316. All gifts I give, my brothers, are my own, as every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs to me. Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on the holy mind my father loves. His grace is given me, and every gift a brother has received throughout all time, and past all time as well. My treasure house is full, and angels watch its open doors, that not one gift is lost, and only more are added. Let me come to where my treasures are, and to enter in where I am truly welcome, and at home among the gifts that God has given me. Father, I would accept your gifts today. I do not recognize them, yet I trust that you who gave them will provide the means by which I can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I want.


I haven't slept in 48 hours. I'm jet lagged, I'm back in Michigan momentarily, and I desperately, desperately, desperately, to do so! Look at that, last part has nothing to do with what we're doing here today, but, oh yeah, no. Don't be doing that.  Don't be doing that. The set's gonna change like eight times in the next two months, so just don't even, don't even ask. What you can ask about is the wheel of my playoffs, baby, today is the wild card playoffs of Detroit Lions season. Head coach Dan Campbell, the 1990s classic Detroit Lions uniforms, and we ended the regular season with a record of five and one. Our very first game in the season was a tough loss, close game, and we've clawed back and built an awesome team. One of the best-sew Lions we've got to see, Trent Williams, Quentin Nelson, Jason Kelsey, Chris Lindstrom, Andrew Whitworth, Sam LaPorta, and 98 overall, Grunkowski, Jamar Chase, Amari Cooper, Justin Jefferson, the backfield's got gold 99, Tiki Barber, and our budget quarterback, Warren Moon. It's been a legendary season for our budget quarterback. Warren Moon came out six months ago. He's got gift-wrapped, gunslinger and hot-roll master, and the guy can't ask for much more. He actually is really good. He's shockingly a very good quarterback. Defensively, we have another gold 99, just so happens to be gold 99. Aaron Donald, who has been wreaking absolute havoc, got Jalen Carter-Miles, Garrett Nick Vosa to round out that D-line, Bo Jackson, PS2, and Peanut Tillman at corners. Minka and Derwin as our safeties. Greg Greenlaw, Ray Lewis, Grunkowski, and Ro Kwan-Smith as our linebackers. It's really, really rare to have this good of a team going into a playoff game. It's officially winner-go-home. We're either going all the way to the Super Bowl or we get knocked out somewhere along the way. Remember, this is the playoffs. So I only get two wheel spins, but the wheel is slightly juiced, so hopefully we can get some heat right now. There's absolute heat, potentially. There is a brand new Randy Moss. He would be an amazing addition to this team. I'm hoping we can get him. We sort, program, ultimate legends, and then we go time remaining. We can choose one player out of the 12 we see here. Ozzy Newsome, Sean Taylor, Rodney. Ooh, Rodney hit, no, but I don't need a safety. There's a 95, Dan Deirdorff. Oh, oh, this is exactly what I wanted. Okay, wait, I thought Randy Moss was a gold 99. I guess he's not, but this is exactly what I wanted, or we still could go with gold 99 to Marcus Ware.  We don't need an edge threat linebacker. My edge, edge is our Nick Bosa and Aaron Donald. So I don't need another edge threat. I think Randy Moss is definitely the play here. That was super lucky. In fairness, I would have taken any of the Ultimate Legends wide receivers. There's a good amount of them, but the best one was Randy Moss, and that's who we happened to get. So 410,000 coins gets us 98 overall Ultimate Legend Randy Moss, who is six foot four with 99 speed and 99 jump. That is the exact wide receiver I'm looking for. And now Randy Moss is alongside another Minnesota Viking great wide receiver, Justin Jefferson. He gets deep elite for one AP. We're gonna start there. You get jukebox for zero, and that's gonna be it. Moss Ultimate Legend, two 20 plus yard catches. You get 10 plays in the zone. You win 55 plus yard aggressive. 55 plus, what? How have I never seen this X factor? I'm gonna make Randy Moss our wide receiver one. Wide receiver three slash slot wide receiver. I'm actually gonna make Justin Jefferson. And then Amari Cooper will come in for Jamar Chase. So Jamar Chase prestige is officially a little bit outdated. It's been an amazing season for prestigious, but I gotta say this might be the only one that's really tough here because I highly doubt Jamar Chase is getting another car. Unless somebody chooses them for a golden ticket, like they already kind of gifted him this limited. I'd be shocked if he got another car. All right, our first wheel spin is an insane offensive threat. I low key kind of wanna go defense here on this next one if I get a choice. Ah, I love getting pack a punch, but I don't know if I, oh I do. I literally added Brian Bosworth for this exact reason. I put this Brian Bosworth on the team for this exact reason. In case we got a pack of punch, this is a really good option right now because the Bos has a 98 overall middle linebacker. But let's take a look at everybody else's first. Now honestly, that's like our only good option right now. I think 98 Bos is gonna be a little bit better than Ray Lewis, but he's not gonna be as good as Gronkh middle linebacker because Gronkh middle linebacker has the height. So if we prestige Brian Bosworth to get 98 overall Bosworth with 95 speed, 97 Excel, 6 foot 2255, let's compare that to Ray Lewis and Gronkh. So compared to Ray Lewis, he's faster, he's an inch taller, definitely better than Ray Lewis. We also could play him an outside linebacker though. We don't have to necessarily get rid of Ray. That Gronkh is just that good, man. That Gronkh is four overall lower, but it's still that good. He's six foot six, he's still got 94 speed. Gronkh is just ridiculous, honestly. Brian Bosworth is definitely the choice here. Take a look at his abilities before we make a decision on what position we're putting him at. So free lurk artist, no shocker there. And we could get one AP mid zone KO. I feel like that is probably worth running for that. My new MLB one is gonna be Bosworth. I'm moving Ray Lewis to right outside linebacker. I'm benching Dre Greenlaw. Gronkh's the backup middle linebacker and left outside linebacker is Roquan Smith. This Bosworth is boosting to a 99 though with our play rec.  All right, well, the game is glitching and it shows that Brian Bosworth has most ultimate legend X factor. I'm really hoping that that's true somehow. I don't wanna know how it works. I don't care. I just wanna see Bosworth do a one-handed snag interception today's playoff game. It's the playoff so we only get two wheel spins but as you saw they were juice cause we got two technical 99 overalls but they're really 98, it's boosted to 99. Randy Moss on offense, Brian Bosworth on defense. And this might be one of the biggest challenge wheel spins in a long time. And as soon as I get this spin in, I'll tell you why our challenge is. I swear I get this challenge a lot but I rarely get a full opportunity to actually close it out. 30 fantasy points with our halfback. Tiki Barber's gonna have a big game. It's just PPR scoring.  If I complete the challenge wheel I get one pack from the store of my choosing. If it's in the playoffs, it's any pack. It could even cost training. Now importantly there's a new promo in Madden called Ring of Honor. Ring of Honor is loaded with absolutely insane players. There's a gold 99 JJ Watt, Troy Palamalu, Michael, they're insane. Actually I'll open one right now just to show you what I'm talking about. Here's a re-roll. You get a 91 plus Ring of Honor player. Let's see who we get.  You're not a very good example, Doug. These are the Ring of Honor gold 99s. Eric Dickerson, Lawrence Taylor, Palamalu, Tony G. Right now we are a excellent Super Bowl contender but if we could pick up a gold 99 Ring of Honor we are dynasty potential. So I wanna be able to give myself a shot. I gotta complete the challenge wheel to do that. Now it's time we take a look at the most beautiful thing a man can see. And one of the scariest things a man can see, the all Madden playoffs survive the playoffs. Spaz worth Randy Mudd, this is almost a brand new top three. Armstead Cam Jordan and Randall Cunningham. I have not seen a team like this. It's a Packers versus Lions matchup in my whole high stadium. Okay.  Oh my goodness, what are you doing? Dude, Dermot, look at James. He really gets an interception. Every game of his life, what are you doing? Just don't quit. Just getting started, buddy. Now I'm not gonna lie, I did try to run that in with Dermot but now that I think about it I need 30 fantasy points with buddy Tiki, right? So let's get him.  Who are you? Holy shit, can we see that a kid just blew up two blocks? You know what? If we throw it to Tiki, we get the PPR. Throw to Tiki, it's a PPR point. I need to get in the end zone. I need to stop worrying about who gets it and where. Okay, he's flown to the right side, which I like. We might be able to get Tiki right in the middle. I got extra PPR points. Call it calculated. That's two receptions, one touchdown. Put some at eight. And if I get this two-point conversion it's slightly more than eight because he has like 0.7 receiving yards. Shit. Hey, a six zero star in the wild guard? Oh, I got those, I got those white men. Linebackers, Bosworth. Yeah, you try to juke on me. You're playing checkers. I'm playing 3D chess. I'm playing 3D topless strip chess. With your mom, throw the corner route.  Ray Lewis off the edge. Bosworth in the middle, Gronk in the middle, third and 16, he's in trouble. Is he gonna double me over there? Oh, I didn't see that X factor. No, Bueno doesn't matter, Aridano fourth and 24. Did he in like serious trouble already? Let's just send a blitz. No, no, no, no, don't give him the time. Don't give him the time. No, you did not. Yeah, you wanna play ball, let's play ball. All them audibles for that run play. Second and eight. I got the dig. Oh my goodness, you're just gonna give it to Bos. I'm gonna give it to Derwin then. This is the playoffs, guys. This is the playoffs, like you're in the divisional playoffs. So now I'm 7-0.  I'm Madden, Randy Moss in the sundown, taking on Psycho Coomer. Oh, with a game retag like that, I know you're not gonna flake on me, bro. I'm gonna earn my playoff win. No, that's Gold 99 Dickerson.  Ooh, second and four. I think he runs the ball again. There it is. There it is, Derwin. There it is, Derwin! Bring it down, the Bos! Come on! That is the only way to stop that Dickerson. You have to throw two players at it every time. If that ability is lit up, he's breaking your first one. It's a fact. Here we go. He's gonna pass. He's checking down. Derwins! Is Derwin James the MVP this season? Or wait, was that not? Was that a Fayetteau-Mellifon? Who did that? No, that was Derwin. There was an X factor lit up. That was Derwin who did that. If that was Derwin, I would like to right now say that Derwin James is probably the MVP of the season. If it's not War and Moon. I don't know, man. All right, first and 10, Tiki Barber.  It's just so crazy.  That Dickerson can blow me, actually.  This is how the last game started, but then I threw a really hot laser beam right after that, didn't I? All right, Tiki. Beauty, beauty, Tiki! Oh no, fourth and inches. He knows what I wanna do. I feel like I could just throw the Serenium Moss. I can. Oh, Randy! Dude, that's Ted Hendricks with Mid Zone KO. I'm pretty lucky, honestly. I'm pretty lucky, that didn't get fumbled. They're not fumbled, but knocked out, right? Does he have Mid Zone KO? Wait, let me check. Ted Hendricks with Lurk Artists medium route KO. That was a drag, which I think it should qualify as a short route, so that's why we survived that. Gonna hit him with the RPO. That's the pirouette. It's two inside stuffs, right? Inside stuff, inside stuff. Mid Zone KO, no outs, jeez.  