213: Closet Stimulation (John Scarborough & Mackenzie Smolin)

Youth Group Chronicles

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.9 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week on Youth Group Chronicles, Sam is joined by John Scarborough and Mackenzie Smolin for an episode that somehow escalates from mildly awkward to completely unhinged in record time. A concerned mom follows suspicious laughter into an upstairs closet and discovers four boys conducting what might be the strangest science experiment youth group has ever seen. Elsewhere, a simple baptism mix-up turns into an accidental worship service scandal, a new women’s Bible study launches with an unfortunate acronym, and a well-intentioned wake-up prank goes horribly wrong. There’s also a prayer that almost took a very dark turn in front of an ambulance, a youth pastor forced into an unforgettable burial decision, a summer camp outbreak so intense it shut everything down, and a worship leader whose stage move ended in the ER. It’s chaotic, uncomfortable, and exactly the kind of stories you only hear after youth group ends…

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, my name is Sam Moss.
0:07.0	Welcome to Youth Group Chronicles.
0:09.3	You're about to hear true stories from youth pastors and leaders about the crazy, wild, and hilarious things that have happened while serving in youth ministry.
0:18.7	I hope you enjoy the show.
0:22.3	What is up, everybody? Welcome back to Youth Group Chronicles, episode 213 for the first time ever
0:30.0	in the studio with me together. John and McKenzie, welcome to the white. I didn't forget. I didn't
0:36.7	forget. I like that. Yeah, I like that.
0:38.7	YGC Studios here. It is good to have you here. What's up, guys? Welcome to our chat. We have
0:44.0	Jonah, Simon, John, Robert. Oh, it's Robert's first live tonight. Welcome. You're for,
0:49.9	and then we have David from Albuquerque. Have you ever driven past the Breaking Bad house? I ask everybody there. I guess you probably ask that a lot. A. Wilson. You ever watched that show? Yeah. No, Breaking Bad is it. I tried to convince my dad to watch it. I said it's about an entrepreneur. Or it's about a, it's a family guy that, like, wants to take care of his family family so he falls on bad hard times and becomes an entrepreneur and he didn't believe me
1:14.5	that's accurate though it is accurate right i actually do not go watch it it's like tv ma um not plugging that one for you guys but uh welcome
1:23.7	and a character development top to you yeah it's That's it. It's a great show.
1:27.6	It is a very good show.
1:29.1	We just got done watching Better Call Saul, actually.
1:32.0	I really enjoyed that, too.
1:33.3	Did you really?
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:35.1	Yeah.
1:35.6	I like Breaking Bad better.
1:37.2	Yeah, I was like, because I love his character.
1:40.9	But, yeah, it's been a while since I watched it, but I stopped for a while because
1:45.9	I was just like, yeah, it's fair. We started Better Call Saul, and then we didn't like it, and then we started it again, and we liked it. So that's what I got to do. Yeah, because it was a little odd in the first few episodes, but hello from New York. You're in New York. That's where we are. But if this is your first time listening to Youth Group Chronicles. This is where people send in their craziest youth ministry stories,
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