Honoring Dr. King

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1:33 is about to be recording, so I take that back, but the first of twenty twenty four with the most awesome set of co hosts you will ever find throughout the galaxy. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to setting you straight with Ms Gray Tray Tray, What you doing all the way up in Virginia trying to stay warm? Me? Yeah, I didn't want to ask. I didn't want to ask. I died. Did you see slow? It's yeah show oh, oh, dear, but there's Tommy and Tommy Tommy. She's not down the street to the left, but I could get to it for me, hetty big iy for in the name of Jesus, how are you, Tommy? How's the weather in jvill Today was a good day, yes, but the rest of the days were very chilling. Yeah, got you, I got you. We're feeling and I think we're in the seventies.

2:31 Uh here in the old for just a minute, for just a minute. But I understand it's gonna drop tonight, and it's going rain tomorrow, and it's possibly dropped tomorrow night. So I just hope I'll be in my house and there we go. I got they. We got plenty of hot chocolate and some marshmallows already. Well, welcome this evening to another show, another opportunity to dialogue with us. And if you're out there in viewership, please feel free to say, hey, give us a hand or wave a hand or all that good stuff. And even if you go back and watch the shows later, let us, you know, send us, you know, suburbice, let us know. Hey, I'm watching you. It's later, but I'm watching you, and you know, so let's just let us know.

3:16 I know our numbers. The last time I checked, we'll have over one hundred and sixty some viewers for our show, and they've been steady. That number has just been growing. So we're thankful for those who like and share, post and repost. We're all the way in Virginia, We're in New York, We're in Tennessee, We're in Miami, so we're we're moving around a little bit. And then we're in the Bahamas, I believe as well so and possibly in Ghana, Africa. So you know, we're moving and grooving. So people are listening and we're not going to disappoint you because we're gonna what set it straight. So here we go. Well, tonight we are honoring doctor Martin Luther King and normally maybe in the future we may have it take the day off, but the Lord wanted us to come on tonight and we want to talk about a couple of things. One his whole you know, it seemed like the whole movement of history for us really hangs on civil rights and the civil rights movement. Well, I did a little research. Hey you see, amen and amen happened New Year Yai did a little research and come to find out, actually civil rights came up in year three thirteen and it included the freedom of religion. I'm sorry, yeah, in three thirteen and then three point eighty the subjects of the Roman Empire to

4:47 profess Catholic Christianity. So it actually kind of got its beginnings. It's got it. It started having its legs with people adhering to the Catholic religion, and the Catholic religion folk were Catholics were being a little persecuted back in the day. And then in the seventeenth century it went on and they were talking about rights based on citizenship by arguing that the Englishmen had historically enjoyed such rights. And then we're going to go to and of course it appears in seventeen seventy six with the Bill of Rights, and then it just kind of said they removed the legislation of civil rights constitutes a civil disability. In the early nineteenth century and civil rights, civil rights most commonly referred to the issue of legal discrimination against Catholics against Catholics, and then it came all the way around.

5:46 Then they included the Roman Catholic Relief Act in eighteen twenty nine, which restored their civil rights. Now the last mentioned or influence of civil rights in the United States, the term civil rights has been associated with civil rights movement of nineteen fifty four to nineteen sixty eight, which fought against racism. It goes no further. So this is just me speaking as I said on the show once before. To me, civil rights belonged to the black Americans in the United States that suffered, that had the My son, actually we were watching Honor to the Tuskegee Airmen today and I had just mentioned to him that, you know, civil rights was you know, nobody except black Americans had fire hoses turned on them and dogs turned on them and beaten in the street, jailed for no reason. And I found out that just a little fact, the tusk Tuskigee airmen they went against how they were not allowed to go into these soldiers hall. So they all did, they all did a set out or something, and over a hundred of them were jailed that day, over one hundred of them. And so my son got a chance to see and at the fire hoses being turned on black people today, he's like,

7:20 WHOA what I said, Yeah, And that our culture with Our history includes lynchings, Our history includes molestation and rapes, and and and taking your people's stuff and taking properly so and it ends. This is where the history of civil rights ends. Within that history and within this culture, Black American culture. So I'm saying, this is just misgrad this is just me any other population that feel that they are not treated right laws are used against them. However, you want a word that, you need to come up with your own phrase, because according to the history, civil rights ends with the cry against racism, just saying it's in don't don't shoot the messenger, go after the message, you know. But that is in the history archives that I have found. So I was like, okay, God, I wasn't just trying to say something to point certain people out or certain groups out or whatever.

