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Personal Testimonies: LIVE Q & A with Clinton · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Music.
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  Let It Begin and Endless Hope, Inc. presents a new series entitled Personal Testimonies.
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  Here is your host, Angel Santana, and special co-host, Clinton Knapp.
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  Music.
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  Welcome to Personal Testimonies. It is a Wednesday night.
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  By now, we have completed Chapter 1 and Episode 8. So up until this point,
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  we have had the luxury of listening to the beginning.
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  We heard episode three, the diagnosis.
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  Episode four, the unexpected turn. Episode five, I want the heart.
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  Episode six, yes, I can.
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  Episode seven, breath of fresh air.
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  And you have finished off. I'm going home. Clinton Knapp, you are with me as
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  always. This is just as much a show as yours as it is ours.
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  How are you? How do you feel now that your story has been told, my friend?
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  I'm good. I'm good. And I feel wonderful.
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  It always makes me feel good to tell my story and think that it will inspire
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  someone else to do the same with theirs.
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  We all have a story to tell, and a lot of us are afraid to tell it.
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  And I hope that by hearing me tell mine, it allows them to feel able to tell theirs.
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  All right. So our first question comes from one of our viewers.
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  And the question is, during one of your episodes, you saw a vision and the vision
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  I can relate to as though I have had visions myself.
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  At that point in time, how close were you to God and how close if you were?
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  And are you close to him today?
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  So yes, the vision. Okay. At that point, as I had mentioned in one of the other
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  episodes, I believe it was the episode afterwards. Yes.
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  I wasn't very, I really didn't have too much faith in the Lord because of the person in the vision.
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  They were taken from me at a young age and I felt like the shoe should have been on the other foot.
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  It should have been me and not them. and I didn't understand why they were taken
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  so early as to and why I was given a second chance.
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  So at that point in time I wasn't too spiritual
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  wasn't too faithful very little I had
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  faith more faith in the doctors than I would
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  say the Lord unfortunately and I mean no disrespect to
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  anyone now as of
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  recently I have to say with the utmost
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  gratitude thank you to the gentleman on the other end of
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  this podcast angel santana in the last eight
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  weeks or even longer because i've been working with
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  him for a little bit longer than that angel has truly
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  shown me how to be a believer again and i'm working on my faith and i guess
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  that's all i can do it's a great answer and just you know and i'm very flattered
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  by that didn't know you were going to answer that so thank you got me a little
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  true you got me a little choked up,
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  But I will say this though, you know, Clinton, you know, and I can,
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  I can, you know, when you were telling the story, as, as the audience knows,
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  I was, I was hearing the story with you.
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  So I'm with them, I should say, because I didn't know the story.
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  And one of the things that I found amazing was I didn't know about the vision
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  and what people don't know.
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  Here's a little peek behind the curtain is that when we went off the air that
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  night, I said to you, and I don't know if you recall, I remember saying to you,
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  you know, that was not an accident.
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  That was God's way of saying that whatever burdens you had inside of you,
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  whatever it is that you were feeling, he allowed you to see your friend one
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  more time or your cousin.
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  And not only that, I was hoping, and we have yet to dive into that.
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  We're going to have a totally different episode I think we should talk about.
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  But I think that God was trying to say, hey, you know, I've got him, but he's got you.
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  Absolutely. Yeah. I remember. And, you know, a lot of our people here at Have
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  Faith know what it is. It's not an easy journey to walk in your faith.
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  Take baby steps. And I'm grateful and I'm always here for you.
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  And I know that all of our Have Faith, Let Begin listeners, as well as Endless Hope, have your back.
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  So, you know, take it one day at a time. And we're praying for you.
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  And we know that you're going to do well, my friend.
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  Thank you. You're welcome. Next question is actually from, whoa,
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  different country, from Germany. I cannot pronounce the person's name, but thank you.
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  And yeah, this is from Germany and it goes like this. It says,
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  Clinton, you inspire me.
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  You inspire me. You inspire me. There has been tears.
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  There has been thoughts.
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  My question is, how is your wife today? And how is your health today?
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  Well, I thank you for those kind words. Today, my wife is great.
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  She's doing wonderful she learned how to deal with everything and,
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  I wish there were I'm sure there are many there are others out there like her
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  but I wish the world was full of people like her because it wasn't easy to go
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  through what she went through with me so she's great and my health.
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  That, I'm doing okay. I don't want to dive too much in because that,
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  I don't want to give you too much information because that is for another episode to come.
