Feb. 17, 2025

Sermons 3.0 App

Sermons 3.0 App

A discussion about the upcoming release of the Sermons 3.0 app.

A discussion about the upcoming release of the Sermons 3.0 app.

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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. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Monday, February seventeenth, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently three pm Central Time, and I am coming to

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you live from the Theology Central studio located right here

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in Abilene, Texas. Now, I know it seems like a long, long,

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long long time ago in a galaxy far far far

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far away, but it was really well, it was just

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twenty twenty four. I know that seems like forever ago.

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But if you remember twenty twenty four, do you remember

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twenty two? You don't remember anything about twenty twenty four.

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I don't blame you, I understand, but if you can

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try really hard. In twenty twenty four, this very podcast,

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I spent the entire year trying to get you to

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go to the Apple App Store or the Google Play

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Store and download the Sermons two point oh app. I

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tried everything in my power to get you to download

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that app over and over and over download the sermon's

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two point oh app. We even had what we called

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the Sermons two point oh app sermon Challenge. I told

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everyone to buy a notebook right and then listen to

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a sermon, one sermon per day random. Just choose a

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random sermon from the Sermon's two point oh app. And

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then I wanted you to then just write down the

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name of the sermon, who the church or the broadcaster,

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and then just write a one sentence summary about the sermon.

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So by the end of twenty twenty four, you would

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have one sermon for every single day of the year.

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We did a lot of different things trying to encourage it,

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challenging it, trying to make it interesting, trying to make

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it creative. Get the Sermon's two point oh app and

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listen to sermons, because it's this amazing resource where between

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five six thousand sermons are added every single week. You

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could spend your life just listening to sermons using that app,

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and you would never even get anywhere close to exploring

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all of the content that is there. I did everything

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in our power to try to get people to download

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the app and use it. Now, if I look at

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some statistics, if I look at some statistics that I

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have available for me, all right, I don't have numbers

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for sermon audio in general, but if I go to

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my sermon stats, this will just give you. It is

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crazy from what I can tell, And if I go

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back and look at every single month, it's the same way.

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Even in months where we have thirty thousand downloads, in

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months where we have twenty thousand. It doesn't matter if

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it's twenty thousand, thirty thousand, forty thousand, doesn't matter if

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it's just a few thousand. Whatever our numbers are. For

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our downloads and streams, ninety percent, probably ninety five percent

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of them do not come from the app. They come

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from I guess, the website. It appears that the audience

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for the sermon audio audience, if we call it that,

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they don't use the mobile app. They don't use the

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sermon's two point oh app. They use the website, which

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just is so weird to me, Like, why are you

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using the website? It's twenty twenty five. Why wouldn't you

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be using an app. Maybe people don't have a phone

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or they I don't get it, but they don't use

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the app. That's fine. You're using the website, that's great,

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that's awesome. Some of you are still using the old website,

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which I don't even have any clue what you're doing

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with that. Okay, that is even there's a broadcaster. Every

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time he constantly on his video, he'll pull up the

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Sermon Audio website. I'm like, why, why is he using

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the website that went away I don't know, seventy five

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years ago. It's really weird. The audience seems very resistant.

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Is that a good word. We're not going to use

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the app, We're not going to use the new website.

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We are going to stay in the year nineteen. I

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don't know ninety eight, I don't know what year it is. Okay,

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but for those of you, and so I would challenge you,

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for those who haven't open up the Apple App Store

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or the Google Play Store and download the Sermons two

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point zero app, please do that right now. Okay, please

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do that now. The reason I'm returning to this discussion,

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the reason I'm mentioning this is because I don't know when.

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I don't know when, but coming soon, I think we

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may be getting a new app. Now. If you'll go

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to sermon audio dot com, this is where you need

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to go to the website. If you go to sermon

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audio dot com and you go to news the newstab,

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and when you get to the newstab, look for release

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notes and you'll see release notes February twenty twenty five,

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and you will read this. This was published on February

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the fourteenth, twenty twenty five, Valentine's Day. So you were

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running out having romantic dinner and looking into the eyes

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of your spouse or whatever you were doing. This was released,

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so I got to catch you all up. For those

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of you who were celebrating Valentine's Day all weekend, okay,

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for everyone else who was off doing that, here's what

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was happening. This was published again on February the fourteenth,

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twenty twenty five. Breath taking amount of work accomplished in

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are this past week. Number one new sermon manager launched.

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That has no impact on you. It doesn't matter to you.

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That's for us who are broadcasters, right. And I remember

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when it was launched because I was trying to upload something.

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I'm like, what just happened? What everything just changed? I

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figured it out within a couple of minutes, okay, but

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for a minute I was like, wait, what would happen?

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And of course anytime anything changes, there's that initial reaction. Well,

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I liked it the way it was, but typically if

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you'll spend a few minutes with something. A lot of

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times you'll see that the change was actually better. I

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know it's hard. I remember when Serious XM and they

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released their new app. Everybody's like, ah, what's wrong. I

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can't find deep tracks? What's wrong? And we're all wanting

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and complaining about it. Just everyone calmed down. So but

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for a minute, I was like, what how do I

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upload the sermon? I'm like I and so then I

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just looked around, took a few minutes. Now now I'm

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and now I'm pretty I'm pretty good with it right now.