8:33 It began with attack on Catholic religion, on one's religion, and it's resting now on the issue within the house of racism. So there, now we're going to move on to I asked the ladies. The Lord told me, you know, hey, get everybody's opinion and let them talk about listening here in twenty degrees Louisiana. Okay, Misty, I just hope that you got the firewood burning, the weird real wood, and you got plenty of hot you know beverages, and you you know, you got your little you know cap on too. You could do that for us, and you know we got you. We're feeling you, and just please be safe, Please use your remedies. If you start sniffling, please nip it in the bug get rid of it, you know, do whatever you go to old old cultural go back and talk to your great greats and say what do we do for a common cold or whatever? Get that out of you you want to get I mean to be gross, but you want to get the mucus out of here. You don't want mucus landing in your lung and it stays there and then other stuff built on top of it. That's the key to really walking around without catching any of the variances or even the common flu or cold.

9:52 So please do whatever you need to do to combat that. It will keep you in our prayers most definitely. And just why go ahead. I just want to say one thing right quick too. But I heard or it's saying that if you drink dark sodas or dairy it increases mucus so if you canna a thing on that, Yes, I just did a big thing on that and I got a text. I mean, half the foods were eating it. Just it calls on mucus and it makes it hold it, It holds it in us. So it's a whole list out there. All you have to do is google it. What foods or your foods that or beverages that causes mucus. It's right there on Google. And I just just screenshoted and everything. So we're gonna have to change make some changes in our home as well. We got to do it, yes, ma'am. We didn't pray yet. Oh Heaven and Father, we come to you this day, thanking you, if you praise, honoring you, worshiping you in every way.

10:58 We thank you for this opportunity unity to speak to your people, Lord God, that we give them the facts and the understanding and the truth of what the messages are about. Father God, we thank you for delivering us from racism. We thank you, Lord that you're kind of removing this in every way. We're asking that you look down from your holy habitation and just smile upon us and do that which you need to do within all of us from the sounds of our voices. Use us mightily, Lord God. We stand behind your cross, Lord God, because this is your shoe and we're here to serve you and you only giving your people the truth of what you would have them to know. In everything we do, we bind and rebuke that spirit of that cold, of that common cold that flew, or whatever a virus that's trying to come against our sister. We just thank your Lord God for your healing power in Jesus Mighty imprecious day. We pray, Amen, Amen and Amen Glory to God. Thank you Lord. And I'm sitting.

12:07 If you saw my lips moving, I was repenting because I did not do that. You must your turnaround time has to be quick. When you know you're in error, when you know you've done something or said something or thought something that God that would displease God. You just call yourself out on the carpet. Don't try to rhyme or reason it. You did it, It happened. Get your You can move through it now, Father God, please just And I was just asking for repentance, and I was repenting and saying, God, please forgive me, so thank you for that time. And that's what these ladies are here for. This is what we do, you know, fifty three they're okay, country, see, I'm I'm sorry. I'm not laughing. I'm sorry. You know. Just stay warm, people, stay warm, you know, even in your house, stay warm, you know. Amen. So what we're talking about tonight, we're honoring doctor King. I don't think that we can't. I mean, he's got statues here and there, and most of his famous you know, all of his famous words or all of his speeches have been cited somewhere. They're in black and white and red somewhere. But I thought it would be nice for the ladies, for everybody, including our engineer and producer, to share a quote that has been important to them or that resonated with them. So we're gonna we're gonna do that, and then we're gonna talk about a little a few more things at the end of the show. So, uh, ladies, I'm gonna mute myself and anybody wants to jump in you or I'll go last. All right, Well, since I prayed, I go ahead and

