Empowering Conversations at 'The Kickback': Saving Our Communities

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Good afternoon. Episode of The Kickback. I am your host, The Dude.

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And as we do every week, if you can read the statement that's inside the box

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on the screen, it says we don't go for anything foul, any racism,

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any bad language, any of those things.

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We do not tolerate it. We are here to empower and to inform men, community.

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This is The Kickback. I am your host, The Dude, and this is another episode of Topic Tuesday.

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Tonight, we have a wonderful guest.

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Music.

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Good afternoon, good afternoon, Mr. Sterling Rice.

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Can you hear me? Yes, sir. I can hear you. I can hear you. Can you hear me?

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Yes, sir. How you doing today? The dude? I am fine. I am fine. This is the kickback.

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This is a place for brothers where we have true, transparent,

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and vulnerable conversations about life, love, and the everyday struggles of

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a man. We'd like to welcome you, Mr.

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100, to the kickback. Man, what's up?

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Man thank you man you're welcome you're

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welcome sir you are an ordinary person that's doing extraordinary

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things in your community yes well

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i can't take the credit i gotta give credit to god there

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you go there you go man i couldn't have done

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it without him listen i tell people all

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the time god gave me this idea to

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have a place for men to come and have real transparent conversations

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it's all through him it's all through him I ain't got nothing to do with it

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it's all through him people just you know they like to give credit to themselves

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but I don't give no credit to myself it's all God what you said what you said

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man hold up that's my line that's my line you can't do that.

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I'm sorry I just did it and you just came in and I was saying what's up you

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just jumped right in and that's my line.

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What's up dave man man how y'all doing tonight man

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i'm 100 man took us a minute to get on here but now we on here yes yes it's

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a blessing and as i do every tuesday i tell my guests my show runs like a mother

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we're gonna get all the business out up front and then we're gonna have a party

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on the back end and so what i call the party is i ask you a few questions,

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just nothing personal nothing harmful but

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just a few fun questions at the

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end of the interview man you do what you

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do man i'm coming straight off

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straight off my heart so whatever you ask me

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i will never get offended all right so

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for the people introduce yourself and tell

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them who you are what you're about and where

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you're from man how you

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doing my name is sterling like in silver because i like to shine i

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was on the show hell's kitchen and it blew me up i'm a

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celebrity chef i'm from jc napier my motto

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is impact over income impact over

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income that is a beautiful motto because i tell

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people all the time in this world in this society they measure a man's worth

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by what he can produce and that is so wrong yes that is so wrong so here's a

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here's here's a bit of an insight i bet you don't remember me.

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Charge it to my head, not my heart. That's okay. That's fine.

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I was the guy that was selling hot dogs on Trinity Lane.

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Trinity Lane. A few years back, you were with the guy.

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Y'all were renting a truck, and y'all were selling food on the corner of Trinity Lane and Dixon Road.

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Yeah, the old White Castles. The old White Castles building. Right.

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He used the hot dog. That means he was using by the car one side. Yep.

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How you doing, though? I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine.

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Like I said, like I said, this is something that God put on my heart,

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man, to have conversations with ordinary men that are doing extraordinary things in their right.

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So you are a Nashville native. So am I a Nashville native.

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And what we're doing is we're trying to start a conglomerate of positive male

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role models here in Nashville so that we can save our youth.

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News i'm down with that definitely you know a few weeks ago i saw you on the news,

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they're walking through your community yes i'm

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always like main reason

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i don't go work no well because our kids

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out south don't have a real meal to show

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them life if they when they come out their door

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they don't see nothing positive so I know I'm there to change that right and

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that's respect that's with any right that's respect because I tell men all the

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time if you're in the presence of a young boy then you are a father you're a

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father in that moment if you're in the presence of a young boy correct.

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Go ahead no like me like I got a culinary school out there totally free and

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the majority of my students is raised by single moms. Okay.

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What impact is that having on the community? Oh, man, it's lovely because these kids look up.

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My head chef is 15. His name is Xavier.

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My sous chef is Mariana. She's 13.

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They see another avenue to success.

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And it's not about rapping. It's not about being an athlete.

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It's just simply cooking,

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uh-huh and it's there to change man it's a food desert out there and so by the grace of god,

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god gave me a credit i mean make sure the kids have food so when they come in

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they get to eat and they take food home to feed their families and you know

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on a full stomach you don't do violence.

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You ready to go sit down somewhere and watch some tv or or do some homework

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or something you ready to do something that's going to relax you and going to

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you know get you through to the next day yes correct and also i'm hanging up

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so i'm gonna announce this on your podcast,

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i'm giving up going to cook for celebrities to take a job at mcgavik to teach

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culinary That is wonderful. That is wonderful.

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That is wonderful. So you're going to you're going to do a color.

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You're going to do that culinary program at McGathey.

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Yes, I'm going to be. That's what saved me.

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Was that clay? And so that's my alumni. So I'm going to give back.

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If I always tell these kids how to be successful, what better way to show them what it looks like?

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Very true so here's the question between

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when you were growing up on those same streets

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that you're trying to save those children on to where it is now what is the

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biggest difference in the community it's no more older men to sit down and tell

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tell a young man boy sit down it's not no older people to check these young

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kids anymore they scared of them,

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And I realize the majority of these young ladies, when you try to help them,

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the biggest thing I hear, I don't need your help.

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And, you know, coming up back then, it took a village. I want to bring back the village.

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That's why I say we're trying to get a conglomerate of men to get together here

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in Nashville so that we can.

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That's the idea. And that's the goal of what we're trying to do here at the

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Kickback is we're trying to create a village.

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We're trying to create a village of strong and positive men to show these young

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boys that what you're going through right now is not your forever.

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Because a lot of them feel like what they're going through right now is their forever.

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And it could change tomorrow. It could change next week.

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It could change next month. But all they can see is what they're going through right now.

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Yes and i can't people always blaming these kids but they don't realize they are what they see,

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and a lot of people don't understand that and oh

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i've tried to you're right i tried to

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explain that theory also i've told in

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a couple of my shows i talked about it where i said the

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first the first example of an

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adult that a child has in their life is their

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parents so if a little boy sees a man

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disrespecting women then he's going to grow up and think that

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that's the way a man is supposed to treat a woman and if a little girl grows

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up and sees her mama disrespect herself and have men running in and out of the

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house and not taking care of her business then that's what she's going to think

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a woman is supposed to be also.

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In the inner city they don't believe in speaking positive to our kids they just

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like notice all the rough areas there's no nice grocery stores,

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I noticed that. I noticed that. What neighborhood was I in? And I was like,

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wow, y'all got to go this far to go?

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Oh, I was on Clarksville Highway. Clarksville Highway.

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At Dodds. Dodds. Yeah. Well, they got a store closer than us.

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Like, look at JC University Court. It's the biggest housing projects in Nashville.

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It's over 811 units there.

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Where's the new grocery store? On 8th Avenue, I think, is the Kroger's, right?

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It's the Kroger's, and then on the other part of South, Franklin Roll.

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Now, what if somebody there in a wheelchair? Very true. Who don't have a car?

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Very true. Very true. So, wait, I'll be going. Go ahead.

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I said, you were about to explain. You were about to answer the question that I was about to ask.

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What are people in those particular situations doing for groceries?

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Well, I got to give my props to second-hand, second-harvest foods.

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But also, they don't be able to reach some of the senior citizens who's in a wheelchair.

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So my goal is to try to get a bunch of these baskets, you know,

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the old-school baskets where they can push it.

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Because when second, when they give the food away, it's heavy for some of these ladies.

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And there's not no real men out there that are told the groceries to the project.

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Yeah that is that is a conundrum right

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there because you know you already can't

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get to the grocery store then these people bring the food to you

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and then you can't manage to get it into your apartment correct i want to get

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a bunch of men together i mean i know every senior citizen wherever they live

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at in south nashville all right so everybody's talking about helping them But

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man, you know, right now,

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like I had learned a lot of people use my name instead of having my back.

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Right, right. That is, that is, a lot of people do that because they want the

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credit, but they don't want to put in the work.

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Correct. So that's why I trip out. They come out there, name an hour,

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and they take a picture and I see their social media page.

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We out here serving, we out here doing this, and you ain't done nothing.

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And then that irks me like it really irks me that's why you don't see me on

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pictures with no organizations no more.

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Until you build a relationship with my people, don't come and ask me to help you do anything.

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Respect. And I understand that totally. And we have become a society of people

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that that's what we do now.

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Everything is a social media post. Everything is a post nowadays.

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I got to get some likes. I got to get some followers. I got to get some likes.

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You know what? God didn't have likes and followers.

