SR 906: Exciting News, New Hosts, and Fresh Perspectives – Aby Rinella, Part 3 (Meet the Host!)

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When you go to a homeschool conference, we pick speakers at a homeschool conference because

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we want a huge variety. We’re not going to have five of the same type

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of people doing the same type of sessions, because no mom is the

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same. And so I. Yes, I think this is going to be fun because you’re

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going to get so many different angles. Hey, everyone, this is

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Yvette Hampton, and welcome back to the Schoolhouse Rocked podcast. I am

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so excited you are back with us, especially today. Well,

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today’s Thanksgiving. But we’ve got other things to talk about. Before we get to

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that and before we get to those other things, I first want to say thank

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you to our sponsor, BJU Press Homeschool. I’m sure they probably have something

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to talk about Thanksgiving, but if you’re just now listening to this, it’s probably too

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late. So maybe for next year they have a Thanksgiving or a Christmas something.

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I don’t know. I don’t know. I should have looked that up before we got

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on to record today. But they have something for just

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about everything to help you homeschool with excellence from a

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biblical worldview. So check

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them out at bjupresshomeschool.com and you can be confident that everything they

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have will help you homeschool and point your kids

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to Jesus. I don’t imagine that many of you are listening to this on Thanksgiving

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Day, but many of you maybe are. And so if you are, happy Thanksgiving. And

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if it’s after Thanksgiving, that’s okay, too. Happy Thanksgiving. Missed out on anything

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amazing? Yeah, maybe you’re. You’re having your Thanksgiving hangover

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and you’re having your leftover Thanksgiving turkey

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and trying to figure out how many different sandwiches you can make with. And maybe

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you’re decorating for Christmas like normal people do that don’t decorate before

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Thanksgiving. Who decorates before Thanksgiving? It’s good

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that I still allow you to be part of this ministry, even though you are

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always wrong about that. I tell you,

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we love Christmas decorating in our house. I know. And

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so. Yes, me too. We just talked about this weekend, though. I

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mean, it’s not like we decorate in October. I mean, that would be ridiculous. I

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know, but people did. I know a lot of people that did. It’s. It is

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ridiculous. Well, here’s the thing, too. My in laws are coming this week.

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So as I mentioned, I think on Monday’s episode, we’re recording this. Just so

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you know, today, the day that we’re recording this is Monday, November

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18th. So the weekend. So we’re recording this a week before Thanksgiving and my in

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laws are arriving on Thursday of this week. And so we wanted to

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have Christmas before they got here anyway because we’re not gonna get to be with

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them for Christmas. So we wanted it to kind of feel like Thanksgiving,

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Christmas, a two for one deal. It’s a two for one, buy one, get one

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free. Yeah, totally. And if they’re there, then you’re not going to be able to

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decorate right after Thanksgiving because they’ll be there. Like we always decorate the day

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after. But if you have company, that’s really hard. You can’t be like, you guys

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need to leave so I can decorate for Christmas. Well, we’re all heading to Texas

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for my sister in law’s, my other sister in law’s house, which she’s never made

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Thanksgiving dinner for me, so I don’t know if she’s an amazing Thanksgiving cook, but

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she says she’s not. So I think we’re like in the same boat.

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So anyway, but it will be great fun because we’ll get to celebrate with our

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family and we’re really excited about that. And as a matter of fact,

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well, this has nothing to do with Thanksgiving. I just was thinking about the date.

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So today is Monday the 18th. And I

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don’t know if I told you this, but, you know, you’re familiar, I’m sure, with

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Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills. Yeah. Jack Hibbs’

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Church. Because you hear all. I mean, we’ve been hearing about Jack Hibbs and his

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church for the past four years. Four years, yeah, totally. Who have stood really

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strong on freedom. So do you know they have a homeschool, a

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pretty good sized homeschool support group. Yes, I’ve heard that’s led by this

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wonderful lady. She’s super sweet. Her name is Christine Menashi, I think is how

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you say her last name. I’ve spoken with her on the phone a couple times

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and she is super sweet. Anyway, they’re showing the movie tonight. What? Wait,

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the movie? Schoolhouse Rocked. Schoolhouse Rocked? Yeah, they’re doing a big old Schoolhouse Rocked

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movie night. Wow. The movie is church. That’s

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amazing. Yes. So, I mean, if you’re listening to this, then

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you missed the movie, but maybe you’re listening to this because you saw

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the movie. Yeah. That’s cool. Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills. I

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know. Or maybe, like, if they’ll share it, then I clearly need to go watch

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it because I’m the only person on the planet that hasn’t seen it. Which means

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you need to watch it while you’re decorating for Christmas? Maybe.

