WEBVTT - His story shocked me... 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.400 What's up everybody. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Thank 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.519 you for listening, thank you for watching. If you're on YouTube. 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:09.320 I'm glad to have this platform. I'm glad to get 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.799 to talk to you. I'm grateful that during the crazy 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.360 world that we live in, where musicians no longer get 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.520 to go on tour that much, I could still engage 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.000 with audiences and tell you about a new album that 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.759 I have coming in September, and what we've been doing 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:26.880 here at the Yege Farm, and I could talk to 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.440 you about some of my friends. Today's podcast actually as 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.600 a brand new friend of mine named Lathan Warlick. He 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.760 is an artist out of Tennessee. He's featured on one 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:38.720 of my songs, That's Why I Love Dirt Roads. I 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.000 didn't meet him until this day. Until today, he came 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.920 to do a music video with his family, and I 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.960 had a feeling he had a good story, really interesting guy, 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.760 and sure enough this podcast, he blew me away his 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:58.720 joyful outlook on the world and life in general, inspired 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.520 by God. This dude, this dude's got it together. He's 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.839 got a lot to look up to, and you're gonna 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.360 you're gonna like his story. I was just I was 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.240 blown away. This podcast is also partially brought to you 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.800 by ship Station. 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Promo code Granger ship station dot 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.480 com make ship Happen. I'm so excited for you guys 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.359 to finally meet Lathan and hear his story. I think 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.400 you're gonna be blown away. Welcome to the podcast. This 0:03:17.520 --> 0:04:01.280 is episode forty one. Did time long, line up and down? 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:22.080 Going back? Crazy? Coolation Lathan Warlick. I feel like if 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.280 I if I say the story of how I mean 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.960 you got together, it would I'd be beating a dead 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.240 horse because I've said it so many times. But of 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.359 course there's people on here that probably haven't heard me 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.560 say it. Been listening to this podcast, so yeah, it 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:40.400 was what about three months ago, four months ago? Yeah, 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:45.080 I will say that something like that. Yeah, it late 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.680 at night, my wife Amber, you know, we're just kind 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.640 of getting ready to go to bed, and she's looking 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.480 at Instagram and I hear her listening to this one artist. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.560 I could tell it same arge because it's like over 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.160 and over, you know, and I was like, what are 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.720 you looking at? She's like, oh, this is There's this 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.040 guy I found on Instagram and he does he puts 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:11.040 these lyrics to these songs and everything is is God based, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.360 you know, Christian based, so put it, put in a 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.120 Christian spin on a bunch of these songs. And I 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.440 started listening and by instantly I was I was engaged 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:28.120 because these videos it's you in a car. Yeah, every 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.400 time you take a simple water. Yeah, that's like the thing, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.800 you take a simple water. As as the song starts 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.160 and then you come in with your lyrics. We're gonna 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.840 hear our kids run around there. Our kids are playing 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.400 right now, literally outside in the hall. So I just 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.040 get entrenched in this and the way that you engage 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.159 the camera with your lyrics and the way your eyes 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.880 light up. Yeah, let's do as you look at the camera. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.960 And so there's this one I say, I say every 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.760 time I tell the story, I got say this part. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.400 But there was one about Kobe Bryant the helicopter crash, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.360 and man, it got me these lyrics. And so everybody 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:16.160 listening Granger Smith Podcast, check this out. Lathan Warlick. Instagram 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.760 is where I found it, but it's also it's on 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.800 a lot of things, like it's on your TikTok. But 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:25.480 there's one about Kobe Bryant. And you start it starts off. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.080 It starts off where you're talking about how terrible it is, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.640 how terrible the news jed probably the news probably just 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.880 came out when you did that. Yeah. Yeah, So then 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.760 you talk about how terrible it is, and then you 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.440 flip and you say, and he had his daughter with him. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:48.240 I can't imagine what was going through, what they were, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.960 what they were saying, what they were saying, you know, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.839 I can't imagine less words you said to a daddy. Yes, yeah, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.200 And so then those lyrics just tear you down to 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.359 the bone, and then you flip it again and you go. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:06.080 But then God spoke to me, yeah, yeah, And so 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.480 by that point it's like you look at the camera. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.000 But then God spoke to me. I pray for all 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:16.560 the victims that was affected that horrible helicopter crash. Yeah, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.160 woke up with a lot on my mind. Had a 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.880 thought like that they really won't line never said a 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.640 word to God because I was still in my feelings 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.320 about the helicopter crash to kill Kobe Bryant. I had 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.200 a lot of questions, like, what was you when there 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.520 was happening? You could have stopped the whole thing for pression. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.600 And he had his daughter on the flight. I can't 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.800 even imagine the last word she was trying to tell 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.360 her daddy. Then God spoke to me. He said, I 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.440 got a bigger plan, way more than you could never 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.040 understand life, a lot more than what you're seeing right 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.240 in front of you, and death gonna come to each 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.520 and every man. See, they didn't go from life to death. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.560 They went from life to a better life now. I 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.400 got them right here in my hands. But I can 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.800 understand why you're grief because the flesh used to seeing 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.080 them on earth. But that ain't where you stand. It's 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.360 okay to cry, but let's not a grief like we 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.840 don't have hope. And when God got it played, this 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.480 got a way of showing us that your body gotta lead, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.960 So tell me we just soul go lead. And then 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.000 I was like, all right, I'm in. I'm in. You know, 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.040 I got the screen right here watching this, and so 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.720 long story short, and we'll get in. We'll get into 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.640 that and I want to talk about that, but long 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.680 story short. Right then and there, I friended him, i' 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.120 DMed him, and I said, hey, man, you don't know me. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.320 I'm a country singer. This is crazy, but I've been 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.800 watching your videos. I love what you do. Would you 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.040 ever consider doing a song with me? You messaged back 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.400 something like, well, this is crazy too, but what if 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.480 I said yes? Yeah? Then we became friends. Then we 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.679 started texting. Then we then I got I got That's 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.320 why I love Dirt Roads to you. You wrote the lyrics. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.400 We've since recorded it. I hope a lot of you 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.079 guys that have the are listening to this podcast. I 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.839 hope you all have heard it. That that's why I 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.800 love Dirt Roads featuring lath and Warwick version. And today 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.320 we met last night for the first time on the 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.160 fourth of July Man in Round Rock, Texas. We got 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.040 on the stage together. It was unread. The energy you 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:06.360 brought was unreal. I'm almost done talking because you're the 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.040 one that's supposed to be talking on this podcast, but 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:09.839 I just want to say, Man, we met for you 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.400 flew in with your family, We met, we got on 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.920 the stage, the energy was unbelievable to the crowd. And 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.640 then today we're at the Yegee Farm. You have your 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.599 family with you, I have mine, and we're going to 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.800 film a music video for that song. For that that's 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.000 crazy and gentlemen, Lathan Warlick, that's all I got. That's 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.600 that's amazing, bro. That that's a blessing. So what I 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.400 want to do on this podcast though, is really get 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.880 to know you, because I know a lot about you musically. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.360 And then we worked a lot, you know, making this 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.520 song Social Distance. You had to do it in Memphis, Tennessee, 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.400 where we're close to your hometown. That's where you got 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.840 in the studio. But you've mentioned several times, so you're 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:57.720 essentially a rapper that brings Christ into your messages. Correct. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:02.240 And you've told me in passing that you had a 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:07.160 rough time before that that led you to that. Oh yeah, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.680 oh yeah, man, And I want to hear. I want 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.240 to hear, man, I want to hear what happened and 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:18.000 why you turned into someone that is that is a 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:27.240 messenger of God's word and how you did that. That's 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.520 how God did that? Yeah? Yeah, Well, first off, I 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.800 started off as a dancer. Man. I was seriously, it's crazy, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.440 but I used to dance. Man. We used to do 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.240 this thing called joking and it originated in Memphis, Tennessee. