Plugged In Podcast
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Episode 22 - The Lost Episode ... Merry Christmas??
Merry...Christmas...everyone. We know, we know. It's March! Join us for the ride as we release a hidden Plugged In Podcast episode that never made it to air.
Ever had your hot water heater die while single parenting for a week? Matt shares his chaotic experience managing kids, household emergencies, and a child who needs "some space" in a public bathroom. The struggle is real, and sometimes only a little blue Australian dog named Bluey can save the day.
As we dive into the Christmas season, our hosts share their most memorable Red Kettle stories – from electric wheelchairs getting stranded in the Wendy's drive-thru to family traditions of playing instruments outside Walmart on Black Friday mornings. We learn about Nate's viral kettle video that's amassed nearly 70 million views, possibly making him the generational face of The Salvation Army for the TikTok generation!
Beyond the holiday humor, we continue our exploration of John Mark Comer's "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry," focusing on silence and solitude as essential spiritual disciplines. In our constantly connected world, we've lost natural moments of boredom that once created space for spiritual reflection. The conversation turns deeply personal as the hosts reflect on how Jesus intentionally withdrew to quiet places when his life was busiest – a counterintuitive but vital practice for spiritual formation.
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Merry... Christmas... !
welcome back everyone. We are here with episode number 22 of the plugged in podcast I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22 thank you.
Speaker 3:It just hit me right now. I would have never thank you, taylor swift, nope see more.
Speaker 1:Your face was amazing, though, no more of these references is not going to be good for me.
Speaker 2:I would have never gotten that. It would have been funny to let it dead.
Speaker 3:Thanks for bringing the energy today.
Speaker 2:Hey, yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 1:Nate, you were there for her. That was good, I was.
Speaker 3:I don't normally sing all out of key like that.
Speaker 1:Oh Well, Nate, I wouldn't. Now I'm self-conscious.
Speaker 3:I wasn't going to call you out.
Speaker 2:Let's do it again. No, we're done. I wasn't going to call you out.
Speaker 1:Okay, episode 22 of the Plugged In Podcast. We are in the month of December, my gosh. If you haven't heard it from anyone else yet. You can hear it from us.
Speaker 3:Merry Christmas to you, I don't know if here just in case it doesn't happen we start so ambitious, and then real life comes our way.
Speaker 1:It's okay, I do have an opener today. You ready for it? Yes, bring it on. So last week, holy cow, last week was a mess, okay, so I was single dadding it yes.
Speaker 1:So my wife Heather, she went to a conference on well, I went to a conference Wednesday through Friday a couple couple of weeks ago and then we got back, saw each other literally for like two hours. She went to the airport late on Friday night and was gone all the way through the following Saturday, right Over a week. Now I don't want to dramatize this too much because there are millions of single parents out there that rock it. Yes.
Speaker 2:But let me um affirm all of them I was struggling, yeah.
Speaker 1:I was struggling.
Speaker 1:So Saturday, Sunday, like it was okay because utilize the daylight, we were going to the playground went to the store, there were activities, there was stuff to do, but then the week hit and so mass brass on Monday, like I was gone like literally all day, it's like a 14 hour day. Wednesday, the Quincy Corps had their music finale, right, and to get the kids from daycare, bring them to the finale, expect them to like sit in the chapel and like watch this thing happen, it was, they were really good they were Come on.
Speaker 1:Okay. So if Caleb ever listens to this podcast in the future, I will be so embarrassed for him, but I'm trying to manage all this stuff going on and then. So caleb kind of disappears around the corner, and he does that from time to time. He'll throw the ball with with gary or someone, and so he's gone for, like you know, more than 45 seconds and I'm just like where's caleb?
Speaker 1:so I walk around the corner, mackenzie crying, mackenzie's crying by the way, because I leave for one second caleb is door wide open, pooping in the bathroom yes and so I'm like, oh, buddy, and so, but like it's, it's like, it's like totally normal to him. He's just like, he's just looking at me as I like take a step closer to, like, ask him if he's okay, or shut the door. He goes. Daddy, I need some space. I missed that part.
Speaker 1:So like of the like, dozens of kids and people that are walking by watching him with the door wide open, he's like, daddy, I need some space and so, no, the week was wild. Self-advocate right there. Oh, the week was wild. In addition, the refrigerator when we bought our house in 2021, it was a multi-generation home and we sealed it up, and actually we rent out one bedroom of our home the refrigerator in the rental unit went out, so it needs to be replaced. And then, on top of that maybe the worst part so on Wednesday, after the music finale, I came home. There's no heat or hot water in the house, so I try to put Mackenzie to bed. Caleb follows me downstairs and I'm like I'm doing what I know how to do, what I know how to do to fix a hot water heater.
Speaker 1:So, let me just put this in context. I got three degrees in trombone performance. So when I went downstairs to fix this hot water, heater, so what? I know, yeah, what I know. Anyways, that has to be replaced. Wow, no, after all that, and if you are an adult and know what hot water heaters cost, we're canceling Christmas this is trauma.
Speaker 3:So Merry Christmas everybody. Merry years cost. Yeah, this is um, we're canceling christmas, yeah, so, yeah. So christmas, merry christmas everybody, merry christmas to us. Put a nice big red bow on that new hot water tank, put it under the tree, yeah so it was um, it was a wild week, I will say.
Speaker 1:The one thing that that saved us was a little blue australian dog named bluey oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Bluey to the rescue. Yeah, bluey's incredible, yeah, you know they like it's a morally sound show yeah, there's two parents there that both contribute.
Speaker 1:They're like. You know, there's no like. Uh, it's just a really good show. Yeah, I love it and you can. Every time caleb and mckenzie are watching it, I'll look over and they're like just smiling to themselves, like they're just, they're just into it every now and then jackson breaks out with like daddy, daddy, yeah, and I'm like oh, we got a little Australian here, yeah.
Speaker 3:That's awesome, but they definitely write that show for the parents as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so sentimental, so emotional. Little tears.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:If you can get the parents, then the kids are in as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's I.
Speaker 3:It is as an adult. It's well written, Like so.
Speaker 1:I'm all about Bluey. If you want to. If you want to, if my kids ever have a birthday coming up, get them something Bluey that'll last another six months and then I'm sure it's over, but oh, great show.