Oh, he's gonna leave Tiki. Oh no, he flew over there with John Madden. I'm glad I didn't throw anything. We're in the end game now, boys. You're playing Madden Ultimate Team in April. This is what you signed up for, so there better be no bitching. I'll take my three points. We gotta stop, we got three points. It's gonna be easy to score on offense, but if defense plays like this, it doesn't matter. No. What's the game plan, bro? What's the game plan? Gold 99, Dickerson just wins the game, otherwise you don't play it? Ah, that's gonna be such a good game. Does he forget that he bagged me on defense? I had to settle for a fugal. Really what? And Bosworth's short debut, he's been nasty. Jefferson Fred Warner, Luke Musgrave, interesting. I gotta say, I definitely like his jerseys. Josh Allen under helm, Derek Henry behind. Miles Garrett. The Miles Garrett pickup ended up being really nice because we doubled up with Aaron Donald. Like we didn't really need to take Aaron Donald, but Garrett, Miles Garrett's pretty good to tackle. Oh, and Ray Lewis just got ran over by Bosworth, but it didn't matter. Burden 10, this is looking like another excellent start on defense. Play it, oh!  Is he not gonna quit? That was just so lucky, like what's going on? That's touchdown, Tiki Barber. Just quit, man, just quit!  I'm gonna do all this till I lose, huh? All right guys, thanks for watching. That's the wheel of my bye. The Bull Top three right there. I get to see mine, at the very least. Home field advantage too, here we go. He's got the Peyton Manning. He's got the gold 99 Carmichael. He's got Justin Jefferson as well as I do. That Carmichael is a magnet. I'm gonna be honest, that dude's a magnet. We gotta have eyes on him at all times during this game. All right boys, fourth time's the charm, Bosworth! God, he's so good. Shot that gap, third and five. Big pass play coming up, let's guess pass. Oh no. Why did I say big pass play coming up? Like that was law, like it was guaranteed to happen. First and 10, he'll check it down over here. Peanut, hey! I love getting a big peanut tilting in, no such luck. Okay, stretch, potentially a stretch. Stretch, Minka, hey, hey, Ray Lewis as the outside linebacker. Makes a big play there, segment 14. I'm not letting him run all over me with bow. That is gonna be a nightmare if we let him start cooking like that so let's stop it early. Now I will guess pass, you gotta be passing here. Up he is. Over the middle with bow, not gonna happen. Somebody step up!  You know you're gonna, yeah, you know you're gonna, come on! Ooh, a little five wide action, I'm cool with that. Ooh no, you did not just hit that. Chill, ow, how did you get two feet down? I just gotta get on Minka and play it hard. It's a play action. Oh! If this game is decided by one possession, I will cry my little heart out. Oh, I played that so well. Oh, fake jet sweep or real jet sweep? Fake jet sweep. So it's technically still inside zone. Nick Bost is all over it though, great work, Nick. Gotta be a pass. Checks it low, Tillman! Oh my God, he caught that through the knockout which I'm impressed, but Tillman is such a good tackler.  I'm on Derwent. There's nothing, there's nothing, boss, boss with a huge knockout. We're taking over at the four yard line, I want him to press, I want him to press cover because he's close, that way Randy can go take one. I can't, I'll just take Tiki and get me out of the danger zone. Woo hoo hoo! I still gotta get 30 PPR points with my boy Tiki. Let's not forget, I'm sending a play action nuke. Oh, Amari, oh that's a bad ball. At least it's out of reach for everybody.  I like this, give it to Tiki for it.  Yo, he's got the lube, who's got the lube? I wish I could lube up Tiki Barber for every game.  Oh, he's on the mic. I hope he's giving you guys good content over there. I hope he's pissed off on how juicy that dot was. Ain't gonna work bud, ain't gonna work buddy. He's dropping back in coverage with J.J. Oh, oh, he saw it. I don't know what you're doing bud. He played the play. What are you doing bud? With J.J. Y. Here's the thing though, he's playing on J.J. Y. I can inside zone at him. No I can't, because now he's switching off everybody. Oh can you Warren, no, Warren. What are you doing bud? Your feet were set, you had that. Once you get out of the pocket like that, you always throw bad passes though. So that is, I mean, I'm hoping this is main coverage again.  Sam LaPorte, what a route.  That was so good. Randy Moss press coverage, just kidding. I'm so tempted to just throw the ball at him. I can't. I'm fine. What are you doing bud? Looks like it might be a seam deeter for Randy. No? Good for you man. Ooh, I like that. I like that little sit down Amari in a great catch.  It's just been a tough drive though. I feel like I'm really battling for these yards. I was telling this kid it's not happening, he's terrible. I think Randy underneath. Oh, just wait patiently.  What are you doing bud? Don't fix. What a good display. I didn't think you'd have patience to sit on that.    All right, first and 10. Now we really got a ball game. Slip screen, don't throw it, buddy. Lock me up for not intercepting it somehow. How did that happen? Your whip route is not open, but that is a ball game, ladies and gentlemen. That much I can tell you for certain you gotta earn it, Wheel-O-Mot. This is a run.  That's cool. Oh my God, take an angle. Pursuit angles, gentlemen. We practiced that junior varsity football.   Thank you, I did all the dirty work. Ooh, a little deuce close stretch. Is that what the feds cooked up here? Why can't I move Minka? Oh! I can't be mad, that's Nick Bosa. If that's someone a lurker, I just did y'all. I can't be mad about that. And I have the right personnel group. Yep, that is. Now this I do like. Shoulda known. It's not gonna work. Now this I do like. Minka. Oh my God, I ran into a blocker. You're terrible. Now I don't like it. I hope he's giving you horrible content on that one. He's gonna lock you up on defense like I've been doing. Until you quit, don't know why your team's name is MMV, so he's good at med, you're fucking. I don't really know what the med is. Yeah, he's good, but he's really all right. Well, I could've. Okay, so I just gotta do this correctly this time.  What? Don't know what kind of throw that was. What? Appreciate it, but let him quit. I'll see you later.  Yeah, this dude's thrown two intercepts into matter. Oh, now we gotta lock in. Embarrassing. Now we gotta lock in, buddy.  By the hands of God. What is that? Can't even defend the rug. Can't even stop me. 98. How did he pick that one? Like my animation? Trust me, buddy. I didn't like yours. Yeah, I'm sure your mic's popping off now, but I can't believe that just happened. That's so crazy. Given your chance, that was just being nice to you. I got La Porta. Oh, no, I don't. Oh, I guess I do.  I think La Porta on the whip route gets him again.  That was like a, that was like a pick play. What'd you think?   First down. I just got to play this like ultra smart. I don't know what's open, bud. I thought that was a dot. That's insane.  I think Randy Moss can get this first down, though. Unless that's now man coverage. This formation might not be it. Got it. Got it, got it, got it. The physics in this game right now, like this specific game are so bad. Like what is going, what is happening? It's okay, bud. He went for two and got it. I guess we got to match it, right? Oh, pirouette animation didn't matter. I waited to throw that though. I'm not supposed to get the pirouette there if you wait, but whatever, maybe I gotta wait even longer. But we tied the game up. I have to go lurk a corner round.  He's gonna play over the top. Carmichael Nuke. Wait, he's open. Oh, you're lucky. Joe Tillman, I love you so much. I literally played over the top. The deep zone knockout just saved my life. Peta Tillman is, Peta Tillman might be the best player on this team. I'm having trouble determining who's the best player on this team. Throws one in the middle. Oh, gotta get him down a lot earlier than that. It's a 66 yard field goal. He would've came out field goal already if he could hit it so he can't hit it. I really don't want to get nuked. He's such a bummer. Okay, sweet. I really know what he was going for there. So that works great for me. It's okay, kid. Hey, day to half. This is an insane game. What are his d-line abilities? Have I even looked? He's got inside stuff. He's got reach elite. Oh, wait a minute. I can run. I can run stretch. I cannot believe this is how nervous I am. I'm not even looking. He can't stop like generic stretches. He doesn't have no outsider. Maybe he has it on Hendrickson? Yeah, he does. He has it on Hendrickson. He doesn't have it on the right side. That is so huge. Now he keeps on his toes. Let me hit him with a pass.   There's five of you blocking. Nobody. Oh, Trey Hendrickson is screaming at me.  Good lord. Good lord, Tiki. That was such a tight throw.  Watch, he's gonna commit his whole line to the right side now. We can bring it back to the left. Ah, I know he sees that. Can we still? Yeah, we got the double team. That's fine. Patrick Wills can push me forward five. Second to five is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful drive. All right, I'm gonna keep it standard. He thinks it's left. It's not. That one was a little ugly. Third and five, Randy.  Ooh, I need him to turn up field there. You can't get these yards. You don't deserve to win the game. We're going for this. Fourth and three. I form.  There's a free corner on an iPhone? Who are you going to block? Who are you going to block if not him? Yep, I think when we booted up this game, we just fried the physics engine.  He has nobody to throw to. Get home. He shouldn't be getting that up. Good pass, Rush. That looks so free to me. He had three down line against iPhone. I thought I was like, all right. Let's see if he has a route for bow. Ooh, nice catch. Feeling he hands us off, no? Do the whip route. Ooh, this is bad. Oh, good catch. What are you doing? You know you want to make a mistake.   Stay with me now. I'm doubling Hendrick's sin. I'm going weak side on this run. How does this look? Oh, I like it. Just kidding. I'm spamming the run too much. Honestly, I was killing him with this weird whip route combo. I really was. He's just playing press man coverage. Let's stop. So these whips are just, oh. Oh, it's hard though. It's hard to be this patient. It's hard to actually throw the same thing over and over and over.  Like you get fatigued. You're like, no way. I can't do it again, right? I can't do it again, right? Dot.  That's a surefire pass right there. Still in the pocket. Sam Laporta. This has been a roller coaster. They're going for two. I said I want her. I hope we can earn her right now. We got to stop it one more time. We're on a hot streak on defense right now though. Playing really good defense right now. We're making him make mistakes. Two straight user lurks. One with Baz, one with Gronk. We do it one more time. This game's over.  One more time, boys. What does Wheel of Mott mean to you, Gronk? Oh, he's chewing clock.  I like that idea. The only problem is you run slip screen because you're a boss.  Jackson! Woo! Hey, listen. I'm going to go fast in real competition. Tiki, help me out here, buddy. Let's put this away, Tiki. We got Jason Kelsi. I know he's got inside stuff. I didn't ask. Go right at him. Hell yeah, Kelsi. All right, hey, two yards right there. It's actually shocking. I don't know, let me get two yards.   And I'm going to run right where he was. Now he's scared to pass. Coach adjustments, ball carrier conservative. We do that. Three more times, we kick a field goal. I cannot believe that just works. Right back to Tiki. Nice cut. Nice cut. 11 rushes, 53 yards. I've committed to the ground game in the second half. I don't think Tiki had a carry in the first half. I can still throw the RPO. I just don't know if it's worth it. I'm going to try and go right at the teeth, go right at the middle of this, third and two. Game over if we get this. Oh my god, Tiki. Hey, look, I'm going to give it to you, bud. That was gross. No, let me see the stats, bro. Honestly, if I need to go take some training lessons, I give it to you for free. No, but have a good one. You'll get better someday. Let me see the stats. Warren Moon outplays 99 overall, Peyton Manning. Two touchdowns, two interceptions, and one of those you just cannot put on Warren, bro. You cannot put that on Warren Moon. We earned that one. The only thing I wanted to see so badly, I thought that I delivered the most beautiful pass to Grant and then he had the ball. And I was already down 8-0 at that time. I thought we might be cooked. Like the wild card might be over. Luckily, we came up so big. And next game is the NFC. NFC championship, because we're the Lions. Yes, sir. Honestly guys, I would spin the rage quit wheel, but I'm going to make an exception. This team is so good that I want to let the wheel spins do the rest of the work for this season. I will open a pack for the challenge wheel, though, which technically is the opposite of what we should be doing, because I don't think I completed my challenge wheel. He also quit, right? I'm going to open one ring of honor pack. Most of the times, these are just 91s. But if I could finesse out gold 99, we already know this is not a gold 99. The animation's very specific. We get the boy Doug Smith again. Get Carter Warren and our third and final player is DJ Reader. Can't use any of them. Welcome to the team. This is a scary wild card. But we advance to the NFC championship. I hope you guys enjoyed. And I'll see you in the next one. Peace.