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I mean, in that sense, in that sense, he didn't have likes and followers.

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He had true believers that he was the he

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was the person that did the things for you and as

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I said before if it wasn't for God I wouldn't be

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here right now we wouldn't be here having this conversation because God put

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it on our hearts to be the men that we are and to have the the passion for people

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as we do you have a passion for your community I got not just my community all over the United States.

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But I know I'm rare like you're rare. And so I'm happy for that.

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I really applaud that because you know why? We're the last of a dead breed.

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And if everybody wanted, if everybody would like us, we wouldn't be different.

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That's what people go. And I love that. Like we're chosen.

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We're not selected. We're chosen. A lot of people.

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Go ahead. You're stepping all on my toes, man, because my pastor said the same thing to me.

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He said a lot of people want to be in the position that you're in.

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You're chosen. You are chosen.

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Sometimes being in a chosen position feels lonely because people don't understand

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where your heart and your mind is.

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Number one is a number as a lonely number sir very true

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very true and number one is an odd number sir so guess what it makes you odd

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makes you different makes you stand out you you can't take everybody you know

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i'm saying which you where you want to go that's impossible oh you're right,

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but you gotta realize instead of thinking of his lonely man you at that table

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god put you at this table that you get to eat by yourself and let your enemies

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watch you eat what God has blessed you to have.

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That's a blessing. It is a blessing and God's been telling me these things,

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the same things that you're saying but in a different format.

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I go home some days and I talk to my wife and I say, why me, babe?

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Why did he choose me to be in this position? It's why not to?

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That's what she says. That's what she says. Yeah. I ain't never talked to her.

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It's obvious. It's confirmation.

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Right, right, right. It's affirmation all the way around.

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Because, you know, we all have done things in our life. We've all done some things in our lives.

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And we've all done some things that was not godly.

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We've all done some things that we felt like we shouldn't have been doing or

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whatever it may have been.

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And god brought me so

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far through the things i've been through see you're south

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nashville i'm an east nashville okay when

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back in the day where we got along right right

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because see i grew up in sam levy i grew up

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on lishie avenue i was yeah okay but

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i'm gonna gather but how old are you i'm 52 you're i

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am 45 so you still got a lot

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of catching up to do you don't know what the state you

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know what I'm saying you don't know what it's like when we

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go out there to sell a court to play ball then gotta go against the bottom boys

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to get fight to get home no I don't I don't know because back when I was coming

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up you stay you know people don't understand when I was growing up East Nashville

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was separated into three neighborhoods you had correct the bottom correct.

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Oh, you forgot about L.A.

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Yeah, yeah. We're in the apartment.

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Yeah. Oh, and then you got Langard. Yes.

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But see, y'all had your own sets. Like in J.C., like even though UC is right

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across the street, you had just different cliques.

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Like when y'all went out to the clubs, oh, man, they come to do some family.

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Oh, man, come to gas and sell a court. They go to gas and Joe Johnson.

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Yep, yep. Yep, yep, yep. Yep, that's the way it was.

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That was life back then, but it was a little more cohesive than it is right now.

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It was a little more cohesive. So here's the thing.

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Let's talk more about what Mr. 100 has going on in the neighborhood.

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Now, you said you have a chef, a head chef, and a sous chef.

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Where is your kitchen located?

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155 LaFed used to be the liquor store. Now it's the Tennessee Justice Center.

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It's a place where you used to cross the street to kill yourself,

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and then you cross the street to save your life.

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In this building, you get help with EBT, you get health insurance.

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Then you go downstairs to the NKT, my family, where you can get counseling, church services.

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We're just a community inside the building.

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We're there to show you that we are an impact and we're going to love on you.

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And what made me... Go ahead.

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I didn't mean to interrupt you. Go ahead. so what

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made me love this building that this woman michelle johnson

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uh they invested in this building like one

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no a lot of no offense no other white people say

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they want to help i can but how

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many actually move out there right so they

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they they move in this building and it's just been a life-changing pattern and

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i'm loving it you can tell god is changing it ain't gonna happen overnight but

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it's a work it's taking one step at a time how long have you all been in business,

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at this particular location two years

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two years so in two years how what

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what what would you say your success rate is well i started off in a small church

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doing this cooking the right way with two eyes on my 50th birthday the ceo michelle

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johnson said i'm gonna give you a kitchen to work out of.

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Totally free then i meet jonathan who

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was my pastor who got me closer to god because you know you got a lot of i didn't

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believe in churches man because everybody was phony to me everybody to me they

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was a business they went church but you see so when you see these people want

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to go in the projects and want to help,

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put me on the front line,

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yes sir so you know shout out

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your church what is your church home name napier kitchen

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table 155 to fit everything we do

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in this building man we feed every sunday the community

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totally free you go to churches everybody want to charge for a plate that ain't

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how i grew up right right so we don't force you go ahead we don't force you

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to come and go to church we feed you first then if you want to stay for church

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service you're welcome to.

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Okay i mean that is that is amazing

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because you don't get a lot of people that like

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you said church has become a business it really has church is in your heart

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church is inside you correct we're having church right now because the presence

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of god is here and i always want him Whenever I'm having a conversation with any gentleman,

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I want to acknowledge God.

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As you said in your bio, I want to scream from the mountaintops in the valley, the goodness of God.

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You feel me like whoever would think this man from J.C.

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Dapu would go to Hell's Kitchen and get to one of the meanest man on TV to fall

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in love with him. And then I turned out a job.

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Hey, that is that is that is self, man. And I've always been,

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I know you proud of yourself, but I've always been proud of you.

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I spent 18 years myself in kitchen.

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I spent 18 years in kitchens all over Nashville. So I understand your plight

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when you say you want your diners to have a great dining experience.

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Yes. So now I'm bringing to people houses and I cook for them in the house and

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give them an experience like they never had.

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My difference is you go to the you go to the restaurant they

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cook for a paycheck man i'm gonna cook for this passion and you go every memory

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gotta have a moment and you're gonna remember the moment you met me once you

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take your first bite once you take that first bite i ain't gonna never ask you

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how was the food i'm gonna look at your ass roll,

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because God gave me this gift to blow your way.

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Listen, I've never had any of your feelings, but since the first time I ever

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met you, man, it was an experience, and you have this aura that just attracts people, man.

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And I never forgot the first time I ever met you, and I was like, Sterling Wright.

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And then somebody was like, yeah, he was the dude that was on Hell's Kitchen.

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I'm like, okay, he was on Hell's Kitchen, but he a cool dude.

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I love his vibe. I love who he is. I love his level of intensity when it comes

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to what he's passionate about.

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Man, I thank you. I really do mean it. Thank you. Like some people,

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man, you done for taking, turning down a job from Gordon Ramsay.

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No, that's, how you going to tell me about my decision? That ain't what God

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wanted me to do. I'm working for my purpose.

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I ate a whole lot more when you work for your purpose. man the reward is outstanding

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from god you can't even put in you can't even explain it,

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like i laugh like being i trip off man one of my things i did like i woke up

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one morning and say man i'm man i ain't gonna work for nobody else and i can

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tell my wife this i'm gonna quit.

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And to give me confirmation, I go to, I go cook on Tony Robinson yachts.

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We was on Tony Robinson yachts. Now he's clear as day. Are you going to continue

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to chase money or are you going to do what I asked you to do?

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Hey, man. What are you doing? Man, he will, man. And next thing I know, I get a call.

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I'm like, what? Am I getting a prank? I'm calling my prank? Right.

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God. Never forget it. Juneteenth.

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And I was busy plus it was Father's Day man I ain't finna work this Sunday I

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can't do it I'm already booked now how many people tell Oprah no?

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Now most people won't tell her no because they feel like that's their ticket

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to ultimate success I told her no and I wasn't thinking when I told her no I

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cooked on June 20th which was on a Monday,

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in June of 2022 i'll never forget

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it that was my parents anniversary in

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heaven i'm like man i'm finna show out you gave it your all so both of your

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parents are deceased yes sir my mama died 10 years over 10 years ago it feel

00:24:47.072 --> 00:24:50.192
like yesterday my dad died in my arms but.

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I used to be down about it, but, you know, everybody here temporary.

00:24:55.937 --> 00:24:57.517
What you going to do with your legacy?

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Exactly. Everything has an expiration. Yes. What you going to do with that dash?

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What are you doing with it?

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A lot of people ain't doing nothing with it, man. This is, you know,

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people always talk about money.

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When you talk about legacy, people always talk about money. I'm going to leave money.