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.520 And that's how we started. Man. I used to do shows, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.920 do a lot of talent shows around town and used 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.840 to hang out with people that do the shows. And 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.680 after we did that, we started to go celebrate. You know, 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.320 we did this one talent show. I remember doing this 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.320 one talent show and we wanted so much money and 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.040 I was like, yo, this is because you know, back then, 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.080 a thousand dollars was a lot when it was like 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.000 four yard of one or two. And if you want 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.320 to get dollars. I was like, no matter what, let's 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.880 go hang out. So you know, what better place to 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.360 go hang out than than the club? You know. So 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.520 because we danced a lot, so we went to this club, man, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.160 and this is right here was the tragic event that 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.680 actually shifted my atmosphere and was like, yo, something gotta change, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.800 you know what I'm saying. So we at this club 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:25.080 before Christian. I knew of God, but I didn't have 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.600 the relationship with christ you know what I'm saying. I 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.960 only knew of God because my Grandmama was always telling 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.319 me about you know, hey, look man, listen late then 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.800 you know you need to get to know Jesus. You know, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.240 you need to get to know God. But I heard 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.960 this so many times it was just like a broken 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.720 record to me, you know what I mean. Yeah, So 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.160 it was like more like religion versus a relationship, you know. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.120 So that's what really scarred me. So I was like, nah. 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.080 In fact, I used to go to my grandmama house bruh, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.760 and my grandma used to be like, but right before 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.559 I walked in the in the house, I used to 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.839 tell my friends, Okay, listen, y'all, we're going to go 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.280 in here. My grandma gonna talk about Jesus, all right, 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.520 I told your friends, Yeah, exactly like, but just kind 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.800 of ignore it, you know. Just we're gonna go get 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.880 something to drink. Then we're gonna go back outside. You know. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.760 But you know that's that's the type of like Grandmama 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.160 had though. You know. So I didn't have a relationship 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.599 with christ. I just knew of God. You know, I 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.000 wasn't really applying him to my life, you know, until 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.200 this tragic event took place. Yeah, so we went to 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:25.040 this club. Man, after we got done dancing and and 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:26.520 we want a talent show. So we went to this 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.000 club and we went to this club. It was about 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.920 six or seven of us, but we pulled up, like man, 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.000 eight or nine cars, you know, just to hang out. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.600 And when we went to this club, man, I know 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.720 everybody after I got this one hot headed friend that 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.800 you just can't tell nothing to. It's just like everybody, 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.160 Oh my God, like you can't stop this period, Like 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.800 he won't let nothing go. Pride, he's so proudful. He 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.600 can't do you step on his toes, you push him whatever. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.559 He got to do something, you know, And I had 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.120 one on with me man, and he was my he 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:58.800 was my cousin. He's my first cousin. Ain't gonna say 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.720 his name, but he's my first cousin, man, And yeah, exactly. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.040 And so we get to this club, dude. And when 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.800 we got to this club, we made a little circle. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.400 We should do this thing in the club where they 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.880 make the circle and one at a time go they 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.320 would go, and you would dancing of the circle, you know. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.000 So we're doing these dances and stuff, and right when 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.760 we got done, we kind of leaned up against the wall, 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.680 like besides the DJ booth. And since we lean up 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.520 against the wall, dude, there's some guys over in the 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.320 corner that was pointed at my cousin, you know, because 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.760 I don't know if they had beach or no. No, no, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.120 he's not a big dude. In fact, I'm bigger than him. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.080 I'm bigger at him. But he just was a he 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.480 was a firecracker bro like he when he get on, 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.360 he get on, you you know. So we were over 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.760 there standing in the corner, dude, and this guy like 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.800 just across the way just pointing him, was like, yo, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.280 this is and that this isn't there. And we noticed 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.280 like one of my guys noticed like, yeah, what's you know, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.480 what's with this guy? What's what's over him? And then 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.800 I'm looking like here we go because the hot hit 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.920 was already like yeah, okay, okay, and I'm like, here 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:03.560 we go, dude, here we go this So I immediately said, hey, listen, guys, listen, bro. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.439 I said, it's so many clubs around here that we 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:07.840 can go to. We ain't even got to be at 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.559 this one. Let's go to another one. We can get 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.200 in all of them free around this around this town anyway, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.400 So let's go to another one. So right when I'm 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.040 gathering everybody else to go, man, this guy walked by 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:18.839 all of them. It was like him and like four 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.040 other guys. They just started walking by. Man. As soon 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.040 as they walked by in between us, he like he stepped. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:25.880 I don't know if he if I can remember it. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.680 I think he stepped on his toe toe or something 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.480 nudged him or something. And as soon as he did that, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.640 I immediately grabbed him. I grabbed him and I just 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.280 picked him up. As soon as I picked him up, 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.440 I'm sarting to walk towards the door. Dude with him 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.280 with my cousin I picked yes with my cousin. I 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.320 picked him up and was like no, because he already 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.120 like no, put me down. And I'm picking him up, 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:47.760 and I'm walking them. I'm walking them and walking them 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.320 out the door. And Dude, as soon as I got 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.480 to the door, I felt to push on my back 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.720 and I turned around and do this was like the 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.600 whole club was fighting, dude, cause it's like I wouldn't. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.640 I wouldn't. I didn't notice everything that was going on 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.880 behind me because I'm too busy focused on let me 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.640 get the problem at the way, you know what I'm saying. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.560 But when I was trying to figure out, like, man, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.320 let me get the problem at the way, the bigger 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.760 problem was behind me, you know. So I'm walking dude 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.280 to the door, and I sell them at the door. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.880 As soon as I sell them at the door, man, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:15.960 I turned around. The whole club was fighting, you know. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.160 And then I got to thinking like, man, my God 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.040 is still in there, you know. So but then I 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.680 was like let me them, yeah, yeah, like six or 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.360 seven of them and there and then a whole bunch 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.120 of more other guys that I knew, you know that 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.400 I came with, you know. But then now. So now 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.160 I'm actually I don'e got my cousin outside, and now 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.600 I'm trying to gather my other guys up. So I 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.120 told him, man, just go to the car, you know, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:37.920 let me let me, let me try to get everybody 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:39.720 else together and we'll wait in the car. So now 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.200 I'm gathering people up, getting people to the car. So 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.160 I get a lot of people to the car. And 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.560 of course they didching off. They running off, They running off, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.440 they ditching off, they running off. Well, now the fight 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.560 doesn't move from inside the club to outside the club, 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.400 So now people fighting the parking lot. You know what 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.360 I'm saying, People fighting in different bouns. Dude, they was inside, 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.160 you know what I'm saying, because they job was just 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.600 to bounce them outside. Yeah, when they get outside, it's like, okay, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.280 we're doing our job for everybody, and they have a 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.320 good time. But dude, the turning point though, was as 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.400 I'm trying to gather man everybody up to try to 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:12.800 get him in his car because it's time to go, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.480 you know. And as I'm gathering everybody up, I know 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.200 there's one of my partners. He walk up to me, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.240 and he walked up to me, Dude, he's holding his 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.560 head and dude, he had a gas on his head 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:22.880 from like the top of his head all the way 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.920 down to like the middle of his ear. And I 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.720 was like, yo, we got to get you to a hospital, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.040 you know what I'm saying. So I had two shirts on, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:31.360 So I took the other shirt off and had a 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.000 T shirt on, and I took that shirt off. I 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.160 just put on his head. And now I shoved him 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:36.600 in the car. When I shoved him in the car, 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.720 now all the other guys like, yoh, we gotta go. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.320 We got we got to get him to the hospital. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.360 And so we shoving this guy in the car and 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.240 I'm telling them, let's go. And so now three or 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:47.920 four guys, you know, they they getting in their own 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.600 cars and they shut the doors and now we're actually 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.960 finn leave man as soon as as soon as I 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.920 get out, and to go to the driver that was 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.800 driving the car we was in, and I was like, yo, 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.320 ro we gotta go, let's go. He didn't know, you know, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.880 one of our guys head was busted, like literally, he 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.240 needed to he need the hospital, he need to go 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.760 to the hospital. And he didn't even notice that. But 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.080 as soon as I like, he actually noticed and I 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.000 was telling him. We walk into the car, and as 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.200 soon as we walked up to the car, dude, this 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.639 one guy was walking up Like as soon as he 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.199 was walking up, people around him were scattering like they 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.720 was just running, you know. Him and another guy. Yeah, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.800 for a reason, him and another guy was walking up 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.120 on us. And then like it's just for some reason, 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.560 everybody's just like like scattering, you know. And I look 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.520 and then my partner was like, man, no, I'm finna go. 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.400 I finna go off of the goal. And I turned around. 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.280 I was like, nah, wait, And so I'm walking up. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.359 I'm kind of walking up towards the guys that's walking 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.480 towards us, like and I'm finna be like, hey, yo, 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:41.120 you know what I'm saying that they't gonna be none 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.520 of that or whatever ever. But I noticed, like, nah, 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.800 this this right here is too serious. So I turned around. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.680 Du When I turned around, everybody was gone like they 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:50.879 they don't open the doors and ran out like the 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.880 other side of the car. So now I'm by myself, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.520 you know what I'm saying, So just pitch it that 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.000 guy exactly with the guy that they're still walking up 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.400 because as I noticed, like, no, hold this, this ain't 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.159 going right. So I kind of started backing up and 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:04.880 I chunked a round back to the car, and that's 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.280 when everybody kind of dipped off. So when everybody dipped off, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.879 I'm like, dang. Literally, I'm like, I'm by myself. I'm 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.080 looking around like, oh no, so what do you do 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.640 with everybody's running? I ran, you know what I'm saying. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.000 So as soon as I took off, man, I took 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.040 off running. And then when I took off running, it 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.320 was dark. So when I took off running, I ran 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.920 around a building. And when I ran around a building, dude, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.920 it was like pitch darker running building. But I noticed 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:29.879 these guys chasing me. You know what I'm saying. I 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.560 noticed that. Yeah, so it was two So I noticed 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.000 that it was these guys were chasing me. And as 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.720 these guys are chasing me, dude. And when I when 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.480 I ran around, when I went around the corner, dude, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.720 I ran from looking back running forward and looking back, dude, 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.440 I ran right into a wall. Literally hit the wall 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.920 like boom, you know. And when I hit this wall, dude, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.679 I hit it. It was like, oh, man, like I 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.280 feel stupid, you know, I just I was feeling embarrassed, 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.400 like I didn't even I didn't even realize like these 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.920 guys was was what was following me. I hit it. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.439 It's so hard. I was thinking, like why am I 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.639 even running? You know what I mean? And then when 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.000 but when I hit it, and I came to myself 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.040 like dang, I'm tripping, and I turned around. And when 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.959 I turned around, these guys standing there like literally they 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.680 still walking up, they kind of kind of pacing because 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.200 you know, when I'm tired running, and he was like, yeah, yeah, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.520 what's up. What's up now? What's up now? And now 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.320 I'm standing there like wait, man, what and he was like, yeah, 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.000 what's up now? What's up now? So I had one 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:25.760 shirt on because I'm the first shirt that I took off. 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.159 I still have my T shirt on, right, and so 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.680 I'm looking at them two guys like I just same nothing, 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:30.919 you know what I'm saying. I was like, I've been 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:32.879 jumped before. I can take my shirt off, and you know, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.520 I can try to handle them and get out of 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.000 the situation whatever. So I didn't think that that's about it. 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:38.800 So I was taking my shirt off, like Okay, I'm 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.600 gonna prepare myself for a fight. That's the only way 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.680 I can get out of this, dude, is I'm taking 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.800 my shirt off. Man. I noticed that the guy come 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.480 around man the backside of his like his backside man 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.520 with a forty five calible pistol, all chrome forty five 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.840 catible pistol, dude, And he got the gun down to 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.080 his side. And then that's when life changed. And I 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.240 was like, oh, snaps, you know what I'm saying, like 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.600 like maybe this is the yeah, yeah, exactly, like dang, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.800 maybe yeah, maybe this is it. Maybe this is the end. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.679 And as I'm standing right there, dude, his partner was 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.240 like his partner. His partner told him, he said, man, 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.280 what you're gonna do? He said, what you're gonna do? 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.439 And I'm like, oh snaps. He then he told him, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.480 he said, man, gone and kill him. He said, gone 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.200 and burn this man. He told the other guy with 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.480 the gun. Yeah, he said, what you're gonna do. Then 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.280 he said, man, gone to kill him? Like a challenge, Yeah, 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:26.560 going to kill him. He said, what you're doing, what 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.879 you're waiting on? You're scared? He said, going and burn him, 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.600 Going and burn I'm going to shoot him. What you're doing. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.840 Ain't nobody around here with us going to shoot him? 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.240 And the guy picked up the gun, dude, and pointed 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:37.119 the gun right at me, pointing right on my face. 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.160 And so I'm sitting there, and when I stood there, 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.480 that's when it all hit me. I said, dang, I'm 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.560 finna die. You know what I'm saying. And I said, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:47.720 I said, man, I don't want my mama to see 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:49.000 me on the news like this. I don't want my 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.399 gun mama to see me on the news like this, 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.800 Like I don't want I don't want nobody to see 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:53.960 me like that. I don't I don't want to go 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:55.359 out like this. This ain't how I want to leave, 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:57.760 you know what I'm saying. And as I'm standing that dude, 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.880 and this guy got this forty five calible pistol point 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:02.760 of my face, not my chest, not nowhere else. He 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.720 got right in my face. I can remember my grandmama 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:07.359 bro saying, if I was ever in the time of 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.879 need and call on God, that's the first thing that 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:11.960 came to my mind when this guy got this forty 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.359 five caliber epistol. So all the times that I was 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.800 at my grandmama house and telling my buddies like she 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.040 gonna say somebody, God, she gonna say somebody Jesus. It's 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:20.800 like she knew it was gonna be a time that 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.320 I would have to call on God and he was 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.119 gonna have to do the work. You know what I'm saying. Absolutely. So, 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.040 if I'm standing right there man with this guy with 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.600 this forty five caliber pistol pointed to my face, I 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.879 remember looking up and I thought about my grandmama, and 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:34.880 I told God, I said, God, all right right here. 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.040 Why this guy got the gun pointed at me? I said, Man, 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:39.080 if you I looked up and I said, if you real, 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:41.240 like everybody say you are the man, just hit me 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.600 out the situation. That's exactly what I said. I said, 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:45.240 just hit me out of the situation. And I look 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.240 back at the guy because I'm just thinking to myself, 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.080 now it's over it. I can't do nothing now it's over, 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:52.560 you know. And this guy got the gunpointed at me, 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.560 and out of fear, I knew he would pull the 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.600 trigger because his hand was shaking. Not only was his 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:00.800 hand shaking, but he was sweating, so he was finished 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:02.919 just accidentally pulled the trigger because he was so scared, 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:04.800 you know what I'm saying. So now I'm just like, okay, 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.359 it's over. It's gonna be over. And the guy looked 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.439 at me, and he looked at his friend, and he 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:11.840 looked back at me and he said, man, you and 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.080 me to choot him. He said, yeah, you're scared. Man, 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:15.520 you're trying to get those stripes or what I mean, 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:16.680 what you're trying to do. You're trying to go on 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:18.600 to get some ranking this thing or what. And he 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.159 looked at me again and he pulled the trigger and 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:24.160 the gun click and as soon as the gun clicked, 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:26.000 he took the gun out of his head. He said, man, 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:27.359 you don't know what you're doing. He took a gun 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:29.080 and he ejected the bullet out the gun and the 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.080 gun a bullet came out of the gun and he 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:32.880 drawing down with it. As soon as he drew down 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:34.760 with it, a car hit the corner. The lights of 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:36.359 the car hit the corner, and when the lights hit 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:38.520 the corner, them guys took off running because he was 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.840 scared because it was lights. Now it's like, oh, snap, 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.480 somebody here. You know what I'm saying. It's like somebody here. 