Oh, we made it! The scramble is over and the views are coming. The views are amazing. I think we might have a problem then. Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Oli. Over the past four years, we have been on some epic adventures around the world. Now, after converting an old van into our new home on Weirts, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin. We are on minefield. The National Park! Good morning, world! Welcome to Odyssey. So yesterday, we made our way out of Mostar and towards the Dinaric Alps, a mountain range on the eastern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This morning, we are here in the Sojewska National Park, home to the tallest mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But this is not the only reason this place is so special. It is also home to the Peračica Rainforest. One of the oldest and best preserved rainforests in Europe, the Peračica is home to over 170 species of trees and shrubs and over 1,000 species of herbaceous plants. And also the highest waterfall in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Skakavac waterfall, over 70 meters high. But today, we are going to be taking you guys on a hike deep into the Dinaric Alps to experience the stunning and relatively unknown nature that this country has to offer. So I would say, let's go! For a starting point where we start the hike, it's absolutely insane. It's like sort of a... to probably drive the dirt road with a lot of stones. Our van is so low and we hit all the time our petrol tank or the exhaust. Or I don't know, like... I'm a little bit worried. OK, so we just parked up. Look at this amazing parking spot at the beginning of the trail. We're just in the process of unpacking red tornado, inverting our camper van setup into a hiking setup. We've hit the hiking trail! Yes! So it should be a quite easy hike. The sun is shining and it's a beautiful day. So it's about five kilometers on this trail until we reach this lake that sits just under the tallest mountain in Bosnia and it's called Thronovaco Lake. And that is where we're going to be camping tonight. Yippee! Ten minutes into the trail and look at these views. So we just went past this group that were on a guided tour and the tour guide showed us two really useful things for tonight. We've got here this is a wild oregano which grows here in the mountains and we can check that in our couscous tonight. And we've also got some sorals or sorrel. Not sure how you pronounce it. And that's got a really sour taste but it's rich on vitamins. So it tastes very nice. So we can eat a couple of those later on. We're going to go really nice dinner with some local wild ingredients. I love it. So this national park, the Sociessca National Park encompasses a vast mountain area just on the border of Montenegro and over 66% of the park is covered by forest. We'll actually be crossing the border to Montenegro before we reach our lake camp for the night and then we'll be entering the Piva Nature Park. In this area there is also a crazy amount of wildlife including chamois, deer, wild boar, bears, foxes, lynxes, wild cats. It's awesome. Problem though. OK, so we actually arrived here at the lake. But we did not realise that there was actually a sort of border here with a sort of checkpoint. And they wanted some documents from us and they wanted also an entrance fee for this park which is separate to the Sociessca National Park that we were in before because this is now the Piva Nature Park. And we have zero money with us. Yeah, we've absolutely brought no passports, no documentation, no money, nothing at all. So we sort of just sitting around here and he's going around and doing stuff and they ate some food here. So I'm not sure maybe we had to chop some wood for him or something. He's alone here in this remote mountain hut here. And I was told that he sort of on and off is staying up here for six months a year and he works for the Piva National Park. So let's see what's going to happen. So he said it's all right to pitch up the tent here which I'm really thankful for. He said we could camp down here by the lake which looks like an absolutely beautiful place to camp for the night. Look at his surroundings. But we're really, really thankful that we were able to actually stay here for the night. Otherwise we would have had to hike all the way back out to the van. So yeah, really lucky actually. So let's get pitched with our tent. Okay, so we have a little bit of a problem in that one of our tent poles is broken and we only just realized this. Now we're just trying to figure out how we can get this to be sturdy and hold the tent up. We're gonna try to make a splint and see if this works. Sort of like a pole sheath. So that is our splint from a peg and some tape, really, really old foot tape. This is our home for the night. We've had a very relaxing afternoon. I did a bit of reading. Levy did a walk around the lake. It was very, very nice to relax here in this beautiful, beautiful place. Yeah, you just want to spend time looking around, taking in the nature. It's so beautiful. It's really nice. So now we're just cooking up some dinner. We've gone back to our trail food days, our hiking food days and we have for dinner tonight, some couscous. And then we prepared some pesto and some dried tomatoes. I put them both just in the tapa here. Look at that. And top that off with some sweet corn. So that'll make a really nice couscous meal. Yummy. Et voilà. Yummy. We have our coffees here. It was a surprisingly rough night, actually. It was not actually as peaceful as you would imagine. We're sleeping at about 1,500 meters, so it was really, really, really cold, even though we had jumpers, even though we had sleeping bags that are supposed to be comfortable until five degrees. It was really cold. And then at about midnight, 12, 30, a huge group of people arrived and just started setting up tents all around us and chatting and making a fire and playing music from a speaker. And it was quite surreal. Everything was nice. And then suddenly, as soon as the sun went down, everyone just went crazy. There's a lot of night activity. Well, that's that. I mean, the sun's risen now. So it's time to drink a coffee and then it's time to hit the trail. Yes, and our tent is over on the other side of this lake now. And I didn't actually tell you about this lake. This is called Lake Thronovachko. That's my best pronunciation I can do. And it's 700 meters long and 400 meters wide and lies at an elevation of 1,517 meters above sea level, which is why it was so cold last night. But up here behind us, this is the star of the show. And this is what we're here for. This is Mount Maglich. And it is 2,386 meters high and represents the border, the exact border, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. And that is the mountain that we're going to climb. Yippee! So after the lake, the trail goes up, up, up. And now we are climbing and the lake is already far down behind us. Yeah, we're having awesome views from here already. We are just 30 minutes into the hike and it's just incredible. Oh, yeah, people are going up from up here. You can actually see that the lake is the same shape as a heart, which is really nice. We've just taken a break. We're about two hours in now. And we've just left Lake Tronovačko behind. It was down back that way. And now we are heading and we're out of that valley now. And we can have a brand new view. Of loads of beautiful mountains. The mountain shepherds. We were told down there that they take their cows up all around these mountains because it's cheap pasture. So they can just roam with their cows for the whole summer up and all around all the mountains, living in these like little shepherd's huts. That feeds their cows pretty much for free for the whole summer. We also got some popcorn.  It was really, really nice guy. And this morning gave us some popcorn, which is really nice. Our mountain cinema with our mountain snack. Yeah. So anyway, three k's more to go and an elevation from about 300 meters about Maglič. Here we come. We have just sighted the peak Maglič just here. This place where we are right now is actually two meters higher than the peak. But because this is over the border in Montenegro, where we are right now, it's not really anything special. Whereas once you get to that peak, then you're at the highest mountain in Bosnia, even though it's two meters lower. But it looks like a really serious scramble at the end. So we're going to go up close to it and see if we feel like it's within our capabilities to get to the top. Getting really close now. Have a look just up there and see the flag. We've reached the part, which is pretty much going to be scrambling from here. Have a look. You can't really see more. You have to take now step by step and just hope that you don't don't crush her. We made it. The scramble is over and the views are coming. The views are amazing. Here is the top of the mountain. Oh, because this is a really like small peak on its own, you really have a 360 degree panorama around you. Now we can just relax, take the views in and draw a rest a little bit. And we can still see the lake where we started today. All the way down the bottom there. Unbelievable. Yeah, it's a real jam. Narik Alps are absolutely incredible. It's been so, so nice chilling out here at the summit of Mount Maglich. It's amazing and totally different to our experience as Snowden. If you haven't seen our video, Climbing Snowden, then you can check that one out here. But, yeah, I mean, look, we're totally, we're totally alone here at the peak. The tallest mountain in Bosnia. But we still have a long way to go to get back to Red Tornado. We have about five kilometers to get back to the camp, pack up that. And then about another five kilometers through the valley until we get to Red Tornado. So better get moving. That was terrifying.  Like, oh, my God, down the hardest part. You know, I really was not sure when we came and saw that peak behind us. I was not sure we would be able to get up there, to be honest. We don't have a huge amount of skill in mountain climbing, but we made it up, we made it down. And it was awesome. Often you don't even need skill, you just need to be brave. The last time for today that we have this, and I can still see our tent from here was actually harder than going up. Yeah, because we were under the crazy sun the whole time. It was really hot and in the morning it was so nice and cool. But look where we are. We have arrived back at the tent. We have done the downhill. We came from all the way. That's not even the peak, but that's just where we came out of the valley.  That is crazy. That is crazy. Well, we're picking up now and then we have another five k to the van. Yeah, the journey is not over just yet. So let's do it just like that. Packed up and ready to hit the road. To the van. To Red tornado. It's amazing. Even after 10 hours of walking. You still don't get tired of this view. You can see the sun is just about to set behind the mountains. We have a couple more k's to go until we get to the van. But still very pretty. This is the end of the road. The tornado. I'm so glad to be back here. Absolutely. And still with the beautiful mountain views here. And this is where we'll be spending the night. Inside Red tornado, a lot less cold, a lot more cozy. I'm very looking forward to that. So we're just going to cook up some dinner now. So that is it from our mountaineering, exploration and wild camping in the Bosnian Alps. It has been a crazy adventure. I am absolutely dead. Same. But we really hope you enjoyed following along on our adventure. If you did, please give the video a thumbs up. We'd really appreciate it. And don't forget to subscribe to the channel. We will see you next time. Oh, yeah. If you enjoyed watching this video, you would help us a lot by subscribing to the channel by clicking here. Thanks so much for watching, guys. We will see you next time.


Welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us for the latest virtual event in our spirituality series. My name is Jessica Colligan, and I'm happy to welcome you on behalf of Fairfield Alumni Relations Office. With me this evening are Father Jerry Bloschek, who is our Vice President for Mission and Ministry, and Father Tom Regan, who is a member of Fairfield's campus community for many years, a beloved member as evidenced by tonight's record number of registered. Before we get started, I just want to ask you please keep your microphones muted just to minimize any distractions, but we do encourage you to submit any questions that you may have for Father Regan in the chat, and we may not be able to get to all of them in the time allowed, but we'll certainly do our best to answer as many as possible. And now I will turn things over to Father Jerry. Thanks very much, Jessica. Tom, it's wonderful to welcome you back to this campus, which was your home for how many years from 1980 to 2003. It's wonderful to welcome you back to what was your home, but we know from the enthusiasm and the warmth and the love of the alumni and alumni that you were successful in making this a home for so many generations of students. So welcome home, Tom. And it's again an opportunity for us to say how very happy and grateful we are that you have shared your life with us here at Fairfield. I would have to say it's a pleasure in my life as wonderful as it is because of the people I'm seeing on this screen. Thank you. Somebody said, Tom, I don't remember who said it, but somebody said that you probably even outdid Charlie Allen in terms of the numbers of weddings and the number of stag weddings that you celebrated. As you gaze out at this massive people, these participants, do you see many of them who you could have imagined 20 or 30 or 40 years ago as you celebrated their nuptials? That's the pleasure of a longitudinal study. My first reaction was, I can't believe that these kids are having children. And then as I now I just came from Loyola where we had six undergrads whose parents I taught and I had flipped and I said, I can't believe these poor kids have them as parents.  I am a moderate Fordham. But how did you come to know the society to begin with? That was an amazing thing. My dad's first cousin was a math professor at Boston College. And he was like the coolest guy I ever knew. In the 60s, he was writing code. He did doctoral studies at the University of Indiana. And ironically, as we'll see with other examples, he was pulled out of doctoral studies to come to Fairfield in 1954 to be on the early faculty, not the original faculty, but the early faculty. And he did all sorts of stuff in computers, which was just amazing. And I thought he had the coolest job. And then when I was an undergrad at BC, you know, I was around a lot more. But I did the NCAA summer camp and he helped us work with all these inner city kids in, you know, in these huge computers, as you could imagine what they were like. And it was just amazing. And then his brother started his own software company. And John was writing code for what would be the first word processing in the 1960s. So it was just amazing. So I got to know a lot of the Jesuits when I was at BC. And I just found their life so exciting. And I always, you know, watching his example, I just thought right from the beginning, I wanted to be a professor. Tom, what was it about those Jesuits that struck you as exciting and attractive, such that it could compel you to want to imitate them and follow their way of life? They were just so smart and yet so down to earth.  So my life at Fairfield was surrounded by people who had been kicked out of Baghdad, you know, Joe McDonald and Al Cardone and Pell and just these incredibly generous people. And they had the world in the palm of their hand. I mean, they were not the least bit narrow-minded at all. It also always struck me about the old Baghdadis that they, you know, you never heard them speak ill, even of the Bathis regime. They were sorry to leave Baghdad in their work. But these were people who still retained, many of them, then went to other places in the Middle East, you know, to Lebanon or to Iraq or to Syria or Egypt, to continue working with Middle Easterners and especially people who came from Eastern churches or Muslims. So it's always been a powerful sense that I have of the old New England province, this missionary spirit, this kind of missionary entrepreneurship. And later on, I would get to do a lot of work with the Baghdad alums. And these are people they would have reunions every other year. And they would attract 1,400 people for a reunion that went Wednesday through Sunday. And they spoke in glowing terms about their experience. It was just incredible.  I really wanted to be, I started out as a history major. And then by the time I was a junior, I was taking, I took a great course with Dan Shine on existentialism. And I was really into Freud and those things. And I found out that I was more interested in the history of ideas than I was in battles and things like that. And so I've always thought, and I've taught, you know, history of philosophy so many times that I really think that that passion, I wanted to be a history professor, but it was going to be history of ideas rather than military things. I just found it so stimulating.  Yes. And rightly so, I loved it there. When I was, I did two years here in graduate school. And my first year teaching, I was teaching at Fordham Prep. And then Rick Spinello, who had a couple years ahead of me, finished under Quentin Lauer and was teaching, he did Regency at Fairfield. So that slot opened up. So they weren't really happy with me at Fordham Prep, but after they thought they had me for two or three years, and I left after one, and I was commuting up and down. I moved to Connecticut, I started teaching. And then, you know, I would come down two days a week for classes. So I feel like I know the Hutchison Parkway and the Merritt Parkway, like the back of my hand. But then so I was there for four years while finishing my doctorate. And so the first year at Fairfield, I was still taking classes the second year, I studied for comps. And then third and fourth year, I ended up, you know, writing my dissertation. And I really only lost a year to my entry class.  So being able to do the degree before going to theology was a real plus in my life.  How did you pull that off? I've always had two or three jobs at a time. When we get to talking about Loyola Chicago, I was always like in three programs. So it's, I like being busy. Does that keep you out of trouble? Do you find that that's better for you to have multiple jobs? I'm just type A. I just like to go, go, go. And it's, you know, when you get bored with one part of your assignment, you work on the other. So that's it. But I mean, after four years at Fairfield, I had such an amazing time there that when, you know, when I was in theology, I was teaching at BC. And BC had so many young Jesuits. And they, you know, I was, they were offering me a job. And, you know, I just said, there's so many people there. I had a great experience. I think we need to spread the wealth around, but they didn't have to convince me very hard to come back to Fairfield. I'd love coming back. And then it was like, again, I had been here for four years. I knew the faculty at that point, and I hit the ground running. So it was just like a welcome home and no, no time lost. The fact that you had done a PhD in philosophy, how did that affect the way you did your theology studies? Because normally people do their PhDs, even philosophy PhDs, after the normal course of Jesuit formation that, you know, the kind of climaxes with theology and ordination. But you must have been singularly well outfitted to do a pretty probing and serious theology having done the PhD in philosophy ahead of time. I did my work on Whitehead. And therefore I was able to do a lot of stuff in process theology. And so while I was studying theology, I was able to do a lot of my papers in process. And because of the BTI, the Boston Theological Institute, I did, you know, put like postdoc courses at BU on Whitehead's religious thinking. And I was able to publish some stuff off that. So that was a side thing. It was like the course papers I was writing, I was able to publish. And I gave it a festrift for this guy was retiring. And then Eddie O'Flaherty, who had been provincial, was dean there and got me some opportunities to do a history of process theology, which I was able to write up and it came out in a toad, and it was like picked up and republished in Spanish. And so I really kept my hand in my own professional work while still studying. But the probably the funniest line was, for my comprehensives, I had three really heavy hitters on my comp board, led off by Dan Harrington, who was such an amazing scholar, but an incredible gentleman. And he was throwing out all these softball questions about process theology and process Christology. And then the next guy up was the visiting professor from Harvard, the Stillman Chair. And he said, okay, okay, we know that you know about process philosophy, let's get into other areas. So he wasn't as kind. Now, Tom, we're going to we're going to make our way through our our brief time with you in a slightly different way than we have in the past. Because as many of you I'm certain know, Tom was the 2017 Bellarmine lecturer here at Fairfield, which was our 75th anniversary. And Tom wowed people with his knowledge and familiarity with of the history of Fairfield, but especially the history of Fairfield through people and through buildings. And when we realized that we were going to be bringing Tom back, we thought it would be a wonderful idea, if he would be willing to reprise, to some extent, his Bellarmine lecture, and to amplify it with his memories, which you as you can imagine, living with the Jesuits that he did, many of them who were the real pioneers, I imagine, right Tom? Absolutely. We thought this would be a wonderful opportunity for us all to enter into the history and spirit of our beloved Fairfield, through the mind and heart of someone who is so central to our whole experience of Fairfield. So Tom, I wonder whether you would help us by doing that? Absolutely, be happy to and this, this will be short, much shorter than the Bellarmine, but just in a sense, a trip down memory lane, and if people are on the screen, you're going to be able to see this stuff, and it'll bring back memories to you. So, you know, when I see this, it's just like every time I drive back to campus, it's like welcome home.  