Pastor Sarah Moon on Spiritual Abuse

Episode 8 January 27, 2022 00:20:40
Pastor Sarah Moon on Spiritual Abuse
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Pastor Sarah Moon on Spiritual Abuse

Jan 27 2022 | 00:20:40

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Pastor Sarah Moon discusses issues of Spirtual Abuse tied along with sexual abuse, domestic volience and sexism. And the importance of accountabilty in side the church.

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WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:04.040 Hi, this is Rachel and I come week that a special guest today, 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:09.029 Sarah Sarah, and she's a pastor for churches. Right now she's going to 3 00:00:09.070 --> 00:00:12.550 tell us a little bit about herself and then she's going to answer some questions 4 00:00:12.589 --> 00:00:19.750 about spiritual abuse. Hi. Like Rachel said, I am a pastor of 5 00:00:20.149 --> 00:00:26.379 four churches in kind of the Rural Ohio area. I am a recent seminary 6 00:00:26.460 --> 00:00:31.100 graduate and so these are my first four churches that I've ever had. So 7 00:00:31.219 --> 00:00:35.729 I'm still learning, but I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I 8 00:00:35.929 --> 00:00:39.850 married my spouse's named Abraham, so or Sarah and Abraham, which is a 9 00:00:39.929 --> 00:00:44.609 really good, strong biblical couple name, I guess, and we are the 10 00:00:44.729 --> 00:00:51.439 parents of three cats named pickle, Merril and moggy. So that's me, 11 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:57.920 that's my that's my elevator speech. Okay, here's some questions. What has 12 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:03.200 been your experience working with spiritually abuse, spiritual abuse in this church? Well, 13 00:01:03.390 --> 00:01:08.069 I grew up it in the independent Fundamental Baptist Church, which is a 14 00:01:08.790 --> 00:01:14.950 very strict it's not really a denomination, it's more of it's like a loose 15 00:01:14.989 --> 00:01:21.900 affiliation of Baptist churches and they are very strict and very conservative and a lot 16 00:01:21.980 --> 00:01:26.140 of harmful messaging, I would say, came out of that. I don't 17 00:01:26.180 --> 00:01:27.939 think anyone in the church would like come right out and say, yeah, 18 00:01:27.939 --> 00:01:33.290 abuse is good, we like abuse, but the theology that they taught and 19 00:01:33.450 --> 00:01:40.890 the lack of accountability that was present in the church structure was kind of enabled 20 00:01:40.930 --> 00:01:45.209 abuse, I would say. So, could you allow so that elaborate? 21 00:01:45.329 --> 00:01:51.359 Oh go ahead, can you elaborate? Well, for instance, the Independent 22 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:55.879 Fundamental Baptist church is not a denomination, like I said, and each church 23 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:00.790 kind of has like each pastor of each church kind of is the boss and 24 00:02:01.189 --> 00:02:06.390 if the pastor is doing something wrong, there's no one above him that you 25 00:02:06.469 --> 00:02:10.069 can go to. If a pastor is abusive, there's not much you can 26 00:02:10.150 --> 00:02:16.020 do about it except for go to the law if it's a criminal level of 27 00:02:16.139 --> 00:02:23.379 abuse. But yeah, there's not really much accountability. Yeah, a very 28 00:02:23.060 --> 00:02:30.930 strict gender roles also in the IFB like, women have to submit to men 29 00:02:31.490 --> 00:02:37.050 and no questioning it, women can't speak in the church, and so I 30 00:02:37.129 --> 00:02:44.479 think they'll strict gender roles definitely enable some abuse. How do you feel like 31 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:50.800 the church? Cold of fates, victim blamy? Yeah, well, actually, 32 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.319 when I was an undergraduate, I left the IFB and I majored in 33 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:01.909 women's suddies and I really started studying like feminist theology and victim centered theology, 34 00:03:02.069 --> 00:03:09.030 and then I actually did my thesis on Rape Myths and Victim Blaming and Christian 35 00:03:09.069 --> 00:03:15.020 dating guides, so like books that dating and marriage guides that Christians would read. 36 00:03:15.939 --> 00:03:22.659 