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  But I'm doing all right. And just for the record, not to scare anyone, he is fine.
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  There's just detailed information that he wants to share.
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  And so, you know, it would be very grateful for all of us to pray for him and share in his path.
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  We'll be updating you very shortly and quickly about that. We don't want you
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  to feel that, you know, we're, remember, as we stated before,
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  we're not here for views.
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  We're here to inspire, but we want to get our, we want to make sure that when
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  we deliver the information, it's done professionally, it's done respectfully.
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  And we do right by, by Clinton, his family.
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  And there's still people that I'm sure that he maybe don't know what he's going
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  through and we don't want to concern anybody.
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  So let's move on. Another question here. This one, actually another one here, Asia.
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  Wow. wow you're just going all over the world my friend
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  so i like it yeah from asia this person
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  as a matter of fact i don't know if it's led like
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  tisha latisha i'm trying so latisha from
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  asia says hi clinton i'm so happy for you question are you still looking to
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  inspire people i don't wait hold on i'm reading it wrong and it's first time
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  we're live are you oh i think she has it backwards Okay,
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  so it's a little English barrier on my end. So basically, I'm going to paraphrase it.
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  Are you looking to become a motivational speaker? That's really what she's asking.
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  So the goal was not to become a motivational speaker, but in light of the last
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  few weeks, the last eight weeks, I want to say, I think that's where I'm going.
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  Other than running my own nonprofit and raising awareness for my causes,
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  I think that I could do more as being an inspirational speaker.
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  So, yeah, I think I'm headed in that path.
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  And for the record, I want everybody to know that when Clinton came on here,
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  I said, Clinton, I'm going to give you a platform here on Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  And my goal is to help Clinton get his own podcast.
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  And it's not that I want to kick him off here. I would love to keep him on. But let's be honest.
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  He deserves his own show. And he's always welcome here And we can always keep
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  the Wednesday nights But I want him to have his platform I want his platform
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  to thrive So that's a great question Really, really good question Okay,
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  so we're back into the states We got one from North Carolina This is from Corey
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  Corey asks, Clinton, how old is your son today?
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  My son today is 16 Okay And ironically, what's your son's name?
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  We'll add that My son's name is Clinton Jr.
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  There we go. Some people would probably ask that next. So there you go.
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  Yeah, absolutely. So that's a great question. And all right,
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  so let's see. Oh, we have a local one, Pine Bush, New York. This is from Claire.
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  Claire wants to know, do you still keep in touch with your doctors?
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  Yes. So I see my doctors. Unfortunately, the transplant coordinator I was dealing
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  with at the time has since retired.
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  She retired during COVID. I speak to her on social media Regularly She's doing
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  well, she's a great woman I love her to death But yes, I see my doctors quite
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  frequently As of now, it would be every six months.
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  Excellent. And there's a two-part question. I just didn't want to give you both at the same time.
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  She says, I've been at your website and is this still active for donations?
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  Yes it is it is always active for donations you can
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  contact me through message if you
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  click the links you can either contact me through there there's
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  a phone number on the bottom an email you can contact me and as as you know
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  you probably know i live local so if you want to meet up or something like that
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  we can do that or that you can click the link and if it doesn't work you can
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  contact me that just provides you another way and that's a great question by
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  the way claire Cause in case anybody felt uncomfortable with clicking on things,
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  there's a lot of negativity and there's always some kind of viruses out there
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  and you never know who's doing what I will tell you.
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  And I will stake my reputation right here, right now, as the host of half faith, let it begin.
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  Clinton is a very good person and what he is doing is legitimate and is,
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  and, and all the funding you, you just go to the sites.
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  You'll be surprised how many things he does. As a matter of fact,
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  Clinton, you know, can you kind of, just to kind of clarify some things.
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  You've done a couple events recently.
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  Yes. So my first event was last year, a year ago in August.
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  I did, before I even created my nonprofit, I wanted to see how it would work
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  out. I created a fundraiser.
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  We did a bingo and a penny social, a 50-50 and all of that good stuff.
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  And we raised a significant amount of money and I donated that money.
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  Easter this past year, I did a raffle, and every ticket that was purchased,
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  I donated an Easter basket to a sick child in the hospital.
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  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to give it. I didn't get the clearance to give
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  it to the children in the hospital, so I gave it to children in a homeless shelter.
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  But they needed it just as much.