But it has an amazing story. And so very often, I would give tours to family and friends. And so this is basically my tour, but with the help of your digital archives, and we'll give you the address at the end to go in and you get all the yearbooks, all the mirrors, all of the anything that you want is on here. But they have this fabulous slide collection. And so this digital thing sort of writes itself. So how did Fairfield come about? Well, actually, we can get this start video here. Here we go. It all started with John McElaney, who was from Woobin, Massachusetts, and he was up in Shatterbrook, which was the Jesuit and the Bishop. And all during the 30s, Father James Dolan, who was provincial, James Heavy Dolan, everybody in New England had a nickname, was trying to start a college in Connecticut. And he wrote to Bishop McAuliffe, and his letters just went ignored. And so he finally said to McElaney, just go down there, show up in Hartford, and see if we can't get permission to start something in Hartford. Well, it turns out that all of Connecticut was one diocese. And the reason he didn't answer any letters was Bishop McAuliffe really didn't like Jesuits. But he knew that Connecticut was going to split into three dioceses in a couple of years.  And I'm sure you can scout out something there. And maybe you can find something there, which was another way of saying, yeah, you can do it, but you're not going to do it in my diocese. So that was really important. So here's the guy that sort of started all. And he found this fabulous property, the Malans estate, the Jennings estate. This is a guy who made his money in Standard Oil as a partner with Rockefeller. And so they, they just, they agreed to buy this for $43,000, $43,879, which came with 76.2 acres, you can imagine. And we're saying you can't get a garage in Fairfield at that kind of price these days. But then while he was negotiating, he realized the clerk of court said, well, you know, if you're going to start a big school, there's a Catholic guy who was the clerk of court. The estate right across from that, it's up for back taxes. The Lasher estate called Heartstone Hall. And you can pick that up for back taxes. And so for another 68,500, they picked up another 105 acres and another mansion. So for a total of 112,000, they got these two huge properties in about 200 acres in Fairfield County. On St. Patrick's Day in 1942, they formed a 501C3 and the rest is history. They started out and they decided that this would be not only the prep, but also the university. Well, it was war time. And so 42, the prep started. And so the prep opened its classes on September 9th. But ultimately the university had to wait until after the war. But one of my, the funniest stories was, and I lived in Bellarmine in its last year as a Jesuit residence. And if you went downstairs, the area where the Art Institute now was actually a pool. And all those rooms on the side were cabanas. And so they decided this would be the lecture hall. But it was around the pool, they had all these bare-breasted sea nymphs. And so they realized if we're going to teach ninth grade boys, this was not a good backdrop. And so that's when all the paneling went on the walls and all those side rooms that became little offices. But that was one of the pedagogical downsides of having class around the pool. But ultimately what happened is, is in, they went up to Pomfret and on St. Patrick's Day, they incorporated as the 501C3, Fairfield University of St. Robert Bellarmine. And I haven't seen the new renovations of the gym area, but this was until recently, part of the floor. It might still be there. I'm not sure. But ultimately what happened was, is Dolan leaves his role as provincial and they switched places that Dolan becomes the president. And McElaney goes up to Boston to become the provincial. Well, this was a good arrangement because Dolan had been president of B.C. High and he got us through the get the chap getting a charter worked out. And it was amazing because he realized we're going to do some more building. But one of the guys he brought in, this is, this is the Jesuit flexibility. Here was Larry Lange, who would be one of the major architects of the building. But Larry was, because of the war, he was going to do his PhD in physics at MIT. But because of the war, he ended up moving over and he was getting a PhD in physics at Harvard. Well, as luck would have it, one of the priests who was teaching physics at prep decided to go into the war as a chaplain. And so Larry was pulled out of his PhD program, like Caulfield was, and said, you will go to prep and teach physics. Well, he wasn't a, he wasn't there very long. When all of a sudden they say, well, you know, given your background, you could be more valuable across the way. So we're going to have you start really putting together the curriculum. And you, the young priest, you will be dean of arts and sciences. And he goes, I don't even know what a dean does is that's okay, you'll figure it out. And this is the story of fear. And if you take away anything from this is I think that fear fill is one of the most successful stories in American higher education to think that you're 70 years away from your first graduating class, and you as competitive with anyone in the country, I think it's an amazing I'm just so proud that I could be part of this amazing endeavor. And so ultimately, here's the first faculty. And of these 15, I had a great relationship with eight of them. And some of you'll know this father Lieber as a young man, he was a scholastic, not yet a priest. Art Reel was in the English department. These Carmen Donnaruma of Donnaruma, that's him. You know, Chet Stewart was in the ed school. There's James Heavy Dolan. There's Larry Langeth. Art McGreevy taught English for many, many years and then went up to BC. And the fabulous story, Carmen was such a great guy. He taught a year at the prep before he came over. And unfortunately, when John Orman died, we all love John Orman from political science, a lot of us came back to campus for the funeral. And we had a reception in Bellamon when it was all done. And I brought on one of the Alpha Sigma New Kids over as a graduate, he was doing some teaching in Bridgeport. And I said, let me introduce you to Carmen Donnaruma.  And he goes, yeah, my wife Louise says that a lot too. So they stayed characters to the very end. But these people, when you think of what they did, they were just incredible. And so ultimately, these are the first two buildings, Berkman's will go up in 47, followed by Xavier. It was the beginning of a long relationship with Fletcher Thompson. They added the house on the corner of Round Hill Road in North Benson, which became known as the Rat House. And it was the psych lab for rats.  And so Father Tomograph, who's a real pioneer in these early days, would sit on the back porch shooting rats coming out of the swamp. I don't think you can do that now. But what happened was, is how did Heavy Dolan do all this? He took out a $200,000 loan from the Newton-Waltham Bank in Massachusetts. And I said, wait a minute, that's my parents' bank. I grew up in Waltham. Well, how did that happen? Well, when he was president of the BC, he put all of BC's money into the Newton-Waltham Bank in 1928 and saved them from collapse. And so he was able to get $200,000 at one and a half percent. And that was really, that relationship was the foundation of all the beginning. Well, Dolan had incredible plans. And as you can see, this appears in a, I think it might still be in the registrar's office someplace. But this was the original master plan. And it has the plan for campus along with the medical school, the law school, the graduate school, and everyone had their own campus. And yet things turned out very differently. It was during this time that the junior college of Connecticut decided that after the war, with the GI Bill, that this is easy to turn it into a four-year school. And so on February 3, 1947, Dolan announced that we would start our own, freshman-only, and we'd roll in one class at a time. And because of the GI Bill, tuition would be $200. Most of the students would be commuters. And they opened their doors to have 303 students, 121 were veterans from World War II, and 60, they didn't have any dorms. So if you weren't a commuter, 60 lived with neighborhood families, right? Well, at that point, McElaney, who was the bishop, who was the provincial, is pulled away to become the bishop in Kingston in the Wingham Province at Jamaica. And so it's musical chairs, Dolan leaves Fairfield to become acting provincial. Edmund Fitzgerald, who was a dean, because he becomes the acting president. And a year later, he will be appointed provincial in Boston. The big part of this time was we had our first graduation, I still say we, but on June 12, 1954, 2,009 men graduated. The women would have to wait a bit, but they were, 10 went to grad school, there were 19 lawyers, 12 became doctors, and interestingly, 51 of that first graduating class were called to Korea. And so when Fitz came, Joseph Fitz now, he takes us, so he replaces Edmund Fitzgerald, and you'll see a trend here, that if your name is Fitzgerald, your chances of becoming president of Fairfield are very, very high. So we have yet another Fitzgerald coming in, and he starts the whole accreditation process. He was president from 51 to 58. And so he realized that you have to have dorms. And so there's Joe Fitzgerald. And so ultimately, everything is multitasking. You say, how can I do so many jobs? Every building was multitasked. So this was the first building in 1954, that great room that is now part of the Unation College. That was the student center, right? Part of this was the library. And so they began building, and Loyola started to have on its own. In 55, they had Gonzaga, and there's where Larry Langath comes in. He tells that great story that if you know, over here, all of us would know, there's nine rows of raised bricks. And then the modality of Gregorian chant. So the architect wasn't Catholic, and he said to Larry, this is a really boring wall. But we can raise the bricks. I know a little bit about Gregorian chant. We can raise the bricks.  That was all it took for Larry. So it didn't cost us anything. And those nine bricks, about nine rows of bricks are here to this day. Ultimately, as you remember, when we built Canisius right next door, if you go around here, there's the stairs up to what is now Donnaruma. But those were called the stairs to nowhere. And they went up to basically a meadow, and they waited until 1980 when they built the faculty office building. So for those 40 years, they just waited there. But ultimately, things began to be very interesting. We bring in the next Fitzgerald, all right. And this is James Fitzgerald. He was called the Tower of Power. He was six foot six. But his office as president was his desk in his room in Bellamon. He didn't really interact a lot with people, but he was he had some foresight. And so ultimately, there was no presidential office, but he began the building of Gonzaga, as we said, in 45. He promoted this young chemistry professor, John Barone, to start the AUP. But when he was there, we had 52 faculty members, 23 of whom were Jesuits. 