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Each week we go beyond hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.

I'm Morgan Lee and I'm an associate digital media producer here at Christianity today.

And I am pleased to be joined today with the great Mark Galley.

Ha, good to be back.

Glad to hear it in my absence who now think I'm great. That's a good thing.

I'm happy that you're back.

I should be gone more often.

Wow. Just so that you can get absence makes the heart go fonder.

So, Mark, today is actually going to be our listener appreciation episode, which I think works

for the time of the year that we are in.

Well, it not only works, it's right and true and a good thing to do because we really do

appreciate our listeners.

Absolutely.

And I can't say how affirming it feels to read some of these comments that people leave and you feel like,

man, am I actually doing work that I really believe in? They seem to think so.

Yeah, yeah. And this is a reminder to anyone who wants a comment on the podcast or anything we do

editorially. We do appreciate constructive criticism because it helps us become better journalists.

But we also like to be told

what we're doing right. So if you want to throw those in there once in a while, we're human

beings that like to feel like we're doing good in the world. And anytime we happen to do that,

if you could mention it, we love it. We just eat it up. Flattery gets, gets you a long credit in our

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