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Okay, so, I said at the beginning, hang out to the end. I want to tell a story and I do, and it’s and it’s a story of a couple years. And so, I’ve been kind of formulating how…how to do it without taking a very, very, very long time. And it’s a conversation about the technology that we use to be the Global Campfire, to be the Daily Audio Bible every day. And that obviously comes, well, to some of you through podcast readers and catchers and all of that kind of stuff. And for most of us, that is the Daily Audio Bible app. That has been and has been growing to be kind of our portal of connection to each other. And that’s something that we built many years ago. It's…it’s funny because the Daily Audio Bible began before there was this…this surge in the world called social media. Before all of that, we started this Global Campfire. So social media exploded around us and now it’s ubiquitous, it’s like everywhere and most everybody uses it. Jill and I use it almost never anymore because it can be such a toxic place. But that came about, and the Daily Audio Bible kind of grew up with that. And then iPhones, like smart phones came out and all of the sudden the…the technology was portable and was available to phones and then apps for phones started to be developed to create little tools for productivity in our lives and ways to keep us more connected. And we have more ways to be connected than we ever have in the world, but we still find ourselves in isolation a lot of the time because of this technology. And there came a point where we started to build a Daily Audio Bible app, and we had a version of that and then to really create a more communal experience, we felt like we had to build from the ground up. Something that would serve us, not really knowing what we were doing. And…and the app world, not really being fully fleshed out with standards and it was just a really kind of crazy time. Even though we’re just talking about the time of the last decade. A lot has happened technologically in the world. That’s just really changed the face of our understanding of humanity and ourselves so much is happening in the world today.