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DeVon Franklin: Stop Searching for Love — Let God Send It | Ruth & Boaz Netflix Movie Interview · Love You Moore with Willie Moore Jr.

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  [SPEAKER_03]: Hey family, Willie Mojun, you're here at K.A.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Good luck for here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, just.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't look like a heart murmur do it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not like a heart murmur.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not like a heart murmur.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Heart monitor.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I look like that does.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, cool, these clothes are getting tired of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody have their clothes on a library or a silent and also on a monitor.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I will be taking some behind the scenes on my glasses, such as when they're in the night.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Come on, meta!
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  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, ma'am, let's just say, quick, Fred, God, you are good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We honor you.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm spent so much going on this morning whether it was tri-ficking.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This is how many other things, Lord, I pray that you would restore the bond.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Everything that is pouring out this week for this amazing movie.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's a baby and it's about to be perfect into the earth Lord and it's bringing your name, glory.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So I just pray Lord that you will bless this efforts that you will continue to be the head of not the tale, the lender and not the borer were above and not the need.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: that you will continue to expand this territory.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Let us do something special for the show today.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: In Jesus' name.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: In dude.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: In five, four, three, two, one.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Family, listen, it is relationship Wednesday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And when we come back, we get an opportunity to hang out with the man himself.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Don't want to know, leave them out frankly.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be hanging out with us and we'll be discussing Ruth and Bowers.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Now, I know you've been attracting bro and you've been attracting player, but we're going to make sure that you get the blueprint to Bowers.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Come on, somebody.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So those of you who do not speak Christian needs, we're going to do our best to make sure that you understand what that is when we come back.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Still, we're leaving all June, you shut up!
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  [SPEAKER_03]: coming to the 15 Stone in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: In the family, it is the Willie Mojoon, your show.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And as promised, I told you, I will be hanging out, fake clapship, fake claps, Jayla.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm a sensation choir, I should choir you by the store, producing a radio.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Man, listen, Devon Franklin is in the house to talk to us about Root.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And Bowen, let's talk about it, brother.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's up, man, thanks for having me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I'm so excited about this movie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is going to be your new favorite love story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the first time there's ever been a modern version of this story told.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And to my knowledge, it's the first time a modern version of this story has ever been done with people of color.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm excited about this movie, man.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, I've been working on this for about a year and a half.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the first movie that Tyler Perry and I are producing under our deal with Netflix.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's really one of those films that has heart.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It has emotion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It has romance, Tyler Leppley stars as Bowaz and Saraya stars as Ruth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then if you know the story, police are a shot, plays Naomi.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's just this amazing story, because when you read the book of Ruth,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When you read it, it reads like a movie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It does.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ruth was not out there looking for love.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She got to be an obedient.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Being an obedient.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, where you go, I go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what she said to Naomi.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Naomi going back to her home land and Ruth making the decision to go with her because she was in service to Naomi.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What happened, God, then blessed Ruth with love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I love that they never saw coming.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what this movie does.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This movie, I think, is going to inspire people to hope around love again and to believe that it's possible, because you see these two people that have been through tragedy and triumph, that tragedy and trauma, excuse me, they're able to pursue through that to get to the trial.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, good night.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The bond frankly if you're just tuning in he's hanging out with us live in studio if you listen it Automally make sure that you tell more people because when we come back we're gonna take a deep dive into what this movie is going to provide you Because I know in relationship wins that many of you all are looking for love Maybe it's in the wrong places.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We want to kind of go through this book of Ruth right because many people don't know and Passing the vine frankly it's going to kind of if we can't just kind of walk through what that looks like because many times on social media
