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Our first merch item is available for preorder, and it's a doozy... Get yours at https://growing-up-christian.storenvy.com/
Who among us hasn’t spent a Wednesday evening listening to a dopey youth pastor in carpenter jeans and witty t-shirt (‘Let’s taco bout Jesus’ or ‘iPray’) preach a sermon on “the dangers of giving your heart away?” The subsequent object lesson usually involved chewed gum, a beat up car, or our favorite - a paper heart. The 30-something adolescent development expert would then instruct you to tear off a piece for every girlfriend/boyfriend you had, every crush you’ve experienced, and worst of all, every time you experienced lust. The implication was that the tattered paper remnant in your hand was all that’s left for you to give to your future spouse – a powerful lesson coming from a guy who had courted his wife for 3 months before proposing! Well friends, we’re declaring all of our listeners virgins once more! To celebrate our perpetual purity, we’re offering our very first merchandise, the “Born Again Virgin” tee. These shirts are sustainably-sourced, super soft, and printed by our buddy Zach whose work you can find on Instagram @zachmerrill_. We absolutely love them! Don’t hide the good news under your bush, virgins… let it shine! Go to https://growing-up-christian.storenvy.com/ and preorder yours!
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Transcript
Launch of First T-Shirt
00:00:02
Speaker
Hey guys, it's Sam and Casey. We are making this emergency special broadcast to tell you some very exciting news.
Development Challenges
00:00:10
Speaker
We are launching our first t-shirt and we could not be more excited about it. We've been working on it for probably longer than most people work on t-shirts to be honest, but we have a lot of stuff going on in our personal lives, so cut us a break.
Anticipation and Design Excitement
00:00:26
Speaker
People have been wondering when we're going to drop our first round of merch and the design that we have, I think. I'm very excited about it. I mean, I think it's on brand for us and I couldn't be more excited to share it with you all.
Youth Group Heart Metaphor
00:00:41
Speaker
Casey, do you want to go ahead and give us a little bit of a rundown on your youth group experience? Imagine you're sitting in youth group. It's Wednesday night, right?
00:00:51
Speaker
Uh, the girl that you like is like three chairs up and to the left. Your buddies are sitting next to you and a Pastor Jim comes in and he's wearing one of those visors from PacSun like 2002. Oh, he's got a really important message for you. He's going to talk about gardening your heart.
00:01:12
Speaker
given him a look i gotta ask real quick if he has an m&m look is it the. With the visor remember m&m he wore it upside down and backwards i don't how risky is this you faster going. How much is wearing it forward and i would imagine he has his t shirt tucked into his jeans it's like this is his connection to the youth is this visor the visors are you like this like your hair yeah no that's what was dope about visors is you could always keep your spiky hair going.
00:01:39
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. Frost those tips. So anyways, Pastor Jim hands all of you a piece of paper and he tells you to draw a heart and cut it out. We've talked about this scenario a little bit before. It might sound familiar to you. Then he goes into talking about how you got to guard your heart because it's precious and you only got one.
Theatrical Demonstration by Pastor Jim
00:02:00
Speaker
And then he asks you, have you ever had a girlfriend or boyfriend that didn't work out?
00:02:06
Speaker
If you have, he wants you to take a little piece off of that thing. Have you ever had a crush on somebody? Did you ever get a little crush on a celebrity or something? Maybe a Lizzie McGuire or, you know, Harry Styles. Take a little piece out of your heart. Rhett and Steven's. Come on.
00:02:30
Speaker
Have you ever lusted after anyone and everybody's going to lie about it, but you're supposed to tear a piece out of your heart for that? No one does. Everyone's thinking Brent Stevens.
00:02:43
Speaker
After it's all said and done, he wants you to hold up your heart and he's like, look, this crumpled, destroyed thing. This is all that's left to your precious heart, your gift from God.
Critique of Heart Metaphor
00:02:54
Speaker
And this is all you have left to give to your husband and nobody wants this. Your wife's not gonna want this. And maybe it varies a little bit. And he sets it on lock there right in front of you and stomps it out. And it's a big theatrical scene. Is that how it goes? I think that would be at a Pentecostal church, but yeah, probably. Might have taken that from Tommy, boy.
00:03:15
Speaker
Maybe your object lesson included like a piece of chewing gum passed down the line from kid to kid or maybe they talked about like a rental car that's been beat up or something like that regardless. You can't put toothpaste back into a tube. I got that one. It was like that squeeze a little bit out. It doesn't go back in and then you try to try. That's one of the games. Can you put any of this back in? Felt creepy.
00:03:42
Speaker
It's weird and it's gross and it's one of those things that is stupid as it is. All of us remember it forever.
'Born Again Virgins' T-Shirt Theme
00:03:50
Speaker
So our first t-shirt is dedicated to that. If you feel like maybe a little distraught over your tattered heart, we want you to know that there's a secret out there we've discovered. You can actually just declare yourself a virgin.
00:04:11
Speaker
We are declaring everyone here in this message a virgin, a perpetual virgin. A born again virgin. A born again virgin. That's what you all are to us and that's what we are to you. I don't care if you're married, you have kids, it doesn't matter. Perpetual virginity forever.
Pre-order Process and Social Media
00:04:32
Speaker
So, our first shirt goes out to all you born again virgins out there, and it's going to be available through store envy. You'll find links in our social media profiles, but it's a limited run. It's kind of a first-come, first-served thing. It's going to be a pre-order. We'll have the pre-order open for two weeks unless they all sell out before that. It might close early.
00:04:58
Speaker
Uh, but once they sold out, they're gone. We might do another run later. We'll see how everything goes. But right now we'll pretend like
Encouragement to Purchase T-Shirt
00:05:04
Speaker
too bad. If you snooze, you lose. So don't sleep on it. Order your, uh, your official GUC merch. We got a new logo on the front, uh, which we're excited about. We love the way that came out. And shout out to our buddy Ryan for, uh, for doing the design on this thing.
00:05:21
Speaker
Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did great work on it. We had a good back and forth for a while and I couldn't be more excited about how how it came out. So yeah, go ahead. Check out the link. Look at the shirt. Realize you fall. You fell in love with it. Don't don't give a piece of your heart away to it. I gotta advise you against that.
Purity Reminder and Religious Absolution
00:05:40
Speaker
Hard that hard. But and keep it pure, virgins. Keep it pure. We it's that's important. But if you slip up
00:05:47
Speaker
This shirt will remind you that you can be born again and you will be pure before your Lord and savior. And I'm excited that we, I feel almost like a priest at this point, right? Where we can absolve people from their sins. And I wasn't Catholic, but I knew that was a pretty good gig having that kind
Humorous Warning and Invitation for More Content
00:06:06
Speaker
of power. So I'm excited to have to be able to bestow that upon all of you. And if you don't get it, then you're still, now you're just, you know, you lost your virginity and you're dirty. You're not clean.
00:06:16
Speaker
I don't know what to tell you. You just gotta wait. You gotta wait until the next round, I guess. Your name was not found in the book of GUC, and we cast you out. We spit you out of our mouth because you were lukewarm. So yeah, check it out, and you know, if you like it, order yourself one. Order one for a family member. And remember, we'll be back with a brand new episode on Tuesday. Till then, keep it pure.