29 were laymen. Why do I say that? Well, if you're running a school, and basically 23 of your faculty are working for room and board, that's a pretty good faculty salary line. And so these Jesuits were so inspiring that they not only worked five days a week at Fairfield, but then on the weekends, they would go, say, mass in the parish and everything that they got in terms of stipend went right to the support of this new endeavor. So he was a somewhat of a builder. But if we go back to that master plan, we think of all those got the English Gothic buildings. The first thing to go in was the gymnasium. And then ultimately, we get Campion. And the blonde brick, as they say, the 1960s blonde brick was a little cheaper than English Gothic. But I saw Janet Krause was on the phone. This doubled as the humanities building. So this upstairs was all student housing. But then you see these room with the marble. This was the humanities building. And so this was philosophy, theology, and English. And Janet Krause, our friendship goes back 39. We were about five of us. I was first year. I was really low on the totem pole. And so I was in an office with four other people. And it began a great lifelong friendship with Janet. We're still close. And I think she taught English so many years. It was wonderful to be there. But this was quite the building because it was all tile floor on this floor. But then as you went upstairs, it was carpeted. But that meant that kids would throw water on the floor on Sunday night. You'd come in, pick up a term paper on Monday and find that your office was two inches underwater. But I digress. That was quite an interesting place. But ultimately, this is the huge moment in 1962. So here's a school that's less than 20 years old. They were on NBC. And it was the GE College Bowl. This was, you know, there was only the three state ABC, NBC, CBS and public television. This was NBC. So if you're going to watch television, this was a big deal. And it was a national program. And so Fairfield gets in there and the moderator was Donnie Lynch from the English department. And so Fairfield in their first week knocks off Creighton and it was a landslide. And so Creighton was found in 1878. And they got blown out by these four students from Fairfield. So they're invited back. So they do University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale. And again, Carbondale is 1869. These four students blow them out. It was unbelievable.  You know, what's going on there? They're graduating classes. 1951 is their first graduating class. And so ultimately, they get back a third week and they blow out Clemson, which is 1889. And so I refer to this as a BC guy. This was Fairfield's Doug Flutey moment before there was a Doug Flutey in Boston. But this put Fairfield on the map. Everybody's saying like, where is this? And how is this possible that a school that's less than 20 years old is blowing out these major powerhouses? So ultimately, one of the things that the president put in, he really wanted to have a program in science, which you call the New Horizon. And so he started to have a lot more interest in science. Ultimately, he he retires and incomes Bill McGinnis. Bill McGinnis was dean of the business school at BC. He had a doctorate in marketing from NYU. Later, you know, we became very good friends. But I think as when I was provincial and Bill had to report to me, he always reminded me he was the president and I was, you know, a young whippersnapper. So he never stopped being Bill McGinnis. But he was the one that really moved Fairfield along. He became very, very active with the business community in Bridgeport. And ultimately, we knew something was going to go well when his inaugural address was entitled religious universities in a pluralistic society. So as we deal with the secular, he really took us to the next level. At that point, the curriculum was still very domestic. And yet he understood where we needed to go. He moved the president's office into the what was a pretty large classroom in the back of Canisius. But that became the president's week. And he really professionalized everything. In 1964, he realized that 90% of the students came from the tri-state area, we really had to start building dorms.  He ultimately had the Rudolph Bano Science Center. Bano is an industrialist in Bridgeport. So we started with Bano. And then things really started to take off. We got the new Nicelius Library. Then we got the Campus Center.  Well, in 1963, the Title I Higher Education Facilities Act gave us $243,000 to start Bano. That went a long way in 1963. And $500,000 to start Nicelius in the Campus Center. Well, ACLU got ahold of this and decided to sue us in the other Catholic schools in Connecticut and ultimately said Catholic schools should not be getting government money. Well, this would be game over. And so this went all the way to the Supreme Court, ultimately, and Fairfield won in a five-floor decision. And had they lost, they didn't have a million dollars. And so we got to defend us. Edward Bennett Williams, who was the founder of Williams and Conley, he ended up defending Nixon. He's probably the best defense attorney in the country, probably one of the best litigators in the country. He's a graduate of Holy Cross. And for older Jesuits, he was a debate partner with William Richardson, who's probably one of the most formidable Jesuit philosophers of the 20th century. So they were debate partners. They didn't lose. But ultimately, we had Edward Bennett Williams argue our case before the Supreme Court. So we begin, McGinnis is undaunted by this. And in the middle with this case hanging over his head, in 1965, he builds Regis Hall. And then we build what was then called, this is an interesting story if you know the history, he builds Northwest. And then he builds far Southeast and Far East, now called Costco Claver, and ultimately now called Jokes. But when Joe McDonnell came in and decided that we needed to have all of these buildings named after Jesuit saints or whatnot, they changed the names. But when they were originally there, we had Northeast on one side, Northwest on one side, Costco, what was Far East and Southeast. And that part of campus was called the Orients. And so subsequently, as the general, I go watch this unfold, everyone kept calling it the Orients. And even people who had no memory of why these were called that, subsequently, and I think it's probably gone now, but this part of campus was called the Orient when people had no idea why. But that was the story. So ultimately, you know, these buildings, they got with these great architectural plans that were designed to be built in Florida. So living in the Northeast was a little different. Then the 60s came, and Fairfield was no different than any other place, is the protest against the war. We had the black students take over Xavier. We had one of the big things that the students did. They had all these books on the Catholic index, which meant you couldn't read them. Well, that was in the basement of Konishos, the library at the time. And so Father Small, interesting name, Father Small was in charge of them. And he had all of the books on the index, which were all the books that you wanted to read, but you couldn't read.  So one night they broke in and they reshelved all the books where they should have been. That was like one of the big protests. But then we had Kent State, and it was just like any other school. But one of the largest questions is at that point, I'm going to see that one of the big issues was in 1969, 70, the FUSA, which was a little FUSA at the time, they wanted a concert. And so they tried to get the doors, the doors, you know. And at that point, the police said, well, you can have the doors, but you have to have one parking space for every two people you think will attend. There wasn't that much parking in all of Fairfield at the time. So ultimately, they loved McGinnis. And in 1968, they dedicated the yearbook to him. But when the doors thing went south, ultimately, he was impeached and they wanted to turn him off campus. So that tells you a little bit about Presidencies and Jesuit schools. But we had Kent State in 1970, the big thing was Fairfield went COVID. And I think that was one of the great decisions. So ultimately, McGinnis is invited to go to USF and he leaves for California and in comes Tom Fitzgerald, who was the dean and then the academic vice president at Georgetown. And so McGinnis did a good job raising the profile. But when he left, he left Tom with basically $700,000 in debt, which he had to pick up. And so when we look at that in the interim, Jim Coughlin was the acting president. And then Tom Fitz, known as the Silver Fox, came in and within two years, eliminated the deficit. He was a great administrator. And one of the things he did, and there we have Joni Walters here is the first woman to be hired. She had a PhD in Economics from Harvard. And it was such a different time. We have Don Ross over here. And now as I listened to struggle, the struggle that students get into getting into medical school, Don had such a reputation in the premed community that if he had a really good student, he would just pick up the phone and call the dean of medical school and the Fairfield student was in and the track record of Fairfield premeds under Don Ross is just extraordinary. So there's probably many people on this call who owe their career to Don Ross because of what he did. So ultimately, it was a different world.  Paul Davis was the rugby coach. You probably got paid like $1,000 a year, because he was also a history professor. John McCarthy is the hockey coach. He was chair of the select department. My chair in philosophy, Joe Grassi was a coach of the tennis team. It was just a completely different world. Some of our people will remember the Nautilus of precursor to the grape or the sea grape where beers were 25 cents, and that was a different world. But this is a great slide I love. It was a world before we had risk management. Look at this slide. When you had a mandatory part of freshman orientation, a 30 foot greased pole, all right, at which point there was something on top, and you encourage students to climb this grease pole, risk management would go crazy today. Someone falls off and breaks their neck, new or should have known was a phrase that comes to mind from the legal community. But this was an amazing hazard, and it went on for years. They still do it at the Naval Academy, but just a different kind of world. Ultimately, older people on the call will realize this was the tree down by the pond, and all during life magazine, look magazine in the 60s, were a couple in a boat, a canoe, and an ad for Salem cigarettes. And so oftentimes, well, Madison Avenue, you would come up and shoot things on our campus, but this was it. And I remember being at Fordham now, I'm down studying philosophy, that Tom Fitz walked me along a chalk line and said that this will be the center for financial studies. And as we walked, how did that come apart? Tom McGrath in the psych department was this major, major international consultant to Fortune 500 companies on stress. He worked mostly with IBM and GE, and he would be off one or two days a week doing consulting with sea level people on stress. He convinced the savings banks of Connecticut to take a 30 year ground lease at Fairfield, and they built what was then a first class high end conference center. And it was used basically by GE and IBM. And it was through Tom McGrath, they had a 30 year lease, we'll get back to this. But ultimately, Fitz is still building. So he invites Phyllis Porter in, and we start the big time School of Nursing. This was, I remember walking along a girder with Tom Fitz on one of my visits up from New York. And he was saying, here will be the racquetball courts, note for future reference, this would be a very big part of my recreation while my time at Fairfield. But, you know, suddenly we begin to have the facilities that go with the reputation of the growing reputation of the school. And then the game changed. In comes Al Kelly. And he comes in 1968. Al Kelly was like a protege of Tom Fitz. He, like him, was a chair of classics at Georgetown. And I remember I came a year later, 1970, so Al's second year. And he said, I have a conference in Waltham, you're from Waltham, right? Well, I have a conference at Bentley. Why don't you ride up with me? I don't need, they didn't have GPS. I don't have to figure out how to get there.  