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Last Cast
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- The Xero for Hire Podcast
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- Dec 2, 2025
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- 949
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Summary
In what might be the final Xeroforhire podcast episode of 2025, I started with something beautiful: a young woman on YouTube announcing that her channel is becoming explicitly Christian. She radiated joy as she declared that Jesus isn’t just a good teacher—He’s God Himself—and even if her body isn’t fully healed in this life, that’s okay. She’s getting a new one. That simple, confident hope stopped me in my tracks. You could see the new-creation glow in her eyes, the kind of uncontainable life that only comes when someone truly meets Christ. And it reminded me how rarely we talk about the actual promises of eschatology—the new heavens, new earth, and glorified bodies—without immediately descending into timeline charts and rapture debates. We all agree those future realities are coming (even if we disagree on the sequencing), yet we spend 95 % of our energy arguing about the 5 % we disagree on. Her video was a refreshing reminder that we can (and should) celebrate the universal, glorious hope we already possess in Christ without needing to win the prophecy argument first. The second half of the episode took a hard turn into something I’ve been wrestling with all year: social media has become pathological, and I’m done playing the game. I tried the “fresh account algorithm boost” experiment on X—set everything up exactly as the marketing gurus (and even some AIs) recommend—and watched in real time as literally zero people saw anything I posted. It’s no longer “pay to play.” It’s “perform like a dancing monkey or be invisible.” The only posts that break through are engagement-farm riddles, rage bait, or conspiracy nonsense. To get a single view as an artist or writer now requires you to become the very thing most of us went online to escape: aggressively terminally online…