You're listening to the Bible for normal people the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Hey everyone, welcome to the episode before we get started just an update on the campaign that we mentioned last week.

It was one week only but you didn't even need a week we raised that support within just a couple of days and we could not be more thrilled.

So our goal was 40,000 as of today, right this minute. I mean, probably that's not true.

But 44,378 dollars and 50 cents, which is more than 40,000.

I think that's 800,000 dollars or something like that.

You were misinformed.

Someone didn't tell me the truth anyway, but that's yeah, that's still amazing.

Listen, we have a lot of people to thank two team members who were just instrumental in making this work.

Stephanie Spate and Tessa Stoltz.

Absolutely. And thank you so much to Sarah Bessie and Brian McLaren who jumped on provided some wonderful affirmations of the work that we're trying to do.

Really appreciate their support.

Yeah. And obviously most of all, all of you people who were just so generous and just, you know, it's very, it just poses a light, you know, that we had so much support so quickly and it's really going to help us.

Yeah. And I think for me, I don't know about you, but it really galvanizes kind of our passion for the work and the mission of bringing the best and biblical scholarship to everyday people and seeing the need and seeing that a lot of people are in it with us.

I think it just means a lot.

Yeah, it's fantastic. So it's going to help us continue doing things like, you know, nerds and residents, which we talked about having bringing scholars on to partner with us and bringing just amazing content to all of you.

Yeah. And just accessibility bringing more free content to everyone that we can get our hands on. That sounds creepy.

But you know, metaphorically digitally, legally, legally.

Right. So, yes. And as well as a new platform, can you tell me what we're reverse anything here folks? We just, we just go for you know, whatever. And we say dumb things.

And then what's the fourth? The platform, the platform is the thing too. That's a big thing to make it like you're saying to make everything just need and nicer.

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