And so I remember, I said, if we're going to be in Waltham, why don't we drive out through the other side of town and I'll take you through Brandeis, which was founded in the same year as Fairfield. But as a national Jewish school, it had an endowment at that point of $60 million. Fairfield had an endowment of six. And so if he's on the call, George Diffley and Al just did an extraordinary job in philanthropy. And when you think, when Al came in, most of our alumni was alive. We had no wills in the States. And ultimately, we had no people in the C-suite offices yet because our alums were too young. And so Al did what he did with George Diffley on the basis of parents giving. He was an unbelievable fundraiser. I was on another board, and Jim Hoff at the time was the president of Xavier. And he said, how does Al Kelly raise so much money? I had spent some time in Cincinnati. I said, Indian Hill is like Greenwich. It's right outside of Cincinnati. Imagine that your school is surrounded by 60 Indian Hills. And then you have a sense of what Fairfield County looks like. But Al was able to ingratiate himself. And he brought in so many friends with no connection to Fairfield, who suddenly realized what a great thing we were doing and got very, very involved. So Al began building his own campaign. And this is just extraordinary. He's throwing up a building a year. And when you build dorms, you know, every state has a housing authority. So they want you to build dorms. They'll advance you alone, that you amortize over 30 years. And basically, room and board becomes like paying off the mortgage over 30 years. And so it really doesn't cost you much to build dorms. But Al was a genius. And he realized we have to build dorms. Why is that? Well, let's start something attractive. So he beguiled the three phases of townhouse. Now this slide tells everything. Why was that necessary? Go figure it out. We had 900. When I got to Fairfield, 1980, we had 950 kids living at the beach. And when Labor Day came around, basically, they threw away the key. It was just students. But then during the Reagan years, when we started building all these McMansions, you know, we had these nice houses going in with families. And suddenly they didn't want to be living next to all these kids who were having parties all the time. And so we did this to get some of the kids off the beach and make it attractive for them to live on campus. So ultimately, the Jesuits decided to move out of Bellamon Hall. They take a year off. They renovate Bellamon. We moved down to what was over here. This part was built in 1978, right across from what was the rat house. So this is all swamp land area, wetlands. So this was called the Swamp House. It was completed in 1978. And then this part of the house was built in 1980. And it was great in 1980. So ultimately, I lived in Bellamon my first year. I lived in like this little Anne Frank room up on the third floor. But you've got these breathtaking views of sunrise every year, every morning coming up out of the sound. But I watched every brick of this building. I love watching construction. And so this was called, interestingly enough, the Faculty Office Building. English and sociology were on the first floor. The entire business school took the second floor. And then political science, economics, philosophy, and theology were all on the first floor. And that was watching that go up. But I mean, the faculty started having their own offices fearful, but under Al Kelly really comes into its own. And then ultimately, we built the chapel. Previously, the chapel had been the basement of Loyola.  But then interestingly, the topology of this part of the chapel roof, and this is the donation of Bill Egan, wonderful, wonderful guy, rugby player, but just a great philanthropist. But the topology of this, they were having all sorts of problems with leakage. And then they realized that this had the same topology as the space shuttle. And so they actually brought in someone from NASA to figure out how, and then since then, it's just a gorgeous, gorgeous chapel. Ultimately, this was sheer genius. Thanks to the generosity of the quick family, we have like first rate art center, many of the things that would preview down, it would preview on Thursday on campus would later be off Broadway or at Lincoln Center. And this opened up an outreach to the Jewish community, arts community in Westport, and people who had never been on our campus before suddenly became regulars on in our programs and the philanthropic aspect of this, people were just so, so generous. Al Kelly was a genius, right? And then ultimately we bought this building, this, if McCullough Hall was the estate, when his son got married, the original owner, the Jennings estate, this was believe it or not, this was built as a wedding present for his son when he got married.  We had using, we were renting some of this earlier, but now we bought the whole thing. And then ultimately Chuck Dolan comes in and this was absolutely huge. What $25 million gift it was at that time, one of the biggest donations in higher education. Chuck Dolan was just an incredible guy. I got to know him very well.  And then ultimately we buy the savings bank, they were in year 23 of their 30 year ground lease. We bought them out of their last seven years. And then this was no longer the Center for Financial Studies became the Dolan School of Business. And we were able to get a CSUB accreditation right away, because we had just a first class business school. So we bought them out of that seven years and became the business school. And ultimately, we bought the Bridgeport School of Engineering. And this had been in business since the 20s. And so previously we had a 3-2, there are a lot of some people I see on the call would do three years at Fairfield and then go to Columbia, Wister Polytech or RPI and get their engineering degree. But a lot of great engineers have a Fairfield route. And so that enabled us to do engineering. And then ultimately, this is my favorite story, Joe Domenna, who was a young alum by great success on Wall Street, he generously donated this addition to the library. And my hat always went off to Joe Overbeck and her incredible library staff who kept the library up and running through this construction of a completely new building next door. And ultimately, the only downside of this amazingly fabulous building is it opened to everyone's delight, but it opened around the same time the movie Titanic came out. And all the undergraduates were saying, oh my god, look at the staircase, it's just like Titanic. And I said, I don't think that's what the architects were looking for. But that's ultimately, it just gave us a first-class library, and Fairfield really came into its own. So ultimately, with the Cohena Rafterty gifts, Larry Rafterty was able to give us some facilities. In 1992, we had now 17 varsity sports, and we began to give our athletes the facilities that they deserved. Ultimately, I'm so happy about this, John Barone gave his heart and soul to Fairfield. And when they named this the Barone Center, it was so fitting as a tribute to one of the great great leaders of Fairfield. And then ultimately, there's Janet on the call, we were able to now acknowledge our growing number of alums, we're now had a home of their own. And the downside of this is we had really come into the mainstream. And this is, I think, one of the most moving. We had 14 people kill in 9-11. I did many of these funerals. Ultimately, Eddie Condon, who lives up in Trumbull, he lived at the guy at the end of his street, was in charge of the clearing of the debris at 9-11. And he asked them if we could get a piece of a girder. So he was able to secure a piece of the girder. And then the art people at Fairfield put together this incredible monument. And so last but not least, my last dealings at Fairfield, Jeff Von Arks came in and I met with him. I was now moved out in 2003. And I said, you look at Bellarmine, you look at Bellarmine, it's a great place, but you look at now the Jesuit residence, it was built for 40. We now have about 12 guys living there. I would like to give you. And so I was able to work it out with Rome. We gave the Jesuits own St. Ignatius House. We gave that property and that house to the university in exchange. And I said, I want you to build a conference center for the university. And we'll do it like a 25-year lease. And that will be the Jesuit residence for probably 12, 13 years until the numbers go down. We still have property across the street at Harrison House on the corner of Holland Hill Road and North Benson. So the Jesuit, that's zoned for 13 and a half houses. If we need to build a house to five people, we still have another house on Bala Road. There's plenty of other options. But Jeff Von Arks was just a fabulous collaborator. And so I end here. He built so many new buildings and had a great presidential run of his own. But we collaborated this and I think it was win-win. He was gracious enough to go along with this idea. And we built this as a hopefully what will be a university conference center. And, you know, when people come to campus to visit after COVID, this would be a great like a hotel on campus that we can host people coming for faculty interviews, people coming for talks and whatnot. This will become a university center. And that was the plan. So in a nutshell, if you were a family member or a friend, I just saved you about three and a half miles of walking. But you saw the tour that I would give to people that I really wanted to show how proud I was in Fairfield and what an amazing story it is in Catholic higher education or American higher education today. So I'll stop my screen share there and turn it back to Jerry. Now normally those of you who have been following us over the course of the last year, normally I have some questions with which I pepper the guest. But I think that so many of you certainly have comments or questions that you'd like to pose to Tom. So Jessica, if we could welcome questions at this stage. Absolutely. Yeah. If anybody has anything they would like Father Regan to answer, please feel free to submit it in the chat. Well, maybe while they're thinking Tom, what's your best and fondest memory of your 20 some years at Fairfield? I would just say watching students walk down the left side of the commencement address right side, I mean, with their degree. I mean, you'd meet them coming in as freshmen.  But, you know, the rest the ball is in your court. And, you know, I just take such vicarious enjoyment in seeing what our people have gone on to do.     And you're bringing him in. And we're saying, like, you know, when we met when you were a freshman, could you imagine that I said, I could imagine that you would be MacArthur winner. I would never imagine myself as a dean. So it worked out pretty well. Tom, one of the questions which has come up is from Aaron van Dijk, one of our faculty members in the Aaron physics or chemistry chemistry. Yeah, chemistry chemistry. Aaron, why don't you pose your question to Tom yourself? Yeah, Tom, I'm curious, you know, Fairfield, I think has a strong track record of producing, you know, leaders like yourself in higher education, but also, you know, a number of presidents within AJCU and other universities. So I'm curious, is there something that you think that's unique about the environment of Fairfield specifically that has trained individuals to become good leaders at other institutions? You know, I would say I can tell you, and I think it was the example and being able to get close to people in leadership. Let me use an example of Tom Fitz. Tom Fitz left Fairfield and went on to become president of St. Louis. And I got to know him really well. He said, you know, when I was at AVP at Georgetown, the provincial came and said, you know, BC is a disaster. Would you like to think about it? So before they got Don Monan, he was, and he said, no, I looked at BC's books. This is 1972. And he said, I knew I didn't have what it took to get into the, you know, into the finances. And so I took Fairfield and after eight years of Fairfield, I knew. And so when he became president of St. Louis, he had the skill set.  