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Speaker 1: Every day a week ago. Click yours up the Breakfast Club,

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Speaker 1: finish for y'all. Done morning everybody, it's the j n V.

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Speaker 2: Just hilarious.

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Speaker 3: Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. Lola Roast

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Speaker 3: is here as well. We got a special guest in

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Speaker 3: the building.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, the intro you.

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Speaker 2: Want to sing the intro, that's highway the.

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Speaker 1: Ladies.

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Speaker 2: Welcome brother.

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Speaker 1: What's up young man? I'm great this morning. I feel good.

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Speaker 1: I feel good. It's good to be here, if you

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Speaker 1: don't mind me. Yeah, I'm fifty six. Something to look

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Speaker 1: forward to.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you talking about absolutely How does it feel to

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Speaker 3: have one of the record that will never go away?

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Speaker 3: It plays in pop culture and hip hop and urban

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Speaker 3: and country and all types of things. Your record always

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Speaker 3: get played. Do you know when you did that record,

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Speaker 3: it was gonna that was that record?

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Speaker 2: It was going to be that way.

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Speaker 4: I knew we had something special. Like I go back

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Speaker 4: to college days and I knew that even long before

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Speaker 4: I was in the music business, Like I would go

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Speaker 4: to the fraternity parties or whatever, and any DJ that

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Speaker 4: was really doing this thing right around that, you know,

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Speaker 4: last call for alcohol, that last hour of the club,

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Speaker 4: that's when they would drop Slick Rick's Children's Story and

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Speaker 4: that was just already like a timeless record. But I

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Speaker 4: always said, even back then, if I ever get the

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Speaker 4: chance of getting music business, I'm gonna sing.

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Speaker 1: Over that record.

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Speaker 4: So I did know that it was already a hit.

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Speaker 4: But the journey of taking that hit and then turning

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Speaker 4: it into a classic, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I could not have known that, but that was what

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Speaker 1: the goal was.

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Speaker 5: Correct, Correct me if I'm wrong, because I was thinking

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Speaker 5: about it when they told me you was coming in.

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Speaker 2: You were You were def Jam's first R and B star, right, I.

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Speaker 4: Think they had Allison Well when you say R and

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Speaker 4: had Orange Juce Jones there, so they had some some

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Speaker 4: R and B stuff. Yeah, I mean we were the first.

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Speaker 4: Well not only were we the first I think successful

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Speaker 4: R and B like, we were there their first number

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Speaker 4: one record that def Jam had ever Yeah and.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah wow, the first amazing.

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Speaker 5: But I did you know you think of depth Jay,

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Speaker 5: you think of its being a rap heavy label around

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Speaker 5: that time. You were even sampling one of their classic

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Speaker 5: rap records.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and the cool thing though, even with that relationship

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Speaker 4: of doing the Slick Crick the Children's Story kind of pairing.

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Speaker 4: On my second album, me and Slickrick got together and

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Speaker 4: we did a song called I Like That was on

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Speaker 4: my second album, and we're friends to this to this day,

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Speaker 4: him and his wife and me and my wife. We all,

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Speaker 3: But tell us how you wrote that record in the

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Speaker 3: process of getting into the music industry, because you said

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Speaker 3: made you say, you know what I want to do music?

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Speaker 4: Well that the making of that record right there was

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Speaker 4: literally like capturing atmosphere. So I would study guys like

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Speaker 4: Marvin Gay and the song like got to give it Up.

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Speaker 4: If you listen to that song, got to give it Up.

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Speaker 4: Even before Marvin starts singing, you hear crowd, you hear atmosphere.

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Speaker 4: You hear energy and all that is transformative in you know,

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Speaker 4: into music, especially when music was more analog than digital.

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Speaker 4: And so when you hear this is how we do

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Speaker 4: it before the song ever comes on, you hear a party,

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Speaker 1: What we did.

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Speaker 4: I put people in the studio, put a microphone in there,

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Speaker 6: In actually the actual studio like live in the studio, like.

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Speaker 4: Live in the studio, they were just kind of we

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Speaker 4: of this is how we do it. So people don't

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Speaker 4: know it's more than hearing the record. They actually feel

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Speaker 4: that record, which is why you know, we're talking thirty

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Speaker 5: A record like that is a gift in a curse though,

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Speaker 5: right because you know, a record comes, it becomes such

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Speaker 4: Right in a way, it was a It was a

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Speaker 1: Back to that as the first was that record, They're well,

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Speaker 4: I had some records that did really probably not sold more,

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Speaker 4: for the Honeys came out, uh, that was a song

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Speaker 1: We're like, hey, this is the next single.

