Bonus Episode: New Y Religion Host (John Hilton III)

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

After four years of hosting and producing, Anthony Sweat is handing the podcast’s reins over to his friend and colleague, John Hilton III. In this bonus episode, John interviews Anthony about the inception of the podcast, who has contributed to its creation, what goes into each episode, and the reach of the podcast. They conclude by talking about future directions for the podcast, and Anthony’s testimony of the Lord’s work.

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0:00.0	Hey there my religion friends, Professor Anthony Sweat here.
0:10.8	Welcome to this special bonus episode of why Religion. We haven't done a bonus
0:14.3	episode before but we are doing a bonus episode and I'm here with my good dear friend John Hilton
0:20.5	the third. It is so great to be with you Anthony. Some of you guys don't know but
0:24.3	John and I have known each other for a really long time. We won't go all the way back into our
0:29.6	glory days but... It was 2006 Atlanta E. F. Y. It was glorious. When I saw Anthony Sweat Teach
0:36.3	I was like this is someone I want to be friends with. We hit it off and I
0:40.8	literally wrote in my journal there is a reason I met John Hilton I have that in my journal entry
0:46.6	from teaching together that episode it was because the Lord knew I needed so much help
0:51.5	Oh no man.
0:53.0	And then John and I went on to get our PhDs and John was one of the people who helped bring me
0:57.8	to BYU and recruited me and now we're here together.
1:01.0	We've done a lot of work together and one of the reasons for this episode,
1:04.6	bonus episode is because we're continuing to work together.
1:08.0	John has decided to help us out with the podcast in particular because we're at a transition time where I've been working on this
1:18.4	Podcast why religion I've given up my blood sweat and tears no pun intended there and I love it I love where it's going I love what we've done and after four years of work it's time for a new host it's time for somebody else to be the host and the producer and I can think of nobody better than John Hilton to do that.
1:37.5	Anthony, you've produced and hosted 90 episodes of Why Religion is incredible and before I host any future
1:44.9	episodes I thought it'd be fun for us to take a few minutes and interview you about
1:48.7	the why religion podcast it's backstory and some of the blood sweat and tears that you put into it.
1:54.4	So maybe you can tell us a little bit what gave you the idea for the Why Religion
1:58.1	Podcast in the first place?
2:00.1	Yeah it started I've been a long time podcast listener back in the day when it literally was a
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