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Yes. The other thing is people are still doing movie nights like

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this, which is super cool. That is cool. And so, you know, it’s been three

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years since the movie released and it’s still impacting people. And we

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have. I’ve, I’ve mentioned this, but we have like 5 million DVDs in our house.

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It’s really that many? It’s like 500 and something now, but it feels like

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5 million because it’s kind of taken over our whole

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office closet area. So if anybody wants a DVD for

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Christmas, we will ship it out to you personally. I will go to

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the post office and mail it to you. But those would make good

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Christmas gifts. Yeah, they would. And it’s a great way to support the Schoolhouse Rocked

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to ministry. So if you want a dvd, we’ll put a link, but you can

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just go to SchoolhouseRocked.com. Anyway, we’re excited about them

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showing the movie and I just love that people are still doing that. I do

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too. So, so our big announcement. I know you need to sound a

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little more excited because. Oh, I kind of like. Oh,

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do I need to? How about.

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Big announcement? Yeah, that’s it. Well, let’s

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give some backstory. Okay. I’m going to actually. Oh, she’s going to drag this

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out, people. No, no, no, I’m not dragging it out. I’m not. I just want

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to give a little bit of backstory to how we got to this point

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of making this big announcement and why we’re doing what we’re doing.

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Okay. So we are going into season eight of the Schoolhouse

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Rocked Podcast. And as I shared with you, the last

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year for our family has been kind of crazy in a lot of ways. The

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ways that I shared about, you know, the network and

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all that stuff, like, that’s all been really exciting stuff, but for some reason,

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and maybe this is like that seven year sabbatical that God

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says people need to take. I just felt like several

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months ago. Wait, wait, wait. I’m just going to back this story up a little

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bit. Back in May, after Brooklyn graduated,

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I felt like the Lord just really put heavy on my heart that it’s time

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to just slow down with the podcast and maybe step back from it,

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which, let me just say real quick, I’m not stepping back from the podcast. That’s

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not the announcement. But just felt like I was just

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really overwhelmed. And, you know, we publish

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a new episode pretty much every week. Right. And it’s a lot of

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preparation and trying to homeschool and I don’t know. I just was feeling like the

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Lord was like, okay, you need to just take a break. Well, and also, I

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want to remind you, part of it was that you all of a

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sudden were faced with how fast this goes because Brooklyn was graduating, and

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you were like this. Like. Like, time is slipping through my hands.

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And. And there’s so many things when we get to the end, we go, I

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wish I. Here’s one thing that, as homeschool moms will never say. I mean, we’ll

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always say, I wish I had more time. But we’ll never regret not giving the

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time because we’ve given it all. But you realize, like, oh, my goodness. But yet

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God still has. You have Lacy at home, and you’re like, I can’t. I don’t

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want to lose a minute with her. And so there was also that. That kind

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of coming, too, of like, oh, my goodness, this is what it’s like. Like this.

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There is an end to this. Absolutely. And I. I often

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feel like I’m busy doing good things for the ministry.

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Right. But it takes up a lot of time, which, again, is not a bad

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thing. I know lots of people are involved in different ministries. Aby, you’re involved in

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your family ministry and in the board and at your church. I mean, like, we

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all have lots of things going on, so this is not like a, oh, I’m

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so busy. I don’t have time for Schoolhouse Rocked. But I just felt like the

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Lord was just like, okay, you need to just get your priorities in check and

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figure out, like, what this needs to look like. So Garritt and I talked. He

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said, let’s pray through the summer and figure out, you know, what the

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Lord wants from us. Right. So we did. We prayed through the

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summer. And then in, you know, I guess around

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September or so, we. Garritt and I went

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and we met, like, outside of our home, and just. We just sat down and

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just talked and prayed together. And, I mean, we talk and pray together all the

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time, but, you know. But this was a fun. Something about being away from home,

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where we could just think clearly and really focus on what we were

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doing. So we thought. We talked and prayed together, and we were just brainstorming some

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different ideas. And at first we were going

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to. I was going to step back completely from the podcast. I just said, I

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just. I need to be all done. Not because I want to be done, not

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because I don’t enjoy it, but I just felt like. You said I needed to

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be more present for my family. Right. More

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present for homeschooling. More present for being able to do other things.

