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Johnjay met and had a spiritual moment with MercyMe · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Biaber Cella man Bieber that when he I really like
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  Speaker 1: that Yukon song.
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  Speaker 2: I like it more and more every time I hear
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  Speaker 2: it and him performing it was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, is just awesome. What a what a talent justin Bieber.
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  Speaker 2: We got one thousand dollars of Pat Hickey's money, and
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  Speaker 2: Jessica is our contestant.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Jessica, Good morning, John j Good morning. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you got a minute to win it. Jessica. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing right now? Where are you going? I'm working
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well I'm supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you work?
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  Speaker 3: I work at a bank.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: Then sixty seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 4: Get all ten questions, right, you win a thousand dollars Jessica,
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  Speaker 4: I hope it's you today. Let's go how many days
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  Speaker 4: in a week?
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  Speaker 2: Seven?
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  Speaker 4: Gary is the name of who's pet snail Bungebobs. Olympia
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  Speaker 4: is the capital of what US state?
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Washington?
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  Speaker 4: What is the name of the first satellite ever launched
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  Speaker 4: into space?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? I don't was it?
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  Speaker 4: I know this? I remember the start with an R.
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  Speaker 1: Was it the rover? H Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, you're on a roll there too.
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  Speaker 4: You got three right, darn.
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  Speaker 1: Snike's well, thanks for playing Jessica. Oh hung up? Sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Uh okay.
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  Speaker 2: So you know what's funny we is we talked about
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  Speaker 2: last week about Peyton going alone to Coachella alone, to
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  Speaker 2: a festival by herself, and she didn't.
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  Speaker 1: She went with a friend, right right.
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  Speaker 2: I went to a concert alone Friday night, and I
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  Speaker 2: went to a baby shower alone yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I was the one doing things alone.
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  Speaker 4: You alone, I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I love being alone, I really do. I realized I
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  Speaker 2: was just so happ with.
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  Speaker 1: Shopping alone, grocery shopping. It was so great.
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  Speaker 3: What a concert did you go to by yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this?
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  Speaker 2: This, to me is an amazing story to share with
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  Speaker 2: you guys, And I hope you bear with me as
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  Speaker 2: I tell it because I there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: backstory to it. So I have what's called the highly
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  Speaker 2: successful John Jay Vans podcast, and the producer of that
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  Speaker 2: podcast names Tyler. He's the guy who created the podcast
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  Speaker 2: and came to me and he asked me, do you
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  Speaker 2: want to do this podcast? I call him Tyler, the
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  Speaker 2: podcast creator.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So he tells me that the lead singer of this
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  Speaker 2: band called mercy Me wants to come on a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Are you guys familiar with mercy Me?
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  Speaker 3: Is that I can only imagine.
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  Speaker 2: When you know this? This is my wife's favorite. My
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  Speaker 2: wife says, I want to play this. He wants this
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  Speaker 2: song at her funeral. I feel like you guys will
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  Speaker 2: know this song.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you know? Peggy, only imagine Vana zen Zen.
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  Speaker 2: When Bye said it's also a movie. They made it
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  Speaker 2: into a movie, eighty million at the box office. It
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  Speaker 2: was number one for two weeks. Then they had a sequel.
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  Speaker 2: I can only imagine part two. It came out in Feduary.
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  Speaker 3: I can still only imagine him.
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  Speaker 2: So this guy, his name is Bart, He comes in
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  Speaker 2: him and I he walks in with his with this guy,
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  Speaker 2: his producer guy or his manager, and he says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it'sood before the podcast even starts. It might just might
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  Speaker 2: even be on the podcast because I record right away.
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  Speaker 2: He says, hey, if you want, I'd love to have
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  Speaker 2: you come to the concert tonight. And I'm like in
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  Speaker 2: my brain, like, oh, you know where, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I can, I got going on?
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  Speaker 1: And where is it?
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  Speaker 2: He's like Glendale, Glendale. So then I remember my New
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  Speaker 2: Year's resolution to do more stuff right to be, to
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  Speaker 2: say yes to more things. My wife's out of town.
