

The BeatiDudes
The BeatiDudes
A religiously funny podcast for Christian men seeking authentic fraternity. Each week, The BeatiDudes explore life from the perspective of men seeking to follow God's will while they grow closer together in holiness and humor. TheBeatiDudes.com
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Oct 23, 2026 • 28min
Patron Saint Party | George Jacobson | Episode #372
The patron saint of coffee is also the patron saint of unattractive people, and his story is holier than the joke. St. Drogo was disfigured by disease on pilgrimage and reportedly seen in two places at once. He spent the rest of his life in a little shed beside a church, receiving the Eucharist through a window.
George Jacobson is back with the BeatiDudes, Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein, to share the stories behind the Church’s most surprising patrons. They range from the Valentine who secretly married Christian couples while imprisoned by Rome to the Doctor of the Church you call on for bowel trouble (the BeatiDudes do not handle that one maturely).
Underneath the laughs is a simple case for why Catholics ask the saints to pray for them at all: we already ask our friends to pray for us, and the saints are friends who are more alive than ever. The BeatiDudes watch the viral video of a priest so overcome at the consecration that he breaks down behind the altar. George also shares the story of his confirmation saint, St. Anthony of the Desert, a rich young man who arrived late to Mass just in time to hear the Gospel about the rich young man, then gave it all away and walked into the desert. Funny, nerdy, and unexpectedly moving, this conversation reminds us that we live in a supernatural world, and we don’t walk through it alone.
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Oct 19, 2026 • 44min
Viral Videos & Viral Grace | George Jacobson | Episode #371
George Jacobson never won a single catechism bee. As a kid, he memorized the Baltimore Catechism word for word, qualified every time, and still lost.
Now, at 20, he teaches the faith to more than 200,000 people on Instagram. It started when basketball season ended his senior year and left him 4 free hours a day, which he spent talking about Mary. About 800 videos later, a simple Canva graphic on how to pray the rosary has reached over a million people, and his breakdown of five incorrupt saints has crossed two million views, all from a guy who freely admits he’s terrible at editing. Turns out authenticity travels further than polish.
George pulls up a chair at the Tiny Table with Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein to talk relics (and where to find them in Scripture), the “Almost Sunday” posts that flipped a party meme into a countdown to Mass, and what a 20-year-old does when a flood of prayer intentions lands in his inbox. The BeatiDudes also risk their credibility in a live catechism bee, and George’s girlfriend Delaney calls in from the highway to share what she cherishes about him.
Joyful, funny, and a little humbling, it’s a reminder that the Catholic faith is worth getting nerdy about.
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Oct 16, 2026 • 25min
Came for Hoops, Stayed for Heaven | Cliff Riley, Esq. | Episode #370
Cliff Riley went to the University of Dallas to play Division 3 basketball, and almost as soon as he arrived, he started applying to transfer out. Ninety pages of reading a day and a campus full of rules seemed like a steep price for a jump shot, and he came very close to heading home to UCLA. Then the Great Books got under his skin, and so did a group of guys who were real athletes, totally normal, and dead serious about their faith. The school he tried to escape is where his faith eventually started.
Cliff Riley is back at the Tiny Table with Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein of The BeatiDudes, this time to tell his own faith story. His dad studied for the priesthood, left seminary, and spent years away from the Church before finding his way back. Cliff explains why a classical education teaches you that the hardest questions are ancient ones, and why no political program or two-hour HR seminar will ever erase the line between good and evil that, as Solzhenitsyn put it, runs through every human heart. Plus: why spring Romers claim to be holier, why an entire Catholic university goes all in on Groundhog Day, and exactly how many credit hours Jeff is from finishing his MBA.
