Divided? What You MUST Do For Unity

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Welcome to True Crime,

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Authors and Extraordinary People,

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the podcast where we bring two passions together.

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truth is stranger than fiction,

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Here is your host,

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David McClain.

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What's going on,

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everybody?

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Welcome to another episode of True Crimes,

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let me be the first to tell you that I do care and I do need you to be here.

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There is nothing worth your life.

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All right,

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guys.

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Sorry that

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I did not release an episode last week.

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The reason for that is because I have been troubled with the things going on in the world.

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I have a couple of things going on in personal life,

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but mainly because the things that's happening in the world,

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things surrounding the Charlie Kirk assassination,

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things surrounding the now government shutdown,

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things surrounding the way the world is running as a whole.

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Looking over everything else,

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other creators and podcasters that's done stories on these,

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I did my own,

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which was the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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I do stand by everything I said in that episode.

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I wanted to take a look around and see what was going on in the world.

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What was everybody else talking about?

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What was everybody else looking at?

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So I'm coming at you at the angle today that no one else seems to be going.

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The angle that we all should be going at,

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the angle that the president of the United States should have taken the moment that Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

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Today,

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I'm going to talk to you guys about unity.

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What this is not going to be is there's a lot of things I could say about the Charlie Kirk assassination.

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There's a lot of things I could break down to you about that,

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about why black people acted the way that it is,

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about why some people feel that maybe Charlie Kirk was hateful by the

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own words that he spat,

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but I'm not doing that today.

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For one,

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that has been beat to death.

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I can give you links of channels that everybody else has talked about it,

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including my own.

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I talked about a little bit in the session with Charlie Kirk,

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but today we're going to talk about what the world needs,

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and that's unity.

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See,

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there's a lot of things that's going on in the world right now that is a total distraction to you.

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One of them is this whole nonsense about the rapture supposed to come a few days ago.

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Now,

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that's put out to you by the Christian nationalists.

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And all I'm going to say is for those of you that follow that,

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you nor the people that put that out know anything that the Bible says when it pertains to the rapture.

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Because if you did,

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there would have been a lot of people selling their stuff.

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And I think there's a couple of stars I heard that.

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Stop paying taxes because they thought the rapture is going to happen.

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Well,

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let me give you straight from the Bible and what the Bible says about that.

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Matthew 24,

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36 says,

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but about that day or hour,

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no one knows,

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not even the angels in heaven,

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nor the son,

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but only the father.

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So that's telling you is even Jesus don't know when he coming back.

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God's gonna be like,

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son,

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it's time to go.

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Eastern sky's gonna crack.

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He's gonna come back.

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But never at the time that we,

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as man,

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says he's supposed to.

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I want you guys to keep that in mind.

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For those of us that says we believe in the Bible and God and we're Christians,

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this is what the blueprint of Christianity,

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which is the Bible,

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says.

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Matthew 24,

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But about that day or hour,

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no one knows not.

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Not even the angels in heaven,

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nor the son,

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but only the father.

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So the next time somebody tells you the rapture is coming,

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remember this verse.

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Now,

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the other distractions going on does have to do with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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All I'm going to say about that is people,

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you need to look around.

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There's a lot of things that you are not seeing that is staring at you in plain sight about that.

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I've done some digging into it.

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I am not a conspiracy theorist at all,

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but there is a number of things that I have even lined up.

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Being a sound technician myself,

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because a lot of sound technicians just went in to see with the time and the sound and all that stuff.

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There are some things that don't add up,

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but this benefits the government right now.

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The one thing that troubles me about that young man's death is it's now being used technically as a grift.

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They're trying to get people to sign off a turning point and they're doing they're trying to raise funds for new chapters,

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I guess.

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And now you got people that's signing petitions to put his favorite drink on the Starbucks menu.

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This is all nonsense because this is not what we should be doing around his death.

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We should have been unifying.

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And I'm not here to talk bad about the widow,

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but she should have started that long before she made the comment that she did make them grateful for this funeral.

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A lot of people did come down on Erica Kirk because of the things that she said were 24 to 40 dollars after his death.

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Maybe that's the way she grieved,

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but she did come back and say that she forgave the man that shot her husband and that there should be no further violence.

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Unity is what we need.

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All of these smoke and mirrors.

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And unfortunately,

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his death has become one of those.

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Trump didn't even act like he really cared,

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did he,

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when they interviewed him about that.

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But we need unity.

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War ain't going to do any good.

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And the left and the right going at it ain't going to do any good.

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Look at the world and the state in which it is in.

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I feel like I'm living life backwards.

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Because all the things that's happened to people of my color,

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my ancestors and my moms and my grandparents already fought this road.

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And I feel like I'm back fighting the same road that they fought some 400 plus years ago.

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And now today we're back in the same boat.

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We need to embrace each other.

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We need to come together to fight the injustices.

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Whether you voted for Trump or not,

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whether you agree with his policies or not is here.

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You can look around the world yourself and you can tell that we are in a bad state.

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We're in a government shutdown right now.

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Now,

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you can say whatever you want to say about Biden.

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But when's the last time we had a government shutdown?

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The last time we had a government shutdown was when the current president was the president back in the 2016 to 2020 turn.

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How do you get that unity?

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First of all,

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you band together.

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You stop letting the things that divide us,

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which isn't many,

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get in the way.

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But the rhetoric of those that want the world to go in the way in which they want it to go wants to keep creating that narrative.

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They want you to keep believing that the left side or the Democrats is the radicals and we're causing all these problems.

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They want you to keep believing that black people are dangerous and we're going to go into your cities and

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Rip it all apart.

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They want you to keep believing that there's too many

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Mexicans and Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics over here that we got to get rid of them.

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This is all to divide,

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because if you look at the way the world was running,

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not even a year and a half ago,

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you know that that none of that stuff is true.

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You know that our farms was bustling.

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I just read a thing that a bunder Joe Biden.

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Farmers that farm soybean made like $18 million.

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They've made nothing now.

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I live in California.

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I think you get avocados,

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pistachios,

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and a number of other things from us.

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Dude,

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we have peaches,

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beautiful farms of peaches out here,

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all dried up because farmers are hurting because of what's going on right now.

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So we need unity to get behind the farmers,

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to push the administration to knock off the nonsense,

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to make Trump do

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what he said he was going to do when he was campaigning,

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which was lower prices of food,

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lower gas prices,

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make life better for the farmers.

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The last time I checked,

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we're paying $16 to $22 for just 12 eggs.

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It's almost 30 bucks for a case of 60.

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I don't see anything dropping.

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We need to stand together for the better cause of democracy and the better cause of...

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ourselves as human beings in this nation.

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If we don't,

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the world as we know it,

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which is already turning,

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is going to go full blown crazy.

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There's people that is turning their backs now.

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And I'm not talking about the people that just strolled in.

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I'm talking about diehard

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30, 40 year Republicans is now turning their back on the current administration.

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Some people are turning Democrat because of it.

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But you can look around for yourself with that.

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But we need to come together as a people.

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We need to say that we care about each other.

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We need to take up the mantle of the great Martin Luther King.

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Jr.

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No matter what happened,

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he always preached nonviolence.

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If you know anything about the history of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and John F.

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Kennedy's death,

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they've always been linked.

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It's always been believed that both of those men was taken out for the exact same reason.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was orchestrated and began with John F.

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Kennedy.

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And everybody wants to abolish that bill.

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Well,

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that bill gets you a whole lot of stuff.

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It wasn't just for black people.

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It's for everybody.

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Women's right to vote,

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part of that bill.

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But Martin Luther King preached nonviolence all the time.

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All the time.

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You can hit him in the head with a cinder block.

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He's preaching nonviolence.

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And he preached for all people.

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Yes,

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he was like me,

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unapologetically black.

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He cared about the black people.

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But he spoke of unity with all men and all women.

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No matter what color,

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creed,

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or race.

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Or did you not hear the I Have a Dream speech?

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Yes.

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At the beginning of that speech,

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it was all about the black person,

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the Negro.

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When he told you that 100 years later,

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the Negro is still enslaved,

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and we still feel that way to a large degree.

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But go to the bottom of that speech.

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Let me just give you that last part of his speech.

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This is where we need to be thinking.

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This is where we need to be.

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as a nation.

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This is what great leaders do.

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Mull of the King Jr.

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could just put up and say,

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I don't really give a dang about anybody else but black Americans because this is what they did to us.

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But he knew that the only way that we would make the dream come true,

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the only way that the world would ever be whole,

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the only way that we will all march together forward is actually that,

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together.