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Speaker 4: They're like, no, we're still playing this is how we

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Speaker 4: pretty cool thing that a lot of people don't know.

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Speaker 4: The reason why this is how we do it got

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Speaker 4: I say, south Central does it like nobody does. I

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Speaker 4: ninety seven and those stations or whatever, they're like, we

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Speaker 4: love you, we love depth CHANM, but we're not really

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Speaker 4: kind of playing that record because you know the whole

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Speaker 4: South Central thing. So I was like, okay, well let's

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Speaker 1: This is how we do it. But I said, ooh,

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Speaker 4: And why I normally do you know, because I was

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Speaker 4: Friday night, I feel all right, the parties with Angie Martinez.

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Speaker 1: So I reached for the old school and I turned

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Speaker 4: Some flo and so I started throwing names into the

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Speaker 4: every hour on the hour. And then DC here's in DC.

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Speaker 4: It's like, yo, we heard you did that in New York.

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Speaker 4: We want a DC version, we want a Philly version.

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Speaker 4: And so I ended up singing the song probably a

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Speaker 1: So that is artist, don't put that kind of work

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Speaker 7: I was gonna say, you talked about you being a

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Speaker 7: Even in that song, you kind of have verses where

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Speaker 7: you're it's like you're singing it, but it's it's like

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Speaker 7: a like you're wrapping it like I reached, Like now

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Speaker 7: I understand kind of where that comes from.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was Russell Simmons rap singer when I got

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Speaker 4: why I was documenting street life in Los Angeles and

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Speaker 4: I was finding ways to to you know, the r

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Speaker 4: The guy was out there, and you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I wanted to do the new Jack thing. I

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Speaker 4: I was a fan of Aaron Hall. I was a

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Speaker 4: way I was able to carve my own space into

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Speaker 4: who I would be musically was I had to take

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Speaker 4: rap lyrics and then I would sing them. So if

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Speaker 4: turn it up, designated driver, take the keys to my truck.

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Speaker 1: Like lyrically that the Dutch that that's like rap prose.

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Speaker 4: But that I would say designated driver, take the keys

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Speaker 2: I just love the fact that you you know, having

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Speaker 1: Yah, that's what I'm saying. I was very conscious, very.

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Speaker 2: Responsible, and you went from R and B, you know,

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Speaker 1: Like, what was the breaking point that made you step

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Speaker 4: It was like, literally I was brought up a church kid.

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Speaker 1: And so, you know, so I don't have to work

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Speaker 4: And by me stepping away to do ministry, I found

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Speaker 4: you are if you never pick up a mic again.

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Speaker 4: So it was during that time I found out, Man,

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Speaker 4: I'm a son and I'm a father, I'm a friend,

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Speaker 4: I'm a giver, I'm generous, I'm you know, I'm all

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Speaker 4: these different things.

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Speaker 4: A communicator, I'm a bunch of different that. If I

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Speaker 4: And then that's when God says, Okay, now I can

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Speaker 4: created meant it's meant to be a covenant. And a

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00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,359
Speaker 4: lot of people go in to marriage with an exit

439
00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,359
Speaker 4: strategy as opposed to having an eternal strategy. They go

440
00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,560
Speaker 4: in thinking, well, if this doesn't work, then i'll and

441
00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,840
Speaker 4: that automatically is to set up for the enemy to

442
00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,320
Speaker 4: be able to know what you're then I'll I'll do

443
00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,200
Speaker 4: this or I'll do that. That's the strategy that the

444
00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,960
Speaker 4: enemy will use to take out your marriage. And so

445
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,480
Speaker 4: we know that we are going to be married to

446
00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,960
Speaker 4: each other forever. We're gonna make it the best forever possible.

447
00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 4: We're gonna be happy. We got family legacy on the

448
00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,119
Speaker 4: line here. And by doing that, I recognize that our

449
00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,440
Speaker 4: marriage ain't just for us. Our marriage is for other

450
00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,680
Speaker 4: people to be able to see and be like, man,

451
00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,640
Speaker 4: if they can do it, they can do thirty something

452
00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,879
Speaker 4: years and still be grabbing each other's butts in the

453
00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:56,000
Speaker 4: elevator and still you know, excited about each other. Whatever,

454
00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,240
Speaker 4: it can be done. A lot of people don't want

455
00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,200
Speaker 4: to get married or or they're kind of shy away

456
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,360
Speaker 4: from it simply because they don't recognize or see enough

457
00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,640
Speaker 4: that it can be done. And so that's what we're doing.

