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the Siren Song of Charlton Heston's America. It's the professional left with drip glass and

blue gal.

I want to say, first of all, thank you to the listeners who wanted an emergency podcast last weekend.

We did record last week's podcast before the horrible tragedy in Connecticut.

And I, for one, was very glad I was busy editing and producing the podcast that day because I didn't have the TV on.

And you came out to me and said, I need to tell you something.

And you're the one that told me what happened.

And I was very glad I heard it from you rather than hearing it on TV. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Well, I'm glad it could be me and I'm very glad that

we had a lot of activity at the church. It was just the right time for that activity. We had the best

seat in the house.

There was a young mother and her little itty-bitty baby.

Yes.

Sitting in front of us of the pew.

And then there was the big children's show.

That's right.

We had the children's pageant and the traditional ironing of the children pageant costume that weekend.

And it's hard to stop life when you have children in the house.

You just can't.

And we did pray and we did turn off the news.

And we had to pretty much turn off the news while the children were home.

And that worked out for them.

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