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INTERVIEW: Kirk Franklin On Kevin Hart Jokes, Representing Faith, Being Imperfect, New Podcast + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is the DJ Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.
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  Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. Law La Rosa is here
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  Speaker 1: and we got a special guest in the building.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we do, Kirk Franklin. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I live here.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I live here. What is this? What
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  Speaker 3: is it like the twenty thousand time. I'm good with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just humbled. I'm glad you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, welcome and congratulations for being honored
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  Speaker 1: at the BET Awards this year.
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  Speaker 2: How is that feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Nervous? Had bubble guts?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 5: What you are the performer of.
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  Speaker 3: Bro I am always nervous.
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  Speaker 6: Then we talk about that too, Yeah, I candn't believe
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  Speaker 6: it even when he said it's we talked about at
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  Speaker 6: the media room.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm always nervous. And I go speak.
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  Speaker 7: If I go to a nursing home and perform, I'm nervous.
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  Speaker 7: If I go speak to kids, I always have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, really, what's.
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  Speaker 5: About it makes you nervous? It's like, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: What are you thinking about?
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  Speaker 7: It's I think that you know there's always First of all,
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  Speaker 7: I think that it has served me well.
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  Speaker 3: It's because it's never normal. I'm never comfortable.
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  Speaker 7: I'm always wanting to do my best. I'm always you know,
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  Speaker 7: like I'm always concerned about every moment, you know, will
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  Speaker 7: it be good enough, will it be accepted, will it
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  Speaker 7: be will it be light? And so there's never a
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  Speaker 7: moment where I'm ever dialing anything in, you know, like
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  Speaker 7: everything for me is my first. Every project, every album,
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  Speaker 7: every song, every moment, it's my first. Like I'm a
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  Speaker 7: new artist, I'm a new I'm a I'm a I'm
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  Speaker 7: a I'm a struggling artist every time. And I think
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  Speaker 7: a lot of it. And you know, y'all probably just
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  Speaker 7: even test just all the the the guests that you've
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  Speaker 7: had that have come from traumatic backgrounds, you know, childhood, abandonment,
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  Speaker 7: adoption and all that is that I think that you
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  Speaker 7: are always chasing thos, chasing goes. You're always looking for
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  Speaker 7: that good job baby, that mama didn't give you, that
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  Speaker 7: you didn't that you're having those formative years. So yeah,
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  Speaker 7: every moment is it is nerves and new and so
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  Speaker 7: at the B yeah, B two wards, I'm I'm about
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  Speaker 7: to lose it next you're about to pass.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like why. And then I didn't know I.
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  Speaker 7: Was going to last until like a week before. Remember
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  Speaker 7: we talked about that too, So I didn't know I
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  Speaker 7: was going to last.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was mad you went last. I was mad.
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  Speaker 8: I said, you put somebody that like that in the
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  Speaker 8: front or the middle because it was so late.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, but that but both stayed up.
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  Speaker 5: I know we did stay up.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's kind of y'all.
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  Speaker 7: But what I'm saying, though, is that you feel even
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  Speaker 7: more pressure.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, I'm not going to last.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, you know, because you Kirk Franklin though.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm the gospel guy, and so you don't think
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  Speaker 7: of your genre having a space like that. You don't,
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  Speaker 7: you know, and you don't even expect it, like you know, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: it's it's it's almost like it's it's an honor for
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  Speaker 7: even the genre to be acknowledged and even part of
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  Speaker 7: the the ecosystem.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 7: But when when I found out that I was going last,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, brother, you didn't want to be sitting
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  Speaker 7: by me.
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  Speaker 4: Pressure was on.
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  Speaker 3: I was letting him go to you.
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  Speaker 5: On the tailor, Aaron Pierre was smelling the little and
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  Speaker 5: I lied.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh man, who did that.
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  Speaker 4: Way? Because did you have gas when you were sitting
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  Speaker 4: next to me? I ain't smell nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't nervous talking to you.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, right, because you I'm gonna I've been telling people
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  Speaker 6: since I mentioned it's my first time meaning you.
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  Speaker 3: It threw me.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know you were so like just normal cool
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, like.
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  Speaker 2: I said, you real, he's a real Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Why do you think people like, what are people expecting
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  Speaker 7: for me to come in floating on clouds?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, a little bit, that's what people.