458
00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,520
Speaker 4: We want to be an example, uh to we help

459
00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,760
Speaker 4: a public marriage is hell in private. So a lot

460
00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,320
Speaker 4: of couples when they go into you know, some challenges

461
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:14,680
Speaker 4: or this or that. We have a spot called the

462
00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,639
Speaker 4: Jordan River down in Atlanta, UH and we take we

463
00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,960
Speaker 4: provide marriage and family therapy, but licensed marriage and family.

464
00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:22,560
Speaker 1: Therapists, private chefs, all of that.

465
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,159
Speaker 4: They get a chance to come in and uh, you know,

466
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,200
Speaker 4: they can go to montel and Kristen dot com or

467
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,720
Speaker 4: or go to Marriage Masterpiece dot com p E a

468
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Speaker 4: c E. UH If people need help with their marriages.

469
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,119
Speaker 4: But uh, you know that's that's something that we do

470
00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,320
Speaker 4: to keep us. It keeps us tight together because we

471
00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,240
Speaker 4: recognize other couples needed God bless.

472
00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, how was that mixing like with the pros and

473
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,159
Speaker 5: cons of mixing the marriage with the business, that.

474
00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:45,760
Speaker 2: Was hell.

475
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,960
Speaker 1: Became a path, you know, it was.

476
00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,240
Speaker 4: You know, it was one of those things where you know,

477
00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,399
Speaker 4: the label had come in and in order to to

478
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:04,400
Speaker 4: help be successful, they were like, well, montell if nobody's

479
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,399
Speaker 4: gonna want an unavailable, married R and B artist, you know,

480
00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,439
Speaker 4: you gotta understand. You know we're talking ninety five, ninety four,

481
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,399
Speaker 4: ninety five. You know, if you're not available, they're not

482
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,159
Speaker 4: gonna want you. And I would always heard that if

483
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,840
Speaker 4: you want to be successful in the music business, guys

484
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:18,600
Speaker 4: have to want to be be you and women have

485
00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 4: to want to be with you. If you can do

486
00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,560
Speaker 4: those things and you could be successful. And so I

487
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 4: had to keep the persona that I was this single

488
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 4: available R and B artist and for her being in

489
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,880
Speaker 4: depth chairman and then you know one sixty varick those

490
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,040
Speaker 4: days being in that building was a that was a

491
00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 4: tough building to be in. And she's a woman manager

492
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:36,919
Speaker 4: or whatever, and it was like, well, if you are

493
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,639
Speaker 4: the wife, then people are not gonna respect you. So

494
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,560
Speaker 4: as opposed to being Kristin Jordan, she was Kristin Hudson

495
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,840
Speaker 4: and she was the manager. And being the manager is

496
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,240
Speaker 4: tough because it's kind of like is the manager telling

497
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 4: the artists what to do? Or is the artist telling

498
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 4: the manager? What?

499
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 1: What do we do?

500
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 4: And then when we're not artist and manager and then

501
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,440
Speaker 4: we go home because remember there's different Montelles at that time.

502
00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,719
Speaker 4: There's Montela artist and then there's Montela husband, and Montola

503
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 4: artist takes president you know, takes presence over Montela husband

504
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,399
Speaker 4: when we get home, like then what does that look like?

505
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,399
Speaker 1: How do we submit to each other? How do we

506
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 1: you know?

507
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,360
Speaker 4: And so it was that was it was very, very tough,

508
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 4: and so at some point something else had to die,

509
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 4: and in that my artistry and her manage managerial capacity,

510
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 4: all those things had to die in order for our

511
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 4: marriage to live. Because whatever you feed grows, right, and

512
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 4: so if we're feeding the industry side of us, that

513
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,880
Speaker 4: thing was was crazy. She was managing doing fantastic, I'm

514
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 4: doing my artist thing, and we hemorrhage in at home.

515
00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,119
Speaker 4: We're bleeding out, you know, and so we had to

516
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 4: figure out what we wanted to live and what we wanted.

517
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,359
Speaker 1: To, you know, to sacrifice.

518
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 3: Now, one thing that I think makes me nervous and

519
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,360
Speaker 3: don't make Churelomain nervous, you would diagnose with prostate cancer. Yeah,

520
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 3: that's something that I think we started. And this was

521
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 3: a great thing. We started early, checking everything. I mean,

522
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 3: we didn't went to damn near every skin you could

523
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 3: possibly imagine, because I have six hes four we want

524
00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,880
Speaker 3: to make sure we did as long as possible.

525
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,879
Speaker 2: He would get his probably check like every week just

526
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:06,159
Speaker 2: for fun with the same where I work at.

527
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:09,960
Speaker 1: But were you sick?

528
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 3: Was it just a test or how did you how

529
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 3: did you find out?

530
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 1: Yeah?

