Feb. 5, 2025

Spotify: Theology Central

Spotify: Theology Central

We discuss Theology Central on Spotify

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We discuss Theology Central on Spotify

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Stop what you

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are doing right now? Stop. I was going to scream. Stop.

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I was going to scream, but then I thought someone

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would be listening in their car, and then I would scream,

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and then they would yank the steering wheel and have

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a wreck, and then they'd be trying to sue the

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Theology Central Podcast. Okay, but I need you to stop

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what you are doing. If you're driving, just pull over

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to the side of the road, put on your hazards,

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pull into a shopping center or a convenience store. Just

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stop what you are doing. And what I need you

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to do right now is that phone you have in

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your hand or that tablet. I need you to go

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to your app store of choice, which is either the

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Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. I guess

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you don't really have a choice. If you have an

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Android device, it's Google Play. If you have the Apple device,

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it's the Apple App Store. Go to the app store

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on your device and download Spotify. I need you to

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download Spotify right now. You say, but I don't want

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to subscribe to Spotify. You don't have to use it

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as a subscription service, you can use it as a

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free podcasting app. And that's what we're going to talk about,

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because we need to try to fix something, and we

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need to try to fix it. Now. We're going to

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talk about Spotify podcast Christian podcast on Spotify, this podcast,

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this podcast on Spotify, and hopefully, hopefully we can. I

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don't know, maybe we can make an impact. I doubt

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we can, but we can try, and we'll talk about

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all that. Oh, I guess what I should do. What

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I should do is I should say good afternoon everyone.

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It is Wednesday, February the fifth, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently two forty seven pm Central Time, and I'm

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coming to you live from the Theology Central Studio located

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right here in sunny summertime has arrived West Texas. Yes

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it is. It's like eighty something degrees right now. It's yes,

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summer has arrived back in Texas where it should have

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never left. It left for a few days. Didn't think

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I was going to survive. It got all around like

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thirty and that's the end of the world. But we survived.

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And now it's I had the ac on just a

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few minutes ago. But I had to turn off the

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AC so that we can talk about something else that's important.

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My weather is not important, but we need to talk

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about something else. We've talked about it numerous times. We

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even kind of have an ongoing mini series where we

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are reviewing podcasts from a specific podcasting chart, and that

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would be the Spotify podcasting chart. We've been reviewing that.

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But we're going to be talking about Spotify. And here's

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the reason why. Late last night, Spotify sent me a

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link to a lot of new statistics that they have

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offered me because our podcast, the Theology Central Podcast, is

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available on Spotify. So they sent me a lot of

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analytic to look at and to consider, and I looked

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at all of them. I'm like, okay, well, let me

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just see what's going on on Spotify. I haven't checked

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in a while. Let me look and see what's going

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on on Spotify, specifically the religion and Spirituality podcasting chart,

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all right, because that kind of tells you where religious

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spiritual Christian podcast how they are doing on the Spotify

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on the Spotify app. And again, you can download Spotify

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even if you don't have a subscription. You can use

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it as a podcasting app. You need to understand that.

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Now I'm going to start this and I'm going to

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start this discussion. It's going to be relatively quick. It's

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really just for your information. But I'm going to start

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this on a very practical level right on something that

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somewhat bothers me. Over and over and over, you hear

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Christians complain about there's so much false teaching in the church.

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There's so much heresy there. It's just a problem. The

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church is corrupt. False teaching is everywhere. False teach. They're corrupt,

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They're a heretic. They're a heretic. They're a heretic. They're

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a heretic. They're a heretic. And everyone yells about that

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and complains about that. But then time and time again,

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what I notice is that the people, the things that

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are being listened to, the things that are being downloaded,

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the things that are being shared, the things that are

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being financially supported, the things in which people are going

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and buying their merch Over and over and over, it

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tends to be Christian podcast that I think most Christians

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would argue there's some problems there, right. I know those

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who buy the merchant listen to it would argue and say, no,

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it's wonderful. But I think a majority of Christianity, or at

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least anything that's biblically sound, would be like, I think

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there's a problem. But when you look at, say the

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Spotify podcasting chart, where are the even if it's even

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if it's pastors and podcasters that I may disagree with

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to some level philologically, at least it would be like, Okay,

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that's better than that, right that, even though I disagree

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with that, that's like, you know, ninety nine percent less

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poison than that. Sometimes the good ones are nowhere to

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be found. Now, I know some of you say, well,

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that's the way it's supposed to be, right, The good

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teaching is always going to be in the minority. Yeah,

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I do agree to some level, But I do know

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if people would, I don't know, support the good teaching,

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it could probably get a little bit more recognition, be noticed,

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become a little bit more relevant instead of being hidden.

