This is past the mic.

Greetings and God bless. Welcome to another episode of past the mic.

Dynamic voices for a diverse church powered by the witness, a black Christian collective.

I am your host Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram.

Please don't forget about the Graham at Burns clan. Follow at your own risk.

And joining me as always is the founder of the witness. He has a very extensive bio.

The man, the myth, the legend, the two time bestselling author, the book of the year award winner.

You just want another award for book of the year. Also, I got to add that to the bio.

You already know who it is. Mr. Blue check verified himself. Dr. Jamar Tisby was going on, brother.

It is another episode of past the mic, but it is not just any episode.

It is the most wonderful podcasting time of the year for past the mic.

I know you do. Listen, when I say Tyler comes, ammo, extra clips loaded, locked and loaded, ready to go.

I thought I was doing good because I started making my list months ago.

But this man has dozens, dozens.

Well, and here's the thing about when you say dozens, right?

Yeah, I think there's things that are worthy of being on the list.

This year was particularly hard because there were a lot of things that were worthy of being on the list.

Not a ton of things moved me this year.

So that list of what should be and what could be and what will be, it just kept shrinking.

And yeah, for me, there's probably about 25 to 30 things I'm picking between.

And there may be some shifts between part one and part two.

I may do some live editing. I've done that before. I did that last year, I think.

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