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And you know, I mean, obviously I've been uploading, so

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everything was good. Now. It stopped working the other day

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for about forty five minutes, so that was like, I

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want to upload my content. But they got it fixed

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and everything was working. So that doesn't really bother you. You

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don't care what it looks like as long as the

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stuff is uploaded. But the second thing got my attention.

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Sermons three point zero app nearing release candidate, so that

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means it's getting close to being I guess what they'll

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do is I think that means they release it to

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the Google Play Store, the Apple App Store. I think

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this is what it means. And then they have to

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wait for approval then it will be released, so I

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don't know how quickly it may. You know, I'm hoping.

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I mean I want it now, right, I want to

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see it now. I mean, come on, hey, guys, use

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me for the beta tester. Why why not? I mean,

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I've been promoting your app like crazy for over a year. Okay,

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use me for the beta testing. Come on, come on?

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All right, But so we're gonna get a new one.

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I don't know when. I don't know when, but it

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is coming now. The other things they mentioned is the

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Vault is taking on webcasting load probably doesn't have any

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impact on any of us. And more tutor learned videos released.

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So they're gonna release videos giving tutorials and how to

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use things maybe now. So far, I think the tutorials

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I've seen is mainly for the broadcasters. Maybe maybe there's

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some tutorials for the users. I don't know. I'd have

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to go look. And it says the News Sermon Manager

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is an important stepping stone to the ultimate goal of

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global sermons. We're in a hard hat zone. Appreciate your patience. Now,

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my understanding of the global sermons, my understanding the way

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this is going to work is basically using artificial intelligence.

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It's going to be able to take anything, any episode

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I upload, any message I teach, and then utilizing artificial intelligence,

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will make that message available and multiple languages and a

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natural sounding voice. So then my message will be heard

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in Spanish or in Russian or whatever languages that will

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be available, and so anyone from around the world will

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be able to hear what I have to say in

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their language and I don't have to learn the language.

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That is an amazing, awesome tool. I can't wait to

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see that nearing its completion. And I don't know how

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that's going to work and everything about it, but that's

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pretty awesome. So I'm again for me, I'm focused on

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the sermons three point oh app, the sermons three point

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oh app, and I continue to promote it. Now. I

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know what some of you may be thinking, but you

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have reviewed who knows how many sermons from the sermons

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from the sermon's two point oh app, and of course

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there'll be the same sermons available in the sermons three

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point oh app. And you have well you've not always

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been happy with what you've heard. No, I haven't, and

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that has nothing to do with the sermons two point

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oh app or the sermon audio platform. It just has

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more to do with I tend to find myself on

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the outside looking in. There goes mainstream Christianity, and I'm

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on the outside. I'm the voice of dissent. I'm the

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alternative voice. But I think that's okay because to me one,

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it gives the listener the chance to hear what is

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pretty much. I mean, most of the sermons kind of

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fit in with what everyone else says. I think it's

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good to have me offer a counterpoint, and when I

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do our review, you get to hear the original point,

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my counterpoint, and then you get to decide. I think

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that that's beneficial. But let me make it very clear,

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all right now, Sometimes I don't sound like this. I

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always try to. I kind of wear my emotions, you know,

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on my sleeve, so you always kind of hear when

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I'm just discouraged, depressed, despond It frustrated because I can

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get that way listening to sermons. But at the same time,

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I think it should be clear to everyone no matter

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how good the sermon is, no matter how bad the

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sermon is, I always take something from it and try

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to turn it into something positive. Remember Saw eighty three.

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Those sermons were atrocious of what they were doing in

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Saw eighty three. But that turned into I don't know

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an entire summer of study. All that we're doing on

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Isaiah forty through Isaiah fifty five, it's all motivated and

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influenced and inspired by bad sermons on Isaiah forty through

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fifty five. It doesn't matter if it's a good sermon,

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if it's a bad sermon, if you'll take the sermon's

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two point oh, app listen and then actually do work,

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question it, think about it, study it, research it, look

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at this, look at that, look at that. Then that

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bad sermon may actually lead you into multiple hours of study,

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where a good sermon may you may just hear it

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and move on. Sometimes it's the bad sermons that are better.

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And of course, when I say bad or good, that's

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from my theological perspective. I mean, let's just remember and Christianity,

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everyone thinks their sermons are good, everyone thinks their sermons

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are best, and everyone thinks their theology is right. That's

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another maddening thing. So even though I have my disagreement,

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I still like, I mean, I open up the sermons

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two point oh app countless times a day. If I

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wake up in the middle of the night, many cases,

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I will open it up and just hit play on

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whatever I stumble upon, and it always gives me something.

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It's I just it's this amazing resource. Whether you agree

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or disagree with it, it's hard to find any platform.

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We're between five to six thousand sermons, Bible studies, devotional messages,

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cultural commentary. It's being added basically around the clock. I

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mean you could sit there and go to the discover

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tab and new sermons and they're just new, constantly, new things,

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new things, new things, new things, new things. That's hard.

