Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast, Weekend Edition here.

It's like 14 minutes after I was planning on starting.

I just put my head though, so I don't know what I'm going to say this podcast it could be interesting

You might even be able to see it. It's not it doesn't look that bad, but it might start getting bruised and swelling up during the program. So I thought about putting some ice on it or something,

but I thought, you know, I've already said

I'm gonna do a podcast and I'm gonna be true to my words.

So here we go.

It is Easter Sunday weekend, a resurrection Sunday, depending on the terminology you use.

And last night was Good Friday, we had our service and I don't usually like to do podcasts around Christmas or

Easter just because I don't want to break the flow, the thoughts that we should be having the focus on Christ on his

incarnation and then of course during this time his death burial

resurrection and so it's not a his death, burial, resurrection.

And so it's not a hard and fast rule,

I'm not a legalist about it,

but I generally, I don't try to do podcasts around that time.

But I've decided that this is somewhat related and we're going to talk about some political developments

But I feel like I need to talk about this so we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about

Some of the laws that are being passed by Republicans, Republican governors in a conservative in red state, some of them deep red and some of them

are concerning and I want to share with you why I'm concerned about them and why this relates even to

Holy Week and what we're celebrating.

So I'm going to do a few news-related items before I get to those laws, but that's where we're heading during the podcast.

So before we talk about any of that, though, I just want to let you know about a sponsor for this podcast, Ridge Runner. You can go to Ridgerunner U.S Day.com and check them out.

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