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So I really get bothered when I look at the

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Spotify podcasting chart. I have been bothered by it foreveryone

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like where are the decent podcast Where are the good ones?

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How come they can't gain any traction? Why not? Now?

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It may be because I don't know. Christians don't you Spotify.

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I don't know. Maybe they don't. I don't know, but

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we're gonna talk about it. So before we look at

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my analytics, let's do this. I'm gonna unplug my iPad.

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It'll probably die here in a minute, but that's okay.

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I'm gonna go open up the Spotify app and I'm

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looking at the top Religion and Spirituality podcast. Right. This

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is their chart. This is the chart of the top fifty,

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the top fifty Religion and Spirituality podcast. This is chart

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is updated every single day. Sometimes when I've been haven't

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looked at it in six months, and I come back,

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I'm like, well, if it's updated daily, I guess there's

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no room for anybody else to ever make the chart, okay,

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because it's always the same names. Right, you want to

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know what number one is today? Number one is the

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Bible in a Year with Father Mike SCHMIDTZ. Yes, the

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number one Religion is Spirituality podcast on Spotify is a

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Catholic podcast, not a not Now if you're Catholic, that's

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wonder You're like, Yes, the True Church, the Magisterium. We

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have a priest interpreting scripture. Okay, yeah, you're all happy,

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But for all of us who reject Catholicism and believe

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that it has a false gospel, that should be like,

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how is that number one? Now you could argue there

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are more Catholics than there are you know, Protestants, but

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we don't have any podcasts. We can't do anything with, right,

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So that's number one. Number two, Girls Gone Bible. We've

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reviewed that. That's a train wreck of epic proportions. Girls

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gone Bible should be girls gone biblically crazy. I don't

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know what it should be called. That thing is a

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train we've we've reviewed it. What what that's number two?

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Then number three is the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I have

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no idea who who Bryce Crawford is. I have no

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idea who he is. But he clearly markets himself because

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it's him on the cover holding a microphone. Uh he

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sells merch right. I was listening to an episode really quick.

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It was like, hey, before we get started, check out

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our merch by yourself some and I'm like, what, okay,

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all right? So that okay, so they got merchandise. So

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but he seems pretty popular. He's in the top two

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percent of all podcasts globally, or the top five percent.

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He's in the top two percent, so he's in a

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different stratosphere than I am. But he's number three. I

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was gonna review one of his broadcasts, but first the

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audio is a complete train wreck. It sounds like he's

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broadcasting from a kitchen. I think it's a video podcast.

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I don't know. Maybe we'll try to review it, but

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you can go listen to it. Number four is twenty

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eight twenty eight nineteen Church, twenty eight nineteen Church, twenty

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eight nineteen Church. I'm like, what is that? Twenty eight

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twenty eight nineteen Church, twenty eight is it? Two? Twenty

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eight nineteen Church, I don't twenty eight nineteen. What is

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is that? I don't know what that? Is? That a scripture?

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I'm assuming twenty eight nineteen Matthew, Is I wonder? Matthew

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twenty eight twenty eight nineteen, Is this like going with

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a great commission? Now that I started thinking about it,

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it wasn't registering until I kept saying it, Yeah, go

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ye therefore and teach all nations. Okay, that's pretty clever.

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Twenty eight nineteen Church. Matthew twenty eight nineteen. I bet

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you that's what it's come. That's pretty clever. That's pretty clever.

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Look I figured it out. I know the rest of

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you are like you dummy, it's twenty eight nineteen. Obviously

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it's Matthew twenty eight nineteen. What is wrong with you? Hey?

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Be nyes? Okay, be nice? All right? You know it's

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one hundred and seventy five degrees here. Okay, I'm going

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to pass up when he Okay, it's not that high,

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all right, but I got to make some excuse. The

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sun got in my eyes. Okay something twenty eight nineteen Church, Oh,

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do you want to hear a little bit of it?