531
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 4: Never sick, never sick, never felt sick. Literally about when

532
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,439
Speaker 4: I was in my early forties is when I started

533
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,399
Speaker 4: going to get to get checked. And uh, you know

534
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 4: the whole taboo thing about the rectal check, you know,

535
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 4: the finger check and then the blood check. Even when

536
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 4: I was diagnosed, it wasn't rectal check that found anything.

537
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 4: It was really in my blood from the ten years

538
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 4: of getting blood checks, you know, I could see ten

539
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,919
Speaker 4: years ago it's like my PSA was like three point one.

540
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 4: It was three point three and three point nine, four

541
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 4: point two, four point five, four point six, five point one,

542
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 4: and then it was kind of like oh, okay, and

543
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 4: then we go from five point one to six point

544
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 4: one was like oh and then So it was the

545
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,919
Speaker 4: journey of looking at my blood at that PSA levels

546
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 4: because I had a history because of early detection. Because

547
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 4: of that, it allowed me to when I did get diagnosed,

548
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 4: it allowed me to have options because they caught it early,

549
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 4: and prostate cancer is ninety nine percent treatable when caught early.

550
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 4: They have almost one hundred percent success rate of treating

551
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 4: it if it's caught early enough. But a lot of men,

552
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 4: particularly disproportionately Black men, do not go and they do

553
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 4: not get checked, and because of that, they normally are

554
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 4: finding out too late in the process. What made you

555
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 4: decide to share it publicly instead of keeping it private

556
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 4: as a god thing that's one hundred percent of God there,

557
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 4: because it is very private, very personal, And I think

558
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 4: part of it was what they call a holy discontent,

559
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 4: that thing that just makes it something difficult, you can't.

560
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: Sleep at night.

561
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 4: It was like I watched when chat with Bozman, It

562
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 4: wasn't I don't think prostate cancer. But when chat with

563
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 4: Boseman passed.

564
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: Away, I was like, what is that?

565
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 4: Like? How do you do all the movies? How do

566
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 4: you do all those things? And nobody know? Like, nobody

567
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 4: can tell me nothing you know about that? And then

568
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 4: when I got diagnosed, I didn't have a template. I

569
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 4: didn't have anybody that I could look at that was

570
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 4: telling you know, that was telling the story to be

571
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 4: able to say, Okay, when you get diagnosed, do this,

572
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 4: or even though it's not cancer, not the same for everybody,

573
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 4: but when this happens, here are the steps you know

574
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 4: that you can take. I couldn't. I couldn't find nobody.

575
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 4: And so even right after we got diagnosed, my wife

576
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 4: and I felt like we had the Lord said to us,

577
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 4: film it, tell everything, film it, And so we started

578
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 4: filming this documentary that eventually be called Sustained. I'll tell

579
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 4: you more about that in the moment. But this movie,

580
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 4: this film, in this documentary is literally us telling this

581
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 4: entire story from diagnosis all the way up through how

582
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 4: we vetted doctors, how we vet vetted treatments, what we

583
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 4: chose to do, how I chose to have a radical

584
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 4: protecting me surgery and have my prostate removed November fifth

585
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty four, election day, and from that process,

586
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 4: the journey afterwards, how I got clear margins, and how

587
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 4: that journey is and what it is today with a

588
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 4: ric currents or remergence of cancer, which is I would

589
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 4: love to be here telling the story about, Yeah, I

590
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 4: got prostate cancer, I beat it.

591
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: I'm on the other side of it. I'm actually right

592
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 1: not in the mud, you know what I'm saying of

593
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: this thing right now. And I know I'm good.

594
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 4: I know God's got me. I know my wife's got me,

595
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 4: my family, my children, my grandchildren, like I know that

596
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 4: I am good. I got great organizations like zero zero

597
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 4: Prostate Cancer who I've come along with. They're trying to

598
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 4: help one hundred thousand men be saved from this prostate

599
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 4: cancer and in that journey. And I do want to

600
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 4: say this because they're part of you know the reason

601
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 4: why I'm here to talk about all this, But people

602
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 4: that need to get screened. I'm want to encourage the wives,

603
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 4: the mothers, the sisters, the aunts, the daughters out there,

604
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 4: the men in your life need to be checked. They

605
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 4: need to be screened. It not a it's not a game.

606
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 4: It's not something you wanna, you wanna, you want to

607
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 4: play around with. And I know they can go uh

608
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 4: to zero cancer dot org slash September because this is

609
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 4: officially Prostate cancer Awareness Month.

610
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: I hope I got that, uh that information right.

611
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 4: But in my diagnosis and in the journey that I'm

612
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 4: in right now, and to think of it, I don't

613
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 4: want to tell. But if I don't tell, I don't

614
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 4: know who else is gonna say it. I've watched and

615
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 4: I watched Dwayne Wiggins from Tony Tony tom at bladder

616
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 4: cancer and he died.

