Pints With Aquinas - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This show has carried me through cancer. Then an infection due to cancer. Than to realizing I don’t trust God. Then to realizing just how much I need to grow but also the hope in how to do that. And after each and every single episode, I get the same feeling that I get after a down-to-the-wire football game in double overtime. I take out my AirPods. I wipe my tears. And I realize- dang. I love God so much.

It’s almost embarrassing how often I bring this show up in conversation, but I can’t help it cause it’s that good! Great topics, excellent guests and easy and enjoyable to listen to. I look forward to every new episode.

Protestant listener here. The theological insights in the latest Christopher West episode are powerful, healing, and worth revisiting several times over. But more powerful still is two men having a truly open conversation about their pain and process. Thank you for this!!! I’ve shared it many times already.

“Where the thinking of the philosopher halts, there the heart of the believer presses on in love and adoration … in order to follow in [Christs’s] footsteps.” Pope Frances, Dilexit Nos. This quote gets to the heart of Matt’s ministry: pondering in the depths of the heart. Thank you for sharing your heart and spirituality with the church! Your vulnerability and spiritual intimacy are so life giving! Your most recent episode with Christopher West blessed me, my husband, and many of my family members.

This show has so much promise but Matt has a maddening habit of repeatedly, back to back interrupting guests when they are trying to answer his questions or talk about their expertise. It turns this into more of a one man monologue in the company of a guest than a long form podcast with interesting guest perspective. Some episodes he does better than others.

Can you please get back to a more reasonable length show? Say, 90 minutes maximum. Few people want to spend three hours plus listening to you drivel on… absolutely positive anything you say of worth can be whittled down by half. I’m not judging content here, that’s usually, at least more than half the time, quality and guests are good but the nonsense has got to be filtered. Especially when other podcasts are covering the same material and recently have done so much more qualitatively and succinctly. Seriously, Fradd? Do better. On the other hand thanks for the nap, I didn’t feel like I missed much when I dozed off mid-broadcast. Quality content or Quantitative content. Can’t have both.