Speaker 3:I took a picture of Mackenzie at the Quincy concert with her feet on the wrong her shoes on the wrong feet, I swear.
Speaker 1:So she has like learned them wrong because it's every time. Now, okay, I was just saying.
Speaker 3:I think this might be a microcosm of how Matt's week is going.
Speaker 2:That he just didn't even realize, but if she did that, you go, she's obsessed with her shoes.
Speaker 1:She wants to take her shoes to bed, she wants to take them on the changing table, but she has learned to put them on the wrong feet. So I'm trying to undo that and I just don't know.
Speaker 2:Good luck. Yeah, I don't know how that's going.
Speaker 1:But we are moving into fundraising season for the Salvation Army, and Nate tell us a little bit about the Red Kettle campaign.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, the Red Kettle campaign. It is our signature fundraiser of the year in the Salvation Army and, for those who are tuning in, I'm sure you have some form of experience with the Red red kettle, whether it's you volunteered some hours yourself you might be an officer, you might be running your campaign in your local community Switching kettles right now.
Speaker 3:But what a visible presence and opportunity we have as the Salvation Army during this time of year. It's the thing that maybe so many people who don't know much about the Salvation Army at least they know that we're there at their market basket, their Shaw's or Walmart whatever raising funds throughout the year. And as we were just thinking about this season and what our Corps and our Corps officers and local Corps communities are going through, we just thought that maybe we would share some of our favorite kettle memories from our experience, or maybe some funny, humorous things that have taken place at kettles over the years. Uh, just to bring some lightheartedness to the, to the craziness of this season. All right, so we had this bell ringer, uh, in columbus, ohio. Uh, he was.
Speaker 2:He was a really nice guy don't, don't name his name, don't name his name.
Speaker 3:I'm not gonna say yeah, please, no names um, he was a really great guy, um, but what he would do on his breaks was he would take the electric wheelchair from the grocery store and he would drive it, like his own personal vehicle, across the plaza to the Wendy's drive-thru. Yes, and one of these days he did this and it got out of range from the grocery store and got stuck in the drive-thru.
Speaker 2:In the.
Speaker 3:Wendy's drive-thru and backed up cars all through the drive-thru. Oh, my goodness, and we got so many phone calls from Wendy's and from the grocery store about him taking the scooter and going through the drive-thru.
Speaker 2:It's just the calls you don't expect.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Calls you don't expect to get. Was it the same person that on the? I think it was the last day of kettles when I was taking picking up the kettles he had. There was like one of those soda displays. When you walked right in he had like moved the soda so he could sit on the sodas and then he had a giant bucket of fried chicken and was just eating and I was like bro I was like I'm so done.
Speaker 2:It was, but it was like the end of the season. I was like here's your check.
Speaker 1:You know there are some kettle workers. They take the job description literally. It doesn't say that I can't have fried chicken and move the soda display.
Speaker 2:I'm like, yeah, it's so true, but he was hilarious.
Speaker 3:And that's the thing In his mind. He was doing the right thing because he's like I want to maximize the time that I'm out here at the kettle. I don't want to take my lunch while I'm here and you're not supposed to eat at the kettle. But he was just like Captain, I'm making tons of money, I'm not taking a break, so you can kind of see through the reasoning that there was a pure intent, Sure sure I have two favorite memories, one's funny, one's like family oriented.
Speaker 1:The funny one is so I would always have my trombone out on the kettles and in high school, uh, I was a kettle worker. So after once christmas break started I'd be taking. Like if they could give me a 12-hour shift, like with a break, like I'd be doing it. I was at walmart from 6 am to 6 pm like that was my, my thing. Yeah, um, but I remember as a kid there were some times where it was literally so cold outside. So one year my trombone for a while had a leaky spit valve and it didn't inhibit my ability to play. But you know, every once in a while just a tiny little bit of condensation from the instrument comes out. Well, on the coldest of days that water would never drop and hit the ground. So I didn't even realize it.
Speaker 1:But I got like two hours in and I realized there was like a six inch long like sp spitzicle, like a spitzicle that was hanging off the bottom of my trombone and it really confused me at first, and then I was just like, oh my goodness, this is like one drop at a time it's accumulated. That's amazing there was another story where, literally again so cold, uh, the the brass instruments, you know, require valve oil or some sort of like lubricant to make the valves and the slides work.
Speaker 1:I literally remember them being the halls with the turkey and my slide froze mid-song and that was it. It was so cold I mean we're talking, it was like probably two degrees out wind chill of minus five.
Speaker 2:Well, Illinois, right yeah, Illinois.
Speaker 1:So I packed up my trombone and was done. But then I was just like oh, I've got like nine more hours to go?
Speaker 3:No yeah let's go.
Speaker 1:And then my sentimental one was just, it was a family tradition for back when, black Friday was more aggressive.
Speaker 1:I guess, yeah, yeah, I think it's much less of a thing now that online shopping is so prevalent. Yeah, but you'd have these door buster deals. The stores would open 4, 5, 6 am, something like that. And so I remember me and my dad and my two brothers and a couple different years, my mom would be out there, or if my grandparents were visiting for Thanksgiving or it was some sort of family representation. But we got out. We'd wake up at, like you know, 5 am. Nobody showered. You put on like your warmest clothes.
Speaker 1:Yes, layered, but you brought your instruments and we were out there at Walmart at 6 am when those doors opened, Joy to the world. And so we'd go from like 6 to 10. We'd do four hours and we'd make a large amount of money for the Army and then afterwards whoever didn't come out to the kettle that day would meet us at. There was a restaurant called Village Inn that was more or less like an IHOP or something like that, but this is even back in the days of you walk in the restaurant and they ask you if you want to be seated in the smoking or non-smoking section.
Speaker 2:Oh shoot, I know right.
Speaker 1:So no, but I remember the family that stayed behind would meet us at Village Inn. We'd all have this like big pancake French toast waffle. So, it was just really special. But I always associate that with Black Friday and kettles in the morning because it's like you didn't really want to get up and do that, I know, but then you had fun doing it and now, looking back at it, it's such a special memory.
