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Here we are at our kitchen table.
SPEAKER_03Again.
SPEAKER_01Welcome. He says again because uh this is what, like our 20th take?
SPEAKER_0320th take to start, yeah, something like that.
SPEAKER_01Um we are recording this because we thought you might want to know the voices behind um all these stories you've been listening to this season.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and you know, if if you care at all, so I hope you do. If not, uh we're having fun with this.
SPEAKER_01We're just gonna have fun, yeah. So, um, babe. We're we've come to the end. What do you think?
SPEAKER_03You might have to be more specific about what there's been a lot to think about.
SPEAKER_01For the record, Jerry has put far more work into these episodes than I have had to do. I am the one behind the social media. He is beh the one behind all of the music production and all of the editing that goes into these episodes.
SPEAKER_03It's uh when we started this, it was gonna be a little bit more light of an idea, and it just got heavier and heavier in a good way. Like we all we took it on, we loved it. Uh, we got feedback from even our sponsors on kind of our first trial episode. Uh, shout out to Domestic Dominion and their uh their input on us and just some trial and error stuff that helped improve the show before we even launched. But yeah, uh there's been a lot of music composition, sound design, like there's been a lot of learning curve here, so it's turned into a little bit of an extra job, but it's been great.
SPEAKER_01If you had to say on average, how many hours per episode you've had to put in, and I know it varies episode to episode, but just on average, or what's the most amount of hours you poured into a single episode?
SPEAKER_03Oh, the one that I actually counted, it was Jack the Giant Killer. That took me about 20 hours total from uh not including recording time of you and I. It was about 20 hours worth of work from sound design, uh commentary writing, and uh having to re-record some stuff on my own end, composition, and it it was it was massive. I think the sound design alone had over it had over, I think, 120 different sound effects built into the whole story. It was massive.
SPEAKER_01And I don't understand the ramifications of that, but I know that um I did not go to bed every night with Jerry, so uh it was a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_03There, but that one, after I finished that episode, I took like two weeks off of even doing any composition or sound design work on the show, and then had to play catch up after that. But I needed the break.
SPEAKER_01Well, I think you did a splendid job.
SPEAKER_03Well, thanks. So it was fun.
SPEAKER_01So, and that's why we need you guys to be paid subscribers.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, please make it worth our while. Uh, but yeah, we we love doing it. So, and knowing the amount of work we had to put in uh at the front end, yeah, if uh we would love for you to support the show financially uh so that we can continue doing these. We want to do classic folklore, classic myths, and and more fairy tales, and there's so many stories out there that are now in the public domain that we can just grab the original classic version of it that is so rich, has so much good content in there. And the only way people typically hear these stories now are through like mediocre at best movie versions of them or kind of dumbed down kitty stories of them, and so they they kind of lack the richness they originally had. So we'd love to bring them back.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, why don't we talk about us a little bit? So I I like us, we're we're fun.
SPEAKER_02I think so. Who are you? You're fun to me. So well thank you.
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SPEAKER_03But uh, I I think our our marriage story is pretty cool, but Amy's way better at telling it. So let's start there. Dear, why don't you tell us how we met?
SPEAKER_01Um, well, so our love story, where does it even begin? I'm going to give you guys the snapshot version because we uh did record this and I went on way too long, according to Jerry.
SPEAKER_03It was about a third of the time of the episode that we wanted to see.
SPEAKER_01So here's our snapshot. Um we met via a dating app in Nashville, Tennessee, um, back in 2016.
SPEAKER_03Yes, and side note, don't do dating apps.
