{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Three Dogs North","title":"S11 Episode 82- Look higher","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/3925dcac\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2442,"description":"In this episode, the dogs discuss summer movies (1:00), putting the highest goods first (14:00), and how God uses His incarnational reality to draw us into deeper communion (29:40). Additionally, Michael Metz discovers the hermeneutic circle in real time (30:40).\nQuotes:\n“How important it is for me to not try and take the greatest goods and use them as a manipulation to get the things that I want.” (Michael Metz, 14:00)\n\"Treat the good as a good not because it’s beneficial, but just because they are good in and of themselves.” (Michael Metz, 14:55)\n\n\"You can fail to enjoy even the secondary goods when you don’t put the highest good first.” (Connor, 22:10)\n\"Nothing really can ever be lost; the giver of every good gift has promised, 'I am with you always even until the end of the age.'” (Connor, 23:10)\n“No doubt, it is a great grace to receive the sacraments. When God does not permit it, it is good too! Everything is grace!” (Connor quoting St. Therese, 25:50)\n\"In the caverns of a baptized soul, there is this love. You don't stop being a person, you don't stop being a person who wants all the things people want, but you’re able to freely give them up.” (Connor, 35:50)\n\"We also need to be open to receiving the good things that God wants to give us.” (Michael Metz, 37:10)\n\nMedia Mentions:\nThe Odyssey (2026)\nThe Rivals of Amziah King (2025)\nJohn Wick series\nThe Beekeeper (2024)\nThe Italian Job (2003)\nSnatch (2000)\nLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)\nSpider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)\nToy Story 5 (2026)\nWishbone (TV series- 1995)\n1 Kings 18 (Elijah and the prophets of Baal)\nC.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed\nSermon on the Mount\n\nReferences: \nMatt Damon\nKurt Russell\nJason Statham\nCharlize Theron\nMark Wahlberg\nGuy Ritchie\nNetflix\nAnne Hathaway\nChristopher Nolan\nTroy\nBishop Barron\nMother Teresa\nSt. Therese of Lisieux\nDr. Scott Hahn\nMissionaries of Charity (in St. Louis)\nHermeneutic circle: See- Judge- Act\nPope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)\nRéginald Garrigou-Lagrange\n...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fmQ3QKV6IiBC-jz1PoM8qxZXYOKo7VzBQBiCcG0oaZU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NzM1/ZjM3N2NkMzI4Yjdm/YTk3YWUzM2U0NTY1/OWViMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}