Speaker 2:I love those. I love memories of playing kettles with my family. We have this one memory of all of us playing. I was on second, my dad on first. My mom plays trombone. Larissa even got on the alto. My brother was playing tuba so it was a whole family affair and Larissa after one song was like I played G the entire time, but how can we not mention Nate's kettle video?
Speaker 1:Oh, man Talk about it, so some people don't know, okay, so when Nate was at the Salvation Army Seminary.
Speaker 2:Part of the expectation if you were in your first year is that you go out and you ring kettles for the Greater New York Division and Nate. If you know Nate, if you've spent five minutes with Nate, you know that he is just. He does not stand still or he'll say something wild or crazy or whatever.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say, nate doesn't do anything at less than 100%. We'll just characterize it like that.
Speaker 3:I like to move, man, I like to move.
Speaker 2:The most famous chicken dance. So he was standing kettles at Rockefeller Rockefeller center in New York city and someone recorded him doing the chicken dance in a way that only Nate could do the chicken dance. Yeah, and it has like 70 million views.
Speaker 3:So that was a crazy time of life. During that kettle season I would regularly come back with like 75,000, 80,000 steps every single day.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that was not fair, because we were in competition and he was always winning.
Speaker 3:I lost 12 pounds over the season because if you think eight hours per day, five days a week, of just like vigorous dancing, you're gonna lose weight and if your body's trying to stay warm, it's also like burning more calories just to stay warm and you're layered
Speaker 3:like insulated and we didn't get tons like we would get a little meal stipend from the training school to go get you know, like a slice of pizza. But we're not like out there having like a whole buffet or anything. We're having a slice of pizza and water, and so it's like I probably expended about 14 000 calories and probably ate like 600 yeah, yeah, yeah, it's amazing you didn't pass out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, but that video is like ultra famous, so it's crazy, it's wild, it wild.
Speaker 3:Every Christmas it kind of resurfaces again on Facebook and recirculates. But the last time I checked it was up to 69 million views.
Speaker 1:So how do you I mean tell me how you feel Like as we cross? I mean so, think about this and I'm being serious. So when someone of an older generation mentions the Salvation Army, someone may say like oh, the donut girls helped my grandpa in World War. I Like it's the most broad understanding of the Salvation Army In today's TikTok generation. It's very possible that someone could say, do you know the Salvation Army? And their answer could be well, I saw this crazy guy doing the chicken dance at a kettle. That could be you. You could be the generational American face of the Salvation Army.
Speaker 1:It's true.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of weight on your shoulders. It's a lot of weight.
Speaker 3:It's also very unique to that context. You know, like Rockefeller, New York City, they're so used to that kind of street performer mentality and everyone's always in a rush to go somewhere, and so if you are not doing something like that dancing, standing out in a way, people are just going to pass by, and so I understand it doesn't work in every context, doesn't work in every community, but for that time, for that season, it worked there and I'm all about getting good publicity for the.
Speaker 3:Salvation Army and the ministry that we do, rather than bad publicity.
Speaker 2:And you had very good kettles after those.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it was fun. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm sure after that went viral, people were looking for you. Like is that guy going to be out here?
Speaker 2:And that's like if you look at some of the comments on the original post. It's like, if you look at the some of the comments on the original post, like we came, we're out new york next week I hope that he's there and it's just like people came. It was kind of like iconic it was so funny.
Speaker 1:I'm wondering if we can put out a challenge to mass youth yes how about let's get them involved with the kettles? What do you? What do you think you can we? Uh, let's do it. What can we give them?
Speaker 2:so how about if we did something similar last christmas? If you, I'm looking at the camera yeah, look right at them if you, uh, a young person, let's, let's extend it. If. If young person, young adult in your core, if you are in your core, if you get involved in kettles this christmas, whether ringing, counting, dancing, playing your instrument, counting, helping with toy shop, take a picture, tag us at MassYouth and we'll send you some swag.
Speaker 2:You have to tag MassYouth you have to tag MassYouth or else we're not going to find it and we're not going to send it, but we would be glad to deck you out in some gear if it means that you are helping locally, at your core, if you're getting involved, and it's no, we kind of say it flippantly, but every penny counts everything, and whether that's the hours you're giving or actual money in the kettle. So, help your core officers, help your local leaders get involved. Tag us, take a picture, take a selfie. Tag us and we'll send you some stuff.
Speaker 3:No, it's just a. It's a beautiful opportunity to just help carry the load. Yeah, you know, share the ministry Kettles in itself can be exhausting, christmas can be exhausting, but I just think of the relationships that are formed through bell ringers that I've met over the years, and just the conversations that take place in the vans, and so everything that we do, even the things that are very hard, we have an opportunity to point people to Jesus and point them to the hope that we claim to know. And so, yeah, just help shoulder that load and help spread a little joy this season.
Speaker 1:I love it. Well, we have a couple more things, a couple more segments on the PluggedIn Podcast, episode number 22, before we take a break today. We're going to play a couple of Christmas games a little bit later and we are going to move forward in our pod book club.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that was it.
Speaker 1:Talking about John Mark Comer's book the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. More conviction to our souls this week. Before we take our break, though, just a couple things. One the Sounds of Christmas is coming up.
Speaker 3:Yes, how crazy. I mean like a couple days from now.
Speaker 1:Yes, sunday, december 8th, at the Boston Kroc Center at 6 o'clock pm. We hope everyone comes out. So we're going to have seating set up for 400 and then there's going to be a little bit of excess room as well if we have more than that, but we want the whole division to come out. If you're not in the Salvation Army, we hope you come out. It's a free Christmas concert. A couple of things that I just want to highlight. All of our Youth Arts Ministry students both of the choruses are going to be singing. The Youth Arts Ministry Timbrel Brigade is doing a drill. The dance team will be dancing. We have original scripts being written by Sam Leroux from Springfield Mass Brass. Our divisional band is playing maybe the most epic tone poem ever written, called the Kingdom.
Speaker 3:Triumphant. Nate loves it so good. He loves a good tone poem, yes, called the kingdom, the kingdom triumphant.
Speaker 1:Nate loves it so good, he loves a good tone. Yes, I do, uh, but that piece is based on oh come, oh come, emmanuel, rejoice, rejoice, uh, and then uh, new to this year. So we have the family camp chorus, the divisional family camp chorus.