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:45.600 And so the guy took off, and as soon as 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:48.600 the guy took off, man, I forgot what I said 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:51.479 during the whole situation that was going on. I forgot 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:54.560 what I said during this whole time, and so I 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.320 walked I was I was starting to walk off like yeah, 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.760 dangn I can't be touched, you know what I'm saying. 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:03.120 I'm like, yeah, that's what I thought, you know. And dude, 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:05.560 at that moment, I've never in my life felt the 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.280 power of the Holy Spirit until this night. And that's 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.639 when it something hit me. Something hit me, and something 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:14.040 weighed on my shoulders. It's like something It's like it's 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.600 like a weight started sitting on my shoulders. And then 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.560 out of nowhere, I just started crying, Like literally, I 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:21.240 just started crying out oft know where, and I'm like, 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:25.360 wait a minute, you know what. I'm like, what's going on? 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:27.239 Wait a minute? You know what I'm saying. And as 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:30.359 I'm walking off, dude, it was like I was crying 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.439 so much that I just turned around and was like, 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:35.160 I can't go out there, you know, all teary eye 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:37.280 to all these people out there. Let me turn around, 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.920 and just started wiping my eyes, wiping my eyes and dude. 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:42.399 As I turned around, I started wiping my eyes. And 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.160 as I'm walking and walking and walking and walking, dude, 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:48.400 I walked up on the bullet that the guy had 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:50.920 ejected out of the gun, dude. And as I'm standing 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:53.280 right there, and I'm just wiping my eyes, wiping my eyes, 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.159 and I'm looking down and I can barely see his 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:57.920 tears flooding my eyes. And I picked up the bullet, dude, 0:23:58.080 --> 0:23:59.680 and it was an indent on the back of the 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.240 bullet to where that lead didn't fly off of the bullet, 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:05.880 but the hammer hit the bullet. So God was already 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:09.479 trying to show me during that during that time, like listen, 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.480 since he knew I knew a lot about guns, since 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:14.600 I got so many, and because I like to collect them, 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:18.439 and so since he knew I knew a lot about guns, 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:20.720 and he was he was already speaking to me, saying, 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:25.240 before you go tell everybody that a gun jammed, I 0:24:25.280 --> 0:24:28.440 want to show you this right here happened and the 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:30.320 lead just didn't come off of it, you know what 0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:32.840 I'm saying. That's why he led me back to the bullet, 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:34.960 so I won't have no type of like, no type 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:37.600 of second thought or second guess of this is why 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:39.800 this happened, you know what I'm saying. And so ever 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.000 since then, man, that's when it been like a life 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:44.479 changing experience for me. That's when it been something like 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:47.200 I said, man, you know what I told my wife 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:48.920 she was my girlfriend at the time. I said, you 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:50.560 know what, man, I want to I want to, I 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:52.440 want to I want to do something different. I want 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:54.199 to move away from the hood, and I want to 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:56.800 I want to get married, you know. And she's like, wait, 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.080 what you know? Then when I told my partners to 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:00.639 do it, it it looked like looked at me like I 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:02.639 told him I was gay or something like. Literally, it 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:05.840 looked at me like, wait, man, what you know because 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:09.240 it's just this wasn't something we did was from you 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:11.199 know what I'm saying. So that was a life changing thing. 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:13.120 That's what made me say, you know what, I want 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.480 to sit down because I asked, God, if you are real, 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:17.800 and then can you hit me out of the the situation. 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:20.280 So since I said that, I feel like I owe 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:22.840 life to him, you know what I'm saying. So since 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:25.000 since that happened, it is like, aren't even supposed to 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:26.719 be here? So since I ain't supposed to be here. 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:28.560 I'm finna make the best of the moments even when 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:30.760 stuff do happen. I'm gonna go back to this moment 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:33.360 of saying, Dann's supposed to supposed to be here, no way. 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:35.359 So when the worst of the worst happened to me, 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:37.520 I look back and be like, I ain't eve supposed 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:39.439 to be here, you know. So that's what helped me 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:41.280 get through life. You know what I'm saying. That's what 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:43.399 helped me like make it straight through life. Man, that 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:46.960 is a good story. Yeah, it's amazing. I'm gonna reset 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:48.720 this camera and I'm gonna get back. I got I 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:50.800 got some more stuff for you for Shell. For Shell, 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:58.440 let's do it. A portrait of this podcast is brought 0:25:58.480 --> 0:26:03.000 to you by Features. Now. 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Look at so look at like digging into 0:29:01.760 --> 0:29:11.000 that story, right, There's times, many many times in the Bible, 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:15.640 Old Testament and New Testament. Specifically, I know a time 0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:23.200 in Corinthians when Paul says that so that he won't 0:29:23.200 --> 0:29:29.080 get conceited, God put a thorn in his side from 0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:33.720 an agent of Satan. It's one of the weirdest. It's 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:38.040 one of the weirdest passages because you think about Satan. 0:29:38.120 --> 0:29:44.920 God used Satan so that Satan wouldn't win. That's weird, right, 0:29:45.520 --> 0:29:48.160 And that's almost what happened in your story. He used, 0:29:48.840 --> 0:29:54.880 he used some bad dudes, fueled by your crazy cousin. 0:29:56.840 --> 0:30:01.840 He used a lot of bad things. Oh, that Satan 0:30:01.880 --> 0:30:08.240 wouldn't win in the end by using you. That that scene, 0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:11.600 And that's why understanding the works of God is pretty 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:15.320 much impossible. We can't even begin to want to want 0:30:15.360 --> 0:30:19.360 to understand but the fact is, the truth is the 0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:24.600 light is now that you have brought so many people 0:30:25.480 --> 0:30:29.520 to the light. That's crazy because of a really dark night. 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:34.880 That's crazy. But God allowed to happen. He brought it, 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:36.719 He brought it together, he brought He even got your 0:30:36.720 --> 0:30:39.959 buddy all gashed up, you know. And it's terrible, but that, 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:44.000 but but that that's how that's how he works very mysteriously. 0:30:44.600 --> 0:30:49.360 And uh, and you what what fascinates me about you 0:30:49.960 --> 0:30:53.880 to this day is how you continue to talk about 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:58.360 God speaking to you and the Holy Spirit speaking to you. 0:30:59.680 --> 0:31:05.160 And you first described it as an overwhelming emotion that 0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:13.680 made you cry, which is real because you don't just cry, 0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:17.080 you know, I mean, like you know, you know when 0:31:17.240 --> 0:31:20.080 an emotions, a human emotions coming on, and you know 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:24.520 when you didn't cause it. Everybody goes through that. And 0:31:24.560 --> 0:31:27.560 so how has that evolved today? When you told me 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:31.520 yesterday at the stadium when we're playing, we're walking around 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:35.720 that day and you mentioned something God's been speaking to me. 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.280 Remember that, I don't remember what it was about. You 0:31:38.880 --> 0:31:42.320 say it a lot. You throw those words out as 0:31:42.360 --> 0:31:50.080 if this is a relationship that that you cultivate every day. Yeah, definitely, 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:51.920 so how does God speak to you? And I guess 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:55.440 that's my question. Man. First off, it got to be 0:31:55.480 --> 0:31:57.760 through the power of prayer. It got to be through 0:31:57.760 --> 0:32:00.400 the power of fasting, because even in About Man, a 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:01.960 lot of people miss the part that it says that 0:32:02.040 --> 0:32:04.080 we need to pray as much as we need to pray, 0:32:04.240 --> 0:32:06.400 as much as we were fast as much as we pray. 0:32:07.000 --> 0:32:10.200 So you can't just pray and just think everythings gonna happen, 0:32:10.200 --> 0:32:12.680 and they can for some people it probably can. But 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:16.040 if you're trying to really understand the language and the 0:32:16.120 --> 0:32:18.360 voice of God, dude, you got to put it all 0:32:18.440 --> 0:32:20.920 into play. You know what I'm saying. You gotta fast, 0:32:21.000 --> 0:32:23.160 you gotta pray, you gotta meditate on the word, you 0:32:23.200 --> 0:32:25.800 got to look into the Bible, do it just like anything, Dude, 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:28.680 if I feed my flesh more than I feed my spirit, 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:30.920 I'm gonna go with the flesh, you know what I'm saying. 0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:33.280 But if I feed my spirit, then that's what I'm 0:32:33.320 --> 0:32:36.760 gonna get in return is understanding God and understanding stuff. 0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:39.720 So that's why stuff like they come to play now. 