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Oct 12, 2026 • 50min
Litigation with Salt & Light | Cliff Riley, Esq. | Episode #369
Cliff Riley argues for a living, which makes it strange that his biggest career move came the moment he stopped trying to control the outcome. Six months ago, he left a litigation partnership at a large national firm for a small boutique called SL Law (strategic litigation, though everyone calls it Salt and Light), taking cases for religious objectors and against abortion providers. Roughly half the work only pays if he wins, with four kids at home and a fifth on the way. His plan was a novena, honest homework, and the hardest thing a high-agency man can do – simply let go.
His college roommate was supposed to be the lawyer. Then he announced he wanted to be a monk. Cliff takes a seat at the Tiny Table with Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein of The BeatiDudes to talk about that friendship, a federal judge with four Harvard degrees and a Darth Vader voice whose own kids were unimpressed, why dads earn their respect in adolescence, and why discernment is less about white-knuckling the answer than doing your part and trusting God with the rest. The billion-hour jokes start early and never stop.
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Oct 9, 2026 • 45min
Arm Wrestling with God | Fr. John Anthony, CFR | Episode #368
Fr. John Anthony tried to arm wrestle God into letting him become a doctor, and the only prayer that finally brought him peace was the craziest one he could think of. A Highland Park kid turned Virginia Military Institute graduate, Navy officer, and printing equipment salesman who fired his own boss, he went on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, surrendered the whole plan, and spent his first two years as a Catholic running medical supplies into Bosnia during the war. He joined the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal at 32, and today he lives and works among the poor, with a Peacemaker rosary in his pocket made with bullets for each of the “Our Fathers.”
Fr. John Anthony is back with the BeatiDudes for this throwback, and he brought Brother Jan along to the Tiny Table with Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein. The heart of the conversation is forgiveness: why it is a choice of the will and not a feeling, why you forgive the person without excusing the act, and the 33 days of forgiveness homework that took a woman ready to leave her husband of 35 years to the warmest hug he had given her in a decade. He was still a rat, but now they had something to work with. For men who feel anxious, bitter, or like everyone else got the memo on happiness, he offers two questions that cut through the noise: Who are you, and where are you going?
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Oct 5, 2026 • 34min
Coffee Beans and Heartbeats – The Seven Weeks Coffee Story | Anton Krecic | Episode #367
At seven weeks, a baby is the size of a coffee bean, and its heartbeat can already be seen on ultrasound. Anton Krecic built a company on that fact two weeks after his wedding, when he Googled "pro-life coffee" and got zero results. Seven Weeks Coffee gives 10% of every sale to pregnancy centers, roughly half its profits, and has now supported more than 1,500 of them.
At the Sent Summit in Denver, The BeatiDudes, Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein ask Anton why the centers he serves are so starved for funding: over 60% of the ones he surveyed are running a deficit, and less than 1% of religious giving goes to pro-life work. They also dig into what it takes to build a mission brand that has to beat the competition on quality alone, and a live brainstorm that produces pineapple coffee, a Seven Weeks Lent campaign, and pro-life vertical dramas.
Recorded live at the Fio podcast booth at SENT Summit
2026 in Denver, CO.
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Oct 2, 2026 • 24min
Bringing Beauty Back to the Big Screen | Lorenzo Henrie | Episode #366
The priest who brought Lorenzo Henrie back to the Church wasn't standing in a parish. He was on a Kevin James movie set, and Lorenzo, a Hollywood kid with no interest in getting serious about God, almost didn't show up. What happened next turned a former child actor into a man hosting a hundred industry friends a week to work through the proofs for God's existence, and eventually into a producer building his own lane in an industry that rarely rewards faith. Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein sat down with Lorenzo live at the SENT Ventures Summit in Denver, just two days after his wife slipped baby number six into the family rosary intentions.
Then the conversation turns to the business of making beautiful things. Lorenzo explains why his family stopped making one film every two years and built a fund with 15 shots on goal instead; how a movie can be dark or even scary and still serve faith, family, and values, and why he tells investors to run from anyone promising easy money in entertainment. With Angel and the Badman coming from Angel Studios, he makes the case plainly: you can't fund a mission without margin.