Speaker 1:I can't wait to hear this is going to be uh singing as well, and then we also have kind of uh. As recently as this past family camp, mass brass has started to combine doing some pieces with our worship band. So we're doing another combined piece at the sounds of Christmas. It's a. It's a big uh sing along, uh, kind of production kind of piece. But Chris Molinaro actually did the arrangement of the brass parts for it Uh. So it's a. It's going to be a great production.
Speaker 1:If you're watching your clock right now, the show looks like with an intermission, it's about two hours and 15 minutes. So we'll start at six o'clock and you can be on your way by eight, 15, eight, 20, with enough time to get home. So that's the sounds of Christmas. Sunday, December 8th, at the Boston Croc center, six o'clock PMm. There's going to be lots of cookies, cocoa, water, coffee, photo booth, there's going to be a pass the parcel. A lot of fun stuff happening. So we hope to see you there. Final segment before we take a break, we're bringing it back. We get the most comments about this segment, but we love saying who we are so stinking proud of you guys want to take it away?
Speaker 3:Yeah, take it away, nate. One stinking proud of you. Guys want to take it away? Yeah, take it away, nate. One of the great joys in our ministry is being able to travel around the division and just see young people in action, and a few weeks ago we were at the Plymouth Corps. First and foremost, the Plymouth Corps is hopping. They're rocking, they are packing that place out on a Sunday morning. So much representation of different people and backgrounds and cultures.
Speaker 1:Check out their Facebook page. Envoy Anne has the social media rolling.
Speaker 3:She really does, so check that out, she's going live like every day, I know.
Speaker 2:You know what's happening. You know what's happening there. It's really cool.
Speaker 3:And so we were there, privileged to be a part of a junior soldier enrollment for their newest junior soldier, isaac. Isaac is just a phenomenal young man. He's awesome.
Speaker 2:He was in his uniform he was playing the bass drum.
Speaker 3:He was so nervous, but he did such a great job he didn't want to mess up his junior soldier promise, but he stood up there. He knows exactly what it means to be a junior soldier. He lives it out. It's not just you know, I want to wear this uniform but I want to point others to Jesus. I want to share the love of God with my family, my friends. And we've got to get to know, we've had the opportunity to get to know Jesus Isaac over the years and just kind of seen the growth and the first time I ever met Isaac.
Speaker 1:he came to music conservatory two years ago and that was the first time I ever met him. Uh, but envoy and said this is going to be a great kid for this program and it's just been awesome to have him a part of our family cause he's come back to music camp and, uh, he's a proficient percussion player. I mean he's he and Zia from Brockton make a little team back there. It's really great.
Speaker 2:And just to tag on to that. This past week we were in Fall River and had the opportunity to enroll Mason, who we shouted out last episode Mason. Mason and Joaquin.
Speaker 1:Mason listens to the podcast. He does listen.
Speaker 2:He tells me he listens.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:But we had the opportunity to enroll Mason and Joaquin, which was a great Sunday. The Mason and Joaquin it was a great Sunday the past couple weeks have been really wonderful.
Speaker 3:Just one last thing about that enrollment in Plymouth Perhaps the nicest or the coolest, most impressive junior soldier cake I have ever seen made.
Speaker 2:Oh, in our lives I saw a picture of it. By Karen's daughter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was incredible, incredible, amazing. And then who I'm so stinking proud of? We'll wrap up today's segment with this. We have chosen our participants. Our young people go to California every December into January to march in the Rose Bowl Parade and represent the Massachusetts Division. Our two people are Julian Sanchez-Aguilar from Chelsea Corps and also Shanine Wade from the Brockton Corps. That's awesome.
Speaker 3:Give them some applause.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm not. I'm not touching this thing anymore. I don't want to do it, I refuse. No, but julian is playing tuba. When he goes out there, he'll be playing a sousaphone, which is that giant thing that wraps around you with the forward bell, and so. And then shaneen is going out on timbrels great, and so they're going to be fantastic representatives of the massachusetts division. We are proud of our young people. We are so stinking proud of them. So when we come back, we're going to take a short break here on the plugged in podcast. This is episode number 22. When we come back, we have a couple of christmas games and rapid fire questions for you, as well as our book review of the ruthless elimination of hurry. This is the plugged in podcast episode 22. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back. We are here with episode number 22 of the plugged in podcast. Maybe the christmas special? Oh, maybe. Maybe, time will tell. No, a sneak peek of Christmas. I think we got one more at us.
Speaker 2:We can do one more.
Speaker 1:I have faith. After annual luncheon, sounds of Christmas Patriots party. After that we'll squeeze one out.
Speaker 2:We'll make it happen.
Speaker 3:I got my Christmas gear on, just in case Nate you are.
Speaker 2:We didn't draw attention to your gear. Gear. You're looking great, I will say.
Speaker 3:You always have a suit jacket on.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't, always I gotta up my game.
Speaker 3:I wanna be like Matt.
Speaker 1:Okay well. Gotta grow your hair out. That's a controversial topic these days.
Speaker 3:No, it looks fantastic. You could do commercials for Herbal Essences, I believe. I think it's.
Speaker 1:Here I was. Okay, I'm not going to respond to that. I will say, though, that, uh, it's funny when you, when I'm editing the podcast clips, so when we go in between breaks yeah if you're watching on the YouTube channel, uh like you'll see like a little fade of like this clip ends, the audio stops, but we're still kind of like ha, ha, ha, you know like joking yeah, but it's funny because the last couple episodes, so I will do what you have done.
Speaker 1:Right, Take off my headphones. I run my fingers through my hair and kind of like separate it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly so I don't know if I'm proud of that or not.
Speaker 2:Be proud, be proud.
Speaker 1:My wife, not a fan.
Speaker 2:Not a fan of the longer hair. It does matter.
Speaker 3:We should shave your head on the next podcast episode. Wow, that would get some clicks.
Speaker 2:man that would get clicks. After that break, nate is ready to go. Yeah, that's not happening.
Speaker 1:Okay, so new segment of episode number 22. Going to throw it over to Loretta.