And one thing that I found really interesting when I was doing this research 37 00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:28.810 was there are there's an article by Peter Glick and Susan Fisk that is about 38 00:03:28.849 --> 00:03:34.610 the concept of ambivalent sexism. Ambivalent sexism says that there's two different kinds of 39 00:03:34.650 --> 00:03:40.439 sexism. So there's benevolent sexism, which sees women as mothers, women as 40 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:46.400 nurturing women as kind of needing to be protected. So it's like not anti 41 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:52.759 woman, it kind of puts women on a pedestal, but it limits the 42 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.030 roles that women can hold. And on the other hand, there's hostile sexism 43 00:03:57.110 --> 00:04:01.270 which, like sees women, as, you know, sluts and terrible people 44 00:04:01.469 --> 00:04:05.069 and the you know, that's the more violent, more harmful form of sexism. 45 00:04:05.150 --> 00:04:10.580 And these two kinds of sexism are not totally separate. So you're not 46 00:04:10.780 --> 00:04:15.979 either a benevolent sexist or a hostile sexist. These two things work together. 47 00:04:15.620 --> 00:04:23.420 So benevolent sexism kind of justifies violence, because women who step outside of those 48 00:04:23.500 --> 00:04:30.329 rules of protection, those mother really nurturing roles, then bring it upon themselves. 49 00:04:30.490 --> 00:04:35.129 And I see how those kind of this concept of ambivalent sexism merely played 50 00:04:35.170 --> 00:04:40.759 out in the IFB because it had very strict gender roles. There are only 51 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:45.439 certain things a woman was supposed to do and if you step outside of that 52 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.399 role, then you're no longer the good woman who needs to be protected, 53 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:54.470 you're now the bad woman who either needs to be punished or, you know, 54 00:04:54.709 --> 00:04:58.829 brings it on herself because she stepped outside of the protection of men. 55 00:04:59.189 --> 00:05:05.829 So okay. It's something that I think was interesting. How do you think 56 00:05:05.829 --> 00:05:16.459 the church could do better with helping with sexual use? SACTOS UM? I 57 00:05:16.579 --> 00:05:21.050 think first of all, just rethinking those gender roles as a really important first 58 00:05:21.089 --> 00:05:26.930 step. The other thing I think is really important is I have a deeper 59 00:05:27.129 --> 00:05:32.610 and more robust sexual ethic. I think a lot of churches their sexual ethics 60 00:05:32.769 --> 00:05:39.560 are there's good sex and that's marital sex, and there's bad sex and that's 61 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:43.279 pretty marital sex and that's as far as it goes. There's no nuances there 62 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.959 and and that really allows for, I think, a lot of sexual abuse 63 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.910 to take place. Another thing I talked about in my thesis was there's this 64 00:05:51.110 --> 00:05:58.149 idea in a lot of Christian dating books that only bad girls say yes. 65 00:05:58.629 --> 00:06:02.589 So if a if a girl has a teenage girl or a young woman has 66 00:06:02.670 --> 00:06:08.379 premarital sex, she's bad and it doesn't matter what the nuances were or if 67 00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:14.100 it's consensual or not. And on the other hand, only bad wives say 68 00:06:14.259 --> 00:06:16.540 no. And so on the other hand, once you're married you can't say 69 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:20.610 no to sex, and so then that allows for a lot of domestic and 70 00:06:21.009 --> 00:06:27.730 marital abuse and allows that to be justified. So I think rethinking our gender 71 00:06:27.769 --> 00:06:32.439 roles, rethinking our sexual ethics and then just on a more practical level as 72 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:36.519 a pastor, and right now I'm a pastor in the United Methodist Church, 73 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:42.399 so I'm no longer in the IFB and I like the Methodist Church because it 74 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:48.709 has that