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  Speaker 7: And I think that's unfortunate, and I think that we
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  Speaker 7: got to find ways to still deconstruct that. I just
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  Speaker 7: think that it stands in the way of people feeling
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  Speaker 7: like that they can be a part of the family too,
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  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, Like like like everybody can
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  Speaker 7: pull me and be part.
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  Speaker 3: Of this God love wagon. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: It's like and and so it's always challenging for me
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  Speaker 7: when when there's this work where there's this ideal of
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  Speaker 7: what being a person that loves Jesus looks like, and
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  Speaker 7: so I want to be the lowliest, the most humble,
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  Speaker 7: the most realist person, so that you can see, man,
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  Speaker 7: that everybody's supposed to be on this bus, and we
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  Speaker 7: also will be riding together.
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  Speaker 3: Man, we don't always know where we're going.
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  Speaker 1: But now, during the BET Awards, they kept.
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  Speaker 2: Showing you when Kevin Hart was doing comedy.
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  Speaker 1: And then the whole twist was Kirk Franklin was upset
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  Speaker 1: with all the Kevin Hart jokes.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, they must not know Kirk.
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  Speaker 3: So oh I was. It was so good. He's good.
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  Speaker 7: But then I'll also give you this side and you know,
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  Speaker 7: and I and and I want him cap right. It's
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  Speaker 7: I think that the biggest thing is for me is
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  Speaker 7: that I always have to be careful because I know
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  Speaker 7: that there's a community of the super religious that if
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  Speaker 7: I enjoy something too much, then it comes across.
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  Speaker 3: Like, well, why he not? Why he not praying for him?
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  Speaker 3: He needed to walk out?
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  Speaker 7: And and so there's this there's this dichotomy that that
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  Speaker 7: you live in when you say that you represent faith, that.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I love Jesus, but I'm not Jesus. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not him.
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  Speaker 7: I love God, I live in a body that ain't
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  Speaker 7: his yet until he cracks the sky and make me
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  Speaker 7: more like him. Until then, I live in this broken house,
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  Speaker 7: and I live in a world where things are gonna
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  Speaker 7: be funny. I'm gonna stub my toe and I'm not
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  Speaker 7: gonna speak a tongue in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna us.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. You push me too hard,
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  Speaker 7: it's gonna be hands you know. I mean, I'm you
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  Speaker 7: know I I I am not a perfect person. And
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  Speaker 7: so when something's funny and it's good and funny, I
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  Speaker 7: want to laugh.
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  Speaker 1: How do you stop yourself from laughing? Because he kept
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  Speaker 1: going and you know, Kevin, Kevin's gonna keep going to get.
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  Speaker 3: You that laughing.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like you and wife you are, but you
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  Speaker 8: still was trying to keep that sense of like all right,
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  Speaker 8: like you was like cracking, but you were like still
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  Speaker 8: containing yourself.
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  Speaker 7: Because it was funny. It was it's funny, he's funny,
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  Speaker 7: he's good. And so you get to see them perfect Kirk.
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  Speaker 8: But I think also what people don't understand is God
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  Speaker 8: don't want us to be perfect anyway, and either like
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  Speaker 8: I just you know, Jesus, they were not supposed to
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  Speaker 8: be perfect. That's why he made us in his image.
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  Speaker 5: But it's like if he if he put us here and.
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  Speaker 8: He knew, he know everything we're gonna do before we
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  Speaker 8: do it, like he already knows. It's like we are
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  Speaker 8: not him, We're of him, you know it. We're not
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  Speaker 8: meant to be perfect. We're just meant to follow him.
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  Speaker 7: And in that we always should be pursuing to be
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  Speaker 7: better matter. We want to be more like him, we
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  Speaker 7: want to be able to be changed in ways. There
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  Speaker 7: are things that I see in myself that I want
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  Speaker 7: to grow and look more like him.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm not on your watch.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not on your calendar, and how I get there,
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  Speaker 7: I am on his. And so I think that if we,
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  Speaker 7: like I said something on this this new digital series
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  Speaker 7: I have on called Dane of Kings, is that we
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  Speaker 7: have to understand man, that that that that we are patients,
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  Speaker 7: We're not doctors. And Christianity is supposed to be a
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  Speaker 7: place that's a hospital. It's a hospital. If that's to
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  Speaker 7: be a country club, it's will be a place where
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  Speaker 7: people that don't have it together could come and everybody
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  Speaker 7: can feel comfortable that they know that they don't have
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  Speaker 7: it together. But when people come to us in our
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  Speaker 7: community and they feel like that. We are more concerned
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  Speaker 7: about their their their habits and their ways been changed
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  Speaker 7: before our eyes, and you're not being changed yet you
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  Speaker 7: know doing it.