Speaker 2:All right, well, just in case, this is our Christmas special Just in case. Just in case we're going to play a little Christmas game. Us in case we're gonna play a little christmas game. Okay, so you two bro code.
Speaker 1:You two need to think alike. Oh, we do that pretty regularly.
Speaker 2:I know this is why this might be really good I'm all good I'm gonna name something and you two have to each respond and you get points if you say the same thing aaron rogers wait, so do we have to respond at the same time? No, you'll have like a second to think. So here's an example.
Speaker 3:Let me go like three, two, one boom.
Speaker 2:Here's an example Okay, something you put on your hot chocolate.
Speaker 3:Three, two, one Marshmallows.
Speaker 2:What yes, no?
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 2:So we're just going to jump right in.
Speaker 1:There's one point.
Speaker 2:I'm not keeping score or keep score Okay.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Ready, something you would find at the North Pole. Three, two, one Penguins, penguins and elves Penguins and elves Penguins elves.
Speaker 1:We were both in the realm. I'm stuck in the animal cage. That was the animal cage. You need to go back. If you haven't heard our animal cage segment, go back to episode 21, part number one. That was one of the better clips I think this podcast has produced.
Speaker 2:It was phenomenal. Alright name one of Santa's reindeers 3, 2, 1.
Speaker 3:Rudolph.
Speaker 2:Good job Name one thing you can hang on the Christmas tree 3, 2, 1.
Speaker 1:Ornaments Wait star ornament Did we get half a point.
Speaker 2:Now we're going to get a little trickier.
Speaker 3:Are you keeping score? I'm not keeping score. We got one. We have one out of three. No, you definitely have like two.
Speaker 2:We got Rudolph and marshmallows. You both said Rudolph and you both said marshmallows.
Speaker 3:I thought that was a practice one. I was giving it to you. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So we're two out of four, we're 50%. That's right. I'm going to lull. There's so many. Just look at each other, look into each other's eyes. So wait, are we thinking?
Speaker 1:three, two, one, all I want for Christmas is you.
Speaker 2:We went Mariah, then we went straight traditional.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm like are we going Christmas him? I really thought joy to the world in my brain. He's not saying that.
Speaker 2:Okay, ready.
Speaker 3:Name a Christmas movie. Oh, three, two, one Christmas.
Speaker 2:Vacation. Dang it, you guys.
Speaker 1:Come on, man, come on, let's go, come on.
Speaker 2:Name, a name, something red.
Speaker 1:Three, two one Santa's hat. This is getting worse.
Speaker 3:We're not good at this game anymore. Let's do.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to go back to the easy question.
Speaker 3:What are we? Two of eight, two of seven? I'm not doing that. Give us the easy one, okay.
Speaker 2:Name a spice that you bake with at Christmas time.
Speaker 1:A spice, a spice. Okay, three, two, one Ginger.
Speaker 2:Cinnamon and ginger.
Speaker 3:Okay All right, here we go, here we go Okay okay, this is going to get you back on track.
Speaker 1:Okay, come on.
Speaker 2:Name something that you use to wrap presents. There's like three options.
Speaker 1:Okay, Three, two one Wrapping paper, tape, tape.
Speaker 2:Okay, I thought I was going with the most obvious thing, wow All right, this might be a little more difficult.
Speaker 1:This is like our friendship is ending.
Speaker 2:You guys seeing some true colors here. Okay, Name something that you would find in a stocking.
Speaker 1:Three, two, one Fruit.
Speaker 2:Does anybody else get fruit in their stocking? Yes, I get an orange. Okay, yeah, at the bottom of my stocking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, santa, santa always brings an apple, an orange or a banana, something like that. Okay I was about to say toothbrush is that not a thing?
Speaker 3:yeah, no, my mom stocking stuffers are like yeah, practical what did?
Speaker 1:you say lar Loretta.
Speaker 3:I said Santa.
Speaker 2:Okay, got you.
Speaker 3:I said Santa, okay, let's do the last one, he's listening.
Speaker 2:You gotta be on the same. We gotta end well.
Speaker 3:Ready Worst team in the NFL 3-2-1 Jets.
Speaker 1:Wow, it wasn't even me this time, larissa, if you're listening, that was Nate. It was not me. Larissa, if you're listening, that was Nate. It was not me. Larissa, if you're out there if you're out there.
Speaker 3:That was not me. I just thought that we could get something I was just trying to. You know, I don't even want you to end on a good note. Now, I'm just kidding we'll deal with this after the fact. Now I'm gonna be in trouble yeah, you are ready.
Speaker 2:A Christmas flower. Oh okay, a flower, easy, wait, hold on. I know what it is, I know hold on.
Speaker 1:I know what it is, I know what it is.
Speaker 2:I know what it is.
Speaker 1:But I can't think of the word. Okay, one, two, three.
Speaker 2:Mistletoe.
Speaker 1:Mistletoe's, not a flower right, no, it's like a sprig of berries or something.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness, all right. Well, that's my game Poinsettias.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to end it there In our show notes. I said to you I'm so bad at these games.
Speaker 2:You can't mess this up.
Speaker 1:She literally said there's no way you can be bad at this game. You did say that.
Speaker 2:Mistletoe.
Speaker 1:I wasn't thinking poinsettia.
Speaker 3:So what is mistletoe? That is the Christmas flower. It lines every chapel. I will give you that, but then tell me what mistletoe is.
Speaker 1:That is the Christmas flower. It lines every chapel. I will give you that, but then tell me what mistletoe is A berry?
Speaker 2:I don't know. It's like a holly berry Holly, maybe that's what I was thinking of, or maybe a holly bush. Come on, mr.
Speaker 1:Garden. I'm upset with myself, I'm embarrassed and I'm upset with myself.
Speaker 3:I'm embarrassed and I'm upset. That's going to be all for episode 22.
Speaker 2:Thanks for joining us Merry Christmas See you next time. Okay, I have a rapid fire question oh, now I feel like this is going to be revenge. No, it's not.
Speaker 1:Okay, one for each of you. So we'll start with Nate. All right, nate, I'm going to give you five Christmas movies. Oh wow, you only get to keep three. You have to completely forfeit them from your life.
Speaker 3:Wow, past and present, do I rank those three that I keep?
Speaker 1:I mean, if you want to, that'd be a bonus game.