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This is what he said at the end of his speech.

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He says,

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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted.

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Every hill and mountain shall be made low,

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the rough places we made plain,

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and the crooked places we made straight.

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And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

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and all flesh shall see it together.

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This is our hope.

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This is the faith that I go back to the south with.

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With this faith,

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we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

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with this faith.

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We will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

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With this faith,

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we will be able to work together,

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to pray together,

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to struggle together,

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to go to jail together,

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to stand up for freedom together,

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knowing that we will be free one day.

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This will be the day when all God's children will be able to sing with new meaning.

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My country,

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tis of thee,

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sweet land of liberty,

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of thee I sing.

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Land where my fathers died,

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land of the pilgrim's bride,

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from every mountainside,

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let freedom ring.

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And if America is to be great again,

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this must become true.

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And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

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Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

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Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

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Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

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Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

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But not only that,

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let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

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Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

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Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

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From every mountainside,

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let freedom ring.

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And when this happens,

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and we allow freedom ring,

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when we let it ring,

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from every village and every hamlet,

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from every state and every city,

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We will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,

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black men and white men,

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Jews and Gentiles,

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Protestants and Catholics,

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will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual.

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Free at last.

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Free at last.

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Thank God almighty.

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We are free at last.

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That is what we need to be doing.

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We all need to join hands.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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saw that in the dream.

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The only way we get to what we need to get to in America is by doing so.

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He pretty much says this again in his I've Been to the Mount Osprey speech.

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He says he's seen what the world can be.

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He may not get there with us,

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but he's seen the promised land.

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We have to unify.

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We have to put racism aside.

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We have to put aside our political differences.

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We have to embrace each other to get through what we are about to go through,

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because what we're about to go through is bad for everyone.

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If you look at the nation now,

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there has been cuts to SNAP benefits.

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People need those.

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There's been cuts to Medicare.

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The government is shut down right now because the Democrats and the Republicans cannot agree on just that.

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There is fighting at the heel.

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In my opinion,

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there's one man that wants to take over this whole entire nation,

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and there's been a lot of people that's armed him in which to do so.

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There has been discord in this nation for the last nine months straight.

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There's been people that's been deported that shouldn't have been deported.

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There's been people that's been messed with that should never be messed with.

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There's been holidays that's been cut.

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There's been rights that's been taken.

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Wake up,

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people.

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This is what we're fighting.

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No matter where you stand,

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you are not that blind to see what's going on.

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And a lot of this,

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I have to say it is all because

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Donald Trump does not want the Epstein files to be released.

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This is a lot of your smoke and mirrors right now.

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Mike Johnson,

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the Republican Speaker of the House,

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refuses and still to this day refuses.

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to swear in Adelita

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Grijalva, who won her seat as a Democrat overwhelmingly.

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But why won't he do that?

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It's all because the moment that he does,

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she represents the

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218th signature that is needed to take a vote to the House,

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I believe,

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for them to release the Epstein files to the House and the Senate.

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He won't do that because he's trying to protect

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Donald Trump under that.

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And Donald Trump has lost a lot of his base.

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based on not releasing the Epstein files.

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We have to demand these things,

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people.

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Whether you like him or you don't,

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you have to know what our leaders is doing.

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And that case is a deadly case.

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I've covered the case.

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There's a lot of ladies that's been all over this case.

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There's people that's taken their life over this case.

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If our president is on that list,

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no matter who he is,

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we need to know.

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We need to know who everybody's on that list because they already be held accountable for the pain that these young ladies went through.

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Unity.

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Let me tell you what I came to this year.

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I've looked around the world because I said there's got to be some place in America where racism does not exist.

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Even if for a moment of time,

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even if for but a second,

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I said there's got to be some place.

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where racism doesn't exist,

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where people get together and they're not caring about the color of the person sitting next to them.

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They're not caring about the color of the people that they may be there to see or wherever they're going.

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They're just there because they want to have a good time.

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They all have something in common that day.

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And whatever was taking place is it.

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And then it hit me.

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There is a place in America that millions of people spend their money and go to every year.

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That for that snippet of time,

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there is no racism.

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And if there is racism,

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you don't know it,

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you don't see it,

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or you don't feel it,

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at least during the time things is going on.

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Do you guys know what that is?

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Concerts.

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Music brings people together.

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Sometimes if you listen to the lyrics of your favorite song,

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You may find out some things that you may not even know,

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or if you care to dig into that artist.

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I'll give you one of those here in a few minutes.

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I've been to 11 concerts this year.

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Now,

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unless one creeps up I don't know about,

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then

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11 would be the number that I'll end 2025 with.

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Let me just give you the names of the concerts I went to.

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Dustin Lynch,

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Kool and the Gang.

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The Beach Boys,

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TLC,

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Post Malone,

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featuring Jelly Roll,

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Weird Al Yankovic,

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featuring Puddles Pity Party,

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Queens Nation,

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Journey Revisited,

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Vixen,

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Quiet Riot,

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and Midland.

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Yes,

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Queens Nation and Journey Revisited are cover bands,

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but they're very well-known cover bands.

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Queens and Journey has given their...

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Blessing for these two bands to go out and do what they do,

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which is why they can have Queen and Journey in their title.

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Now,

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yes,

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I spend a lot of money we have in concerts.

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I'll let you in on a little secret.

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Dustin Lynch,

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Kool and the Gang,

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the Beach Boys,

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and TLC,

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the first four I went to of this year,

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I have to thank my great city of Palmdale.

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So what Palmdale does every year is they take a portion of the tax money that we pay and they put that aside because they say they want to throw concerts every year that matters,

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that people and families can go to,

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and they will be affordable.

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Now,

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what I'll tell you is,

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You may want to live in Palmdale just for the summer to go to some of these concerts.

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Now,

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I've seen other concerts here.

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There's an outside amphitheater that we do have that we go to.

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And I mean,

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I've seen Moore's Day in the Time there.

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We've seen Danny DeCain there.

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There was a Garth Brooks tribute band we saw there.

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There's been a lot of big names that's come there.

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Each one of those tickets cost me $12 to go.

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now

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Post Malone,

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Weird Al,

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they wouldn't ask cheap.

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Queen's Nation,

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Journey Revisited,

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Vixen,

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Quiet Riot,

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and Midland all came to my fair.

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So unless you really wanted to sit close,

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then you could go to these concerts for free by just sitting up in the grandstands.

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Now when Quiet Riot came,

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Quiet Riot also was supposed to have with them

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Ace Frehley,

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the guitarist from Kiss.

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Ace was supposed to be the headliner.

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Ace pulled out the day before,

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so they refunded everybody's ticket.

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So what I did not know and found out later is since they refunded everybody's ticket,

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even though Quiet Riot did show up like they were supposed to and they did their thing,

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every seat in the house was free.

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So you could have went down to the front,

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middle,

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top,

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where we wanted to go.

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But here's what I experienced at each of these concerts.

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Now,

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if you want to put race into it,

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Dustin Lynch,

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the Beach Boys,

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and Midland,

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the USA would be predominantly white.

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So two of those are country acts.

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And of course,

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the Beach Boys,

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they've kind of over the years described the music as a mix of surf,

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rock,

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pop,

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and psychedelic type styles,

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right?

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They could probably go for anybody,

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but that ain't the mix that was at this concert.

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And before anybody says anything,

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it ain't just because the concert was free,

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because I don't care if it's free or not.

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If I don't like the kind of music,

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don't like you.

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I'm not going.

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There was some of every race in Palmdale at these concerts.

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Now,

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if you really want to argue the music debate,

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black people ushered in a lot of the music that you listen to now.

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A lot of the child's country and rock and fusion and jazz was all taken from African-Americans.

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but

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Every African-American does not like these genres.

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I like every genre of music.

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I probably have at least one person I listen to and part about every genre of music you can think of,

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including the Latin scene.

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But I looked around.

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I was like,

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I want to see who's all going to be here.

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So during this concert,

523
00:23:09.147 --> 00:23:09.771
I'm looking around,

524
00:23:09.818 --> 00:23:10.646
taking observations.

525
00:23:11.412 --> 00:23:12.209
And all these concerts,

526
00:23:12.210 --> 00:23:13.193
I'm seeing the same thing.

527
00:23:14.131 --> 00:23:15.896
Nobody was caring who was at the left.

528
00:23:16.756 --> 00:23:18.271
Nobody cared who was at the right.

529
00:23:19.088 --> 00:23:21.951
Nobody at that point cared who was Republican or Democrat.