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  Speaker 3: It's like that that then.
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  Speaker 7: People create performance anxiety. That's where the mask comes is
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  Speaker 7: because if I don't look the way that you think
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  Speaker 7: I should look soon, then now I gotta fake it
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  Speaker 7: till I make it, and then you never and then
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  Speaker 7: what happens then you become a human doing and never
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  Speaker 7: human being.
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  Speaker 1: They also, I'm sorry, I was gonna say back to
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  Speaker 1: the BT Awards, they were mad at one of your
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  Speaker 1: outfits that you were.
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  Speaker 6: They were mad at every I was about to say that,
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  Speaker 6: like the office had them this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they said that you apologized for it was you
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  Speaker 1: wore like a take topic.
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  Speaker 4: That we talked about that to the media room.
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  Speaker 2: But what they bad at the I mean, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: pom pom shorts. You didn't have it.
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  Speaker 6: So they try to say, bro sorry. They tried to
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  Speaker 6: say Korry.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 6: You just feel like it's so crazy, how like naturally
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  Speaker 6: you just feel like the homie and I'm like, it's
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  Speaker 6: Kirk Franklin.
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  Speaker 3: When I note.
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  Speaker 4: He kind of like watching you.
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  Speaker 6: At the BET Awards and seeing it.
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  Speaker 4: See God didn't want me to call you bro.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's what happened when said, don't you call him bro.
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  Speaker 8: But see that's the thing though, even when Kirk met
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  Speaker 8: my son, it was it was crazy right because I'm
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  Speaker 8: until you might come back on. I was saying, like
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  Speaker 8: we we were on the same festival in Miami for
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  Speaker 8: Miami Gardens, and my son was so starstruck and Kirk
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  Speaker 8: made him feel.
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  Speaker 5: Like he was cool.
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  Speaker 8: So he goes back to my mother, his grandmother, and like,
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  Speaker 8: I met Kirk Franklin and he was cool, he said,
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  Speaker 8: you know, and and he said Bro, My like Bro
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  Speaker 8: was cool. And my mother here she goes because you know,
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  Speaker 8: she a deacon in the church and you don't refer
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  Speaker 8: to know Kirk Franklins. I said, my no, like Kirk
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  Speaker 8: is really cool, like relax and chill. When I just
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  Speaker 8: set outside my son like he.
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  Speaker 6: Bro, I felt like my grandmother came in this room,
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  Speaker 6: she probably gonna call me after the.
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  Speaker 4: Better not.
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  Speaker 7: But see, that's too much, that's too much pressure. That's
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  Speaker 7: a lot, and I'm gonna tell you I can be candid.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think we're ever going to deconstruct a lot
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  Speaker 7: of that it's because for a lot of people, they
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  Speaker 7: need that to be able to be connected to their faith.
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  Speaker 7: They need the stained glass windows, they need the pastor
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  Speaker 7: to look at somewhere, they need the church service to
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  Speaker 7: make them feel that this is my connection, this is
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  Speaker 7: what holy and righteous looks like for me, and I
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  Speaker 7: need that to hold on.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need none of it. All I need is Jesus.
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  Speaker 7: Gag game, That's all I All I need is Jesus.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm you know, and again I ain't talking about
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  Speaker 7: the European version with the blue eyes. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 7: you know, that Jesus that dies. Everybody sins in any moment.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody can come to the table. Everybody's at the foot
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  Speaker 7: of the cross because we all stink in.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I need.
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  Speaker 6: I was gonna say talking about the Awards show, though,
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  Speaker 6: there were a couple of things. So first, people were
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  Speaker 6: upset at the performance in a like they felt like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I thought it was a great performance. But
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  Speaker 6: I think people, uh, I think it just goes to
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  Speaker 6: like the people that you bring onto stage and how
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  Speaker 6: you uh. I have a quote here, I think it
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  Speaker 6: was Didrikdam was upset about Gloorilla won in the award,
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  Speaker 6: but they also called He also mentioned like things being
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  Speaker 6: like a mockery of worship and like things of that nature.
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  Speaker 6: Do you get tired of that conversation at this point
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  Speaker 6: or at this point are you so used to it?
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  Speaker 4: It's whatever, be real, bro.
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  Speaker 3: Own everything. I love. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it.
