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Greetings to you.

My name is Brant.

Producer Sherry is here too.

We're so glad that you were listening today.

It is a theme show.

That's right.

Oh, I did not know that. Thank you. I

know. I thought I would bust this out of my own producer. This is news to all of us guys.

Even Sherry has no idea what's going on. Today's theme, I'm going to be hitting on a lot.

I've just been thinking about this a lot. Like, today's theme is hope. Okay.

Okay. So I want to talk about it from different angles.

It's really a wonderful thing. But I've just been thinking about it, reading about it.

I wanted to share some fans with you. And of course, we'll have some breaking animal news too

because a lot of people have been asking for that. Yeah, sure. That's hopeful. So it is.

You wait until you hear it. It's really good. All that's coming up.

This is fascinating.

I was looking at history and plagues and things, like a lot of people have been studying.

But there's a historian named Rodney Stark, and he wrote about some of the early plagues after Jesus' life on Earth and how Christians responded to it.

But he said something. It's really interesting. He's reputable scholar, but he said that the believers had much higher survivability rates, substantially

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