Greetings and salutations. Welcome to Life and Books and Everything as we begin a new season here in the first month of 2022. I'm your host, Kevin DeYoung.

Good to be with you. And at the outset, let me

do a few, a couple of housekeeping announcements, more than

housekeeping, some important tweaks to the podcast

for this new episode, not this episode, but this season. This podcast began during the

pandemic as Justin Taylor, Colin Hanson and myself were talking and then I had the idea,

well, we're talking all the time. Maybe it would be fun for us and possibly beneficial for others if we talked and let other people listen in.

And as the podcast developed and I think it's grown, I hope, and have listeners and we've had interviews,

it's taken a little different shape with a lot of interviews, which I like to do.

And one of the things, however, that's difficult with interviews is lining up all of the moving parts.

And so you may have even noticed from last season that Colin and Justin were in and out as it worked in their schedule.

So it's not a major change from last season, but just to say at the outset of this season that what you're going to find is a little bit more of life and books and everything hosted by Kevin D. Young with occasional special guests,

Colin and Justin. You can send all of your angry letters for that. There's no blood feud

between us among us. It's just, it was very difficult to coordinate our three schedules

anyways and then to line up interviews.

So we have booked several times throughout this season to have Colin and Justin on.

So you will still hear the three of us bantering and talking about Midwestern cuisine and

Big Ten sports.

But most of the other episodes will be me interviewing various guests. So whether

that's good news or bad news, that is the news. And that's how we're progressing with this season.

And I'm really excited for the guests that we have lined up over the next 10 or 12 episodes.

And roughly the cadence will be about every other week.

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