WEBVTT - GLORIA GAYNOR: "I Will Survive" Documentary 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.119 January not only a month of resolutions, also a month 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:14.080 of reflection. Because our past kind of the informs or 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.960 shapes our future. We often find ourselves sifting through events 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.759 of the previous year or years with a little more 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.200 clarity than maybe we had in the midst of our 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:31.880 turbulent times, and we make conscious decisions to move forward purposefully, wisely, 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:37.400 and more healthy ways. Does this resonate with you? Have 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.600 you had times like that in your life? Maybe it 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.040 wasn't last year, Maybe it was a whole lot of 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:46.440 years ago. You were vulnerable, you were making bad choices, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.239 but somehow, somehow you came through it, You survived, and 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:55.720 now you're thriving. Good for you, Bravo. Today's podcast guest 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.200 will join me in cheering you on. She knows more 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.440 than a little bit about surviving. Nearly five decades ago, 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:08.240 in nineteen seventy eight, Gloria Gainer, the Queen of Disco, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.800 released I Will Survive. At the time, she thought she 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.119 had overcome quite a bit the death of her mother, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.760 a serious spinal cord injury, turmoil with her career, But 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.560 it wasn't until she reached the age of sixty five, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.440 divorced her husband and manager and had to completely rebuild 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.600 her life that she truly understood the iconic lyrics she 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.200 had been singing all those years. Gloria Gainer joined me 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.160 on Love Someone back in twenty nineteen. We had a 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.759 long chat about those tumultuous years. She had hit rock bottom, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.440 but came out on top and swinging, or rather on 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:53.360 top and singing. She's recently written and recorded a gospel album, Testimony, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.840 that went on to receive a Grammy, and today she's 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.320 back with more exciting news. The movie Gloria Gaynor I 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:06.080 Will Survive. It's a love letter of sorts to her 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:11.040 global fan base, a personification of one of the most 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:17.000 iconic songs ever recorded, and a motivator for everyone facing 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.480 a challenge. The film follows the story of Gloria Gainer 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:26.639 as she was writing and recording Testimony, which features musical 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:31.520 guests Bart Millard, Jason Krabb, Mike Ferris, and Yulanda Adams. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.640 It's a present day's story with footage and interviews that 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.440 tells of Gloria's incredible life and what led to the 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.640 creation of this album. Bringing the documentary to life has 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.920 been a labor of love for Immy nominated director and 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.760 executive producer Betsy Schneckner, who started filming in twenty fifteen 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.440 just as Gloria was beginning the recording process. True to 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.320 documentary making, Betsy had no idea that it would lead 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.799 to a ten year journey with the legendary singer. We're 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.280 going to hear about it firsthand from the Queen. I'll 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.120 give her a warm welcome right after I share some 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:15.280 love with this podcast sponsor as we welcome in the 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.240 new year. I hope you plan on spending much of 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.240 it connecting with friends and loved ones. 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You were telling me 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.240 at the time that you had something in the works 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.640 that you were excited about, and now you have birthed 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.800 that something and we get to catch up today and 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.640 find out what God is doing in your life. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:13.400 Well, he's working unders this documentary that has been at 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:20.960 several what do you call film festivals and done very 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:25.640 very well, gotten really good reports and a few awards. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.840 It's doing great and I'm very pleased about it. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.640 So Gloria Gainer nineteen seventy eight, the year I graduated 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.960 from high school. You were number one on the charts, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.520 and I was a kid in Reedsport, Oregon, three thousand 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:48.440 people working at the radio station, and you know, because 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.560 it was such a small town and a small station, 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:55.080 we got to pick the music that we played, so 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.480 the owners only let me on in the afternoon when 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.080 the kids got out of high school. They were playing 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.920 like Scandinavian music. I kid you not on this radio 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.520 stations during some parts of the day because it was 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:13.520 a big Scandinavian community. But I remember playing and dancing 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.680 in the studio and singing at the top of my 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:21.640 lungs your anthem, I Will survive, which has now become 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.599 more than an anthem. It really is your testimony and 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:31.479 your documentary, your movie. Where was your head at while 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.640 I was a teenage kid in read Sport, Oregon singing 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.839 along really off key with you? 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.840 Well, I was very much looking forward to the success 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:48.440 of the song and being able to uplift and inspire people, 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.799 you know, all over the world with that song. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.200 So, even as young as you were, your motivation was 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:56.400 to inspire folks. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.160 Well, absolutely, And then we. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.919 Talked about this back in twenty nineteen, but for folks 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.440 just joining us on love. Someone tell us what and 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.440 I know this is what the movie is about. Which 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.600 is going to be in theaters for only one day? 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.520 M h, only one day? What is it going to 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.840 be on a platform after that? Because you know I 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.360 work nights? Sure, okay, do you know which platform? 