530
00:23:22.851 --> 00:23:27.853
Nobody cared what was going on in the world for that three hours in time.

531
00:23:29.017 --> 00:23:32.283
Everybody was unified for that three hours.

532
00:23:32.424 --> 00:23:35.064
Everybody was there because they had a common interest,

533
00:23:35.127 --> 00:23:38.049
which was the band in which they came to see.

534
00:23:38.486 --> 00:23:40.142
And even though we know the color of the band,

535
00:23:40.752 --> 00:23:43.611
nobody cared if they was black or white.

536
00:23:43.955 --> 00:23:47.408
There was a couple of bands that had some that was all white band,

537
00:23:47.409 --> 00:23:48.017
but they had.

538
00:23:48.264 --> 00:23:49.706
a black person playing with them.

539
00:23:50.026 --> 00:23:50.667
Nobody said,

540
00:23:50.726 --> 00:23:51.468
oh my gosh,

541
00:23:51.488 --> 00:23:52.429
there's a black person.

542
00:23:52.707 --> 00:23:54.691
The black person ain't supposed to be in this band.

543
00:23:54.792 --> 00:23:55.933
Nobody cared.

544
00:23:56.132 --> 00:23:59.277
All they cared about was the music.

545
00:24:01.238 --> 00:24:04.957
I was at two certified sellouts this year,

546
00:24:06.144 --> 00:24:06.722
TLC.

547
00:24:07.597 --> 00:24:08.597
And the joke was,

548
00:24:09.191 --> 00:24:09.441
wow,

549
00:24:09.613 --> 00:24:10.925
what is Dustin Lynch feeling?

550
00:24:10.941 --> 00:24:16.519
Because Dustin Lynch was the first concert of the year at the Palmdale Amphitheater.

551
00:24:18.544 --> 00:24:20.166
And he didn't sell out.

552
00:24:21.427 --> 00:24:24.891
Cooling the Gang didn't sell out.

553
00:24:25.852 --> 00:24:26.950
The Beach Boys,

554
00:24:27.231 --> 00:24:27.677
I was like,

555
00:24:27.692 --> 00:24:27.973
okay,

556
00:24:28.895 --> 00:24:30.278
Beach Boys gonna sell out for sure.

557
00:24:30.895 --> 00:24:31.575
Cooling the Gang,

558
00:24:31.576 --> 00:24:32.497
I thought was going to,

559
00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:33.059
but didn't.

560
00:24:33.481 --> 00:24:38.020
Beach Boys still had tickets available the day of the show.

561
00:24:38.411 --> 00:24:39.442
TLC came.

562
00:24:39.505 --> 00:24:41.208
This ain't the first time TLC came.

563
00:24:41.270 --> 00:24:44.552
TLC came to the same theater back in 2019,

564
00:24:44.553 --> 00:24:44.958
I believe.

565
00:24:45.958 --> 00:24:46.911
Did not sell out.

566
00:24:47.448 --> 00:24:48.395
This year they sold out.

567
00:24:50.548 --> 00:24:53.389
We went to get tickets like two days before and it was like,

568
00:24:53.449 --> 00:24:53.770
sorry,

569
00:24:53.969 --> 00:24:54.527
sold out.

570
00:24:55.090 --> 00:24:56.551
And I'm like looking at the Beach Boys.

571
00:24:56.552 --> 00:24:59.231
I'm like Beach Boys still got tickets because they was the next man.

572
00:24:59.232 --> 00:24:59.410
I said,

573
00:24:59.411 --> 00:25:00.332
they still got tickets.

574
00:25:01.168 --> 00:25:02.090
TOC has none.

575
00:25:02.129 --> 00:25:04.934
We barely got into the TOC concert.

576
00:25:04.949 --> 00:25:09.871
We had a friend that knew somebody that was able to get us tickets and we was able to get in.

577
00:25:09.887 --> 00:25:11.449
If it wasn't for our friend,

578
00:25:11.871 --> 00:25:15.621
we wouldn't have made it because we thought there'd be plenty of tickets.

579
00:25:15.622 --> 00:25:16.356
We didn't buy the tickets.

580
00:25:16.357 --> 00:25:17.027
There was none there.

581
00:25:17.356 --> 00:25:19.262
The second sellout that was certified.

582
00:25:20.088 --> 00:25:23.711
Will.R.Yankovic played at the Kia Forum,

583
00:25:24.373 --> 00:25:25.475
better known as the Forum,

584
00:25:26.553 --> 00:25:26.936
in L.A.

585
00:25:27.936 --> 00:25:28.256
Now,

586
00:25:29.514 --> 00:25:31.139
everybody thinks it was a made-up town,

587
00:25:31.178 --> 00:25:32.780
but there is a place called Linwood,

588
00:25:32.858 --> 00:25:33.459
California,

589
00:25:33.561 --> 00:25:36.397
where I released an album years ago called Straight Outta Linwood.

590
00:25:37.272 --> 00:25:38.787
So this was his home show,

591
00:25:39.553 --> 00:25:40.412
and they didn't disappoint.

592
00:25:40.616 --> 00:25:41.912
Sold out.

593
00:25:43.631 --> 00:25:45.506
There was not an empty seat in the house.

594
00:25:45.647 --> 00:25:46.241
I was me,

595
00:25:46.459 --> 00:25:48.381
and these seats in the Kia Forum is not.

596
00:25:48.820 --> 00:25:49.161
Big,

597
00:25:49.241 --> 00:25:49.441
right?

598
00:25:49.481 --> 00:25:51.063
There's little tiny seats.

599
00:25:51.362 --> 00:25:52.284
Every row was full.

600
00:25:52.405 --> 00:25:56.069
So I was my wife to the left and somebody I didn't know to the right.

601
00:25:56.647 --> 00:25:57.311
We didn't care.

602
00:25:59.131 --> 00:26:03.413
Puddles Pity Party came out and just wrecked the crowd before Weird Al came out.

603
00:26:03.414 --> 00:26:04.694
If you guys have not heard of him,

604
00:26:04.741 --> 00:26:07.100
he was on AGT a few years back.

605
00:26:07.131 --> 00:26:08.241
He is a clown,

606
00:26:08.741 --> 00:26:10.663
but the man has a velvet voice.

607
00:26:10.725 --> 00:26:11.178
Look him up.

608
00:26:11.288 --> 00:26:12.225
Puddles Pity Party.

609
00:26:13.491 --> 00:26:16.694
He does this song called Bring Him to the House that will just melt your heart.

610
00:26:18.424 --> 00:26:19.105
Even then,

611
00:26:20.807 --> 00:26:22.069
nobody cared.

612
00:26:23.127 --> 00:26:24.131
Here's what really got me.

613
00:26:25.651 --> 00:26:26.491
Queens Nation.

614
00:26:27.616 --> 00:26:29.155
We went to that concert.

615
00:26:29.717 --> 00:26:31.037
Halfway through the middle of the concert,

616
00:26:31.334 --> 00:26:32.702
they decided to do We Will Rock You.

617
00:26:33.100 --> 00:26:38.748
This group of black girls just shows up at the bottom stairs where we were sitting at.

618
00:26:40.530 --> 00:26:43.655
They start dancing and singing and pumping fists.

619
00:26:44.373 --> 00:26:45.452
Nobody said,

620
00:26:45.795 --> 00:26:47.748
can the black people please sit down?

621
00:26:48.096 --> 00:26:49.776
Nobody told them to leave.

622
00:26:50.076 --> 00:26:52.176
Nobody said you don't belong here.

623
00:26:52.578 --> 00:26:53.816
Nobody had a fit.

624
00:26:54.238 --> 00:26:56.035
People got up and started rocking with them.

625
00:26:56.879 --> 00:27:04.715
Nobody cared what color anybody else was for the three hours each that I said at each of these concerts.

626
00:27:05.246 --> 00:27:08.137
People was high-fiving when Weird Al did their favorite song.

627
00:27:08.527 --> 00:27:11.199
People was giving hugs if something was emotional.

628
00:27:11.574 --> 00:27:12.809
People was slapping hands.

629
00:27:13.246 --> 00:27:13.543
Black,

630
00:27:13.668 --> 00:27:13.918
white,

631
00:27:14.043 --> 00:27:14.684
indifferent.

632
00:27:15.260 --> 00:27:18.363
Here's another one that I give you that everybody probably watches.

633
00:27:18.924 --> 00:27:20.566
I watch a lot of AGT,

634
00:27:21.465 --> 00:27:22.949
America's Got Talent.

635
00:27:24.426 --> 00:27:25.293
Look at that audience.