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  Speaker 2: I had no reason to say no outside of I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to go to bed at seven thirty and I said,
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  Speaker 2: what time do you go on?
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  Speaker 1: He goes nine.
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  Speaker 3: I go, this is everything that you don't love.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, I'm challenging myself to want
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  Speaker 2: to do new things, be and say yes to things.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm doing the podcast with him and we talk
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  Speaker 2: about this song and this song he wrote about his
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  Speaker 2: dad who died, and which is what the movie's based,
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  Speaker 2: Like his dad abused the hell out of him when
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  Speaker 2: he was a kid, and then when his dad got
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  Speaker 2: cancer and found Jesus and turned around and became the
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  Speaker 2: dad he always wanted. It's a beautiful story in this
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  Speaker 2: and they made that into the movie and it's all
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  Speaker 2: about his dad. So we're talking about stuff, and I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: how did he get how did it launch? How did
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  Speaker 2: it become a hit? Like work? Because he was like,
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  Speaker 2: they were just a band and they're playing at every place.
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  Speaker 2: They're handing out CDs in the trunk of out of
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  Speaker 2: the trunk of their car. And it turns out that
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  Speaker 2: there was a radio show in Dallas in the year
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  Speaker 2: two thousand that was doing Truth or Dare and someone
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  Speaker 2: called up the radio show and said, I dare you
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  Speaker 2: guys to play this song. And they brought the CD
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  Speaker 2: to the radio station and the guy that was doing
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  Speaker 2: the morning show said, I'll play it, and he played
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  Speaker 2: it and he said people went nuts for the song,
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  Speaker 2: and they were like, that song gave me goosebumps?
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: And they played it again and they played it again,
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  Speaker 2: and because of that airplay in Dallas, it took off
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  Speaker 2: and it got very, very famous.
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  Speaker 1: So a little backstory.
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  Speaker 2: Before I worked with Rich, I had a radio show
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  Speaker 2: in Houston and it was just me and I had
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  Speaker 2: hired this guy. He was six foot eight and really skinny,
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  Speaker 2: and he was twenty years old. His name was Fits.
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  Speaker 2: And I would teach Fits everything I could about radio,
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  Speaker 2: and I was I'd put him in a speedo and
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  Speaker 2: put him out in the street and he would do stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And that was everything you learned about radio.
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  Speaker 2: I would have Fits do all kinds of stuff, right, so,
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  Speaker 2: and I would teach him everything I could teach and
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  Speaker 2: then uh, Fits and I left. We left Houston and
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  Speaker 2: he went to Dallas, and Fitz got his own morning.
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  Speaker 1: Show, and that was Fits how cool?
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  Speaker 2: Fits played that song for him on the radio and
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  Speaker 2: I was like when he told me that, I got
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  Speaker 2: goosebumps and I was like, oh my god. So then
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  Speaker 2: he goes, so indirectly, you're the reason this song because
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  Speaker 2: I hired Fits. So then Fits like So then I
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, I'll go to the show. So I go,
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  Speaker 2: let's FaceTime fits. So he goes, you facetiming because he oh,
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  Speaker 2: he goes, I just talked to Fits last week. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: we're still great friends with what he said, and I go,
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  Speaker 2: I still coach him and give some device everyone. While
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  Speaker 2: Fitz now hosts a country countdown. It's all over the
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  Speaker 2: United States. It's called the what's it called? You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's the face.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's called the Country Countdown.
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  Speaker 2: It's a famous county. He took over for somebody and
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  Speaker 2: it's huge. So Fits I FaceTime fits and he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: pick up Bart FaceTime fits and he doesn't pick up.
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  Speaker 2: I FaceTime fits again and again and again.
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  Speaker 1: He has to pick up. I text him, he said
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  Speaker 1: to pick up the phone. He wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't pick up the phone. I say goodbye to Bart.
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  Speaker 2: I get my car. I'm backing out on my car.