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:21.760 Yet? Not yet? 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.160 Not yet okay, that is yet to be announced. Tell 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:29.320 us some of the things since nineteen seventy eight that 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.119 you have survived, because it's a lot. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.480 Since nineteen seventy eight, I've survived the passing. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.880 Of all of my siblings, I'm so sorry. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:45.080 And a couple of spine surgeries, a few fine spine surgeries, 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.640 a couple of knee replacements, a few knee replacements. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.680 So you're the bionic woman, is what you're telling us. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:58.880 Absolutely absolutely, And you know, just the natural ups and 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.000 downs that happen to other people, different illness. You know, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.400 you get sick, you get well, you know, you you 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.280 you have friends you don't have you know, you fall 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.680 out with somebody, you have an argument, you get back together, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.120 and you know all that kind of thing. Divorce, you know, marriage, 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.400 as if your marriagers isn't traumatic enough. And then I 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.600 got divorced, and so this it's been a lot. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.760 I saw a little preview of the of the documentary, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.720 and in it you were talking about how in the 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.439 course of your marriage you allowed yourself to be controlled, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:39.439 and that resonated with me because I look at you. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:44.600 You know, you were our anthem, the strongest woman. Anytime 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.840 we saw you on stage, you were just so large 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.440 and in charge and powerful. That powerful voice and your 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.840 your dance and everything just screamed I'm in I'm I'm 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.920 I'm in control of this. And yet the truth of 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:05.400 the matter is, like many other women in performance or 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.760 the arts or just life, somehow we let our power 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.280 be taken away, We give it away, well let it 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.120 be diminished. How did that? How did that impact you? 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:19.319 And where are you at now? 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.480 Well, you know, there's a line in the movie, I 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.000 don't know if you're familiar with the movie called for 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.760 Colored Girls, and there's a line in that movie where 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.040 she says, I almost let him get away with all 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:38.240 my stuff and that and I lived that I almost let. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:39.800 Him get away with all my stuff. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.040 I mean it was like yeah, And so I was 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.640 able to pull away and back up and regroup and 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.080 get my act together. And you know, I always say 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.360 I often say to my friends, God had to drop God. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.520 God said, I'm gonna have to drop a house on 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.160 my baby girl because she's stupid. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.960 Old think I'm listening. I didn't hear the word stupid. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.160 I heard the word hard headed, because you are anything 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.920 but stupid, but perhaps a tiny bit hard headed. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:17.280 Yes, yes, yes, definitely hard headed and so yeah, but 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.080 when the house fell, I mean I jumped up and 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:25.680 got my act together and pulled out and survived and 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:26.640 now I'm thriving. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.120 Amen to that, Amen to that I saw in the 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:38.120 preview Bart Yeah, yeah, singing with you and working with you, 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.040 I love that man. I love that man. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.120 Isn't you a great such as we are? 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.600 He's such a sweetheart. And I don't even know how 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.320 many years God has blessed me with knowing him and 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:55.200 the guys twenty years. Well maybe his baby had just 0:10:55.280 --> 0:11:00.480 been diagnosed with type one diabetes, like just when you met. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.959 Tell me how God brought you guys together and what 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:05.360 that looks. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:10.800 So, my wonderful producer and along with my manager Stephanitie 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.120 Gold came together with it. If you know, we decided 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.400 we needed to do we wanted to do some duets 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.240 on the album, and so they got together and decided 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:25.079 who they would contact to who would be best with me, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.800 who would work best with me, and then contact them 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.200 and see if they agreed and if they were willing 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.679 to do it. And I was so very very pleased 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.120 when he and all of them that joined me on 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:41.240 the album said yes and and came and became a 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:47.160 very intricate part of the project and just made it wonderful. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.160 They are wonderful. They were boys. They were boys when 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.480 I met them. You know, some of them were just starting, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.520 you know, their careers, their marriages that they had been 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:04.480 together for a long time, but really kids. Yeah, And 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.680 to see how they have mercy Me has grown and 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.160 blessed so many people around the world has been fun 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.120 to watch. Like I kind of feel like a mama 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.640 hen you know, like I met Josh Grobin when he 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.160 was a kid, he was a teenager. I met Michael 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.400 Boublat when he was a teenager. I kind of feel 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:31.320 like I kind of I bask in their glory when 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.400 they do well and when uh when he when when 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.320 mercy Me and Bart hooked up with you what a combination, 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:41.640 I know. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.600 I know, he's like I said, He's just wonderful, so great, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.080 so easy to work with, so creative, so talented, and 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.320 and and so many different areas, and it. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.559 Was it was, It was just great. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.400 It was just a pleasure to work with him, and 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.680 and and the other guys that we had on and 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.000 Yolanda Adams the same. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:06.120 It was great. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.680 Yolanda, what a voice. I know why God didn't give 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:16.920 me a singing voice. I want it. I coveted. Everybody 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.640 in my family is musical. You said you lost all 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.120 your siblings. Were they musical? Yes, so you guys could 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.240 sing together, harmonize together. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.640 I couldn't sing with them because I was a girl. 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:29.160 I have five brothers. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.560 They wouldn't let you sing with them. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.320 Oh I was a girl. Well would they let me 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:33.920 sing with them? 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.640 Seriously? Even after your success? 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.560 Well, after my success, I wouldn't let them sing with me. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.200 Oh that's good. Well everyone in my family my father 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.800 was in a band, he was in a country western band. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.400 My mother could sing, my sister can sing, My little 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:58.920 brother can play instruments and sing. I had three biological children, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:03.640 all of them inherited the musical gene and passion for music. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.760 I have a three note range, happy birthday is in there. Okay, 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:16.120 that's it. So I covet your gift. I did. And 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.040 one time I was like, God, why why did you 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.320 give this gift to everybody in my family but me? 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.560 And you know what he said, He knows my ego. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.400 I mean, I have a huge ego, Gloria, and I 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:34.000 have no talent. Can you imagine if I had your 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.800 kind of talent, your kind of gift, your kind of voice, 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:38.680 and this kind of that. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.280 He's got other purposes for you. But let me make 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:47.320 you feel better about your voice. Okay, I fully believe 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.160 this to be true. Do you know how babies love 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.680 the sound of their mother's voices, no matter how badly. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.640 The mother sings, Yes, they do. Well. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.440 I think that's because God loves our voices when we 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.440 sing pray to him, no matter how bad we sound. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.760 That's why he said, make a joyful noise. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.920 Exactly, Yes, noise, noise noise. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.160 Yes, And I do. I make a very joyful noise. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:12.400 Yes. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.520 But it took me a long time to come to 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.200 peace with the fact that my sister can sing, my 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:18.160 brothers could sing. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.440 Well, you can too, and you've got the best audience. Yeah. 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.960 When I was younger. I used to lie on the 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.640 air and say I gave Celine Dion voice lessons, and 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.440 some people believe me. I'm like, are you kidding me? 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.000 You didn't really believe. That's just a joke, that's a lie. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.400 How old were you when you realized you had this gift, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.600 this voice? Because you're you're not that big physically, and 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.840 yet your voice fills an entire auditorium. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.960 Thirteen, that's when you knew thirteen years old. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.560 I remember very distinctly because I was standing in the 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.120 hallway of my apartment build singing, waiting for a friend 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.240 for mine to come down and come out and play. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.120 And I was singing why do Foods Fall in Love? 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.680 Frankie Lyman, who was also thirteen years old, And when 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.040 a neighbor came down and said that she heard me 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.560 and thought that I was a radio that convinced me 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:21.920 if he could do what I could do it we 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.320 were the same age. And then that's when I decided 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:25.240 I wanted to be a singer. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:26.520 Heymen, where did you live? 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.600 Where did you grow up in Newark, New Jersey? 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:35.680 Who there's a lot of talent people coming out of 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:36.800 New Jersey. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.880 Talent coming out of Newark and surrounding area. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:39.560 Yeah. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.320 Yeah, so I got smiled on that area when it 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:44.320 comes to the talent. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:45.480 Oh yes. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:51.760 Now in the movie, you get pretty real, very real, 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:57.400 very transparent and talk about some really bad choices that 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.240 you made as a young woman. Can you just share 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.600 something that was so hard for you to be honest 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.639 about but God brought you through it and gave you 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.840 the ability to own it and talk about it. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:10.840 Well. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.560 The one thing that was very, very difficult to to 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.920 own but also I felt compelled to talk about it 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.480 because of the outcome was the party that my ex 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:29.000 husband and I threw out in California when I was 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.200 riding high on the success If I Will survive and 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:38.520 long story short, you'll see it in the film how 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:46.600 I lost my moral compass for a minute and God 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:48.920 snatched me out of it. Now, I lost it because 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.560 I gave my heart to the Lord. I remember asking 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.239 my mother that could I go and be baptized when 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:55.880 I was sixteen? 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.400 And then success came along. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:00.880 Influences. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:05.119 How long did you let those influences steal your life? 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:06.679 Good? Ten years? 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.160 And what brought you back? 