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:43.360 I had to eliminate the distractions in order to hear 0:32:43.360 --> 0:32:46.280 god voice. First though, you know what I'm saying, because 0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:49.200 I couldn't. There's no way I can understand I could 0:32:49.240 --> 0:32:52.720 distinguish between if it's just whatever's going on in my head, 0:32:53.040 --> 0:32:56.200 or if it's Jesus or if it's the body of 0:32:56.280 --> 0:32:58.280 Christ really speaking to me, because it's not like a 0:32:58.320 --> 0:33:02.400 movie where it's a big I don't know. No, I 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:05.840 mean he can. I'm not saying it can, but I 0:33:05.840 --> 0:33:08.320 ain't hearing it. But that's not his style. That's not 0:33:08.800 --> 0:33:10.960 it's not his style, and it's it's it'd be a 0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:13.840 bunch of like he had confirmed a lot before something 0:33:13.920 --> 0:33:16.200 even happened. You know what I'm saying, Like, let me 0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:18.600 tell you this one incident, like this one story where 0:33:19.200 --> 0:33:22.360 I had I hit a truck man. I had a Ciperado, dude, 0:33:22.440 --> 0:33:25.160 and I had a six inch on it. Thirty five's 0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:27.280 on thirty No, what was it? He had? Thirty three 0:33:27.360 --> 0:33:29.640 is on it? Such a country boy? Yeah, dude, and 0:33:29.840 --> 0:33:32.680 uh and uh And I hit this person. I hit 0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:34.920 this person from the back. Literally it was it was 0:33:35.040 --> 0:33:36.920 raining and I was on my way to this show, 0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:39.600 to this event, and I just looked down. It was 0:33:39.680 --> 0:33:41.760 like yo, I was telling him I was worried about 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:43.800 like the speakers of something. They was like, man, the 0:33:43.880 --> 0:33:46.040 PA system went out of something through the electricity and 0:33:46.440 --> 0:33:48.400 you know, the lightning struck or whatever. So I looked 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:50.520 down like, man, what And I got a bit this 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:52.600 show in like five minutes. Then all of a sudden, 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:55.680 it's like boom and phonoe him and I'm like, oh, 0:33:56.320 --> 0:33:58.480 I just ran into the back of somebody, you know. 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:01.560 And when I hit the back of this person, he 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:03.280 got out, gave all the insurance and stuff to make 0:34:03.320 --> 0:34:05.080 a long story short, and I had to pay like 0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:08.640 a five hundred dollars deductible, you know what I'm saying. 0:34:08.960 --> 0:34:10.480 And I was just thinking about I had it, but 0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:12.400 I was thinking to myself, like I don't want to 0:34:12.400 --> 0:34:14.279 get this much. No five hund dollars up, like this 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:18.239 is just either when the gate, especially when he had 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:21.719 like no DNT I him. But it wasn't even a 0:34:21.920 --> 0:34:23.719 dean in the back of his truck. It wasn't even 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:26.520 like it probably was maybe a paint chip about this big, 0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:30.279 literally like a quarter of an inch painte exactly. And 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:32.439 I'm like, should I have to even pay? I said, 0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:34.279 But you know what, I'm gonna pay it, you know, 0:34:34.680 --> 0:34:36.960 And it didn't even bother me. But then the next 0:34:37.040 --> 0:34:39.240 day when I called my daddy, I was like, hey, Daddy, 0:34:39.719 --> 0:34:41.400 I ain't never in my life had a rick So 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:42.959 I'm like, I told my dad. I said, hey, Daddy, 0:34:43.360 --> 0:34:46.560 like I just hear somebody yesterday, you know. And then 0:34:46.760 --> 0:34:50.279 right after that, right after I told him that my 0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:53.320 wife called me because she hit somebody. We both of 0:34:53.400 --> 0:34:57.160 us ain't never had a ricket. No, it was like, yeah, 0:34:57.239 --> 0:34:59.560 it was the next day. The next day, dude, she 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:02.879 hit some And I'm just sitting there like, oh my God, 0:35:03.120 --> 0:35:05.120 and this is and this what really had start to 0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:07.319 bother me because I'm like, now I'm talking to God. 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:09.160 I don't know about y'all, but I talked to God. 0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:11.680 When I talk to God, I'm like, bro, listen, man, 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:13.160 you see what's going on. You know what's going on 0:35:13.360 --> 0:35:15.320 to other people that might look crazy, but at the 0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:17.799 same time, like, this is the relationship I have with him. Now, 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:19.960 if you got a quiet relationship where you just kind 0:35:19.960 --> 0:35:21.640 of worksped a God in your head and you pray 0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:23.560 to God at night, only then that might be you 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:26.400 but not me. Me is like, Okay, God, I understand 0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:28.000 You're really trying to show me something, but I need 0:35:28.080 --> 0:35:30.200 it in black and white right here, like I need 0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:32.600 to see what's going on. And he always reveal it 0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:34.600 to me just like that, because that's a relationship I got, 0:35:34.840 --> 0:35:37.439 you know, and how David was in the Bible, you know, yeah, 0:35:37.680 --> 0:35:40.439 exactly exactly, people telling me all the time, but something 0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:43.759 like that, you know, that's that's amazing. But so I 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:45.800 called my data the next morning, bro, and I'm like, daddy, 0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:48.239 you know, man, I just hit this dude, and I 0:35:48.280 --> 0:35:49.680 don't want to. I really don't even want to give 0:35:49.760 --> 0:35:51.160 no five and or dollars because it ain't nothing wrong 0:35:51.200 --> 0:35:53.520 with his car, I said. And then Constance just hit somebody. 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:56.320 I said, so man, what what like what what? What? 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:58.200 What you think going on? And this and that, and 0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:01.080 right then I just started to balling again. Ain't nothing 0:36:01.120 --> 0:36:03.840 never bothered me? Like nothing really too much bothered me. 0:36:04.000 --> 0:36:05.799 And my wife said it all the time. Like then, 0:36:05.840 --> 0:36:07.560 I just it's just crazy to me how nothing never 0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:09.880 bothers you. Like we can lose. I'm telling you, we 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:13.479 can lose like twenty thousand bucks or something could happen 0:36:13.520 --> 0:36:19.759 to us, and I still be like it's cool, It's cool. God. Yeah. 0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:21.719 And the last and like the last time something happened 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:23.160 me and my wife, she was like, I was like, no, 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:26.080 it's cool, baby, Like it's not cool. And it's like, 0:36:26.680 --> 0:36:28.920 oh wait, you know what I'm saying because it's like 0:36:29.160 --> 0:36:30.839 I don't know, man, Like I said, I go back 0:36:30.840 --> 0:36:32.359 to the first time. I don't even I don't even 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:35.480 deserve this life. It's like, man, I look at life 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:37.480 totally different than a whole lot of people you know, 0:36:38.000 --> 0:36:40.840 and so like. But but this time, this one in particular, 0:36:40.920 --> 0:36:42.960 time bothered me, and so I just wrote down. I 0:36:43.200 --> 0:36:46.040 just started telling my daddy like dang man, Like I mean, 0:36:46.080 --> 0:36:47.719 I'm trying to follow a lot of stuff that God 0:36:47.840 --> 0:36:50.000 is doing, like and it's just out of my emotions, bright, 0:36:50.000 --> 0:36:51.640 out of my feelings and out of my anger. It's like, 0:36:51.840 --> 0:36:53.400 now I'm going to my daddy, Like Dad, they listen, man, 0:36:53.440 --> 0:36:56.960 Because you gotta have accountability. People like I don't care 0:36:57.000 --> 0:36:58.640 who you are. You gotta have people you can go 0:36:58.760 --> 0:37:02.160 to and talk to about about like situations that's going 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:04.080 on in your life. It's not for you to bottle 0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:06.920 feelings up. It's not that ain't how God meant for 0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:09.120 it to be. We're supposed to be connecting with with 0:37:09.280 --> 0:37:11.480 with other believers and other people that love Jesus, that 0:37:11.520 --> 0:37:13.759 love God, in order for us to release a lot 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:15.640 of these feelings and emotions that we have, you know 0:37:15.680 --> 0:37:17.279 what I'm saying, So we can help each other get 0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:19.279 through some stuff, because you're not supposed to go through 0:37:19.640 --> 0:37:22.840 like all of this junk alone, especially stuff that's going on, 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:25.440 especially right now in twenty twenty, you know. But so 0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:27.040 I got to tell on top of to my daddy, dude, 0:37:27.080 --> 0:37:28.719 and all these feelings and the motion are starting to come, 0:37:28.960 --> 0:37:31.120 and then my dad and then I just I just stopped. 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:33.440 It's like something came over and I was like, but 0:37:33.520 --> 0:37:35.319 you know what, Daddy, I like, drive my face up 0:37:35.320 --> 0:37:37.200 and went to a whole other personality like, but you 0:37:37.280 --> 0:37:40.719 know what, Daddy, Man, I believe God. I know God. 0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:43.120 Can I know God? Will he gonna do something? And 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:44.960 I know he gonna do it. I said, And I'm 0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:47.359 gonna come back to you within the next I will 0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:49.040 guarantee you about the next ten days and i'ma have 0:37:49.080 --> 0:37:51.359 a testimony about this day. I said so, and I'm 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:54.399 gonna leave it at that. And my dad was just like, man, 0:37:54.400 --> 0:37:56.319 I'm telling you, man, you really be encouraging me. Son, 0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:58.799 you just I really feel like it is you called 0:37:58.840 --> 0:38:01.960 your dad ye to get encouragement, then God gave it 0:38:02.040 --> 0:38:04.840 to you before your dad could speak, and then you 0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:07.560 gave it back to your dad. Yeah. Ye, exact conversation. 0:38:07.719 --> 0:38:09.960 That was the conversation. But then I was like, then 0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:11.880 we went on to something else, and he was just like, 0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:14.600 you know, son, that is You're right. You're absolutely right 0:38:14.640 --> 0:38:17.120 something I believe. I was standing right here with you 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:19.960 and believe with you that something else is gonna happen. 0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:22.480 I really believe it. I said, Okay, cool, I said, 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:24.520 but anyway, and kind of brush it off, and then 0:38:24.560 --> 0:38:26.400 we just got to talking about something else. I think 0:38:26.440 --> 0:38:29.000 he's talking about deer Hunter something and I was like, okay, cool. 0:38:29.000 --> 0:38:30.680 Then I got out the phone with him. Do how 0:38:30.680 --> 0:38:34.200 about the next weekend I had to show in Dallas, Texas, 0:38:34.800 --> 0:38:38.120 UH with Pastor Ross and Mahomie John. Dude. John is 0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:42.080 an amazing guy from Colonial Hill Church. He just he 0:38:42.239 --> 0:38:44.000 just sent me down there with him. There was just 0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:46.120 to be like just to come along and go with him. Well, 0:38:46.160 --> 0:38:48.239 I ended up doing something at the church because I 0:38:48.280 --> 0:38:50.040 get you know, they like they found out who I was, 0:38:50.120 --> 0:38:51.759 and so I ended up doing something at the church. 0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:54.520 And right after I did something at the church, Dude, Man, 0:38:54.600 --> 0:38:57.200 this lady walks up and we all sent it in 0:38:57.280 --> 0:39:00.279 the circle and the pastor of the church, Ross walks 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:02.160 up and this is like this is a week later, 0:39:02.320 --> 0:39:04.839 one week later, seven days later, and he said, hey, later, 0:39:05.360 --> 0:39:08.239 he said, man, he said, I don't I don't know 0:39:09.320 --> 0:39:11.920 what's going on, but he said it's later wanted me 0:39:11.960 --> 0:39:15.040 to give you this. I'm like, wait, what's that, Ross? 0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:16.600 And he handed me a folded up piece of paper. 0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:18.680 I said, Ross, you know me, bro, I don't I 0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:20.640 don't take money. I don't take I don't you know. 0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:22.040 I don't do that. I don't take money. I don't 0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:23.760 take none of that. Dude. I'm just it's a blessing 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:25.560 for me to be here, and I'm just blessed to 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:27.680 be here. But that's it. And he was like no, no, 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:30.520 he said, it's on my spirit that the Lord really 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:33.399 wants you to have this. He said, because it's gonna 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:36.040 be something different once you open it. Now, Ross, I 0:39:36.120 --> 0:39:38.160 never know. I never told nobody about the situation but 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:40.560 my daddy about what went on. Dude. When I open 0:39:40.640 --> 0:39:43.600 up this check, it was a check for five hundred dollars, 0:39:43.800 --> 0:39:50.279 exact dollars, the same as my deductible. Wow. And I 0:39:50.400 --> 0:39:54.239 opened it up and dude, I just tapped around. And 0:39:54.400 --> 0:39:57.480 when I tapped around, there was like that's crazy, ain't 0:39:57.480 --> 0:40:01.279 the man? I said, nah, man, you right now, just 0:40:01.400 --> 0:40:03.719 tell this. I know it, bro because it's God is 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:06.320 amazing broh. And I can't even I can't put in 0:40:06.400 --> 0:40:08.719 the words just over a podcast of how you know 0:40:09.120 --> 0:40:11.480 the type of God that we serve many of them. 