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I mean now, I do find it difficult sometimes to

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discover the old content because so much new content. I

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wish they had some better discovery tools, but we'll talk

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about that in just a minute. So I don't know

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when it's happ coming. I don't know when now. The

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best thing you can do now is to go download

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the sermons two point oh app and then be checking

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for updates, because then the sermon's two point oh app

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will turn into the sermons three point oh app and

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you'll already be ready to go. So I wish we

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could increase the mobile plays. I don't know what Sermonaudio

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itself experiences, but I think they would agree that probably

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most people are not using the mobile app. I don't.

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That just seems so weird to me. Why not? But okay,

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So here's what I want to do. I'm gonna express

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some of the things I'm hoping to see in the

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sermon's three point Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you

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some things I'm hoping to see. I'm sure these are

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some things I'm hoping to see. Number one, what I'm

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absolutely hoping to see. Well, I don't know if these

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are in order of importance, but I'm just gonna go

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to the top of my head. One of the things

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I want to see is them change this limit they

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have on how many broadcasters you can follow right now,

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it's like thirty two, thirty four. That is the weird

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that that to me is bizarre. Look, why is there

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a limit? Like on any podcasting app that I get anywhere.

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It doesn't matter if I'm paying for it or if

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it's free. You can follow and subscribe to as many

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podcasts as you want. I mean, I mean some of

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my podcast apps, I probably subscribe and follow between four

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to five hundred different podcasts, and that's not even an exaggeration. Right.

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Some of them were hourly news updates like every hour right, MPR. Now,

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I can go ABC News ABC. That one's always messed up.

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It never updates, the the one when it should. Twenty

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four to seven news from NBC, CBS, I can go

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all Associated Press, I can go on Al Jazeera World

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Today from Canada BBC. I mean all of them. I

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just I subscribe to so many different things. I've never

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had one going Sorry, you follow too many things, never never,

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So it's weird that you get to like thirty two

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or thirty four and it's like, sorry, you've overreached your limit,

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so go delete someone you're following. Well, first, as a

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broadcaster who pays sixty dollars a month, I want the

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people using the app to have an unlimited amount of

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things they can follow, because I want to be able

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to follow me they go to their feed tab. Right

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when they go to the feed tab, I want there's

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a high probability they're gonna see my content, but they're

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not gonna see my content and their feedtab. If they

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can't follow me, I may be their fiftieth favorite broadcaster,

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and they're like, well, don't have room for you. If

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they don't see your content, they don't listen to your content.

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Come on, guys, help me out. Okay, I want people.

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And I know what they may say, well, most people

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will never follow that many broadcasters. Well okay, well then

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then uh let them the most broadcasters don't are the

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most people I can't worry about. I want to find

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those few people who will listen to multiple broadcasters, right,

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I mean, come on, I mean the most. If the

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most don't follow that many, then there's a chance they

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don't follow me at all. But maybe they would, so

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I hope they fix that, and and it'll be I

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don't know. You say, what should the limit be? If

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you're gonna put a limit, let's go with one hundred.

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Let's go with one hundred, right, I mean, if you're

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gonna put a limit, I would really like to push

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it to two hundred, really really, I mean I would,

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but at least a hundred, you know, if you really

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have to, can we at least get fifty? How about sixty?

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Maybe seventy? Can we go with eighty? Anything more than

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thirty two? And it's some weird number like thirty two

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thirty four, Like what, it's not thirty five, it's not thirty,

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it's not forty. It's like, what is It's just crazy?

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So I know that maybe a big undertaking, but for crying,

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every podcasting app in the world allows for that. So

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I hope they I hope they fixed that. I didn't

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even know that there was a possibility of placing a limit.

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I'll never forget when I was like, what is going on?

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I can't add someone else? Well, sorry you gotta go. Sorry,

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sorry you got to go. And guess what the ones

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who go unless they show up in the new sermons tab,

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I'm probably not gonna see their content. Probably No, it's

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out of sight, out of mind. What do I I

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go to my feed tab, like I'm gonna open up

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the sermon's two point oh app right now, gonna open

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up the sermon's two point oh app right now? Okay,

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hang on, I'm gonna I'm gonna go to feed. I'm

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gonna go to the feed tab right right, hang on,

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it's thinking all right. The newest sermon I have right

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now is Daily United Prayer. It was posted an hour ago.

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Waiting a punishment or gift that sounds like an interesting discussion.

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Next is from Grace Baptist Church, posted an hour ago.

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Christ Vindicated Part three. I mean need to go back

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to Christ Vindicated Part one. All right, the Seven Sayings

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of Christ intro Well, that could be good. Next Ephesian

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six Victory in the Christian Life. You know, I could

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have some issues with that one. Oh, Ambassador Baptist College.

