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The Book, The Music, The Legacy The Soul Man Singer Songwriter David Porter · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Arrow dot net A r r oe dot net. It
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  Speaker 1: How many times have you been on those other platforms?
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, where did he say that? Where did
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  Speaker 1: One place Aro dot net A r r o e
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  Speaker 1: dot net. Enjoy that exploration. Good morning, David, how are
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  Speaker 1: you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I am doing wonderful and it's so any a pleasure
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  Speaker 2: to be with you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Dude. I have been waiting, I literally and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you're going to hear this a lot. We've been waiting
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime to hear from you, because back in the
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  Speaker 1: early days of radio when we do when we used
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  Speaker 1: to do the ascat BMI, we had to sit there
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  Speaker 1: and put the songwriters down on that ledger and I
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  Speaker 1: would put David Porter, David Porter, David Porter, and it
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  Speaker 1: was like I would sit there as a jock, going
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  Speaker 1: I gotta know more about this, David Porter. And there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing out there like an Internet at that point
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  Speaker 1: in time. And so to finally have this book. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: thank God, I finally get to read about David Porter.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you're so kind, and I finally I am able to say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so fortunate to be able to have been around
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  Speaker 2: and still around enough to tell a story.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing the connections that you've created. And I've got
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  Speaker 1: to ask you this question, in the way of one
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  Speaker 1: creative person to another, when your lyrics become a part
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  Speaker 1: of somebody else's image. I don't know how you said
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  Speaker 1: with that, because I would be troubled by that that
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  Speaker 1: somebody else is taking what you felt, what you had
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  Speaker 1: inside yours. I mean, because you say it right here,
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  Speaker 1: Creating music bypasses your brain and goes directly to your soul.
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  Speaker 3: That's you right right.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Part of that is having the desire to want
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  Speaker 2: to give to an audience that you hope are receptive
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  Speaker 2: to you, and that people don't appreciate bogusness.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got to be real.
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  Speaker 2: So you want to be sure that from the get
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  Speaker 2: go you're giving a real connection to a particular theme
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  Speaker 2: in a legitimate way that you know comes from the heart.
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  Speaker 3: And if you do that, you do at least give
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  Speaker 3: yourself a chance for that connection.
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  Speaker 1: I love what you're doing inside these pages in the
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  Speaker 1: way of giving Memphis more light to their beacon that
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  Speaker 1: already exists, because it just seems like as we're growing
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  Speaker 1: in this streaming world, we're forgetting about the roots or
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  Speaker 1: the history of music. And you put it out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, here was Memphis and here is Memphis. It's
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  Speaker 1: still growing forward.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I just was talking a bit earlier
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  Speaker 2: about there are no new emotions and you have to
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  Speaker 2: find a fresh way to talk about common emotions. And
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  Speaker 2: at Stax Records and in the earlier days, the records
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  Speaker 2: that were made by not Stacks but Motown and other labels,
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  Speaker 2: everyone was trying to find that power and that way
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  Speaker 2: to connect with people. And so we worked hard at that,
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  Speaker 2: and we worked past at that, and we knew that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this little technology like the world is today,
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  Speaker 2: we knew that the only way you get on the
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  Speaker 2: platform but potentially being heard was that people one had
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  Speaker 2: to feel what you were saying, and they had to
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  Speaker 2: believe the way you said it, and then you had
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  Speaker 2: to say it in such a fresh way that they
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  Speaker 2: think that you're saying it a little bit different than
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  Speaker 2: what they've already heard and so that's part of the
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  Speaker 2: fascination about doing this, and there were so many working
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  Speaker 2: hard to perfect those techniques back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: I love the openness and the challenge that you guys
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  Speaker 1: went through because it did teach the future in the
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  Speaker 1: way that you had this idea and then you went
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  Speaker 1: with the ideas. As Stephen Ferdick from Elevation Church would say,
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  Speaker 1: he'd say, you faced the chariots, you went into the fire,
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  Speaker 1: you made it happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, part of that involves you knowing that if you
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  Speaker 2: don't do it, you're going to get burnt up with
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  Speaker 2: everybody else. No one's going to remember what you've done.
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  Speaker 2: So you have to find a way to separate yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And nothing is better than the separating yourself by being
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  Speaker 2: authentic to you, because there's only one you, and if
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  Speaker 2: you can find a unique core of you, you got
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  Speaker 2: some possibilities of having a connection.
