Hey, everybody. It's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and I hope you are having

a super day. I got a little coy pond in the backyard. It's not that impressive, but it's really unimpressive when it has a string algae bloom. So it's like today's the day. I'm just going to get in the pond and I'm going to start ripping out algae with my bare hands. And I did it. My little fish were in there with me and they were like, Thank you. They didn't say it, but they felt it. I could feel it. I ripped all that algae out. Now it looks better. I'm going to make it look better yet tomorrow. And then there was a sprinkler line that broke. And I dug a big hole. It was under some patio stone. So we had to pull all that out. My son helped me. A couple of his friends happened to come over and rather than being

like, we don't do things like that. We do video games without even being asked. They were like,

ooh, mud pit. Let's fix it. And they all jumped in there, all up to our elbows and goop. It's so

much fun. And we fixed it. It totally works. I got a video out today on my YouTube channel. I made a video

about a Native American Catholic

church with a whole bunch of Arapahoe accoutrements. It's a very interesting video. It's been a long

process to get that finish lined. Now it's done. My buddy Hunter helped me with that. He crushed it.

And then I had a little guest appearance here. Was it maybe yesterday, the day before, something like that? And I haven't been telling you about the guest appearances, because it feels weird and snooty. They've been a lot better than I expected. They've been pretty cool. I wrote this book six weeks ago. We've talked about it a ton. I know some of you were new. I'm bringing everybody up to speed. I wrote this book called the Lightning Fast Field Guide to the Bible. Harper Collins put it out

and they're subsidiary Zonderman and they're really good at publishing books, right? So at some point

in the book publishing process, somebody sat me down and they were like, hey, we're going to put you on a

bunch of shows and stuff, YouTube and podcasts and old school radio and some TV stuff. And it doesn't have to be hard.

Just show up, talk about the Bible. Everybody we put you with, they're all pros. They're going to

make it fun. And, you know, we'll just kind of get the word out about the book. And we'll end

about the podcast. I know a lot of you are new here, probably because just kind of get the word out about the book. And we'll end about the podcast.

I know a lot of you are new here, probably because of one of these little appearances I've been doing lately. And I really didn't know what to expect. I thought that it would be kind of weird. And maybe I was a little amped up because, you know, I did get sat down. And they're like, hey, things are about to get interesting. You're about to get a bunch of weird unsolicited emails from scammers and stuff when you publish a book that just, it's going to happen. You're going to hear from a lot of people posing as famous authors. Don't worry, no famous author actually likes your book. It's people pretending to be them to try to get you to give them money. And it's just, you know, hey, first time publishing a book, it's going to get weird for a while. You're going to see some very interesting stuff and you're going to do these appearances. Okay. Well, you know, they framed it up the right way. But, you know, maybe I was kind of coming into it a little bit nervous. But they've been really cool. The conversations have been fun. And part of the reason I'm having a super day is because, again, yesterday, a couple days ago, whatever it was,

I had another one of these appearances and it was super.

I had a conversation with a lady named Janet Partial, like Marshall, but with a P.

And she's like an old school pros, pro radio host.

She does a syndicated show on Moody Radio. And she actually read the book. It was pretty cool.

I got on there and she had really smart questions. And we had a lovely chat and it was very fun.

And she, I mean, she honored me. She did like a big push. I'm like, you should go check out the book.

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