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Dr. Andrew Swoffin, nice to have you back on the show.

Hey Matt, so good to be with you. This is awesome, man. Remember the last time I had you on the show was like, hey, fly into Atlanta, get an Uber, drive an hour north. And then COVID broke like two weeks later, right? Yeah, yeah, it was right before COVID, yeah. How have you done during the COVID season? How have things been? Oh, I mean, like a lot of people, but we moved

into a new house just this past March and we, 1883, had lots of renovations and we, we, we know,

COVID hit right in the middle of that. And so that slowed things down quite a bit.

That's about the age of our house here in Studentville. Is that right? Yeah finding work is really difficult everybody's redoing their houses right so it's like everybody's at home you know and tired what they're looking at and so all these workers I mean they had it's like they didn't need our work right they're like you know I'll be there in six months like man will you please come show up and do this work because I'm in competent I can't do it myself yeah so so you mean traveling or just were you traveling a lot before I mean you're a full-time

university yeah you know not not not a little bit but not too much I filmed the Hebrew study

in May of 2020 during so during COVID we filled that filmed that in near Philadelphia

and that was you know so I did the Romans one the year before and with an audience and then Hebrews I had to film that with no audience

so it kind of you know look at a at a camera and try to gin up the energy and get going yeah it was a

little bit different I think came out okay when I went there though the hotel I got a on my connecting

flight I was at an airport I think in Nashville getting ready to fly into Philly and I

got this text it's like your hotel reservation this hotel ain't open so I had to

call my people at ascention like hey I don't know where I'm gonna stay because this thing's

crazy right now so it was gonna fly by the seat of your pants and but you you know, it's like everybody else. I mean, we, you know, I mean, with the students, college students, had been there to ask, what happened with them? Did they all go home? Well, March of 2020, that spring, they went home at some, at halfway through the semester, like I think most colleges did and went online and you know they just

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