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  I'm constantly doing raffles to raise money and awareness.
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  Everything that I get, I give back. I keep nothing for myself.
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  Actually, just recently, a family friend is going through is struggling with breast cancer.
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  And on behalf of my nonprofit, we donated sort of a home date night for two raffle basket.
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  And I sent it out to them so they can raffle it off and raise money for their cause.
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  We constantly do. I'm always looking to give back and not just to my cause.
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  I mean, obviously, my cause is the biggest for me, but I try to support other
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  causes like breast cancer and hoping next year to do one for autism because
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  autism is a very big one for me.
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  I have a few family members who, unfortunately, they're on the spectrum,
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  but currently we're doing a few raffles.
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  We're actually doing, for the first time ever, we actually have two giveaways
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  where all you have to do is like, subscribe, follow, comment,
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  stuff like that. You can find all of this on my Endless Hope Facebook page or Instagram.
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  We are also doing right now...
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  November 1st, we launched our first ever annual toy drive. Oh, wow. Yes. That's great.
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  And we were going to do one together, our first collab in August,
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  but you and I got both sick. Yes, yes. You first and me.
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  Yeah, yeah. But we're going to be preparing for that.
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  That's going to be the big one. So we're ready for that. And don't worry,
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  everyone. We'll keep you in tune.
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  Great question. We're going to stop there. I know that he's hungry for more
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  questions. I know he is. but we wanted to give you guys a teaser.
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  We're going to be doing this for another two episodes, probably where we're
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  going to have his family members.
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  There'll be questions for him. So thank you for flooding us with questions.
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  We want more. Yes. Keep them coming.
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  Yes. And we're going to do another episode. We're trying to get his wife on.
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  I spoke with her cause we hint, hint we do work together, her and I,
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  and, and she's cool with it.
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  So I got the ball rolling. You got to bring it home, Clinton.
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  So then we'll, we'll get it going but um but
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  i just wanted to thank you again and i hope the questions were were
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  nice and it's nice to know that you know you're being reached out
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  all over the world man from germany yeah it's crazy
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  i never knew that's awesome i didn't think i would reach people that
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  far but it's it's amazing you know you know that's my goal you're a gift you
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  got it you're a gift from god my friend and god has something special for you
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  he's not done with you yet so let's end this way on behalf of all of us here
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  at endless hope and have faith let it begin this collaboration has truly been
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  an inspiration and it has brought many people together.
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  As you can see, we're bringing everybody all over the world with many questions.
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  And hopefully when we talk, I'm going to talk to Clinton offline.
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  I know he has like me bracelets and yes, we definitely want to do something for that.
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  And I'd like to donate some of my funds to him to maybe give to give out some
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  bracelets and that way we can give back to the cause.
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  And at the same token, give back to those who helped out.
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  Yes, yes, definitely. Okay. So listen, everybody out there, thank you for listening.
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  We are not done yet. Definitely not.
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  Chapter two is around the corner. And unfortunately, chapter two gets a little bit more.
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  I don't want to use the word crazy, but it's definitely even more heart touch, heart, heart touching.
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  Yeah. And gut wrenching. Yeah. All of that. You name it. Yeah.
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  Definitely. So strap on your seatbelts. It's going to be a little bumpy ride,
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  but I guarantee you it's going to be inspirational.
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  On behalf of all of us here, we want to thank you for being a part of the first
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  chapter question and answers Q&A.
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  Be on the lookout for next week, which we're going to do another Q&A,
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  and then we'll pre-record one more before the holidays, and then we'll be back.
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  We'll take a date. We'll take one day off after the holiday,
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  and then we'll be back fresh and ready to start chapter two.
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  Do you want anything you want to say to the audience out there?
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  I just want to say thank you for everybody, for listening, for the kind words
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  and gestures and stuff like that. I appreciate it.
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  You don't know how much it means to me. I just wanted to be able to inspire,
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  and apparently I am. Thank you.
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  So on behalf of all of us here at Half Faith, let it begin. God bless you.
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  God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every single
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  one of you peace on earth.
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  And remember, endless hope is not just something that you can pick out of the sky.
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  You know what it is? It's something that you can choose from your heart.
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  And that's opportunities that present itself to you and angels that are being
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  made right from their own seats.
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  Clinton is one of those angels, and I'm happy to be on his shoulder.
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  On behalf of all of us, have faith, let it begin. God bless you.
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  And we'll see you next week.
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