617
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what his story is. I don't know

618
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: if he got diagnosed. I don't know if he got treated.

619
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: I don't know.

620
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about that. The world heard, oh,

621
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 4: Rennie Moss has liver cancer, uh, and it was like

622
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 4: somebody leaked it and then he had it or he's

623
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 4: fine from it now. And then they had a week

624
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 4: in the NFL where they wore Moss cancer jerseys. But

625
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 4: I don't know how he told his wife. I don't

626
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 4: know what what his kids navigated through.

627
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: I don't know.

628
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 4: I don't know anything when it comes to d Wade

629
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 4: you know, with kidney cancer. I think he's got sixty

630
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 4: percent of his kidney. I don't know what him and

631
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 4: Gabrielle went through. I don't know how he told his

632
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 4: kids or his family. Like, there's not enough data for

633
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 4: me to make the right type of decisions in the

634
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 4: thought processes that go behind any cancer, and in particular

635
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 4: prostate cancer, which is treatable, there's not a template there.

636
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 4: So I'm the template. Now, I'm the template. So I'm

637
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 4: partnering with zero and I'm telling the I'm snitching. I'm

638
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 4: telling everything that I can. You know about this, about

639
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 4: this process from diagnosis to when I'm crying and snotting,

640
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 4: and when I'm shaking my fist at God and when

641
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 4: I'm thanking God for life, all of these bits and pieces. Man,

642
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 4: I'm capturing it all. And this is the crazy thing though.

643
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 4: Last year, from diagnosis up to surgery, I'm out on

644
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 4: the road. I'm singing, I'm performing. I'm doing all these shows,

645
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 4: all these concerts, and all the money that I'm earning

646
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 4: to do this, I'm gathering it so I can tell

647
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 4: a story about cancer. I got cancer, and I'm working

648
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 4: to tell a story about how I'm going to defeat cancer.

649
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 4: And so now even on the other side thinking now

650
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 4: I'm about to do this documentary, Sustain you go to

651
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 4: sustain themovie dot com and help partner with us to

652
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 4: help take some of this load off of me because

653
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 4: me and my wife we've been carrying this thing for

654
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 4: a year and a half.

655
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: Now you know, it's been completely you know, on us.

656
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 4: And now I'm still you know, I've got film, I

657
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 4: got people with me because now it's that this reemergence

658
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 4: of whatever is back.

659
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: I got to continue this story. Thank you for sharing

660
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: your story.

661
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 3: First, thank you so much because there's so many brothers.

662
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, cut, there's so many brothers that have so

663
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 3: many questions and a lot of times we don't have

664
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 3: anybody to talk to, right, there is nobody. We say

665
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 3: this all the time. You never go to the barber

666
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: shop and you be like, hey, what's your prostate? Like

667
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Right, you don't talk about things.

668
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 2: Like that, you know what I mean. But we don't

669
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 2: have those conversations about health.

670
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: To the fact, dude, though we don't say what's your proty?

671
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: No, we don't know.

672
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 4: We don't do that.

673
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 3: We're doing the radio, but in the barbershop. That wasn't

674
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 3: a common conversation. We have conversations about We have a conversations.

675
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 4: I've done more funerals the past years than weddings, God damn.

676
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 4: And not just funerals of people that people don't know,

677
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 4: like known people like I was there for Bismarque, I

678
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 4: was a bis Marquis feuderal. I was there for DJ

679
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 4: mister see you eulogized DJ mister Selwan Hall, like I

680
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 4: was there the night that Fat Man's school.

681
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

682
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 4: I was in the hospital up in Connecticut, Like somehow

683
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 4: I'm around this and these ain't like seventy eighty ninety year.

684
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: Old men, these dudes in theties, early sixties. And so

685
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: there's a problem with that.

686
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 4: Not just in the hip hop and the urban there's

687
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 4: a problem in the community, especially in the African American community,

688
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 4: black community, where which is twice likely you know what

689
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 4: I'm saying for people to not survive from this because

690
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 4: of the not getting checked and because not having conversations

691
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 4: about it.

692
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: How do they come back If you got your proce

693
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: they removed though had it removed.

