Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I want to say

welcome back to everybody's been doing this for a really long time.

This continue to marvel at the fact that we have been inching our way through the book of

Matthew together since like we were babies and it's really really fun that this is

something that we've shared together that we're learning about together.

Thanks for making it a part of your day. Also, I know that some of you are here for the very first time ever,

and you've never been a part of this podcast before and you haven't been here since you were a tiny little baby

And you're like mmm this is a little bit intimidating because I'm walking into a podcast that's kind of established they probably have their own little inside baseball

Language and like little jokes and stuff that they tell and I don't know if I'll

know when to lap or what to do nonsense you're welcome you can just jump right in

here and be a part of it immediately this is one of those things that's an open

circle where the circle is always

expanding and if you're in and you're here you're just in and you're here you're

just in and you're here you will pick up on all the little details and nuances really

quickly if you want to get up to speed a little bit faster you can go back

and grab episodes 591, 592, and 593. That is a recent summary of the stuff that

we've covered in the first 24 chapters of this breakdown of Matthew

or you can go all the way back to the beginning if you like it and just power through

it and catch up either way hey you're here that's awesome super super welcome

thank you for being here and now as is always the case, let's start with something that seems unrelated, but it's going to turn out to be related. You guys watch the office, the NBC version of the office? That's a funny show. They just say all the jokes. It was like the

sweet spot in all of comedy history for that little window there in the early 2000s where

we were kind of past the prudish overly censserious phase where you couldn't joke about things or like part of the

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