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.640 God himself? No, he snatched me in my collar. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.240 And what did he say, that's enough. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:14.920 That was it. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.480 That was it, And then you decided, after being the 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.840 Queen of Disco, that was your title. That's how we 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.880 introduced you on the air, the Queen of Disco. Yeah, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:28.040 to do a gospel album. What did people say when 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:29.920 you're like, I want to I want to sing praises 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:37.320 to the Lord? You're like, yeah, okay, right, did they 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.000 remember the disco dresses you used to wear on stage? 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:52.280 Mm hmmm you had you have gambs legs. Yeah, but 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.800 you did. You found people who believed in you and 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.919 helped you put the album together. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:57.720 Yes, you know. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.400 And and what of you awards? Pardon and you want 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:03.800 a few little awards? 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.080 Yeah, yeah, won a couple of awards. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.240 And you can go ahead. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.120 When you do his will, he will bless. 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.480 You, you know, just as simple as that. 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.640 He would absolutely bless you. Any blesses us. Sometimes when 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:19.280 we don't. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.320 Do is will. You know, we can not good to 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:27.800 our children when they're like bad sometimes, you know. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:33.600 All the time, Yeah, because they're so dang cute and 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.040 we love them so hard even when they're bad. 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:38.719 Yeah. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.399 Spending time reminiscing with one of my musical heroes today, 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.520 Gloria Gaynor. Here's some news about another hero on Mine, 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.720 a podcast sponsor who helps to make these incredible experiences 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:56.639 possible for us. Mercy Ships has been transforming lives for 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:01.000 over forty years. Many people in our world have no 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.919 access to healthcare and as a result, they must endure 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:09.800 pain and suffering. 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Tell me what that looked 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.800 like and who was there for you doing it? 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.680 Well, well, my manager's definitely go with one hundred percent. 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.439 There for me helping her was Tom store Out, our 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:47.600 social media person who does a hundred other things. Besides that, 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:52.480 there was of course Betsy the producer and she had 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:59.720 some issues that that that personal things that stall the 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.679 for for a minute. But you know, it was just 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:09.600 that she was willing to travel with me overseas and 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.680 and and and got some live footage for the documentary. 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:17.800 And yes, she put blood, sweat and tears into it 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.960 and uh and has done an awesome job in my 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.719 opinion and an opinion of many other people. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.800 Yeah, it's been. It's been great working with her. 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:34.320 So it comes out during the Month of Love, Yes, 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:40.120 and Gallantine's Day. Gallantine's Day, are you gall with your 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:41.560 Gallantines with your best friend. 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.480 You can all get together and and go in groups 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:48.600 and see it together and and just make a make 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:53.280 a wonderful you know, a day of camaraderie and and 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:57.879 friendship and love, you know, between girls. 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:03.480 So what is is something you want to impart upon 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:07.920 our listeners from your heart? Like if you could just 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:11.040 give them lay one truth down, if you could give 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:14.800 person somebody one truth that would stick, what would that be? 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:17.800 Hmm, that's hard. 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:23.959 Okay, Two, you can have three my podcasting have as 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:24.680 many as you want. 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:28.560 One one of the one of the big things is 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.399 that what I learned through this and God said it 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:33.640 to me and then he would commit then he then 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.280 he then he went on to prove it to me 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:40.000 that no one can keep He said to me, no 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:41.800 one can keep you from getting what I have for 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:42.520 you except you. 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:45.440 Say that again, because for the people in the back. 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.639 Keep you from getting what I have for you except you. 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:53.000 And having learned that he is the only one who 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:56.520 knows and wants only what's best for you and the 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:59.480 only one who can bring it all to pass, that 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.000 was a wonderful thing for him to put it in 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:04.879 my heart. And he had shown it through this, through this, 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:08.760 not only through the making of the of the of 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.320 the documentary, but the things that went into the documentary, 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.960 that activities, and the things that happened to me through that, 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:17.560 and how he's carried me through I mean through this, 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:21.359 through the making of this video. I lost to siblings 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:26.600 and he's carried me through that. But uh, through my 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:29.040 life as of now, I've lost all of my siblings 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:32.640 and He's carried me through it all. And and it's 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:36.200 just I just want to impart to people how faithful 0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:39.720 he is, and I want to impart to them. My 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:43.679 favorite scripture, which I believe, is this. This is the 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:46.200 scripture you have to live by. Trust in the law. 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:49.320 This is Proverbs three, verses five and six. Trust in 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:52.240 the Law with all your heart, in all your ways, 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:55.879