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I'm going to leave my family. this but nine times

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out of ten people are living leaving grief and bills

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well if you notice one thing i haven't

00:25:25.477 --> 00:25:28.557
talked about is money no no we're not

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talking about money at all because we're here to talk about what

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you're doing in the community what you did on what

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you did on hell's kitchen is wonderful my

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brother and i'm not taking anything from it and you got to

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know one of the one of the greatest men in the world right

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now in the cooking industry that every person

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that's ever stood over a hot stove

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in a restaurant would love to meet but yes

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that's not what we're here about we're here about saving souls saving our streets

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saving our city because i tell people all the time if i can save one young man

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one but the object is to save many But if I save one,

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then that means I have been pleased.

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I have been pleasing in the eyes of the Lord.

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Facts. Well, I'm going to tell you something.

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So I like to show facts. Can you Google something while we talk?

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Yes, I can. So Google WKRN bone marrow. Yes.

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W-A-R-N, bone marrow. All righty.

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Hit enter. Talking about saving the community. Every community needs a hero.

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Nashville Chef donates bone marrow to 18-year-old in need at Germantown.

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Nashville Sterling Wright is at Germantown University in Washington,

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D.C. on Monday to donate bone marrow.

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That's what popped up. That's it.

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Now you're talking about somebody who done saved a

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life so if i can save somebody's life come on let me help you try to save your

00:27:07.726 --> 00:27:15.506
own yes sir that's wonderful that is wonderful you are like i said at the beginning

00:27:15.506 --> 00:27:21.726
you're an ordinary man doing an extraordinary thing you're doing And I thank you for that.

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I can't take credit. God did this.

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God gave me this heart. God created me. And I can't never stop giving him the glory.

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Amen. Amen. He is, hey, listen.

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Like I said, when I read your bio and it says, I want to scream from the mountain

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tops and the valley, that is something I wake up with every day.

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Every day. every day I wake up and I want to tell somebody about the goodness

00:27:51.606 --> 00:27:54.466
and the glory of God and what he's done in my life,

00:27:55.226 --> 00:28:01.306
every day the passion that I have inside of me every day for the Lord some people

00:28:01.306 --> 00:28:05.166
can't understand it and some people act like it's too much but it's not too

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much he saved me when he gave me.

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Let me let you know something Jesus couldn't satisfy everybody but they talked

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about it very true And so,

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my mind, did we lose Dave? Because he ain't said nothing.

00:28:23.646 --> 00:28:27.226
Yeah, Dave, he had to leave. He had some other stuff he had to take care of.

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Okay. I'm one of them guys.

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If I feel like you ain't talking about me, I must not be doing nothing.

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Right. Right. Right. God came to me. He came to me yesterday, and he says, Beth, son.

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You know, when you're in those quiet moments, you hear the voice of the Lord.

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When there's no distractions you hear the voice of the

00:28:48.966 --> 00:28:52.066
lord and god came to me he said somebody close

00:28:52.066 --> 00:28:58.166
to you is jealous and i'm like somebody close to me is jealous i'm trying to

00:28:58.166 --> 00:29:01.806
help out the community i'm trying to do something right why would somebody be

00:29:01.806 --> 00:29:06.566
jealous of what i got going on i ain't got no more than the next man well you

00:29:06.566 --> 00:29:10.526
don't understand they hate your platform because it's not them.

00:29:11.146 --> 00:29:16.166
They're not going to come and tell you I'm proud of you. I wish it was me.

00:29:17.083 --> 00:29:22.043
The thing about you that I feel in my spirits, you've been around people that

00:29:22.043 --> 00:29:24.803
knows what you got, but scared to tell you.

00:29:25.443 --> 00:29:28.343
Yes. Yeah, I have. I have been. You're right.

00:29:28.523 --> 00:29:33.683
I've been around people that that have chased my coattail.

00:29:33.883 --> 00:29:38.923
And I had to learn a few years ago that what was for me is for me because I

00:29:38.923 --> 00:29:42.583
was the type of person I tried to bring everybody along with me.

00:29:42.583 --> 00:29:47.123
But then God spanked me and told me what I give you is for you.

00:29:47.343 --> 00:29:53.123
You can't bring them, him, her or whoever with you because this journey is only

00:29:53.123 --> 00:29:54.723
for you. It's not for them.

00:29:55.083 --> 00:29:57.483
And I had to stop bringing people along.

00:29:58.343 --> 00:30:01.203
Guess who? Now you're talking to somebody to understand what you're talking

00:30:01.203 --> 00:30:03.003
about because I was that guy, too.

00:30:04.383 --> 00:30:08.243
I'm worried about making everybody else happy and I'm not even happy myself.

00:30:09.923 --> 00:30:13.403
Man, we must be twins or something. Man, for real.

00:30:13.943 --> 00:30:17.283
You see, you wonder why, what am I doing wrong? But then I find out,

00:30:17.623 --> 00:30:20.983
man, they don't talk about losers. They talk about the people who's making a difference.

00:30:22.163 --> 00:30:26.503
Man, I'll tell you what, you sure know what to say, because here's the thing.

00:30:26.943 --> 00:30:33.103
I've had this platform, man. I've I've heard from people in different walks

00:30:33.103 --> 00:30:35.023
of life. I've interviewed pastors.

00:30:35.423 --> 00:30:40.623
I've interviewed businessmen. I've interviewed people that have their own thing

00:30:40.623 --> 00:30:43.983
going on, and everybody says that.

00:30:44.801 --> 00:30:48.161
This is something different. This is something unique because,

00:30:48.461 --> 00:30:50.521
like I tell people all the time, you can go on the internet,

00:30:50.741 --> 00:30:52.021
you can go down the street.

00:30:52.161 --> 00:30:56.801
You got three different sisterhood things where women can go and have conversations

00:30:56.801 --> 00:30:57.861
and meet up with their girls.

00:30:57.921 --> 00:31:02.921
But you don't have a place where us brothers can get together and have real

00:31:02.921 --> 00:31:07.361
conversations about life, whatever's going on with your family,

00:31:07.521 --> 00:31:11.021
what's going on in your love life, what's going on with your job.

00:31:11.021 --> 00:31:16.661
If somebody is getting on your nerves, you know, I've had multiple type of people

00:31:16.661 --> 00:31:20.461
on my platform that will tell me,

00:31:20.621 --> 00:31:24.161
you know, I usually don't talk like this when I'm around other people,

00:31:24.161 --> 00:31:30.101
but you've made me feel so comfortable in your discussions that I'm willing

00:31:30.101 --> 00:31:32.301
to open up and have conversations.

00:31:32.301 --> 00:31:35.241
Because we as men we're looking for a

00:31:35.241 --> 00:31:41.561
place that we can lay our hair down and just talk to men and have real so can

00:31:41.561 --> 00:31:47.501
i tell you what i see through you how you're just passionate about what you

00:31:47.501 --> 00:31:54.461
just said you need to take advantage of this platform you need to do a retreat the thing is.

00:31:55.501 --> 00:31:58.541
Men is so confused like if you

00:31:58.541 --> 00:32:01.701
cry you solve if you don't cry why

00:32:01.701 --> 00:32:04.441
you don't talk to me we was confused coming up

00:32:04.441 --> 00:32:10.641
real men don't cry excuse my language being honest bullshit if you don't cry

00:32:10.641 --> 00:32:19.581
you holding in stress real men but who do we got to vent to thing about it i

00:32:19.581 --> 00:32:21.801
can't talk to other but people could guess what, just like you,

00:32:21.981 --> 00:32:23.401
they probably think you're bragging.

00:32:24.521 --> 00:32:26.621
Right, right, right, right.

00:32:27.841 --> 00:32:31.501
Right. I'm not bragging. I'm looking. I'm telling you what God has done for

00:32:31.501 --> 00:32:33.421
me and I want to do for you.

00:32:34.001 --> 00:32:38.261
What he done for me to do for you. He's using me as an example.

00:32:38.441 --> 00:32:43.921
But instead of them looking at that, they thinking that you're bragging. So you shut up.

00:32:44.801 --> 00:32:50.121
Right. Right. That's where you wrong. Man, I'm going to keep bragging on my God.

00:32:50.901 --> 00:32:57.301
So Sunday, we were invited to a Super Bowl party at the Martha O'Brien Center.

00:32:58.221 --> 00:33:03.061
Because I did an interview with the chaplain at Martha O'Brien Community Center.

00:33:03.301 --> 00:33:04.901
His name is Chaplain Miller.

00:33:05.381 --> 00:33:08.901
Really nice gentleman. If you hadn't met him, he's a really good guy.

00:33:09.201 --> 00:33:13.001
So I brought him on my platform as I have you on the platform.

00:33:13.241 --> 00:33:16.501
So me and my wife, we went to the Super Bowl party on Sunday.