694
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 4: Normally, when you have your prostate removed, your PSA levels

695
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 4: was supposed to go to zero. My PSA level did

696
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 4: not go to zero. It went to like one point something,

697
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 4: and it was kind of like, well, sometimes it takes

698
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks for it to go down, and

699
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 4: so it did go down after a couple of weeks

700
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 4: or one point nine, one point seven, a couple months

701
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 4: one point five. I'm thinking that's cool or whatever, but

702
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 4: actually that's not what the case is. It just is

703
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 4: a situation where even though the prostate was removed and

704
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 4: everything seemed like it was isolated and confined in the prostate,

705
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 4: there were some bad actors that had probably you know,

706
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 4: like I said, when I got diagnosed, it was early

707
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 4: first stage gleas and six prostate cancer. When they pulled

708
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 4: it out and they biaps it, it was like, oh,

709
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 4: it's like stage two aggressive state cancer. And so, you

710
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, them little dudes, I got they fighters,

711
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 4: and so they apparently, you know what I'm saying, wanted

712
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 4: to try and.

713
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: Hide out or whatever.

714
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 4: But because I still get screenings and I still go

715
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 4: through my regular checkups or whatever, I was able to detect, hey,

716
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 4: there's something in your lymp nodes and something kind of

717
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 4: in the prostate bed, those things will need to be there.

718
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: You need to go for some more treat.

719
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 2: To go, guys.

720
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 7: So if you have to go spec Yeah, I saw

721
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 7: that you are going to begin radiation.

722
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.

723
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 7: Or would you be documenting that process too and talking

724
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 7: people through that, because that's also fear two. Once people

725
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 7: are diagnosed 're scared of the treatment.

726
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

727
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 4: I don't want to, but I feel like I have to.

728
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 4: So I'll be going through proton therapy in Atlanta. It's

729
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 4: seven and a half weeks, thirty seven treatments, which is

730
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 4: like five days a week, an hour a day going

731
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 4: in and getting a very targeted form of radiation on

732
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 4: my limp nose and in my prostate bed. And I'm

733
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 4: not radioactive, but nothing afterwards. It's all that radiation is

734
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 4: taking place when the machine is on. And don't want

735
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 4: to do it, but that's that's how I get cancer.

736
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 4: I am a cancer survivor, but I didn't know there

737
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 4: was such thing as a two time cancer survivor. So

738
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 4: now it's like, you know what I'm saying, this is

739
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 4: the second bout and I want it to be the

740
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 4: last one.

741
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 6: Too quick, all right, real quick, because I haven't asked

742
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 6: anything about this yet. Okay, So to Envy's point, no,

743
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 6: guys don't usually talk about it, right, Like my dad

744
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 6: he is like he knows something is wrong, but he

745
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 6: don't know how to relate it to his kids. Okay,

746
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 6: So like, how do you, like, how did you tell

747
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,959
Speaker 6: your wife? How do you tell your other family members?

748
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 4: That's thank you for ask asking that question. Hearing it

749
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 4: for the first time for myself, you know, just me

750
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 4: and the doctor. That was hard enough because I'm trying

751
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 4: to figure out how how do I tell myself first

752
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 4: of all. Then from there there's also this thing that

753
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 4: you realize, Okay, I've got this. You know, cancer doesn't

754
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 4: have me, but I've got cancer. Now in this process

755
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 4: when I start to share it, do I give cancer

756
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 4: to other people?

757
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: Meaning?

758
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 4: Do they now carry the weight of what I'm caring?

759
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 4: So in telling my wife, I became freer because I

760
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 4: now got somebody to take this journey with me, and

761
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 4: a lot of people don't have that. But I gotta,

762
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, I got a g riding

763
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 4: beside me to help me do that. But then even

764
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 4: though after I told her, it took us about five

765
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 4: months that it was just us not knowing who to tell,

766
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 4: who to share it with, because we didn't want them

767
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 4: to have to carry the weight of that as well.

768
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 4: And so eventually we told my son, my oldest son,

769
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 4: and then my oldest son was like, Yo, you gotta

770
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 4: tell my brother's and sister. You got you gotta tell everybody.

771
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,959
Speaker 4: I told everybody. I had a twelve year daughter at

772
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 4: the time. She's the last one. You know what I'm saying,

773
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 4: How do I tell her?

774
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 1: Which is a put that weight on it? She has

775
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: school old you know, how do you tell her.

776
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 4: Who also lost her grandfather to cancer the year before

777
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 4: a different form of cancer cancer, And so now how

778
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 4: do I make cancer palatable for a twelve year old?

779
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 4: I don't got a rule book for that, there's no template.

780
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 4: So I become the template. And it's another story for

781
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 4: another to help you'all. Have me come back so I

782
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 4: can tell you how I told my twelve year old

783
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 4: because it's hilarious. But in that process of telling them

784
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 4: and then letting more people know and more people know

785
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 4: that we're just in our insulated circle of influence.

786
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: Those are the people that were going to be our

787
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: tribe to help us.

788
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 4: Because everybody don't need to know, because everybody ain't praying

789
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 4: for your health, and everybody don't want to see you win.

