Episode 190

Programming Youth Group With NO SPEAKER?!

February 26th, 2026

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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Programming with no Speaker
01:34 Hybrid Ministry - Stretch Goals
02:47 Why Post to YouTube?
04:29 No Repeat Order
08:09 Custom Game - LIVE Demonstration
13:09 So, how did it go?

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TRANSCRIPT
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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Well. Hello.

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And good morning.

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Today we are programing our Wednesday night with

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no

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speaker.

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Yeah, you heard that right.

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We're also still in this playlist completing these three challenges,

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which are no repeated order. We're going to create a game from scratch on win. And finally I'm going to recap the entire night, let you know how it went. And not only am I going to

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recap

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the night

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and the game that I created, but I'm also going to give you the game for free.

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So stick around to the end of the video so that you can see

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how you can get access that. Welcome everybody to the Hybrid Ministry Show.

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Welcome, everybody, to the hybrid ministry show. And, first order of business is we have to map out service order and we can't let the order repeat. So if

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you look in here on screen, you'll see that on the left here, this is, week one service order. And if you look here on the right, this is week two's service order.

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And so we're going to go ahead and we're going to make a completely different service order. But

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yes you heard it right because for the entire teaching topic we discussed in last week's video links right here that I will not actually be present. I won a or I don't even know, like I guess I won or was given, a free trip with my wife to get away kid free, for like, pastor and wives retreat and so the week that I'm programing is the week that I will be absent and we're going to be during and in the middle of our sex and dating and relationships

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series.

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So, we talked about a little bit last week, but this was the original order. But because of my trip, this is how we reshuffled things a little bit. And so we're going to be playing the already prerecorded video

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from this week in the room. And here's the thing. Like some of you, you may not know this, but

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we

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already have recorded

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these teaching topics.

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sat down, went into our studio,

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and this is a big part of our

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hybrid

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ministry strategy. And and what I recommend, like if you download my seasonal social media

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pack, which is free for Patreon members, by the way, and Patreon is only $4 a month, $48 for the year.

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If you download my pack, I recommend that you get active on social media and that you post like three

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times per week.

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But then, in the towards the end of the book, I challenge you, to consider a stretch goal. And a great stretch goal is to record and post all of

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your messages to YouTube or to, some sort of long form platform.

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I guess I say some other long form platform is if YouTube isn't the option like it is, the option is the number one social media for for students.

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But that what that does, is it gives you a multiplicity of options.

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Number one.

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It creates a long, long form library of content like a long tail library of content. So,

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messages from

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multiple years back are still relevant, because hopefully we're teaching the truth of God's word.

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someone can go back in and and get an answer to something or to to study a topic on something that we've already done in the past. We've done the work we put the work in.

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Secondarily,

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our leaders, like many of our leaders, lead the discussion based off of the message. But they don't come on Wednesday night when we preach it live.

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And so therefore, having the video allows them to still hear the content, even if they're not able to make it in the room.

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It's also a tool for parents. We're going to be using it during this series. I'm going to be sending it out ahead of time to parents being like, hey, listen, here we go. Like, this is all we're talking about in case you want to know, in case you want to get in front of it, in case you want to have conversations with the students.

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And so it gives us tons of great options. But the other option that you're seeing today is that it's going to give us the option

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like, I don't have to get a guest speaker. I don't to get a pinch hitter. Like, I can still speak and I can still,

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messaging for youth group, and,

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we can be off to the races without needing to do anything like crazy on that.

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And

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so

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it's really helpful to us. It's really beneficial. And so

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that might be something that you would consider down the road. That might be something that you might even consider. Now I got some coaching options down below my link tree. Go ahead and take a look at that. See if there's something you want. I can I can walk you through how we do that.

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today specifically,

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you know, week one we went two songs opening announcements, games receive message response song

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we two we went message songs, games rest of message and then songs. So we need a now third

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order.

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this is the just preset order.

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So we're going to

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we're going to mess with it and we're going to put in a new order. And as a reminder, I'm going to open here with

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welcome announcements game. The game is going to be the custom game that I'm going to create. And today, we'll see in a minute because I got to hop in the lab and I'll let you know how that spits out

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on the other side of things.

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But

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today

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I'm thinking about doing some sort of

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Winter Olympic themed game. We will be in the middle or towards the very end of the Winter Olympics by February 18th.

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And so I think that that would be, a fun kind of like way to to celebrate that and, to lean into that just a little bit. So,

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so anyway, that's one thing about, and then here I'm programing, I'm gonna do a song, and then I'm going to do,

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first part of the message, and I think I'm going to try and break my message up into three parts.

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So part one

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but typically I'm at like 12 minutes. So we're going to do like four minute, four minute chunks.

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So we'll do a four minute chunk and then a four minute table talk.

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Another.

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Some actually actually okay. So I'm changing my order already. So I'm going to do the opening song.

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no I like I like opening with a game for this on

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it gets like a live element of the room. So we'll do part one, table two. I'm just trying to keep like I want to honestly kind of do the band a bunch.

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But so I kind of wanted to

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not get,

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stuck into this rut of it, be like

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song

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message, song message.

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Yeah, I'm going to move the game down here. That's what I'll do.

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yeah, then we'll be able to. It won't be so choppy. I don't think anymore.

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All right, so here we go. Here's what I ended up coming up with. So instead of doing just games at the beginning, we do welcome announcements. And then that's going to lead into a worship song. And then after the song they're going to move into part one of the message, which will then, go for a minute and then end with, table talk there for a couple minutes.

