Welcome to season 3! Mark and Rex kick off the new season by looking back at their summer reading list. You will find a great variety in their selections and hopefully a new book to read.

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore

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and your co host Rex Gurney.

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And Rex we're excited. This is the season opener of season three,

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season three.

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Season Three.

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So we're gonna be approaching by the end of season three we'll have almost 100 episodes. Oh wow. Wow. So excited for that. And we haven't really called them seasons until now. So maybe you didn't even know we had separate seasons. Oh, we are seasoned veterans.

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We are Yeah, we are seasoned veterans moving into you know, kind of looking at you know, the school year as as a season and in our summer of reruns which we'll we'll be able to add to even more this next summer and excited to to go into this new Season and Season Three coming out of the year that we just came out of exactly and and excited for what season three could hold we got a bunch of guests lined up and more authors more scholars hitting some of the same topics kind of going deeper into topics we have and exploring some some new areas so excited for that but what I thought about this first one right is we're just getting into it is September you know classes have just been going for just a little bit so we're getting our head back in the game right we're gonna head back in to the academic world wanted to kind of maybe look back at the summer and talk about you know what what you did this summer not like you know trips and things like that, but

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just stand up before the class and Alright, a little paper a good summer

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family when what I did in Grand Canyon, but more of what do you kind of studied and and research what you read? What will kind of perked your interest over the summer? And I have a couple things that I kind of focused in on the this summer on. But maybe we'll start start with you, Rex and maybe look at what was what was one book out of the many books because you already showed me your list of the many books maybe what was one book that really maybe turned on some lights for you this summer?

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Well, first of all, the list is not as long as I always hope it will be when I start the summer because, you know, I tend to just read I call it mercenary reading during the school year, because I'm always trying to just expand my knowledge base and you know, learn some new stuff for the classes and just but it's all you know, for a class, right? That's so I look forward to the summer. So I can just read for me. Although, you know, I taught two classes during the summer. And so a lot of the stuff I've read for pleasure is applicable to my classes. So when you can mix. Pleasure,

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there you go. Um, let's see, I'm reading right now, I'm not quite done with it. It was one of those books that I wanted to kind of skim or skim heavily, because you know, just I'm basically still on my read 20 books by five books, read 20 books by five books, because I have a whole shelves. Yeah, I haven't read yet. And I understand I'm not getting any, I'm not getting any younger. So I feel I have to do something about that. And so I look forward to just kind of skimming some of them. But I realized when I pick them up, it's like, well, now I know why I actually bought this thing a couple of years ago. And I can't skim this because it's a great book about Tom I read it. But it's an interesting book by a Spanish theologian slash philosopher called disarming beauty. And basically, his argument is how to talk about Christ in his frame of reference is mainly Europe. But we're kind of seeing, you know, in some ways, that Europeanization not in a good way of life here in the United States in, you know, for a long time, we would talk about Europe, that's the place where the birth rates are below replacement