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Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour, right about

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Speaker 1: four minutes after, it's Today's Strawberry Letter. But up next,

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Speaker 1: I mean right here, right now, it's the nephew with

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Speaker 1: the prank phone call. What you got neft? Oh well,

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Speaker 1: brand spanking new? I got Gospel Church, Queen Gospel Church?

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Speaker 1: What the new? Pronchu? You got to hit this? U

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Speaker 1: here goo? This is Grant a Grant Grant Stevens. Right. Yes, hey, hey, Greg,

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Speaker 1: this is Brother Lewis Finley. I'm calling from Mount Sine

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Speaker 1: nine Missionary Baptist Church. You you and your wife just

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Speaker 1: joined a couple of weeks ago, am I right? Absolutely? Yes? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So now listen, I wanted to reach out to you.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys have started the uh the orientation,

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Speaker 1: and from my understanding you you finished one one class

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Speaker 1: at the orientation. You got three more to go? Is

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Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? All right, all right, all right. So

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Speaker 1: first of all, I want to say welcome to Mount

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Speaker 1: sinein and and I hope you are enjoying yourself. I

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Speaker 1: know that you and your wife are a mixed couple.

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Speaker 1: You you're a Caucasian and she's she's black. Are you

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Speaker 1: Are you liking the church? So far, Grant, Absolutely, we

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Speaker 1: really are enjoying it. We completed our first orientation and

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, so far we're really enjoying it. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: did I catch at a bad time? I am a

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Speaker 1: work right now, but it's okay. I've got a couple

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Speaker 1: of I've got a couple of minutes, Okay, Okay. I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to call you, man. I was worried I

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Speaker 1: know you because I don't think you noticed, but you

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Speaker 1: are the first Caucasian to join our church, and I

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Speaker 1: just want to make sure you kind of knew the

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Speaker 1: language and and just just kind of knowing what the

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Speaker 1: Black Church is all about. And there's certain sayings and

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Speaker 1: different things I think you should know so that you know,

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Speaker 1: I just don't want you to say that's the wrong

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Speaker 1: thing while you at the church. Does that makes sense?

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Speaker 1: Uh okay, Okay. So so what I wanted to do, like,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a little Black Church quiz

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Speaker 1: so you can kind of maybe if you could, it'll

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Speaker 1: let me know where you are, you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: on a lower level or a high level as far

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Speaker 1: as being knowledgeable about the Black Church, Like feel this

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Speaker 1: blank in for me, Grant, And if you don't matter.

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Speaker 1: I just want to take a little bit of your

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Speaker 1: time and I'll let you get back to work. But

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Speaker 1: first of all, give a blank to God. What would

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Speaker 1: go in that blank? Right there? First of all, give

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Speaker 1: a blank to God? Now all I can think of something?

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Speaker 1: Give give thanks to God. No, see that's wrong. See

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Speaker 1: that's wrong. See see what it is. First of all,

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Speaker 1: give a honor to God, all right? Remember this. First

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Speaker 1: of all, give an honor to God. You got that, okay, yes, yes, okay.

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Speaker 1: First of all, give an honor to God, who is

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Speaker 1: the blank of my life? What what? What? What goes

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Speaker 1: in the blank? First of all, give an honor to God,

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Speaker 1: who is the blok of my life, the love of

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Speaker 1: my life. No, No, that's that's that's that's wrong. First

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Speaker 1: of all, give an honor to God, who is the

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Speaker 1: head of my life. Are you sure that? I'm sorry? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I was just are you sure? Are you sure about that? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely sure about blind. Don't don't don't. What I

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Speaker 1: don't want you to do is question what what I know.

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Speaker 1: I'm from the Black Church. I know you. No, No No,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't questioning you, sir. I wasn't question.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I've just always heard it that way. But okay,

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Speaker 1: So so I'm trying to give you the understanding of

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Speaker 1: knowing what the Black Church is about. You understand, I understand.