13:39 go ahead one of them. Some people may be familiar with it, and I'm not sure, but forgiveness is not an occasional act. Hear me. Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That was a quote from Martin Luther King, and I think that's right. You know, you have to forgive and forgive deep, even though you may run into that person, see that person, that fair person could be in your family member. You gotta learn to forgive and let it go. It's easy said than done. I will say that. I will tell you it does take a process. But if you stay in that process and asking God to help you be delivered from that, you can move on. Because a lot of times we hold it, and we hold it so tight. He can't he won't. I ain't gonna say he can't. He won't release it until you're ready to open up your hand and let him reach move it out your hand.

15:01 So I think that that forgiveness is very strong. That's one of our greatest flaws, whether it's prejudice, whoever, they can't forgive, and that's something that we definitely have. And the only other quote I have I think it says, oh, not ignite indigen. I'm trying to think it says we must accept indigen disappointment. But that word, but never lose ignited hope.

15:48 That those were two that I really loved that came from him in the midst of his speeches as he and the quotes that he had stated before. So those are what I give to you because I want us to walk more in love. And if we could conquer that thing called love, what a different place this would be. It would be a major change in the atmosphere, in the attitudes, in all aspects of our lives, and you find yourself being a lot more free. So that's what I would give to our audience, and I pray that you all accept those. Go ahead, Trey, all right, all right. So looking at some of the quotes that doctor King had and you know, thinking about how things resonate with me, you know how it's in tune. And so one of the quotes is make a career of humanity. You know, I always feel that, you know, you have to treat others the way that you would want to be treated.

17:04 And so it started off, make a career of humanity, commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a final world to live in and so you know that it would just if it if we would have like a domino effect, you know, each one just recognizing the rights of someone else. You might not agree with it, you know, but who are we to judge? You know, there's only one judge and jury that I know of. And my thing is, if you spend a lot of time judging others and putting them there constantly, it causes riff, you know what I mean, love the person that I mean, people don't you might not have the same habit you have. And you know, as long as you're not killing somebody or or you know, doing harm or you know those things. But my thing is, why isn't it that we can Why can't we be nice to one one one another? Why can't we treat the person another person with respect? Why can't we just understand? Why can't we empathize with other folks going through things or other cultures? You know, there's there's there's so much to people besides just what you see in front of them.

18:26 But if you get a chance to talk with someone, sometimes I wish that we had a day of blindfolds, just just everybody wears blindfolds. And the thing, the only thing you get to know is the sound of a person's voice and just having some dialogue or and finding out that you might have more in common than you have not in common with with another person. But I think we get so barged down with the way people look, appearances, uh, skin tones, you know. I just, I just, I don't know. I don't know. Loss of words tonight, I don't know what's going on with me tonight. But come on the word but anyhow, But I it's that word humanity. And I always try to treat people with respect.

19:15 That's a goal that I have. And I always try to be mindful of the words that I use when I'm communicating with someone. And so if you know, if I say something or if I think about it. And I had to ask myself a couple questions. Am I trying to help someone? Or am I try to hurt someone? Am I part of their mess? Or am a part of the message? What is it that I want to be? Because the thing is I can make a difference in that person's life. If I say something negative, it could trigger us something negative. If I say something positive, it could trigger positive things. And we don't know what people are going through and sometimes a word of encouragement could be a life saver to someone who is really really struggling emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

20:03 And that's what I have to say, beautifully said, Beautifully said. I think this is my turn, so I have to say, I am Italian, but I've always people look at me and they think white and it's not. And I kind of understand, but nowhere near to the point of what other people have gone through. But when you look at me, you just assume, and it's like, man, if you only knew how much it's not. And in studying doctor King Tommy said, one of them of things that meant to you know, meant to lie to me. Another one is injustice anywhere. Is the threat to justice everywhere if we cause and uh, let me see, I don't know all the words exactly. It's but if we cause inescapable feelings, we're all tied to the same destiny. If we don't change it's not it's gonna affect everybody directly. And that's it's part