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  Speaker 2: Fitz calls me and he's crying and he's bawling his
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  Speaker 2: brains out, and I'm like, whoa, whoa, who because that's
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  Speaker 2: not like fits. I go, what's going on? He goes,
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  Speaker 2: my dad died. And he goes and my brothers and
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  Speaker 2: sisters have had dreams of my dad. He died a
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  Speaker 2: few days ago, and my brother's sisters have all these
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  Speaker 2: dreams about my dad. He hasn't visited me yet. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sitting on the porch crying. He goes, and
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  Speaker 2: you and Bart start calling me, and he goes. Bart's
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  Speaker 2: song is about his dad. You're the guy that hired me.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was this weird, like spiritual moment, do you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean? It was like goosebumps. And I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh my god. And I was like, I go,
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  Speaker 2: you got to call Bart right now and tell him.
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  Speaker 2: Call Bart and tell me. He goes, you never want
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  Speaker 2: to talk to me yo, And I'm like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this has been a long call for me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I go home.
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  Speaker 2: I got to the point of the phone call call
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  Speaker 2: Bart and let him know what I text Bart. I'm
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  Speaker 2: like bro, you got to talk to fists right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, call Bart, I got you know. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I hang out with fits and then Bart texts me
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  Speaker 2: and Bart's like, oh my god, unbelievable. Right, So I
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  Speaker 2: end up going to the concert. I get to the arena,
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  Speaker 2: I walk in. They have an all access pass for
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  Speaker 2: me backstaye to pass and one ticket like one. I
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  Speaker 2: posted a picture and behold my fIF finger up on
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  Speaker 2: because I was just one.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, can I one?
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  Speaker 2: Please? One?
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  Speaker 1: So I go.
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  Speaker 2: I get to the concert. They walk me in backstage.
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  Speaker 2: I have access to everything they and I've never done
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  Speaker 2: in all the years of being in radio.
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  Speaker 1: I was at backstage.
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  Speaker 2: I was next to the stage and the guy, the
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  Speaker 2: manager guy goes here once you sit up here, and
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  Speaker 2: I was sitting on one of those black boxes that
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  Speaker 2: the equipment come in, you know, I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 2: speakers come in.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like on the side of the stage and
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  Speaker 1: my feet don't touch the ground.
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  Speaker 2: They're like dangling, and I'm all by myself and I
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  Speaker 2: just see the whole arena sold out.
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  Speaker 1: There's like eighteen thousand people there.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, I'm thinking Coachella's going on right now what are
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  Speaker 2: these people doing? It was like this beautiful concert. It
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  Speaker 2: was sold out and it was awesome, and I took
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  Speaker 2: a picture of the band and it was so that's
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  Speaker 2: what happened. So I thought Peyton was going to Coachella alone.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't. Nope, I switched up on you. I went
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  Speaker 1: to a concert alone. What are the chances?
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  Speaker 3: What a powerful song?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen to it. I mean it's it's beautiful. Just
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  Speaker 2: it's called I can only imagine. The band's called Mercy Me.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't see the movie. No, Noma saw the movie.
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  Speaker 3: I can only imagine.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, I went like just looking
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  Speaker 2: for something to watch, and I came across.
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  Speaker 1: The movie and I watched the movie and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's story is absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I have two or three songs saved by him too.
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  Speaker 2: I went to go watch the movie over the weekend
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, I gotta watch this movie. Now. This
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  Speaker 2: guy told me was whole life. It was like two
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  Speaker 2: dollars and thirty cents to rent. I forget that shit.
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  Speaker 2: Be free.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even it's like it's not out free.
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  Speaker 2: It's not anywhere on that for free like Horry watched it, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I with the Amazon it's like two dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, sorry, dude, I.
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  Speaker 3: Already paid for Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: I can't I can't imagine paid for that. Anyway, listen
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  Speaker 1: to the song and it's freaking amazing. So I highly
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  Speaker 1: recommend listen to Mercy me go find it, listen to
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  Speaker 1: him