790
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 4: Everybody don't want to see you healthy. I know it's

791
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 4: going to be tons of people that are ah this

792
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 4: or that, and you know, but I can silence all

793
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 4: that noise because I knew who I am. And in

794
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 4: this process, I'm telling my story because it's important for

795
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 4: you and for your dad. Yes, I'm telling me, and

796
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 4: I don't even know what your dad is going through,

797
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 4: but it's important that your dad knows that montell the

798
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 4: artist of millions selling this or that the other it's saying.

799
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 4: It's saying, please go and get yourself or share, or

800
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 4: just tell your key or tell tell them, tell them

801
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 4: because they're stronger than you think, right, And it would

802
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 4: be worse for you not to know and then be wondering, oh,

803
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 4: what happened? Oh you know they kept this to themselves.

804
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,919
Speaker 4: It would be selfish, and I understand the reason why.

805
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 4: But like I said, this is kind of where I

806
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 4: am now, and and I had to ask permission for

807
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 4: my kids, uh to be able to go and publicly

808
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 4: start sharing this story in the mud in the middle

809
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 4: of the story, simply because it's personal to them, like, yo,

810
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 4: you know, Dad, we appreciate that you sharing this with

811
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 4: the whole world. You could save other people's lives and

812
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 4: get men checked and.

813
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: This or that the other.

814
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 4: But you're our dad, you know, you're our dad, and

815
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 4: we want to we want to keep this, you know, personal.

816
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 4: But they understand. They've allowed me to share my music,

817
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,240
Speaker 4: They've allowed me to share ministry, and now they allow

818
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 4: me to share my medical journey with the world. And

819
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 4: I probably wouldn't have done it without their their coson

820
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 4: to be able to say, yeah, Dad, you know, you

821
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 4: say people's lives through music, You saved people's souls through ministry,

822
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 4: and now you can you can do this too.

823
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: My last question, I know you got to go. You

824
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 2: talk about God's plan in your life.

825
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 5: How was your faith specifically guiding you during this, you know,

826
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 5: stage of your life, the treatment, recovery to rediagnosis everything.

827
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 4: I'm unshakable. I'm unshakable. I recognize that I know where

828
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 4: my soul rest in this. I know that this earthly

829
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 4: journey is one that my story is not done being told.

830
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 4: So from that standpoint, all I can do is look

831
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 4: and be grateful of how good God has been to

832
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 4: my life and and listen, it ain't just words, like

833
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 4: you should be able to feel being in my presence

834
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 4: the same way I'm with y'all.

835
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: You can feel that.

836
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 4: I know without shadow it out, how good God is

837
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 4: to me and to some of y'all in the journeys

838
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 4: that you've been through, that that He's kept you. And

839
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 4: so that's the that's the foundational piece that has me

840
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 4: rooted and grounded that I already know. I know God's

841
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 4: gonna heal me, and I know he could do a

842
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 4: supernatural I know he can do it through doctors, through medicines,

843
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 4: he can do it through treatments. He can do it

844
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 4: however you want to do it. If it was up

845
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 4: to me, I'd be like, God, you know I'm one

846
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 4: of your favorites, you know, just you know, just get

847
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 4: it over with so I can just be able to

848
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 4: tell the whole world. Yo, Jesus healed me supernaturally, and

849
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 4: that's not the story that he gave me. He said,

850
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna do it that way. I was like, well, Lord,

851
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 4: let me just get through it and come on the

852
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 4: other side so I can be able to say, Hey,

853
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 4: I had it, I did this, and God brought me

854
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 4: through through doctors and technology, and now I'm on the

855
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 4: other side of it. And I would have loved that testimony,

856
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 4: and God said, no, you're not going to get it

857
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 4: that way either. And so in this journey that I'm

858
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 4: on right now, I'm great. I'm really really grateful to

859
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 4: be with you all today. It's like, because I'm not

860
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 4: on the other side of it, I'm right in the

861
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 4: mix of it. And I want people to see that

862
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 4: God ain't just on the other side of it. He's

863
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 4: right with me in the mix of it. So while

864
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 4: I'm in the midst of it, God is with me,

865
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 4: and he's not waiting for me on the other side

866
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 4: to come through like he's with me.

867
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: In the midst of it. And so from that standpoint,

868
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: that's where I can walk with an authority. I can

869
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: walk with boldness.

870
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 4: I can walk in the place with my family, I

871
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Speaker 4: can walk with zero with zero prostate cancer, and I

872
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 4: can tell the story because they're giving me a platform,

873
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, to be able to share

874
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 4: in these spaces where my R and B or pastoral

875
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 4: voice may not have the reach that it could have.

