Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast. I just want to say right up front. Last week, I recorded an

episode called Find the Dead Rat, and I shared some lies that I've been believing personally.

And I think out of the nine years I've been doing this podcast, that probably was the most

responded to episode I've ever done in terms of the amount of people who reached out to me this

week with a text message or a note or an email. And I just want to say,

first of all, thank you. I was like overwhelmed. It was hard for me to keep up with the amount of

messages I was getting. I think some of that is one. You guys are just, you guys are really good dudes

and you want to be encouraging. And I was deeply encouraged this week. My tank has been filled up.

I think also maybe it struck a nerve because I think the enemy is just whispering lies into each of

our lives constantly. And so anyway, first of all, I just want to say thank you. And then second

of all, I want to say I'm proud of you for digging into your own lives that you're personally

believing and wrestling with what it looks like to believe the gospel and what Jesus says about you.

So thank you and I'm proud of you.

I also want to say we're starting November at the end of every year for the last nine years

we have done fundraising.

I purposely don't talk about fundraising. We are

nonprofit. We rely on fundraising. But I just never want to be a podcast that just like constantly

throws that in your face. Nobody likes that. So at the end of every year, we do a big campaign to

help raise the funds that we need going into the next year. We've always done anywhere from like 30,

even on maybe a big side, $50,000. We've had a donor in the past who would match

donations for us. They did that for us last year and that really helped us kind of get a lot done

this year. This particular year, like going into this coming year, I have an audacious goal I'm nerd like

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