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That's from this morning. What is your babbel? Is it

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an acceptable use of Babylon being symbolic or not? Okay? Right? Oh,

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this one is good. Four truths about trust? Oh, then

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I have one here trying the spirits. Now see just

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my feed, that's where I may go and pay. Now

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I may go to I may go to the discovered

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tab for new sermons. Those are the two places I'm

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going to find stuff. But if I'm limited and what

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can go in my feed, well then I'm not going

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to find the stuff. And well, then as a broadcaster,

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what I need people to find my stuff? Right? I

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mean if I'm if you're paying so much money to

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be on a platform, you want your stuff to be discoverable. Right,

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So that's the first thing I want them to to

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hopefully change. Second thing notifications, notifications when I on any

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podcasting app. Look, and I mean this, there are some

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podcasting apps where their notification system is trash right, and

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almost inevitably I'm deleting it because look, I there are

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so many podcasts out there. You know what will happen.

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I'll get a notification, I'll see that, I'll and I'll

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that's when in many cases I'll tap on it and say,

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even if I don't listen, right then I will save

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it because I see it. If people don't see it,

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it doesn't exist. So when I upload something, I want

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people to be able to get a notification one if

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they follow me, but to see they gotta can't be

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a limit on following me, because if there's a limit

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in following things, then they won't be able to follow

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me to get the notifications, right, So I want them

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to be able to follow and get the notifications whenever

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I upload. And this is not even this is even

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more important when I go live. But I would also

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like the ability that I could just get notifications for

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the entire site when anybody goes live, when anybody uploads,

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And now that would be crazy amount of notifications, but

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at least maybe at least for the p people I follow.

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But then I need you to increase the amount of

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people I can follow. Right, But wouldn't it be great

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that you can get notified when someone is going live anyone?

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In some ways, I think that's cool. Oh, a new

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live webcast is about to start, because then I can

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decide if I want to watch it or not or not.

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So they've got to increase the number of broadcasters that

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you can follow, and they need a notification system. The

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church one notification system is superior than anything else we've

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ever utilized. So I'm hoping that same notification system they

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already have it. They belt it can be applied to

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the Sermon's two point oh app. So those are two

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things I'm desperately looking for. The third thing I want

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them to fix is the radio tab. If you go

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to the radio tab and Sermon's two point oh app

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you have Sermon Audio Radio twenty four to seven, and

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then VC why American Radio America Radio. I think they

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should possibly partner maybe I don't know, if they could

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partner with some others, like maybe Bible Broadcasting Network or

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maybe you know, yeah, that was the first one I

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would go with, or fundamentalist broadcasting network. There could be

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some others and see if you can make their radio

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feeds available through your app. That'd be a good partnership, right,

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I think it would be pretty cool. But here's the

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thing that I love the radio. Love the radio feed,

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I love that having it there. But the sermon audio radio,

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it's cool the way they do things right. They play

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a little music, the little devotional thoughts, maybe even just

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a small clip from a sermon. That's cool, that breaks

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it up. I like that. But man, I wish they

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would how can we say this expand the selection? Now?

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I know they may want to control it to the

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people they like and the people they want to promote,

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but all these broadcasters are paying sixty dollars a month

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to be on the platform. Hope that there would be

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some times that the radio would be pulling from other

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sermons on a more random basis, right, a more random basis.

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And I also would like if they if you know,

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I don't know how much you would it would be

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to have someone kind of curate it, right, like a

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human being, right, Like have someone like literally coming on

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the air going, hey, welcome this, you know, welcome to

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sermon audio radio. For Monday, February seventeenth, twenty twenty five.

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Coming up next, we're going to do three sermons on glorification.

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All right, three random sermons on glorification. Here we go,

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and then do the first one and then you know,

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the first one is from this broadcaster. And then then

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come in after that and say, all right, coming up next,

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we're going to have a you know, a you know,

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a sermon on Psalms chapter twenty two or whatever the

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case may be. Kind of introduce it, give it a

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personal touch. I don't know, I know that probably is

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asking a lot. But even if you don't do that, man,

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you got to pull from you got millions of sermons available.

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I mean sometimes if you listen, I mean, you can

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go pull up the sermonadio radio, go listen to it

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for the day. See how many different things you get.

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Sometimes you'll feel like you're hearing the same people and

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you're like, there's gotta be other broadcasters on here. Now

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maybe you don't like them, and I understand, but yeah,

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I just because where I'm going with this is discoverability.

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How to make things discoverable. So and discovery that's a

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key issue in all streaming services. Okay, So we want

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to be able to increase the number of people that

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someone can follow. We want notifications, and I think the

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sermonaudio radio feature is an awesome thing. I think you

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should expand it. I think you should expand and I

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think you should try to look to get sermonadio radio

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available on tune in, iHeartRadio, many of these other platforms

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that have radio. See if you can submit the sermonadio

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radio feed to those other platforms and you can use

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it to promote sermon audio and the sermon audio the

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sermons to three point zero app. I think you should

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look to get it wherever there are radio feeds. And

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itune and iHeartRadio are there two that I know have

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all kinds of internet radio stations. We'll get sermon audio

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everywhere everywhere you can get it, right, I think that's

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I think that's important as well. All Right, So those

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are so those are a couple of things, right, So

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the how many people you can follow, notifications and the

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sermon audio radio. That's the fourth thing is just increase

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other unique ways to help people discover content. Right. I

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like the collections idea. The collections idea they're doing. I

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don't think king on. Let me look here Discover. Yeah,

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if you look at the Discover tab, you've got newest sermons,

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You've got category, you have scripture, you have popular topics.