Speaker 2:Oh, my word, Just say the three If we really want to make it overcomplicated.
Speaker 1:Okay, Movie number one National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 3:That is a good one classic number three home alone, two lost in new york are you in my head right now because you weren't in the game wow, that's a zinger of all singers you weren't, I wasn't in yours either, so okay, number four jingle all the way, and number five die hard oh man, I love this. I tailored this list to you, buddy.
Speaker 2:Yes, I did tailor this to me I thought, when you said movies, you would have said you have to eliminate two of them.
Speaker 1:Okay, christmas Vacation Elf Home Alone 2, jingle All the Way and Die Hard.
Speaker 2:And don't pull a Nate and over explain no, no, no, just eliminate two Home Alone 2 is my favorite Okay.
Speaker 3:It's I'm really good at following instructions. Hold on a second Let me explain, let me give you my synopsis. So Home Alone 2 is kept. Yeah, okay, I think in terms of Christmas movies.
Speaker 2:It's okay, just go for it, let's go.
Speaker 3:You have to keep Elf.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think you have to keep Elf.
Speaker 1:You only get one more choice. So you have Christmas Vacation, jingle All the Way and and Die Hard Okay.
Speaker 3:I'm going to keep. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation yeah, Just because it's so like, it's so unique from every other Christmas movie.
Speaker 1:So you're obliterating Jingle All the Way and Die Hard yeah.
Speaker 3:I do love both of those.
Speaker 1:Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 2:Gone, wiped from your memory Turbo.
Speaker 3:Man, I love it. We haven't seen Sinbad since.
Speaker 1:He was a great bomb carrying Postman. He had the bomb.
Speaker 2:It clicked in my head.
Speaker 1:Alright, loretta, you're rapid fire. Same concept. I'm going to give you five big Christmas traditions or Christmas things. You can only pick three. You have to eliminate you five big Christmas traditions or Christmas things. You can only pick three. You have to eliminate two. First one, christmas music. So this is hymns in church, hits on the radio, caroling and annoying speakers in the mall. Okay, so that's all of.
Speaker 2:Christmas music All of it, all of it, all of it. Okay.
Speaker 1:Christmas decorating this is indoor and outdoor lights, your Christmas tree, throw pillows, rugs, nativity scenes. It's all, all of it. All of it. Christmas food, so cooking with your family a big holiday meal, all treats and desserts, gingerbread houses, anything to do with Christmas food, okay. Christmas entertainment All movies this sucks. All concerts, musicals, any kind of entertainment, okay. And then, lastly, christmas gifts, both giving and receiving.
Speaker 2:I'm such a giver. I love giving Christmas gifts.
Speaker 1:So you can keep three, but you have to forego two.
Speaker 2:This absolutely sucks. Okay, I'm going to say keeping decorating.
Speaker 1:My house is already decorated? Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2:It's tough. I feel like my heart is saying okay, keep Christmas movies and entertainment because you'll get Christmas music in it. Is that a loophole?
Speaker 3:Stop over explaining, so that's it.
Speaker 2:He was waiting for it.
Speaker 3:He got you Nate's double in trouble. Now you guys are going to have words later, that's when we have fun drive home.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have words later. That's going to be a fun drive home. I'm going to keep Christmas entertainment.
Speaker 1:Okay, Christmas movies are life, so you're keeping decorating and entertainment. Then you have music, food and gifts All right left.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go gifts.
Speaker 1:You're keeping gifts.
Speaker 2:I love giving Christmas gifts. I love thinking about what would they like and giving it. I love watching Jackson.
Speaker 1:So you're getting rid of all Christmas food by the way. Cookies I mean, like cookies, hot chocolate, you know Christmas ham. Yeah.
Speaker 2:All the.
Speaker 3:Christmas, so you can't eat anything ever if you don't pick this.
Speaker 1:No, but I'm saying like having like a big meal at the core or with your family it wouldn't exist. That would be number four there would be no like getting together to have like a big meal with family.
Speaker 2:Bummer, so you're getting rid of all the food and all the Christmas music that's tough, that's tough, I know. I think I found my loophole, which is what makes me okay with that, because I would get Christmas music through movies.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that's legit.
Speaker 2:Well, you didn't say that Okay.
Speaker 1:All right, fair enough. Okay, so that's our rapid fire for today. We have one more segment here, plugged In Podcast episode number 22. If you've been following along with us, I actually heard from someone this week that said they purchased the book and they are reviewing it alongside the podcast. I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:This is John Mark Comer's the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and the book has been talking about hurry and busyness as a sickness Right, and how it's getting worse and worse and exponentially worse. But we've moved on to the solution-based passage of the book. We're in the intermission section and then we just started part three. Intermission is a set of black-colored pages that are about 20 pages where the font is really large. I love these pages. I like that. It went pretty fast, me too, as I'm in a hurry to read it. You know exactly. But they're talking about spiritual disciplines and the idea of.
Speaker 1:I found this really interesting, but reading the Gospels differently. We don't think of the Gospels as biographies, but he's talking about if you thought about the Gospels differently. We don't think of the Gospels as biographies, but he's talking about if you thought about the Gospels and if you read them as biographies, would you accept it a little bit differently and not just taking the stories on the whole, but you would recognize the smaller parts or the in-betweens, the day-to-day actions, like if we want to be like Barack Obama. We would read his biography and we'd say, oh, barack Obama woke up at 5 am, he had coffee in the morning, he studied for two hours. I would mirror my life if I wanted to reflect Barack Obama. So they're reading these, he's reading. He's saying read the Gospels as biographies. Look at Jesus's life. He has a conversation with someone, he performs a miracle, but then he goes off in praise. He goes off in praise. He goes off in praise. Nate, can you tell us a little bit about this section and the spiritual disciplines?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so when we're talking about spiritual disciplines, we're talking about, as it's described in the book, it's a lifestyle that we're adopting to create space for emotional health and spiritual life, that everything holistically is connected from our body, our minds and our spirit. And it's interesting I don't think I really ever fully thought this through but Jesus doesn't ever really command us to practice the spiritual disciplines outside of prayer. It's not something that Jesus explicitly said go and find a place of solitude and silence or go and adopt all these certain practices.