00:33:16.841 --> 00:33:20.441
He catches me right before me and my wife leaves and says, hey,

00:33:20.581 --> 00:33:22.181
come here, I need you to talk to somebody.

00:33:22.441 --> 00:33:28.201
And this is what he did. He goes and he gets the VP of Martha O'Brien Center,

00:33:28.201 --> 00:33:32.681
and he stands me in front of her, and he said, tell her about your platform

00:33:32.681 --> 00:33:37.361
and tell her what you're trying to do with the community. And he put me on the spot.

00:33:38.061 --> 00:33:43.201
But just having a conversation with him on this platform put me in a position

00:33:43.201 --> 00:33:47.441
that now what you're saying, I'm trying to keep it in the background,

00:33:47.661 --> 00:33:50.821
Sterling, but something is in the pipeline,

00:33:51.681 --> 00:33:54.681
for a bigger thing for me and

00:33:54.681 --> 00:34:01.261
to come together me and Chaplain Miller and he chose you to do it you're not

00:34:01.261 --> 00:34:07.461
looking at the signs like you say you're chosen you can't even run from it bro

00:34:07.461 --> 00:34:13.601
you sound like my wife man she said baby you're chosen you don't have to think you're chosen,

00:34:14.581 --> 00:34:24.321
okay you was at the Super Bowl look at the science who won the eagles okay who can fly with the eagle.

00:34:26.799 --> 00:34:31.559
I don't doubt it. I know. No one can fly with an eagle. Eagles.

00:34:32.439 --> 00:34:37.379
You don't consider yourself an eagle that you can saw? I'm still trying to,

00:34:37.379 --> 00:34:39.579
I'm still trying to get myself.

00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:46.499
I like to be honest and transparent. I'm still trying to get myself to understand

00:34:46.499 --> 00:34:52.319
the, the, the vitality and the strength of God and where he's walking me into.

00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:57.979
Because you wrong for doing it. you don't need to try to do nothing it's going

00:34:57.979 --> 00:35:02.179
to come to you in due time you ain't figuring this out this is God's plan not

00:35:02.179 --> 00:35:07.739
yours oh I figured that out I figured out it was God's plan I figured that out a long time ago,

00:35:08.299 --> 00:35:10.999
yeah it's not about you oh no.

00:35:13.019 --> 00:35:16.439
Man you just don't know what you got is

00:35:16.439 --> 00:35:19.059
on you that time when you wake up 2 and 3 in the

00:35:19.059 --> 00:35:21.779
morning that's when God is talking to you 3 to 5 is

00:35:21.779 --> 00:35:25.499
when you write it down because that's when the world is asleep you got

00:35:25.499 --> 00:35:29.579
it my man you got the plan man listen

00:35:29.579 --> 00:35:32.939
listen i thank you for the praise i

00:35:32.939 --> 00:35:35.879
like you like you talked about i don't want i don't want

00:35:35.879 --> 00:35:38.819
anyone to feel like because you know how people are

00:35:38.819 --> 00:35:41.679
sterling you just said it when you go

00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:44.719
out and you preach to people and you tell them what you're

00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:47.419
doing what's the first thing you they ain't gonna say it to you

00:35:47.419 --> 00:35:50.419
but what's the first oh he bragging about what he got going on

00:35:50.419 --> 00:35:55.959
he he thinks he better than me because he got this going on over here exactly

00:35:55.959 --> 00:36:03.959
so i'm trying to i try to stay humble as possible and i try to make sure that

00:36:03.959 --> 00:36:09.739
i'm not stepping on anyone's toe step on their toes with some steel toes.

00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:15.419
You learn to step on people's toes because they're

00:36:15.419 --> 00:36:18.279
gonna step try to step on yours but you ain't doing it

00:36:18.279 --> 00:36:21.859
in tiff or tatt you're doing it godly yes sir

00:36:21.859 --> 00:36:25.179
yes sir yes sir and never be never like

00:36:25.179 --> 00:36:28.099
man they tell me sometimes i'm too humble well i

00:36:28.099 --> 00:36:32.559
don't understand what too humble mean all i know i got a heart and god is in

00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:37.719
charge as long as i'm pleasing him i don't care about nobody else i agree with

00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:41.479
you there i totally agree with you there i don't care what i really don't care

00:36:41.479 --> 00:36:46.119
what nobody else say to be honest with you and all the things that you're saying I have a beautiful,

00:36:46.279 --> 00:36:50.819
beautiful, beautiful partner at home that speaks words of affirmation into me

00:36:50.819 --> 00:36:54.579
and everything you're saying, she says to me, because, you know,

00:36:54.659 --> 00:36:58.819
if you if you think about the Bible in the Bible, it says a woman blesses.

00:36:59.479 --> 00:37:04.259
If you have a wife, a real definition of a wife, she covers the house.

00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:08.519
And what you just said, nobody and nobody knows this.

00:37:08.659 --> 00:37:12.379
But like, again, I say I'm very honest because this is my platform.

00:37:12.379 --> 00:37:16.759
So my wife last week did a fast for three days.

00:37:16.999 --> 00:37:22.419
She did a fast for three days last week. And at between two and three o'clock

00:37:22.419 --> 00:37:24.619
in the morning, the Lord woke her up.

00:37:25.177 --> 00:37:29.037
And at four or five o'clock in the morning, when I woke up to get ready to go

00:37:29.037 --> 00:37:36.477
to work, she had a pad full of stuff that God had told to her that morning. Man, you was so.

00:37:39.037 --> 00:37:44.257
So now, you know, you're talking to somebody that believe in God just as much as you do.

00:37:44.497 --> 00:37:49.557
And it's very rare. A lot of people like they could give me scriptures all they

00:37:49.557 --> 00:37:51.877
want, but I didn't really walk in them footsteps.

00:37:52.357 --> 00:37:56.577
I don't know the Bible. I'm not trying to know it. I'm trying to get everything

00:37:56.577 --> 00:38:00.337
through God. Like, man, I just go by what he tell me.

00:38:00.897 --> 00:38:06.397
And I know you got tears falling out of my eyes over here. Because like I said, we must be some twins.

00:38:06.577 --> 00:38:09.657
I ain't going to sit here and say, I don't know the Bible. I know bits of the

00:38:09.657 --> 00:38:13.177
Bible and I never throw the Bible down someone's throat.

00:38:13.317 --> 00:38:16.157
But God is always in whatever I do.

00:38:16.437 --> 00:38:20.417
Whatever I do, God is in it. And you're right. People love to throw scriptures

00:38:20.417 --> 00:38:22.137
at you and throw the word at you.

00:38:22.317 --> 00:38:25.257
They want to do this. no i want to like you said i want

00:38:25.257 --> 00:38:28.137
to do what god is instructing me to do and

00:38:28.137 --> 00:38:31.037
he's instructed me to do this this right

00:38:31.037 --> 00:38:37.957
here this yeah and i love what you're doing like nobody's not doing it now to

00:38:37.957 --> 00:38:42.437
me it's time to take it to a big because it's me and out there that need to

00:38:42.437 --> 00:38:47.477
hear you look where you come from man no offense to other podcasts there's none

00:38:47.477 --> 00:38:50.797
of that we come from the trenches yes sir,

00:38:51.257 --> 00:38:53.917
So why am I going to listen to somebody who don't know what it's like to hear

00:38:53.917 --> 00:38:55.297
gunshots in the middle of the night?

00:38:56.297 --> 00:39:00.357
Man, listen here. My parents was in a shootout.

00:39:00.577 --> 00:39:04.317
And I was in the backseat of the car while my parents were in a shootout.

00:39:05.137 --> 00:39:08.857
When I was about five or six years old. That's where I come from.

00:39:09.017 --> 00:39:10.877
My mother used to be a drug dealer.

00:39:11.097 --> 00:39:17.677
She paid her way through college selling pills out North Nashville in Batavia Alley.

00:39:18.217 --> 00:39:21.577
Man so look at that gift so you

00:39:21.577 --> 00:39:24.797
could go talk to majority not only men but young

00:39:24.797 --> 00:39:27.897
teenagers who trying to go that route of hustling

00:39:27.897 --> 00:39:30.677
you know they send these people to go talk to these

00:39:30.677 --> 00:39:35.557
kids and they ain't got no experience with these kids man i lost my brother

00:39:35.557 --> 00:39:41.577
three years ago a drug deal gone bad three years ago i lost my little brother

00:39:41.577 --> 00:39:46.817
over there off of spence lane 11 and rose somebody he was meeting up with somebody

00:39:46.817 --> 00:39:50.397
they robbed him and killed him and left him for dead.