I fired the dean of the medical school before I started my term. But then when he went out there, I gave a paper out there at a conference. And he said, oh, Tom, you're here. I know your conference is going to let me give you a little tour because we have a little time before your conference starts. And so I walked over with him and one of the biggest guys in my field, and he gave us a little tour. And this is a typical Tom Fitz story. While we were walking over, a homeless woman came up and she was asking for money. He says, no, no, I don't have any money. But if you stay here, I'll be back in a few minutes and I'll get you something to eat. And he was wearing like a windbreaker. He had his collar on. And so this huge guy in my field turned to me and he said, oh, what a nice old priest because he does, he can do campus ministry is retired. And he said, I said, he's the president of the university. And he goes, oh my God, I've been at Old Dominion for 25 years. I never even got close to the president. And so when you look like Mark Reed, who's down at St. Joe's now, he went to the same high school as Al Kelly. Tim Snyder, who's now the president of LMU. The dean out at LMU was dean here. I mean, you got to work really, really closely. It was a whole, it was a smaller team. And so rather than go to these big places and never even see, you know, the other place. And one of the best things too is, you know, when we had the faculty dining room, it was so interdisciplinary.  And so I think when I look at the people who now hold really major roles, and it's not only there, it's really funny because at, you know, at BC and whatnot, you know, we said like everybody who does student service at Fairfield ends up, you know, being a major, major player in the, in the student service department at all these other schools. I mean, our dean of students now here at Loyola, at Thornton, the dean of students at Lincoln Center, was, he lived on my floor, Keith Eldridge, and he ultimately got his start. And so I think it's just an incubator because you get to see up close really good leaders and ultimately people who are willing to share what they know with you. Tom, one of the participants would love to have a sister Jean story if you have one from your time at Loyola, Chicago. My favorite one is when she turned, I'll tell you too, but when she turned 96, you know, I went to her birthday party, people helped her blow out the cake. And then about a week later, she came over to our house for lunch and I walked by for brunch.  And she said, well, okay, except for this. And she held up and she had her arm in a cast. I said, oh, what happened to you? She goes, I got hit by a ball at the soccer game. It's like, oh my God. And she goes, when I got hit, you know, I knew it was broken. And everyone around me is a panicking. So we'll call 911. It's like, we don't need to call 911. Jack up in the booth. He has a, here's a car. He can drive us down. And so when he went in, when she, they brought her into the hospital, you know, this young attending comes in, he's looking at the chart and he leans over and this is typical sister Jean.  Did you have a fall? And she looked at him. She goes, don't be patronizing to me. I was hit by a soccer ball. But then apps, you know, when I started doing more work with STEM people, I used to like to go to her birthday parties. But then when everyone was helping her blow out her candles, I got totally grossed out. And now with COVID, you know, oh my God, I'd never go near that cake.  What would you say was their impact on you? How are you the person you are because of your time here? Oh, they basically made me the person I am.  People say, well, what's it like being in the community now is that we have a great chef and we have, you know, 33 in the house. And, but we don't go out. And so what was COVID like for us is that it was like being on a, an ocean liner that never docks.  And they just expanded my horizons.  I mean, you're open to all sorts of new things. You know, when I became provincial, it was like working with an office staff. And I said, you know, I've gone from working with, you know, young people and potential to old people and actuality, you know, and you realize that the possibilities there are endless. And so it just kept, I think when you work with undergraduates, it just keeps you so young. When you had the opportunity to be as interdisciplinary as we were with all the faculty, it was amazing because, you know, you just learned so much from your colleagues.  Tom, one of the, one of your hearers, one of your admirers wants to compliment you on maintaining your Wulburn accent despite all of your time in Southern Connecticut and Chicago and New York. Tom, I think we probably, it's almost eight o'clock. We try normally to end up around eight. I do have just one more question that someone sent directly to me. They recall, Father Regan, that you were good friends with Father Higgins. Is there a memory or something with Father Higgins that you would like to share or a piece of your friendship? I think I am the kind of Jesuit I am because of him. I mean, he was one of the most exemplary Jesuits. And when I became provincial, you know, he had run Al Kelly's office for all those years. And so very graciously, he had been socious, which was like the chief of staff for the provincial under another provincial. And I said, would you be, I love working with him. And he was so edifying. And it was never about him. And so we had the provincial staff was just incredible people. But I said, would you come and consider becoming the socious, my chief of staff. And so he came in my second year. So for those five years, you know, he was my total guru. I mean, I think I was as effective as I was as provincial, because I had him in my back corner who wasn't afraid to tell you. But I mean, I just profited so much from his advice. He was just, you know, he was like a Jesuits Jesuit. And like it was Father Murphy and Father Higgins. And, you know, the best part of Fairfield was, and I benefited from this too, is instead, you know, sons and daughters come free, but nieces and nephews, when they, they put that benefit for Jesuits, they didn't calculate how many some of these could have. And so Father Murphy, I think put 17 kids through and Father Higgins put like, I think 12 nieces and nephews through. And so when I went to John's wake, I felt it was my family wake because I had taught all of his nieces and nephews. So it was like being part of that family.  You know, we, when we first conceived of this program, initially we were Jessica and Janet, we talked about doing a series on Ignatian spirituality. And we concluded that the best way to do that would be to invite Jesuits like Father Tom, who have spent time here, and who have come to know you and whom you have known, because as we ask them to review with us their time and their own vocations, that'll be the best, the best entree into what it means to live a Jesuit life and to live Ignatian spirituality. St. Ignatius singled out as the most important quality he was looking for. Two, one was gratitude. Ignatius said, a lack of gratitude is the mother of all sins. Tom, from the minute we started until now, you've exuded gratitude for your time here, for the people you encountered, for the experiences you had. That spirit of gratitude is such an example to us and such an invitation to find the grace of God and the gift of God in all of the events we have that meet us. And the second, I think great quality that Ignatius expected of his sons and of all those who participate in Ignatian spirituality is availability. And Tom, you've lived that. You came here to Fairfield. You pursued your work as a philosopher. When it was time for you to move on and take on the reins as a provincial, you did that. When it was time to go on and be dean of the graduate school and the undergraduate in the seminary in Chicago, you did that. And then when the provincial said, Tom, it was time to come back to New York and become rector of the Jesuit community at Fordham, you've done that. So Tom, for all that you've done for all of us, but tonight I want to signal out your modeling for us the gift of availability to God's service and a spirit of gratitude for all that God has done for us. Thank you, Tom, for showing us those two great qualities and so many others. Thank you very much. It's such a pleasure to be with you and to see all your wonderful faces again. Thank you. Great being with you. There you go. Thank you. Thank you, Father Regan. Thank you, Father Jerry, as always, for guiding these conversations. Thank you all for being here. Our next one of these personal journeys discussions will be with Father Frank Hannity on May 19th. So keep your eye out for a link to register for that soon. And thank you all again. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the night.


Remember the Bulldogs had that episode where they told us about what N-word moments are. Westwood defines the nigga moment as a moment when ignorance overwhelms the mind of an otherwise logical Negro man.  It's not a moment where he says the N-word. No. It's a moment where he was. He's acting like one. What is that? What is it to act like one? You said what? What is that? Can you just explain to me what it is to act like one? Donald Trump.   Can you just call him one with the E-R? That'd be really great news. No, because he might quote me somewhere. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, yeah. He used it as an excuse to say it. You know, because I was called N-word by this N-word.


Seven days to the Biosas state governorship poll, popular cleric Abbas Achaea has declared that those planning to spew blood will sleep not wake up till the elections are over. Abbas who is the general overseer of only Jesus can save ministry said religious leaders in Biosas state have been praying for peaceful elections and that God will not allow a repeat of the bloodshed that marred previous poll was in the state. In an interview with our correspondent, the cleric also advised political actors to allow the people to decide who to govern them. At every second of November, it stands giving day and God loves Thanksgiving. So with that, I think the election will be peaceful, there will be no crisis. Even to anybody that is trying to make crisis, God will tell that person to sleep and some of them will sleep and that they will forget that it's election day. The next day they will wake up. Yeah, I'm telling them that Biosas is one and we are one Biosas.  We are one and we should play that role as matured persons as one. And killing is not part of Biosas state.  People know killing is not part of us. And I think that is one of my key points of prayer, that let God touch the hearts of the people to select who God has destined to be there. You see, there are certain things. They are saying God dealing with Biosas has gone beyond that level of killing. God dealing with Biosas with peaceful. You see, it's a God of science and wonder. It's a God of miracle. And that day, believe me, it will be a miracle that just fighting this killing will not take place. The election will run peacefully. So the political actors, I am advising them to keep calm, allow the people to decide who to rule them, who to lead them, who to govern them. So by that, I think you will carry the people along as you preach about democracy. And don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.