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Women are forced to do so much.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But Ruth wasn't that type of lady.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She found her still serving where she was supposed to serve and the right opportunity presented itself.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: More with the fine frankly when we come back.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Still really my junior shelf.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, in five, 35 stone, in five, four, three, two, one.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Major Major Lump to all of my friends in DC, congressional black caucuses happening this week.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, enough you will be there on Thursday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm so excited to pour into the people of God.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know that there's a lot going on.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, many people saw the president and his speech.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And a lot of stuff is going on on social media.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: but listen, take hard.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Just all they got is still with us and the greatest days are ahead of us.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And speaking of greatest days, September 26th, Ruth and Boyaz, live on Netflix, the Vine Franklin's in the studio with me.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The Vine, let's talk a little bit about it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: For those people who do not speak Christian East, right?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They hear Ruth and Boyaz.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But we never heard of a dude named Boyaz and Ruth.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think babies are now named Ruth like that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So for those people who don't understand the biblical story, they're just scrolling through and I'm sure this thing is probably going to be top 10.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And they see these two beautiful African-American people, people, Tyler, and uh, Soraya.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And they're like, well, I'm going to check it out.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: To those people who do not speak Christianies, talk a little bit about the story of Ruth and Boyaz.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, it's funny to say that because you'll see in the movie his nickname is almost BOS.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the film his name is Bo Azra, Azra is his last name.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we wanted to find a way to make that name, you know, make sense from a contemporary standpoint.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's your right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, it's like, well, who is Bo Azra?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But this story is about, you know, Ruth, who, her boyfriend dies in the movie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the mother of her boyfriend.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Similar to the biblical store.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And as a result of the husband dying, he didn't leave her any money.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Chief.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So Naomi's character, the only thing she has left, because we start the movie in Atlanta.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing that Naomi has left is a very small country home in Pagron, Tennessee.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Pagrum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't tell a big Pagrum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm from the bad like no fool.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we just did a little reset.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He said, oh, you know, Pagrum, you know, that feels about right in terms of country and, you know, something that feels like it's off the beaten path.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a long story short.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I won't run it for anyone, but Naomi has to return home to Pagrum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and Ruth makes the decision to go with her.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Once they get back home, Ruth realizes, hey, I got to find work.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And she goes out and finds work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The only job she can get is harvesting grapes at a local vineyard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Come to find out the vineyard is owned by Bo Azra.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No one is Bo Azra.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The thing about Ruth is that she works through her lunch breaks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't take a break like the other workers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She works with diligence, commitment, excellence, so much so that Bo, as says, who is that?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who, who works like that?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's he's saying this and like us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because I'll see work with all the time, but I've never seen anyone work like this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so they, he starts to, you know, inquire and starts to try to understand who she is and they running to each other at a bar and the relationship just starts to unfold.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the problem is Ruth has a secret.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that secret is starting to catch up with her.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Boaz, his father died, his mother died.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a rich man, but he's lonely.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so what's interesting about the story is you see them navigate these challenges, navigate the reveal of Ruth's secret.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things that's so great about the film, if you don't know anything about the Bible, you can watch this movie, and you will be invested in houses, luxury, and play out.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How's this all going to work out?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Listen, Devon Franklin, hangin' out with us, family, listen.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I do want us to make sure that we support this movie.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think anything like this has ever been done before, inspired by the Bible, Bible, but definitely impacting culture.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Devon, you are kind of a modern day boy as right now, because you just got married as well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So how cool is it now to have this beautiful love story and this beautiful love story?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Almost coming out simultaneously at the same time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing but God's timing, nothing, and you know what's interesting going back to the story, and even, you know, the relationship wins a thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I did not get to the place of marriage again, because I was looking for love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right, because you would see, in my experience, what I've learned is that when we look for something, we enhance the absence of it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So if I'm looking for love, I'm actually enhancing the fact that I don't have it.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So as a result, I never live in the identity of actually receiving the very thing that I would love to have in my life.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So instead of looking for love, I was just open to receiving love.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a different mindset.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could still even go out on dates.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could still be on dating apps, but don't have a looking spirit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You have a receiving spirit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so for me, I wasn't looking for love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't, you know, when Rian, I met.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't even thinking about marriage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when she showed up,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, wait a minute.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whoa, I got it.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I got to take this series.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, this woman is like, no woman I've ever met before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so it took me a moment to just say, okay, be open to this.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because if I had my plans, I don't know that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I would be like, oh, I want to get married.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, next year, that wasn't the plan.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But God had a different plan.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So how long did it take for you to make that decision?
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: The moment we met, I knew, I was like, oh, God, okay, I get it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is what you're doing.