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  Speaker 3: Is what this. God blessed him, and God blessed him.
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel about that?
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  Speaker 1: Because some people were mad that in the gospel category
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  Speaker 1: it was Glorilla in yourself, it was little Baby in yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It was rhapsody, not your quote unquote typical gospel songs.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think about that that Glorilla won her
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  Speaker 1: first BT award was a gospel record?
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on that? Primarily gospel artists.
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  Speaker 7: I'm trying to keep my eyes on the prize, trying
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  Speaker 7: to things that really matter. I'm trying to tell the
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  Speaker 7: world about Jesus, trying to tell the world that for God,
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  Speaker 7: soul of the world, that he gave his only son,
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  Speaker 7: whoever believes in him should not perish, that ever last
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  Speaker 7: in life.
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  Speaker 3: That's one man. That's one man. Everything else is just noise.
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  Speaker 3: That's one man.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like you meet people where they are. You've
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  Speaker 8: been doing that since I since I was a little girl.
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  Speaker 8: Like you know, I I feel like there has been
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  Speaker 8: like when you when you say you meet people where
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  Speaker 8: you are, it's always been saying you meet people where
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  Speaker 8: they are. Right, Christ and Christianity and Church don't look
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  Speaker 8: the same for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: So if like a glorrilla can.
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  Speaker 8: Speak to us the youth, you know, and you stamp
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  Speaker 8: it and were like, oh, we know, kurk Frank, this
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  Speaker 8: is all of our mothers and grandmothers and aunts played
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  Speaker 8: and growing up. And and and she because she she
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  Speaker 8: is the bridge, you know what I mean, Like she
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  Speaker 8: would be the bridge for it. And God uses everybody
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  Speaker 8: like you can use anybody, can use a bum on
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  Speaker 8: the street, and can use a homeless person.
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  Speaker 5: He can use you know, anybody to.
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  Speaker 8: Lead, you know, to so you can pay attention to
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  Speaker 8: bring you to you know, to God and Jesus.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like it's not, it's not Why is that
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  Speaker 5: frowned upon?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? There's a text.
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  Speaker 7: In Scripture there's this moment where the disciples were talking
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  Speaker 7: to Jesus about people that were not part of their
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  Speaker 7: crew that was also using his name and trying to
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  Speaker 7: do things in his name, and they were upset about
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  Speaker 7: it because they were not part of the crew. And
• 13:51
  Speaker 7: so they came to Jesus. They pulled up like, yo, man,
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  Speaker 7: you need to go pull up on a boy. And
• 13:54
  Speaker 7: then they over there saying your name and trying to
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  Speaker 7: do in your name, and we need to we really
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  Speaker 7: need to squash that. And and that Jesus was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 7: if they over there and they are still trying to
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  Speaker 7: do good things in my name even though they're not
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  Speaker 7: part of our crew, I'm not gonna squash that. It's
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  Speaker 7: because they are still telling people my name. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 7: so I feel that it is the same that today
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  Speaker 7: that Christianity has for so long been a country club,
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  Speaker 7: and you've had to have a membership, you've had to
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  Speaker 7: look a certain way, like like like like, let me
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  Speaker 7: tell one thing that's funny to me is that people
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  Speaker 7: always say to me and even tell me sometimes it's like,
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  Speaker 7: you know, like y'all look younger now, other y'all did
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  Speaker 7: when y'all first started. Let me tell what a lot
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  Speaker 7: of that was. We were assimilating to what the church.
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  Speaker 7: If you were young in church, you had to look
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  Speaker 7: old to be thought of as serious, like they didn't
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  Speaker 7: take you serious if you did not look a certain way.
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  Speaker 3: So you dressed though.
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  Speaker 7: You had the long you know, you had the long jackets,
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  Speaker 7: you know, the squat toe gators, you know, had the
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  Speaker 7: big lamp. First time I took it to Coja convention.
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  Speaker 7: We were twenty five years old. And now you know,
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  Speaker 7: God blessed Church got in Christ, Love Church got in Christ.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 7: But there's a certain aesthetic that sometimes you have on
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  Speaker 7: twenty five years old, got a big old had on
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  Speaker 7: gloves and she said, she said, I felt like trick
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  Speaker 7: or treat, you know, because we were trying to assimilate.
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  Speaker 7: You're trying to do all the things to be accepted
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  Speaker 7: as a young person. And so now I mean, we're
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  Speaker 7: just comfortable being who we are. And I just think
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  Speaker 7: that it is really really important to just put people
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  Speaker 7: back on the focus of what matters.