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  Speaker 1: Your connections with rose Hill Baptist Church. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for bringing that up, because you
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  Speaker 1: know we are You know, we watch we walk through
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  Speaker 1: life and we tend to forget about those days where
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  Speaker 1: that word was stepping inside our mind, body and soul
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  Speaker 1: and It's like, I love the fact that you have
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  Speaker 1: the openness to say, yeah, here's where it probably started, guys,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where I grew forward. And I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give them the credit for it. Well, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Fer mission of there. Right across
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  Speaker 1: the street was my best friend, right across the street
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  Speaker 1: from from where I was born. I was born on
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  Speaker 1: a dead end street, and on that street, at the
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  Speaker 1: top of the hill was Rose Hill Baptist Church. My
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  Speaker 1: best friend. He and I started the journey of music together.
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  Speaker 2: His name was Maurice White. People know him as the
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  Speaker 2: creative Earth went and far Well, we start it together.
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  Speaker 2: He was born one month after me, and so we
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  Speaker 2: grew up together. We went through high school together. We
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  Speaker 2: started singing together. He was my drummer in high school
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  Speaker 2: on the talent shows. Maurice was not a guy that
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  Speaker 2: wanted to really put himself out there singing. Yet we
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  Speaker 2: sang in that church, so I knew he sang, and
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  Speaker 2: he knew he sang. He just was a shy guy.
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  Speaker 2: People are surprised to know when they saw her for
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  Speaker 2: in the feign stage and how forward he was with
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  Speaker 2: his performances. But he was a shy guy. And in
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  Speaker 2: my next jor neighbor was the Cunningham family. The Cunningham
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  Speaker 2: family had a young man that played drums in a
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  Speaker 2: band called the Barcades. His name was Carl Cunningham. He
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  Speaker 2: perished in the airplane crashed with ODIs Redding. He was
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  Speaker 2: He was the drummer for Oldish reading is also the
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  Speaker 2: drummer of the Barcades. So on that street was kids
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  Speaker 2: who were ingrained in the spirituality, in the magic of
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  Speaker 2: connection through song because of that church at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the hill Baptist.
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  Speaker 1: But you brought up something that is so relatable in
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  Speaker 1: the way that you said it was a dead in street,
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  Speaker 1: but in my heart when you said that, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: but it was alive. It may have been a dead
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  Speaker 1: end street, but it was definitely life. And what is
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  Speaker 1: it about those dead end streets Because I live on
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  Speaker 1: one as well, and I live in this forest. There
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  Speaker 1: is energy always at a dead end street. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is. I don't know if it's the
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  Speaker 1: collection of the soil or everything is moving in this direction,
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  Speaker 1: but there's always something on a dead end street.
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  Speaker 3: There's a thing called up on a dead end street.
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  Speaker 2: You know that you have the opportunity to go beyond
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  Speaker 2: where you are, yes, And what that means is you
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  Speaker 2: have to be exploratory with all the potentials of what
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  Speaker 2: that could mean. And when you don't know what that
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  Speaker 2: actually is, you go for everything with a purity of
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  Speaker 2: commitment to it, to the exceptionalists you can be and
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  Speaker 2: what it is. And so I just had aspirations to
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  Speaker 2: do something. I didn't know what something was. Malice didn't
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  Speaker 2: know what something was. Carl didn't know what something was.
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  Speaker 2: But we knew it was not going to be where
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  Speaker 2: we were because we were moving from where that point
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  Speaker 2: was that was on the dead end street.
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  Speaker 1: The way that you you work everybody into the storyline
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  Speaker 1: because the one thing I just feel it so deep
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  Speaker 1: intside my soul that when when I read the dedication,
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  Speaker 1: and you definitely do say this is for the performers
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  Speaker 1: that are entering music. It's been a part of your
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  Speaker 1: entire life, hasn't it, from Maurice White all the way down?