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I just had to submit to the process.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so we met Easter Sunday of 24, and we were engaged in December of 24, and then we got married in August of 25.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it was July, actually of 24, when we were official.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we were official for about six months and then got engaged.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just knew, I just knew and that knowing was scary.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was terrifying, especially, you know, it's like, look, we've been married before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, yo, you know, okay, God, okay, okay, but I also was so open to it because I want a family too.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, OK, well, I want to get married and then have family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's just the cadence that work best for me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so when God brought me Maria, I was like, OK, Lord, here's what you're doing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the challenge, challenge, in any relationship, it's even expressed, explored in the movie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I had to deal with this, which is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Am I going to impose my will on God's timing?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or am I going to submit to his timing?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If Maria was showing up, that means it was time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if I didn't think I was ready, because she would not have pev appeared if it was not time for me to begin a process of settling down again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I had to say, okay, Lord, all right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna submit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to admit to the process and allow him to bring us together and only the way that he could.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And when you see that played out not only in our story, but also in the movie, man, it's amazing.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: There were sometimes we were shooting scenes in the film.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I would go to the writers and say, y'all, I'm living this scene right now.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll move this and then we'll show the movie to Maria for the first time.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: She was in tears and she just kept saying, babe, this is us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is our love story.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I know it's crazy.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't all worked out.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't intentionally that way.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just how God designed it.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Hagan, I would define Franklin.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: What parts of you do you feel like, mature at the most, going through what you had to go through?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, what parts of you, you said, man, even that old man has not died.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm so new in this area.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, I would say the areas that I'm the newest in would be compassion, you know, meaning like, you know, I was very much, I am still an eight-type personality, and I want to conquer the world while those things exactly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The challenge is that that sort of mentality, you know, grind, grind, grind can actually be masking great fear and insecurity because sometimes if we are fearful or insecure, we feel like we have to be busy and hustle and do all these things because on the inside, we actually aren't secure, we aren't confident.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So for me, what this journey has taught me is to one, just have more compassion for myself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right, like it's not about your achievements.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not about any of that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's about you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Love who looks back at you in the mirror.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Devon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How long have you got to put this over?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Love like look like start there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like give yourself grace and space to process what you're going through to explore, to experience, and to just alleviate the pressure of like, oh, you got to be this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: or you got to do that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the parts of me that have changed is one I don't feel that that anxiety almost to to achieve, you know, I know I do achieve, but it comes from a place of confidence, it comes from a place of being more settled.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the other part is I believe I've become more loving.
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's good.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's one of the things that I really took away from this journey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, okay, I think I need to be learned how to be more loving.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, not as, you know, demanding, not as like, hey, here's my standard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I want everybody to live up to it.
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: More like, okay, this is my standard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This works for me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not everybody's going to be able to do that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's like to have a certain level of success.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, you know, the oxygen up there is very thin.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not everybody can, not everybody can, not everybody can handle it.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that doesn't mean that that's a negative thing.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: For what God is called us to do, we have to have compassion.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, cool.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's not their journey.
• 14:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Cool.
• 14:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a big compassion.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: And for myself, I'm going to learn to love me.
• 15:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I can offer that love to others.
• 15:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those are really the areas compassion and love are the areas that I feel personally that I've grown the most.
• 15:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: compassion and love divine frankly.
• 15:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: So while you're doing this movie and we'll land the pain.
• 15:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: So you're making this movie in the midst of honestly not really being in a relationship.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: You gotta make a movie about love.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like is that difficult for a person who's gone through divorce and uncoupling and all this public stuff that's going on and then it's like, okay, lights camera action.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let's do love and I don't feel loving like how easy or hard with that for you.
• 15:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was beautiful.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: comes out of a personal connection from the creator to the content.
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's good.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's born out of that.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: So when you listen to a song, and you know, you're like, Man, it's song really works.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's like a lot of times that person that wrote this song, they went through the song.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so that's all being able to create this song was therapeutic.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was healing.
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so for me, being able to make this movie, it was actually therapeutic.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because the challenge when you go through heartbreaker heartache is to close your heart.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the challenge.
• 16:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's the goal of the enemy.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's it.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because make your heart hard.
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Period.
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you, if we have a call as hard, then think about how we're going to interact with everybody.
• 16:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 16:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's going to pay.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to, if we have a call as hard, everybody's going to pay for something and then to do it.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Whereas keeping our heart open, keeping it open.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: So for me being able to make Ruth and Bo as it was awesome because it was cathartic.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because no matter what I've been through, my heart is open.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm like, wow, I can make a love story that is real, that's honest, that doesn't pull punches, that has truth in it.
• 16:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because I've gone through it.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if anything, going through it actually helped qualify me to tell this story, even more so than if I were to have done it years ago.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it really wasn't a thing of like, oh, man, I got to make this love story and I don't feel loving.
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, it was like, wow, I get a chance to express and explore love.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then as I'm making the movie, my own personal love story started to take off.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's just simultaneous.
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just simultaneous.
• 17:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 17:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, I'm very, I'm crazy creative.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, guys, even when you're in pain, like, just do what you call it to do, because what have deviled with like, no, not that one.