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  Speaker 1: He's what matters, that's right now. What was the concept
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  Speaker 1: of den of Kings?
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  Speaker 2: How what inspired that?
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  Speaker 3: Bro? First of all?
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  Speaker 7: Bro, First of all, I am bro Bro Bro drag
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  Speaker 7: me for see. That's the motif of the show right now,
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  Speaker 7: bro Bro. And it's a beautiful thing, beautiful thing. But
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: one thing that I'm very excited about is that I
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: just had this idea that I've always been told that
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: people enjoy the way I hold court during dinner, Like
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: when you go to dinner with me, we're gonna chop,
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: you know. So we're gonna chop about politics, you know,
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: we want talking to talk about religions. We're gonna talk
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: about whatever and get it in. And so during my birthday,
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: I came to Atlanta. Well, I went to Lanta, had
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: dinner with some of my good guy friends and they
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: were like, yo, bro, you need to turn this in so,
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: you know, because I've had really great conversations. So with that,
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: I just thought about having dinner with black men and
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: what that could look like in that conversation. And so
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: the first episode shot in Atlanta, great food, chef, beautiful house.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: You had Country Wayne, you had Uh Lou, you had Uh,
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: you had Daval, you had d C. And it was
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: an incredible moment. And the response has been I've been.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Telling everybody I know to watch it.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: It's been amazing, as like, were you shocked at the response?
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, especially with DC and how he gets deep and
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: high yacht man. I love that because that's my brother
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I know you know what I mean, you love you.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, yes, and you know even Country Wayne, you know,
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: like just you gave them that safe space, that vulnerable
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: place where they and they can talk about things that
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: they don't usually talk about, and they talk about but
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: they don't go in depth with it, you know what
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: I mean, Like you provide that and I love to
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: see that.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: And it has been I mean, the response has been overwhelmed,
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: like it has been so so you know, We've got
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: another one on deck coming up soon, you know, and
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: it's just you know, dinner conversations with men with Black men.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: And I'm humble and I want to thank everybody that's
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: been tuning in and watching it and it's just been
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: it's just been an amazing moment.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: And it's like men's therapy. It's like watching a men's
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: therapy session.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Each episode about fatherhood, there is going to be different
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: things that.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: Different different conversations. Next one is by being a boss,
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: and uh, you know, we we are going to have
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: so many conversations that are just really just kind of
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: peeling back and just having a really, really, really great conversation.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: You're gonna pull up on one, of course, don't play.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: I think I know, I think v and Charlotte, I
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: think y'all be so amazing, and to sit down it
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: be fire because it's like a real conversation, non judgmental
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: as well.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: Non judgmental, non judgmental. And I want everybody to feel safe,
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: and I try to lead with vulnerability and transparency myself.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: So I try to create the environment that makes you
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: feel safe and comfortable.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: Will there ever be a episode with you and your
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: baby boy, your son?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Hmm, it's not that I haven't thought about it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: It's it's it's it's it's because it's still a work
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: in progress. I would want there to be real healing
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: in his life, or there is anything that that that
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: that that puts a spotlight.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: That could even be more damage. It got it to
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: his process.
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: You know, I want him whole. I don't give a
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: heck about writings. You know, I was gonna say someone else,
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: but I just want him hold and so whatever is
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: going to be for his best healing. And a lot
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: of times that that happens when the cameras.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Are what's what's your relationship now with them?
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: It's it's still work. It's it's it's still work now.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: The beautiful thing that has happened is, you know, I
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: ran into my biological father these years and his what's
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: the most incredible thing about God? Everything that my oldest
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: son needs, that's.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: His profession, your day's profession, biological father's profession.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: And I think you can impact that, right, right, everything
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: that my oldest needs. So my biological has come in because.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: That's his grandson. So he has a personal interest in
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: and in and in him being whole.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: And it's been amazing, it's been well, it's been amazing
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: to watch, but it's still a process. And how was
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: that relationship with your biological First, let me say that
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: he's an amazing man. He's an amazing I love that
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: you can say that, Oh, he's.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: An amazing man.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: But it is more me. It's because I wasn't looking
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: for a father. He wasn't looking for a son. I mean,
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: you know, I mean we weren't looking. Remember, I thought
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: I knew who my father was, and he died of
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: cancer back in seventeen.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: So now it's me.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: Like, when you live your life so long on your own,
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: it's almost like a it's almost like a woman who
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: has been single for a long time. And if the
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: guy said, don't get that door, and you're kind of like,
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: what you know, you know.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: You've got to kind of process. Okay, I ain't got
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: to give my door no more. What does that look?