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I do have this cute up here, Here we go,

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Here's how twenty eight nineteen Church Sounds and now Today's

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week one of our brand new series Entry. Today's Week

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one of our brand new series Entry and end times. Okay, man,

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I need some more dramatic music when I say this

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is this is week one of my new series on

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Isaiah forty Come yeah, I need I need Come on,

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what is wrong? I say? I gotta learn to hype

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things more. I gotta be more of a showman. That's

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what I need to do. Okay, I'm not criticizing it.

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Some people love that. That's great. We're gonna review it.

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I have it queued up because it's on the End Times.

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It's in Matthew and I'm like, uh, oh, oh oh,

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where are we going? So we will review that. That's

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twenty eight twenty eight nineteen Church. That's the number four

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podcasts on Spotify. Number five the Bible Recap. Don't know

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anything about it. I see it everywhere. I think I've

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reviewed it, but I don't remember. Number six. Oh, Catholicism again.

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The Rosary in a year. That's number six. So we

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have the Bible in a year, and we have the

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Rosary in a year. Both of them are put out

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by Ascension, at which Ascension puts out their own version

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of the Catechism. It's really great the way they structure it.

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And they put out a Bible. So yeah, all right,

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the next number seven Bible beginning to end, Bible beginning

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to end. Now that sounds somewhat interesting. It looks like

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they work through the entire Bible. That could be great.

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That's awesome. I've wanted to do something similar to that,

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but I'm not I'm not so good if I go

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Bible through a year, we end up in Genesis. Seventeen

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years later, we're still there. Yeah. I wish I could

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be more disciplined, but it could be good. That one

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could be good. That one looks like now. I did

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look at the description and it did talk about the

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Holy Spirit guiding you and directing of course all of

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that kind of stuff. So number eight Christ with coffee

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on ice, Christ with on ice, Ali Yost, I don't

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know what Christ with coffee on ices, but okay, there

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it is. Number nine is WHOA that's got That's good podcast?

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WHOA That's good podcast? I guess is the way you

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would say it. Whoa Saddie robertson huff isn't she a part?

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I think she was a part of the Duck Dynasty

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group of people, and you're not allowed to criticize that

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because way back in the day I did criticism of

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Duck Dynasty when it was all on television, and ladies

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and gentlemen, the Christians who love dug Dynasty. I received

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phone calls at two and three in the morning threatening

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to kill me and my entire family. Yeah, so that

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was always wonderful, the phone ringing it two or three

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I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill your

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family because you criticized duck dynasty. Well, God bless you

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as well. All right. The Bible Project is number ten.

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scared to go to church because she was afraid we

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were going to be killed because of the death threats

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because I criticized duty dynasty. Is the most ridiculous thing

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I've ever heard in my life. All right. Number eleven.

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the Cermonatio platform who made those wonderful, you know, threats

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back in the day. All right, Yeah, that caused me lots.

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That really caused a crisis of faith in a lot

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of ways. All right. Number eleven, or is the ten

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minute Bible Talk devotional Bible study. That's a mouthful ten

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minute Bible talk devotional Bible study. We will review that

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because I want to know what they can pull off

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in ten minutes. Number twelve The Daily Blade, have no

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idea what that is? Number thirteen Elevation Church with Stephen Ferdick.

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Everyone criticizes him, everyone condemns him because what he's number thirteen.

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Number fourteen, Joel Ostein. All right, so he's up there.

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I can go through here on a shame with the

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Robertson family. There's the Duck Dynasty people. They're number seventeen.

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I'm just jumping around. Number twenty The Catechism in a Year,

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More Catholicism. Let's see here. Number twenty two. The Father

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Mike schmids Catholic podcast. More Catholicism. Let's see here. Number

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twenty four, another Catholic podcast. So Catholicism dominates this big time. Oh,

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Billy Graham is number thirty four. Where did that come from?

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What in the world Billy Graham podcast had he's been

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what is that? Okay, that's interesting. I'm gonna have to

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listen to that. Just know what are they doing. Joyce

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Meyer is number thirty nine. Let's see here. I'm just

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looking around the Exorcist files. We have talked about that again.