Speaker 3:Rather, it was Jesus modeling the lifestyle of what it means to live a life that is spiritually disciplined, and so I think that when we're looking at this topic of spiritual disciplines, we're focusing on not getting so caught up in the practices themselves as like they're the end all, but rather I want to form my life in the habits of Jesus. And these are some practices that help me become more like him.
Speaker 1:And rather than a command as an invitation, he says come follow me, come follow me.
Speaker 2:That's the quote it says. For Jesus, leadership isn't about coercion or control. It's example and invitation. I highlighted that. I love that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you think of the word discipline and a lot of times discipline has some negative connotations to it right, nobody likes the word discipline, but in the book he talks about how like discipline is a way to access power, and he uses this illustration of like bench pressing your own weight.
Speaker 3:You don't just get up one day and you're like, oh yeah, I'm going to bench press my own weight. No, you start by doing some pushups and then you add, you know, start benching a little bit and you add more weight as you go, as you build that muscles and then eventually you're able to do it. And so he makes this connection between willpower. You have the desire to do something, but willpower can only take you so far. And so these disciplines are like. It's like reframing your will to seek that of the abundant life of Christ. And then eventually, as we allow these disciplines to form us and frame our character after Christ, to model those habits and those lifestyles, then we are actually able to access a power that doesn't come from ourself. The Holy Spirit's power opens us up to a power beyond our own, because we know that we can only will ourselves so far.
Speaker 1:I can say you know.
Speaker 3:I really want to be able to run a marathon, but am I going to will myself to put in the work for that?
Speaker 3:And even if I am. I may not be able to um because I'm physically limited but in the same, in our spiritual life, I want to live like Christ. I can do all these practices, but at the end of the day it's also a practice in surrender. I can't become like Jesus. I can do the things that he has laid out. I can follow after his way, and then his spirit makes us more like him as we open ourselves up to his power, and so it's really a practice in surrender and a practice in being present with God, being present with people, being present to all that is good and beautiful in the world and being present to our own souls. They talk about in the book how we live in an age now where we're constantly talking about mindfulness, mindfulness, being mindful, but a lot of times the secular world does mindfulness but erases the yeah, erases Jesus from the equation. Right, emptying your mind, just being present with yourself, but it's not disconnecting from the world so that you isolate yourself from everything.
Speaker 3:It's disconnecting from the noise so that you can connect more to him and his voice, he gets into his first.
Speaker 2:What we read about was silence and solitude, and he talks about isolation versus solitude, and obviously that's the very end of the chapter.
Speaker 1:But the difference between the two Let me all right so if you're following along in the book. So after this intermission section, he starts to lay out four practices for unhurrying your life, and the first one that we got into for this episode was silence and solitude. So what you were just saying I found it interesting. The very. Excuse me, I'm losing my voice.
Speaker 2:Anytime I talk too much, it just it's shot.
Speaker 1:I don't have a. I have a Patrick Mahomes, Kermit.
Speaker 2:I was just going to say you go for a Kermit thing.
Speaker 1:I have a Patrick Mahomes, kermit the Frog voice.
Speaker 2:Like it's it's pretty.
Speaker 1:That's one of my limitations. I can't. I'm not a great singer. I have a. I have a limited voice, so Silence and Solitude. He starts the chapter off by saying do you remember in a time in the late 90s, do you remember what boredom is? And I thought about this and I was. I mean like, yeah, of course I do Like you know, I remember being at home.
Speaker 1:You're 12, 13, 14 years old, and this is, I mean really before we're. I mean, video games are around, but it's not like life dominant Right, and I still remember, like you know, my friends coming and knocking on the door and you going out and playing with them and stuff like that, and that was like your entertainment post-school or or not in church activities. Um, but he talks about like do you remember when you used to be bored? Because moments in everyone's life used to exist like this? Yep, because moments in everyone's life used to exist like this, and in those moments those were opportunities for silence and solitude and to connect to the Father.
Speaker 1:Those were moments of opportunity to focus on prayer life, to focus on your day or just to kind of like rein yourself in. Now those don't exist anymore because we have our phones in our pockets. You pull out your phone, you run through the Instagram reel, you're getting this dopamine hit of. It just sucks away your time, it sucks away your attention. So he starts out by saying that silence and solitude has been largely Lifted from our life.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah Well, it talks about the very start of Jesus's ministry. Right when he is, he's baptized, he comes out of the water, the Holy Spirit descends upon him and from immediately, right there, he goes into the wilderness.
Speaker 1:Gone, and the wilderness is not a For 40 days, for 40 days.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, and he toils through there, hungry, thirsty, tired, physically, emotionally, spiritually, hungry, thirsty, tired physically, emotionally, spiritually, and um the? The point that he makes in the book is that the wilderness is not a place of weakness. In fact, those wilderness, the wilderness time, the time of solitude and silence, where we can just be with the father, is a place of restoration and strength so I'll just jump in because, because, uh, what you just said when you first read the story.
Speaker 1:It says he, he went into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Yeah, it was the scripture, and the way the author is saying it is just like well, why would, if you're going to be tempted the devil, why would you go into this place where you're all alone? Right. But, like you said, he's reversing the way you're reading that. Right, the narrative going into the wilderness was not a place of weakness, but it was a place of strength because he was connected to the father and then you you read it differently where it's Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness.
Speaker 2:If you miss that word, you miss the intentionality of the leading to the place.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, there's just a lot of great stuff in this chapter. There's something that really just kind of blew my mind and I know it in my head but just to like read it on paper and to take it to heart. There's this one quote that says the busier and more demand, and the busier and more in demand and famous that Jesus became, the more he withdrew to his quiet place to pray.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I think of how many times in my life I'm like man. If only I had more time. I can't do that because I don't have time. I don't have. You know, I can't prioritize my spiritual life because I'm so busy. But it's Jesus, knowing how busy and how demanding his life was, he needed more time with the Father. And so it's reframing and refocusing, reprioritizing that which is important.
Speaker 1:This is the point of the book where I, like I've been convicted all over this book, but this is the book where I felt really spoiled, like I'm already hyper aware that I grew up in a household where my parents, my grandparents, like I, have generational models in my life of faithfulness, pursuit of holiness that are really, really special, but this chapter in particular, silence and solitude.