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: You know? It's like, oh, what does that look? No?
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: I do understand what he said.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: She don't have a man, but a single night, I
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: was talking more about your dad and you not feeling
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: like you were missing out on anything. Kind of sort
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: of I'm skipping past.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: A liar. It's so good. How you did that.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah, y'all loved the truth, and I'm letting you. She
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: don't have a man. She don't have the best relationship
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: with her dad, so she loved me.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: That's another thing.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Would you like men or dad?
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I'm thirty three, Okay, I'm fifty.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Five, so I'm so a man or dad. If I
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: find anyone, it may be a zad.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I might need a sad.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: But she doesn't have necessarily the best relationship with her
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: father as well. So how did you get to the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: point where you can have that relationship? I mean, she day,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: but she doesn't have that relationship.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: That's not true.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Me and my dad have built a relationship. But I
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: met him at fourteen. But to your point, because I
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: was so full with what I had, I had my stepdad,
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: my mom, my grandmother, I didn't know and like still now,
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: I don't, like I'll be forgetting his Father's Day.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: And it's no shade to him.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: It's just I've always been then full to the point
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: where I wasn't looking for So when he got introduced
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: into my life, I was like, oh, okay, so this
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: is my dad. I got to call him, I got
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: to talk to him. I got to And it don't
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: always be that all the time. It's not a natural
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: thing for me to do. So you're the first person
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: I ever heard explain it where it made sense to
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: me of like you just weren't looking for it because
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: you didn't know you needed it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: And Mom wasn't that I was full. Mom was that
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I was numb.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Oh maybe I was numb.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: Maybe, So you know, And I don't know, like I'm
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: not a professional, but but I do know that sometimes
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: you do learn how to live with limps.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you learn.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: How to live with limps to the point that you
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: forget is broken, you know. And I think that because
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: of where we come Frost people of color. We've had
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: to live so much of our lives as people with
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: with with limps, as people just because of just just
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: just the deconstruction of our homes and families and backgrounds
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: that a lot of times we don't even know often
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: what healthy is. Yeah, it's because we've had to just live.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, We've never really lived, well, we just live, Okay.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Have you had those woments with your biological dad where
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: like y'all are talking and y'all going to miss of
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: something and you're like, oh, man, like I feel it,
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: this is what this is what was missing at some
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: point or I could have used this at some point.
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: Have you No, I have lived so much with deficiencies
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: that I'm still just trying to figure out so so
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: a lot of times if I'm around him, I'm just
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: trying to figure out how to be. Sometimes sometimes I'm
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: even sitting there having to just breathe just to keep
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: my anxiety. But you know, because it's so far, so far,
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: and I'm not.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not proud of these things.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: But I'm not going to get up here and cap
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: with y'all, like you know, and give y'all the the
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: you know, the little House on the per fairy tale.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Oh man, God has blessed us and we're all together now.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: It's like, my God, I'm still trying to figure life out,
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Like it's a new addition that I'm still trying to figure.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Out the space for it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Do you do you regret what you've done in gospel
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: music because it took so much time away from your family.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: That's an incredible question.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: It's I think that any man, in my humble opinion,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: that is ambitious and driven will always look back and
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: have regrets on how the people around them have had
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: to suffer because.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Of that because you, Yeah, your family suffered, but you
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: brought joy to people. You probably saved a million in
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: more lives with your music and your dance and the word,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: but you might have hurt a couple in the family
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: because you weren't there. So how does that balance out?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And and you know, as a father that works a lot,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I feel that sometimes it's like, damn, should I be
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: home learning this time?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: But I gotta.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Devils Because y'all talked about this on the show.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh boy.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: You know you you you have many regrets. Yeah, you
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: have many.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Regrets, and you have confusion. It's because it's it's it's
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: almost like if you were not driven, if you were
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: not a dog, if you didn't have that attitude, then
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: you wouldn't have been what you are. But you also
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: know that many around you, whether it's your wife or
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: your kids, that they've suffered a lot, that they've gone
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: through a lot because it comes with a heavy price.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: And I think that for me, mine also has another
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: level of of of kind of dichotomy is because you
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: also don't want to you don't want their kids faith