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Catholicism number forty eight. Sunday Homilies with Father Mike Schmidtz

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number forty nine. I'm telling you, Father Mike Schmidz, he

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is killing it in the podcasting world. Man, he's got

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podcast he's got multiple podcasts, and that group Ascension. I

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think he started it. They they own the Spotify podcasting chart.

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They own it. They really do. I mean it is

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crazy how much they own it. So Catholicism has figured

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out podcasting. Where's everybody else? I don't know. Charismatics have

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figured out podcasting? Where's everyone else? Okay, the seeker sensitive

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kind of church. They figured out podcasting. Where's everyone else?

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Someone else? Please step up? We have to do what

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we can. So here's what I'm gonna challenge you to do.

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the Spotify app. I was gonna say the Spotify podcasting app.

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go to search. Go just go to what do you

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want to listen to? Type in Theology Central. Now, as

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soon as you type in theology we're gonna pop up.

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Central and green letters. And then you'll see sermon audio

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at the banner at the bottom. That's the sermon audio feed.

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That's the sermon audio feed. Right. You can subscribe to

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that one as you want. The one right underneath that

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Bible in the middle. It says Theology Center Central. That

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is our podcasting feed, and that's the one I want

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you to go to right now, and I want you

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to follow it, and I want you to give it

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a star rating. Okay, hopefully five stars. Go to Theology

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green background with the white circle, Theology Central, go get

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go to the other one as well. That adds numbers

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to our you know, sermon audio numbers. But as far

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as the podcasting world, if we're gonna get on the

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podcasting chart, we need this one, the green background, to

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really get some attention, all right, And I'm gonna explain

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everything in a minute, so please follow it, all right.

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We're trying. What I want to do is to get

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to five hundred followers. We only currently only have one

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hundred and eighty three I think one hundred and eighty four,

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which for Spotify, that's horrifying, that's embarrassing, that's humiliating because

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Spotify is the number one podcasting app. YouTube would be

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first for video podcasts, but for audio podcasts, Spotify rules

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the day. If you're nothing on Spotify, you're nothing and

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that's okay, it's not even about me. But if you

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listen to this podcast, let's go, let's go. Let's let's

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see if we can get to five hundred. That would

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be great because right now we have more followers on

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YouTube and we're an audio podcast, and we do on

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Spotify where we're an audio podcast. That makes it's completely backwards.

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All right, We have almost five hundred I think on YouTube. Okay,

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what is that? Right? So, and then there's that star rating.

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We have a four point four not great, but the

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main thing is only fourteen people. That's horrifying. Once again,

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that's horrible. That's horrifying. That's horrifying. So what I would

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ask you to do is, let's if you like the

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Theology Central podcast, please just consider listening, downloading, streaming anything

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that you want to listen to for Theology Central on Spotify.

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I don't think we can ever enter the chart, but

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let's see if we can. What we want to do

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is try to get the algorithm to at least pick

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it up and then start recommending it. And I'll show

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you what's happening right now with how people are discovering

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the podcast on Spotify. It's kind of an interesting development

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and I'll show you in a minute. But the main

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thing is if you hate me, that's okay, that's perfectly okay.

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You can go give me zero star, you can give

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me one. You can leave comments telling me I'm trash.

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That's okay. Feel free to do that. I support your

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right to do that. But if you have a podcast

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that you think this is this is theology, this is

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church history, then for crying out loud, listen to it,

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support it, support it financially so that it can get

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on the chart. And I know what you're saying. Who

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cares about a podcasting chart? You may not care the one.

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The podcasts that end up on the chart are the

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ones the algorithm pushes out. So when people are on

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there looking for theology or Bible study or anything about Christianity,

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they're going to find those podcasts first. Now you may

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not care. You may think, well, they can go to

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a local church. The local church idea is an antiquated

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idea from a practical perspective. I'm not arguing about it

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from a theological perspective. People today, younger people today, when

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they want theological answers, they want things like that. They

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don't call a church, they go look online, they look

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on YouTube, they look on Pandora, they look on Spotify.

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So if you have to get things so that it's

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up to the top. Personally, I think sermon Audio should

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have their own podcast called the sermon Audio Podcast, where

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one they promote sermon Audio, and two, not only do

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they have these times where they just promote talk about

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a feature, talk about any breaking news, any updates, but

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they also just grab random sermons, random sermons from sermon

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Audio and say, hey, today on the sermon Audio Podcast,

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we are going to broadcast this message from this church.