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  Speaker 1: That you have always believed in collaborating.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the greatest gift that one could ever
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  Speaker 2: have is the abilities to be. And I think the
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  Speaker 2: ability is to be means that whatever you have in
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  Speaker 2: you that you're willing to work to perfect. The greatest
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  Speaker 2: strength you could have with that perfection is sharing it
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  Speaker 2: with someone else, and that connection could be them sharing
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  Speaker 2: something similar of a value that they have that you
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  Speaker 2: don't with you, and the power of that becomes something
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  Speaker 2: that's undefeatable. And that's why it's so wonderful when when
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  Speaker 2: people think in terms of how can we come together
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  Speaker 2: as people and make the world a better place? The
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  Speaker 2: power of being together is unstoppable. And I realized that
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  Speaker 2: as a very young kid and wanted to from that
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  Speaker 2: day end street go and find as many of those
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  Speaker 2: kind of connections that could help me become better but
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  Speaker 2: also help circumstances that I would encounter be better as well.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to know where your imagination is today
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  Speaker 1: with this big headline now that says that hip hop
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  Speaker 1: and jazz have fused together to create a whole entire,
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  Speaker 1: brand new sound, and right away I can't help but
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  Speaker 1: think of you, because I can just feel you listening
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  Speaker 1: to the jazz and the hip hop combined, and you're going, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got the words for that. Oh, I've got the
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  Speaker 1: words for that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are no new emotions, meaning that there are
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  Speaker 2: you can call something something new. All you wanted you
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  Speaker 2: just a calling it something different. But the ability is
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  Speaker 2: to do what you do wh falls in the rim
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  Speaker 2: of what he is is. And so the a flat
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  Speaker 2: that you're playing and you're calling something else. Guess what
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  Speaker 2: at the end of that message and someone asks you
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  Speaker 2: what were the notes, You're going to say that a
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  Speaker 2: flat that you call something else. And so it's just
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  Speaker 2: so powerful to understand that we all have the opportunities
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  Speaker 2: to find a fresh way to go about common things,
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  Speaker 2: and there are ways to do that, many of which
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  Speaker 2: we have yet to discover. And the beauty about music
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  Speaker 2: is that it gives you that potential opportunity every day.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with David Porter The
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  Speaker 1: soul Man still to come the name of his book,
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  Speaker 1: David Porter The soul Man. We're back speaking of common
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  Speaker 1: things and discovering things. You introduced me to a story
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  Speaker 1: I did not know in my forty six years of
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  Speaker 1: radio about Isaac Hayes and you pulling him away from scientology.
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  Speaker 1: I had no clue, but by god, it really does
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  Speaker 1: thick up the story.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can't say I pulled him away from scientology,
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  Speaker 2: but I do understand that Isaac and I both.
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  Speaker 3: Came from the church, Baptist Church, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And when he was he became so successful, We were
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  Speaker 2: so successful as writers and producers, and he and I
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  Speaker 2: had written all of these amazing songs. Hold On I'm
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  Speaker 2: Coming ended up being like post use works in our catalog,
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  Speaker 2: and so I just I just did not want him
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  Speaker 2: to forget who the source was. And for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 2: he had gotten caught up a little bit in something
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  Speaker 2: that he believed was the path that he wanted to follow,
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  Speaker 2: and I just did not want him to forget. And
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  Speaker 2: so I stressed that a bond was strong even until
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  Speaker 2: the time of his passing. And so that was the
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  Speaker 2: connection that made us so creatively unique together. But it's
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  Speaker 2: also a connection that makes a commitment for each of
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  Speaker 2: us to look out for the other.
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  Speaker 1: You put it in a way that it makes it
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  Speaker 1: feel like that everybody, you're just everyday people who just
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  Speaker 1: happened to find that moment of success. As my wife
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  Speaker 1: would say, because she comes from the world of music,
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  Speaker 1: she says, we all put our pants on the same.
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  Speaker 3: And I think I feel.
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  Speaker 1: This inside this book. You're going hey, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, and I'm going, oh, my god, what do
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  Speaker 1: you mean just your friend? What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Where your wife is so right?
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  Speaker 2: And as long as you can remember that, you can
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  Speaker 2: stay grounded enough to be coming up with connectable ideas
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  Speaker 2: to others.
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  Speaker 3: When you lose sight of that and you think it's
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  Speaker 3: all about.
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  Speaker 2: You, you're in a world of loneliness because you all alone,
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  Speaker 2: the world will forget you. And when you think that
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  Speaker 2: you're more powerful than what is is, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: find out the hard way.
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  Speaker 1: You came up in an age where the pied pipers
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  Speaker 1: of rock and roll are still It's like a lost
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  Speaker 1: art that radio once had, and those were the overnight
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  Speaker 1: disc jockeys that knew the program director went to bed
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  Speaker 1: and they grabbed those old songs. I know it happened
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  Speaker 1: here in the South, and we owe so much of
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  Speaker 1: those late night disc jockeys. Did you work one on
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  Speaker 1: one with them to get that song on the radio
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  Speaker 1: so late at night?
