Down yonder, a reader writes:

Ever consider doing a list of questions asked in a particular
Q&A show for the whole set of shows on Catholic.com Sometimes I
want something fun to listen to so I’ll pick one at random. Othertimes
I’d like to hear an answer to a question I have, and having a list of
the questions asked as a pop-up or heads-up display would be really
keen.

I don’t have the time to do this, I’m afraid. I can make up question lists for all of my shows from here on out, but I’m not able to go back and do the whole run–for my own shows, much less everybody else’s. (Among other things, I have a blog to write.)

That being said, I recognize the value of doing this and I’m not opposed to the idea–if I can get some help doing it.

Tell ‘ya what:

• Y’all can see the level of detail and way I’m describing the questions.
• If anybody wants to volunteer to do a block of shows, e-mail me and I’ll let you know which ones to do (this way we won’t have people duplicating efforts by picking the same shows).
• Each block would be a month on the calendar (typically three to six shows of mine).
• You tell me how many blocks you’d like to volunteer for (mininum commitment = 1 block; assinging individual shows rather than blocks would be a bookkeeping nightmare).
• Then you do the question lists (which only takes a few minutes per show since you can jump forward once you get the sense of a question–unless you want to listen to the whole show ’cause you’re interested), e-mail them back to me, and I’ll post them.

If we can work through the backlog of my shows, that would show that there are enough people out there interested in doing this that it would make sense to do it for the rest of the shows as well, at which point I would propose it to the folks in the Web and Radio Departments at Catholic Answers that we get this all done via volunteers and then post it all on Catholic.Com so everyone can benefit from it.

If they say yes, we do it. (If they say no, we don’t do it, but I’m pretty sure they’d say yes if the data is offered to them and I’ve already proven that there are enough volunteers by doing my own shows, which are about a fifth of the total.)

Whadda y’all think?