Episode 4: A New Soap?

Catholic Nerds

The Catholic Nerds nerded out on … cleanliness? The Earth’s mightiest nerds tackle a new spate of pseudo-religious semi-feminist books: listen to the Catholic critique of Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis, Linda Kay Klein’s Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, and Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

Face front, true believers! How should purity, chastity, masculinity and femininity, virtue and responsibility be taught to young people? And what about stuff? Why do we accumulate so much stuff - some Catholic Financial Advisor tips - and so little that actually means much? How do you tidy up the Catholic way? How do Catholic families limit the stuff, the crazy amounts of toys, to give them the gift of order? And how about Disney personifying and anthropomorphizing toys all the time?

Colby and Cody lament their Pokeman collections, while Scott laments Garbage Pail Kids, Pong, and 90s baseball cards. But our nerd-hearts will go on ...

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Everything referenced in the episode:

• Here’s a great book for authentic Catholic manhood, The Catholic ManBook
• Here’s Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, though it doesn’t carry the Catholic Nerds seal of approval
• For more financial advice from the Catholic Advisors
• Here’s that millennial missionaries video on YouTube
• For more on Catholic fatherhood and St. Joseph, check this article out
• How do parents determine their children’s faith? How important is the faith of the father?
• Here’s that “Jack’s Back” Titanic 2 trailer that Colby mentioned
• Scott’s other Super Nerd website, Nerdatron, and here’s that article on the best fan theories

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