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If you need some guy who can make this life better, hold on. Hold on. What's up guys? Welcome back to the

Handelbar podcast. We got the OG4. Yes. At the, if you're watching online, this isn't a table. I was going to say at the table, but we're kind of in a coffee table. We're at a coffee table. It counts as a table. We're here. It's a rainy day in Dallas, Texas. Elisa just got back from Europe, so she's got a French accent. Should we do a slide show? Of photos? I should have made a slideshow. That'd be cool. Hey, guys, today's episode is my Europe trip. My time in Europe. I do have a little brochure of the Vatican. Oh, cute. So...

So... The Sistine Chapel. Yeah, the Sistine Chapel. That's one of the coolest places I've ever been. Have you been Ruffy? I have been there. It was honestly so... You have? Yeah. You're the only one. No, you would love it. So, anyway... Rome is very special. how many times I either text or message you or Joel and said I'm jealous. They would post something and I just would say I'm jealous. They would text a picture and I would just say, I'm jealousy. And what is it saying? Oof, that's James, which is what we're going to be in today. What's the other thing? We're jealousy and selfish ambition. Every evil thing follows. I was happy for you guys. for you guys. I just wanted to be there too. It's like a FOMO, not a jealousy. I had FOMO heart. But maybe a little. Yeah. Never been to the Vatican. Never seen. FOMO could enable real jealous. Was it Leonardo? Who painted the Sistine Chapel? Michael Angel. Michael Angel. See, I should have known that, man. I'm going to get... You're like, which Ninja Turtle was it?

Which Ninja Turtle?

Well, welcome back to the Hand of our podcast.

Hey, we have...

We're going to shift things up on you guys.

And this actually came from Elissa.

So I love the idea.

And the idea we had for the podcast was instead of answering questions

we may still answer questions in future episodes but today we're not going to answer a question

instead we're going to take you guys through james yes we're going to read the bible

okay let's do it here's here's uh you know we're going to use james we're going to use the bible

as our starting point where normally we use questions as our starting point.

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