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But those popular topics are not moving. They're not changing

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based on what's actually popular at any given time. Like right,

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the first one is nine to eleven tragedy. That is

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that a popular topic? Now? The nine to eleven tragedy.

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Maybe it was like I would wish that the popular

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topics would be updated throughout the day hourly. You know

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what people are searching for based off that staff picks. Okay,

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that's great series picks, that's great, newest series, that's good.

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Popular categories now, they do have trending hashtags. I wish

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there was a better way to get kind of what's trending.

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But guess what they don't have here? Where's the collections?

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Remember they started that collection things like a certain like

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prayer and then having different sermons on prayer. I don't

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see the collections here. I don't see it on the homes.

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If I have it on the home, I'm looking. Yeah,

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they don't have the collections anywhere. Well, in other words,

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you got to come up with new ways to help

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people discover the older content, because you just if you'll go, look,

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I mean, I can demonstrate this to you. You upload

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your sermon, you upload a new broadcast. You got about

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forty eight to seventy two hours maybe maybe even that

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for people to notice it. Possibly you really actually for

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people to find it, you basically got just a few hours. Actually,

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you basically just have a few hours because it's gonna

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either show up in their feed at the very top

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when you first upload it, it's gonna show up in

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new sermons, and then it's over. It's gone. So really

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you only have I take that back, You don't have

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seventy two hours. You got maybe thirty minutes, maybe an hour,

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and then your content is buried under I mean they're

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uploading five thousand to six thousand sermons a week. There's

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just no way you're gonna get buried under an hour

469
00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:03.200
avalanche of content, right, So we got to come up

470
00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:05.960
with new discovery tools now. And it's not even about me,

471
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:09.480
it's for all those broadcasters. Sometimes I'll find some sermon

472
00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:11.559
that's been there for like a year, and it'll be

473
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like seven listens, and I'm like, that's in That's horrifying.

474
00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:16.960
I feel bad. I want to just I'll sit there

475
00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:19.200
and keep listening over and over and over, like, let's

476
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:21.440
at least get them to fifty. Let's at least get

477
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:24.559
them Okay, I'm gonna download this one hundred times. Let's

478
00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:27.200
get them to one hundred. I mean, come on, I

479
00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:30.079
mean it's been there for a year and it's collecting dust.

480
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I mean, like that's crazy. That's why we did the

481
00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:36.880
Sermons two point zero app Sermon Challenge. And I'm trying

482
00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:40.000
to have you look for random things, right. I was

483
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.400
trying to help, and I gave you certain things to

484
00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:46.599
search for, right, search for this topic, search for this scripture,

485
00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:49.359
and then just choose randomly, don't worry about the date.

486
00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:53.359
And sometimes we discovered a lot older sermons. Hopefully we

487
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:56.119
got some people some extra listens and some extra streams.

488
00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:58.079
But there's gonna have to come some new ways to

489
00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:04.079
help people discover. Every service struggles with this, right ever, ever,

490
00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:07.880
every single I mean think of if you go Spotify.

491
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:12.400
Spotify does so with their Discovery Weekly, you know playlist

492
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:14.319
where you get a playlist trying to help you discover

493
00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:17.880
new music, your release radar, you know new music. That way,

494
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:21.160
they got different playlists that are updated, lots of different

495
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:27.160
things done. So maybe I know they have a series.

496
00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:32.400
Maybe maybe they could have a series that's kind of

497
00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:36.039
like a Discovery playlist where it's a series put together

498
00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:40.240
by sermon audio and they up to and they add

499
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:44.240
like ten sermons a week randomly, just to put them

500
00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:48.000
in there. It's like your Discovery weekly playlist, and they

501
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:49.680
can call it. They don't have playlists on here, but

502
00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:52.160
they have series, and it can be a series. Anybody

503
00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:55.240
can follow the series and you'll get notified anytime they

504
00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:58.279
up they change it, and you get ten new sermons

505
00:28:58.279 --> 00:29:01.200
every week and they just randomly random. They've got to

506
00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:03.559
be random. They can't go go well, these are the

507
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.480
people who support us, or these are our favorite broadcasters.

508
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:09.680
If all you're going to do is promote your favorites

509
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:13.000
and well, then everyone else is left in the dust.

510
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:15.079
So I'm hoping that come with some new I mean,

511
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:17.319
I could probably come up with a hundred different ways

512
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:21.720
of helping discover things. The collection idea is great, but

513
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:28.200
I think just a sermon audio you're weekly, could what

514
00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:33.039
could we call the series New Sermons Weekly or something

515
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:35.200
along those lines, right, and then every week you get

516
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:37.440
ten sermons every week and they just choose them. It

517
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:40.079
could be a sermon, it could be it could be commentary,

518
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:43.319
it could be a devotional it could be anything anything,

519
00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:47.559
anything like that. And I think that's uh. I think

520
00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:53.720
that's another cool thing that they could do. It would

521
00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:56.079
be awesome if they could do some kind of a

522
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:59.039
scheduling tab or it shows you the schedule, like people

523
00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:02.160
could put in the schedule for their live webcast and

524
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.400
then you could look. I don't know. That would probably

525
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.480
a little bit more complicated to operate. But the thing

526
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:13.000
is discovery, right, Discovery is difficult here. So because if

527
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:16.720
I look at the hometab you got the featured sermon,

528
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:20.359
which is great. That helps you discover something. People pay

529
00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:23.359
what they pay money to have that featured sermon there.

