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In the radio business, it's called an appointment setter.

It could be the fact that we play the Captain Kangaroo or Oh Happy Day.

It's a way that using a sonic, using sound, it's a way that you set a moment and a reminder.

In musicals, you have what's known as a late motif, which is also when a character walks in,

his music kind of sets the tone.

Well, we have done an Easter special on the Good Friday before Easter for years, and today is no different.

And we call back Pastor Ed Young, a conversation we had with him a couple of years ago,

because y'all seemed to have loved it so much, and frankly, so did we.

Pastor Young, I'm going to ask you to start us with the book of Luke, the Gospels of Luke,

talk about the Easter story. But if you could, can you put into context why the Easter

story is important? A plus question, Michael.

I'll tell you that.

You know, I sort of came to myself the early part of this week.

By the way, Luke is so important because of the way he handles history.

Luke wrote more of the New Testament than anybody else.

You think John or Paul know Luke?

He wrote Acts, you remember, and he wrote the Gospel of Luke.

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