structure and that hierarchy. So we have policies that we have to 75 00:06:48.829 --> 00:06:54.350 implement as pastors and if I don't implement those policies I'm going to get fired 76 00:06:54.389 --> 00:06:59.149 from my job. So I have that accountability. And so we call ours 77 00:06:59.430 --> 00:07:03.060 safe sanctuaries and they lay out things like, if you work with kids, 78 00:07:03.139 --> 00:07:08.339 you have to have a background check and people can't be alone with children in 79 00:07:08.420 --> 00:07:14.220 the church and and this allows and here's who you report to if you hear 80 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:17.449 about sexual abuse or any kind of abuse taking place. And so it's all 81 00:07:17.569 --> 00:07:25.730 laid out and it's not like this vague. It's not vague and everyone knows 82 00:07:25.810 --> 00:07:30.600 what to do when abuse takes place. And so I think that's really important 83 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.720 and it's something that I like about my denomination. You know, we don't 84 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:40.399 always do everything perfectly and not everyone follows those policies, unfortunately, and you 85 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:45.910 still have cases of abuse, but there are those guards that I think really 86 00:07:45.949 --> 00:07:50.829 protect especially children. How do you think the church could do better with hoping, 87 00:07:50.910 --> 00:07:57.750 with domestic violence? Yeah, I think again, those gender roles and 88 00:07:57.870 --> 00:08:05.420 those sexual ethics are really important for us to rethink. I also think leaders 89 00:08:05.939 --> 00:08:11.740 should research how abuse works, because I think a lot of us we assume 90 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:16.290 we already know what abuse looks like. It looks like a man being mean 91 00:08:16.410 --> 00:08:20.769 and hitting and punching and and really the fact is that a lot of abusers 92 00:08:20.810 --> 00:08:26.160 are very manipulative and they manipulate the people around their victims to get them on 93 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:31.560 their side, and that especially they do this too leaders, because we have 94 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:37.200 power and if we if they get us on their side, they have our 95 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:41.990 power and can use our power to continue to abuse. So I think leaders 96 00:08:41.990 --> 00:08:46.909 should really know what abuse looks like. I recommend the book why does he 97 00:08:48.110 --> 00:08:52.909 do that? By Lundie Bancroft, which is a really good book about what 98 00:08:52.710 --> 00:08:58.539 the nuances of abuse looks like in the ways that people will, abusers will 99 00:08:58.620 --> 00:09:03.980 manipulate the people around their victims, and it was really enlightening for me. 100 00:09:03.139 --> 00:09:07.059 It's a little bit of an older book and I think there's some language in 101 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:13.889 there that I might there's some like Heterosex I think there's a heteronormative assumptions in 102 00:09:13.970 --> 00:09:18.409 this book, but I think overall it's a really good book to read for 103 00:09:18.529 --> 00:09:24.720 any leader who wants to understand abuse better. Question that's going to go off 104 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:31.320 the books here. How do you think scripture has been misused to abuse women 105 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:39.149 or minorities or in that manner? Right? I think the one I see 106 00:09:39.230 --> 00:09:45.669 the most is child abuse from scripture. So this idea of spare the Rod, 107 00:09:45.830 --> 00:09:48.909 spoil a child, which is not exactly in scripture, but there's similar 108 00:09:48.950 --> 00:09:54.659 versus to that and people use that to justify child abuse and some people, 109 00:09:54.539 --> 00:10:00.019 even in the IFB, also use that to justify abusing their wives, and 110 00:10:00.139 --> 00:10:05.860 so I think that's one way. Then all the chapters, all the verses 111 00:10:05.899 --> 00:10:11.129 about divorce, I think are often used to get women to stay in abusive 112 00:10:11.169 --> 00:10:22.200 relationships even when they really need to leave, and this idea of like divorce 113 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.080 being the worst thing you can do versus, you know, abusing women being 114 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:31.039 the worst thing you can do. So yeah, that's my thought. Okay, 115 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:39.470 what are things that trigger you working in the Church today? Um, 116 00:10:41.230 --> 00:10:43.549 well, I've done a lot of I think I've done a lot of healing. 