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but promote those who are on their platform, and then

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hopefully people on Spotify going, oh I really like that.

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Let me go to Sermonadio and listen to that person here.

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But you know, that's that's just my take. That's that's

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just something I could do. But and all the if

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you see a broadcaster on sermon Audio, if you a

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broadcaster on Serminati and you really really really like them,

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tell them to take their RSS feed and get it

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on Spotify. Why because then there's a high probability if

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they're a really big popular church that they can get

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all of their congregants to go download Spotify and listen,

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and then guess what Instead of being Catholicism or charismatic

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or craziness, it could be a church that I may

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strongly disagree with, right, but it may be far more biblical.

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I like to disagree with the church that I have

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something far more in common biblically than a charismatic church

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or Catholicism, which I am complete. You know, I don't

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agree if I'd be Catholic, if I if I completely agreed,

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so that I wish we could find a way to

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fix that. But for today, download Spotify and just start

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trying to download and stream on the Theology Central there.

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Please keep track how quick does it take for a

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new episode to show up? Just kind of monitor it,

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watch it, have your notifications on. Do you get a

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notification for a new episode of Theology Central on the

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Spotify app? Just all of those kinds of things. Right,

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But here is the information that I wanted to tell

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you about. All right, so they sent me an overview here.

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All right, now, I'm gonna go do a couple of

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things here. I'm going to go up here because I

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had AI break down all of the information sent to me,

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right I had. Ai'm like, hey, what do I make

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from all of this? And Ai man, I'm scrolling up.

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There's like five hundred pages here. All right, AI says this,

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all right, here's an analysis of the Theology Central podcast

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Spotify analytics based on the information provided. All Right, here

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we go. So far, we've had twelve thousand, nine hundred

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and nine listen streams and downloads twelve nine hundred and

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nine on Spotify. That's that's pretty embarrassing. That's pretty embarrassing. Right.

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eighty four. Say it's number it's one thirty eight. It's

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even worse than I thought. We only have one hundred

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and thirty eight. What kind of trash is that? Okay,

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that's horrible. Right now? How do people discover the Theology

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Central podcast on Spotify? You're ready? The number one way search?

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Most people are discovering your podcast through searches. So people

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are on Spotify and they're searching for theological biable something

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and they're finding this podcast. That's that's what why I'm

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trying to do. That's what I'm and guess what helps

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the algorithm picking us up. How does the algorithm pick

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us up? When Europe? When it's getting more engagement. The

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more people who engage this podcast on Spotify listening, downloading, searching,

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the more giving it the stars following it. All of

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that engagement gives Spotify a greater chance to push it

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out out when people are searching for certain topics. Second, now,

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this one caught me off guard. The homepage seven hundred

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and sixty four times people have found us on the

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homepage of Spotify. You hear my stomach growellings because I

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have yet to eat today. I'm starving, all right, So

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the homepage picked it up seven hundred and sixty four times.

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That's a good thing. Now, from the library two hundred

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and sixty That means people listened from their save library.

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People have saved the podcast to their library two hundred

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and sixty times. That's that's pretty good. That's pretty good.

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All right. Then it breaks down, it breaks down all kinds.

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It says this, a significant portion of your listens come

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from direct search, meaning your podcast is being discovered by

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people actively looking for relevant topics. Consider optimizing your episode

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titles and descriptions with searchable keywords to maintain an increased visibility.

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So basically, AI is like, you got to get better

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at your titles. Come up with better titles, do better

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with your titles. I gotta come up with better titles. Okay.

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Spotify Home engagement listens from the Spotify home feed indicate

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that some users are engaging passively with your content. You

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can improve this by leveraging I catching cover art and

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compelling episode descriptions. So I need better descriptions. I need

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better titles. I need better descriptions. Well, thank you. All right.

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It goes on to say here, there's like pages and

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pages here. Okay, here, it says Spotify's okay, I scrolled down.

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Spotify's algorithm recommends podcasts on the home screen based on

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a user's listening history and preference. So see the algorithm.