530
00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:27.039
Then you've got staff picks. Now, if you look at

531
00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:32.279
the staff picks, if you look at the staff picks,

532
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:38.799
you have a lot of the classic audio books. You

533
00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:45.119
got sermon audio classics, You've got Bob Jones. I think

534
00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:50.880
you have you have kind of a specific you know,

535
00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:57.240
I wish, I wish you would say, maybe a set

536
00:30:57.279 --> 00:30:59.680
of staff picks. I guess you could have staff picks,

537
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.000
but me a category random pigs, like you know, like

538
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.759
a random it just pulls up randomly. That can just

539
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.920
have the computer or some software just randomly choose one

540
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:15.640
or well, I don't know how often they update the

541
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:20.759
staff picks, but maybe randomly choose three hourly, change it hourly,

542
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:24.279
change it every four or five hours something. And you're

543
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:26.240
just pulling, I mean, way back from the art. You

544
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.720
just anything randomly. You're just choosing. It's just like, oh,

545
00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:35.359
a look of the draw. It's you're casting lots, okay,

546
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:38.680
and oh that's the sermon that goes there? All right?

547
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:42.200
If you look here, and then you've got the stuff

548
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:45.599
you follow followed series and followed broadcasters. But that's great

549
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.279
that they list those, but I've got a limited number

550
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:50.759
that I can follow. Newest Sermons. I still think that's

551
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:54.000
the one of the best tabs they have. I'm just

552
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.640
looking at the homepage and then they have features and

553
00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:59.559
then they have their sponsors. If I go to the

554
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:03.440
if I go to this Discovery Newest Sermons categories again,

555
00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:07.160
the popular topics. I wish that was popular or trending.

556
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:12.359
I wish that was updating frequently, you know, frequently, here's

557
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.559
what's trending today, and here's what's you know, and it's

558
00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.759
a new thing again. The series picks, that's again being

559
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:22.960
picked I think by the staff. I wish it would

560
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:29.480
be series, you know, series, your new series, Radar or something.

561
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.599
Now Serie thinks I'm trying to talk to her, No,

562
00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:37.079
thank you, all right? So yeah. And then popular categories

563
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:43.200
again popular categories can they are popular based off why,

564
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:47.480
Like if I think popular and thinking what is going

565
00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.440
right now, what's happening right now? And then users, comments, speakers,

566
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:56.519
broadcasters features. So that's kind of what's in the Discover

567
00:32:56.799 --> 00:33:00.599
Discovers app. So those are some of my my initial

568
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:05.519
thoughts of things that they could do right, Increase the

569
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.720
number of people you can follow, notification, fix the or

570
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:15.240
not just fix, make better the radio tab or the

571
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.839
radio itself, and then just come up with some discover

572
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:24.680
ability discovery to help people discover new things. Only because

573
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:28.920
you've got this. It's like a library, right, It's like

574
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:36.359
this huge library, gigantic library of millions of sermons. But

575
00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:44.680
if it's if it's in you know, section Z, nobody's

576
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:52.240
walked by the section in fifteen years, and it's collecting dust,

577
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:55.960
that's kind of like your all of that all of

578
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.200
that content is of no value unless someone can find it. Now,

579
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:04.799
I know people can find it searching, right, they can search,

580
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:07.559
But I'm always curious. I wonder what comes to the

581
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:12.199
top is the most recent. Now you've got filters, you

582
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:14.840
can do things that way, but you've got to get

583
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:17.639
the see that that requires the people to be like, oh,

584
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:19.639
I'm going to search this way, I'm gonna change the filter,

585
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.559
I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. It still

586
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.800
requires a lot of work on the user's behalf. And

587
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:29.559
what we do know in twenty twenty five say users

588
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:33.320
are very They almost want to approach the con the

589
00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:35.280
apps in a more passive way. They just want the

590
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:38.880
content to be there for them. They want to necessarily

591
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:41.559
go looking for it, because once you start looking, then

592
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:43.920
you can you know how it can just be. People

593
00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:46.239
will talk about this with Netflix or other things. You'll

594
00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:48.679
just start looking. It's like one thing after another after another.

595
00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:50.480
I don't even know what to choose from. I can't

596
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.800
find anything because you kind of need it put right

597
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:57.880
there before you. Well, people can start searching. You're just

598
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:01.599
scrolling through one sermon after another sermon after another sermon.

599
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:04.800
What do you choose from. So I don't know which,

600
00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:06.920
I don't know what changes are coming. I have no idea,

601
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.320
but those are the ones I would like to see.