21:38 of you, like because like everybody thought, oh, you know, you look white, so you got a fitness category. But I'm not, so I don't and everybody didn't understand because just like other people, we grew up with name calling, and you know, we weren't we were less than. But I never saw it that way, you know, because all right, uh, when I grew I grew up in the wallings and one of my friends to play with is Conrad. He lived on the corner. He was a little bit younger than me, but he was so fun to play with. Never did I understand what other people say, Oh, you can't play with him or why not? Well, and they said because he's a black boy. I said, so he's a boy. I can play with a boy too. No, girl, he's a black boy. I'm like, what's that matter. He's a good boy. He's my friend, you know.

22:36 And we grew up playing together until we went on to high school. And I could never understand. Why would you say such a hurtful thing about the little boy? You know, he's my friend. And I never I never understood. But they were doing the same thing because other people wouldn't let their kids play with me because you know, oh you can't play with that whip or that, you know, they would say bad things, and I never understood, say what is that? And I'd go home and say these things, and my grandparents would be just like, don't worry about it. You know, that's that's just the way people think. And then we always had people of all kinds at our house. You know, there was because we were people. We were not just something. We were not just in this category. And I never understood it until I started to get older, when people were some people were starting to be more friendly, but there was still that there was still that injustice, that that way of thinking instead of thinking, people are people. I don't care what you look like. If you were if you were suffering, I'm gonna run to you and I'm gonna do something about it. If I see somebody doing something to you, I'm gonna tell them stop, because you know what, even if they turn on me, I'm still gonna hey, what are you doing? Like I think y'all told a story about people that was on a maybe a doc or something,

24:10 and the boys ran skipped to him. And that really touched me, because that's that is something I would do. I don't care what's going on, I don't care what you look like' If there's something like hey stop, you know, don't don't do this why are you doing this to this person? You know, it doesn't have to come to that. And it always mattered because if there's an injustice anywhere, it's everywhere. It matters to all of us. That's all I got. Well, thank you, Madam Rebel, thank you, thank you, thank you for your debut tonight. Thank you Jesus, there's a change on the horizon. Hallelujah, give her another handclap, hallelujahh thank you. Yes, you're you're absolutely right, and again he's the King. Was so insightful my too. I have to one was nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. That just you could just leave that one there. The first one that I saw has always resonated with me, and as I continued my getting close to the Lord, I began to understand it even more, and it really and to this

25:41 day it really means to me, and it's in this when it's in Memphis, Tennessee. In April of sixty eight, he said, we've got some difficulty days ahead, but it really doesn't matter. With me now, because I've been to the mountaintop, I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land. And twenty four hours later he was assassinated. What that meant for me was he reminded me of Uncle Moses and cousin Joshua, when Moses told josh you got to take him over to Jordan, and Joshua was like, what do you mean and Moses said, I can't go with you. That stuck with me. And then the experience I had over the past five years and dying twice and God took me to Hell and to come back to be able to tell the word, tell him, tell the world what he said. I get it when you have experienced.

27:02 And I believe doctor King was a mere man, but he was a teacher and a prophet from God to me. And despite whatever you can try to find that negative on it, I believe in his relationship with God because nobody goes around talking like that, nobody, And you can motivate people. If you look at any of his film, the black and white film today, you just I mean, you just you just take it up again. You're like, wow, wow. And he spoke peace the whole time. He spoke love unconditionally. He spoke just you got to accept, we got to walk this out together. And I wonder what he was saying about today, about where we are today, what's going on on today again with him saying, I've been to the mountaintop, I've been to the Promised Land.

28:11 I want to believe that God in a dream, maybe he will sleep. And he experienced that and God had to tell him like God had to tell Moses, you can't take him to the Promised Land. You can't go with my people. Hand it off to Joshua now. And that's that's that's big as far as a leader, for him getting in that pulpit that night, not knowing but knew his end maybe was coming. He said, I'm okay, it doesn't matter now, we will get to the Promised Land. And then I look at those who are around him, Andrew Youngs and the mayor, Jackson's and all, and I'm like, and Jesse Jackson's, what did y'all do? Did y'all take it? You know you the battalion was passed to you. Did you cross over into Jordan, or did you fight and and over little stuff and who's gonna get the title and who gets the chair?