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Right. And. And so we just prayed and prayed through this, and then we

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felt like the Lord one day just was like, you know what? It’s not

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the Yvette Hampton podcast. It’s the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. And so

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why can’t you have other people host

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the podcast with you? And so I. One day I just went to Garritt

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and I said, what do you. What do you think about this? Like, what would

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you think about the idea of having other people come in and

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guest host the podcast and it be hosted

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by several people instead of just me?

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So he was like, okay, well, let’s pray about that, and let’s see what

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the Lord does. So we prayed about it. We made a list of.

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We had a list of four people that the Lord put on our hearts and

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that we thought, okay, these are the people that we would trust to hold

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the name of Schoolhouse Rocked. We trust them with, you know, just

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being wise and discerning and choosing their guests. And there

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are people who are experienced with podcasting, all of that. So we prayed over

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those four people, and then we went out to those four people, and we said,

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what would you think about this? And we told them kind of the whole story.

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And all four of them said, yes. And Aby is

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one of them, of course. I’m so excited about this. And

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so we went out to Aby Rinella,

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Meeke Addison, Kristi Clover, and Cindy

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West. All of them have been guests on the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast

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several times. And as they’ve come on, like, I’ve just gotten to know

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these ladies really well, gotten to know their hearts for homeschooling,

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for family, for ministry, for discipleship. And so they

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all pretty much said yes right away.

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One of them said, let me pray about it and talk to my husband. And

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then she came back and said, absolutely, I would love to do this. I almost

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said no, because it means that I can’t be with

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you. Right. Yeah. But then I’m like, okay, of course I’m going to say

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yes, but I’ve thought about that. Yeah. You and I have

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always been a team. Right. Right. Because you’re going to now be

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hosting. Yeah. Without you. Without me. You’re going to be kind of

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replacing that. But. But I was thinking, though, maybe we could do some, like, fun,

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fun bonus episodes. Oh, totally. So. Right. So we. I promise you guys,

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Aby and I. Will be back together. You’re still going to hear us. You can’t

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get rid of us that easily. But. So this is what it’s going to

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look like. What we’re going to do is I am still going to host

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two episodes a month. Well, it will actually be. I hope I don’t say this

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in a way that’s confusing right now, the way that we do the podcast and

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for those who are regular listeners, they know we do an hour long

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conversation and then we split that hour long conversation into

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three 20ish minute episodes that we air on Monday, Wednesday

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and Thursday. Right. We’re going to do with each

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guest host and with myself, still an hour long conversation, but we’re going to

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split that hour long into just two 30 minute episodes

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that will air on the same day one week and then the next week.

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So I’m not sure what day I think we’re going to do Tuesdays.

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So like the first Tuesday of the month will be Aby. The second

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Tuesday of the month will be part two of Aby’s interview with whoever her guest

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is. And then the third and fourth weeks of the

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month will be me with my guest and then the like

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a Tuesday. So you’re interviewing one guest a month? Yes. So I’m

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interviewing one guest a month and then my guest host will interview one guest a

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month. Awesome. And it’ll be a 30 minute episode once a week. Cool.

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30 minute episode once a week. Awesome. Exactly. And

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so we’re excited. It’s still going to be the same hour.

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It’s still going to be an hour long interview with each guest, but

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split into two parts instead of three parts. And then we’ll just

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air one episode a week. So I’m going from recording

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52 episodes a year to 12 episodes a year. Which is huge.

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Which is huge. I mean that really, it’s huge for your family. It

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is. And honestly, even for me, because the way that you and I have done

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this for the last. Has it been seven years? Yeah. That you and I have

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been together six years. No, no, no. Because this is your. Probably six years that

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you and I. Yes. Wait, Schoolhouse Rock has been seven. So six years of you

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and I. And it’s just been kind of a. Like, can you, can’t you?

