Hey everybody. Just a quick note here on the main feed to say that we just got back from Theology Beer Camp in St. Paul, Minnesota. This is coming out Thursday. I got back Sunday night from that trip.

And during beer camp, we recorded a live Generation Gap Culture Hour. This one featured a whiteboard

behind my head that I did not really look at closely until after the session. And so I have

some wonderful photos that friends in the audience sent me of me speaking very earnestly into the

microphone with some dry erase black devil horns right behind my head.

Also, somebody had written, instead of Generation Gap Culture Hour,

I think it was Generation Guru Culture Hour,

or Guru Gap, or something like that, a reference to an old phrase amongst this community, I think from primarily Facebook

discussion areas where we use this hashtag for a while, not my guru, hashtag not my guru,

because I was trying to, I talked about this a lot more earlier, earlier years on You have

permission, the old name of this show,

that I'm trying not to be a spiritual guru. I think that's a little clearer now because I just

leaned into the psychology and therapy stuff where I have genuine training expertise and

licensure. But in the past, before I had sort of that to lean on or lean into, I would talk about not being a guru.

Anyway, it was really fun.

But one of the things that we decided to do for that event and that we'll probably do every year, we did it one or two years as well, one or two years ago as well, is we just decided to not put any of it on the main feed of the podcast to have the entire thing be sort of this

more in-person, you know, behind the paywall, meaning we can say totally what we want,

but also just like more informal. And I think it captures a little bit of the spirit of

in-person conversations, which really are different. They are

different than the things that I record, you know, over Zoom or whatever for this podcast. I love

doing those. I feel like the media format of a Zoom interview over an audio podcast is something that I'm totally comfortable with.

I like making the show that way.

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