SPEAKER_01I I mean uh fruit came from it. Yes. But um, and we are thankful. But um, yes, not not that is not the result everyone always gets. Um, but all that to say, neither of us were in good places back in 2016. We had a lot of work to do, a lot of growing to do, um, and either of us were walking with the Lord like we needed to be. So um we dated for a couple months. Um, it just was very unhealthy. Um, ended with uh me saying, never talk to me again. And uh which I thought we wouldn't. Yeah. So, anyways, uh flash forward about a year later, I uh moved to a different state. I was living in Mississippi, um, and I was doing a lot of personal work on um in my life, and I was reaching out to people making amends, and I reached out to Jerry, you know, basic, apologize for the way things went down, how I treated him, he reciprocated, uh, and then I blocked him. Because I was like, all right, wash my hands of this, we're done, great, never have to speak to him again. Um, couple months later, uh, you Jerry, you you reached out uh via my blog that I had at the time because you had been blocked on every other platform. I didn't even think to block you on my blog. I don't know if I could have. But, anyways, um, it was like a little email saying like you wanted to try again if I uh was still living in Nashville and like I I wasn't truly living in Mississippi because I just wanted to throw you off your tracks. Like, you know, like let's try again and have this date where you won't touch me, hold my hands, nothing. No, no, but it was funny, it was sweet. Um, I contemplated replying, but I did not um until a year and a half later. Um so uh then in uh 2019 on September 26th, I heard a song that you had introduced me to. It made me think of you. So I started it you came to mind, so then I looked you up. I found some of your music on Spotify. I listened to some of the things you've written. Little plug-in. Jerry puts out some beautiful music on Spotify, he writes his own music, not just compositions like you hear in Story Cottage, but with lyrics and all of that jazz. Um he actually wrote the song that we walked down the aisle to, that I walked down the aisle to. So, anyways, I searched high and low for his number because I was like, you know what? I'm going to text this man. I had done a lot of work on myself and was in a much better place um in my relationship with the Lord and just personally. And so I reached out um anonymously. Um, wasn't gonna tell him who he who uh I was, but then he wouldn't continue a conversation unless I revealed who I was. Um makes no sense to me, but I go I wanted to know who I was talking about. Anyways, once it was revealed that it was I, in fact, who was reaching out, um, Jerry was like, Well, I'm driving. Uh, can I call you? And so he did. We talked for 20 minutes and kind of the rest is history. Um, that call led to another call in which we decided to write letters as our only form of communication. And um, as I was finishing up some personal work on my life, um, as I was still living in Mississippi at the time, um we decided, okay, only form of communication, no texting, no calling. So about a letter a week back and forth. We included some gifts in the process. Um, my face was on a potato that he got in the mail one time.
SPEAKER_02That was the weirdest one.
SPEAKER_01That was awesome. His face was on socks, you know, the fun things. Um, and like a second or third letter, he told me he intended to marry me. So, you know, it was a very intentional, like we knew from that 20-minute phone call, like, okay, God was doing something. And then on our second first date, uh, you know, our redo, um, which our first first date was phenomenal. But our second first date, uh even better, even better because we went ring shopping. Yep. Um, and then um, yeah, he proposed on his birthday, February 16th of 2020, and we got married August 1st of 2020.
SPEAKER_03Yep, in Clarksonville, Tennessee. It was great.
SPEAKER_01COVID wedding.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, we didn't bother with that.
SPEAKER_01So, anyways, that's kind of our story. So we've been married um five years.
SPEAKER_03Nearing five and a half years. Yeah, over five years. Yeah, and uh we had some infertility stuff we had to go through. That was a battle in early marriage, and we had all the early marriage battles that you can imagine, but um, maybe more than you can imagine in a lot of ways, but but I stuck it out back at you, baby. Anyway, uh, and then Esther came along and then Maximus uh shortly later, and now baby number three is a couple months away.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, due in February, coming up fast. So um our kids are Esther will be three in January, um, and Maximus will be 18 months in January, so they're 18 months apart, and then we're due in February, and so Maximus will be 18, 19 months when this baby's born. So yeah, it's exciting. It's uh total blessing that we haven't had to do more treatments to conceive the other kids. Yeah, and um an answer prayer there completely. So that's that's kind of a little bit about just like our family and how we got here. And we did share in our like opening episode like the reason behind this podcast, and Esther was our inspiration, is our inspiration for it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. And it's certainly grown in a lot of various ways from the its uh from its original conception. But um, well, moving on to some different topics to give you some insight into kind of who we are on the day-to-day. Um, I thought it'd be fun to talk about just briefly, we don't have to go into a ton of detail, but what our favorite podcasts are. Podcasts these days, I guess, are kind of a little insight into people.
SPEAKER_01They are. That is true. Um okay.
SPEAKER_03You go first, dear. What's what are some of your favorites that you listen to?
SPEAKER_01Okay, so some of my favorites, I love certain culture apothecary episodes. I don't listen to them all, um, but there have been some that have completely changed the way we have done things.