117 00:10:43.789 --> 00:10:50.500 So I think I used to be very triggered in church and now my 118 00:10:50.659 --> 00:10:54.340 triggers, I think, are a little bit more subtle. I think what 119 00:10:54.500 --> 00:11:00.460 triggers me is people criticizing my leadership or people that don't like me or people, 120 00:11:01.940 --> 00:11:03.289 you know, when I make a small mistake. I'm kind of a 121 00:11:03.370 --> 00:11:09.450 perfectionist because I grew up with a verbally abusive father and so whenever I get 122 00:11:09.490 --> 00:11:11.250 criticism I'm like, oh no, it's the end of the world. I'm 123 00:11:11.250 --> 00:11:18.879 a terrible person, which is not true and not healthy position for leaders to 124 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:24.480 take, and so that's something I continue to work on. And then I 125 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:30.080 think the other thing that maybe triggers me is these very oversimplified sexual ethics that 126 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:35.029 even, I think, even more progressive churches tend to have, where you 127 00:11:35.070 --> 00:11:39.309 talk about pre marital sex is bad and marital sex is good and that's all 128 00:11:39.389 --> 00:11:41.710 you talk about. That just I don't know if it triggers me, but 129 00:11:41.789 --> 00:11:46.509 it bothers me and I will get on my soapbox whenever I hear it. 130 00:11:46.379 --> 00:11:54.620 Yeah, now I get that. Ooh. What are the things that used 131 00:11:54.659 --> 00:12:00.460 to trigger you inside the Church? I think there's a time when I didn't 132 00:12:00.539 --> 00:12:05.850 go to church at all because of just just being in a church building I 133 00:12:05.929 --> 00:12:09.809 found triggering, and so I kind of stopped going to church for a few 134 00:12:09.809 --> 00:12:15.610 years. I ended up going back to a universalist church, which really helped 135 00:12:15.649 --> 00:12:20.960 me because it was a church and yet it wasn't this explicit Christian context. 136 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.039 And went to a universalist church for a while and ended up, through a 137 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:30.149 long story, ended up in the UMC, but it took a long time 138 00:12:30.269 --> 00:12:33.870 to get there because just being in a church for a while I found triggering. 139 00:12:37.509 --> 00:12:46.419 Can You elaterate on anything specific? I don't know, like some of 140 00:12:46.500 --> 00:12:52.259 the songs you would saying would be. I think there's some songs that Baptist 141 00:12:52.299 --> 00:12:54.940 sing which actually kind of like now, but this is on the other side 142 00:12:54.980 --> 00:12:58.490 of a lot of healing I've done that talk about, you know, nothing 143 00:12:58.610 --> 00:13:05.889 but the blood of Jesus, or just this like violent sounding which, you 144 00:13:05.970 --> 00:13:07.970 know, if it's in the context of good theology, I don't think it's 145 00:13:07.970 --> 00:13:13.639 actually promoting violence, but in the context of a church that does promote violence, 146 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:18.399 to hear this theology of Atonement, of about God killing his son and 147 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:26.350 and blood and all the suffering and that I found really triggering. How does 148 00:13:26.429 --> 00:13:33.509 God helped you heal with dealing with fundamentalism and legalism inside the church? I 149 00:13:33.669 --> 00:13:39.269 think like we tend to project our own experiences on to God and a lot 150 00:13:39.350 --> 00:13:43.700 of people kind of see God. I think the most common is they see 151 00:13:43.740 --> 00:13:46.700 God through the Lens of their parents, especially father's, or a preacher. 