125. FRIENDSHIP, ARTISTRY, CREATIVITY. (A CONVERSATION WITH JOEL FIGUEROA PT 1)
The Handlebar Podcast
Aaron Smith, Sarahbeth Smith, Elyssa Figueroa, Raffi Greco
5.0 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Aaron and Joel sit down together to laugh, talk friendship and Joel’s album ‘Groanings’.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is the handlebar podcast. We're so glad you're here. As you know, this is a conversation type of podcast where we try to answer honestly questions that you've submitted and take you through scripture and giving you handlebars for your life. If you'd like to submit a question or purchase merch |
| 0:23.0 | or make a donation to the podcast, you can do that through our website, |
| 0:27.1 | thehandelwarpodcast.com. |
| 0:29.2 | Also, you can watch every episode on our YouTube channel. |
| 0:32.7 | For now, let's jump in. |
| 0:34.2 | If you need a man, give you need an answer, hold on, hold on. Let's jump in. |
| 0:45.7 | Hi. |
| 0:48.0 | I did this the other time. You just said hi? |
| 0:50.7 | The last time I was here, I said hi. |
| 0:53.1 | That's how I started last time. Well, hi. Well, welcome. Good to see you. Okay last time I was here, I said, hi. That's how I started last time. |
| 0:54.4 | Well, hi. |
| 0:55.2 | Well, welcome. |
| 1:13.6 | Good to see. Okay, something, I have shared this before, but that I'm like, wait, I realize that it was just like a default of nobody had ever taught me or, you know, because I never did like a trading on podcast, leading a podcast, doing a podcast. we just started one and then found, you know, now we've been doing it for three years. |
| 1:11.6 | But I don't have training or schooling. |
| 1:16.9 | Like there's never been like a, well, I sat under this person who podcast. So I know this about |
| 1:20.6 | podcast. It's been a, with the hand of our podcast, building it from the floor up. And one of the |
| 1:25.4 | places I have felt that the most is introductions |
| 1:27.6 | with podcasts, which I feel like you're great at just starting things in conversations |
| 1:32.9 | because I, I mean, that's why I said, hi, I don't do podcast, honestly, like often. Really, |
| 1:40.7 | I probably have done them the most with you guys when you guys have invited me. And I'm not sure how to, how do you start a podcast of Parm saying hi? That's why I said hi. It's just hi. Hi. Hi. Welcome. Here we are. Exactly. Okay, but you have been on our podcast now. This is number four to fourth. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I have to say this. |
| 2:02.5 | In 2025, we were looking over our analytics for 2025. |
| 2:07.1 | And our number one episode for 2025 by far, not by little bit, by far, was the episode we had with you called Big Emotions. |
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