00:39:53.117 --> 00:39:56.537
You understand what I'm saying? I've been there I know exactly what you're talking

00:39:56.537 --> 00:40:01.297
about that negative that happened you know when it's God it's going to end in

00:40:01.297 --> 00:40:07.697
positive look how many of these young men and men are lost people that people can't even relate to,

00:40:08.766 --> 00:40:13.246
You can relate to me. Oh, yeah. Most definitely. A lot of people can't.

00:40:13.706 --> 00:40:19.846
They wonder how I can talk to the kids in different areas. They know I'm real.

00:40:20.306 --> 00:40:21.946
Like they know you're real.

00:40:22.906 --> 00:40:26.086
You know why they want you a month, O'Brien? Because you're authentic.

00:40:27.206 --> 00:40:34.486
They got people going to college trying to get this wisdom and knowledge what God gave to you for free.

00:40:35.206 --> 00:40:38.026
You know, I didn't even think about it like Castellan.

00:40:38.766 --> 00:40:44.166
Man, come on now. You're favored. In the blink of an eye, by you being obedient,

00:40:44.506 --> 00:40:47.666
you get to meet the vice president. Yeah.

00:40:48.766 --> 00:40:50.986
I don't know, man. I don't know.

00:40:52.806 --> 00:40:55.746
I'll tell you what. This whole journey has been God, man.

00:40:56.266 --> 00:41:00.986
I've been doing this since July last year. I've been doing this since July.

00:41:01.286 --> 00:41:03.986
And so let me give you a little back story of what happened to me.

00:41:03.986 --> 00:41:09.466
So last year on July to January, on January the 22nd of last year,

00:41:09.606 --> 00:41:12.586
I flipped a truck and blew out my shoulder.

00:41:13.546 --> 00:41:18.966
OK, that it was crazy. Let me just listen for a moment. I'm gonna give you this story.

00:41:19.386 --> 00:41:24.806
So January the 22nd is my anniversary is my anniversary.

00:41:25.946 --> 00:41:31.726
So from January of last year to October this year, I didn't have a job.

00:41:31.726 --> 00:41:35.006
But when I met my wife, I was I was working.

00:41:35.206 --> 00:41:38.046
I was cooking in a kitchen eight hours a day.

00:41:38.366 --> 00:41:44.926
Then I was driving Uber for another four or five hours and being selling hot dogs on Saturday.

00:41:46.286 --> 00:41:51.326
So when I met her, I was working two to three jobs and all I knew how to do was work.

00:41:51.526 --> 00:41:55.246
And that's all I did. And my wife kept saying, babe, you just need to slow down.

00:41:55.386 --> 00:41:56.526
Just sit down, just slow down.

00:41:56.706 --> 00:42:01.246
But in my trauma and in the things that I had been through in my past,

00:42:01.246 --> 00:42:05.446
that's all I knew how to do was to go to work. So,

00:42:06.246 --> 00:42:10.586
I'm 45 right now. When I was 40 years old, God came to me and he said,

00:42:10.746 --> 00:42:12.706
listen, he said, it's time.

00:42:13.006 --> 00:42:16.966
And I said, time for what, God? He just kept in them quiet moments.

00:42:17.126 --> 00:42:18.686
He just kept saying, it's time.

00:42:18.986 --> 00:42:22.906
And I'm like, time for what? And then one day in one of those quiet moments,

00:42:23.026 --> 00:42:25.426
he said, it's time to surrender.

00:42:25.966 --> 00:42:29.106
Time to surrender. And I'm like, time to surrender?

00:42:29.706 --> 00:42:35.366
And then it just happened. I woke up one morning. I said, okay, Lord, I surrender.

00:42:36.246 --> 00:42:41.386
That was five years ago, Sterling, and my life has changed. And last year I had that accident.

00:42:41.686 --> 00:42:50.226
I sat in that house from January to October, never missed a bill, never went hungry.

00:42:50.706 --> 00:42:57.126
Nothing was never turned off. My family still strived. He blessed me in October to get a job.

00:42:57.926 --> 00:43:04.246
I'm like, God is so good. And I never knew the power and the glory of what God

00:43:04.246 --> 00:43:07.546
had for me until he set me down.

00:43:07.786 --> 00:43:11.126
When he set me down is when I started this.

00:43:11.406 --> 00:43:17.426
He set me down and told me, it's my time. You got to sit down now. You got to depend on me.

00:43:17.966 --> 00:43:22.766
Yeah. Yeah. I truly understand everything you just said.

00:43:23.366 --> 00:43:26.706
Dane Hills, man, a lot of people don't understand that, man.

00:43:27.126 --> 00:43:30.166
And it ain't your job to explain it. It's for you.

00:43:31.191 --> 00:43:35.271
It was but you know it's like you said a lot of people won't understand the

00:43:35.271 --> 00:43:40.651
glory of what he can do because they don't so many people out here don't don't

00:43:40.651 --> 00:43:46.311
want to believe in god or don't think that god is the person he really is man

00:43:46.311 --> 00:43:51.011
them the ones i go after i i don't go out with so-called church goers.

00:43:51.651 --> 00:43:55.091
First time sign of trouble. Lord why be?

00:43:58.071 --> 00:44:04.451
You're faking your faith. When I get any type of devil things thrown my way, I shout.

00:44:04.831 --> 00:44:07.731
Oh man, it's about to be a reward. Thank you.

00:44:08.151 --> 00:44:10.651
What else you want to help take out devil? What you want to steal?

00:44:10.791 --> 00:44:13.711
Because I'm going to help you tote it out because I'm going to get it seven times better.

00:44:14.671 --> 00:44:21.931
Yes, yes, yes. I celebrate every time. I celebrate. And a lot of people don't celebrate.

00:44:22.251 --> 00:44:28.291
So, you know, we talked about that. And I know I don't throw around, but this is what I was.

00:44:28.771 --> 00:44:36.611
It came to me one day and this is just we talked about not throwing around verses.

00:44:36.851 --> 00:44:39.651
But this is what it sounds like you just said to me.

00:44:39.791 --> 00:44:45.091
In Luke 15, they talk about the lost sheep and how the shepherds celebrated

00:44:45.091 --> 00:44:48.531
finding that lost sheep and not worried about the rest of them.

00:44:48.531 --> 00:44:52.351
A lot of people don't worry about the lost ones they worry about the people

00:44:52.351 --> 00:44:58.651
that's already there but the object is for us is to get the lost ones and bring

00:44:58.651 --> 00:45:01.991
them home that's it you know,

00:45:02.711 --> 00:45:09.551
the ones that don't believe is them the ones that I love people in church I don't,

00:45:10.831 --> 00:45:15.271
do that man like what used to throw me off I never knew like,

00:45:16.113 --> 00:45:22.613
all this offering where it showed to say it says give 10 and it say give 10 to the church.

00:45:26.693 --> 00:45:32.433
I don't talk about it very often but what you're saying is the way i feel about

00:45:32.433 --> 00:45:38.493
church and and again i'll say this we must be twins because there's not a lot

00:45:38.493 --> 00:45:41.833
of people that i meet that understand my mindset.

00:45:42.433 --> 00:45:47.893
Why do I have to give you this money? Churches become so much of a business

00:45:47.893 --> 00:45:51.173
that I don't like. I tell my wife, I'm a believer.

00:45:51.833 --> 00:45:55.733
Organized religion, going to church and all that, I really don't believe in that.

00:45:55.893 --> 00:46:02.113
I go to church for my wife because of my wife, but I'm a believer and I got God in my heart and soul,

00:46:02.293 --> 00:46:06.633
but churches become so much of a business that it just turned me off I don't

00:46:06.633 --> 00:46:10.073
want to be there and then the people in the church want to judge everybody and

00:46:10.073 --> 00:46:15.013
act like they better than the rest of the people and I call them one day,

00:46:15.673 --> 00:46:22.273
one day celebrating people because all you come in is on Sundays and then you're not even focused.

00:46:23.793 --> 00:46:30.313
When you dare on the word you're so busy being messy so I just don't want to

00:46:30.313 --> 00:46:34.993
go around it being outside in churches they make the pastor a messiah,

00:46:35.864 --> 00:46:41.124
Well, that's on them. I'm not like everybody's got their belief,

00:46:41.424 --> 00:46:46.364
but don't get mad at me because I don't step foot in your church.

00:46:47.344 --> 00:46:50.704
I respect. I totally respect. Yeah.

00:46:51.924 --> 00:46:56.404
Don't get mad at me when I'm like, I don't want to take a picture because if

00:46:56.404 --> 00:47:00.764
you do take a picture, don't post me on social media saying that we did this

00:47:00.764 --> 00:47:02.844
together, which is a lie because I'm going to call you out.

