Hey guys, welcome to Before the Noise, the place where we slow down before the chaos kicks in every weekday. Join us for more at BeforeThe Noise.com. Let's go. Well, good morning, everybody. How are you? It is Wednesday. It is January 21st, 2026. Welcome to Before the Noise. You new here, my name is Chad Prather. Before the Noise, man, you know, I had no idea a couple of months ago this thing was going to go where it's gone. I have you to think for that as well as the Lord,

obviously the Lord. For those of you who don't know, when this whole thing started,

I was traveling and I had this strong impression, just praying and considering some things,

and usually my best ideas come in the middle of the night.

And I had this strong impression while I was on the road to start something called Before the

noise, and I was just going to go live every morning for 10 or 15 minutes and just share my devotional thoughts.

And you guys started watching it.

Many of you did.

And then Rumble was kind enough to allow us to be part of their feature.

And so that meant 15 minutes went to an hour.

So there's a lot of prep that goes into this.

There's never a moment in the day when I'm not thinking about our next time together, where I'm either studying, reading, or just researching some things and putting together notes.

And so it's a lot of work that goes into this, but I'll be honest with you. I wouldn't have it any other way. This has been one of the biggest blessings, honestly, of my entire life. 53 years. This has been one of the biggest blessings just working through the scripture each morning. We're in the book of Acts, as you know, we're in Acts 19, which we're going to finish today finish today this been one of the biggest blessings of my life i had no idea this thing was going to go

where it's gone so i'm so thankful that you guys choose to join us if you're on facebook

if you're on rumble if you're on youtube i don't care where you're watching i'm just thankful

that you're here click like click subscribe uh subscribe. The only thing, and I look

all the time, I'm looking all the time. I go and I look at the rankings on Apple Podcasts,

just to see if we're in the top 200 on this in our category, which would be what religion,

spirituality, Christianity, whatever that is. And we're in and out, you know, we do pretty good

on that. And the reason that matters is those rankings, they're sort of vanity rankings,

but it does tell these podcast platforms, this is what people want to listen to. These are getting

good reviews. And then they push it out for more people to be able to listen to. So one of the things that I'm considering doing, don't, I'm not saying I'm doing this yet.

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