29:18 And what did you do? Because there's not been that much of a movement. As I told my son, like this man stopped the whole transportation system. He said, for those of you who have cars, do you know, share your ride, pick your people up, or most of you have to walk. But we got to do it this way. We got to do it this way. And and no, you know, and nobody talks about those who remember him. They don't talk about all we revelish him, and oh he was an idol to us, and all we were you know, we got the t shirts and nobody talks. But they talk about what it meant and how their life changed. And that's leadership. Leadership is when your life is changed. You don't adore, don't adore me, don't look up, don't want to be like men, you don't want to try.

30:17 But if I'm a leader, I pray that I've changed something in your life. And that's leadership. Moses was a leader. Eight times he had to go back to the king and said, God said let my people go. Eight times I counted it. It was a leader. But here's a leader who knows. I've got to pass the battalion. God already told me, Okay, you know you can't go. You got blood on your hands, and I know you repented, but you can't. You've done what you're supposed to do. You parted that red sea. Now and you've trained Josh, Aaron and a few others like I told you to. Now it's not for you to hand it off. And the beauty and the beauty that God let him see where they were going. He let them see. He didn't get in there, but he let him see what it looked like. But I just want to piggyback off of you and rebel because every time I hear I have a dream. And I remember I was young, but as I got older, they were teaching black history in my class and we were I

31:53 remember seeing the magazine and whatever where he was standing on them that standing on that that that railing of the Lorraine Motel, and you can see his feet on the the walkway. You can see his feet, And I'm like, couldn't he didn't? You know, I'm thinking a childhood today. He didn't have a chess vest on. He did, you know, But then they really didn't have those I don't even think the police really had it. But it's just it brings chill bumps on my arms, just thinking, just like Moses got a chance to see what that promised land looked like. That's what Moses, I mean, that's what doctor King said, I've seen the Promised Land. We will get there, you know. So he definitely was a Moses in our day. But I'm with you, we didn't. We didn't have a Joshua. I haven't seen a Joshua. And I think that maybe Malcolm could have been had he been of a different faith than God. But

33:29 he did convert, but people didn't realize he starts speaking the truth and people didn't quite get it. And when he starts speaking the truth, they had to get rid of him then. So in actual respect, no, we haven't had a leader. We really haven't. Not the people of our nassistic he say, But ethnicity, that's the right, I'm trying to say ethnicity. But we have to take our own touch, and we have to keep walking, and we have to keep praying, and we have to have that faith. That's why I think now God is telling his people have faith in me, see me, watch me, follow me, Listen to me, stay in my presence, because I'm the only way you're gonna be able to get through it. I'm the only one that's gonna be able to assist you that you don't get affected by what is going on around the world. You're in this world, but you're not of this world if we trust and watch and have faith in God and stay in his presence. And that's where I

35:01 am. And this is so perfect for me because in my reading and I've journaled so far, I've been journaling. I am so excited. I am journaling because just like I said to you all in starting the new day, I been the new year. We have a long way to go, but we have a lull. I couldn't see it all, but it starts there and and God just wants us to start little, just little. He'll increase, He'll increase our faith is so little. He'll give us our desires, our heart and work with us and progresses where we need to be. So with doctor Martin Luther King and I have a dream it should change all of us and rebel. You know, I understand what you're talking about, and I've seen it through my life, and I'm fortunate my oldest felt it one day. But what people failed or realize and what I will take this quote that I heard Miles Monroe said. I was sitting in the audience not far from him. His exact words were, Prejudice is not something we're born with.

36:39 It's taught. It's taught. Your family didn't teach you to be prejudiced or look at skin or judge a person by their appearance. They taught you people were people. Because if they cut my finger and they cut their finger, it will still be red. Blood is blood. So just know that it doesn't matter because you were taught like I was taught, like I taught my girls, that we don't judge people by their appearance. If anything, a lot of people get changed and turned around because of attitude. And sometimes we don't know why people have attitudes. But the ignorance of knowing another person is the major downfall. Because they did not want to learn who we were.