00:47:02.844 --> 00:47:07.044
If you post me and say we was outside feeding I'm going to come on your social

00:47:07.044 --> 00:47:10.544
media and say you was out there taking pictures you didn't do nothing.

00:47:12.904 --> 00:47:17.664
He said you were out there taking pictures so this was just a photo out for

00:47:17.664 --> 00:47:21.984
them yeah this is a photo out for me because I get tired of people coming out

00:47:21.984 --> 00:47:26.524
to neighborhoods talking about like they got the answer or what the neighborhood

00:47:26.524 --> 00:47:29.304
need if y'all had the answer it wouldn't be no struggle,

00:47:29.984 --> 00:47:33.104
right Like, all you got to do is build a relationship.

00:47:34.364 --> 00:47:37.484
But that's too much, like, right. That takes too much effort.

00:47:37.504 --> 00:47:40.384
I want all the glory, but I don't want to put in any other work.

00:47:41.004 --> 00:47:44.184
Yeah, and that's why I don't mess with them. No, you give me,

00:47:44.344 --> 00:47:50.384
like, no, what are you doing for our kids and families that's struggling? No, man. No.

00:47:51.304 --> 00:47:55.004
No. Well, I just want to take it. You famous. I want to take a picture with

00:47:55.004 --> 00:48:00.344
you, and I just want to show people that I was out here with Sterling Wright. Yeah, I get that a lot.

00:48:01.124 --> 00:48:05.304
And then when I say no and when they say no, you think you're all that you say

00:48:05.304 --> 00:48:09.584
what you want, but you ain't not here to do the calls I'm doing you're not doing,

00:48:10.584 --> 00:48:14.504
when people think about it out of south that I love, shout out to J.C.

00:48:14.544 --> 00:48:19.524
Matthew University Court they know if they don't see you with me,

00:48:19.924 --> 00:48:25.684
that you ain't actually what they call legit I get it I get it.

00:48:27.824 --> 00:48:31.244
It is Like you said, it's so rare and so far in between.

00:48:32.024 --> 00:48:39.744
And, man, you made your announcement on the show, and you made me give a tidbit

00:48:39.744 --> 00:48:42.424
of what I got going on on the show tonight, man.

00:48:43.144 --> 00:48:52.824
God is so good, and he's working in places, and people don't even know it because

00:48:52.824 --> 00:48:57.944
just like you and me, we're not out here on social media telling anybody.

00:48:57.944 --> 00:49:03.004
What I just told you tonight, the only people know about that is me, you, and my wife.

00:49:03.364 --> 00:49:07.324
And now whoever listens to this show will know about that there's something

00:49:07.324 --> 00:49:09.184
in the works that's about to happen.

00:49:09.264 --> 00:49:14.384
But I'm not doing it for the glory of man. I'm not doing it to get likes.

00:49:14.444 --> 00:49:16.084
I'm not doing it to get followers.

00:49:16.324 --> 00:49:18.824
I'm doing it to save souls, brother.

00:49:19.524 --> 00:49:24.184
That's the only thing that I want to do is I want to show young men,

00:49:24.444 --> 00:49:27.764
men of all types, the glory of God and what he's done for me.

00:49:27.764 --> 00:49:29.164
And what he can do for them.

00:49:30.031 --> 00:49:35.211
Correct. That's it. And I'm with you for that because it's not enough of us.

00:49:35.691 --> 00:49:44.131
No, it isn't. It isn't enough of us out here that really want to do something in a major way.

00:49:44.331 --> 00:49:49.611
There's not enough people out here that really care. And we've become a society

00:49:49.611 --> 00:49:54.011
of followers and just sheeps. And everybody wants to follow. It's a trend.

00:49:54.171 --> 00:49:57.471
Everybody wants to be on this trend. Everybody wants to be on that trend. I hate trends.

00:49:57.711 --> 00:50:02.911
I hate following stuff. I hate to tell you this, but I don't do that I stay

00:50:02.911 --> 00:50:06.191
in my lane If you come in my lane, you better have your blink on.

00:50:08.651 --> 00:50:15.091
He said you better have your blink on Man, like I know where God is working

00:50:15.091 --> 00:50:22.291
In me and through me And if you ain't a part of it I know how to smile Like,

00:50:22.691 --> 00:50:26.011
yeah, yeah, yeah But I promise you when you talk, I'm not hearing nothing,

00:50:26.851 --> 00:50:37.191
Thank you, brother this is this world that we live in is so wretched and wicked

00:50:37.191 --> 00:50:43.551
that they don't understand people like us they don't understand and that's sometimes.

00:50:44.983 --> 00:50:49.603
Uh, I just, I, sometimes I just kind of get scared and I, I don't know what to do.

00:50:50.203 --> 00:50:54.483
Well, that's a good thing. When you get scared, it ain't nothing wrong with that.

00:50:54.863 --> 00:50:59.483
You want to be scared. You want to have the bubble guts. That means you ain't cocky.

00:51:00.163 --> 00:51:03.623
This, this thing I got going on right here scares me so much,

00:51:03.763 --> 00:51:07.363
Sterling, because my wife said she had a dream that this was going to take us

00:51:07.363 --> 00:51:09.023
to places that we've never been.

00:51:09.683 --> 00:51:13.623
And I'm going to tell you something. It ain't nothing wrong with traveling, my brother.

00:51:14.643 --> 00:51:17.643
What you but that's what i'm saying you have called out

00:51:17.643 --> 00:51:20.583
so much i'm telling god speaks to me but

00:51:20.583 --> 00:51:24.123
he speaks more to the woman that he gave me he

00:51:24.123 --> 00:51:27.423
speaks more to her and she'll come to me and she say baby

00:51:27.423 --> 00:51:30.303
god told me that something's gonna happen to

00:51:30.303 --> 00:51:33.183
you and not bad something's gonna happen she's what you

00:51:33.183 --> 00:51:36.383
say i'm telling you bro she says baby god says

00:51:36.383 --> 00:51:39.263
there's a conference a men's conference gonna come out

00:51:39.263 --> 00:51:42.683
of what you're doing and i told you right

00:51:42.683 --> 00:51:45.723
but that's what i'm saying you've never even talked to my wife

00:51:45.723 --> 00:51:48.803
you've never even met her but you said man

00:51:48.803 --> 00:51:51.563
you need to do a conference god has already given me

00:51:51.563 --> 00:51:56.163
the confirmation that there's a conference coming yes yes

00:51:56.163 --> 00:51:59.063
if it don't happen if it don't

00:51:59.063 --> 00:52:02.643
happen it's because you don't make it happen sir very true

00:52:02.643 --> 00:52:05.583
very true very true but he's

00:52:05.583 --> 00:52:08.463
already given me the confirmation and for me to sit here and talk

00:52:08.463 --> 00:52:11.603
to you with these tears rolling out my eyes that

00:52:11.603 --> 00:52:15.623
you're calling out what God has ordained

00:52:15.623 --> 00:52:23.563
for me and we hadn't had a conversation and for you to be spot on is even more

00:52:23.563 --> 00:52:30.763
affirmation of what I'm doing is for the good of man and for the good of God

00:52:30.763 --> 00:52:33.883
for the good of man correct,

00:52:34.663 --> 00:52:36.263
I'm just you know.

00:52:37.723 --> 00:52:41.243
Sometimes I think you found somebody just like you

00:52:41.463 --> 00:52:46.823
found somebody just like you and it's mind bobbling it makes me feel good just

00:52:46.823 --> 00:52:53.443
like you done had plenty of guests but man to have a connection that's a big

00:52:53.443 --> 00:53:01.303
difference that blew my mind just blew my mind,

00:53:02.241 --> 00:53:04.861
It's a big difference, man, just

00:53:04.861 --> 00:53:13.001
to have somebody to understand and know what God has in store for you.

00:53:13.121 --> 00:53:19.701
And it's blessings that now you're going to take your talents back to the inner

00:53:19.701 --> 00:53:23.081
city with working through the school system.

00:53:23.281 --> 00:53:28.841
You know, they've taken so many programs out of the schools to help these kids.

00:53:29.001 --> 00:53:32.861
They've taken them out. I know but now they're coming back and I'm going to

00:53:32.861 --> 00:53:36.901
be a part of it I mean it's just like I can't explain,

00:53:37.481 --> 00:53:43.541
I feel but man I've seen the results of what's about to happen and I can't do

00:53:43.541 --> 00:53:44.761
nothing but thank God my bro,

00:53:45.661 --> 00:53:53.061
you done seen if you stayed a course I'm sure you done seen the reward yes.

