Hi friends, welcome to a special drop in episode of That Sounds Fun.

I'm your host Annie F. Downs, but I'm not really your host this week.

Your host is Mike Kelsey. The music in the background is from our good buddy,

Mr. Torin Wells. Today on the podcast, Mike continues the conversation.

He began yesterday with Jermar Tisby and he and some of his closest friends sit down

and answer your questions you submitted in a little Q&A format of the show today.

I think you're really going to enjoy this. So Mike, the show is all yours.

All right, well, it's Mike Kelsey, one of the pastors at McClain Bible Church.

And I'm super excited to be back on the podcast and to be talking about something that honestly is,

it's kind of taken over headlines for a lot of us, but more than just headlines.

These are important issues that we need to talk about.

So we're going to be talking about some serious issues on the show today,

talking about race and justice and all that kind of stuff, but hopefully we'll have some fun in the meantime.

And so in light of that, I wanted this conversation to just be raw and honest.

And so I've invited some of my friends who happened to all, we all happen to be together in the same church.

Some of us are leaders in the church, some of us are not.

But this is kind of like all of y'all who are listening right now,

like you are getting an invitation to the cookout.

Like this is, these are the casual cookout.

This is the group chat conversation that you may not normally have access to.

But I want to introduce you to some of the folks that are going to be spending some time with us today.

So it was going on y'all. Eric is good to be here.

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