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The Tim and April show, where we unravel faith, politics, and culture.

Hello, friends. We're live. What's going on? Good to see you all.

Pack show today. Geez, I don't know how it's only been a week because the second we stopped going, the second we stopped going live last Thursday, Wall Street Journal released some stuff about Trump and Epstein. And now we know, according to Wall Street Journal, that Trump was in the Epstein file. So we're talking about that. The fascist who was platformed on the Jubilee Surrounded episode is now crying persecution because he lost his job. And so much more to get into on this episode. So we are alive. I have forgotten my coffee. It's in the other room. So April,

can you say hello? Will I go grab it real quick? I will say hello. Hello, everybody.

Welcome. Tim was attached to. Anyway, hi, everybody. Welcome to the show. I am April of Joy.

Tim's back. Wow, that was fast. You did it.

I can't hear you yet because my headphones aren't.

That's fine. Just to let everybody know, we have a producer today.

Cassidy, who's usually in our ears behind the scenes.

And she helps us keep track of when super chats come in and monitors the chat

for everything. But anyway, she is producing for us today for the first time since Tim's going

out on sabbatical. Is it sabbatical? Are we calling it that? That is way too Christianese. Let's

just call it a break.

I'm not going into the wilderness to find myself.

You know, no, I am taking a month off in August.

The team has really insisted that I take a break.

Our new executive director, Melinda Hale, has taken over a lot of the responsibilities that I would normally do. And it's been great. And she's like, look, take the month of August off. And that works out for me because we're moving into a new house in August anyway. So I will be, yeah, I'll be MIA from T&E and the April and the Tim and April show for the month. Yeah, you will be very much missed. But, but we will continue on. Cassidy's going to help produce it. I will have a different guest host for every Thursday in August, and I am really

excited about each and every one that's coming on. I'm going to leave it as a surprise. I guess I could

advertise it, but I feel like surprising you're fun.

Look, I'm not, I'm not trying to hype this up too much. Okay, I'm just going to say that you have some amazing guests I'm got to jealous of. I'm like, dang, I would love to be on these lives. But no, it's going to be really good. I got to say it's a little weird for me to be not producing because usually I'm like doing 10 different things at once and all of a sudden I'm doing nothing. I'm just talking to you and Cassidy is handling it. So friends, if you hear mere April saying stop during a video or something, we're just telling our producer when to pause the video. We're not yelling at each other or yelling at you. So yeah, this is Cassidy's

first time producing. So thanks Cassidy for putting in all the work. And I'm looking forward to

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