602
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:11.719
That's just my own personal opinion. Let me make it

603
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:15.480
very clear what I want we'd probably be very different

604
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:19.679
than what you want. So I'm not saying my preferences

605
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.559
should outweigh anybody else's preferences. I'm just stating my preferences

606
00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:26.639
because well, I have a microphone, and because I am

607
00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:29.079
trying to do everything I can to promote people to

608
00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:32.360
get it. So maybe I throw out my preferences and

609
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:34.559
everyone will be interested to see if my preferences show

610
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:36.599
up in any way, shape or form. And then you'll

611
00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:38.400
go to the Apple App Store the Google play Store

612
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:41.280
right now and download the Sermon's two point oh app.

613
00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:45.960
And by the way, this is kind of sad in

614
00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:48.960
my opinion, because we got millions of people who claim

615
00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:50.760
to be Christians. Right If I go to the app

616
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:55.360
store right now, I type in the Sermons two point

617
00:35:55.400 --> 00:36:00.920
oh app Sermon's two point oh. There it is, Ladies

618
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:07.519
and gentlemen, it only has sixty six ratings. Millions of

619
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:13.280
Christians and you can't get above sixty six ratings. They

620
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:16.800
should have. People can't take five minutes to give it

621
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:19.920
a five and it only has four point zero doesn't

622
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:24.519
even have five stars? Come on, now, I don't know

623
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:26.000
what it has in the Google play Store. Can I

624
00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:27.440
pull it up in the Google play Store? Let me

625
00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:29.519
see here? Can I get to the Google play Store.

626
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:36.000
Let me look here Google Play Let me see what

627
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:40.440
we can pull up here Google play Store? All right,

628
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:43.639
for that evil Android apps? Can I get it to open?

629
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:45.119
Can I do a search here? Let me do a

630
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:50.880
search here? Do a search sermons two point zho? There

631
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:55.440
it is. It shows that it only had oh wow, okay,

632
00:36:56.119 --> 00:36:59.079
obviously most people using this are Android users. It has

633
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:02.119
three hundred and thirty eight reviews. But look at this,

634
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.920
it's out of three point oh. That's brutal. It has

635
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:11.719
five hundred. It only has fifty thousand downloads. That's it.

636
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:18.960
Fifty thousand. That's insane. What is it? Like? Christians like

637
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.880
I don't want to listen to sermons? Right? Do you

638
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:24.960
have people in your church you can say, hey, download

639
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:27.079
the sermon's two point oh app? Like I don't. What's

640
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:30.679
the difficult? I don't know? Can I get to the reviews?

641
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:33.000
Hang on? Can I get to the reviews here. I

642
00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:34.800
don't think I can get to the reviews on my

643
00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:37.119
Apple device. I wanted to see if I could read

644
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:42.199
the reviews. That's horrifying. Three point oh. I'm assuming it

645
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:44.920
goes to five point oh. And I got only fifty

646
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:56.119
thousand downloads. That that's horrible. The Church one app has

647
00:37:56.159 --> 00:38:04.599
four point four that that's kind of brutal. Fifty thousand

648
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:09.880
downloads I get more than I get more than fifty

649
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:12.639
thousand downloads a month. Like, what is that? I mean,

650
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:16.719
come on, I mean that's a whole platform. Come on that. Yeah,

651
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:19.039
that's got to get fixed. Come on, guys, come on.

652
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:21.480
If you haven't if you haven't given a five star rate,

653
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.960
if you haven't given a rating, you haven't written a review,

654
00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:26.800
please consider writing a review and giving another star rating

655
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.599
in the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.

656
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:32.639
Please consider that because that gives it more notice. Even

657
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:34.679
if I know we can take it for granted, we

658
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.519
can be like, yeah, whatever, it's just a bunch of sermons. Well,

659
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.320
that's kind of what we're supposed to be about as Christians,

660
00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:47.559
is listening to Bible teaching, right, whether we like it

661
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.800
or whether we dislike it, whether we agree with it

662
00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:54.000
or disagree with it. It gets us into the words. So

663
00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:56.519
I'll consider that all right. I wanted to just take

664
00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:59.039
a few minutes to I took forty minutes to talk

665
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:01.920
about it again. I don't have any insight. I don't

666
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:03.920
have any I mean, if they want to give me

667
00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:06.159
the beta test, I'll start testing it right now, and

668
00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:08.320
I can test it live on the air and tell

669
00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:10.880
everyone what I'm seeing. You probably don't want me doing that,

670
00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:14.719
but yeah, I'm definitely willing to offer any feedback. I mean,

671
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:17.679
we spend all of twenty twenty four, twenty twenty four

672
00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:20.480
promoting the app. That's all we did in twenty twenty four.

673
00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:22.880
A lot of people say, all you did was criticized. No,

674
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:26.360
I kept telling people to go listen every sermon we criticize.

675
00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:28.679
What did I say, Go listen to it, download it,

676
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:31.280
stream it any I would tell you to go download

677
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:36.440
the entire series. We constantly promote what we're reviewing. We're

678
00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:38.280
trying to get people to listen to it and download it.

