Welcome to the Council of Trent Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to Free For All Friday, you're on the Council of Trent Podcast, I'm

your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I want to talk about how to be an academic without going broke.

So on Monday and Wednesdays we talk of apologetics, theology, Friday we talk about whatever we want.

And this kind of goes into what I would talk about on Monday and Wednesdays because some

of you might like to go deeper in a subject.

So you might wonder how I go deeper into subjects.

I try to learn about all different facets of our faith from philosophy, ancient history,

medieval studies, grammatical studies, science, scientific journals.

So I'm always trying to access a lot of different things.

But I will tell you, sometimes in my quest to learn and to grow in my knowledge in different

areas, it can be hard because some books out there are expensive.

And frankly, there's kind of a racket in the academic world.

I mean, some of you have been to college, either if you're in college, have kids that are

in college or you went to university at one point.

You know how this is with textbooks.

I mean, you'll go to the student bookstore by a textbook and the professor is going to

say, oh, make sure that it's the 28th edition of the class.

It's got to be human anatomy and physiology, 28th edition or you'll fail the course or something

like that.

And so you go online and see like the 27th edition, that textbook is like $5.

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