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: to be I don't want having to do with Jesus
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: because Jesus was the dude.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: That kept my daddy away.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: So I'm trying, you know, you've also tried to have
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: that now on space in that too. Now the beauty
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: of my children, it's their mother. My My my children
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: are are are.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Are great because of their mama. Tammy.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: Tammy has Tammy is like she just that Midas touched,
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: you know she. But then how mama was dad, Tammy's
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: Mama's dad. Tammy's Mama's like that with me, you know,
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: just that mightas touch and I didn't have Obama, so
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: it's bam, I'm just a minus touched. But yeah, you
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: live with a lot of regret. You live with a
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: lot of guilt, You live with a lot of questions.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: You live with that internal war of of of missing
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: things and and wondering what it would what it would
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: have been more like for you to be at home.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: But then at the same time, you also that dude
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: that wakes up in the middle of the night with
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: dreams and ideas and ambitions and songs. You know, like
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: I wake up in the midlight with songs and and
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: you know, I'm at a basketball game and I got
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: to step outside to put something in my phone because
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: a song. Because if that song don't work, then I
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: can't pay for that school, and I can't pay for
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: that college. I can't pay for that your new car
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: you want after you graduated. It's like, you know, there's
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: that tension. It's because people are blessed by your sacrifice,
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: but then they're also hurt.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: By your sacrifice. Yeah, and I don't know all the answers.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I just try to show up and be honest.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: What's your mentorship to other people look like? These days?
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Because I know Dinny Kings, I felt like when I
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: was watching it, it was that like you were mentoring
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: these men, but they just came together randomly. Do you
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: have like a set group of people that you're mentoring
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: and do you take the time to do that.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: Maybe mentoring right now and these days and times does
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: look more like that. Maybe it doesn't look as traditional.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: You know, it's I don't know's I just tried when
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: whenever I try to show up wherever I am, I'm
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: always trying to be the book that people need to read.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: And so whatever that looks like, I'm always available to
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: do it. It may not always look in the traditional form.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: It's because sometimes in traditional forms, like I remember doing
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: a youth camp's I did a youth music camp for
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: the Hood back a few years ago, and it just
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: didn't go well. And the reason why is because what
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: I notice is that if Steph Curry does a camp,
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: if Steph Curry does a basketball camp, and you can
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: figure it, you probably can do this. Envy kids that
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: come to a basketball camp, they're not looking for Steph
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Curry to get them in the NBA because they know
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: that it's still a process. They know a coach and
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: a team so so so. So Curry can do a
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: basketball camp and you know, show love, give out some treats, whatever,
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: but a daddy is not pulling them to the side,
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: going yo, man, you think you could talk to the
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: team from a boy where when I do a music camp,
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: demo tapes and everybody, you know, it's it's like they
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: see my world more accessible. So I'm not getting a
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: chance to really mentor I got a whole bunch of
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: people just kind of.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Want to be put on right right, and and so
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: that didn't go well for me that that.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: You know, I want to be able to plant seas
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: and help you, but I'm not here trying to put
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: you on.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so what I love.
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: I love that you said social media is not evil.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: You know, it's broken people. They use it as a
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: tool of evil.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: Right, So does commentary on social media affect you at all?
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I can't.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think anybody be aligned with this. And
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: I think that we all try to do our social
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: media fast and we try to pull back, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: Like after the Beach Awards, I was like, I'm not
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: reading nothing.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I don't want to read nothing.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: I don't want nothing, you know, And then you know
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: a few days of Lady by yourself.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: I'm looking.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Man, please about Jesus.
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: You know, so you know, yeah, you you you, You
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: find that attention and you try to do the best.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: I really believe y'all, and I know y'all gotta wrap
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: me up real soon, man, I gotta believe. I believe
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: that everything that we discussed can be summarized in these
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: major points of humans have to be more kind to
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: humans that we we Here's.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: The illustration before I go.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Right, if you are on an island and the island
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: is now slowly sinking into the water, and the only
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: way off that island to the other piece of bigger
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: land is this rope, this type rope, and everybody has
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: to walk across that type rope.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Now, mind you, they're walking over water.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: That is shark infested, right, so if you fall off
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: that type rope, but that's the only way to get
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: off this island is.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: This type rope.