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Those people finding me on their home feed is doing

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so because the algorithm picked up my podcast and said, hey,

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we think you would like this one. Hey, we think

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you would like this one. Well, the only way for

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the algorithm to keep doing that is more engagement. And again,

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this is not even about me. Whatever your favorite podcast is,

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I don't care you just name it. You name your

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favorite one whatever. Five minutes in church history uh Ligonier

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Ministry MacArthur Piper. I don't care whom it is, even

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people I may strongly disagree with. I don't care if

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it's a Presbyterian church. I don't care what it is,

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if it's if it's even any remotely more Bible based

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than some of the things currently on the chart. If

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you will engage it and listen to it, download it,

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of course, financially support him if you can, then there's

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a greater chance the algorithm picks it up, and there's

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a greater chance they get noticed. And then guess what,

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when people are looking for stuff on Spotify, there's a

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chance they will be directed towards something more biblically based

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than some thing that's a train wreck. To be nice,

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So it's something you can do, and it doesn't cost

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you a lot of money, So it doesn't I mean,

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unless you want to financially support one of the podcasts

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that we're mentioning now on our Spotify feed. Yes, there

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will be commercials because currently we still do advertisement on

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for the podcast feed. And you know, I'm still a

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lot of discussion of getting rid of that, because there

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was a lot of discussion in twenty twenty four about

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how this was all going to work. So I may

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I probably will get rid of that, so you probably

461
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will see them go away, so you probably won't have

462
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to worry about that. If you do see them, just

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fast forward. Usually it's a minute and then the podcast

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will begin and yeah, there we go, there we go.

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So I just want you to know that the Theology

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Central podcast is available on the Spotify app. It's also

467
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available in the Serious XM app. It's also available on

468
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the and Or app. It's also available in the Deezer app.

469
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:06.160
It's also available on Amazon Music. It's available in every

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podcasting app under the sun. Okay, So because you want

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to try to get to where the people are. The

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thing that's always been difficult for me to process is

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Spotify is the number one app, and we've never really

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broken through on the Spotify app. Now, when I did

475
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a little experiment called currently On was kind of a

476
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just an experiment to see if I could do a

477
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secular podcast, we went all the way up to number

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one on the Spotify podcasting app for all podcasts, not

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a specific category, all podcasts. I was number one. I

480
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:51.319
ultimately got beaten out by Michelle Obama. Okay, which was

481
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a little frustrating, but I was beating out everyone at

482
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one point. Number one. That's insane that that ever happened.

483
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I know, people don't even believe that. There was plenty

484
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of people who witnessed it and saw it. It lasted

485
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for I don't know forty eight seventy two hours. I

486
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don't know, it was maybe a week. And because at

487
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that point I was like what do I do? What

488
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do I do? What do I do? This was like

489
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a little this was a dare Someone dared me to

490
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do this. I was like dared, and I'm like, okay.

491
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And what happened is Taylor Swift was coming out with

492
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a song and she did. She released the video before

493
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the song actually was actually released. I did a review

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of the video, analyzing all the meaning of it, and

495
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then I reviewed the lyrics and boom, the thing blew

496
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up in some crazy like what is happening? How did

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we end up number one? It was crazy. I was like,

498
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it's like eighty thousand downloads. It was some crazy something.

499
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But then I had to make a decision do I

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continue to pursue this or do I focus on theology.

501
00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:49.400
I should have pursued that because it would have been

502
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worth a whole lot more money, and I probably would

503
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have probably and I wouldn't have to deal with you know,

504
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create well, I'll probably stop to do with craziness. But yeah,

505
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not the Christian craziness. But there you go. I just

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wanted to talk about it. We are on Spotify there.

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If just find us on Spotify again, do a search.

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Look for Theology Central. It's the green background with the

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white circle the other one. Please if you want to

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subscribe to the other one, great, I mean that's the

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sermonaudio feed, and then just decide to download or stream

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or listen there and we'll see what happens. We tried

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this before we did. I don't think we had any

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movement at all. I think it was an exercise and futility.