636
00:27:26.207 --> 00:27:27.894
That audience is jam-packed.

637
00:27:28.332 --> 00:27:28.473
Now,

638
00:27:28.590 --> 00:27:31.316
I've looked inside of this theater.

639
00:27:32.301 --> 00:27:32.535
People,

640
00:27:32.551 --> 00:27:37.957
what you don't know about Hollywood theaters down here is when they shoot these camera shots,

641
00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:40.519
they're made to look bigger than what they are.

642
00:27:41.066 --> 00:27:42.051
I give you case in point.

643
00:27:42.052 --> 00:27:43.973
When I first went to the Price is Right,

644
00:27:44.113 --> 00:27:44.894
I was four.

645
00:27:45.637 --> 00:27:45.757
Now,

646
00:27:45.758 --> 00:27:47.397
if you look at the Price is Right Theater,

647
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:49.019
when they're shooting it and you're watching the show,

648
00:27:49.499 --> 00:27:51.663
you would think that this is some massive place,

649
00:27:51.722 --> 00:27:51.901
right?

650
00:27:51.902 --> 00:27:58.292
Because come on down in the aisles like it's 15 miles long before they get down to Bob Barker or Drew now.

651
00:27:59.292 --> 00:28:00.292
It is not that big.

652
00:28:00.487 --> 00:28:03.909
I was there years ago for taping the Hollywood Squares.

653
00:28:04.581 --> 00:28:06.144
To show you how long ago that was,

654
00:28:06.862 --> 00:28:08.440
Macho Man Randy Savage,

655
00:28:09.019 --> 00:28:10.394
the wrestler,

656
00:28:10.722 --> 00:28:11.987
was on the show.

657
00:28:12.456 --> 00:28:14.565
and he had just released his new album

658
00:28:15.016 --> 00:28:15.897
Think like a man.

659
00:28:16.397 --> 00:28:17.319
At that show,

660
00:28:17.620 --> 00:28:20.541
I won a copy of that CD that I still have.

661
00:28:22.565 --> 00:28:25.967
And it's shot in the same theater as Price is Right.

662
00:28:26.405 --> 00:28:27.288
It was not big.

663
00:28:27.749 --> 00:28:28.428
It's tiny.

664
00:28:28.874 --> 00:28:31.358
So all these people you see jammed in together,

665
00:28:31.936 --> 00:28:33.092
they're really jammed in there.

666
00:28:34.420 --> 00:28:34.811
Black,

667
00:28:35.249 --> 00:28:35.639
white,

668
00:28:36.061 --> 00:28:36.436
Asian,

669
00:28:36.530 --> 00:28:37.295
Hispanic,

670
00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:38.077
you name it,

671
00:28:38.217 --> 00:28:39.202
all in this group.

672
00:28:39.592 --> 00:28:40.467
Look at that audience.

673
00:28:40.827 --> 00:28:42.483
Nobody is caring.

674
00:28:43.249 --> 00:28:43.967
Look at them doing the...

675
00:28:44.076 --> 00:28:59.949
react if somebody gets up oh man i hope this is good oh i mean that was really great all in unison all just talking to each other no matter what color nobody cares when the crowd reacts and says we like this accent of the golden buzzer everybody is

676
00:29:00.027 --> 00:29:09.043
on their feet nobody said oh my gosh because that dude came in wearing a mega hat can't vote for him oh he's white don't like him because he's white,

677
00:29:09.340 --> 00:29:10.496
don't like him because he's black.

678
00:29:10.844 --> 00:29:10.964
No,

679
00:29:11.164 --> 00:29:11.685
can't do it.

680
00:29:11.705 --> 00:29:12.185
Matter of fact,

681
00:29:12.186 --> 00:29:14.168
there was a girl that said she had gotten bullied.

682
00:29:14.488 --> 00:29:17.471
And a lot of it is because the color of her skin and the whole audience booed.

683
00:29:17.869 --> 00:29:18.033
Now,

684
00:29:18.150 --> 00:29:18.373
yes,

685
00:29:18.451 --> 00:29:21.892
you can say since I've been to some tapings of these shows that,

686
00:29:22.158 --> 00:29:22.299
OK,

687
00:29:22.478 --> 00:29:22.596
well,

688
00:29:22.619 --> 00:29:25.900
they make them do that and they make them sit that way and they tell them to clap.

689
00:29:26.361 --> 00:29:26.502
OK,

690
00:29:26.541 --> 00:29:27.244
I will tell you this.

691
00:29:27.322 --> 00:29:27.525
Yes,

692
00:29:27.588 --> 00:29:28.728
they do have certain rules.

693
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:30.932
They do have an applause sign.

694
00:29:31.557 --> 00:29:38.744
They also has a rules that you cannot get up and leave to go to the bathroom during taping.

695
00:29:39.605 --> 00:29:41.124
but they do not tell you how to feel.

696
00:29:41.756 --> 00:29:43.398
They do not tell you how to react.

697
00:29:44.059 --> 00:29:48.461
They do not tell you to make sure that you're shaking hands with your neighbor and make sure that they're different colors.

698
00:29:48.985 --> 00:29:50.223
They don't control any of that.

699
00:29:50.668 --> 00:29:51.348
I just told you,

700
00:29:51.349 --> 00:29:56.231
I put that same theory in the real world scenario when I went to all these concerts this year.

701
00:29:56.793 --> 00:29:57.926
I saw the same thing.

702
00:29:58.926 --> 00:30:00.098
For that three hours,

703
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:01.973
I felt like I was unified with America again.

704
00:30:02.910 --> 00:30:03.692
For that three hours,

705
00:30:03.738 --> 00:30:06.426
I felt like America was on top of its game.

706
00:30:07.592 --> 00:30:08.333
For that three hours,

707
00:30:08.353 --> 00:30:09.915
I feel like I could walk up to anyone,

708
00:30:09.934 --> 00:30:10.774
a cop included,

709
00:30:10.775 --> 00:30:11.177
and be like,

710
00:30:11.216 --> 00:30:11.436
dude,

711
00:30:11.536 --> 00:30:12.477
that was a great concert,

712
00:30:12.516 --> 00:30:12.637
bro.

713
00:30:12.778 --> 00:30:13.899
Let me give you a high five.

714
00:30:14.239 --> 00:30:16.345
And it would be accepted.

715
00:30:17.438 --> 00:30:19.282
But then when I get back into the real world,

716
00:30:20.485 --> 00:30:27.173
I see that that's not the case because we're not really unified the way we should be.

717
00:30:28.454 --> 00:30:30.954
I'll give you one of the artists in which I was talking about.

718
00:30:32.704 --> 00:30:36.876
This kind of hones into the Christian side because everybody's preaching Christianity about this thing,

719
00:30:36.938 --> 00:30:37.157
right?

720
00:30:38.020 --> 00:30:39.560
MAGA says they're Christians.

721
00:30:40.541 --> 00:30:42.181
Democrats say they're Christians.

722
00:30:43.283 --> 00:30:44.002
I am a Christian,

723
00:30:44.003 --> 00:30:45.220
though that means to be one.

724
00:30:45.963 --> 00:30:47.119
I disagree with the

725
00:30:47.923 --> 00:30:51.783
Christianity that MAGA is preaching because it's what they call white nationalists.

726
00:30:52.345 --> 00:31:01.713
I disprove you with the whole rapture thing has nothing to do with Christianity because Christ is against everything that this administration at this point is standing for.

727
00:31:02.884 --> 00:31:07.181
But there was once a musician that put all that out there on the line for you.

728
00:31:07.996 --> 00:31:09.638
He started preaching in his songs.

729
00:31:10.338 --> 00:31:13.502
And before he fully accepted Christ,

730
00:31:13.521 --> 00:31:15.103
he always believed that there was a Christ.

731
00:31:16.064 --> 00:31:21.893
And he started writing lyrics to certain songs that if you paid attention,

732
00:31:22.791 --> 00:31:24.588
it was dealing with what we're going through right now,

733
00:31:24.978 --> 00:31:27.400
as early as 1982.

734
00:31:27.401 --> 00:31:27.619
But see,

735
00:31:27.635 --> 00:31:30.525
what I come to find out is that a lot of people listen to songs,

736
00:31:31.041 --> 00:31:35.463
but they don't take the time to try to find out what the words mean.

737
00:31:36.756 --> 00:31:38.657
The artist I'm speaking of is Prince.

738
00:31:39.118 --> 00:31:40.720
I'm a huge Prince fan.

