Good News 2023 Season Closing

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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.