WEBVTT - GEORGE FOREMAN: "Big George Foreman" 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:13.520 Hello, my friend. Welcome to love someone with Delilah. Inspiration. Inspiration. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.800 That is what I want this podcast to be for you. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.880 Every time we do a podcast, I want to have 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:31.360 an uplifting conversation that entertains, enlightens, and inspires. I hope 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.640 that's how you feel about it, and I'm so glad 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.360 you are here with me every few weeks. I doubt 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.000 that I could find a more inspiring guest than the 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.400 person that is joining me today. He's a household name, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.519 he is beloved by millions, and now a movie has 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.960 been made about his incredible life that's in theaters this 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.600 week in April twenty eighth. Born in nineteen forty nine 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.680 in Marshall, Texas, he grew up in pished family and 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.920 discovered boxing as a passion and an outlet for his anger. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:12.480 He established an impressive amateur record and won a gold 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.240 medal in the nineteen sixty eight Olympics in Mexico City. 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:21.399 By nineteen seventy two, he had a perfect thirty seven 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.280 zero record, leading him to become the world's heavyweight champion 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.480 in seventy three, a title he was able to successfully 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:35.880 defend twice. YEP, you guessed that you're right. My guest 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.880 today is none other than the legendary George Foreman. After 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:45.160 a fight against Jimmy Young in nineteen seventy seven, George 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.720 had an experience, an experience that I want to get 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:55.320 into with him, that changed his life, a transformation, if 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.320 you will, leading him to become an ordained minister. He 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.120 later found the George Foreman Youth and Community Center, a 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:07.600 place for kids who need direction like he once did. However, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.760 after a few years, the Youth and Community Center was 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.640 in financial trouble and George returned to the ring to 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:19.280 save it. In doing so, he became the oldest fighter 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:24.200 ever to win the heavyweight crown. He was forty five. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.359 That was in nineteen eighty seven, and George wouldn't retire 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:35.280 for another ten years. During his impressive twenty nine year 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:41.880 boxing career, he fought against legends including Joe Frazier, Jose Roman, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:47.120 Ken Norton, Mohammad Ali and we're gonna talk about that 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:52.440 because I heard they later became dear friends, Evander Holyfield, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.600 Michael Moore. Since the early nineteen nineties, he's not only 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.840 become famous for boxing, but he has sold over one 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:08.440 hundred million one hundred million. You can't even fathom that number. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.240 George Foreman lean mean grilling machine units, and he's authored 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.920 ten books today. He is currently a pastor at the 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.680 Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Houston, looking forward 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.400 to the release of his biopic, and has generously agreed 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.200 to sit down and chat with us. 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Get a big house, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.919 you put a brick wall around it, you get dog glasses, 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:16.279 you ht your face, big limousine with doc on the 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.560 windows so nobody can see you. You actually hat your life. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.240 But it came a time in my life when I 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.120 wanted to reveal it. And you have to be truthful, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.640 and this was the time for it. When I looked 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.840 at the movie, I was kind of scared too, because hey, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.400 I was turning to hide all of this, but now 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:34.839 I had to make it true. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.479 So there was a lot in the movie. I was 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.159 blessed I got to watch it. They sent me a screener. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.599 I've known about you. I'm not a huge sports follower 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.160 or a huge sports fan, and I was young when 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.160 you were winning gold medals in Mexico Center for the Olympics. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.600 But obviously I've seen you. I've owned the Lean Green 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.960 grilling machine. But the thing that I knew most about 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.599 you is that you have five boys named George. I 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.760 mean that when I heard George Foreman, that's what touched me. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.880 And you touched on that in the movie a little bit. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.880 But you actually have a whole passile a kid. You 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.120 got what seven daughters, Oh. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.200 No, just five, have five daughters and five sons. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.880 Five daughters, five sons, so that's a full house. How 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.000 many grand babies? 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.560 We have fifteen grandkids and three great grandkids. 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.720 Oh, praise God, Praise God, I'm telling you. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.440 And that's the most wonderful part of my life. Being 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.320 a grandfather. A father was great, but being a grandfather 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.800 is even better. I mean, it's wonderful. 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.240 My show, the radio show that I do every night, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.400 that I've been doing as long as you've been boxing, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:56.120 almost is about love and about relationships, and so most 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.680 of the interviews I have are authors who've written about lover, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:05.000 who touched on love. And there were three love stories 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:10.200 that were front and center in your movie that I 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.600 want to ask you about, and I'm not. I'm going 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.320 to save the best for last. The love story between 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:21.080 you and your mama was so sweet in the movie. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:27.000 Was she really that good, that godly of a woman, George, No. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.040 That lady. My mom really loved me. She really thought 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.560 I was something special. You get up in the morning, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.520 you don't have anything, You go out your door, and 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.760 you're not important to anyone. But having that mother who 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.960 really believed in me, cared about me, that was something. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.200 And I've never forgotten it. Because I was brought up 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.280 without a lot of food, without a lot of any 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.920 mostly without anything. I didn't have hope, and then I 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.320 found faith later on in my life. But that mother 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.240 gave me something that I She loved me. I always 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:03.280 knew I was loved. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.240 That came across loud and clear in the movie, that 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.560 she loved you and that she wanted the best for you. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.400 She said, you're better than this. You're better than this 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.120 when you were making bad choices. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.080 So many times she told me that, and I was 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:24.280 just like, she doesn't really know me. But I'd heard 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.680 my mom tell those stories about they'd been brought up 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.360 on a farm and working, and she and her sisters 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.200 would get together and tell those stories, and they were 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:38.680 so proud because they talk about her father. Papa never 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:43.160 raised any thieves, none of his children had gone to jail, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.920 and they said over and over. At first it was 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.760 a joke, and then one day you hear those stories 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.120 and I was a thief and I was the one 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.320 going to jail. It embarrassed me so much. One night, 0:08:55.400 --> 0:09:00.720 while running from the police, I revisited those statements. I realized, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.679 for the first time, I had become all those things 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:09.000 my mom said her family never had, with thieves and 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.160 people going to jail, and that's what changed my life. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.000 I remember covering my face, would slop under a house 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.680 so the dogs wouldn't smell me. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.680 Yeah, it was again, it wasn't sloped, that's a good 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.920 word for it. But I watched the movie. I knew 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.439 exactly where that sewage was coming from. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.240 I didn't want those dogs to sniff me out. I 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.360 knew I would go to jail. I covered myself and 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.400 I don't think the dogs wanted to smell me at 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:43.040 that point. But my mom would tell I wanted to 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.720 make her proud of me. I just wasn't a thief. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.040 I just didn't know I was until that night. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.200 And that night you came to that realization. The second 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.679 love story that stood out to me in watching the movie, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.800 and then after I watched it, I stayed up all 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.680 night doing a deep dive on your life, but the 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:07.160 real relationship between you and the character portrayed by Forrest Whittaker, Doc, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.400 because that was just beautiful. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.960 I went out for boxing because I was challenged. Everybody 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.120 told me in the job Corp, you think you're so 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.000 tough and rough, why don't you become a boxer. And 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.920 I met Doc Brothers the first time and I said 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.360 to him, I want to become a boxer only because 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.160 I wanted to become a better street fighter. I didn't 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.600 want to really be a boxer. I wanted to learn 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.280 how to hit the speedbag and skip the ropes, go 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.840 back to Houston, Texas and beat up everybody. But Doc 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:41.280 Brothers the first person who really believed in me. He 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.400 kept telling me, George, you can be an Olympic champion. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.000 If you stop fighting in the streets seeing up your life, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.320 you can be heavyweight champ of the world. I didn't 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.120 want to box, but I didn't want to let him down. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.040 He believed in me. And that's the story of George Foreman, 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.000 someone not giving up on you and believing in you. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.880 Far As Whordicer brought that out into movie. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.880 Oh my god, I was crying. I'm a sap, but 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:11.560 myself I cried when I saw and the two actors 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.520 did such a good job. I also did a little 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.920 research because I was trying to find out who played 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.320 young George. You know that was Chris Davis, and then 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.480 who played older George? And I found out that was 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.679 Chris Davis. He put on how much weight to play? 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.360 You? Do you believe that? 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.360 I couldnot believe that. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.600 I could not believe it. That was an actor. I 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.600 wanted someone truly to do the George Foreman's story, but 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.720 I didn't want anyone trying to imitate my life. This 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.079 man came out and acted out the George Foreman's story. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.280 He did it so much. I was pulling for George Boone. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:49.679 I've forgotten who I was. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.559 It was he, Yeah. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.319 George Poman. To this day, I don't like to take 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.640 pictures around him because I want people to think that's George. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:04.120 That's George. Yeah, he is George he was phenomenal, phenomenal. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:09.240 I loved how at the end of the movie they 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.840 put a clip of the movie with a clip from 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.880 real life, from the actual fights. They put a clip 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.560 of you and you know your mama, and then a 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.160 clip from real life. That brought it all together for me. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:30.000 That was beautiful. I hope everybody goes to see this movie, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:31.560 Big George for mean. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:31.800 Now. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.680 The third relationship, the love story that I have to 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:41.079 ask about is the relationship between you and the Lord Jesus. