we have a special treat for you yeah we don't need to say that like the normal like regular stuff because this is special yeah this is welcome to pines and parables with pete ralins yeah yeah for those of you who are fans of pete ralins and have followed his work um he does these special little Pines and Parables events.

And we were so lucky are fans of Pete Rollins and have followed his work. He does these special little pints and parables

events. And we were so lucky that he actually did one in our area. So we drove up to Grand Rapids

a couple months ago. And we've been sitting on this for so long and have been like, you know,

chomping at the bit to put it out. We've been shopping at the bit.

And I think this is the perfect, perfect time because after this, this was only the second time he'd ever done this. Yeah. And it went really, really well. But he's still kind of fine-tuning it, and he's done lots more. And there's lots more on the books. So if you like what you hear, which you will, you're going to really, really like this.

This is something completely different, completely new.

Instead of a lot of information, what we have is sort of a deconstructive medium that almost works like a Rochak test. Rochak test? How do you say that? Rorschach test? Yeah. Okay, there you go. I always thought there was like a cat, like shack, like Roershack.

We could both be wrong.

I have no idea.

I don't really even care.

But anyway, these parables, unlike a lot of the content that John and I bring you and curate

and then even talk about ourselves, there's lots of just material information data

to be looked at and dissected and, you know,

wrestled about and argued over. You can't really wrestle with or argue, you can't wrestle with,

but you can't really argue with a story. A story is something that does something to us in an

indirect way. So that's really what's going on here. And the kind of format that you're going to be

hearing is a live recording of pints and parables. But then at Pete's recommendation, when we asked him

how he wanted us to present this to you guys, he said, well, you know, this is the first time I've

done this. So instead of just putting it all out there, why don't you kind of guide people into what this is supposed to be about by just taking a few of the parables out. He didn't want to release the whole thing yet because there's going to be an opportunity for us to do that down the road. And this is something we're partnering with him on. And so what what John and I are going to do is we are going to almost take this experience with you,

you know, listen, and we're going to flip our mics on.

And just like Pete recommended, we're just going to kind of provide some thoughts, not explanation.

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