739
00:31:40.919 --> 00:31:44.665
Anybody who knows me knows I love Prince.

740
00:31:44.864 --> 00:31:48.849
I have almost every album the man has ever released,

741
00:31:49.185 --> 00:31:55.107
and the Super Bowl halftime show that he did is the number one halftime show on my list,

742
00:31:55.560 --> 00:31:56.857
followed by Michael Jackson.

743
00:31:57.169 --> 00:31:58.841
And if you guys don't know anything about that,

744
00:31:58.872 --> 00:32:00.747
go look that up because a fascinating story,

745
00:32:00.779 --> 00:32:01.857
it rained that year.

746
00:32:02.294 --> 00:32:06.341
It was the first and only year at this point that has ever rained at a Super Bowl.

747
00:32:06.808 --> 00:32:08.349
And they called up Prince and said,

748
00:32:08.389 --> 00:32:08.528
bro,

749
00:32:08.648 --> 00:32:11.449
we worry it's raining.

750
00:32:11.789 --> 00:32:15.027
We know you have those beautiful ladies that's in seven inch heels.

751
00:32:15.371 --> 00:32:17.434
You wear two to five inch heel yourself.

752
00:32:17.871 --> 00:32:18.809
We're just concerned.

753
00:32:18.848 --> 00:32:20.230
Prince's answer to that was,

754
00:32:20.988 --> 00:32:22.332
can you make it rain harder?

755
00:32:22.652 --> 00:32:24.355
And if you watch that Super Bowl show,

756
00:32:26.340 --> 00:32:28.230
I think God intervened that year.

757
00:32:29.418 --> 00:32:31.730
Because I think at some point it rained most of the game.

758
00:32:31.793 --> 00:32:32.668
I think at some point.

759
00:32:33.604 --> 00:32:34.425
It stopped raining,

760
00:32:34.685 --> 00:32:35.707
at least to a drizzle.

761
00:32:35.746 --> 00:32:37.027
And then when Prince took the stage,

762
00:32:37.408 --> 00:32:37.968
it was raining.

763
00:32:38.347 --> 00:32:39.671
And by the time he got the Purple Rain,

764
00:32:39.672 --> 00:32:41.050
it was an all-out downpour.

765
00:32:41.968 --> 00:32:47.078
Do you know that Prince wrote three songs about the end times?

766
00:32:48.195 --> 00:32:49.765
There are some of his most popular songs.

767
00:32:50.562 --> 00:32:52.296
One you may not know unless you have the B-side.

768
00:32:53.531 --> 00:32:55.546
Let me just give you the biggest one that he wrote.

769
00:32:56.171 --> 00:32:56.781
But first of all,

770
00:32:56.782 --> 00:32:58.546
the first song was 1999.

771
00:32:58.547 --> 00:33:01.406
1999 was about the apocalypse.

772
00:33:02.004 --> 00:33:03.786
The beginning of the lyrics of that song goes,

773
00:33:03.825 --> 00:33:04.245
don't worry,

774
00:33:04.306 --> 00:33:04.968
I won't hurt you.

775
00:33:05.027 --> 00:33:06.667
I only want you to have some fun.

776
00:33:06.710 --> 00:33:06.847
Now,

777
00:33:06.848 --> 00:33:07.390
if you listen,

778
00:33:07.769 --> 00:33:08.972
I think it's supposed to be females,

779
00:33:09.030 --> 00:33:10.792
but the voice is kind of distorted,

780
00:33:10.816 --> 00:33:14.073
which is supposed to represent kind of a satanic type feel.

781
00:33:14.956 --> 00:33:15.956
The opening lyric says,

782
00:33:15.995 --> 00:33:17.620
I was dreaming when I wrote this.

783
00:33:17.722 --> 00:33:19.277
Forgive me if it goes astray.

784
00:33:19.902 --> 00:33:21.339
But when I woke up this morning,

785
00:33:21.495 --> 00:33:23.292
could have sworn it was judgment day.

786
00:33:23.980 --> 00:33:25.605
The sky was all purple.

787
00:33:26.183 --> 00:33:27.652
There were people running everywhere,

788
00:33:28.183 --> 00:33:29.917
trying to run from the destruction.

789
00:33:30.372 --> 00:33:32.033
You know I didn't even care.

790
00:33:32.615 --> 00:33:33.576
All about the pocket list.

791
00:33:33.577 --> 00:33:35.799
We're going to discuss what purple means in a minute,

792
00:33:35.818 --> 00:33:37.959
because that has also a symbolic.

793
00:33:38.979 --> 00:33:43.604
Then he had his opening track for the movie Purple Rain and on that album,

794
00:33:43.643 --> 00:33:45.189
which was called Let's Go Crazy.

795
00:33:46.111 --> 00:33:47.408
At the beginning of Let's Go Crazy,

796
00:33:47.409 --> 00:33:47.674
he says,

797
00:33:47.705 --> 00:33:48.314
Dearly beloved,

798
00:33:48.315 --> 00:33:50.752
we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.

799
00:33:50.814 --> 00:33:51.846
Electric word life,

800
00:33:51.877 --> 00:33:52.627
it means forever,

801
00:33:52.658 --> 00:33:53.877
and that's a mighty long time.

802
00:33:53.893 --> 00:33:56.174
But I'm here to tell you there's something else,

803
00:33:57.080 --> 00:33:58.018
the afterworld.

804
00:33:58.620 --> 00:34:00.061
A world of never-ending happiness,

805
00:34:00.141 --> 00:34:02.540
you can always see the sun day or night.

806
00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:04.782
Then the chorus says,

807
00:34:04.903 --> 00:34:07.759
and if the elevator tries to bring you down,

808
00:34:08.259 --> 00:34:09.001
go crazy,

809
00:34:09.181 --> 00:34:10.306
punch a higher floor.

810
00:34:11.540 --> 00:34:11.767
Now,

811
00:34:11.899 --> 00:34:14.102
what is the elevator representing?

812
00:34:15.665 --> 00:34:15.806
See,

813
00:34:15.821 --> 00:34:18.618
when he died at home in Paisley Park in his elevator,

814
00:34:18.743 --> 00:34:21.759
everybody said it was ironic because in his writings,

815
00:34:22.118 --> 00:34:24.227
the elevator meant the devil.

816
00:34:25.790 --> 00:34:27.509
But a lot of people don't know these things.

817
00:34:28.368 --> 00:34:29.891
Now let me take you to the biggest one,

818
00:34:30.832 --> 00:34:31.413
Purple Rain.

819
00:34:32.955 --> 00:34:35.963
Prince once did an interview and told you what Purple Rain meant.

820
00:34:37.827 --> 00:34:37.947
See,

821
00:34:37.967 --> 00:34:39.287
everybody's singing Purple Rain.

822
00:34:39.367 --> 00:34:40.368
Want to see you breathing Purple Rain?

823
00:34:40.487 --> 00:34:44.329
You have no idea that that is an end time song.

824
00:34:45.407 --> 00:34:46.989
From Prince's own words,

825
00:34:48.145 --> 00:34:50.708
Purple Rain is symbolic of the end of the world.

826
00:34:51.692 --> 00:34:56.466
It's where the blue sky mixed with the red blood creates a purple rainstorm.

827
00:34:57.716 --> 00:35:01.060
So Prince once explained that amidst this apocalyptic event,

828
00:35:01.638 --> 00:35:06.606
it is important to be with the one you love and allow your faith to guide you through.

829
00:35:07.507 --> 00:35:12.110
The phrase represents a journey through turmoil and loss toward redemption,

830
00:35:12.891 --> 00:35:14.634
often involving themes of love,

831
00:35:14.895 --> 00:35:15.216
faith,

832
00:35:15.313 --> 00:35:17.540
and being together in the face of overwhelming odds.

833
00:35:18.016 --> 00:35:19.196
Are we on overwhelming odds?

834
00:35:20.680 --> 00:35:25.579
Let me play something for you that he did live from Paisley Park in 1999.

835
00:35:26.063 --> 00:35:34.298
And this will sum up exactly what he meant by Purple Rain and that he really was in tune with his faith at this point.

836
00:35:34.329 --> 00:35:34.470
Now,

837
00:35:34.548 --> 00:35:35.751
back in the early days,

838
00:35:36.167 --> 00:35:36.327
Yeah,

839
00:35:36.387 --> 00:35:39.110
Prince was wild and he was half naked on his album covers.

840
00:35:39.149 --> 00:35:39.790
I get that.

841
00:35:40.391 --> 00:35:44.137
Didn't say he was living the life that a Christian should be living up in the public.