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  Speaker 2: You know, well, you have the experience, so you know
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  Speaker 2: for a fact that so much of what happened to
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  Speaker 2: get public awareness from some of the greatest talents in
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  Speaker 2: the world from those particular times was their aggressiveness, their
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  Speaker 2: persistence and trying to make the case for what they
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  Speaker 2: had to be heard by a person that would be
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  Speaker 2: the only means of exposure for them.
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  Speaker 3: And so yes, you develop meaningful relationships.
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  Speaker 2: With people that was in that side of media, but
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  Speaker 2: you also were legitimate with it, because if you came
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  Speaker 2: with a bogo spirit and trying to act like your
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  Speaker 2: buddy with somebody in radio, they could see through that
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  Speaker 2: like nothing.
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  Speaker 3: So the friendships that were made had to be pure friendships.
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  Speaker 2: But you also had to know that in that friendship
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  Speaker 2: you had to bring them something that could make them
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  Speaker 2: feel good about doing what you were asking them to do.
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  Speaker 2: So it pushed you to make what you were doing
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  Speaker 2: even better, and so that was the the network of
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  Speaker 2: fairy shades would also understanding the value of what you
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  Speaker 2: had to have to make things work with people in radio,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, those of us who wanted to do music
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  Speaker 2: and wanted to do it well under said the total
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  Speaker 2: value of what the.
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  Speaker 3: Air personnality this meant.
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  Speaker 2: And they were also persons who had their own individuality
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  Speaker 2: working for them, and they know what they wanted and
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  Speaker 2: why it worked for them, and they were not going
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  Speaker 2: to compromise that.
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  Speaker 3: So you knew what you had to bring to them.
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  Speaker 1: See, I missed those days of radio when we had
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  Speaker 1: that kind of a connection with a musician in the
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  Speaker 1: way that it's like, you know, they would send me
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  Speaker 1: a cassette or they would send me a real to
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  Speaker 1: real haha, he said, real real. And the thing is
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  Speaker 1: is that you know. And so I would sit there
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  Speaker 1: as a creative mind and try to develop some sort
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  Speaker 1: of show where I could get away with playing this music,
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  Speaker 1: which would then get the listener to hit Eli's Er
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  Speaker 1: music Land or someplace just so they could get their
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  Speaker 1: hands on that record. If I felt it, then I
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  Speaker 1: felt that the listener could feel it as well.
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  Speaker 2: You were the greatest personalities in radio were the greatest
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  Speaker 2: A and R. They could teach A and R guys
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  Speaker 2: that record labels in the days where what an ar
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  Speaker 2: really is because you got to have their ear tubes
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  Speaker 2: in order to be able to have some sensibilities of
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  Speaker 2: what is meaningful to.
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  Speaker 3: The general public.
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  Speaker 2: You can have something that's meaningful to your baby, daughter,
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  Speaker 2: your sister, your brother, But radio personalities they had to
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  Speaker 2: tap into what was connectable to the general public.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the special gift. And you guys had that.
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  Speaker 1: So when you were writing the book, did you sit
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  Speaker 1: down with your eleven year old self and say this
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  Speaker 1: is how we're going to write this book. This is
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  Speaker 1: how we're going to do it. Because I've always believed
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  Speaker 1: that creative people are consistently in touch with that younger
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  Speaker 1: self that held that seed. Do you agree with that?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, You're just blown me away. I totally agree with it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have the willingness to go back in
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  Speaker 2: the most vulnerable way possible in order to find who
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  Speaker 2: you were that helped you build who you are. And
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  Speaker 2: in order to do that, if you don't come with
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  Speaker 2: the homeliness of it, it doesn't come out inside of
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  Speaker 2: whatever you're trying to convey. And I can tell you
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  Speaker 2: many times I was very, very emotional in writing this
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  Speaker 2: book because I had to go to an emotional space
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  Speaker 2: that took me back to that particular time and deal
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  Speaker 2: with that situation that particular way and feel what I felt.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes it were not good feelings. But I had
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  Speaker 2: to do that in order to make hopefully the personal
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  Speaker 2: connection I hope people feel from the book happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're presenting a book that every eleven year
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  Speaker 1: old kid wanted and I did. I wanted these books,
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  Speaker 1: but I got posters or I got a magazine article.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted more than that. And that's what I love
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  Speaker 1: about what you've done with this book is that you're
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  Speaker 1: giving us something that is tangible, and I can sit
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  Speaker 1: there and I can go through each page and say,
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  Speaker 1: do it again. I want to feel it again.