SPEAKER_03And others were like, who the what the what is this person?
SPEAKER_01So um, yeah, you you take what you want and leave the rest. But um, it's uh been uh that's been great. Um we listened to Bright Hearth. That's been good. Um there is oh, what's it called? Um Happy Home Birth. Um, I'm a home birther. So exciting. I wasn't with Esther, but with Maximus I was, and we're planning a home birth with our second or with our third. Um so, anyways, I love to listen to home birth um podcasts um just to hype me up. Um and then I feel like there's one more I enjoy listening to. What is it?
SPEAKER_03You have like one or two others, which it's kind of on and off. It's not regular that you listen to.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, if I think of it, I'll I'll give it a shout out. What are yours?
SPEAKER_03Well, um, I listen to, well, I I enjoy listening to Brighthearth as well. Um, Hardman Podcast, King's Hall, Haunted Cosmos. Um, I've listened to several different podcasts over the years. Uh, I think the one that's probably the most obscure that people just don't expect that I listen to is uh it's not like this super popular one, it's very niche. Uh is it's called A Meat Smith Harvest. It's by a great uh a great butcher here in North America. Uh shout out to Brandon Sheard and his wife and his his kids. Uh, but they teach how to harvest pigs, cows, geese, and we don't have any, but we aspire to that. And me especially, uh, I I like the idea of growing and harvesting our own animals. So that's uh that's a me thing.
SPEAKER_01Um I like the idea of growing animals, right? Not harvesting them.
SPEAKER_03In that part comes, it'll just be like, oh, where'd Wilbur go? And it's like, oh, I don't know, he went off to hoggy heaven. So sad. Anyway, that's uh that's a little bit on me. Um those are those are my main ones. I've listened to a couple others from Sermon Series Podcast, um John MacArthur, R.C. Sproul, some of those guys and their their sermons and teachings in podcast form, but um, those are the big ones. Um and I guess uh talk about favorite movies. That's I guess another insight. What are what are some of your favorite movies? Probably like from growing up and some of your recent favorites would be a good way to go.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, I would say one of our favorites together, which is a classic. I feel like we watch it maybe once a year or so, is blended.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, pretty good.
SPEAKER_01I mean it's there, it has its parts that are um modern, a little inappropriate. But generally speaking, it's a fairly wholesome, funny rom-com that's modern, that's like newer to this age. Like my some of my favorite rom-coms, if you went back to what early 2000s, you've got male, sleepless in Seattle, like no, well, I sleepless in Seattle's fine, but um, what am I thinking of while you were sleeping?
SPEAKER_03That's it.
SPEAKER_01Um, like those are some of my favorites.
SPEAKER_03Those those are good. And uh yeah, blended is kind of like if you haven't seen it, it it's it's worth the watch. Uh be careful with like what your uh your kids. There's some stuff in there that is it is tiny bit inappropriate. I mean, it's it's inappropriate, but they they goof it up enough to where you kind of just move along with it. But uh it's kind of a more modern version of yours, mine, and ours. Basically, take yours, mine, and ours and make it an Adam Sandler movie, and that's it. Um it's it's it's really good, it's funny. Um, one of my favorites for all time have been uh secondhand has been secondhand lions. That's just a awesome movie for me, just about, you know, a boy who needs some men who know what adventure and chivalry and uh and and just good character is, like what it is to be a man. Like that's that's one of my favorite scenes in that movie, is where they actually explicitly talk about having a conversation with young men from the older men of what is a man. And uh that's really but it's such a fun movie, uh, on top of that. That and uh uh The Magnificent Seven, the original, not the remake. Uh Magnificent Seven is awesome. And and there's others, but those are probably two that are just absolutely great.
SPEAKER_01Uh what about favorite books? We are obviously readers in this family. You couldn't tell. Okay, so you currently you just started your 22nd book of the year for this year. Yeah. That is great. I'm on I'm not terribly far behind. Oh, now I feel the need to count them up.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I thought you were on like book number 15 or something. You've read a lot this year.
SPEAKER_01I'm reading my 16th book right now.
SPEAKER_0316th. Okay, I was right. Awesome. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So, what has been your favorite read this year?