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:14.239 Let's do it. Let's do it. And so when I 0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:16.439 unfolded this thing and I told him the story, I said, 0:40:16.440 --> 0:40:18.759 brou my deductible last week was five hundred dollars. And 0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:20.480 I told my daddy, this is something I didn't want 0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:23.080 to pay. But I told my daddy, but watch when 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:25.400 I test. Someone is gonna come out of this. Now 0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:27.480 I get to call my daddy and encourage him. Now 0:40:27.560 --> 0:40:28.960 his face is fit to go up through the roof 0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:31.359 because of what's going on. And all of them tucked 0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:36.320 around and said god, man, dude, it was like, I'm serious. 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:39.680 Dude was all like like this my face like whoa 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:42.360 this is? This is crazy? Like this is this is 0:40:42.440 --> 0:40:45.320 something that's beyond me, you know, what I'm saying. So 0:40:45.520 --> 0:40:48.440 moments like that, bro, That's what. That's what what listening 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:52.360 to God's voice is. Even when something horrible happened in 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:55.520 your life, still you can't be distracted of what happened 0:40:55.560 --> 0:40:57.760 at the moment. You got to continue to just follow 0:40:57.840 --> 0:40:59.800 God and just be like, you know what, I know this, 0:41:00.440 --> 0:41:03.040 and it's okay to grieve, It's okay to like I like, like, 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:05.080 like how I did cried, you know what I'm saying 0:41:05.120 --> 0:41:07.360 to my daddy. But I couldn't cry so long that 0:41:07.440 --> 0:41:09.160 I didn't have hope. You know what I'm saying. I 0:41:09.200 --> 0:41:11.160 couldn't cry so long. I couldn't stay in that one 0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:14.279 spot and be like, man it is, you know, and 0:41:14.400 --> 0:41:16.560 just dwell on a moment to where sending me the 0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:19.600 suicidal thoughts, to where it sending me to stuff like man, 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:23.040 forget this life always crazy, life, always stupid. And I 0:41:23.080 --> 0:41:25.560 couldn't dwell on that moment because the enemy. The longer 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:28.000 you dwell on a crazy moment like that and you 0:41:28.080 --> 0:41:30.239 don't get back to God, the enemy gonna use that 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:32.480 as bait. He gonna jump in that mind, dude, and 0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:34.439 he gonna stay there. He gonna stay there. He gonna 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:35.920 stay there here, gonna stay there. One thing gonna turn 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:38.040 into the next, next thing ona turn in to the next, 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:40.000 and then you will find yourself doing something that you 0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:42.640 will never think about that you've ever done. So you're 0:41:42.680 --> 0:41:45.200 gonna take walk me through that. What you're saying right there, 0:41:45.640 --> 0:41:47.560 walk me through that. I've had a lot of guys 0:41:47.600 --> 0:41:53.400 on this podcast. I've had I've had several veterans, Yeah, suffering, 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:56.960 you know, they've seen some stuff. They will staying race. 0:41:57.400 --> 0:42:00.440 So walk me through. What you're saying right there is perfect, perfect. 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:06.279 You You have this moment, bad moment, the world, the 0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:10.160 world is crazy. Yeah, and you said as soon as 0:42:10.239 --> 0:42:14.320 you dwell on that, the enemy's going to take advantage exactly. Okay, 0:42:14.400 --> 0:42:17.840 So how so what do you do in that moment 0:42:18.960 --> 0:42:21.319 to not dwell on it? As soon as you said, 0:42:21.360 --> 0:42:23.440 you gotta take it to God? Right? Yeah, okay, tell 0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:25.520 me that. But when I take it to God, it's 0:42:25.640 --> 0:42:27.879 like I take it. I take that moment to God, 0:42:28.000 --> 0:42:30.560 like I don't wait. You can't wait, you can't prolonger, 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:33.560 you can't be like, you can't just think about something 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:35.719 might happen. You got to have hope in something and 0:42:35.840 --> 0:42:39.799 go like finish happen immediately, expeditionously. You know what I'm saying, 0:42:39.880 --> 0:42:42.360 because it's like when something happened is like like I 0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:43.840 was dwelling on the moment when I was talking to 0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:46.719 my daddy, crying like man, this is that dad. But 0:42:47.000 --> 0:42:49.160 at the same time, I was like, I stopped. I 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:51.960 had to stop and tell myself like, but wait a minute, 0:42:52.040 --> 0:42:54.200 I can't stay here. So that's when I told my daddy, 0:42:54.480 --> 0:42:56.960 but watch this though, Watch ow God do something. Watch 0:42:57.000 --> 0:43:00.560 how the enemy won't win, Watch how God set this 0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:02.920 whole thing up. Just for a testimony, you know, I 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:05.919 believe that's the Holy Spirit that intervenes in that thought 0:43:06.000 --> 0:43:08.520 right there, the one that goes, wait a minute. That's 0:43:08.600 --> 0:43:11.520 that's when the Holy Spirit this is speaks to you 0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:15.520 and then walk us through taking it to God from then. Yeah, 0:43:15.600 --> 0:43:19.080 but see, so what do you physically say in a moment, 0:43:19.400 --> 0:43:22.000 a bad moment and then you wait a minute, and 0:43:22.080 --> 0:43:25.640 then what you say during that moment? Since I told 0:43:25.680 --> 0:43:27.920 my dad, I said, but watch this, watch yall, something happened. 0:43:28.120 --> 0:43:30.520 Watch y'all God turn this thing around. That's when my 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:33.080 daddy was like, well, that's right, that's right, man. Well 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:34.960 I'll tell you what, right now, let's pray about that thing. 0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:37.040 And so when he do that, that's what I'm saying 0:43:37.080 --> 0:43:40.480 about accountability people. Your dad's spiritual too. Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely. 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:44.080 That's what I'm saying about account like having accountability partners, dude, 0:43:44.400 --> 0:43:46.120 because think about it, if my dad didn't say, let's 0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:47.680 pray with that thing, or if he would have been 0:43:47.719 --> 0:43:51.200 the type of person that was like, dang, that's messed up. Dang, dude, 0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:54.000 that's that and had everything negative to say about the situation. Yep, 0:43:54.120 --> 0:43:55.839 that's what I'm saying. You gotta watch your friends because 0:43:55.840 --> 0:43:58.080 that is your future. The people that you hanging around 0:43:58.120 --> 0:44:00.239 and people you rock with, that is your future. So 0:44:00.320 --> 0:44:02.479 I had to literally push away a lot of those people. 0:44:02.680 --> 0:44:05.560 So when moments like this come me and somebody like 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:08.359 my daddy or my other accountability partner, Maurice, might shut 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.880 out to my homi Maurice and he hit me up, 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:12.399 and I'm like, brouh, let's pray with that thing. Let's 0:44:12.440 --> 0:44:14.040 pray a back this thing. It's not this thing. You 0:44:14.080 --> 0:44:16.520 got the part, there's no question about it, you know. 0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:19.319 And then once it's like once we juice each other up, 0:44:19.640 --> 0:44:20.960 then when I get out the phone. Like when I 0:44:20.960 --> 0:44:22.200 got out the phone, I did, and that's when I 0:44:22.280 --> 0:44:24.800 literally had a conversation with God, Like, Lord, Man, you 0:44:24.920 --> 0:44:27.080 know the situation is going on. Help me out of 0:44:27.160 --> 0:44:30.040 this situation like you did before. This ain't nothing new. 0:44:30.120 --> 0:44:31.680 This ain't nothing new to me, This ain't nothing new 0:44:31.719 --> 0:44:33.439 to you. I know you can. I know you will, 0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:35.400 and I'm gonna leave it at that, just like that, 0:44:35.520 --> 0:44:37.920 and you gotta believe it. There's no way you believe 0:44:37.920 --> 0:44:39.520 in that something would happen if you keep deling on 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:41.440 the moment. And there's also that fine line of you 0:44:41.480 --> 0:44:43.160 don't want to push everybody out of your life that 0:44:43.239 --> 0:44:46.120 you can't actually help too. You only put people in 0:44:46.200 --> 0:44:50.239 your life that's cushion. Definitely, Definitely you gotta have a 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:52.279 little of that friction that you could do your work 0:44:52.320 --> 0:44:55.200 in them. Definitely. I know you do that. Yeah, definitely, 0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:58.080 definitely man. And that's also what your music does. Yeah. Yeah, 0:44:58.280 --> 0:45:01.160 it's like seasons for me, man, Like last month was 0:45:01.200 --> 0:45:03.440 the season that God was saying, you know what, before 0:45:03.480 --> 0:45:05.520 all of this stuff right here happened, I want to 0:45:05.560 --> 0:45:07.279 do something in you. So in order for me to 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:08.920 do something in you, I need you to get rid 0:45:08.960 --> 0:45:11.120 of these people, you know what I'm saying. But see 0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:14.400 that that's the perks of listening to God. That's the 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:17.080 perks of understanding God. You know what I'm saying. Think 0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:18.400 about it. If I have missed out on that, I 0:45:18.440 --> 0:45:20.719 wouldn't be here with you. I wouldn't be here. I 0:45:20.760 --> 0:45:22.839 wouldn't I wouldn't know as boards you know what I'm saying. 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:25.600 I wouldn't. I wouldn't know a lot of people if 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:27.640 I would have missed out on stuff like that. Because 0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:30.439 it was like, in order I have to hear God's voice, 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:33.120 and when if I don't hear God's voice, it's like, man, 0:45:33.520 --> 0:45:35.200 I'm not gonna do it. I gotta push that to 0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:37.719 the side, you know, just like with different different even 0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:39.799 I'm gonna go into this, just like with different even 0:45:39.840 --> 0:45:41.920 different labels. It was like I can't do this with 0:45:42.000 --> 0:45:43.920 them because I don't feel like this is what a 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:46.080 Lord lead me, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, So 0:45:46.400 --> 0:45:47.960 that's when I stopped and was like, now I can't 0:45:47.960 --> 0:45:50.000 do this with this with this type of people, you know, 0:45:50.120 --> 0:45:52.759 because I believe that God gonna have somebody in play 0:45:53.000 --> 0:45:55.480 for me to you know, walk with alone. This journey 0:45:55.600 --> 0:45:57.759 and then we're gonna make this thing happen. Going farther 0:45:57.840 --> 0:46:01.400 and farther in your walk, you start to specifically hear 0:46:01.880 --> 0:46:06.520 who's talking to you. Yeah, definitely the evil one's talking 0:46:06.560 --> 0:46:09.320 to Oh yeah, oh, and you learn to hear his voice. 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:12.080 For instance, this happened to me yesterday. I woke up 0:46:12.160 --> 0:46:15.799 yesterday and I thought, Man, I was like, man, fourth 0:46:15.840 --> 0:46:18.960 of July. It's like I got Lathan and his family 0:46:19.040 --> 0:46:23.520 flying in COVID's flying around Like, Man, this isn't a 0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:26.120 good idea. Now, this isn't a good idea. I should man, 0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:27.560 I should just back out of this whole thing. I 0:46:27.600 --> 0:46:29.680 should back out of the show tonight. I should just 0:46:29.760 --> 0:46:33.560 cancel this music video. I possibly put in him in danger. 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:35.960 You know, they got to get on a plane. And 0:46:36.040 --> 0:46:38.920 then I thought, that's not the voice I'm supposed to 0:46:38.960 --> 0:46:43.520 be listening to. Wow, everything is fine. Yeah, we got this. 0:46:43.680 --> 0:46:46.280 There's a reason he's coming to Texas. There's a reason 0:46:46.360 --> 0:46:47.800 he's going to be in this music video with me 0:46:47.920 --> 0:46:52.799 on Sunday, yep. And and now I feel and then 0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:55.960 when you go through with it, you feel when you 0:46:56.040 --> 0:46:58.320 made the right decision. Yeah, when you listen to the 0:46:58.400 --> 0:47:02.080 right voice. Exactly. I'm gonna take a quick break, reach 0:47:02.120 --> 0:47:12.160 out these cameras for show. So after this, after this podcast, 0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:13.320 at the end of it, I want to play that 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:18.120 Kobe Bryant video we're talking about because and and we're 0:47:18.200 --> 0:47:19.640 we're just looked at it over the break. We look 0:47:19.680 --> 0:47:21.080 to see if we could just play it over the mic. 