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After the table talk, Ali and Kayla, you're going to get up. They're going to play the game that I made from scratch. Then after that, they're going to lead it into part two of the message with another table talk. And then out of that the band is going to come up and do two songs. And then after that last part, I'm going to do the final part of the message, and then there's going to be a message wrap and dismissal from, my, my number two associate.

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So the only other thing here that is worth considering is, you know, there's only 52 minutes of total service time. That in part is because a video message goes a lot quicker than a live spoken message. So I am considering and I think I'm going to do it. I am actually just considering here, adding one last response song.

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Our band typically does three songs in this particular week. I'm going to, see if they can go ahead and do two, four songs. And so it'll go part three of The Message, which also there will be a table talk in there. I didn't add. So let's go and see what that does. A table.

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So now we're at like 61 minutes.

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that's not bad. And even if we did happen to kill this response song,

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we're at 56 again. Not bad, but I think I'm going to leave it there. And so we're going to go with we're going to go with four songs this night instead of five or instead of three.

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And yeah. And now look boom. Challenge number one completed completely different order. Now,

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about to hop in the lab and I'm going to go and create a custom game. We'll see you on the other side.

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Another.

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Welcome, everybody to the extreme. Go for gold trivia. I invited one of my buddies, Ben,

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in here. Wearing a Timberwolves shirt. Not Timberwolves fan. Mavs. We're going to see how this game works. So in the like how to play instructions there. There are two ways to play. Traditional question. Answer. Nice question answer. Question answer. It's just simple.

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You guys got this. I'm not going to tell you how to play that, but I want to show you how we might play the Extreme Edition. I like it. I like going for gold extreme. So the instructions go like this. Read the question. I think they'll be the first to buzz in. Choose either answer or challenge. All right.

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So whoever buzzes in first, it's like truth or dare. Yeah. Answer a challenge. And then step four you can win for your side of the room. So let's say you're playing for the right side of the room. And I'm playing for the left side of the room. And then you guys figure out whatever prize you want pizza for the that side or Nintendo Switch two points or AirPods for everyone, right?

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That'd be crazy. So one of my favorite ways to do this is to take a water bottle, right? If you don't have like, an amazing formalized buzzer. Have a water bottle in the middle. And, what will happen is whoever grabs what about first, then that's then. It's like the Cup game. Yeah. Yeah. And then they choose, you know, either, they choose either answer or challenge.

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Yeah. Okay, so first question.

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So we're up here, contestants. Which sport made debut at the 2026 Winter Olympics? I buzzed in. Yeah. And on this one, I know. Because I'm just a massive Olympics fan. So I'm going to say the answer is B ski mo. Am I right? What do you think? No. Well I made the game so I guess I'm right.

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Okay. Now that's I would get a point. All right however. Wait how do you. What is mountaineering. Sorry. I don't know. That was that. That's unreal. That's. Yeah. I'll let you watch the Olympics on NBC starting in February and February 12th. Yeah. Eskimo mountaineering is. But now then. All right, so I got a point. So one point for the left side of the room.

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Okay, now let's go back to this year. Okay, here we go. Next question.

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Which country has participated in every Winter games since they began in 1924? Canada, France, United States then grabs the buzzer. But this time around, Ben is going to choose. Choose Canada. No, you're going to say, oh, you got shoes? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's right, that's right. You're going to choose. Oh, I'm gonna choose challenge. All right. So what you haven't seen yet is I've created two spoons.

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Well, I saw one was sugar. You can use anything. You can do worse. You sour sauce and Worcestershire, however you say. Sure, sure, sure. And Coca-Cola, you can do vinegar and water. Yeah. You could do caramel onion, caramel apple. Like, whatever you boil oil. There you go. Yeah. Canola oil. Yeah. Get all the oils, kill someone or help them live.

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So how this would work then is so since he buzzed in as you can smell it, I didn't know if since he buzzed in as the challenger or he his go is to, stomp the room. Okay. So if if he like if he successfully stomps the room based off his reaction, he gets two points to my one just for answering straight up.

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Okay, if he's unsuccessful in that, then, you know. So here we go. The game host would then say, all right, ready? Three. Two. One.

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Okay, so based off of our reaction, one of us have so one of us has sugar. And so how we're going to play in our room then, we're big sidekicks fans. Oh, yeah. So who got so the double vote? Whoever you think. Got it. And then if Ben was able to, like. So if he was able to successfully stumped the room, why don't you tell the people what you had at sugar?

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Yeah, I had, so, yeah, that was like you. Really? Yeah. Did I see it in your app? Yeah. Just try not to cry. That was horrific. So let's say he did something, and let's say everyone voted that that he had the salt, even though I had the salt. So as blind for the your contestants to. Yeah. As mine for your contestants too.

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So it's really just all about your reaction. Yeah. And then you'd move on to question three. Easy. Go on. So forth. So that's how you play the Extreme Edition. That's how we're going to play this on February 18th. Hope you guys enjoyed. Bless up. See you next time. See ya.

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So there you have it. That's actually the game that I'm going to include in the submission. It's usually like on the do I am game page, the actual like resource page taken of how to play. So that's how we're going to play it. Go either way. So New order unlocked. New game from scratch. And as a reminder, the Hybrid Heroes Patreon tier $4 per month,

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$48 per year is where I will be debriefing this and every other week in this, playlists series and giving away the game.

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So, if you listen to the podcast, the Dropbox link to this game is included for free. Or if it's over on D, I am of course, you can go grab it over there for a couple of bucks. So all three challenges completed. Next week is the final week and we are going to throw it absolutely into a tiers.

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That video is going to be linked right here on screen. But until next time. And as always my friends don't forget to stay hybrid.