Hey everyone, my name is Sam Moss.

Welcome to Youth Group Chronicles.

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.

I hope you enjoy the show.

What is going on, everybody? Welcome back to Youth Group Chronicles. If you're watching this,

this is like way different than you've ever seen Youth Group Chronicles. This is a little different.

Normally it's like blinding orange all around us, but we switched up the studio. We're going green now. That's what the pod is. No more orange. And with us today, Rouselon, all the way from California, dude, all the way to the east coast. We're excited to do a pod with you, man. Thanks for making this happen, bro. Bro, thank you for coming to the city to do this in a green room that's actually green. One of the few green rooms that's green and then hopefully you guys could just use gender to fill to make it orange. And I see, I feel like someone can do that for us, right? So we're in like what? What is this? A 10 by six room right now, right? Yeah. We are crammed in this little green room, but we're making this happen. And I'm excited to have you here, dude. So what are you doing out here? So I'm doing a series of shows for what we're calling my godly ambition tour. I put out a book in September called Godly Ambition. It became a USA Today bestseller. We didn't quite hit the New York Times bestseller list, but we hit the USA Today bestseller list. And since then, it's kind of started spreading organically beyond like my YouTube audience and my podcast audience. And we decided to do a series of live events, which gives me an opportunity to do some new music. I finished a new album. So that's incorporated into tonight, doing a little bit of storytelling. And so I'm actually really like curious to see what you guys think about the show

Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna stay as long as we can for sure

How far was it here this drive?

Almost four it's just under four four hours ten minutes because he had to pee

Yeah

Realistically though I don't even think that pissed stay for the stay at least for the first half knowing about the Q&A. But that first half, I would love to know what you guys. Okay. Yeah. So I was going to say the reason that we've like kind of crossed paths with Ruzon is like, back in the day, you clipped us. And that's kind of what started the conversation. Right. I flew out to California. We did like an interview on your show uh there was a couple i if i think it was what uh wasn't the kid that sent the nudes through

the bible i think that was a story or maybe daddy police one of the ones that went crazy so that's

how we have crossed past with ruzon. But what I like to say is like

when we have guests on the show, I know you shared some stories last. If you have something that pops

in your head, dude, share it. But we're just here to hang out and do some stories. So I'll open up with

one from Micah. Okay. The first sermon I ever preached, I used glow sticks as an illustration

and told our youth group students not to crack them yet

because I had something planned.

In the middle of explaining this, I said,

if you crack yours too soon,

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