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:22.920 But I kind of want to show the video anyway 0:47:23.000 --> 0:47:25.360 because the way that you look at the camera and 0:47:25.440 --> 0:47:28.959 you're like I said, and then God spoke to me. Yeah, 0:47:29.440 --> 0:47:31.959 I didn't even notice that, bro. You so many people 0:47:32.000 --> 0:47:34.279 pointed that out and I didn't even notice. It was 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:36.840 just when I'm doing this stuff, dude, It's just like 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:38.759 I want to show you realit it. I don't want 0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:40.040 to show you no fake I don't want to give 0:47:40.040 --> 0:47:41.919 you no jump were you just you're just a really 0:47:41.960 --> 0:47:45.680 good speaker. You have a cool Southern accent. I appreciate it, bro, 0:47:45.840 --> 0:47:48.319 because you're a country boy like I always say, but you, man, 0:47:48.360 --> 0:47:51.640 you're just a really good speaker and you engage really 0:47:51.800 --> 0:47:55.600 well with your eyes and your your hands, and that 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:59.040 that's why those videos work, man, That's why it hooked me. Wow. 0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:04.000 But I definitely on this podcast, we need to get 0:48:04.040 --> 0:48:09.480 into racism, Yeah for sure, because there's also a I 0:48:10.520 --> 0:48:11.840 want to hear it. I'm gonna shut up, but I 0:48:11.960 --> 0:48:15.920 want to hear from from your point of view, because 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:20.400 you have you have a view of love, and I 0:48:20.560 --> 0:48:23.920 wonder where that comes in when the world is in 0:48:24.040 --> 0:48:27.319 chaos like this. Yeah, maybe that's the time when it's 0:48:27.360 --> 0:48:31.120 most important. Yeah, but y'all, I'll let it be. Could be, 0:48:31.320 --> 0:48:35.080 I'll let you teach me. Yeah, definitely. What just starting 0:48:35.120 --> 0:48:38.040 it off, dude, this is and I know this is 0:48:38.080 --> 0:48:40.320 a tough pill to swallow, man for people, for a 0:48:40.360 --> 0:48:42.680 lot of people. But it took me knowing Jesus to 0:48:42.760 --> 0:48:45.800 understand this. So first off, if you don't know Jesus, 0:48:45.920 --> 0:48:49.000 if you don't have a relationship with God, then this 0:48:49.239 --> 0:48:51.279 this might just come off to a lot of people 0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:53.759 wrong anyway, you know what I'm saying. So that's why 0:48:53.800 --> 0:48:56.000 when people come to me about it, I don't go 0:48:56.160 --> 0:48:58.719 with with what the world is doing on giving their 0:48:58.800 --> 0:49:01.960 views about it, going straight to straight to the man. 0:49:02.120 --> 0:49:03.840 You know what I'm saying, And this is how I do. 0:49:04.800 --> 0:49:08.720 It's not it's not even so much of a skin issue. 0:49:09.480 --> 0:49:11.000 If you think you gotta think about it it's not 0:49:11.120 --> 0:49:13.320 so much of a skin issue, it's so much of 0:49:13.400 --> 0:49:15.960 a it's a deep rooted sin issue, you know what 0:49:15.960 --> 0:49:18.400 I'm saying. It's it's a sin that that that a 0:49:18.440 --> 0:49:22.200 lot of people struggle with racism, you know. So since 0:49:22.239 --> 0:49:26.000 it's a deep rooted sin issue, I'm me as a 0:49:26.120 --> 0:49:28.440 Christian and somebody that loved Jesus, I see, have to 0:49:28.520 --> 0:49:31.960 love this person now. It's loving this person gonna be easy. No, 0:49:32.200 --> 0:49:35.520 it's not gonna be easy, you know because, uh like 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:37.720 like the harm and the hurt that they're doing for somebody, 0:49:38.320 --> 0:49:40.440 you know. But at the same time, I gotta follow 0:49:40.480 --> 0:49:43.840 the biblical ways. Man of Christ. I can't walk with 0:49:43.960 --> 0:49:46.320 the world. And what the world is doing now is 0:49:46.719 --> 0:49:49.360 you know what they're doing? Is it wrong? Of course? 0:49:49.960 --> 0:49:51.480 I mean, come on, just just going back to the 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:54.880 George Floyd thing, man, we actually seen them like convict 0:49:54.920 --> 0:49:57.680 a man, trial a man, and murderer man just right there, 0:49:58.160 --> 0:50:01.120 you know, just just all on in one setting, like 0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:03.239 you took a man the court, you gave him a 0:50:03.320 --> 0:50:05.759 date to be to die, and you and you killed 0:50:05.800 --> 0:50:08.920 him right there. And I've never met or heard anyone 0:50:09.160 --> 0:50:12.480 that disagrees with that. Yeah, anybody I haven't either. I 0:50:12.560 --> 0:50:14.759 have I haven't either. But the thing about it is, 0:50:16.040 --> 0:50:19.160 it's now because the world has seen it, you know, 0:50:19.640 --> 0:50:22.160 and it's been going on for a long time. But 0:50:22.560 --> 0:50:25.880 now that it's it's everybody can see it. It's like, 0:50:26.280 --> 0:50:30.239 holy crap. There could be anybody laying down there, you know, 0:50:30.640 --> 0:50:33.400 But me, as a black man and as as somebody 0:50:33.560 --> 0:50:36.759 loved Jesus, I still got to say what I feel 0:50:36.800 --> 0:50:39.560 the same way if it was a Mexican land there, 0:50:39.560 --> 0:50:41.360 if it was a white guy landing there. You know 0:50:41.400 --> 0:50:43.879 what I'm saying, because because all of those lives matter, 0:50:44.080 --> 0:50:45.520 you know what I'm saying. And when I say that, 0:50:45.800 --> 0:50:47.919 I'm saying that this is in like, uh, just looking 0:50:47.960 --> 0:50:50.719 at it and in the eyesight of Jesus. Dude, when 0:50:50.760 --> 0:50:53.239 I say this stuff, you know what I'm saying. You 0:50:53.320 --> 0:50:55.759 gotta be careful saying stuff like all you do. You 0:50:55.800 --> 0:51:00.520 know these days people crucified for that kind exactly. Definitely, 0:51:01.040 --> 0:51:04.600 But I understand it. All lives matter too. But at 0:51:04.640 --> 0:51:06.800 the same time, it's like, right now, this is the 0:51:06.920 --> 0:51:09.680 issue that's going on, so right now we need to 0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:11.759 point we need to point at this because this life 0:51:11.800 --> 0:51:16.560 here is it matters now. Right now too, because if 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:18.520 you're looking at it on down the line, like just 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:20.640 through history, people have been dying and people have been 0:51:20.640 --> 0:51:22.719 getting killed over this type of stuff. You know what 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:27.000 I'm saying. As far as racist, yeah exactly, definitely maybe 0:51:27.080 --> 0:51:33.280 the oldest, the oldest mankind crime. Yeah exactly written history 0:51:33.800 --> 0:51:36.680 exactly exactly, and see we can see this stuff. But 0:51:36.840 --> 0:51:38.520 I had somebody DM me the other day and he 0:51:38.640 --> 0:51:41.360 was just like black guy, Man, this DM me the 0:51:41.400 --> 0:51:44.279 other day was like, man, what's up coon, what's up 0:51:44.600 --> 0:51:47.600 such and such and such? And I don't think he knew, 0:51:47.960 --> 0:51:50.080 Like I don't think the thing about it. That was 0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:52.399 when I messaged him back. It's surprising because I don't 0:51:52.400 --> 0:51:54.160 think he thought I was gonna message him back. And 0:51:54.239 --> 0:51:57.480 I was like, Yo, what's up? Like I have to 0:51:57.520 --> 0:51:59.520 be ready to hear you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:01.719 I'm not. I'm not gonna last back at you just 0:52:01.760 --> 0:52:03.160 because you're saying that, because I want to know. I 0:52:03.200 --> 0:52:06.240 want to hear. I want to hear your views about it. Exactly. 0:52:06.520 --> 0:52:08.120 I couldn't come up to you like now, you know, 0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:10.640 screw that f you whatever, what's up now? I couldn't 0:52:10.640 --> 0:52:11.920 do that. I had to be like yo, what's up? 0:52:12.000 --> 0:52:14.400 Talk to me, like, what makes you feel like that? 0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:17.480 And he was like, man, because he's just trying to 0:52:17.520 --> 0:52:19.600 do with what the white folks doing and he's trying 0:52:19.640 --> 0:52:21.359 to go this is that. I said, oh, I said, 0:52:21.360 --> 0:52:23.920 what makes you feel like that? He was like, because man, 0:52:23.960 --> 0:52:26.960 he posted a picture of all of y'all, like everybody 0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:31.560 kneeling at the same time and coming together. I said, oh, 0:52:32.239 --> 0:52:34.880 I said, so your issue as a black man is 0:52:35.080 --> 0:52:38.800 the issue of everybody coming together. And he was like, well, no, 0:52:39.080 --> 0:52:41.239 I want saying all that. I was like, well, tell 0:52:41.239 --> 0:52:43.160 me the issue. I said, you angry at something? I 0:52:43.200 --> 0:52:44.719 said to talk to him, asaid, I give you my number, 0:52:44.760 --> 0:52:46.239 we can call, we can talk about this thing. Are 0:52:46.280 --> 0:52:49.479 you serious? Yeah, I said, dude, So talk to me, dude, 0:52:49.520 --> 0:52:51.920 like like, what are you really mad at? Because that's 0:52:51.960 --> 0:52:53.680 not the what are you really Let's get down to 0:52:53.760 --> 0:52:56.040 the root of the real cause of why you're really mad. 0:52:56.680 --> 0:52:59.120 And yeah, man, it's just I don't know this because 0:52:59.160 --> 0:53:01.920 many folks killing us. I said, Okay, check this out. 0:53:02.000 --> 0:53:03.600 I said, my brother, I'm coming to you from a 0:53:03.600 --> 0:53:06.200 black guy to another black guy. I said, Man, last 0:53:06.239 --> 0:53:09.640 week I got pulled up and in Chicago and know 0:53:09.680 --> 0:53:11.160 if you hear it. But man, he did a drive 0:53:11.160 --> 0:53:12.880 by shooting each other five year old kid right in 0:53:12.920 --> 0:53:14.839 the head and the killer dead. I said that life 0:53:14.880 --> 0:53:17.360 mattered yesterday, straight up, bro, I said. And then you 0:53:17.400 --> 0:53:19.520 got a boys of clinics all over the town. Bro, 0:53:19.640 --> 0:53:22.360 they killing babies like forty going north them lipy. The 0:53:22.400 --> 0:53:24.880 baby lives matter. You got to think about stuff like that, 0:53:25.200 --> 0:53:26.600 I said. So when you came to me with this 0:53:26.760 --> 0:53:28.319 type of stuff, I want you to have the same 0:53:28.560 --> 0:53:31.879 energy when somebody do that on a five year old kid. 0:53:32.000 --> 0:53:33.680 Man pulling up in the hood, blowing a five year 0:53:33.680 --> 0:53:36.600 old kid mine. I like, come on, dude, what were 0:53:36.640 --> 0:53:39.600 at Let's march, let's stand, let's let's put our boots 0:53:39.600 --> 0:53:41.120 on the ground, let's do some stuff. You know what 0:53:41.160 --> 0:53:43.480 I'm saying. So when I came to him like that, 0:53:43.800 --> 0:53:47.719 that's when the conversation went like, oh, whatever, because you 0:53:47.840 --> 0:53:50.840 gotta be real. I'm a realist, bro. I love Jesus. 0:53:50.920 --> 0:53:54.120 And now he's messing with somebody else exactly what he's 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:56.320 on social media, messing with somebody exactly. But you have 0:53:56.400 --> 0:53:58.359 people like that on social media, you know what I'm saying, 0:53:58.680 --> 0:54:01.000 And it's just because man, I love Jesus, bro I 0:54:01.080 --> 0:54:02.960 love God. And if, like I said before I even 0:54:03.000 --> 0:54:05.080 started talking to you, if you don't understand God, if 0:54:05.080 --> 0:54:06.879 you don't understand Jesus, all this stuff that I'm saying, 0:54:06.920 --> 0:54:09.200 I completely over your head anyway. You know what I'm saying. 0:54:09.560 --> 0:54:11.720 That's why I don't like what you see on social 0:54:11.800 --> 0:54:14.160 media is just music. You know what I'm saying. Like 0:54:14.239 --> 0:54:16.320 it's it's just it's like I only show you the 0:54:16.400 --> 0:54:18.319 music part of my life, you know what I'm saying. 0:54:18.640 --> 0:54:23.000 And you're getting a glimpse of who I am who 0:54:23.239 --> 0:54:25.840 like you're getting a glimpse of me and Jesus, my 0:54:25.960 --> 0:54:30.319 relationship with Christ without me saying, hey, y'all, I've given 0:54:30.360 --> 0:54:32.960 my life to Christ. I love Jesus. I didn't. I'm 0:54:33.000 --> 0:54:35.040 not even flowing it out there like that. You're living 0:54:35.160 --> 0:54:38.000 by example. I'm living it exactly. I'm not just telling 0:54:38.080 --> 0:54:41.200 you what's going on. I'm much believable exactly. And that's 0:54:41.200 --> 0:54:43.840 why I'm asking all these questions too, because you you 0:54:44.040 --> 0:54:47.080 just have this joy that just comes out of you. Man, 0:54:47.719 --> 0:54:51.919 It's just you walk in like a radiance, and that's 0:54:51.920 --> 0:54:55.440 what you're supposed to do because otherwise it just sounds 0:54:55.520 --> 0:54:58.640 preachy and tired and lame, you know, walking around going 0:54:58.719 --> 0:55:01.560 you know, Jesus, you know Jesus. You know. Instead you 0:55:01.640 --> 0:55:03.440 want people to go to a year ago. What's different 0:55:03.440 --> 0:55:06.200 about you? Man? What what do you know that I 0:55:06.239 --> 0:55:09.319 don't know exactly? Like what what's your secret? And then 0:55:09.840 --> 0:55:11.680 there it is? There it is. That's it. Let me 0:55:11.719 --> 0:55:14.480 tell you my secret. That's it, man. And that's not 0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:16.800 just little people. Dude, I love I'm telling you. Like 0:55:16.840 --> 0:55:18.920 I said, man only supposed to have his life. So 0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:21.279 since I don't supposed to have his life, it's like, man, 0:55:21.280 --> 0:55:22.480 I want to try to walk in this way and 0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:25.800 now it's every day perfect. No, oh my god, no, 0:55:25.960 --> 0:55:29.440 it's not exactly exactly. Even my wife, dude, I come 0:55:29.480 --> 0:55:31.520 to her a lot like hey baby, listen, man, pray 0:55:31.600 --> 0:55:33.239 for me about this. This type of spirit is coming 0:55:33.320 --> 0:55:35.759 up on me. Pray for me about this. That's another thing, dude. 0:55:35.800 --> 0:55:38.600 You gotta have that type of influence from this person too. 0:55:38.680 --> 0:55:40.719 You know what I'm saying. Even with your partner, you know, 0:55:40.760 --> 0:55:42.680 because me and her don't went through so much stuff. Dude, 0:55:42.960 --> 0:55:45.759 just from my childhood growing up, like being taught about 0:55:45.800 --> 0:55:48.439 women like man, have this this many type of women. 0:55:48.680 --> 0:55:50.520 You know, that's the goal to try to do whatever 0:55:50.640 --> 0:55:52.319 with any type of woman. You know what I'm saying. 0:55:52.320 --> 0:55:54.560 Growing up in the hood, all of this stuff, you know, 0:55:54.719 --> 0:55:57.120 so that curse was still on my on my life, 0:55:57.160 --> 0:55:59.160 and I told myself, I'm not gonna put that curse 0:55:59.200 --> 0:56:01.040 on my son's you know. So I got to do 0:56:01.160 --> 0:56:03.920 something to where I make it to where my sons is. 0:56:04.120 --> 0:56:06.200 They're not gonna follow their curse. I'm gonna break this. 0:56:06.680 --> 0:56:09.799 I tell you right now, They're not. They're already good 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:13.040 boys and and with a daddy like you, and I've 0:56:13.080 --> 0:56:16.520 met Constance, your wife. These these kids are gonna they're 0:56:16.520 --> 0:56:18.560 gonna go up the right way. They're gonna be smart 0:56:18.640 --> 0:56:20.560 kids and and they're going to see the world for 0:56:20.680 --> 0:56:23.799 what it is. And so many times people are trying 0:56:23.840 --> 0:56:27.120 to fix the world. As Christians, we know that it's 0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:31.120 a following world. Yeah this is it's not going to 0:56:31.239 --> 0:56:34.880 get fixed by us trying to fix the world. We 0:56:34.960 --> 0:56:41.200 could only help ourselves and internally change ourselves through love 0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:45.439 and spread it outward. Yep. Relate one relationship at a time. 0:56:45.719 --> 0:56:48.200 That's it is it to me. It starts with our families. 