515
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And that's okay because I think most of you you

516
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don't care. I mean, come on, I understand you're you're

517
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sitting there like, who cares? Who cares? I look for

518
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something to listen to. I listen to it, and I

519
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don't care. I move on. It's it's it's disposable, it's

520
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it's replaceable. It doesn't mean anything to me. It's it's

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an episode. I go on to another episode. Do you

522
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.599
realize there's millions upon millions upon millions of things that

523
00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:58.279
listen to you are not that important, And trust me,

524
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I very much understand that. But I also understand that

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there's a lot of people who will listen to things

526
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that are very theologically problematic, to say the least, and

527
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that's what people find when they search. Now, they may

528
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broadcast better than me, they have a bigger budget than me,

529
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they're better speaking it than me. But I think in

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many cases we do provide a I think a pretty

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good philological challenge to a lot of things that I

532
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think is beneficial. Now, by all means, if you guys

533
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:37.319
want to team up and go support another podcast, go

534
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:40.400
do it. Just pick one that's biblically minded, biblically based,

535
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:45.079
so that people have a choice, not Catholicism, charismatic, seeker

536
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:49.319
sensitive new evangelicalism. They have something else to choose from

537
00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:54.599
that's more biblically minded, exegetical, harmoneutical, philological, they have something

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else to choose from. Just all I'm saying is give

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them option five minutes in Church history is very much

540
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one that should be supported and be on there. I mean,

541
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that's the one that I love I could probably pick

542
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out a number of them. So all right, thanks for listening.

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I just wanted to bring this to everyone's attention. We

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will be reviewing twenty eight nineteen Church. I'm sorry that

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I didn't catch on to that was Matthew twenty eight

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nineteen at the beginning, and we will review. We'll try

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to review some others of those and see what we

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can do. But hey, whether anybody likes this or not,

549
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I know we see the church, the church, the church,

550
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the church, the church. That's wonderful. Well, let me tell

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you the world is no longer looking to the church

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as an actual physical building for philological or spiritual answers.

553
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They're looking to what their algorithm gives them. They're looking

554
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:57.319
on TikTok, they're looking on YouTube, they're looking on Spotify. Now,

555
00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:01.119
I want them to listen to whatever they want. I

556
00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:03.759
want them to listen to anything on that top fifty list.

557
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I want them to have it and save it. But

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I just want them to have other options. And the

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only way for them to have other options this the

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algorithm has to be. It's a game with an algorithm.

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It's kind of a messed up game, but that's the

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way it works. So if there's a if you have

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a favorite broadcaster on sermon audio app, please contact that

564
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.720
broadcaster and say I can't find you on Spotify. You

565
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:39.279
can turn your broadcast into a podcast. You have the

566
00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:48.039
RSS feed, please do so, Please do so, and so yeah,

567
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all right, we'll see what other things we can do.

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And typically what I do is I try this for

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a couple of weeks, pay close attention to it, monitor it,

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look at the chart, see what's happening, check the numbers,

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and then after a couple of weeks, I just move

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on to something else because I can't spend my life

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focusing on it. But I do I I, you know,

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00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:11.039
keep up with podcasting charts because you'll get an idea

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where things are going philologically. It's very interesting how Catholicism

576
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:17.559
is dominating right now. What does that say. Is there

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a return to Catholicism. I don't know. I know there's

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00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:25.119
been a talk of a return, a turning to Greek Orthodoxy.

579
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:28.119
Is it a turning to Catholicism all of a sudden,

580
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:31.480
or just Catholics listen to more podcast I don't know.

581
00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.360
It's a I haven't quite figured that went out yet,

582
00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:37.400
but that's a trend I noticed today is man father

583
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:42.360
Mike Schmidts. He owns the podcasting world right now? How

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did Catholics dominate it? What's going on? Maybe people are

585
00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:50.280
sick and tired of the craziness in the Protestant world

586
00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:52.280
and they're like, you know what, forget this. Listen to

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a Catholic. At least they sound somewhat sane. Maybe I

588
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don't know. All right, thanks for listening, every one of

589
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a great day. Food. I am start literally starving, literally,

590
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.719
so if you heard my stomach growling, I can't help it.

591
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.719
The microphone is too good to it. Just but I

592
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:13.800
am starving, so I need food. Thanks for listening. Go hey,

593
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go go download Spotify and just look around. Just look

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around at all the Christian podcasts. Forget me, just look

595
00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:22.840
around at all of them. Just look around. Just see

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what's going on on Spotify in the Christian world. Go go, go,

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00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:30.039
do you don't even worry about theology Central, Go do that.

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It'll be a fun adventure and you can you can

599
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:38.039
see what is interesting, what's good, what's bad, what's bizarre,

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and you may find your next favorite podcast and that's

601
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all great. Go find it, all right, everyone, have a

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great day, God bliss,