Hello, this is Phil Bishop. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Skyjitani. Hello, Phil. And Christian Taylor. Oh wait, Christian's not here. Where? You know where Christian is? I think I do. Yeah, Christian. This is kind of fun. Uh, is being an extra on the set of the new NBC show Chicago Fire

which actually shoots in Chicago, which makes the fires more legitimate because of Chicago Fire. If you set a fire in Toronto, it looks different. It looks kind of Canadian. Right. Yeah. If you set a fire in Hawaii, it like hula's. That doesn't work. And what is a Chicago Fire do? Chicago Fire is a broad shouldered fire. It's a hard working. It's a manly fire. It's sort of smells of Polish sausage and political corruption and political corruption. Yeah. So that's where she is. We're hoping

she's not actually on fire. We're hoping that's not what they do with their extras. She's not a victim. She says she doesn't have a speaking part. She but she's a featured extra, which means she'll actually show up. Wow. On the show. So she'll have to tell us. And she's contracted to only speak on this podcast. So she couldn't. Yeah, she can't speak. It's funny on TV. Anyone who who speaks on TV has a different contract than anyone who doesn't speak. So if you're an extra on TV or in a movie, you cannot speak. Your voice cannot be heard.

To the point where if you're screaming, they'll dub in someone else screaming in some cases, because that's a voice actor who they have that signed up for. Isn't it interesting? Fascinating. Plinky Pete wants to be an extra, but there's no rules about whether you can be strummed and heard. I don't think they have contracts for an animate object. Or if he'd have a strum double. You're a strum double. We got a request for Captain Pete to sing the theme song, which you'll notice.

Sounds somewhat similar to the celebrity impersonation of, of, of Pogrape. I apologize for any similarity to any person living or otherwise.

All right, but Captain Pete's obviously a pirate in Pogrape is not an area in lies the difference. Hey, it's a podcast. What do you know? Hey, forgot to change chords. Plinky Pete, you're fired. Hey, anything that goes wrong. I'm going to blame on Plinky Pete. Hey, it's a podcast.

It doesn't says there's no video. Hey, it's podcast. So the engineer, the field of official podcast that right here will talk to sky, but not Christian too, because she's on fire somewhere in Chicago for NBC.

I hope she gets better. Hey, it's a podcast. So the field of official part of class starts right here. The field of the podcast starts right here. It's very hard for a pirate to pronounce podcast.

I think your pirate's been drinking a little bit. Have an old pirate's been drinking. When is a pilot pilot? Not. I really hope my pilot's not drinking. So he's Scottish. It sounds rather than Irish. Doesn't it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. A lot of Scots were pirates. Were they? Yeah, because they were well private tears because the British crown hired them to go steal gold from the Spanish. Okay. Yeah, and the Scots were actually more adventurous. It's interesting.

Like the British that worked in India, you know, the expats that went to India when that was a British colony. Yeah, I have some history with them were disproportionately Scotsman. Really?

And the thought is it was because Scotland was not all that great a place to live in terms of living conditions. And so they were just tougher. They were

hardier and they liked the adventure. So they were a more adventurous lot. Maybe they just got tired of wearing kilts and they wanted to try some more exotic fashion.

Oh, something longer and more flowy. I think that's what they said. That's what you can find. You know, the Presbyterian Scots were the first to invent the concept of insurance. The Presbyterian Scots invented insurance. What were they

ensuring? Well, it was a way of protecting widows whose husbands died. The church would collect. They would share the risk. Okay. And they would protect the lives of

that. Yeah, they were the ones who invented insurance. Wow. Which maybe because they were half pirates. And they were all adventurous and whatnot. Many of the Scotsman and some of the Brits that went to India, quote, unquote,

went native. That was an issue they were having. Does that mean they didn't wear undergarments? They became so enthralled with the Indian lifestyle that they took Indian wives and began dressing in Indian styles and eating Indian food so that you

to hardly recognize them as Brits anymore. They went native. They went native. They went native. We don't. That must explain a lot. It explains a whole lot. We're on Earth. Have you been? You weren't on the show last week. No, I was last week.

Last week, let me think the week before was Denver. Last week was Orange County, California. And then what are you doing there, Portland, Oregon? Do you go to Disney? I didn't. I could have, but I didn't. I was with an

Imagineer. However, whoa. Well, that's almost as fun. Yeah. Former Imagineer. Yeah. So covering Imagineer is a little bit. Yeah. Okay. So was he trying to get over his dreams? Yeah. Kind of. But now he does other stuff. It's just really cool. Anyway,

Part of my work with leadership journal right now is we're going around the country meeting with small groups of pastors just here. What are they up against? What are they struggling with? What do they need help with? What resources did they want to engage? So when we're going to take all this information that we collect and come up with new ideas for leadership journal? So. Okay. We had a couple of gatherings with pastors in Southern California and then flew up to Portland and did the same thing there. Which pastors were Hipper? The Southern California pastors or the Portland pastors? Um, I.

They might be listening. They were definitely hip pastors in both. Which pastors were grungier? Uh, Portland. Which pastors were paler? Portland? Which pastors were Port Lear? Portland?

They were all really, really good. Right? And it was fascinating because we've done these, you know, number of cities now. And the consistency of the messages we're hearing is really amazing. Really? Yeah. Like, like, we don't want to have these meetings anymore. Why do you call us here? I'm kind of getting tired of them to be honest with you. I've had so many. What's what are the themes? What's coming up? Um, well, there's a couple of them. One is, I think our audience wants to know. One is there's, I mean, and the churches represented go from very small church plants with 20 people up to

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