0:56:48.760 --> 0:56:51.719 Once you master that love and that responsibility. It goes 0:56:51.760 --> 0:56:54.960 out to your your your cousins, and your outer family, 0:56:55.120 --> 0:56:58.120 and then your friends and then your community, and then 0:56:58.160 --> 0:57:00.600 that spreads out to you the city yep, and it 0:57:00.719 --> 0:57:03.600 just keeps going outward. But until you make your own bed, 0:57:04.280 --> 0:57:06.600 let's brush your own teeth. That says you're not gonna 0:57:06.640 --> 0:57:09.040 fix the world. No, man, it's a phone world. It's 0:57:09.040 --> 0:57:11.880 a broken world. It is it is, And I feel like, man, 0:57:11.920 --> 0:57:14.319 we gotta hold in order to fix this thing. Now 0:57:14.320 --> 0:57:15.960 we're gonna talk about what's going on, so let's talk 0:57:15.960 --> 0:57:18.600 about how to fix it. I feel like one way 0:57:18.640 --> 0:57:21.480 we can fix this is holding our own accountable. You 0:57:21.520 --> 0:57:24.720 know what I'm saying exactly, Like if I see my brother, like, 0:57:24.840 --> 0:57:27.360 for instance, if I see like where I'm from, dude, 0:57:27.640 --> 0:57:29.880 is you know a lot go on? Man? And like 0:57:29.960 --> 0:57:32.480 say fings. If I see one of my guys pull up, 0:57:32.800 --> 0:57:34.920 you know, I'm talking to him, hollering at him. He like, Yo, 0:57:35.160 --> 0:57:36.440 what's up? And I'm like, what's up? Bro? What you 0:57:36.520 --> 0:57:38.480 gonna go do? Oh? Man? You know I'm running, Im 0:57:38.520 --> 0:57:39.960 running a little low one. And so what I'm gonna do. 0:57:39.960 --> 0:57:41.520 I'm gonna go here and rob this little gas station 0:57:41.640 --> 0:57:43.440 right quick. I need to write then and right there 0:57:43.480 --> 0:57:45.480 and be like, hey, yo, listen, bro, man, if you 0:57:45.520 --> 0:57:47.840 are this gas station, you might not make it out. 0:57:48.000 --> 0:57:49.400 You know what I'm saying. To even see the money 0:57:49.720 --> 0:57:51.440 and say fans, and you rob the gas station and 0:57:51.440 --> 0:57:54.320 get twenty five hundred dollars, you ain't even gonna you 0:57:54.360 --> 0:57:56.320 ain't even gonna really be able to spend it because 0:57:56.440 --> 0:57:58.320 you're gonna get locked up and it ain't even worth 0:57:58.360 --> 0:58:00.040 you even going in to get twenty five hundred. I 0:58:00.200 --> 0:58:02.240 was out of a he could cure you. Think about 0:58:02.240 --> 0:58:04.040 all these all this stuff they can go on. So 0:58:04.160 --> 0:58:06.720 I'll tell you my brother, like, listen, I wouldn't do that. 0:58:07.120 --> 0:58:08.880 Don't do that. Think about it. I mean, I know 0:58:08.920 --> 0:58:10.840 you hurting right now, but just think about it. Go 0:58:10.960 --> 0:58:12.680 to somebody else. You know what I'm saying. What you 0:58:12.760 --> 0:58:14.680 need help with because it happened out with something. Has 0:58:14.720 --> 0:58:18.520 this conversation happened? I ain't half what it's definitely happened, 0:58:18.640 --> 0:58:20.920 but it was more so like a man, well, now 0:58:21.040 --> 0:58:23.200 you like this because you're doing this and you're doing that. 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:27.080 It's like it's nice for you exactly exactly. And I'm 0:58:27.120 --> 0:58:30.400 like a million followers on TikTok Ude, that's nothing. I 0:58:30.400 --> 0:58:32.160 don't know why people think it's another thing. People think 0:58:32.200 --> 0:58:33.840 you got a million followers, you got a million dollars. 0:58:34.920 --> 0:58:38.320 I know that. I know that because you got a 0:58:38.360 --> 0:58:41.880 million followers on tap. Dude. Come on, man, that's that's crazy. 0:58:43.840 --> 0:58:46.760 That is crazy, dude. But just like holding each other accountable, dude. 0:58:47.040 --> 0:58:49.280 And and just like with like with people like you, 0:58:49.720 --> 0:58:52.160 like man, if it's if you hear somebody else saying 0:58:52.200 --> 0:58:55.200 something about racism, like man, look at that whatever, whatever, 0:58:55.240 --> 0:58:57.200 it's like, yo, yo, that ain't the move right now, 0:58:57.480 --> 0:58:59.520 it's twenty twenty. It's time to be real. It's something different, 0:58:59.800 --> 0:59:01.760 you know what I'm saying, Like, just holding each other accountable. 0:59:01.920 --> 0:59:04.520 Even officers, police officers. We see somebody there fell on 0:59:04.560 --> 0:59:07.200 their neck. Come on, hey, look, partner, that's that's good. 0:59:07.240 --> 0:59:10.000 Pat him on the bed, that's good. That's good. Me down. 0:59:10.160 --> 0:59:12.160 That's crazy because that seems like that's a no brainer 0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:14.760 like that. I know that seems like yeah, yeah yeah, 0:59:14.920 --> 0:59:18.040 but it still happens. Obviously the whole world saw it. Yeah, 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:19.600 and we gotta see that, man, we gotta And when 0:59:19.600 --> 0:59:22.000 we see stuff like that, you can't unsee it, you know, 0:59:22.080 --> 0:59:23.800 especially when a man on the ground, man Holland to 0:59:23.840 --> 0:59:26.360 his mama. It make you think about, like, dang, dude, 0:59:26.400 --> 0:59:28.200 is that I never see the full video? I never 0:59:28.200 --> 0:59:30.360 seen the four. I couldn't. I couldn't see the four video. 0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:32.240 When I seen on the knee, I was like, I 0:59:32.240 --> 0:59:34.320 don't want to say no more. I mean media already 0:59:34.360 --> 0:59:36.480 talking about it enough. I didn't either. Yeah, so I don't. 0:59:36.480 --> 0:59:38.080 I don't have to. I don't have to really see 0:59:38.120 --> 0:59:40.400 no more, you know what I'm saying, because it's like, dang, dude, 0:59:40.440 --> 0:59:44.360 this is wrong. What's wrong is wrong? You know. But yeah, 0:59:44.520 --> 0:59:46.880 that's how I look at it. That's good stuff, definitely 0:59:47.520 --> 0:59:52.000 for show for shure, Yeah, your kids are gonna be good. 0:59:52.440 --> 0:59:56.000 And uh, if we had, if we just had that 0:59:56.160 --> 0:59:59.080 mentality of love passed down through generation, it's just a 0:59:59.160 --> 1:00:01.920 little bit. Then your kids are going to be a 1:00:01.920 --> 1:00:04.480 little bit better off, and then their kids be a 1:00:04.520 --> 1:00:06.560 little bit better off, yep, and then their kids a 1:00:06.600 --> 1:00:08.680 little bit better off. And it's the same with mine 1:00:08.840 --> 1:00:11.440 and my grandkids and my great grandkids. I like to 1:00:11.560 --> 1:00:14.640 think that it just gets every generation gets a little 1:00:14.640 --> 1:00:17.080 bit better. Yeah, I do. I have hoping that dude, 1:00:17.120 --> 1:00:20.000 I have hoping every generation after this will get better. 1:00:20.240 --> 1:00:23.080 As you can see, it's getting better, bro, even with racism, Like, 1:00:23.160 --> 1:00:24.760 come on, we got to be real about what's going on. 1:00:25.280 --> 1:00:27.440 It ain't it ain't we don't. We don't. I mean 1:00:27.480 --> 1:00:29.640 we can share the same scene and stuff now, Dude, 1:00:29.960 --> 1:00:31.480 it ain't how it used to be, you know what 1:00:31.520 --> 1:00:34.080 I'm saying. And then even like other white people, Bro, 1:00:34.120 --> 1:00:35.840 they coming in and it's like, Yo, this ain't right. 1:00:36.240 --> 1:00:38.760 We can't do this. Like look now in twenty twenty, bro, 1:00:38.840 --> 1:00:41.320 you got this my phrase time ever seeing different companies, 1:00:41.760 --> 1:00:46.520 different celebrities, different artists of a different race saying hey, yo, 1:00:46.920 --> 1:00:48.960 what can we do to stop this? Like how can 1:00:49.000 --> 1:00:51.200 we help? What can we do? You know what I'm saying. 1:00:51.320 --> 1:00:54.400 I ain't never seen it first, me too, dude. Even 1:00:54.440 --> 1:00:58.560 companies changing logos, companies are doing stuff different saying like listen, 1:00:58.600 --> 1:01:01.040 we got this many people high hire this many of 1:01:01.160 --> 1:01:03.959 the percentage, you know what I'm saying. So in twenty twenty, 1:01:04.000 --> 1:01:06.600 it's already a generational thing that's already being broke down. 1:01:06.800 --> 1:01:08.120 So you got to look at some positive stuff that 1:01:08.120 --> 1:01:10.080 God that's doing the world won't show you that the 1:01:10.120 --> 1:01:11.920 world won't show you the positive stuff that's going on. 1:01:12.360 --> 1:01:14.120 That's why I post it on my social media, like 1:01:14.360 --> 1:01:16.000 I want to show y'all it is. But of course 1:01:16.080 --> 1:01:17.960 it come off to a lot of people like, man, 1:01:18.000 --> 1:01:19.440 you're just trying to make it look like you know, 1:01:19.600 --> 1:01:22.280 this isn't it man, I'm just showing your reality. They are. 1:01:22.760 --> 1:01:24.920 I mean, you see enough negativity in one day, So 1:01:25.160 --> 1:01:28.440 you're what's your Instagram laketon walllick first and last name 1:01:28.520 --> 1:01:32.000 at L A T H A n W A R 1:01:32.200 --> 1:01:34.600 L I c K. Yep, that's it. So you got 1:01:34.720 --> 1:01:36.560 to go and go check this out because and you 1:01:36.640 --> 1:01:38.720 put that video on there. The video you keep talking 1:01:38.720 --> 1:01:42.080 about is I don't know what city was that from? Yep, 1:01:42.080 --> 1:01:44.080 I don't know. I actually got it from a young lady. 1:01:44.080 --> 1:01:45.560 I was so ready to post it. I was like, Yo, 1:01:45.800 --> 1:01:47.800 do you mind if I yeah, shit, and I just 1:01:47.840 --> 1:01:49.480 get out for a posting. Was like, let's do it. 1:01:49.560 --> 1:01:52.919 It's it's a video of one side is a bunch 1:01:52.960 --> 1:01:56.640 of protesters and the other side is a bunch of 1:01:57.600 --> 1:02:04.160 police officers. Both sides are mixed together, and uh, they 1:02:04.240 --> 1:02:06.440 go they they're coming together, and you think all this 1:02:06.480 --> 1:02:08.360 is about to get bad. Yes, and these guys get 1:02:08.400 --> 1:02:12.280 really crazy and then they all start taking a knee 1:02:13.040 --> 1:02:15.840 to each other and a sign a sign of respect. Yeah, 1:02:15.960 --> 1:02:18.800 on either side they take a knee for each other, 1:02:19.520 --> 1:02:23.160 and uh, it's yeah something man. When the protesters started kneeling, 1:02:23.840 --> 1:02:26.680 and then after the protesters started kneeling, then the officers 1:02:26.680 --> 1:02:29.000 just started kneeling. But then in the middle of while 1:02:29.000 --> 1:02:30.920 the officer was started had started kneeling, one of the 1:02:30.960 --> 1:02:33.560 protesters got up and then went over just to shake 1:02:33.640 --> 1:02:36.840 the guy, shake the police officer's hand, and the amount 1:02:36.880 --> 1:02:39.200 of energy that the police officer put in shaking his 1:02:39.280 --> 1:02:42.120 guy hand was like a sign of relief. Like he 1:02:42.280 --> 1:02:44.080 grabbed him and pulled him close, and he grabbed his 1:02:44.360 --> 1:02:46.800 shoulder and pulled him even closer, saying like, man, I 1:02:46.880 --> 1:02:48.320 want to go home, Like you want to go home. 1:02:48.360 --> 1:02:50.040 You know what I'm saying, Like, dude, we in this 1:02:50.160 --> 1:02:53.600 thing together, united, we stand. It was it was in 1:02:53.720 --> 1:02:58.280 that in both groups. It was black, brown. Yes, everyone 1:02:58.440 --> 1:03:03.160 was in either side, we officers, protesters. And I think 1:03:03.240 --> 1:03:05.040 we need to push that more because the news definitely 1:03:05.360 --> 1:03:07.200 just going to show that. Man. No, news, don't push it. 1:03:07.320 --> 1:03:09.680 They want to divide us everybody and the news just 1:03:09.720 --> 1:03:11.720 wants to divide everybody I know, man, and that's what 1:03:11.760 --> 1:03:16.200 I'm trying to know them. Yep, clickbait, that's it man. 1:03:16.560 --> 1:03:18.600 It's like people love the negativity, dude. People love the 1:03:18.640 --> 1:03:21.800 feed off of that because mens, we love company, so right, 1:03:22.560 --> 1:03:25.160 people love it. That's right. So me and you about 1:03:25.160 --> 1:03:27.800 to go film this music video. For sure, by the 1:03:27.840 --> 1:03:30.560 time you hear this podcast, I probably won't still be out. 1:03:30.680 --> 1:03:32.919 We got Paul. Paul's got to edit this thing, so yeah, 1:03:33.040 --> 1:03:34.919 but it'll be out soon. So you guys be looking 1:03:34.960 --> 1:03:38.200 for that. Please check out Lathan and all his stuff. 1:03:39.200 --> 1:03:44.160 A million followers on TikTok amst of the media follows 1:03:44.200 --> 1:03:47.560 on Instagram. Let them fool you. So But but like 1:03:47.640 --> 1:03:49.720 I said, I want to end this podcast. I'm wanna 1:03:49.720 --> 1:03:53.440 shoot over this video for sure. And you got so 1:03:53.640 --> 1:03:55.960 many good videos, man, There's so many good ones. And 1:03:56.200 --> 1:03:57.920 I don't even know why I'm singling this one out, 1:03:57.960 --> 1:03:59.960 maybe because it's the first one that really caught my attention. 1:04:01.680 --> 1:04:06.040 But the the way that you flow from this is 1:04:06.760 --> 1:04:09.960 this is terrible. This is shocking, the way you flow 1:04:10.280 --> 1:04:14.120 through that to wait a minute, then God spoke to 1:04:14.280 --> 1:04:18.320 me and he showed me. What this means is, uh, 1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:21.880 it is amazing. So I want to end the podcast 1:04:21.960 --> 1:04:25.240 with with that. But let's do it. Thank you so much. 1:04:25.880 --> 1:04:28.919 We'll do this many many times. Man, love you, my dude, 1:04:28.960 --> 1:04:32.040 and we'll uh, we'll go shoot this video. Let's do it. 1:04:32.120 --> 1:04:37.560 So do it. Here's what I'm talking about Instagram right here. Yeah, 1:04:38.200 --> 1:04:40.520 you never know what to expect or what's coming next. 1:04:40.600 --> 1:04:43.640 When riding them dirty rolls, the grappling dust might throw 1:04:43.720 --> 1:04:45.959 you walk. I'm ready, you're not on the God knows. 1:04:46.160 --> 1:04:48.200 It's hard trying to hold it together. When I lost 1:04:48.240 --> 1:04:50.760 a couple of people alone the ride. Wish I can 1:04:50.880 --> 1:04:52.520 roll back the hands on the clock, just to tell 1:04:52.560 --> 1:04:54.640 him I love you just one more time. I wasn't 1:04:54.680 --> 1:04:56.880 prepared for the pain that came and had me tore 1:04:57.000 --> 1:04:59.120 up on the inside. But I can hear you on 1:04:59.200 --> 1:05:01.360 the side of me, wish very softly telling me not 1:05:01.520 --> 1:05:03.920 to cry. Just when I thought I was hopeless, you 1:05:04.000 --> 1:05:06.440 kept reminding me how you will never leave. And now 1:05:06.520 --> 1:05:08.640 lot them people we lost had a place up in heaven. 1:05:08.680 --> 1:05:10.680 So make sure I get a seat. We go through 1:05:10.720 --> 1:05:12.720 some bats, sit downs, and might even have a fe 1:05:12.840 --> 1:05:15.280 curious we don't see I end up at home every 1:05:15.360 --> 1:05:17.080 time because God got his hand on my life and 1:05:17.200 --> 1:05:18.520 he guide me. Yeah,