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.120 It showed that you were killed, that you died in 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.120 the locker room, and that you had a moment where 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.800 you were gone and when you came back you were 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:54.120 born again. What was that? What really happened? What really 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:58.280 transformed in your spirit? Like I want to know? I 0:12:58.360 --> 0:12:58.880 want to know. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.040 Back into the dress room, I lost a twelve round decision. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.439 Kind of disappointed about it, but I'd gone twelve rounds 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.480 to prove I asked Stamina. When I tried to cool 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.720 off in the dress room, I started thinking, you don't 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.840 have to worry about that box match. You still, George Forman. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.880 I thought about my wealth and you could you know 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.000 you got the rench. You can go home and retire 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.280 and die. That had never come into my mind at all. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.960 I was about to die, not only die, but in 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.800 a dirty, smelling dress room when I had all these 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.840 big homes. And I fought that night to keep my 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.240 life and I lost the fight, and I looked around 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.160 in this dog I died and I told everybody in 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.040 the room, I'm fixing to die. And I looked around. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.840 There was nothing over my head, under me, nothing death. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.400 And there's a horrible smell that goes along with death. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.080 I haven't gotten over that yet, but I got angry 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.080 at that moment and said, I don't care if this 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.040 is death. I still believed as a guide. There was 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.840 no hope for me anyway. But I had a prayer 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:11.640 answered once when I was praying for one of my nephews. God, yeah, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.480 and I prayed, and that prayer was answered. I didn't 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.600 believe in religion, but I believed that time in that prayer. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.920 That's why I said, I don't care if this is death. 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.360 I was delivered from this place and giving a second 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.520 chance to leave. Oh, and then you realize, and I 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.840 thought I was gone. I told everybody I'm dying, but 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.520 I'm dying for God. And I laid on that dressing 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.600 room table and I told my doctor, move your hands 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.760 because the throngs on his head are making him bleed. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.400 I actually saw blood coming down my forehead and I 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.800 looked at my hand. I told my Mosur, move your hand, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.800 he's bleeding. When he crucified him, I started screaming, Jesus 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.480 Christ is coming alive in me, something I never believed in. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.640 I just thought it was something my dear mother had 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.400 going on. I didn't know what it really was. Ten 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:05.160 years I stopped. I didn't box anything, I preached. I 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.600 became an evangelist for ten years. I didn't even make 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.880 a fist trying to tell everybody about that story. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.800 And then God said, Okay, you're gonna go back in 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:19.600 the ring. You're a little chubby, you're a little overweighting 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.000 out of shape. But in the movie, your wife said, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.560 God showed her in a vision that you were going 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.880 to win the championship title again, and you believed on 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.440 that and clung to it. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.800 Yeah, once again, I found that certain person that loved 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.960 me and believed in me, and she had this vision once. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.840 She said, I believe I had a dream, a vision 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.960 you were going to be heavyweight champion of the world again. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.480 I thought she was just trying to make me feel good, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.360 but she actually did, and I going back in the 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.360 box and started fighting all the way to a chance 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.760 for the title. Lost to the first time, but I 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.800 almost won. Then got a second chance and really plowed 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.160 at it because of a vision, and I did become chimp. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.760 My wife, she says, she saw it after a while. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.440 You believe everything your wife said, you know, and because 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.520 the most sincere people in your life turn out to 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.480 be your wife, your mom and your wife. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.200 And she's been by your side now for almost forty years. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:24.760 That's right, forty years of somebody believing in me. Always there. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.760 She when we fight, but she always win. I can't 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.960 get her. She's the winner. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.680 Everything don't even bother. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.680 You because she cares for me. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:38.120 She does. We've had such unbelievable lucketting to spend time 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.080 with our guests today. 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She said, George, 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.720 you may you know, God may not be there when 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.480 you call on him, but he's always right on time, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.800 And I used to think, Yeah, that's something that mom talk. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.120 If you really learn to pray, all things are possible. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.440 Just don't give up on your prayers, have faith in 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.560 your prayers. Dreams still come true. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.040 Amen. And he is always right on time, not on 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.280 my time, right on time, right on. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.960 Time's a good. That's good that I said that. Now 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.639 I realize it all over again. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.200 I think this movie is right on time. I feel 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.720 like we need hope and we need inspiration. We need 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.760 to be reminded that a mother's love is the most 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:58.520 powerful earthly love, and that a friend like you had 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:03.080 in Doc. You know, greater love is there. There is 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.120 no greater love than this. That a man would lay 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:06.359 down his life for a friend. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.120 Boy, you got that right. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.679 I could see in the movie that you would have 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.639 laid down your life, not just for Doc. But I 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.080 don't know how true it was the man who lost 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.600 all your money. But I saw such sweet forgiveness in 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.080 the movie even for that, And I know you wouldn't 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.040 have included that unless you had forgiven him. 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.640 Oh. I learned forgiveness and everyone should learn forgiveness because 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.360 without it, you don't have family. There's not a chance 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.879 you could lose your own mom and dad if you 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.200 don't learn to forgive and your children. So I learned forgiveness. 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.800 It was the good best way to hold onto everything 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.439 I have. Heap forgiving. My mom talked about it, and 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.160 I learned to live it. Well. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.639 I know your time is sure. But one more quick question. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.360 I learned doing a deep dive that you and Muhammad 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.120 Ali became dear friends as well. Is that true? 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.840 Oh? That guy took my title angry with him for 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.800 a long time, and even four minutes into being hate. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.160 But I was delivered from that after I phoned God. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.040 He became the most wonderful person in my life. Fell 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.440 in love with the guy. We did talk on the telephone, 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.040 and then they had been of FaceTime. We'd actually see 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.160 each other on the telephone. And he still wanted to win. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.600 Of course, how many green kids you got, George, I'd 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.600 say three, I have four. How many green kids I 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.280 got five? He said I have six. He always wanted 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.600 to win, He never wanted to lose, and I learned 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.480 to love him more than he became one of my 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:37.600 best friends ever. 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.440 The actor who portrayed him did such a good job 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.480 with his arrogance and his dancing and his yaba dabba 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:50.840 daba daba daba daba dah uh fight like a butterfly. 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:55.639 I was listening to him thinking, shut up man in 0:20:55.680 --> 0:21:00.480 the movie he made me really relieve those mummas with him. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.960 Sullivan Jones the name of the actor who played mommad 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:08.160 Ali man. He must have watched films, because he nailed it. 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:09.560 He nailed it. 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:15.800 Nailed it again, irritated me all over again. And Chris 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:17.800 Davis for what an. 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:19.159 Actor, What an actor. 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.359 I never dreamed that anyone could play that part, but 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.879 he did it. He made me really, really really of 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.679 every moment good and bad of my life. What a 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:32.280 great actor. 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:35.360 Well, it is a beautiful movie. I don't know how 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:39.200 they cramed that much, you know, they crammed the fights, 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:44.000 they got the everything, the anger you could just see 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.399 you were like a raging bull, anger seething out of you. 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.800 And then the way that you were transformed after you 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:57.560 died and God appeared in your spirit, that was just beautiful. 0:21:57.600 --> 0:21:59.760 It is a beautiful story. And how many years you 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:00.960 been I'm preaching now. 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.760 Oh forty six years now. 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.480 Now, if I was Mohammed, if I was Muhammad, I'd 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:08.919 say I've been preaching forty seven. 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.560 Amen. He would not let me lose, I mean not 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.160 let himself lose. What a competitor he had been. 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:22.639 What a fun, fun story. Well, thank you George for 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:24.800 taking time with us. Thank you for doing this movie. 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:28.840 Thank you for letting the walls down and letting people 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.800 in because, like I said, I think right now we 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:35.160 need inspiration and I think a lot of people will 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:36.680 be inspired by your story. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.679 Thank you for having me too, all right, God, bless you, 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:41.600 Thank you so much. 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.080 The biopic based on the life story of Olympic boxing 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:49.560 gold medalist and two time world heavyweight champion George Foreman, 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.679 is out in theaters nationwide in April on the twenty 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:56.920 eighth that stars Chris Davis as George Foreman, an Oscar 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:01.040 winner Forrest Whitaker as coach Doc brought us Ah. He 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.239 was brilliant in the movie. You're gonna love this. I 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:07.320 know you'll be inspired by the redemptive true story of 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:10.920 pastor George, one of the greatest comebacks of all time 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:15.800 as far as sports go, and the transformational power of 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:20.400 second chances and faith in God. You can find theaters 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:25.560 in Showtimes and get tickets at Biggeorgeforeman, dot movie. Treat yourself. 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.520 Go to the movies this weekend. Be odd, be entertained, 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.480 be inspired. Indulg in some popcorn and Junior Man's while 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:35.120 you're watching, because afterwards you're gonna want to dig out 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:40.080 your George Foreman lean mean grilling machine, hit the gym. 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:43.120 Start paying better attention to what you're fueling your body with. 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:48.040 Spring is an amazing inspirational season. It's like the quote 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:52.200 I've shared several times by Martin Luther that says our 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:56.879 Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:03.560 but in every leaf of springtime. Inspiration surrounds us, It 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.879 envelops us, It wraps us up in hope and in love. 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:11.080