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just, emotionally, I'm just not ready to do that, man.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's like, though, that creative energy and love that came through that story, like, who knows, like, if the wife of your dreams would have appeared, because of your disobeyedity and to know what that is to,
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: attempting to get to you on that point, you know, going back to the book of Ruth and even what's in the movie.
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Why was Ruth rewarded with love?
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Why was Bolas rewarded with love?
• 17:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because they made a commitment to serve.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they made a commitment to serve.
• 17:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ruth said, I, matter fact, in the scripture, Naomi tells Ruth, you don't follow me back home because I don't, I'm not going to have any more signs, and you're basically not going to find love again.
• 18:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Ruth said, I don't care where you go, I go.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to sacrifice even the possibility of love in finding a relationship because I believe I'm supposed to commit to a higher calling, which is servicing you.
• 18:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: to service Naomi has to go find work.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: So she's trying to find work in the field, having no idea, that through her service, God was going to set her up for a love that she could never even pray for.
• 18:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Never even thought about.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bo as is just going about his work.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, managing all that God has given him, but he doesn't have the right partner.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Did he have to go look at no what happens?
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was a service to the people through what he was doing in the field and then there she is.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Who is that?
• 18:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 18:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: That to me is so powerful.
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think in this journey of life, I think so often we put so much stress on, I gotta have this by this age and I need to do this and I need to have these things.
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: And as someone who has achieved certain things by certain ages,
• 19:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's empty, because the age doesn't matter.
• 19:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter what matters is the condition of the human being we become along the way.
• 19:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And what do we have to offer?
• 19:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And what do we have to receive?
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And how can we be our brothers' keeper?
• 19:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And how can we be our sisters' keeper?
• 19:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so what, you know, you've got hit movies and you've got hit records and you've got hit shows.
• 19:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
• 19:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you don't have a healed heart.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: doesn't matter.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: So what I've learned through all of this is like, yo, what matters most is this learning, loving, experiencing, exploring and from that place.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 19:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: God does amazing things.
• 19:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Things that we don't even have to pray about.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: There are things that we can't because we can't even know how to pray that prayer.
• 19:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
• 19:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So someone listening to this right now, like, you know, there are, God's, God's going to deliver things that you don't even know how to pray for.
• 19:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And all you got to do is just stay of service, stay committed, keep a positive attitude, and be open.
• 20:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: One last thing I'll say is,
• 20:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: the knowledge of self or the perceived knowledge of self is one of the greatest obstacles to the actual revelation of self.
• 20:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because when we think we know who we are, we then close our self off to the revelation of all we could become.
• 20:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: So for me, I had to learn, like, I know who I am today, but God might be bringing other experiences like acting, you know, in my life,
• 20:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't even a thought, but the role started to come.
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if I was so attached to my identity as a producer or as an author, I could never have been open to exploring.
• 20:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I have that gift within.
• 20:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 20:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, okay, let me be open.
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me go put myself in an uncomfortable position.
• 20:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Remember these lines and do something I've never done before.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then on the other side, if I say, Oh, wow, I got experience now.
• 21:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: That there's more to me than I think and this to me is one of the most powerful ways to live life There's more to your story.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't don't think you know how what's happening on the next page you don't Be open the same way you watch a good movie like Ruth and Boa watch your own movie Say, oh, I don't know what's going to happen this next scene.
• 21:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know who I'm gonna become tomorrow But I'm excited to to discover and I'm not gonna let the knowledge I have to day about me Disrupt the knowledge that I can learn tomorrow about me
• 21:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: And the family listen, I pray that you are blessed just as we land this plane.
• 21:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: Traditionally, you know, I'll probably use it on both Shakwans.
• 21:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: So maybe we go here with it if you can just go here.
• 21:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I just look right at that camera in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, the unique thing about this amazing movie with Ruth and Boyaz is that is relevant.
• 21:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right, I know that right now there are so many people across this great nation that are going through it in their relationship And I just believe this by faith that when you watch this it may spark the love that you may think this missing I often tell you this the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement I believe this September 26 when this movie comes out that there's gonna be an opportunity for anybody who's single anybody who's married anybody who's looking for love in all the wrong places
• 22:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: an opportunity to love again.
• 22:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: So make sure that you check out the root and bow ass story exclusively on Netflix September 26.
• 22:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: Glad out.
• 22:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 22:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Cool.
• 22:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, brother.
• 22:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then great job.
• 22:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Man.
• 22:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Doug.
• 22:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate it.
• 22:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know how we do this.
• 22:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Love you more.
• 22:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Love you more.
• 22:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Love you more.