00:53:54.461 --> 00:54:00.781
Sunday what did I say I was put in front of the VP of Martha O'Brien Center that is a reward,

00:54:01.461 --> 00:54:07.401
I didn't ask you that but that's a reward of God thank you because you being obedient,

00:54:08.041 --> 00:54:12.441
and you been doing what he asked you to do that's what I love about God he don't

00:54:12.441 --> 00:54:18.341
even the stuff that he rewards you with you can't even people can't even understand

00:54:18.341 --> 00:54:22.201
it people won't understand it and you can't explain it,

00:54:22.841 --> 00:54:28.081
but being of this earth people are so evil and mischievous when you,

00:54:28.201 --> 00:54:32.101
like you said, when you announce or you tell people things of that nature,

00:54:32.301 --> 00:54:36.821
the first thing they want to do is they want to go into a hateful spirit how they,

00:54:37.961 --> 00:54:40.761
introduce him to that you understand what I'm saying?

00:54:41.851 --> 00:54:47.971
Correct. Yeah. Hello? So, yes, sir, I can hear you. You must have just gotten in the car.

00:54:48.791 --> 00:54:52.151
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm listening. Yeah.

00:54:54.431 --> 00:54:58.351
What's dinner for tonight? Man, I'm going to do Olive Garden, man.

00:54:58.451 --> 00:55:01.711
Like, one thing about a chef, man, I love cooking for everybody,

00:55:01.711 --> 00:55:02.951
but I hate cooking for my sister.

00:55:03.991 --> 00:55:08.291
Exactly. Exactly. My wife can't understand that. My wife can't understand that.

00:55:08.411 --> 00:55:14.051
Well, she finally started to understand that. Like, I love to cook for a big group of people.

00:55:14.171 --> 00:55:19.471
It was my last job. I worked at a retirement facility cooking for 130 residents,

00:55:19.691 --> 00:55:22.791
two meals a day, five days a week is what I did.

00:55:23.731 --> 00:55:27.031
So I was cool with that, making fresh bread and salads.

00:55:27.271 --> 00:55:31.171
I mean, fresh soups and all of these things from scratch. I was cool with doing

00:55:31.171 --> 00:55:33.011
that. But then when I come home, I don't want to cook.

00:55:34.451 --> 00:55:38.051
My wife was like, I married a chef. Why can't you cook all the time?

00:55:38.851 --> 00:55:42.531
They don't understand but i i i cook like

00:55:42.531 --> 00:55:47.671
i do romantic dinners a lot and when i start doing it when i do it for my wife

00:55:47.671 --> 00:55:51.851
she's tired of it and then when i don't consistently do it oh you don't do you

00:55:51.851 --> 00:55:58.871
don't cook romantic for me no more which one gonna be baby i want to do whatever you want,

00:55:59.651 --> 00:56:03.971
right right but see i i still the rule in my house i says if there's something

00:56:03.971 --> 00:56:08.751
particularly you want to eat, go to the grocery store and pick it up,

00:56:08.751 --> 00:56:11.731
and I will cook it once I get home.

00:56:12.111 --> 00:56:18.151
So once I get to the house, if whatever you cook, the ingredients are there, I'm going to cook it.

00:56:19.139 --> 00:56:25.459
I'm going to cook you. See, that's what makes us different. They'll tell me I'm hungry.

00:56:26.579 --> 00:56:28.759
Something in there annoying you. You can come up with something.

00:56:29.279 --> 00:56:31.679
And they just let me go in there. And that's what I love to do.

00:56:31.939 --> 00:56:34.799
That's what keeps me sharp in the kitchen.

00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:37.099
I don't want to know what I got in the refrigerator.

00:56:37.499 --> 00:56:39.139
I just want to go in there and create something.

00:56:39.999 --> 00:56:44.699
Right. I get it. I understand. There are times when you do that.

00:56:44.839 --> 00:56:47.879
And I've done it. Like, my wife wanted one day. she was like,

00:56:48.059 --> 00:56:50.199
just go in there and put something together.

00:56:51.539 --> 00:56:56.019
I love it. Can we have this all the time? We ain't got them same ingredients

00:56:56.019 --> 00:56:59.059
all the time. We don't have those same ingredients all the time.

00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:05.299
That was from the ingredients we had in the cabinets and in the refrigerator at that moment.

00:57:06.399 --> 00:57:10.779
Them are the best meals, man. On the fly, on the spot, yes.

00:57:11.379 --> 00:57:15.879
But tonight, I think my wife wants to go to Ruby Tuesday. this.

00:57:15.999 --> 00:57:18.699
It's Tuesday. She loves a good old salad.

00:57:19.459 --> 00:57:26.879
Yeah, man, but you know, I'm funny, like, I go out to eat, but do this Olive

00:57:26.879 --> 00:57:30.759
Garden, but man, I ain't going to restaurants, man.

00:57:31.459 --> 00:57:36.739
I can't go on no Friday or Saturday. I will refuse to go out to eat on a Friday

00:57:36.739 --> 00:57:38.779
or Saturday. Why is that?

00:57:39.799 --> 00:57:44.179
Because there's no love in the food, man. They're there to rush the food out.

00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:48.899
Yeah. Very true. It's just turn and burn, turn and burn, turn and burn.

00:57:48.979 --> 00:57:52.479
Turn and burn, and there's no love in it. So I don't go in there.

00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:56.199
If I see a weight, I definitely won't eat because that's when I think about,

00:57:57.074 --> 00:58:01.094
People get sick when they cook the food. It's just a lot of things that run

00:58:01.094 --> 00:58:03.714
through my mind. Yeah, foodborne illness.

00:58:04.614 --> 00:58:10.434
Yes. Yeah, foodborne illness. I took a service aid class or two.

00:58:11.374 --> 00:58:13.314
Yeah, man. Like, man.

00:58:14.374 --> 00:58:19.394
I'm for real, man. I really appreciate you and Dave reaching out to me, man.

00:58:19.494 --> 00:58:22.674
I know he thought I wasn't going to do it because I stay so busy.

00:58:22.894 --> 00:58:26.974
And I suck on communication. oh

00:58:26.974 --> 00:58:30.194
that's fine but

00:58:30.194 --> 00:58:33.014
you know we're about at the end anyways and i and i

00:58:33.014 --> 00:58:36.034
like uh let me say this brother i appreciate everything

00:58:36.034 --> 00:58:38.934
you're doing in the community i love who you

00:58:38.934 --> 00:58:41.834
are and i love what god has made you to be

00:58:41.834 --> 00:58:45.514
and i thank you because the city of nashville we

00:58:45.514 --> 00:58:48.414
need some superheroes around here god is

00:58:48.414 --> 00:58:51.394
god is our superhero but we

00:58:51.394 --> 00:58:54.174
need some earthly superheroes to show these young

00:58:54.174 --> 00:58:57.454
men that there are other avenues

00:58:57.454 --> 00:59:01.174
of doing things around here i promise

00:59:01.174 --> 00:59:04.634
you man when next time you gonna see me like whoever's

00:59:04.634 --> 00:59:07.394
listening in this podcast i'm the first one to

00:59:07.394 --> 00:59:10.594
go inside the juvenile juvenile and start a culinary

00:59:10.594 --> 00:59:13.594
class thanks to pathway sheila calloway

00:59:13.594 --> 00:59:16.474
yolanda hockett i love y'all because all

00:59:16.474 --> 00:59:19.194
our young men need is guidance and they don't have it

00:59:19.194 --> 00:59:21.894
that's it that's said that we're about.

00:59:21.894 --> 00:59:24.494
To go but i'm gonna ask you a few questions and then we're gonna

00:59:24.494 --> 00:59:27.434
get out of here you riding your car you you

00:59:27.434 --> 00:59:30.154
riding your car right now if i was to get in your car what would you

00:59:30.154 --> 00:59:33.114
be listening to old school

00:59:33.114 --> 00:59:36.294
r&b when he talk about love man

00:59:36.294 --> 00:59:39.634
it's like i'm old school man you don't

00:59:39.634 --> 00:59:42.674
see no love songs no more you don't

00:59:42.674 --> 00:59:45.634
hear no man crying out to his woman no more you

00:59:45.634 --> 00:59:48.374
don't you see group you know when the last time you heard an

00:59:48.374 --> 00:59:50.994
r&b group i think it

00:59:50.994 --> 00:59:54.434
was tgt tyrese tank and

00:59:54.434 --> 01:00:05.234
genuine yeah see that's my version of lsg lsg i remember lsg so what is sterling

01:00:05.234 --> 01:00:12.374
wright's guilty pleasure guilty man i'm guilty of having a good stiff drink and pleasure,

01:00:12.534 --> 01:00:14.254
man, my wife get in there and do her thing.

