4th Anniversary Special (and return from hiatus!)

The Popeular History Podcast

TRANSCRIPT
Good evening, Happy Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and welcome back to Popeular History! That’s right, we’re officially off hiatus, starting next week you can expect a short Cardinal Numbers episode every Saturday and a longer Popeular History worldbuilding episode every month. As I continue to get a feel for the rhythms of family life that seems like a doable schedule, especially since most of the work for the remainder of the year is already done. Alleluia!
I also have some special stuff for you today. First off, I want to wish a very happy birthday to Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston. This birthday is bittersweet, because the next conclave is officially losing a real one as Cardinal O’Malley is 80 today and is therefore automatically no longer a Cardinal Elector.
This brings the total number of current Cardinal Electors to 125, and for what it’s worth I am fully expecting another consistory for the creation of new Cardinals to be announced later in the year once that’s in danger of dropping below 120.
When I call Cardinal O’Malley “a real one”, naturally that’s partially a reference to the fact that he’s a Buckeye, partially a reference to the fact that he’s one of the few bearded churchmen in the Latin Rite, partially because of the amazing nature of being able to see him mowing the lawn in his habit, and partially because he was the fixer brought in to bring Boston out of the mess it was in scandal wise after the troubled tenure of Cardinal Law. One day I will get to covering Cardinal O’Malley and the other older Cardinals in Cardinal Numbers, but for now my focus for that show is on covering the younger cardinals who will participate in the next conclave when the time comes. By the way, Cardinal Numbers now somewhat accidentally has its own feed again. I wasn’t financially prepared to have two podcast feeds active, but I forgot to cancel the subscription, so might as well roll with it! All my content will be posted right here on the Popeular History Feed of course, but Cardinal Numbers specific content will also be posted on the Cardinal Numbers feed so that can also develop as a standalone rexypod, which was the original intent.
There is also officially a bit of Paton-exclusive content now! But don’t worry, I’m not paywalling knowledge, that goes against my principles as a librarian. We’ll see some early access situations, sure, but there is never going to be something for you to learn that’s only going to be on my Patreon feed. Instead, it’s going to be more pure fun extension stuff like the episode I just posted where Fry from Pontifacts kindly agreed to be subjected to my look at Cardinal Burke and give her live reactions! She also managed to get me talking a little more loosely than I normally would. It was a great time and I’m looking forward to making more content for my Patreon Patrons, if I ever get any of those to make more content for! Hint hint. Patreon.com/popular, go check it out!

Finally, I’ve decided that I’ve been sitting on the Habemus Pointsam recordings Bry and I have already made for too long, in part because I always worry files will just disappear. So the rest of today’s show will be the draft pilot for that mini rexypod. Get ready for some foolishness and categories in 3…, 2…, 1…
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