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And it’s all just been kind of hodgepodge. And this, this will free

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up, even for my family because I know what’s coming. I know the dates. It’s

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all set. I mean, this is ultimately a good move for our

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families. It’s a good move for Schoolhouse Rocked. It’s also an opportunity,

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guys, for you to hear other really godly amazing women and their

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perspectives. Because we’re all, I mean, you get sick of me

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and Nevette. And honestly, you know what?

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of how I was feeling, is that, you know, when you have a sitcom and

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the sitcom just goes on for several years, Right. And after

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the first many years, you’re kind of like, okay, we’ve heard all the

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jokes. Totally. Like, we. It just gets a little bit mundane,

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that about the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. And so I feel like we need, like, a,

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like, fresh new voices. Right. And what’s really cool about having

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all of you on you, Meeke, Kristi, and Cindy,

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is that you all have your own guests. Like, I’m not going to tell you

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who your guests are going to be. You. You know, all four of you know

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very well what the Schoolhouse Rocked standards are. Your guests are still going to fill

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out the Schoolhouse Rocked form, you know,

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guest submission form, agree to our statement of faith, all of that stuff. Correct. But

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you’re all gonna pick your own guests. And so you, like all four of

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you individually, have a way wider reach than what

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I have in different relationships with different people in the

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homeschooling world. And we’re different parts of the country. We have kids of different ages.

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We’re in different seasons. And it’s more of a greater. Like when you go to

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a homeschool conference, we pick speakers at a homeschool conference because we want

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a huge variety. We’re not gonna have five of the same type of people doing

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the same type of sessions. Exactly, because no mom is the same. And

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so I. Yes, I think this is going to be fun because you’re going to

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get so many different angles and so many different perspectives. And that’s the beauty of

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homeschool, is it’s unique, it’s creative. It’s a. It’s unique to who we are.

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to be awesome. We do have more to talk about, but let’s take a break.

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We are back with Aby. So, man. Okay, before the

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break, we were talking about our super exciting. Just these changes.

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I’m so excited about this. I’m telling you,

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until we came up with this plan, and I shouldn’t even

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say we, until the Lord put this plan into action and

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provided the guest host, like, the exact guest host that we wanted

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that the Lord had put on our hearts. I was kind of

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like, I think the Schoolhouse Rocked podcast is

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done, because I can’t keep doing 52 episodes a year. I

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remember you called me and told me that. Yeah, I did. And I just was

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like, I think it’s over. I think the season is done. And.

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And, like, this is our entire income. You know, the

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podcast. This is what my husband does for a living. This is what puts food

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on the table and a roof over our heads. So it wasn’t like, this is

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my hobby. I mean, I love doing it, but it wasn’t like,

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you know, this is just my little side hustle, and I just do it to

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bring in extra money so I can buy new shoes. I’m moving on from scrapbooking

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to knitting. Right. Yeah. This is a really big family

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decision for us. And so we. I mean, we really committed to

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praying about this. And God is just so good because it was just like, as

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soon as he provided the guest hosts for us and everything else,

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we just. It was like, oh, okay. I have so much peace

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about this and so much joy, and I am so excited I

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am. To have each one of you. You are. You are gifted in this.

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This is something you do love. And so when you’re like, I want to be

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done done. Right. It was like, God’s not done with you yet, but he also

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knows your first ministry is home, and he also knows your heart. And so it’s

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really exciting that you are still going to be. Yes. On. You get to still

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use your gifts in doing this, because you are so gifted in this. But it’s

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just gonna. I mean, God. God cares about the small things, Right. He cares

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about the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast because it reaches people, but he also cares about

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you, Yvette Hampton, as a person. And so it’s really cool that you’re

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not out of it. Totally. Right? Yeah, absolutely. I love that

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I’m still gonna get to host alongside of. And so there’s. It’s a

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team of us. It’s. It’s a team of, you know, five of us who will

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be hosting the podcast from now on. And, man, I am

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just. I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds. So let’s talk

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very quickly. I just want to talk about each of our guest hosts. Right.

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So, of course, you, Aby, and Aby’s kicking off the year.