842
00:35:44.614 --> 00:35:45.356
At that time,

843
00:35:45.380 --> 00:35:46.755
he really wasn't saved.

844
00:35:46.756 --> 00:35:49.544
He actually believed that there was a God,

845
00:35:49.583 --> 00:35:54.130
but wasn't exuberating a lot of the lifestyle that Christians should have.

846
00:35:55.223 --> 00:35:59.848
It wasn't until years later that he met a guy named Big Chicks Hunsberry in the late 80s,

847
00:36:00.176 --> 00:36:01.833
who actually is in Purple Rain.

848
00:36:01.834 --> 00:36:02.786
If you've ever seen the movie,

849
00:36:02.848 --> 00:36:03.895
he is the big guy.

850
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:06.439
that comes to the door and Apollonia is trying to get in.

851
00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:07.240
Well,

852
00:36:07.241 --> 00:36:08.019
he became a Christian.

853
00:36:08.020 --> 00:36:09.159
He was a bodyguard for Prince,

854
00:36:09.882 --> 00:36:12.484
along with some other big names in music.

855
00:36:12.562 --> 00:36:15.460
Motley Crue poisoned these guys.

856
00:36:16.304 --> 00:36:18.382
I met the man because when he became a Christian,

857
00:36:18.499 --> 00:36:20.788
he stopped bodyguarding for everybody.

858
00:36:21.335 --> 00:36:25.882
And he went on tour to promote the dangers of rock music,

859
00:36:26.507 --> 00:36:27.351
what he had seen,

860
00:36:27.617 --> 00:36:29.163
and to get people to become Christians.

861
00:36:29.382 --> 00:36:30.648
And I'll never forget it,

862
00:36:30.649 --> 00:36:31.179
but he says,

863
00:36:31.907 --> 00:36:37.532
There are some things about Prince I won't be discussing with you here tonight because the man has allowed me to keep my house that he bought me.

864
00:36:37.915 --> 00:36:38.856
And I love that house.

865
00:36:39.692 --> 00:36:44.583
But he tells you the story of how he talked to Prince and got Prince to become a Christian.

866
00:36:44.622 --> 00:36:47.739
A lot of people question that because he was a Jehovah's Witness.

867
00:36:48.848 --> 00:36:50.801
I think he did attend a couple of Jehovah's Witness churches,

868
00:36:50.833 --> 00:36:54.364
but he never put out there that he was a Jehovah's Witness.

869
00:36:55.770 --> 00:36:57.145
But doing that,

870
00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:59.770
Prince started having a revelation about himself.

871
00:37:00.551 --> 00:37:01.391
and about Christ.

872
00:37:01.612 --> 00:37:01.952
And then,

873
00:37:02.032 --> 00:37:02.312
you know,

874
00:37:02.391 --> 00:37:02.611
there's

875
00:37:03.031 --> 00:37:05.771
Graffiti Bridge is a movie and an album.

876
00:37:06.353 --> 00:37:08.193
He has a couple of songs there that talks about it.

877
00:37:08.751 --> 00:37:13.017
But I want to play this clip from you because this further puts this in context.

878
00:37:13.018 --> 00:37:15.790
And I think it's something we all should hear because we all should learn from.

879
00:37:16.392 --> 00:37:16.712
Again,

880
00:37:16.759 --> 00:37:20.040
this was live at Paisley Park in 1999,

881
00:37:20.041 --> 00:37:27.822
right as he was getting ready to perform time time is a trick

882
00:37:32.650 --> 00:37:34.130
How many birthdays did you have?

883
00:37:35.552 --> 00:37:35.771
One.

884
00:37:37.212 --> 00:37:38.435
You had one day of birth.

885
00:37:39.935 --> 00:37:41.537
You continue to count birthdays.

886
00:37:42.295 --> 00:37:43.677
Your mind gives up.

887
00:37:44.037 --> 00:37:45.365
Your body deteriorates.

888
00:37:47.638 --> 00:37:48.841
This is the trick of time.

889
00:37:49.545 --> 00:37:51.170
Man was never supposed to die.

890
00:37:52.529 --> 00:37:55.873
We were given everlasting life by the Creator.

891
00:37:56.939 --> 00:37:58.441
The father of Jesus Christ

892
00:37:58.900 --> 00:38:00.322
There is no other king

893
00:38:02.106 --> 00:38:03.145
There is no other king

894
00:38:04.086 --> 00:38:13.473
Only Jesus Christ Time is a trick 1999 I don't think so I don't think so

895
00:38:18.455 --> 00:38:46.681
could be in the third millennium perhaps might be 1492 who knows so you see prince died having these beliefs he was doing the same thing at paisley park for years he's given this exact same message even before he passed away i used to live a few blocks away from paisley park and prince threw concerts all the time and we always knew when he was having a concert.

896
00:38:47.063 --> 00:38:54.664
Because there was this big purple beacon that sat on top of Paisley Park that he illuminated to the sky when he was having a concert that night.

897
00:38:55.003 --> 00:38:56.586
And if you were lucky to get there,

898
00:38:58.187 --> 00:38:59.468
he didn't even charge you to come in.

899
00:38:59.546 --> 00:39:00.843
He just likes to jam that much.

900
00:39:01.070 --> 00:39:01.546
Then at the end,

901
00:39:01.547 --> 00:39:01.828
he would say,

902
00:39:01.906 --> 00:39:02.445
get a ticket,

903
00:39:02.484 --> 00:39:03.179
come back tomorrow night,

904
00:39:03.180 --> 00:39:03.992
we'll do the same thing again.

905
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:05.820
Now,

906
00:39:05.851 --> 00:39:07.273
on the flip side of that,

907
00:39:07.992 --> 00:39:11.289
there was a B-side to Purple Rain.

908
00:39:11.554 --> 00:39:12.836
And it was simply called God.

909
00:39:13.763 --> 00:39:17.327
Fitting because God was a tribute to everything God was.

910
00:39:18.067 --> 00:39:19.106
Exalting God,

911
00:39:19.208 --> 00:39:20.091
praising God,

912
00:39:20.188 --> 00:39:21.372
telling you that in the beginning,

913
00:39:21.833 --> 00:39:22.630
there was God.

914
00:39:22.872 --> 00:39:24.177
He made the heavens and the earth.

915
00:39:24.178 --> 00:39:25.677
He gave us light to rule the day.

916
00:39:26.419 --> 00:39:26.794
The Lord,

917
00:39:26.817 --> 00:39:28.317
that God made the seas.

918
00:39:28.318 --> 00:39:32.224
He says that every man was made to be in God's image.

919
00:39:32.255 --> 00:39:33.958
That was the B side of Purple Ray.

920
00:39:35.208 --> 00:39:35.317
Now,

921
00:39:35.364 --> 00:39:37.927
how many people didn't know the things in which I just told them?

922
00:39:38.842 --> 00:39:40.242
I've done deep dives into Prince.

923
00:39:40.282 --> 00:39:43.122
I have a big old book about all of his songs.

924
00:39:43.962 --> 00:39:45.365
This is what Christianity looks like,

925
00:39:45.904 --> 00:39:46.142
people.

926
00:39:47.286 --> 00:39:47.763
But again,

927
00:39:47.841 --> 00:39:49.068
Prince preached unity.

928
00:39:50.607 --> 00:39:52.927
Prince had fans of every color,

929
00:39:53.482 --> 00:39:54.325
every race,

930
00:39:54.786 --> 00:39:55.802
every nationality.

931
00:39:56.365 --> 00:39:57.646
Prince did not care.

932
00:39:58.271 --> 00:40:03.224
All he cared was that you came and you had a good time and you enjoyed music.

933
00:40:03.646 --> 00:40:05.349
If we take music everywhere we go,

934
00:40:05.990 --> 00:40:07.302
music is definitely...

935
00:40:07.882 --> 00:40:26.746
colorblind it's man that makes it not so as man that says country has to only be a white thing and rap has to only be a black thing do i not remind you that i think one of the greatest rappers of all time is white he

936
00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:36.168
trumped some black rappers yeah his name is eminem he can out rap some of the black people that i know he's ruined the careers of some that's trying to come up against still.

937
00:40:36.758 --> 00:40:38.400
It does not have to be a color thing.

938
00:40:39.361 --> 00:40:41.502
So my message to you guys tonight was I was troubled,

939
00:40:41.744 --> 00:40:43.705
but I wanted to come to you guys from a place of unity.

940
00:40:43.763 --> 00:40:47.205
I wanted to show you guys some things that I think I discovered.

