Catholic banter with the floorboards showing.
Catching Foxes runs on the friendship-friction between Luke and Gomer, with Catholic life as the floor and everything else fair game. Parish missions, sponsor reads, broken toilets, ruptured appendixes, Disney movies, and Aristotle can all end up in the same breath.
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Catching Foxes is a Catholic comedy-talk show built around momentum. Luke and Gomer talk as if the outline exists mostly to be interrupted. That is part of the design. The show moves through parish missions, family injuries, health scares, live shows, sponsor copy, pop culture, and story theory with the same quick, half-chaotic confidence. One episode can start with a broken back in the family and still make room for Scott Hahn, Matt Fradd, and the strange comedy of turning real life into content. Another can begin as a sponsor read for parish software and become a working complaint about spreadsheets, sacramental records, and the sheer administrative weight of parish life. The Catholic frame is real. So is the silliness. The conversations are often domestic, even when the ideas get ambitious: toilets leak, flooring fails, teenagers learn to drive, spouses become recurring comic figures, and medical recovery becomes public material. The show is especially strong when it lets ordinary embarrassment carry theological weight. A ruptured appendix story turns into talk about honesty, marriage, and the strange intimacy of being known. The Aristotle episodes show another side of the same personality. Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Harry Potter, musicals, scores, tragedy, character, and moral choice all become usable material. The analysis is not academic. It is alive, caffeinated, and interruptible. Guest appearances can feel like family table conversation, as with Christina Carey navigating bad internet, sibling teasing, and household noise in real time. Catching Foxes works for listeners who want faith-adjacent conversation that admits how ridiculous life can get. It is warm, sharp, and frequently untidy. The show does not separate sacred reflection from plumbing disasters, sponsor detours, or jokes about aging. That mixture is the point.
Made for: For Catholic listeners who like faith, family, culture, and comedy tangled together rather than neatly sorted. It especially suits people who enjoy fast banter, personal stories, and serious ideas arriving through side doors.
What sets it apart: Catching Foxes stands apart by letting the messy middle of Catholic life stay messy. Parish work, parenting, illness, sponsor reads, and Aristotle-level story talk all share the same conversational table.
Luke and Gomer became friends Freshman year at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and 14 years later they started a podcast. The show oscillates between a conversation between just the two of us and interviews that we do together of other, fancier people. Sometimes we get explicit either by being too honest or by being too stupid. Either way, it's fun!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Luke and Gomer bring Catholic thought into frank, funny conversation with family life, popular culture, friendship and moral choice.
Catching Foxes lets Catholic thought share the table with parenting, illness, marriage, work and whatever has caught Luke and Gomer's attention that week.
Aristotle walks into a Disney movie, and Luke and Gomer somehow make you glad he stayed.
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A ruptured appendix leads into candid, funny reflection on bodily vulnerability and giving without keeping score.
Recovery gives this episode its plainest frame: Luke is recording while still coming back from an exploded appendix, with chills, pain, and failed attempts to throw up sitting right in the foreground.
A warm moral reading of Ariel's choices, with voice, desire, and responsibility set beside Disney spectacle.
Aristotle's Poetics Pt II reads The Little Mermaid as a story about desire, responsibility, and gifts that can be thrown away. The conversation stays with Ariel's bargain with Ursula, her choice to give up her voice, and the hurt her self-absorption brings to her father,…
The episode links tragic heroes, moral choice, and the way film music can reveal character.
The episode turns tragedy into a practical question about moral choice, treating character as the change in a person that reveals what that choice means.
A familiar Franciscan reunion widens into Michael's BUD/S setback and the demands of Navy SEAL formation.
Rose Rae joins the Catching Foxes hosts for a conversation that begins in familiar Franciscan territory, with memories of Austria, class years, and the ache of a missed semester, before settling into Defend Us in Battle and Michael's story.
A loose Catholic conversation where Benedict, an Ohio State-Michigan fight, and a Tesla all share the room.
This Catholic conversation lets the day set the shape of the room. The hosts move from Benedict's influence on liturgy and Catholic identity at colleges like Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Notre Dame to the fight after Ohio State-Michigan, and the jump is part of the point.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Luke and Gomer interview Ben and Sean from Cold Brews and Catholic Truths about treating non-Catholic friends with dignity.
Katie and Mrs.
Luke and Gomer open with Luke's enjoyment of a post-game brawl in the Ohio State-Michigan football game.
Luke and Gomer interview author Rose M.
David Goggins becomes the comic reference point when Gomer defends his protein-heavy morning routine and gets teased by Luke.
Luke opens Catching Foxes by saying he has been "rethinking our approach" to applying the church's birth control teaching, while stating he is not arguing against Humanae Vitae.
Gomer shares the story of his son Noah breaking his back during a family vacation in Florida.
A Catholic podcast episode discussing the importance of mourning with others and the role of faith in processing grief.
Luke and Michael Gormley reunite after their live show to compare SEEK experiences, including Gormley's first-of-three men's session in Denver, where Metallica's "Enter Sandman" played as his walk-on music.
A humorous conversation about the frustrations of home renovation and a toilet leak caused by poor handyman work.
Abe hosts his sister Christina for her debut on the Catching Foxes podcast, where they banter about family resemblance and technical issues.
Catching Foxes ties Beauty and the Beast to a feminine archetype, using the "diamond in the rough" pattern and Jordan Peterson's notes on pirate, vampire, werewolf, and billionaire figures.
Disney villains split into two types: "the outsider kind of outlaw or the tyrant."
Catching Foxes examines Shakespeare’s The Lion King through a conversation about Aristotle’s Poetics, including plot, character, thought, language, song, and spectacle.
Luke and Nick discuss the joy of meeting podcast listeners and share a story about how Nick met his wife through Catholic Twitter.
The host catches up with a friend who is a children's book editor, discussing recent life changes and the guest's work.
An interview with Maria Puccini about housing homeless pregnant women, preceded by a chaotic ad read for Catholic fertility awareness.