Recorded live at the Fio podcast booth at SENT Summit 2026 in Denver, CO.
Recorded live at the Fio podcast booth at SENT Summit
2026 in Denver, CO.
Learn more about Fio: https://fio.fm/
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Sep 28, 2026 • 38min
Life Is a Gym - Don't Skip Virtue Day | Andrew V. Abela, PhD | Episode #365
"It's just business" is a line we borrowed from The Godfather, and Andrew Abela, PhD, would like to know why we let the mob define it. As founding dean of the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, he built a school from the ground up on faith, natural law, and virtue, betting that good people would also make good business leaders. The bet is paying off: his graduates are getting hired fast, marrying years earlier than their peers, and paying off school debt in about six years instead of twenty. Recorded live at SENT Summit 2026 alongside the Fio app, Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein landed Dr. Andrew as a surprise guest about an hour before the mics went on, and the conversation turned into pure BeatiDudes gold.
In his book Super Habits, Dr. Andrew explains that virtues aren't just a set of standards; they're muscles you already have that just haven't been worked yet. He walks through his visual map of Aquinas's treatise on the virtues as a diagnostic tool for whatever you're struggling with, explains why patience technically didn't make the list, and dives into eutrapelia, the virtue of good leisure, along with the vice of having too little fun (which may now be the show's official mission statement).
He closes with a challenge every busy man needs to hear: if a college president can find a daily holy hour, what's your excuse?
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Recorded live at the Fio podcast booth at SENT Summit
2026 in Denver, CO.
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Sep 25, 2026 • 20min
Your Dreams are Too Small | Johann D’Souza, PhD | Episode #364
Johann D'Souza, PhD, has one stated goal for his approach to friendship: find the most magnanimous people alive. He means the rare ones who combine serious professional competence with an actual pursuit of virtue, and he says they are almost always lonely, because everyone around them wants to know why they don't just settle for mediocrity like a normal person. When he finds one, he tells them their dreams are good and also not big enough, then asks how the two of them can make that vision ten times larger. This is the same man who, three minutes earlier, called his own friendship not worth very much, which is when Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein stop the show to tell him they will hammer him every time he runs that bit.
The conversion behind it was not an argument he lost. He was a lukewarm math major who didn't know the word tabernacle when he sat down in front of one in Rome, and what met him there was his own habitual evil and God's goodness at the same moment. His conclusion was arithmetic. If it is true, the only logical move is to hand over your whole life. What took the next two years was discovering that holiness is not a decision you make once; it is an ability you do not yet have. He closes with two questions worth sitting in: what would you do if you knew you could not fail, and what would you still do if you knew you would fail.
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Sep 21, 2026 • 1h 9min
Almost No One Takes This Advice | Johann D’Souza, PhD | Episode #363
Dr. Johann D'Souza has a one-sentence solution to the biggest problem facing young people, and he will tell you upfront that almost nobody listening will actually do it. Never give your child a smartphone. He spent years assuming the answer had to be more complicated than that, researching apps, filters, and monitoring software, before realizing the complication isn't the technology. It is the word "yet." A door left open invites a negotiation that parents lose, because children have more time, more energy, and nothing else to think about. And if you have already said yes, he has a way back that starts with an apology.
But the smartphone is not really what this conversation is about. D'Souza is a clinical psychologist who switched from math and physics to theology mid-college, and a numerary of Opus Dei, which means he gave up marriage so he could spend his life forming other people. That background shows up in his diagnosis, which isn't about screens at all. He says the problem was never ignorance. Virtue is an ability, and without it we can't do the good we already know we should do. He says that, in a family, that looks like anxious moms and weak dads. Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein spend the hour trying to read a man whose face, by his own admission, has never once corresponded to what was happening around him. Find him at neversmartphone.com. He is back Friday for the conversion story.
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