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: Everybody that is getting on that type rope, if you're
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: sitting there, standing there watching them because you know your
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: turn is coming up next, you're not going to be
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: sitting there criticizing how they're getting off on that type
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: You're not gonna be going look at a leap, look
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: at shit.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I didn't walking on it, right, look a look at that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: You're not doing it because you know why you're not
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: doing that, because you know you next, So you sent
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: it going.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Please man, oh God, please let them make it. Please
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: she made it. She made because I give you hope
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: that you can make it. That's what life is.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: It's sinking and we're trying to get off, and there's
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: only way, there's only one way. And but we're criticizing
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: each other while we're trying to get on.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: That's the only way. There's no boat, there's nothing.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: The only way off the sinking island is this damn
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: difficult way. We should be praying people make it instead
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: of complaining how they.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Walking because you next?
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: And the church said, amen, dang well, dang I was
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: let me, how did you listen? You got some of
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: the strongest pipes coming up out of your choirs, like
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: I'm talking about like everybody was like a lead singer,
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: like everybody, How did you find these people?
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: That's how I do it, That's how you do it.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I do it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: I look for lead singer individuals.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: It's I go after artists.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: Ye's I look at people that I see an artist
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: in them. Come rock with m and that's what I
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: do and that's why they're so amazing.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, but that's dope that you caught that.
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: Since I was little, I'm like, yo ho, everybody can
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  Speaker 8: not just sing, but say everybody can sing like he
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  Speaker 8: could have had, like everybody do their own solo.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah crazy man.
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  Speaker 8: But I want to say I love you so much.
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  Speaker 8: I've been inspired since I was like just so.
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  Speaker 5: Young, just those long mornings my.
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  Speaker 8: Mother pop your CDs and for every CD we had.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I grew up on you and I love
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  Speaker 8: you and I'm so happy that I got to meet you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is so crazy. This is the first
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  Speaker 2: time you met him, because he.
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  Speaker 4: S second time.
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  Speaker 8: Always I met him before he but it is kind
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  Speaker 8: of crazy, mean, Kirk Franklin, because you men are in
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  Speaker 8: our household are literally and I know my heart for word,
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  Speaker 8: I know that like everything my whole life.
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  Speaker 4: So meeting you was just like so I'm mad.
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  Speaker 5: It was Kirk Franklin like okay, and it is your presence.
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  Speaker 8: So I thank you so much just for all of
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  Speaker 8: your work and everything that you that you've done, You've
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  Speaker 8: contributed to just to my household and to gospel, the
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  Speaker 8: Word of God.
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  Speaker 5: Everything thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of yeah, thank you well, Dinner Kings. You
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  Speaker 1: can check it out on YouTube. New single Dude again.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to play that again and we have to
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  Speaker 1: leave with a prayer.
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  Speaker 3: What's wrong with you know?
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  Speaker 7: I was.
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  Speaker 4: First of all? He prayed for me at the media
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  Speaker 4: room as well too. Okay, I'm always covering in prayer.
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  Speaker 3: Always coming too, but that.
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  Speaker 8: You see, Shay you I need you to pray in
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  Speaker 8: exactly exactly because they talked about them, so.
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  Speaker 5: Many of them talked them right off.
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  Speaker 3: Are we including praying for a zaddy or are.
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  Speaker 4: We please you allowed to say that to God? Go here?
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  Speaker 4: I can't.
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  Speaker 7: Man, man, Father, wow, man, thank you so much that
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  Speaker 7: you are just the most kindest, the most patient, creative
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  Speaker 7: of them all. Thank you Lord, that you constantly just
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  Speaker 7: forgive us when we mess up, and that you are
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  Speaker 7: always warning us to win because when we win it
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  Speaker 7: makes you look great.
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  Speaker 3: Father.
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  Speaker 7: We know that the world is crazy, and Father, I
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  Speaker 7: want to thank you for these three soldiers, for the
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  Speaker 7: four soldiers, and how they are doing their best to
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  Speaker 7: try to plant seeds of goodness in the earth. Just
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  Speaker 7: watch over the families, watch over their lives. If we've
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  Speaker 7: ever needed you before. We need you in the world. Now,
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  Speaker 7: please break down the walls of religion so that we
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  Speaker 7: can be able to see the light of your son.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm talking about your son as oh end and father.
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  Speaker 7: We want him to be glorified in our lives. We
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  Speaker 7: are far from perfect, messed up, and we love the
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  Speaker 7: fact that you take the lemons and make lemonade in
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  Speaker 7: our lives every day. Thank you for not giving up
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  Speaker 7: on us. We want to make you proud, we want
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  Speaker 7: to make you happy. And your name Jesus, Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well there you have it. It's Kirk Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club