The Break with Father Roderick Fr. Roderick Vonhögen

This month will see the release of the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon. Will it be any good?

🌍 Intro/News:

• How I prepare my programs in advance when I go on a trip.

🍿 Movies & TV shows:

• House of the Dragon

🍴 Food & health:

• Tofu!

📚 Books:

• The story of a soul – trad. John Beevers

🪴 Nature & Sustainability:

• Short showers with the tomato timer; night/weekend electricity tariffs.

🎓 This Week I learned:

• How early filmmakers recorded music, dialogue and sound

🎮 Tech & Video Games:

• Meta changing it’s VR/AR strategy after ad revenu decline?

In this episode of the Break, I talk about the Batgirl movie cancelled at the very last moment, despite it testing well with audiences, and I share my thoughts on the Superman & Lois TV-series on HBO.

Shoutout to my patrons at patreon.com/FatherRoderick:

• Welcome to new patrons:

Jake Roblez; Fidel Blanco; Joshua Herrera

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🌍 Intro/News:

• Got my ducks in a row before going to Italy

🍿 Movies & TV shows:

• Superman & Lois,

• Batgirl cancelled; HBO & Discovery+ merger

🍴 Food & health:

• Oriental style Red Cabbage

📚 Books:

• The Big Book of 30-day challenges

🪴 Nature & Sustainability:

• Old-fashioned soap instead of ‘convenient’ soap dispensers

🎓 This Week I learned:

• More editing tricks in Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve

🎮 Tech & Video Games:

• Tomato Timer

💡 Outro/Inspirational thought:

• Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now

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In this episode of The Break:

🌍 News:

Blisters, upcoming vacation and posting schedules.

🍿 Movies/TV:

• Rings of Power full trailer

• Star Trek: Lower Decks

🍴 Food & health:

• Non-fussy Sheet Pan Chicken Tikka https://smittenkitchen.com/2016/04/sheet-pan-chicken-tikka/

📚 Books:

• Michael Ward – Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1800794.Planet_Narnia

• Charles Soule – Light of the Jedi: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51637946-light-of-the-jedi

♻️ Nature & Sustainability:

• Shampoo and other soapbars: https://www.sustainablylazy.com/blog/best-shampoo-bars-usa

• Matt Winning – Hot Mess: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56222117-hot-mess

🎮 Tech & Video Games:

• Planet Zoo (Zoo simulator) is 70% off until 1 August. https://store.steampowered.com/app/703080/Planet_Zoo/

• No Man’s Sky 50% off. https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/

• Descript!

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In this episode of The Break:

🌍 News:

• The Walk of the World

• Check out my vlog & documentary channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCicqw-CMUlfLPPx11GDqmYg

🍿 Movies/TV:

• Avatar: The Way of the Water, Comic-Con: Wakanda Forever and The Rings of Power

🙏 Faith:

• What I learned during the Walk of the World

📚 Books:

• The Science of Storytelling – Will Storr

🧪 Science & Tech:

• James Webb telescope first photos comparison https://www.webbcompare.com/

Check out my LEGO Channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brickpriest

In this episode, I react to the teaser trailer for The Rings of Power. Also in this episode: prayer, poodles, stars and iPhones!

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🌍 News: Reworking the YouTube channels and renaming the podcast!

🍿 Movies/TV: Stranger Things 4

🙏 Faith: Determinism and Free will in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

📚 Books: Shadow of the Sith audiobook

🧪 Science: The James Webb telescope is ready for action https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/7/23188300/nasa-jwst-space-telescope-mirror-alignment-commissioning-engineers

⚙️ Tech: Getting my iPad Air iOS 12 to speed up.

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