152 00:13:46.899 --> 00:13:52.659 So growing up with an abusive father and growing up in a, I would 153 00:13:52.700 --> 00:13:56.929 say an abusive church, it was kind of hard to have a relationship with 154 00:13:58.129 --> 00:14:01.210 God and I think the way that God helped was, you know, God 155 00:14:01.289 --> 00:14:09.210 doesn't care if you're angry at him or her. God doesn't. God Can 156 00:14:09.289 --> 00:14:13.559 handle our anger and God can handle our grief and God can handle our pain 157 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.799 in a way that I think most humans can't, and just God being there 158 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:24.309 and being this stable force of grace in my life that I could go to 159 00:14:24.669 --> 00:14:28.590 with any emotion and with any feeling. It took a long time to get 160 00:14:28.629 --> 00:14:35.269 there, but I think God is patient to God was with me on that 161 00:14:35.350 --> 00:14:39.899 journey. So, Oh, what is one thing that you pray for? 162 00:14:41.419 --> 00:14:48.460 Our want for your churches? Um, I want my churches I'm in the 163 00:14:48.580 --> 00:14:52.139 right now. I'm in the United Methodist Church and if you know anything about 164 00:14:52.139 --> 00:14:54.049 the United Methodist Church, if you've heard about it on the news, we 165 00:14:54.129 --> 00:15:00.049 are currently in a huge fight about whether or not we're going to become lgbt 166 00:15:00.210 --> 00:15:05.490 affirming, and I think when it comes to abuse, I mean just I 167 00:15:05.649 --> 00:15:09.120 want us to become lgbt affirming just because that's the right thing to do, 168 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:16.320 but also when it comes to abuse. We cannot fully address abuse unless we 169 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:22.909 let go of these traditional gender roles which are the driving force behind this anti 170 00:15:22.110 --> 00:15:26.549 lgbt movement in the church, this idea that there's a place for men and 171 00:15:26.710 --> 00:15:31.269 a place for women and you don't cross those lines. And I think we 172 00:15:31.470 --> 00:15:37.179 can give lip service to the idea of being against abuse. We can have 173 00:15:37.379 --> 00:15:41.740 these policies and that's really important, but I think the next step that we 174 00:15:41.899 --> 00:15:48.460 need to do is really get rid of gender roles all together and or not 175 00:15:48.820 --> 00:15:52.889 necessarily get rid of gender roles, but realize that they are socially constructed and 176 00:15:54.049 --> 00:15:58.210 be a little bit more flexible with those gender roles so that so that we 177 00:15:58.289 --> 00:16:04.480 aren't perpetuating these rape myths and these victim blaming attitudes. And I think in 178 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:08.840 order for us to take that next step, we have to become lgbt affirming. 179 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:15.120 So that's what I pray for for my church. What advice would you 180 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:22.590 get ministers today that are dealing with spiritual abuse personally or with their congregation? 181 00:16:22.669 --> 00:16:26.710 Yeah, I think my first thing I would say is do your research. 182 00:16:29.549 --> 00:16:33.539 Have maybe do some research. See if there are domestic violence shelters in your 183 00:16:33.620 --> 00:16:38.340 area, know their phone numbers, if if they ever put on training events, 184 00:16:38.379 --> 00:16:42.139 see if you can go to those and read these books and read the 185 00:16:42.179 --> 00:16:47.409 books I told you one. Dy Bancroft has a lot of good books about 186 00:16:47.409 --> 00:16:51.210 this topic and just kind of know what's going on. I would also say 187 00:16:52.289 --> 00:16:57.809 have a support group and because it can be hard to address abuse in your 188 00:16:57.850 --> 00:17:00.960 church if you are a leader. Thankfully, I've only had to do it 189 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:08.200 one time in my career so far where I had to call CPS because of 190 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:12.480 an abuse case that was going on, and it's really hard to do. 191 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:18.390 It is tough and it is triggering and having a support group of people that 192 00:17:18.509 --> 00:17:23.549 you can talk to can be really, really helpful. Also, really I 193 00:17:23.630 --> 00:17:27.029 would suggest therapy for anyone, even