Hey, this is Politics by Faith.

I'm Mike Slater.

Thanks for being here.

We are going to add something new, something different to the Politics by Faith collection

here.

So the idea for the podcast was to be listened to at night, part of your bedtime routine.

I mentioned that, I think in last week's most recent episode,

and I got all these emails from people saying,

I actually listen to this while brushing my teeth at night before we go to bed.

That was just the original idea.

Obviously, you can listen to it whenever.

But the anxiety that people have that I have,

it was keeping me up at night because you watch the news at night and just would get me all

spun up. And there was no way to unwind properly. So this podcast was a way to get the news of

the day, but not have the anxiety take you over. And the goal was to end,

not necessarily on a positive note per se, but on a note with perspective and peace. So it was a

nighttime listen. But what about the morning? So we are going to add in some morning motivation pick me ups just to get the right perspective.

We don't have a name for it yet.

That's why morning motivation is the first thing we get there.

But just to get the perspective, get my perspective, our perspective, right first thing in the morning.

The goal is for these to be short, less than five minutes.

Our podcast, the longer ones have been like 40 minutes. That's too

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