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Speaker 1: I'm just I appreciate you. I'm I apologize. Okay. No, Now, look,

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Speaker 1: I don't know these answers, obviously, but I've got a

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Speaker 1: meeting I got to get to here in a minute.

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Speaker 1: Like this, I'm curious if everyone in the church gets

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Speaker 1: these phone calls. Well wait a minute, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: grand I know you have a meaning, but what's more

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Speaker 1: important your meeting or knowing your position at the Black Church?

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Speaker 1: What more important? I really don't have time for this

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Speaker 1: right now. I can't believe it's actually happening. Like, did

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Speaker 1: you did your pastor even know that you're calling you

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Speaker 1: right now? Well? No, I took the liberty of myself

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Speaker 1: when I realized you was Caucasian, that I would call

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Speaker 1: and try to help you so you would know what

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Speaker 1: to do when you're in the Black Church when people

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Speaker 1: are saying certain things you Okay, okay, Grant, if you

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Speaker 1: don't mind, just do this funny Grant, like, do you

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Speaker 1: know what hooping is? Hooping, Like, who's a hooping? Uh? No,

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Speaker 1: hooping is when the pastor is at the end of

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Speaker 1: his sermon. So listen to this. Good God, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: do that funny if you if you would grant? Oh hello,

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Speaker 1: oh God, oh my no, no, no more, come on

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Speaker 1: you you wit me now? Oh good God, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get I can't believe I'm doing this. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh God, old mighty. Okay go Hey, Greg,

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Speaker 1: do you think maybe it's possible as that mean you

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Speaker 1: can have some sessions before you come back to the

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Speaker 1: church and I can prepare you more. Hey man, listen,

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Speaker 1: you have caught me at a really bad time, and

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Speaker 1: I'm quite honestly just so frustrated. Like I've never heard

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Speaker 1: of a quiz like this. I'm really offended, to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, Like, do you guys do not want

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Speaker 1: me to go to your church anymore? Like, as a

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, dude, you should be calling my wife

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Speaker 1: right now. She's black, but she should already know the

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Speaker 1: queest question. You the one don't know why I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: call I should call you. I am at work right now.

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Speaker 1: I have a meeting to get to in just a minute.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're doing. And I hold on

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Speaker 1: a second. I have got to close my office door.

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Speaker 1: This is so embarrassing. I have never ever received a

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Speaker 1: phone call like this in my life. And you better

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Speaker 1: be lucky. I mean, I want to talk to your pastor.

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Speaker 1: I am going to talk to him next Sunday. No joke.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't mean to put you to get hostile like that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't mean to get you. I didn't mean to

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Speaker 1: upset you or nothing like that. What cannot Can I

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Speaker 1: say something else to you? One last thing? And I

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Speaker 1: have to go. Okay, I just want to let you

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Speaker 1: know that this his nephew. Tell me from the Steve

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Speaker 1: Harbit Morning Show. Your wife Carolyn got me to prank

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Speaker 1: phone call. You shut up? Shut up. I am so sorry.

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Speaker 1: I am so sorry. Oh you're good. You all right.

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Speaker 1: I'm all right, man, I'm alright a little embarrassed, but

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Speaker 1: I'm alright. Greg. You gotta do it for me one

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Speaker 1: more time? Oh no, no, yeah, God, okay, man, look

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Speaker 1: at you do this for me. Tell me what is

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Speaker 1: the baddest I mean, the baddest radio show in the land,

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Speaker 1: The Steve Harvey Morning Show all the way you know

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Speaker 1: you just gotta try to. You know, white man neither

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Speaker 1: quick if he's gonna be going, if you're gonna join

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Speaker 1: the Black church, you know what I'm saying. Tell me,

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Speaker 1: you know churches are not like that. You know mine wasn't.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's why you gotta feel in having feel

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Speaker 1: in the blank. You know, first of all, give a

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Speaker 1: blank to God. You know he don't you don't know,

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Speaker 1: he don't know what go there, He didn't say, take

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Speaker 1: him through the Queen. I'm on the home stretch of

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Speaker 1: my comedy shows for the year. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: that's right all right, and coming up at the top

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