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Chris and Albin, are you as excited as I am about talking to John MacArthur? Or are you just frightened

as I am about talking to John MacArthur? I don't know. I heard he had like 7,000 people jammed, jammed into his church this past Sunday. So this is going to be great. And 8,000 of them had active COVID. That's courage. Let me tell you something. He's willing to do that. And there's some snake handlers and stuff. It's awesome. Yeah, he's known online as the COVID whisperer.

That's his...

I should clarify, because I was saying this to Suzanne last night, you know,

there are so many different worlds out there, right?

Like, there are worlds of people who so revere John MacArthur.

It's like I'm having, you know, Bob Hope on the program. But most people listening to this program don't know who John MacArthur. It's like I'm having, you know, Bob Hope on the program.

But most people listening to this program don't know who John MacArthur is.

And so I want to say to those folks, shame on you.

No, I want to say to those folks, he is a hugely well-known Bible teacher slash pastor.

And people swear by him. They say, guy there is no one. Can you still

hear me? I have a new mic. Oh yeah. No, we hear you great. There's nobody on his level in terms of

expositional preaching, you know, teaching from the text of the Bible.

And every time I think about this, I get like a little jealous because as good as your pastor is,

there's only one John MacArthur.

And he does this every week.

He's been doing it for 50-something years.

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