Happy New Year, everyone.

2023 is here.

And we launched our new year with a more informal episode than normal.

This one was recorded live in Nashville, Tennessee, and from 2000 friends of ours who were,

well, they were quite engaged as you can hear.

Have a listen.

How many of you are regular listeners to the podcast?

The direction of our podcast is shaped by you, the listeners, right?

You send us the questions.

We sift through those.

I asked John Piper at the questions.

I asked John Piper, you're most awkward questions.

I'm willing to do that for you because I serve you, our listeners.

And I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time on the podcast, and I figured,

let's do this in Nashville.

Let's hear from John Piper about his favorite things.

Over the decade of APJ, we received over 100 questions from listeners asking random

questions about John Piper's favorite soft drink, movies, novels, poets, things like that.

So I just compiled all those questions.

I'm going to pose them to Pastor John, and he's got a rapid fire respond, okay?

So you can't elaborate very long on that, all right?

That's a problem.

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