I

mean, between now and when we actually have this discussion, some of these points might even change.

Well, they will change.

I'm going to say might.

A lot of these will actually even change between now and then.

So I'll even start up a little bit higher level than just Stablecoin.

We'll talk kind of broadly around this whole concept of tokenization.

Can you kind of explain what a blockchain network is?

Well, Ryan, in the short time that we have, I'd love to jump right into the code and let you tell us what you think are some of the most important code changes of the '26 cycle.

Yeah.

Well, probably when you open up the code book, one of the very first changes in, in 90.3, anytime we play with Article 90, it's a big deal.

Article 90 to me is kinda sacred ground.

If you change anything in Article 90, you are changing the whole book.

And there was a change made in 90.3. Before, Chapter 8, uh, was its own little code book, right? In previous versions of the code, nothing in Chapters 1 through 7 applied to Chapter 8, uh, unless Chapter 8 said so.

And they changed that so that Chapter 8 now has to comply with Chapters 1 through 7.

Has the code makers, the NFPA, shared any ideas of system improvements that you're aware of on Link, what's gonna be ... we can be looking forward to in the future?

Was that, like, something that you were super passionate about when you got Cats, or is this something that kind of grew throughout your career? Like, what was that experience as, like, that such a focal point of the show was something that's become so important to your life now?

I mean, it's one of my favorite stories to tell.

Like, the makeup is so prevalent.

It's, it's part of the character.

It's part of the aesthetic.

It what, it's what helps transform you, right? Besides putting on your little rope tail.

Um- But they give you makeup fittings, but they have to go through an entire cast, so you're not getting a lot of hands-on.

Yeah

What was that experience like?

That was honestly the best college experience I've had in my summer.

Everybody's welcoming there.

The coaching staffs, the players are all there to have the best time, best competition against each other.

The host families are great.

The area of Cape Cod is awesome.

I definitely recommend anyone to go there in the summer.

What is your

How do you really, like, connect those two sides together? 'Cause I think a lot of health systems struggle with that.

That's a great question.

So, you know, it's always a work in progress, but I think that we're doing and we're making some really good strides, I'd say, in creating what I like to call this ecosystem of care.

So Memorial Hermann, I'd say we're somewhat unique in our approach to trying to do exactly that.

How do you address and prevent some of the chronic conditions that we're seeing in our community while also addressing some of the, those non-medical drivers that may have actually led to those conditions coming about? And so I'd say our approach is two to three layers of it.

One, we really lean into screening for non-medical drivers of health.

We have more than 40 to almost 50 community health workers across the community health division who are strategically placed throughout our traditional community benefit programming.

I know this is complex and long-term work, and it's not going to solve all of the issues today or tomorrow, but as you're looking towards the future, like, where do you see this going, and what would Houston look like in five years if this work was having the impact you wanted it to?

But Ryan, talk to us about a resource that has been particularly important for you as you think about preaching and shape your preaching ministry.

Well, thanks, guys.

Great to talk about this.

Preaching has always been a very special thing for me.

In fact, I ended up at Gordon-Conwell because I loved the ministry of Haddon Robinson.

And so I went there and ultimately he became a mentor and a friend.

I became his teaching assistant in his homiletics courses.

Do you go back into them and remind yourself? What's your relationship to them over the years?

What was it about the church identity cohort that you were inclined to explore and then ultimately come on board and do the process?

Yeah, thanks, Joel.

Several things.

First of all, I think it's the stage of life where our church is at the moment.

Like a lot of churches, we had some very, very difficult years in COVID and post-COVID.

And, you know, I think we all can kind of look back to the pre-COVID world with some longings and also some gratefulness that, you know, things have shifted in positive ways too.

But it did create some difficult time for us and just in our community, just kind of a perfect storm of things coming together in our community.

The first

what is Cas? What is that?

So, yeah, thank you.

That's great.

That's a great lead-in.

Yeah.

You know, it just talked about how there's this CRISPR in the genome of bacteria, but scientists really didn't know what it was doing, even though it was across many, many different types of bacteria.

And then in the early 2000s, scientists realized that there were other genes adjacent to the CRISPR that looked like they would, you know, eventually make through the process of making an RNA and then a protein, that they would make proteins that might be important.

Partners who can get this to...

Mm-hmm

... soldier or something.

But, uh, yeah, we were getting ready to go to the field, and he was guarding the weapons, and put his weapon on three-round burst and just underneath the sign that said, "We set the standards." You know.

Mm-hmm

... don't know about it yet.

So that's what we wanna do is, 'cause it ...

Not just him.

Just from being on the podcast and talking about it, two, uh, three soldiers total that I know of, like, I've walked them through the process of getting a dog.

But at the same time you've also got the, "Hold on, these guys that I've just trained."

Just trained, and now I'm gonna leave them.

Um, and my worst fears actually happened.

You know, they were in Afghanistan.

I was, I had just graduated drill sergeant school.

I was on the .50 cal range, um, yelling at some privates.

And I get a call from my ex-wife saying that my squad got hit.

Mm-hmm.