01:00:15.934 --> 01:00:20.614
All right. All right. That's my guilty pleasure, man. Every man got that, man.

01:00:20.774 --> 01:00:24.554
It's like, man, I just love my wife can offer, man.

01:00:25.254 --> 01:00:27.994
You know, of course, a lot of people probably be in my wife,

01:00:28.294 --> 01:00:30.114
but, man, it ain't nothing like my own, man.

01:00:30.354 --> 01:00:34.174
That's mine, man. That's what God created for me to love while I'm on this earth.

01:00:34.894 --> 01:00:40.234
Yes. Yes. So what would be the perfect vacation for Sterling Wright?

01:00:41.159 --> 01:00:47.119
Me and my wife just did a treehouse outside overlooking a lake in a treehouse

01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:49.479
with everything unplugged.

01:00:51.259 --> 01:00:56.819
Wow. Everything unplugged. I love it. I love it. I love it.

01:00:57.379 --> 01:01:02.219
So in a perfect world, go ahead, to get away. And I'll ask the question,

01:01:02.319 --> 01:01:04.619
just to get away and rejuvenate, right?

01:01:05.339 --> 01:01:10.899
Yeah. Me and my wife decided we're going to do that every 90 days because you got to have a reset.

01:01:11.159 --> 01:01:17.219
Yes yes and so man like we went in this this treehouse and she tell me it's

01:01:17.219 --> 01:01:24.899
the best anniversary gift and i'm like man too we slept all day like we we never slept before,

01:01:25.539 --> 01:01:33.079
where does that cook it's right out it's before sevilleville before knoxville it's in the boondocks,

01:01:34.599 --> 01:01:39.839
barely have phone service that's what i wanted that's what she wanted yeah yeah.

01:01:41.359 --> 01:01:46.779
Yeah, but see, I go places and we together and people recognize me,

01:01:46.999 --> 01:01:49.439
you know, I don't like telling people no on a picture if they see me,

01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:51.939
but it irritates her because she wants me.

01:01:52.499 --> 01:01:54.819
Right. I get it. I understand.

01:01:56.259 --> 01:01:59.699
That is about it. okay I mean,

01:02:00.539 --> 01:02:05.599
if what's your contact information if somebody wanted to get in touch with you

01:02:05.599 --> 01:02:12.079
if somebody wanted to reach out to you to come out to your program tell us the

01:02:12.079 --> 01:02:16.299
address again if there's an email address or a number,

01:02:17.219 --> 01:02:23.479
well like I'm funny about it I give you my social media which is Mr.

01:02:23.659 --> 01:02:29.999
100 Nashville on Shepster and Ryan You're breaking up on me, sir.

01:02:32.099 --> 01:02:36.259
I don't mean if I usually respond on that, man.

01:02:37.699 --> 01:02:41.039
I don't know what's going on, but you're sounding like a robot on me.

01:02:41.499 --> 01:02:42.839
Yeah, now I can hear you much better.

01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:49.539
Hello? Yeah. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?

01:02:50.319 --> 01:02:54.799
Hello? Yeah, I'm going through the back. I'm going through the back. Can you hear me?

01:02:55.199 --> 01:02:58.919
Yeah, I can hear you now. I can hear you a lot better. Yes, I can hear you a lot better now.

01:03:01.259 --> 01:03:05.459
I'm back, bro. Back, bro. Now you sound like a robot.

01:03:06.339 --> 01:03:11.879
Now you sound a lot clearer. You must have came out of the back row. Hello? Hello?

01:03:13.019 --> 01:03:14.619
Hello? Hello?

01:03:16.016 --> 01:03:19.496
Yeah, I'm going through bad areas. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me?

01:03:19.776 --> 01:03:22.156
Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you now. Can you hear me? Yes,

01:03:22.236 --> 01:03:23.856
sir. Yes, sir. I was going through the back.

01:03:24.456 --> 01:03:26.916
I was going through the back. I was going through the back roads,

01:03:27.076 --> 01:03:28.716
man. I ain't going to leave without, you know what I'm saying,

01:03:28.756 --> 01:03:29.996
a prayer or something, you know.

01:03:31.556 --> 01:03:36.316
I like about this. That's the devil trying to stop what God wanted to do for us.

01:03:37.016 --> 01:03:42.936
Yes, yes, yes. You know what he did? It took out everything you said about your social media.

01:03:44.056 --> 01:03:46.856
When you went to it again. Yes, sir. 100.

01:03:49.376 --> 01:03:55.276
For some reason, Sterling, some reason, Sterling, the devil don't want you to

01:03:55.276 --> 01:03:57.916
throw it out there anytime you start saying it.

01:03:59.476 --> 01:04:02.556
It's Chef Sterling Wright. You know, and you DM me.

01:04:04.116 --> 01:04:12.676
Sterling. Sterling. Get you up. Hey.

01:04:13.536 --> 01:04:15.696
They can get you up.

01:04:17.256 --> 01:04:21.436
Yes, yes. They can hit me up and get the information. Yes, sir. Can you hear me?

01:04:22.116 --> 01:04:25.596
Yeah. I can hear you better now. I don't know. Can you hear me?

01:04:25.616 --> 01:04:27.316
What side of town are you on?

01:04:27.776 --> 01:04:30.776
Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Yes.

01:04:31.616 --> 01:04:35.976
You keep going. If you can hear me, Sterling, I don't know what side of town

01:04:35.976 --> 01:04:39.836
you're on, but you keep going in and out like a radio. I never knew that we

01:04:39.836 --> 01:04:42.276
had this many dead spots in Nashville.

01:04:42.716 --> 01:04:44.516
Can you hear me, man? I'm hearing all.

01:04:45.316 --> 01:04:48.396
It is rough it must be a lot of people using

01:04:48.396 --> 01:04:51.156
cell phones out there i look at it just man if something don't

01:04:51.156 --> 01:04:54.056
need if something don't need to be heard that's

01:04:54.056 --> 01:04:59.696
what i look at oh okay i mean that's hey it is what it is but let's end this

01:04:59.696 --> 01:05:06.076
on let's end this on a good note let's say a good old prayer my brother that's

01:05:06.076 --> 01:05:10.456
what's up man i don't want to close my eyes i'm driving but okay don't close

01:05:10.456 --> 01:05:12.376
your eyes don't close your eyes.

01:05:13.432 --> 01:05:17.552
You hear me? Yeah, I hear you. Okay, I said, don't close your eyes.

01:05:17.612 --> 01:05:21.092
I want you to be safe, but I'm going to say a good old prayer. Okay.

01:05:21.912 --> 01:05:26.032
All right. Lord, thank you for bringing me and Sterling together.

01:05:26.132 --> 01:05:31.852
You know the path that we have been down, and you know that the path that we are headed down.

01:05:32.052 --> 01:05:37.152
Thank you for the gifts that you have given us that we have received in your honor,

01:05:37.192 --> 01:05:40.252
and thank you for giving us the day that we

01:05:40.252 --> 01:05:45.592
can wake up and we can shout from the mountaintops and the valleys to show your

01:05:45.592 --> 01:05:52.052
grace and your mercy and to show what you have done for us and have and will

01:05:52.052 --> 01:05:57.812
do for us in this life that we are walking through on this earth.

01:05:57.992 --> 01:06:00.652
In your son, Jesus Christ's name, I pray. Amen.

01:06:01.512 --> 01:06:06.652
Man, amen. Thank you for having me, man. It was truly an honor to talk to somebody

01:06:06.652 --> 01:06:09.652
that God is really working through, man.

01:06:09.992 --> 01:06:12.792
You be blessed, man. And I'm going to send you my phone number.

01:06:13.192 --> 01:06:16.032
Is that your... Can you call me when we hang up?

01:06:16.632 --> 01:06:19.092
Yeah, that was... You want me to call you when I hang up?

01:06:19.712 --> 01:06:24.112
Please, I want to just share something with you. Yes, sir. All righty, my brother.

01:06:25.052 --> 01:06:28.472
All right, y'all. Everybody be safe and have a good night. Keep God first and

01:06:28.472 --> 01:06:30.672
watch the results. Yes, sir.

01:06:33.840 --> 01:07:10.960
Music.

01:06:33.912 --> 01:06:34.672
Yes, sir.

01:06:37.192 --> 01:06:43.572
Yeah They kick back A place for brothers,

01:06:47.212 --> 01:06:51.432
Yeah The Kickback A place for brothers,

01:06:54.832 --> 01:06:58.732
The Kickback A place for brothers A place for brothers,

01:06:59.912 --> 01:07:10.492
The Kickback A place for brothers The Kickback A place for brothers The Kickback

01:07:10.492 --> 01:07:11.312
A place for brothers place for.