SPEAKER_03Okay, so I've been going through a lot of old classical literature. Um, and I think uh there's been so many good ones, but I still think that because of its rereadability, um, the first book that I I read and finished this year, which was uh La Mort d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory. It is like the OG full King Arthur myth slash fairy tale slash lore. It's kind of all that. Um I think it's it's not like a perfect read. There's a lot of messiness in the stories, but I certainly think it's a it is a full book that I think every young man and and or older boy somewhere in that range, however you'd categorize that, should absolutely read. Um it's just so much adventure, so many bizarre scenarios and just uh and cool stories. Uh there's plenty of lessons to be grabbed from it, but it's just good storytelling all the way through. So it's it's a phenomenal read. But I I've read several others that were great. Um, The Aeneid, um, I've read what was the uh oh, Aesops Fables I just finished uh about a week and a half ago. That was that that's full of like tiny, tiny stories that are really great, full of life lessons. That's a a set that I I recommend you read because it gives a lot of insight to things like Chronicles of Narnia, where it was the thing, it was the book and the s the collection of stories that really set the tone for other stories that use talking animals. Kind of it founded that idea. What are some of your favorites that you've read so far this year?
SPEAKER_01So, novel-wise, I've started the whole Anne of Green and Gable series. Um, so I've read the first four so far. There's eight in the series. Um the first two have been my favorite so far. Anne of Wendley Wendy Poplar's, oh it was hard to get through.
SPEAKER_03You really had to wrestle through that one.
SPEAKER_01But I got through it, and the way I've done it is I read a novel, then I read it nonfiction, and I switch back and forth. So as soon as I finish the current book I'm on, um, I will read the fifth book in the series. Yeah. Um, but that so Anna Green Abels has been my favorite novel that I've read this year. The the first one probably being my favorite. Um I grew up watching the movies, but I had never read them before. But then my favorite book, I think, altogether this year has been Hannah's Children. Um, I forget who it's by. I actually listened to the audio version of it, but I would uh very well potentially go back and reread it um like with a hard copy. But it's basically uh it's a researcher who goes travels across the country interviewing large families and what um prompted them to keep having so many children.
SPEAKER_02That's right.
SPEAKER_01Um and it was so fascinating and inspirational. Um and uh yeah, so I I think that is just such a such a great book that's out there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Uh one other I forgot to mention, uh, I did read finally for the first time in my life. I read The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. And oh my goodness, that is it's a tough read. I'm so thankful I read a lot of old books before I got to that one. But that is just it is such a rich piece of fiction. So I highly recommend you read that.
SPEAKER_01And then Book of All Time that you just finished reading. I read it every year. Oh though I don't know if I I think I finished it at the very end of last year, so I haven't read it yet this year, technically speaking. But um, Let Me Be a Woman by Elizabeth Elliott. I I read it annually. I think it is just a phenomenal book, and it's not just for women. It's designed for that, obviously. Elizabeth is writing it to her daughter before she gets married. But um, Jerry read it, and I mean, you would agree, like it's a fantastic read for any anyone.
SPEAKER_03I think it's a great read for I I think the ideal scenario it should be read is with a mother and a much older daughter, um, one who is entering into the age at least that she could be married, but certainly before she gets married. It presents so many practical balances of how you you balance the living out of your faith with uh applying it to uh to assessing who you marry and how you plan on living uh living your daily lives together. Um but I think it it's great for husbands too to read because it gives you some insight into how you want to might raise your daughters and teach them. Um especially if you have uh maybe a wife who's not a reader, but you are, if you read that book, it's it's a great way for you to be able to in um enter some ideas about how you want to raise your daughters and get them thinking about things. Um there's so many good applications in that book. Yeah, highly, highly recommend it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So many good things out there. Um man, so great.
SPEAKER_03And uh insight too. She wrote that in the 70s. This was when it was published, and so the timing of it is important because the uh the country, I mean the whole West, was going through a lot of cultural turmoil in that time, especially when it came to uh marriage and education, and uh that there was so much going on that this is just like, hey, that this is how you should apply your faith when everyone else in the world, even churches and Christians, are telling you to move this direction. Here's a nice solid ground to stand on that is timeless and is wise and is rich. Uh I think that's one really important thing to look at when you read that that book. You should read it.
