel of Luke (19:00) as well as SNL (24:30), and Mike shares what it's like to maintain values while developing his career in the army (28:22).



Quotes:



"Culture without substance is empty." (Mike, 1:30)



"There’s nothing you can do but kick your horse.” (from Lonesome Dove, 10:45)



"Life is about relationship." (Mike, 18:09)



"That's the cross and resurrection. The way to life is death." (Connor 19:30)



"My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours." (Luke 15:31, 23:15)



“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you." (from Augustine's Confessions, 25:20)



“The ways that we live in "untruth" for some “greater good” can actually mar us and change us.” (Mike, 28:41)



“The framework for the question of growth is off if it’s just about you.” (Rob, 32:50)



"To be the truly human image of God, where you're an unselfconscious gift to God... that's holiness... you just have to receive it and step into that river with Jesus.” (Connor, 36:50)



“You’ve answered all my questions because now I’ve seen you.” (Mike, 40:20)



Media Mentions:



* Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)* Pride & Prejudice (2005)* A River Runs Through It (1992)* Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice* Downton Abbey (2010- 2015)* Art of Manliness Podcast #871: Jane Austen for Dudes* Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited* Matt Fradd’s interview with Peter Kreeft* J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings* Unbroken (2014)* Louisa May Alcott's Little Women* Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn* Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove* Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces* Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)* Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It* Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild* The Prodigal Son* C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce* It's a Wonderful Life (1946)* Last Supper Discource (John 14- 17)* Romano Tours - SNL* Augustine of Hippo's Confessions* Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life* Joe Pug's After Curfew* Peter Kreeft's lecture on Till We Have Faces* C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces* Job (38:3)