679
00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:41.239
So download the Sermon's two point oh app. And please please,

680
00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:45.519
if you haven't given it, come on, give it a review,

681
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:48.199
do something, give it some I mean I do the

682
00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:49.960
same thing with the podcast. I mean I don't do

683
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.519
it all the time. I like most podcasters. Most podcasters

684
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:56.199
is like, please consider you know, giving us a five

685
00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:59.320
star rating and writing a positive review. Please do that please.

686
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.960
It's like, I mean, that's a normal thing for podcasters

687
00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:06.519
to promote because that's how things are found and discovered.

688
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.480
So yeah, I want, I want, if I want Sermon

689
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:17.480
Audio to help for all broadcasters get their content discovered. Well,

690
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:21.199
I can't worry about them making my content and putting

691
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:23.679
my content somewhere we can be discovered if I'm not

692
00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:26.559
going to help them get discovered by having people download

693
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:29.639
the app. So download the app And that's just three

694
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:38.719
point oh. That's that's a that's crazy. Fifty thousand, fifty

695
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:45.559
thousand you know what that that that's if you take

696
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:48.920
all the broadcasters on the Sermon's two point oh app,

697
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:52.639
they're all a ninety and five percent of them are churches.

698
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:55.800
Those churches have fifty one hundred, two hundred, three hundred

699
00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:59.119
four hundred people. Not you haven't gotten everyone in your

700
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.599
church to download the Sermon's two point oh app. You

701
00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:03.519
can't even get the people who go to church to

702
00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:06.760
download You think just having the people who attend all

703
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of the churches represented on the Sermon's two point oh

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app would have we would be one hundred thousand, two

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hundred thousand, three hundred thousand downloads. Hey we but I Hey,

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I know I know how that works. I know how

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that works. Okay, I mean I promoted. I promoted the

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church one app and the Sermon's two point oh app

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for an entire year. And I think it was this

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year I found out that a good portion of people

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in my own church had not even downloaded the Church

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one App. I'm like, okay, I've only done I've only

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spent a year promoting it, right, So, uh so that

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sometimes I don't know what you can do. I don't

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Maybe maybe you could just have someone standing at the

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door and when people leave church, let me give me

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your phone. There you go, you have the Sermon's two

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point oh app on your phone. Next, okay, next, and

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just nobody can leave the church until I put the

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Sermon's two point oh app on your phone. There you go.

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That's what pastors need to do, all right, have people

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standing at the doorways you cannot leave, hand me your phone.

723
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I don't want an app where I can listen to sermons.

724
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I don't want that on my phone, right, so I'm sorry,

725
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or or you'll it's what's even worse is when you're

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on an app like Sermon's two point oh app, where

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you have the church one app and then you you're

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preaching and you start doing a review and people are like, well,

729
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I wasn't here. Oh man. Whenever if someone says that

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to me, I just want to go You're right, I

731
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know you weren't here. It would be great if we

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had some way when when you're not here you could

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listen to the sermon, Like it'd be cool, Like there

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could be like an app and you could like listen,

735
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you know, like on your phone, like in the morning

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or in the afternoon, or you could download it. Or

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wouldn't that be I wonder what we should call this thing?

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Maybe the Internet, I don't know, Maybe an app, be

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the church one at maybe the Sermon's two point. Wouldn't

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it be cool if you could like I know that's

741
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very sarcastic. I'm sorry, but sometimes yeah, I almost lose

742
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it when people say that, well, we weren't here. How

743
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are we supposed to know the answers? I don't know,

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because The sermon was uploaded thirty five minutes after it

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was preached. I don't know so yeah that yeah, that

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drives me crazy. So there we go. Hopefully we can

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get more people to use it, and maybe in twenty

748
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twenty five, I'm hoping to see what they do with

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the three point zero. I'm hoping for something good, right, positive?

750
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So what are your preferences? What do you want for

751
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the app? What do you want? I want to be

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able to follow more broadcasters. I want a notification system.

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I want the radio to maybe expand and add more.

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So it's a good tool to use. And I want

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some you know, to help other And I mean it,

756
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they I and I truly mean this. I don't I'm

757
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not saying this in any other way. I mean this.

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And I'll end with this a sermon for all the

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guys at Sermon Audio. Can you can keep my content hidden?

760
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All right? That's fine? Help everyone else out, all right?

761
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Help everyone ouse out, because yeah, those churches are paying money.

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Help their content be discovered, help them get discover, help

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them be found. Help that that sermon that someone spent

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you know, ten twelve hours preparing, preaching and uploading. Maybe

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the people in front of them don't care, but maybe

766
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someone online it could be great benefit to them. So

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help people discover more. Now, of course, it's also up

768
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to us, the users to discover more by doing a

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little work and using what is available. So sometimes you

770
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know it's on us, but also you want different ways

771
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to find it. So if you have any cool ideas well,

772
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you can let them know. You can email sermon audio

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and let them know and we'll see. I'm going to

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kind of wait and see and we'll find out. So

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be looking for the sermons three point zero app I'm

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hoping shows up soon. All right, thanks for listening everyone,

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have a great day. God bless