Hello and welcome to the scriptures or real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about things in the scriptures that have made them become more real to us because we believe the more real they are, the more we are able to apply them to our lives, and we

really need to do that. I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and we're happy to have back with this. I think this is the first time in the history of the podcast that we've had the same guest back-to-back weeks, but we're happy to have back with this, Josh Mattson. So welcome, Josh. Thanks Gary. Great to be back.

And so last week, as we did Haggai, we introduced Josh.

So you can go back to that and hear a little bit more about Josh and so on.

He lived in Israel as he studied.

He works on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

He's teaching seminary right now.

All sorts of fun things that you could have learned about Josh. We might ask him to tell us

another thing about him that's of interest. Well, yeah, is there something else? Maybe we should

learn about your hobbies or something.

Yeah, I mean, we could do that.

I think one of my weird hobbies is every Thanksgiving morning, I wake up and run a half marathon.

So I like to run.

That is weird.

Yeah.

My wife is a runner, and I always wonder what kind of brain damage people have that they're doing that.

So anyway, yeah. Yeah. So, so I'm maybe that's, that's the tidbit that we can give readers today is that, that that's what I do. I try to get a number of miles in, but a few years back, we were living in Florida. I just woke up one morning and said, you know what? It would be, it would justify all the eating that I'm about to do if I just went out and ran a half marathon today. So I, uh, I laced up the running shoes and, and ran one of the benefits of being in Florida is it's a little cool, but it's not too cold. So it's actually a really comfortable run. But when I got back that we had a pool in our, our apartment complex. And so I got back and I just,

I dipped in the pool for a half hour and it was like a come back. And so I didn't quite have that.

I ran it this year at my parents' home in Shubbik, Idaho. And I woke up. It was a blistering 21 degrees when I started. But it was kind of fun.

From my parents' home, up and around the Pocatello, Idaho, Temple, and back was just about

the distance of a half marathon. So it was kind of a, it was a fun way to kick off that holiday.

So yeah, there you go. Those may be looking for an extra runner

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