Speaker 1:So I just have memories of my entire life, my childhood, both my mom, my dad, my grandpa, like if, for whatever reason, I were to be awake or out of bed at like 5 or 6 am, there, my parents were in the living room next to the window, the sun is coming up, their Bible in front of them, not even talking to each other, just quiet time with God. Not even talking to each other, just quiet time with God. And in the case of my grandpa, like he built this cabin in the upper peninsula of Michigan and he would go out on the lake with a pontoon boat that he like assembled himself like this orange piece of wood, but he'd go out into the middle of the lake, drop anchor at sunrise and it wasn't like a show off thing, but everyone around the lake like oh, there's Her herb having his morning devotions and just that, those moments of silence and solitude.
Speaker 2:I just I read this and I was just like, wow, that has been displayed in front of me my entire life, yeah well, I was like, when he draws the parallels between the external noise and the internal noise, like that's something that I struggle with so much, because I feel like my mind never stops. And so when I've always contemplated this silence and solitude, I've always thought to myself fine, I can have silence externally, but internally I feel like what does he say? There's a mental chatter that never shuts up.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I feel like, uh, he says, the clutter in our minds is like a mental chatter that never shuts up. Yeah, and I feel like, uh, he says, the clutter in our minds is like a mental hoarder landlocked in his or her own bedroom, um, in a self-constructed prison, and I just feel like, oh, my word, the amount of times that I've tried to withdraw and find, uh, moments and pockets of silence.
Speaker 3:My mind doesn't shut up, yeah yeah, and that's, and that's where he says that a lot of times we use these external noises to drown out or mask our own internal noise.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Meaning that because our lives are so chaotic and our spiritual lives are so hungry and so thirsty and so desperate to be present with Christ. We fill that void with anything else that comes our way as a distraction.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:And it's super convicting. Super convicting Also just as a parent to think of. He mentions in here that children, more than anything else, they need your time, and for that relationship to thrive, T-I-M-E. T-i-m-e. Children need time with you for that relationship to grow. And you know, we wouldn't just like write off our kids and just be like go figure it out. We try to be intentional and spend time with them. But why are, why didn't we not put the same level of intentionality into our time spent with the Lord? Super convicting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, uh, there are three more uh practices left in this book and um our next episode, whether that's in December, before Christmas or in January.
Speaker 2:We're really just leaving this one up. I know, I know we're really letting them know, we're giving ourselves an out.
Speaker 1:We're giving ourselves an out. Because, sometimes we've promised episodes and then it hasn't happened.
Speaker 3:And then all of our listeners are so upset.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Would you stop? Are you being sarcastic? That yeah, would you stop? Are you being sarcastic?
Speaker 1:No, okay, it's going to kick you, but the following practices the next three. So we did silence and solitude. The next three are Sabbath, simplicity and slowing. Man, yeah, so those four practices silence and solitude, sabbath, simplicity and slowing. So I think we've said it each episode. This has been an easy read, it's been a convicting one and it's also been a fast read, like when we need. When we need to plow 60 pages, like it can, it happens pretty quick.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So highly recommend it, john Mark Comer is the ruthless elimination of hurry uh. Over the next couple episodes we'll wrap up this book and then we'll see what's next.
Speaker 2:I feel like this has been kind of a a new twist to the podcast.
Speaker 1:Guys got any? Uh, last thoughts before we wrap up the episode.
Speaker 2:I am thoughtless.
Speaker 1:Tell me about the Patriots party. Yes, the.
Speaker 2:Patriot party is coming up on December, 10th December, 10th Tuesday December 10th.
Speaker 1:You're welcome, thank you.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, it's going to be a great time. It's for those who have responded, kristen has been communicating with the field about those who will be, who have wanted to come. Once again, newburyport is bringing a bus full of 30 kids.
Speaker 1:Wow, they're amazing.
Speaker 2:It's incredible, but it's just a great opportunity for our kids to experience something that they maybe would never have had the opportunity to do and and be loved on and be served literally uh, food and and whatever by the Patriot organization. So it's been a great time. Um so uh, keep an eye out for any additional emails from Kristen on that. If you're coming to that and then sounds of Christmas right around the corner.
Speaker 3:Yeah, two days before that, can I plug one last thing? Nope, gotta go Go for it. All right, nevermind, just kidding. So we also have December 14th, we have an upcoming young adult Christmas gathering, yes and so for that we, if you can just RSVP the way you were looking at.
Speaker 1:Loretta was like is this happening in? Our house, I know, Am I allowed to invite people?
Speaker 3:Well, we didn't mention how amazing allowed to invite people. Well, we didn't mention how amazing, so we just had friends giving yeah, with about close to 40 young
Speaker 2:adults in our house. It was incredible.
Speaker 3:Just a lot of fun times.
Speaker 2:Uh, just pie baking competition you should ask ask chris milliner about how neat yeah, don't ask him okay me once again decided to make a very ambitious pie.
Speaker 3:I did yeah, and you only have an hour gluten free no, oh, espresso it. Good, it's an espresso custard pie, but what happened, was it? Wasn't setting properly, so we added a lot of cornstarch to it, which apparently alters the taste.
Speaker 2:The women tried saying that's enough.
Speaker 3:Anyway, that's a story for another day, Anyways what I was saying young adult Christmas gathering Saturday, december 14th.
Speaker 1:We'll have to have a firm count for that, so RSVPs will be coming out for that and we'd love to see you there If you've made it this far into episode number 22 of the Plugged In Podcast. We don't do this often, but I would ask that you would subscribe to our YouTube channel so we've got all the episodes running on YouTube. There's lots of shorts that we're trying to get filtered into your algorithm on the feeds on your phone, Speaking about not being hurried or having your phone suck your life away. Subscribe to the SA Mass Music YouTube channel. We do bring we put forth some effort to give you a lot of content, so we'd like you to stay connected to what we're doing.
Speaker 2:Stay plugged in.
Speaker 1:All right, well, everyone, it's been a pleasure, as always in episode number 22 of the plugged in podcast. If we don't see you before Christmas, have a Merry Christmas, a happy new year, but I think we got one more episode, so when that comes, we will see you next time.