Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Esau McCauley podcast. I'm your host, Esau McCauley. We're joined today by Justin Gibney, the president of the end campaign and our co-host, producer Mike.

Hey, that's me.

Yeah, and this is our first episode of Black History Month. Yeah. And so what do you want to say? Was I supposed to get you a present? I mean, my son, my son said that one of his friends just said he was giving him like $20. So I'm just saying like, you should have given me something. Well, I've got all month. Oh, really? Because I got you something.

Oh, Issa.

I got you something. What did you get me, Issa? I got you something. Uh-huh. So when this, when this episode comes out, my new book, God's colorful Easter. Uh-huh. Because it celebrates the fact that the good news is for everybody. Yeah. And so even though it's Black History Month, I'm giving you a gift.

You are giving me the gift of promoting your book on your podcast. Yeah. I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, if y'all have done nothing for Black History Month, they can support some black authors. Justin, you got a book out, right? I do have a book out. Yeah. Can you tell us the name with this wonderful book? Yeah, it's called Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around, How the Black Church's Social Action Tradition leads us out of the culture war. Listen, I am serious, and obviously you all know this because I did the four. For those of you who haven't purchased it yet, I wrote the four for it. It's one of

the favorite books I've read in a long time. Please go and support this, brother. We need to have more books like this out in the world. So please go pick up just. Also, Esau, it's the Holy Post book club of the quarter right now. Oh. So if they sign up to be a Holy Post plus subscriber, they can get at $10 or more,

they can get a free digital copy of the book.

Okay, then.

So it's a win-win.

Yeah, that's a win-win. Yeah, there we go. Justin and you. And we have this ongoing contest to get to like a thousand, a thousand. You know, I look this morning, we're like 13 reviews away. Oh, so listen. By the time this comes out, we might already be over. I'm just saying saying, we need to get to a thousand reviews on Apple. We're almost there. And I'm not saying you're going to get a Justin book because he's not promised it. I'm just making promises. But we'll get somebody here to find something to send to you. Yeah. If you're chosen in this imaginary review something, we might get you something kind of thing. Yeah. Oh, that seems vague enough that we can promise that.

Speaking of things that people ought to purchase, all these people are purchasing,

I saw a story yesterday that CD sales are exploding, not amongst the olds like us,

but between people from like 18 to 22.

And what they're calling it is a part of a Y2K revival.

Wow.

So the last that I could find from 2024, there were 16.3 million CDs that were sold last year.

And they said that the reason that this is happening is because the youth culture,

there is a yearning for things that are physical, physical and tangible that they can touch.

You can imagine they grew up on everything that they just streamed it or they downloaded their computers or on their phones. And the idea of physically owning a CD feels like I can actually own the music that I have.

There's another thing they said that they liked about it.

It is permanent.

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