SPEAKER_01And if you're like, oh, I'm not a big reader, it is so easy to read because the chapters are like two pages each.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, every chapter is like it's no more than three pages per chapter.
SPEAKER_01Super easy. So yeah, highly recommend. Um moving on though, what are current fun projects that you are working on, Jerry?
SPEAKER_03Alright, so let's see, I got a couple. Uh biggest one is I've been working on a book for, I mean, technically a long time, but realistically I've been working on it for a rewrite of a first book I wrote and then self-published, then unpublished, and rewrote it, um, planned it out more. So I've got part one of four of this massive book project done. Um so that's uh I don't want to go into too much detail. It is fiction. Um it's uh I'm trying to be uh I'm trying to be mysterious about this.
SPEAKER_01But it's essentially how would you compare it?
SPEAKER_03Like um a book out there like if okay, I I don't I I I don't want to come across as like I'm trying to say this is such a unique thing, because it's not something that hasn't been done before in some way, but I think it's it's It's good in its own right where it's going. I I would call it like mythological fantasy. It's not like what you think of when you think of fantasy. This isn't uh like Harry Potter, uh it's not Chronicles of Narnia, it's not uh Middle-earth, it's er um Lord of the Rings. It's it's not quite in all those categories. It's not doing this giant fantasy with all this technical magic-y stuff. It's just something where I'm kind of trying to take some um uh a healthy dose of mythology, a healthy dose of fantasy, a healthy dose of just good, good modern, and I say modern relatively, like the last 200 years, uh modern fiction writing, and just kind of blend it together in a really great story arc for a couple of characters. Um that's pretty grandiose at the same time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um, but not being preachy either, because that's not the point. You just want to have a good story to tell. So yeah, I've been working on it for a while. Got uh a couple chapters into the second part and still going. So there's that. Um we've got obviously this giant podcast project going on. So there's that. Um and we've got some other small projects. I've got some song projects that I've got coming up. Um, okay, that's it. Yeah. So that's that's what I've been working on. What about you, dear? Tell us about your projects.
SPEAKER_01Um, I feel like the biggest thing I have right now, which I haven't touched in several, several weeks, which I need to get back to, is I wrote a children's book. Um and it's awesome. It's cool, and we when it eventually is uh published, we will uh share it with all of you. But until then, I'm keeping it on the DL. Um but I am personally doing digital illustrations for it for a um to just self-publis or not even self-publish, I'm gonna just I'm designing it through Canva and gonna print like order one copy and give it to Esther for her third birthday. Um she has seen the illustrations as I have been working on it and she gets all excited about it and everything. So I'm working on filling up uh finishing up those illustrations, which I'm getting pretty close to being done. Um, and I mean I need to I have like a a month to go and then I need to order it because her birthday is in January. So there's that. Eventually, the goal is to hire an illustrator to like hand draw um illustrations for the story.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, to kind of fit the vision I have. I do not have that talent, so I'm resorting to uh digital art, um, which I am decently skilled at. She's pretty good. Pretty good. If you can't tell from her social media posts, to um just create the images um that I'm envisioning. So that is a fun project. I can't wait to actually see it um like a hard copy of it. So that'll be fun.
SPEAKER_03It's coming along really well. And I forgot one other project that I am working on is a uh rite of passage sort of plan for our kids, especially our sons, but but both of our both of our current kids and all our future kids. Uh so that's been a fun plan. I read a book this year that was uh that went over the uh the historical rites of passage over a lot of different Western-like civilizations and distinctly Western civilizations. And so that was a good uh helpful insight into how I could go about planning rites of passage for kids, for our kids, and something definitely I recommend fathers and or parents uh think about doing because I think there's a lot of value in having at least one very specific rite of passage for your kids. But topic for maybe another time in more detail. Alright, um just let's wrap it up with uh what are some of your hobbies? What do you do for for fun or to uh decompress? Um well or just like doing with the kids.
SPEAKER_01Well, thanks to Culture Apothecary, we uh we got a mill not um too long ago. How many months have we had it?
SPEAKER_03Six, seven months.
SPEAKER_01We probably got it back in like April, I think, or so. That sounds about right. Um, so you know, just learning how I I do sourdough, I've done sourdough for years. Um, but so just relearning kind of like what it looks like to do sourdough with fresh mill because it's a it's a whole nother uh it's a learning curve for sure to um do it with fresh milled flour. Um and so that's been fun just kind of figuring that out, experimenting. I love to come up with new recipes and to just bake and cook, and that's probably one of my favorite things to do.
