Rex and Mark record their first socially distant podcast and discuss how the Christian community has responded to pandemics in the past and how it can best respond now.

TRANSCRIPT

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore, and your co host Rex Gurney. And today Rex on the show. We're going to talk about what everyone has been talking about and that is the coronavirus pandemic.

0:14

And you probably noticed that we are actually not in our studio, but we are doing this from the comfort of our own. I don't know where are you at Mark? I'm in my guest room actually. Okay, okay, I'm in our guest room turned off syncing. Both both guestrooms Yep, there we go. Everything's perfect. And

0:33

we got our own little studios for schools and And now for the podcast. And we really want to focus in today's episode, just kind of highlighting the Christian response maybe to everything that's going on, there's been so much on the news, so much. So many rages daily. It's just, it's all over the place. It does. Yeah, you could you could kind of think, you know, something one day, and within a couple of hours, it changes, right. And there's also been a lot that maybe Christians have put online and different responses to this. And we just kind of want to cover it. What does it look like to to be a Christian maybe in the middle of this pandemic? And what are some of our responsibilities? And what are some of our actions and reactions to this?

1:27

Rex, we are not in the studio today. We are zooming away from from the studio there. Jessup, Stan safe, how are you doing during this quarantine?

1:40

Um, you

1:41

know, I'm actually working more than I usually do, which is interesting, because, you know, it's not like, I'm going anywhere. And that computer is always staring at me. And those Jessup emails are always staring at me. And so I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I have to actually just deliberately, like, put my phone away. And you know, at a certain time in the evening, just so that I don't just work all the time.

2:03

Right. I know, it's true. And it's praying for so many people who are listening to podcasts, and now they're working at home, I have found that I'm working more and yeah, it's because the computer is always there. I can always sit down and grade a little bit more, right answer another email, right. And so you do have to kind of find this kind of balance, right.

2:23

And something else, you know, for those of you who may not only be listening, but it's possible that there might be some video with with this podcast where we're going to, we're all in sort of uncharted territory right now. So we decided on the podcast to do the same thing. And you probably noticed that there's, there's a handsome guy with a beard there. And then there's, then there's Rex Carney. Pretty much what we looked like, both, I guess bearded wonders here. But you know, as right, that comes with the beard.

2:53

That's exactly. And I've been encouraging people who kind of during this time of quarantine, it's a great time to grow a beard. So,

3:01

well, I may be more than that, actually. Because it just kind of dawned on me like sometime last week that depending on how long this is, and depending on you know, if this thing, you know, spins into the summer, then I might not be able to get a haircut for like three months. And so if I can't get a haircut for three months, I might as I might just throw caution to the wind and you know, come back to school next fall with a ponytail. We'll see. There we go. We'll see.

3:30

I'm looking forward to that. You heard it here on the podcasts. There's gonna be a Rex Gurney Tony Dale, go just fold john the baptist on everybody. slit her hair out that you'd

3:41

say I already did that. I have my midlife crisis about 15 years ago. And I decided to to grow my hair like it was in college. And so I kind of that might have been a little bit before you