941
00:40:47.252 --> 00:40:49.689
I wanted to give you some insight,

942
00:40:49.767 --> 00:40:50.596
maybe some hope.

943
00:40:51.853 --> 00:40:52.650
Being a black man,

944
00:40:52.689 --> 00:40:54.439
if I have hope in this nation still,

945
00:40:55.111 --> 00:40:56.142
that if we came together,

946
00:40:56.221 --> 00:40:57.783
we can change it around,

947
00:40:58.486 --> 00:40:59.502
that's saying something.

948
00:41:00.627 --> 00:41:03.767
Because a lot of us has given up on America,

949
00:41:04.424 --> 00:41:05.627
at least in the current state.

950
00:41:05.754 --> 00:41:06.916
of which it is in.

951
00:41:09.017 --> 00:41:12.302
But it's up to you guys to join with everybody else to stand up,

952
00:41:13.584 --> 00:41:14.240
fight back.

953
00:41:15.006 --> 00:41:15.787
If democracy,

954
00:41:15.904 --> 00:41:16.545
as we know it,

955
00:41:16.546 --> 00:41:17.123
goes away,

956
00:41:17.967 --> 00:41:20.209
we are a bunch of dictatorship.

957
00:41:20.545 --> 00:41:21.748
This is the way that it's starting to go.

958
00:41:22.795 --> 00:41:24.888
Go back and look at the

959
00:41:25.607 --> 00:41:26.170
Hitler era.

960
00:41:26.357 --> 00:41:27.279
That's where we're heading.

961
00:41:27.420 --> 00:41:28.201
Ken Jeong-un,

962
00:41:28.295 --> 00:41:28.842
all of them.

963
00:41:29.951 --> 00:41:31.592
But there's still people out there that's fighting,

964
00:41:31.763 --> 00:41:34.076
whether you love him or hate him.

965
00:41:35.174 --> 00:41:40.060
My governor is one of the biggest fighters right now against all this nonsense that's going on.

966
00:41:41.201 --> 00:41:41.560
Even so,

967
00:41:41.682 --> 00:41:44.603
that there is a special election I got to go vote on on November 5th,

968
00:41:46.002 --> 00:41:52.525
because since Trump is trying to redistrict everything in the red states so that I guess it earns him more Republican seats.

969
00:41:53.025 --> 00:41:58.260
Gavin Newsom has decided that he wanted to try to curtail that in California.

970
00:41:58.744 --> 00:41:59.963
And now he's come out with

971
00:42:00.775 --> 00:42:01.916
Proposition 50.

972
00:42:03.186 --> 00:42:09.010
which would allow them to be able to do the exact same thing Trump is doing in California alone to gain more seats.

973
00:42:09.272 --> 00:42:10.753
I don't know how I feel about that.

974
00:42:11.635 --> 00:42:12.917
I'm still looking into it.

975
00:42:12.932 --> 00:42:13.159
You know,

976
00:42:13.160 --> 00:42:14.917
you got Arnold Schwarzenegger saying say no,

977
00:42:15.995 --> 00:42:16.596
because,

978
00:42:16.964 --> 00:42:17.221
you know,

979
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.510
the redistricting of any kind is bad.

980
00:42:20.511 --> 00:42:21.276
You don't want to do that.

981
00:42:22.057 --> 00:42:22.948
But this is what's going on,

982
00:42:22.979 --> 00:42:23.229
people.

983
00:42:24.448 --> 00:42:26.651
So the next time she's about in the street,

984
00:42:27.510 --> 00:42:28.464
forget what color they are.

985
00:42:29.417 --> 00:42:32.260
Try to forget what political party they're with.

986
00:42:33.190 --> 00:42:34.151
Maybe look at that person,

987
00:42:34.191 --> 00:42:38.651
try to figure out what that person may be going through that you could do that day to brighten their day up.

988
00:42:40.412 --> 00:42:43.612
Because we're all going through something right now.

989
00:42:44.776 --> 00:42:45.916
Whether it's politics,

990
00:42:46.010 --> 00:42:48.096
whether it's struggling with political violence,

991
00:42:48.151 --> 00:42:49.994
whether it's no job,

992
00:42:50.088 --> 00:42:52.401
whether it's about to lose your home.

993
00:42:53.229 --> 00:42:55.182
Everybody's going through something.

994
00:42:56.416 --> 00:42:57.838
You just don't know what it is.

995
00:42:58.854 --> 00:43:01.182
If we took time to care enough about that.

996
00:43:02.762 --> 00:43:04.984
And just to stop and have a conversation with somebody,

997
00:43:05.044 --> 00:43:05.564
just simply say,

998
00:43:05.624 --> 00:43:05.845
hey,

999
00:43:05.846 --> 00:43:08.427
I just wanted to say hi.

1000
00:43:09.068 --> 00:43:10.228
Hope you're having a good day.

1001
00:43:10.853 --> 00:43:11.150
You know,

1002
00:43:11.650 --> 00:43:12.431
the person filling up,

1003
00:43:12.432 --> 00:43:12.611
maybe,

1004
00:43:12.650 --> 00:43:12.775
hey,

1005
00:43:12.869 --> 00:43:15.915
anything you want to talk about to get off your chest may make you feel better.

1006
00:43:16.415 --> 00:43:20.705
You will never know what that person's going through.

1007
00:43:22.564 --> 00:43:25.986
There's even sometimes I'm out and I will stop people and say,

1008
00:43:26.361 --> 00:43:27.033
how are you today?

1009
00:43:27.751 --> 00:43:27.861
Hey,

1010
00:43:27.862 --> 00:43:28.986
do you mind if I pray for you?

1011
00:43:31.550 --> 00:43:33.730
You never know what that does.

1012
00:43:34.691 --> 00:43:36.090
A quick story of this in action,

1013
00:43:36.152 --> 00:43:37.492
and I'll be out of here.

1014
00:43:39.090 --> 00:43:40.555
So when I went to Arkansas in March,

1015
00:43:41.492 --> 00:43:47.938
I had to go and visit the Oasis facilities where LaDonna Humphrey worked to do interviews with the ladies there.

1016
00:43:49.047 --> 00:43:49.547
On the way,

1017
00:43:50.609 --> 00:43:51.188
LaDonna says,

1018
00:43:51.250 --> 00:43:52.781
let's go ahead and stop at Sonic.

1019
00:43:53.281 --> 00:43:54.641
We'll go ahead and get us a drink.

1020
00:43:55.563 --> 00:43:56.359
The girl comes out,

1021
00:43:56.391 --> 00:43:57.250
brings us our drink,

1022
00:43:58.594 --> 00:43:59.313
and LaDonna.

1023
00:43:59.742 --> 00:44:00.163
gives her,

1024
00:44:00.403 --> 00:44:01.745
I believe it was a $20 tip.

1025
00:44:02.145 --> 00:44:02.405
You know,

1026
00:44:02.424 --> 00:44:03.286
she pays for the dress,

1027
00:44:03.305 --> 00:44:03.506
says,

1028
00:44:04.008 --> 00:44:04.485
keep the rest,

1029
00:44:04.508 --> 00:44:05.188
that's all for you.

1030
00:44:05.969 --> 00:44:09.930
The girl immediately looks at LaDonna and says,

1031
00:44:10.633 --> 00:44:11.094
thank you,

1032
00:44:11.274 --> 00:44:13.836
you have no idea what I've been through this week.

1033
00:44:15.461 --> 00:44:16.196
This is a help.

1034
00:44:17.821 --> 00:44:19.040
And went back inside.

1035
00:44:19.196 --> 00:44:20.883
As LaDonna and I are leaving,

1036
00:44:21.024 --> 00:44:23.102
she's going to make that left turn,

1037
00:44:23.165 --> 00:44:25.680
but you can look right into the sun and you can see her back there.

1038
00:44:25.727 --> 00:44:28.618
The girl is completely in tears.

1039
00:44:30.558 --> 00:44:34.063
Now that $20 may have not meant anything to a lot of people.

1040
00:44:35.762 --> 00:44:38.266
Maybe LaDonna was able to give her that $20 because...

1041
00:44:39.449 --> 00:44:40.430
It means something to her,

1042
00:44:40.510 --> 00:44:41.511
but it meant less,

1043
00:44:41.611 --> 00:44:41.831
right?

1044
00:44:41.911 --> 00:44:45.437
And to the point what I mean is she didn't need it that moment.

1045
00:44:45.495 --> 00:44:51.257
So she was able to give that to this young lady that turned her whole night around.