SPEAKER_03She's very good at it.
SPEAKER_01And aside from that, I just you know, the day-to-day in and out with kids, they love to be outside, so we're outside a decent amount. It's hard sometimes to find the balance between getting them outside and then also taking care of the home and trying to find that balance.
SPEAKER_03Um you have grown in like fitness as your hobby too, the last year, especially, but two years. Two years, yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's true. I used to hate working out, and now I I love it, and I never thought ever I would be able to say that. But uh here I am saying it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So what are you at four or five days a week?
SPEAKER_01Five days a week.
SPEAKER_03It's amazing.
SPEAKER_01Um, I was able to work out up until I was 40 weeks, 40 weeks pregnant with Maximus. Um, and here we are, third trimester, still going strong. So uh the Lord has blessed me with the stamina to be able to do that um through these pregnancies. So I'm thankful for that. Because I know not everyone has pregnancies where they can sustain that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, but pretty impressive. Um, my hobbies, I mean, the projects I'm working on are kind of my hobbies. Reading, obviously, is a big hobby. I've been trying to teach myself more, like um, I can't really do it now with the kids and the the current home and land situation we have, but I was practicing like archery, like traditional bow archery, but um for hunting. So now it's just rifle hunting. I've been practicing a little bit um where I can, which isn't much, unfortunately. But I like smoking my pipe. That is uh a go-to. Smoking a pipe outside while reading a good book, that is just that is heaven to me. I love it.
SPEAKER_01Um as long as he waits a couple hours when he comes inside, he smells great.
SPEAKER_03Just needs a little fade time, and then she loves it. Um and obviously music, uh playing piano in general, singing songs. Uh I mean, it's it's something that I believe is a duty of mine, but it's just so much fun leading family worship and singing. Uh I've loved music uh since I was young. Didn't always practice it like I should have, but grown in that regard, largely. But love playing music uh for our family and singing together. That's that's always fun. And singing in the car. It's you know, singing some good old tunes in the car is always great. Um so yeah, that's kind of us in a nutshell. Hope you enjoyed this uh half hour of us just ranting about our lives.
SPEAKER_01But um, and if you've stuck it out until this point, I think, Jerry, what people might be wondering is is there going to be a season two of the Story Cottage?
SPEAKER_03Yes, there will be a season two. I think, depending on how much support we get, it will dictate how intense that is. I mean, this was a very full first season, and we knew that's what we wanted it to be.
SPEAKER_01And uh, and and 2026 comes with a lot of moving pieces for us. Yeah. Um a new baby and just lots of other stuff with your jobs and everything going on. So it um we love this and we want to keep it going as long as possible. But um it is um it's not just a sit down, read a story, boom, put it out there kind of thing.
SPEAKER_03Right, yeah, there's a lot of work that goes into it, hours and hours. So yeah, please consider subscribing to the show. Uh we only ask five dollars a month. You get all the sh episodes ad-free. You know, eventually we'd love to add some bonus content, maybe some short stories, who knows? But uh those are ideas floating in our head. But really, we would love your support for the show so that we can continue doing these these stories because this is uh an easy and I think beautiful and wonderful way to uh for you and your kids to listen to these classic stories that have kind of they're starting to be lost a little bit. Uh they're not something you're probably going to run into unless you're very intentional about it about it today. So um, yeah, please support the show. Well, with that, anything you want to add, dear?
SPEAKER_01I don't think so. Just that it's been a lot of fun doing this, and we're just super thankful to those who have listened to these episodes and commented and shared, and um we keep doing this because of you guys. So um the reviews we get, the the comments on our social media posts, the shares, it it means the world to us.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, seeing seeing videos of like you listening to uh to one of our new episodes Saturday morning with your kids at breakfast, like it's just beautiful. That's everything we want it to be.
SPEAKER_01It's been awesome. So we're just really thankful to you guys, and we're glad that we've been able to provide this resource uh to you and your families.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Well, with that, Merry Christmas to you all. Thank you guys so much for listening to this whole first season.
SPEAKER_01And to loo.