This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we are launching a new series, the first in our journey through session 10,

where Marty is going to lead us in a 12-part reflection on the four pillars

of Baymo. Yeah, we're going to revisit, revisit the essential goodies, the essential goodness.

This was an idea that came out, I don't know, last year I did a little YouTube video where I was like,

I don't really know. I was trying to figure out, what do I do for session 10? Because here we are. We've made it. Session 10. I think I might have heard some of our music options. So I don't know, Brent. I don't know what the music just played, but all the options we had were pretty good. So whatever that new music was, I'm here for it. Yeah, I think we, I don't know if I've actually made the final final selection. So I don't know either actually. Okay.

Well, whatever it is, it's going to be good. The whole list was good options. But I needed to know, like, what should I do for this new season, this new session? I wanted to know what to do on the YouTube channel. I just had all these like, I'm interested what people are, what other

people are thinking and what they're wanting to see and hear. And so I put out a video saying,

let's make this the Bayama request line and got all kinds of ideas that came in of varying

levels of helpfulness. And one of the ideas was like, I think you should do a series on the four pillars. And I was like, and I'm pretty sure it said four pillars of Bayma and not the four pillars of Hellenism. But that's another idea. Maybe we do that in season 11. Who knows? I mean, I feel like we, I mean, I don't know. We cover both of these at various points. I think, though, Marty, now maybe the type of person who is listening to session 10 is probably the type of person who has listened to session five. Oh, yeah. So they do know about this. Sure. But I feel like there's a decent chunk of people who get to the end of session four and they're like, oh, done with Revelation, I'm done. They don't even think about session five and they've never heard the four pillars of Bama. Oh, goodness gracious. What a horrible decision that they've made with their lives. Because session five, I mean, session five is like, when I kind of get it, we're not church history experts, but so good. It's only 11 episodes. Like, just binge through through those things but at the very end of that session that's the end of the bottom not session four that's not the end of the body of work like literally some of our best episodes are those closing few episodes i think of session five and so yeah if haven't heard that, they should really go back and check

out session five. You are not lying. Yeah, that's where it is. For the people who do listen to that,

we do get a lot of loving feedback for those last couple episodes of session five, where we just

kind of bring everything home and kind of feel out where we are in the world and where we are in God's narrative.

Yeah. And you've made a good point. This is the right session to do that. Like we're taking it kind of

half time in session 10. Like this is a great time to go back and catch up on seasons you missed or

episodes you want to revisit or any of those things, right, Brent? Yeah, because starting after this

episode, we're going to the every other week release schedule. Maybe some exceptions here and there.

We're not going to make any, you know, totally definitive decisions. But for the most part,

starting after this episode, we're coming out with a new one every other week for this

season of morning that we are doing. Yeah. And we talked about that in the intro. If you missed that, the intro to this season, we discussed why we're doing that just for this season. And we've got reboot on session two coming out. So all those things are happening. But it's a great time to catch up. If you've got a little extra time because our production schedule is a little slower, use it. Use it. Don't abuse it. There you go. Absolutely. So how did this idea of four pillars come about, Marty? You talk about the four pillars of Hellenism, but I feel like that even has a story behind it too. Where did this whole idea come from? Yeah. And I don't think I've really ever told it. I remember going on my trips. In 2008, I went with Ray, R.VL, we call him Ray Vanderl, went with him to Israel. And then in 2010, I went to Israel and Turkey and had these, like, incredible experiences. And I just had this question when I came back. And sometimes it was a question that was being asked of me. But it was even just an internal question. Like, how do I boil down? Like, Ray literally gave me his body of work. Like his,

I wouldn't say it was his whole canon by any stretch, but he gave me a really big chunk of his

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