1046
00:44:52.304 --> 00:44:55.460
It's things like this that if we do as Americans,

1047
00:44:56.382 --> 00:44:57.492
just as people,

1048
00:44:59.226 --> 00:45:03.179
no matter what we are and who we are or what sex we are or any of that,

1049
00:45:04.695 --> 00:45:08.163
it's incredible stories like that that you guys would get.

1050
00:45:08.741 --> 00:45:09.802
and be a part of.

1051
00:45:11.704 --> 00:45:11.924
I mean,

1052
00:45:12.004 --> 00:45:12.584
I've done the thing,

1053
00:45:12.585 --> 00:45:14.164
but I've went through Starbucks before.

1054
00:45:14.207 --> 00:45:15.629
I just have some extra money and I say,

1055
00:45:15.649 --> 00:45:15.848
hey,

1056
00:45:16.348 --> 00:45:18.407
I'm going to pay for the person's coffee in the back.

1057
00:45:19.235 --> 00:45:20.532
Can you please give them this note?

1058
00:45:20.594 --> 00:45:22.313
Now the note doesn't contain my name.

1059
00:45:22.336 --> 00:45:25.719
It doesn't contain anything about me or where they can find me.

1060
00:45:25.813 --> 00:45:26.563
It doesn't tell them,

1061
00:45:26.594 --> 00:45:26.844
hey,

1062
00:45:27.500 --> 00:45:30.657
give me a coffee when you see me or come listen to my podcast.

1063
00:45:30.875 --> 00:45:32.329
They have no idea who I am.

1064
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:34.360
If they were paying attention,

1065
00:45:34.766 --> 00:45:37.250
then they saw my car because I was in front of them.

1066
00:45:37.789 --> 00:45:39.309
But the note just simply says,

1067
00:45:39.829 --> 00:45:41.430
I don't know what you're going through today.

1068
00:45:41.530 --> 00:45:43.491
You may be able to afford this cup of coffee.

1069
00:45:43.612 --> 00:45:44.030
I don't know.

1070
00:45:44.131 --> 00:45:48.127
This cup of coffee could be killing you to buy this.

1071
00:45:49.588 --> 00:45:50.956
I want to ease that burden today.

1072
00:45:51.612 --> 00:45:52.776
Your coffee was on me.

1073
00:45:53.331 --> 00:45:59.151
Only thing I ask is that whenever you're able to just pay it forward to someone else.

1074
00:46:00.010 --> 00:46:00.135
Now,

1075
00:46:00.166 --> 00:46:01.338
I don't know the person behind me.

1076
00:46:02.073 --> 00:46:03.010
That could be a millionaire.

1077
00:46:04.633 --> 00:46:05.695
Because here's the thing,

1078
00:46:05.754 --> 00:46:07.837
everybody that drives a Mercedes Benz or,

1079
00:46:08.536 --> 00:46:08.798
you know,

1080
00:46:09.517 --> 00:46:10.337
a Range Rover,

1081
00:46:10.439 --> 00:46:10.677
people,

1082
00:46:10.779 --> 00:46:11.458
they ain't rich.

1083
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:13.443
They're probably killing themselves to make the payment.

1084
00:46:15.224 --> 00:46:17.107
But I don't know what that person is going through that day.

1085
00:46:17.708 --> 00:46:19.091
I'm hoping that just me,

1086
00:46:19.185 --> 00:46:22.607
by me doing a kind gesture to them with no strings attached,

1087
00:46:22.951 --> 00:46:23.966
brightens up their day.

1088
00:46:24.435 --> 00:46:25.216
That's what I'm hoping.

1089
00:46:25.888 --> 00:46:27.591
And if they are going through something,

1090
00:46:27.654 --> 00:46:33.576
maybe that helped them just a little bit that day to be able to make it through because somebody was kind enough.

1091
00:46:34.377 --> 00:46:35.398
to pay for their coffee.

1092
00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:42.946
I encourage you guys this week to go out and do at least one act of kindness to anybody that you meet.

1093
00:46:44.626 --> 00:46:46.532
Preferably somebody that's not like you.

1094
00:46:47.493 --> 00:46:48.970
Maybe somebody who doesn't look like you.

1095
00:46:49.829 --> 00:46:51.150
Maybe someone that's a different color than you.

1096
00:46:51.853 --> 00:46:53.712
Maybe somebody that looks like they may be disabled.

1097
00:46:54.353 --> 00:46:56.493
Maybe somebody you would never talk to before.

1098
00:46:57.837 --> 00:46:58.587
I promise you,

1099
00:46:58.603 --> 00:47:01.165
if you just broach that conversation one time,

1100
00:47:02.603 --> 00:47:03.806
you would be amazed.

1101
00:47:04.185 --> 00:47:06.405
Not only the things you may find out about people,

1102
00:47:07.045 --> 00:47:08.565
you may actually get a new friend,

1103
00:47:09.526 --> 00:47:12.870
but you will see what America is made of.

1104
00:47:14.588 --> 00:47:21.456
And that's good people that sometimes just need one word or one gesture of kindness.

1105
00:47:24.284 --> 00:47:24.503
All right,

1106
00:47:24.504 --> 00:47:24.690
guys,

1107
00:47:24.706 --> 00:47:25.565
thank you for listening to me today.

1108
00:47:25.628 --> 00:47:27.315
I hope you take some of the things I said to heart.

1109
00:47:27.331 --> 00:47:29.706
I hope you learn some new things today.

1110
00:47:31.034 --> 00:47:31.768
If you are.

1111
00:47:32.377 --> 00:47:33.017
Hey Christian,

1112
00:47:33.197 --> 00:47:36.698
I hope you just hold firm to the Bible and what the Bible says.

1113
00:47:36.718 --> 00:47:40.038
The problem with this world right now is we're all following a man named Donald Trump.

1114
00:47:40.859 --> 00:47:42.398
God tells you you don't follow man.

1115
00:47:42.937 --> 00:47:45.437
I think everything that's happening right now is in God's plan.

1116
00:47:45.499 --> 00:47:46.460
Go read Revelation,

1117
00:47:46.523 --> 00:47:47.460
you'll see what I mean.

1118
00:47:48.523 --> 00:47:50.226
To those of you who are not Christians,

1119
00:47:50.257 --> 00:47:51.101
but are questioning

1120
00:47:51.601 --> 00:47:53.179
Christianity or Christ likeness,

1121
00:47:54.023 --> 00:47:56.226
don't look to what you're hearing on these screens.

1122
00:47:56.788 --> 00:47:57.679
Go to a church,

1123
00:47:57.898 --> 00:47:58.976
get yourself a Bible,

1124
00:47:59.648 --> 00:48:00.163
read it.

1125
00:48:00.538 --> 00:48:01.429
That's where you need to be.

1126
00:48:02.445 --> 00:48:06.711
I hope that we can get some unity out of this because that is definitely what we need.

1127
00:48:07.770 --> 00:48:08.211
But once again,

1128
00:48:08.231 --> 00:48:09.153
I thank you for joining me today.

1129
00:48:09.211 --> 00:48:11.133
I know you have many choices in true crime,

1130
00:48:11.493 --> 00:48:12.657
the interview podcast.

1131
00:48:12.658 --> 00:48:14.618
I'm grateful that I am one of your choices.

1132
00:48:15.399 --> 00:48:20.289
And remember that you have been listening to the only three faceted podcast of its kind.

1133
00:48:21.118 --> 00:48:23.649
Be good to yourself and each other.

1134
00:48:24.274 --> 00:48:25.289
And always remember,

1135
00:48:26.368 --> 00:48:27.383
always stay humbled.

1136
00:48:28.336 --> 00:48:30.727
An act of kindness can make someone's day.

1137
00:48:31.657 --> 00:48:34.560
A little love and compassion can go a long way.

1138
00:48:35.361 --> 00:48:39.183
And remember that there is an extraordinary person in all of us.

1139
00:48:40.344 --> 00:48:41.844
I'll catch you guys on the next one.

1140
00:48:46.031 --> 00:48:47.211
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1141
00:48:47.289 --> 00:48:47.679
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1142
00:48:47.758 --> 00:48:48.586
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1143
00:48:49.070 --> 00:48:50.242
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1145
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.758
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1146
00:48:58.353 --> 00:49:00.775
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1147
00:49:01.355 --> 00:49:03.738
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1148
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1149
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1150
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1151
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1152
00:49:15.367 --> 00:49:17.304
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1153
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1154
00:49:18.289 --> 00:49:19.539
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