876
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 4: Partnerships and things like that allow us to be able

877
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 4: to save some lives. This ain't there's no money grab here.

878
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 4: This is literally I'm trying to grab your pops. I'm

879
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 4: trying to get your dad. I'm trying to get your uncles.

880
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get your brothers. I'm trying to get

881
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 4: your husband's I'm trying to tell them if you thought

882
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 4: Montel Jordan was cool, or you liked his music, or

883
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 4: you you thought he might have had, you know, brought something.

884
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: To the game.

885
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 4: Now I'm bringing this to the game, and I'm saying

886
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 4: it's important for you to not leave a legacy of

887
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 4: your family of secrets and of death and of misinformation

888
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 4: and of neglect. Don't neglect your family, don't neglect your body.

889
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 4: Find out what's going on. And you know, because people said,

890
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 4: I just rather not know. No, No, that's that's that's

891
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 4: incredibly ignorant to not want to know what's going on

892
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 4: in your body, especially when it comes to prostate cancer,

893
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 4: because and I keep saying this, man, it's treatable when caught.

894
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: Early, So why not catch it early before it catches you?

895
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 5: You like you just got another ministry brother music and

896
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 5: appreciating Now you know you're going through all of this

897
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 5: just to have another ministry.

898
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't want this one. But that's why God

899
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 4: can trust me with it, though, and trust me with this.

900
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 4: I don't want this. I don't want to tell the story.

901
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 4: I do not want to be the one to tell

902
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 4: this story. And that's why God says, Great. So I

903
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 4: know that, you know, you'll do whatever you have to say,

904
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 4: and do you do what you have to do. You'll

905
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 4: say what you have to say because I know it's

906
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 4: not something that that I want the accolades for. It's

907
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 4: a lot to come along with prostate cancer, you know

908
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, That journey or whatever and the stigmas

909
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 4: and the stuff that comes along with that. It's very personal.

910
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 4: But from that standpoint, you know, I got a lot

911
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 4: to share, a lot to talk about. A lot of

912
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 4: it will be in that documentary. Like I said, I

913
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 4: can't you know, I'm I'm the shameless plug. I need

914
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 4: help stainthmovie dot com. That's a space where people can

915
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 4: partner and be a part of coming to help us

916
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 4: get this documentity told and get your names on the credits,

917
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 4: on the screen and all that type of stuff. I

918
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 4: got to get the story told and I'm either gonna

919
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 4: tell it because people are helping sustain themovie dotmovie dot

920
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Speaker 4: com and make sure you lie go on and donate.

921
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 3: But we need to close out with a prayer of them.

922
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, absolutely all right. God, thank you, Thank you

923
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 4: for your sons and your daughters. I think you that

924
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 4: you have given them this space and this voice to

925
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 4: be able to speak to this generation.

926
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Speaker 1: God.

927
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Speaker 4: I pray over their lives. I pray with their health.

928
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 4: I pray over their strength. I pray over their families.

929
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 4: I pray over their marriages. I pray over the future marriages.

930
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 4: I pray over their children and their grandchildren. God, I

931
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 4: pray that what they speak, even as they entertain, Father,

932
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 4: that at the heart of what they do, that somehow

933
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 4: somebody would hear what they say and it always points

934
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Speaker 4: back to you, Father, no matter what they are navigating

935
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Speaker 4: through personally, I pray that you would be there with them.

936
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Speaker 4: Let them know you're not on the other side waiting

937
00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 4: for them. That if they've received you as Lord, and

938
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 4: that you are there with them in the trenches in

939
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Speaker 4: the good days, you're with them. In the bad days,

940
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 4: you're with them. And I thank you for the breakfast Club.

941
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 4: I thank you for this space, and I thank you

942
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 4: for this platform. I thank you for my life, and

943
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 4: for my wife, and for my children and my grandchildren.

944
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 4: I thank you for everybody under the sound of my

945
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 4: voice that you know you've heard Monsel, but you weren't

946
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 4: here in Montell you were hearing the Lord speak to

947
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Speaker 4: you today. To be able to say, your life matters,

948
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 4: your soul matters, and more than your soul mattering in heaven,

949
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 4: which is extremely important, your life here on earth matters.

950
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 4: And so do something to make sure you're preserving your

951
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 4: life here in this earth so that the beautiful things

952
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 4: that we get to listen to and experience. God, you

953
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 4: are the one that allowed that to happen, and we

954
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 4: just thank you for this opportunity. We praise you in

955
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Speaker 4: Jesus name.

956
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Speaker 3: Amen, Amen Montel Jordan. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the breakfast club.

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Speaker 1: Good morning. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: Every day a wait clicks up the breakfast Club, you

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Speaker 5: don't finish for y'all done.