if you don't think you need it, 194 00:17:27.269 --> 00:17:33.940 because I think all leaders struggle with this need to be liked and if you 195 00:17:33.099 --> 00:17:37.740 are addressing abuse in your church, if you are rocking the boat in that 196 00:17:37.779 --> 00:17:41.740 area, you're not always going to be liked. If you call CPS on 197 00:17:41.819 --> 00:17:48.049 someone, they probably won't like you anymore, and so having that support and 198 00:17:48.450 --> 00:17:52.650 learning to get over that need to be liked will make you a better leader 199 00:17:52.809 --> 00:17:57.130 and it will help you to keep people safe. I would say my other 200 00:17:57.289 --> 00:18:02.720 my last advice is, well, another thing I had. It is have 201 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:07.599 policies. So if you're in a denomination like the United Methodist Church, they 202 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:12.630 require policies, but make sure you have those policies in place of who gets 203 00:18:12.670 --> 00:18:17.509 to work with children, what the boundaries are, what the limits are. 204 00:18:17.670 --> 00:18:19.950 How are you going to keep kids safe and make sure everyone in your church 205 00:18:21.109 --> 00:18:26.180 that works with people knows those policies. And also, one thing I think 206 00:18:26.420 --> 00:18:30.740 a lot of us don't think about, make sure every group that meets in 207 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:36.259 your Church building knows those policies and signs them. The Methodist Church and a 208 00:18:36.299 --> 00:18:40.779 lot of other churches are having some issues with this because the boy scouts of 209 00:18:40.900 --> 00:18:45.289 America are going bankrupt and a lot of people are bringing up abuse cases, 210 00:18:45.569 --> 00:18:49.930 some of which happened in the boy scouts, but the boy scouts met in 211 00:18:51.089 --> 00:18:56.400 specific church buildings and because there were no policies decades ago in these abuse cases 212 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.440 are coming up from past decades. There were no policies back then, and 213 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.799 so I think it's important to not just have, you know, Sunday school 214 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.519 and nursery workers sign this, but if you have boy scouts or girl scouts 215 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.829 who meet at Your Church building, make sure they have these policies as well 216 00:19:11.950 --> 00:19:15.309 and review them often. Okay, anything else you would like to add? 217 00:19:17.509 --> 00:19:22.589 Um? Let's see. I think my other thing would be for leaders just 218 00:19:23.660 --> 00:19:29.220 be secure enough in your own faith that you can listen to other people's stories 219 00:19:29.339 --> 00:19:33.299 of spiritual abuse without getting defensive, and I think that can be a hard 220 00:19:33.420 --> 00:19:37.849 thing to do when someone is saying this aspect of the faith hurt me and 221 00:19:37.970 --> 00:19:41.490 it triggers me and I don't want to be in church and I don't want 222 00:19:41.490 --> 00:19:45.130 to hear it. It can be easy to try to argue or try to 223 00:19:45.210 --> 00:19:49.170 convince them otherwise, but I would suggest be secure in your own faith, 224 00:19:49.250 --> 00:19:53.359 in your own life that you can hear these stories and just hear people out, 225 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:59.480 because that's really what people need, not arguments, but someone to listen. 226 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:04.119 So yeah, do you have any other questions for me? I guess 227 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:11.589 that's really it, like I can't think of anything else. So thanks for 228 00:20:11.710 --> 00:20:18.910 coming on my shows, Sarah, thanks for having me, and I think 229 00:20:18.950 --> 00:20:22.220 that's it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Rachel and recovery. You can 230 00:20:22.539 --> 00:20:26.900 follow us on facebook, twitter, Linkedin or you and you can watch us 231 00:20:26.940 --> 00:20:33.059 on almost every platform, whether that's spotify, apple or Google. Thanks for 232 00:20:34.019 --> 00:20:37.089 listening and I will see you next Thursday.

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