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scheduled. She hasn’t recorded it yet, but she’s recording it soon

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and sometime in December. And so Aby’s kicking off

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um, the. The new year. Um, so you’re gonna hear from her first. So. So

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you’ll be on the first and second week of January, so that’ll

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be really fun. Yeah. You guys are gonna love my guest. I know you are,

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because I love her. So. Yeah. And what’s cool is actually,

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what is. Tell me her name again. Audra. Audra. Yes, that’s

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right. So you came to me several months ago and you were like,

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we’ve got to have this lady, Audra on the podcast. She’s amazing. And you,

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you told me all about her and I said, great, let’s get her on. And

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then it just never worked out because God knows, the timing of everything

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never worked out to have her on this year for 2024.

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Right. And then you, after we figured out the guest hosting thing, you were

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like, she can be my first guest. Yeah, it was totally a God thing

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because. It was totally a God thing because I had such a heart to

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interview her anyway. Right. So it. God is so good.

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He is so good. And that’s how we know this is going to be good,

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because he’s in it, every step of it. Oh, absolutely. He has clearly paved the

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way for this. So you’re kicking off the new Year, and then we’ve got Kristi

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Clover. You know, I talked about. She is. Her website is

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KristiClover.com. if you guys want to learn more about her. We’ll also link to the

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episodes that we’ve done with her in the past because she’s been on several times.

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She’s like the organization lady. She’s like the one that’s going to

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kick you in the rear to get everything organized, but she’s going to do it

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in a way that makes it doable and fun. And we

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love Kristi. She’s from California, your home state.

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So you guys are going to love her. Yeah, she is awesome.

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And she loves Jesus. I mean, she just loves the Lord. Her. She’s

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one of those people who just, like, the love of Jesus exudes

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out of her. You know, she’s written a couple of books.

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She. She used to have a podcast and she’s got a YouTube channel. It’s been,

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I think, a little while since she’s created any content for her YouTube channel, but

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she’s got tons of. Great resources and YouTube and she’s a seasoned

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homeschool mom. She’s got. She’s graduated. She has a married child. She has

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a married son. Yes. So that’s what’s also fun is you’re getting, you know,

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she’s She’s a veteran, but she’s also still currently homeschooling,

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so she’ll bring a lot. She’s super, super sweet. So she’s

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been podcasting for years. Cindy west, she’s from

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Our Journey Westward, and she is the host of the No

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Sweat Nature Study podcast. And she’s also just

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amazing. We’ll put links to the episodes I’ve done with her. So she’s. She’s very

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Charlotte Mason minded and in her

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homeschooling, but she also is one. She just loves Jesus.

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Yeah, she’s. I don’t. I don’t know if you know this, Aby, but her husband

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is a senator. Yeah, you told me that. Which is so cool.

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also good at those middle. Talking about those middle school rough years.

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Like, Kristi knows. It’s just each again. Each of the seasons that we’re bringing

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in, and she. She can talk to you about those hard years and she can

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make it doable. And she has a lot of resources. She has a lot of

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resources to help as well. Yes. Yeah. And she’s excited. She has her

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list of guests that she wants to reach out to. And so she’s. And she

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won’t talk just specifically about Charlotte Mason. Like, she’ll talk about homeschooling in

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general, you know, and so. So. Whereas her podcast is more

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geared specifically to that. But she’s just amazing and again, loves

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Jesus, and so that’s exciting. Meeke

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Addison, of course, from Culture Proof. We already talked about Meeke,

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but Meeke is just a sweet, sweet, dear friend of

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mine, man. She loves the Lord, and she is

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one of the wisest women I have ever known in my whole life. And she

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just. It’s like wisdom just pours out of her mouth. And biblical

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wisdom, not just like, here are some

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wise words for you to think on. Like, you know, um,

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for some reason, what do you think? But I think of Mike Brady, remember from

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the Brady Bunch? And he was always like, well, you know, son,

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totally. She’s not like that. Totally. If you

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wouldn’t throw the baseball near the window, the window wouldn’t break.

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she, man, she is just a wise, wise woman. And she’s

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excited about being part of the Schoolhouse Rocked team

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and hosting, and. That’s what it is at the Schoolhouse Rocked team.

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And it is. It is exciting. It is really. I’m really excited

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about it. It is. So maybe someday we’ll do, like, a Schoolhouse Rocked

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retreat where we totally. Actually, we’ve Thought about that. Yep.