37:45 They did not They just wanted to use the skills we had. And that's all I have to say. But tonight I wish people would have been taught more, you know, like our neighborhood everybody lived in it, you know, and actually we thought we were less than because see the man on the end of the street, he had a fancy pool in his backyard and everything. He had a real good job. He took care of his family. But you know what, he was a black man. There was nothing wrong with him because he was rich. You know. We was like, oh, you know, he's got it going on. He knows what to do to not only take care of his family, but to provide them with luxury, you know. And we weren't less than, but he knew better than we did. But we still talked to him. We still had neighborhood gatherings. Everybody still got together. There was no you know, oh, well you're rich or you know, or this it is. We didn't learn that. We learned that people are people, and hey, look, if your neighbor needs something, you go say, hey, can we help you?

39:01 You know, it don't matter what anything. Well, then you're rich, whether you're poor, you're people. Everybody's a person, and you don't need to look at what people have because just because you have don't mean that you're better, because it's all in the eye of the beholder. I wish, though that people could have like I would have liked to learn more from Conrad's mama's head was always beautiful. I was like, how does she get her hair to look like that? I didn't know any better, you know, Like I just I always knew that people were good to the heart, you know what, not because of what they had, not because of what they look like, and not because of anything else. We didn't see that, and I didn't know, you know, I didn't understand why some people were, in my opinion, in my opinion, ignorant about what they said.

40:08 Because when that that really hurt me when they sent things about my friends, you know, because these are my friends you're talking about. Why why would you say that? I mean there was even a time we was in school and they asked, well, you know, what do you watch on TV? And I was practically laughed out the classroom because I watched What's happening? I wanted to be friends with them. I watched. I was scared of JJ's daddy. I think I was gonna get a whooping. You know. It's like, I, but these are the things, and I would go to school and I talk about it, and they're like, what's Troy with you. What do you mean you're not supposed to watch that? Why not? And did go on and on about stuff. I'm like, I don't understand why you're saying this. I never understood and I would not let them change my opinion, and I I didn't see anything different, And I wish that I wish that that would help other people understand. We have a lot to learn from everybody out there. And if you don't, if you close off your heart and you're blinded by things that you shouldn't be seeing, you're never gonna learn anything. You're never gonna just think about this when not

41:39 to eleven hit? Did anybody care what anything was? No? Everybody banded together because we were Americans. Why can't we do that always? Why can't we see that everybody's people and everybody needs to be together and learn from each other because there's so many things that there's just so much that people need and you can't google everything to find out. But you know, having to sit down with somebody and having a heart to heart talk I think would really matter. That's just my opinion. There's so much, you know, Thank you so much, Rebel, And it's yeah, at the end of the hour, and I found two more and it just fits right into what we all are saying. One of his other quotes, not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service. Another one he said, in the end, no, we don't want to do that one.

42:44 Oh yeah, in the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. And the last one, A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. That's a good one, and rebel hit it while you sit down instead of judging people by the kitchen window that you're looking out and you see you don't know anything about that person. But if you get to know them, say hi, say hello, introduce yourself. That's how you get to know people, and you learn people. That's what happens on the job. When you get to know people, they get to know you and you realize, yes, I could, I could understand this person, I can work with this person. Because you had a conversation with that person, you realize that they're not violent, You realize that they don't fit the stereotype that people try to put them in, and a lot of times they scared to they judge you off of afraid of you taking something from them. And a lot of times people don't won't even take. They just want to have a job and provide for their family.

