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Jon: Welcome to Good News, being
brought to you by Listening for Clues.
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Lauren: We are Lauren Welch and
Jon Shematek, Deacons in the
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Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
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Jon: We sure are, and today
is a very special episode.
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This is our final recorded episode
of our:
2023
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And so we've asked the third member of our
Listening for Clues team, Lynn Shematek,
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to join us for this farewell episode.
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Lauren: So Jon, what was this like to
do this podcast for the first time?
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Jon: Wow.
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It was an amazing experience.
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I think we were terrified, we worried
about the technology not working,
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which it did almost all the time.
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We wondered, would we get any guests
who would be interested in coming?
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And I wondered if we'd really
have anything to talk about.
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And sure enough I would say
things went really smoothly.
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It was exciting and humbling.
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Lauren: Certainly.
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I know it was a delight for me to, to
see how many people wanted to share
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their stories and how many people
were doing such wonderful things.
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I mean, It was delightful.
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Lynn: Both of you asked
such wonderful questions.
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Cause I, was in the background
doing, clicking everything.
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And, and then I would hear your question,
I'd think, Ooh, is that a good question?
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I'd like that.
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And then, you know, we would go
and, and then the conversation
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would go on a little more.
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And then you'd ask another question.
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And it wasn't just Jon, it
wasn't just Lauren, it was...
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Both of you together.
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You can tell you've worked
together, I think, a little bit.
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For a few years.
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Jon: Just for a while.
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But yeah, so I would say all in all,
this was just an amazing experience
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I think what we should do Lauren
is thank our guests and just talk
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about our guests for just a minute.
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Lauren: Our guests span
generations from, 20 to 80, right?
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We had many talents people who were
authors and musicians and ran nonprofits.
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people who were social activists
and advocates, volunteers, other
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podcasters prophetic voices and lay
people, bishops, priest and Deacons.
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It was a rich variety of people that,
that signed up to share the good news.
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Jon: Yeah, so we had 21
guests since mid June.
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Every week we had a new guest.
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And they were all very different, yet
in a way they were very much united in
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their commitment to Doing some good in the
world, to making the world a better place.
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And some in a very small way and others
are making a huge impact, but we hope
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that our viewers and listeners had a
chance to hear some of these stories.
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And to start thinking about, gosh,
is this something I could do?
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Do I want to be part of that thing?
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Or should I even think
about starting my own?
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So even if one person did that, I
would think this would be a success.
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But you know, earlier today,
Lynn asked me about the numbers.
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of people that viewed our
podcast or listened to it.
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You know, we have our website listening
for clues, which hosts all of our
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podcasts, and we had just about.
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2, 000 page views to Listening
for Clues since mid June,
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since we started this program.
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On YouTube, which is where we're hosting
all of our videos, but just started to
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promote that a little bit we've had almost
1, 400 views of our good news videos.
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And on Captivate which is
our audio podcast host.
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We had something like about 500 downloads
of the audio podcast so a lot of
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people have been listening, watching.
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Taking part and hopefully
being inspired by him.
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So that's just great.
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We said, this is our last episode of 2023.
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Are we done?
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Are we coming back?
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Lauren, what are we going to do?
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Lauren: We're going to come back
in:
2024
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forward to people signing up.
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Before that, we're going to have a mini
series the end of November and we'll
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tell you more about that as time goes on.
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Jon: Right, so kind of stay
tuned, next week we'll put out a
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publication that talks about what's
coming up in our mini series.
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We'll have some great folks lined
up for next year already for coming
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back to more episodes of good news.
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And we're hoping that even others will
will join us as we move forward in
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spreading the good news about people who
are making a difference in the world.
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Lauren: And before we go, we want to
thank all of our listeners and viewers.
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We can't do this without you, so we
look forward to seeing you next year.
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Until next time, peace and blessings.
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Please visit our website,
listeningforclues.
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com, where you can have access
to all of our audio and video
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podcasts in the 2023 season.