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Yep. Like a little conference where you meet. We can all come. It’s like a

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network within a network. So we’ve got the Biblical Family Network and then we’ve got

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the Schoolhouse Rocked network within the network. Wouldn’t that be fun? It would

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be so much fun if we could do something like that. We. We would absolutely

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love that. So, yeah, that is what we’ve got coming. And, man, we

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are so grateful for just God’s hand of

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provision on the podcast and cannot wait

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to see how this new year unfolds and what the Lord does with it.

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I just. I’m really trusting that he is going to bring

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even, you know, far more encouragement than I could even

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imagine and that I could bring by myself. It’s just. It’s time

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to bring other people into the mix and see how the

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Lord works. Timing. Yes. It is interesting at the end of

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season seven, huh? Yeah, totally. Isn’t that weird?

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It is so weird and cool and not weird. I know, I know.

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But we’re excited. So if you guys have guest ideas or like, we want to

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hear feedback on this idea. I want to hear feedback on this idea.

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Yes. Yeah. And if you guys have, we. We always want to hear from you.

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Yeah, we love it when you guys are going. I feel like it does.

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Like we’re not just talking to know nothingness out there,

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right? Yes, absolutely. It really does. So, yeah, let us know who you

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would like to hear from. You know, what guests you would like our guest hosts

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to reach out to. They will, by the way. They will all have a guest

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on the podcast, just like I always do. So it will never be them podcasting

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by themselves. We’ll keep the format the same to where they will always

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have a guest with them that they’ll be interviewing and talking with. And so.

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So it’ll be so. And then again, you and I can hop on for things

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like random Thanksgivings and. Totally. Well, you know, some.

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Some of the months have an extra week. Oh, there you

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go. Because, you know, if we. If we do two weeks for each, you

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know, for me and for our. Guests, well, maybe that’s where they’ll find. Out there’s

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like that random. Like, we’ll be on leap day.

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Right. So maybe you and I can come back and

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chit chat about whatever the Lord puts on our hearts to talk about on

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that episode. Well, my friend, I love you and I have loved doing. I mean,

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that’s probably my. My. My biggest tearjerker in this is

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just not seeing you across the screen all the time. Well, it’s not like

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we can’t talk. You know, there’s this thing called FaceTime. Have you heard of FaceTime?

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It’s true. I have heard of it. It’s true. It’s on

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the cellular device that you’re on. We don’t get that

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here. Just kidding. My goodness. We love you

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guys. We’re excited. Thank you. Thank you. Please pray for us through

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this transition. I know God’s hand is on

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it, and we are just praying that it will be wonderful. Blessing

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to you, our audience, and so thank you for

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sticking with us. Stay tuned to 2025. And we actually, the

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reason Aby and I are doing this podcast now is because over the

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next three weeks, we are going to have each one of our guest

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hosts come on the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. We are going to be talking about

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things that they are passionate about, you know, homeschooling stuff that they love talking

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about, family, relationships, education, all of that stuff. And so

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you’ll get to meet them once again. And so they. They’re gonna be on in

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the next coming weeks. And so you’ll get to know them even better leading

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up to that. And then, as I mentioned earlier, we will close out the year

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with Rachael Carman, the week of Christmas. And I’m super

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excited about that. So say goodbye to Aby because this is the last time you’re

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gonna see her in 2024. In 2024. I’ll see you guys in first week in

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January of next year. Yep. It’s gonna be awesome. Awesome. Thank

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you guys so much for being with us. We are so beyond grateful for you.

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I cannot even tell you how much you are to us, just knowing that

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you’re on the other side of this microphone. It is truly our

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pleasure and our joy to be able to serve you this way through the Schoolhouse

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Rocked ministry. And you can find everything you need to know about the ministry at

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our website, SchoolhouseRocked.com. you can watch the movie. You can make a

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donation. You can find all of our podcasts. You can find out about the Biblical

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Family Network. You can Watch us on YouTube if you’re listening and not watching. You

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can see our new studio if you haven’t yet seen it. I mean, we’ve had

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it now for, like, I don’t know, eight months or nine months. So you’ve probably

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seen it if you watch. But you can always follow us on YouTube as well.

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And be sure to share this podcast with a friend that really, really

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helps us to get the word out about the Schoolhouse Rocked ministry. So we love

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you guys. Have a great rest of your Thanksgiving week. If it’s way past

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Thanksgiving and you’re listening to this, have a wonderful Merry Christmas.

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Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year. We’ll see you guys back here next

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week. Have a great day. Bye.