44:06 That's see it. Yeah, I was gonna piggyback on on everything, and you know, Rebel, you hit it on the head as well, and just think it takes you know, it just takes one person to make a difference. And I think a lot of that. Well, now I was gonna say that too, Tommy was fear. And so fear has been passed on from generation to generation of what their perception of people of color, white people, you know, other other ethnicities or races or religious groups. You know, it's the fear, you know, you look at it. Even after the nine nine to eleven incidents, the thing was now persons from the Middle East were supposed to be feared, you know, because of the acts of a few people, you know what I mean. And so when you start judging a whole group based on the acts a few, then you you cause this fear. You know. So we don't all have to agree, but we can agree to disagree. I think being able to hear, listen, not hear, because here you just listen, actually listen and have dialogue and conversation and learning about cultures, read about the different cultures and then ask questions. And you know, we can start as little as having culture groups, you know, each one, bring one, you know, somebody just to learn and then create create round rules. We're not gonna call names,

45:42 We're not gonna We're just gonna listen and maybe sharing just something that comes sharing recipes or you know, I like hamburger, like you know, anybody likes. You know, I like skating, I like bowling, you know, just kind of creating great groups that does not attach a color to it, just attaches interest to it. And I think once we do that, it'll be easier to communicate with people. And I grew up in a diverse neighborhood. It was you know, my father was retired military and I lived in a military town, and so you were liable to see all kinds of folks, you know, influxing in and out and stuff like that. So one of his tours, we were able to go to Japan. I was young, but we were able to go to Okinawa, so and then coming back, so he was exposed to going abroad, you know, going mid you know, in the Middle Midwest States when at that time it wasn't the greatest thing for a personal color to be traveling, and especially if he drove along and so, but the experiences and stuff and meeting good people. And I think it just starts with one, every one of us as a leader, and what is it that you want to change? Be the change you want to see in the world. So write down what you were like to change, and it's just start somewhere. If it starts with a friend, you know, you got a friend and say, you know, I don't do that that group of people, Hey, let me let me talk to you. Let's have a dialogue why and just kind of explain, well,

47:14 these are my experiences with the experience, wasn't that great? And that's the only experience they had because in that they don't interact or don't see that population all the time. So just kind of decrease in the fear. And I think we can be the world that we want to be in. Well, God is good and and and for those of us who are believers, you know, we need to take in you know, consideration, do a check you know of yourself, do self inventory. I always say judge yourself so you won't be judged. Even though that was from Shakespeare seeing three, Act two. But yeah, but I still have some scripture. I can follow bet up. But you know, and that's what Jesus taught. You know, this show was a beautiful experience with me. I thank you for opening my heart even more. God bless you, Misty, thank you, Thank you for your honor. Thank you for listening, just really listening. You know, we appreciate that. And I feel safe here, you know, to be able to express and say, hey, you know, we needed to take a look at this or this is things that we need to do, and I just want to I know, we got two minutes. I just wanted to shift a little bit and just really encourage everybody please stay safe out here. Our climate, our landscape as America, Floridian, whether whatever state you live in, it's changing and it's changing even more so we need

48:47 you to stay prayerful. We need you to stay safe. We need to use wisdom and ask for wisdom. You know, get out of debt. Make sure, you know, get rid of it. That was the biggest thing that I was training this weekend with mentoring some of the churches go in that closet and get rid of stuff that you're not gonna use anymore. Create space in your house. Thank you for bringing more enlightenment. I feel more positive in hearing this message from the show tonight. Thank you country see, but go ahead and clean up. Somebody need the bank. One of my banks here was looking for coats for the folks just here in or Land, Florida, because of the lowering temp lowering temperature. You know, do one thing, Go do one thing on your things to do list. Tommy was like, Hey, I'm journaling and she loves it. It's a whole different world for her. You know what I'm saying. You know, I just told a group of elders that are over sixty something years old create a vision board. Life is not over yet. It's not over. And you don't want to do that. Cross it off the list. I'm no longer in school. I crossed it off the list. I got hundreds of things on there to do. I want you to love yourselves. We want you to love yourself, and we don't want you to We don't want you to be taking advantage of use wisdom, pray about everything, Increase your prayer, life study your word. Love God. We're going to be back next week, I promise you, and as always, it's going to be enlightening and resourceful.

50:20 And if you have anything you want to say, you know how to reach us, you'd be blessed. I'll see you soon, take care, guys, Thank y'all. Night,