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  Speaker 2: You are just blown me away because that really really
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  Speaker 2: was my whole, heartfelt intention. And to hear you say
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  Speaker 2: that is very touching for me because that's what I
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  Speaker 2: wanted it for a kid.
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  Speaker 3: I'm from a family of twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I wanted for kids who have aspirations but don't
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  Speaker 2: see opportunities or means to an end for those things.
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  Speaker 2: And to know that the means to the end comes
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  Speaker 2: from the love that you feel for yourself. To believe
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  Speaker 2: in you enough to believe that tomorrow can be better
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  Speaker 2: because you're going to work on the day to have
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  Speaker 2: that happen.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a heck of a position to be in.
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  Speaker 2: When you don't know what tomorrow is, you don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the next five minutes is. But to have that
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  Speaker 2: kind of inner feeling as a motivation is something special.
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  Speaker 2: And I want the kids to hopefully who would read
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  Speaker 2: this book, to feel that for me.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what your life would be like if
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  Speaker 1: you were like today's eleven year old kids, where they've
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: got that digital audio equipment sitting inside their bedroom. You
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: could have been putting that together, but no, we had
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: to rely on cassette tapes and reel to rear. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I'm gonna drop down on the street here
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  Speaker 1: and see if I can go find somebody who can
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  Speaker 1: just let me in there with a microphone, any microphone.
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  Speaker 2: It scares me because I know that the greatest power
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  Speaker 2: in the world is the emotional connectivity in a real
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  Speaker 2: way from one person to another person. And when you
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  Speaker 2: come up with all kinds of way to bypass the
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  Speaker 2: path that you have to go on to really be
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: legitimately connected to someone, you miss one of the greatest
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: journeys you could ever have by understanding what the beauty
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  Speaker 2: of life could truly be. And I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: technology affords you the real, real understanding of.
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  Speaker 3: What that gift could be.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm afraid that many young kids who are
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  Speaker 2: weil into it.
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  Speaker 3: We have to accept the world for what progress is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the next generation, it's the next generation
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: in another generation that will be the next generation. But
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: you have to also hope for some things that you
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: don't want to compromise the journey for them, and so
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  Speaker 2: I can only have that hope.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever get to be in the studio and
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  Speaker 1: did you save your notes? Because every time I go
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  Speaker 1: in the studio, I want to keep my scratched out
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  Speaker 1: pages because I believe that it's got something to it.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of the soul of the journey. But did
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: you keep all of those notes when you were in
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: there with another artist?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it'd be easy to say, to make it
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  Speaker 2: for a good interview to say that I did, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I've always felt as I do right now.
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  Speaker 2: I feel that things come through me, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: that I allow myself the opportunity for things to come
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  Speaker 2: through me.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get the next thing through.
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  Speaker 2: Me that I need the next ten minutes from now,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and so all of my ideas. I'm so attending to
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: everything around me, everything, and I'm listening to things that
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: are no sound.
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  Speaker 3: I just said something there, and.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's how into it I am. And I
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: realized that it's a gift. And I don't understand the gift.
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  Speaker 2: I just know it is a gift, So that's why
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm sorry that I didn't keep notes.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of times, but that's why.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Hold On I'm coming came from me being
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  Speaker 2: in the restroom and Isaac saying, hey, then come on out,
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  Speaker 2: hurry up, and I said, hold on, I'm coming. I
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: walked out of the restaurant. God, well, he said what
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I said, hold on, I'm coming. So twenty minutes later
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  Speaker 2: we wrote hold on I'm coming when something is wrong
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  Speaker 2: with my baby.
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  Speaker 3: I was sleep it was a dream. I woke up.
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  Speaker 2: I I wrote up the whole song. Out said Isaac.
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  Speaker 2: I got a song. Well let's go, and I sang
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  Speaker 2: the whole song. It just came through me. It's just
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: just being able to be a willing vessel. It was
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: for something good means that you're open to something good.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be able to decipher so the good
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: from the bad.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: You have got to come back to this show anytime
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in the future. Twenty minutes with you not enough, not
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: anough off.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I love it, and thank you listener so much for
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: supporting what Isaac Hayes, David Porter and Stacks Trekers has
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: done for the world. And it could not have happened
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  Speaker 2: without them, so thank.
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  Speaker 3: You so much.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Be brilliant today. Okay, sir, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I will try