May 11, 2026

Aging & Its Counterparts

Aging & Its Counterparts

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Season 4

aging, history, Older Americans Month, origin

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Well, good evening, good evening, and welcome to another awesome time,

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another time of dialogue and clarity and consensus and awareness

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and unawareness and celebration. And there's my side kicking missus

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tray try all the way from virgin Ye, how are you?

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I'm doing well?

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And enjoined us weather. How are you?

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Oh? I bet you are. We're going to talk about

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that in a minute. Let's take it to the throne

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room of grace. Lord. We just thank you, we praise you,

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We give you glory and honor, for you alone are

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worthy to be praised. We thank you, Father God, that

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you've allowed us to see yet another day in you

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to be able to do that which you've ordained us

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to do. It's our destiny, it's our legacy. And thank

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you for giving us the mind and the will power

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to do what thus says the Lord. Now, as always, Father,

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this is your show, this is your podcast. This is

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your time to dialogue on this level, one hundred stations,

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one hundred platforms to talk to your people. And we

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thank you, Father God for everything. Now we get behind

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the cross and we will watch. We will lean in

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and listen intensively and attentively with whatever you would have

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to share with us tonight. We glorify you, We magnify it.

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We love you so much. All this and more in

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the most holiest and holy names Jesus Christ, our Savior.

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Amen and amen Amen. I don't know what's squeaking there,

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but nevertheless, all right, all right, listeners, viewers, audience, tap in,

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tap in, roll call. Let's see who, Let's see who's

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joining us tonight. It's time for roll call, and we

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thank you and we give you praise. So how's the weather.

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I know it's it's in the seventies up there, eighties.

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Did it maybe? Maybe high?

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Maybe he highs sixties low, seventies, mid little mid seventies.

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A little breezy today.

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Okay, very good, very good. We finally got a little rain.

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I don't know what's holding back the rain. I know

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my grass needs it, and uh, you know, I'm just

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I'm watching it now. You know, it's clouding up here,

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and it just it just goes away or it stays

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dark and it just doesn't do anything. So I pray

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that man is not doing anything stupid out there and

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preventing nature to do what it needs to do. Because

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nature has to cleanse itself too, you know, it has

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to cleanse itself as well. So we can't stop that.

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We need to stop trying to interfere and everything. I

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don't know what that squeaky noise is. You hear it, Tray,

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but now I don't. Okay, well there we go.

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Now I do hear it, and it sounds like there's

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a speaker catching a microphone catching the speaker, Trey, Can

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you give me a favor and mute when you're not talking? Sure,

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thank you, sorry about that.

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No problem, thank you, thank you. See this is what

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I'm talking about. We got the troubleshooter sitting right there.

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We got the sniper and the Holy Spirit sitting right there.

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She knows what to do. She has an ear. She's

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listening intensively and intentively as well. So thank you, Rebel,

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We love you so much. Thank you for that, for

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just genuinely she really cares. This is not just some

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person that's doing a job and clocking in. She really cares.

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She's got a heart of goal. I would not do

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it without her. We can't do it without her, and

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they even try to replace her because it's not going

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to happen in Jesus name. So we just thank you

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Lord for all of that. But I hear you Trey

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on that. And I'm thankful for the weather. I'm thankful

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that it is hot, but it's cooling down a little bit.

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But it's it's going to be a whopper this summer.

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It's going to be a whopper, and we need the rain.

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So we need all elements operating at full throllo all

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all of it. Everything happening. You know, the grass is

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growing and we don't need to have brush fires, we

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don't need to be in a drought. I know most

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this is the first time I think in my life

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that I've ever heard of so many states being in

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the drought and being in the red and you know,

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praying that there's no forest fires out there, nobody you know,

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flicking thing. But people are still throwing trash out that window.

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You could get you a little grocery bag. I know,

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you go to the grocery store. I know everybody goes

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to some grocery store, and you could save the bags.

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We got a whole bigger bag where we put those

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bags in. Now, we're very careful because if you if

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you're not careful, they do attract roaches if you're not careful,

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so you got to rotate them out of there. Okay,

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but you always going to the grocery store. You're always

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going shopping. You're always getting a little bag, and you

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could put it in your car and all you have

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to do. You can go to the gas when you

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go to the gas station, you can just take it

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out and either empty it into the gas the trash

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can at the gas station or at the grocery store,

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or you could just put the whole bag in there.

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Gonna get another bag. I don't understand why you got

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to throw stuff out, you know, I mean, and especially

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near the handicapped parking spaces, you're just putting the baskets

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there and everything like, we don't count, we don't count.

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It's no big deal, you know. I just people are

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just so senseless and so distracted. I mean, everybody, every

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car I was passing by or passing me, was on

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their phone. Every car on the interstate, the regular roads,

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they're on their phone. And it didn't look happy. They

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didn't look happy. And I'm like, wow, I just don't

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know what you're doing. I don't know what you're thinking.

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I don't know how you're thinking these things. I really

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don't know. And the world is already falling out. You know,

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Hell opens her gates daily. Heaven has to open its windows,

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and we have to be told when Heaven's windows are open.

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It's not a regular, but there would be times gods say, okay,

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Heaven's windows are open, ass what is it that you want?

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All right, where's my our audience out there? I don't

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see anybody popping up. This is not good. I need

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to see somebody popping up. I know you're listening. Don't

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be trying to ease in and eves drop. That's not

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gonna get you anywhere. Can't help you there, can't help

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you won't be blessed, So don't be what you what

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you're so shod for. Just say hello, come on, where

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my state's at? Come on, everybody, Come on through, Come

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on through. Well anyway, we're gonna This is Older Americans Month.

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There's a lot of celebrations and awareness. Awareness is going

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on in the month of May. Well, of course, we

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just had you know, Mother's Day yesterday and prayerfuctly people

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did what they needed to do and all the good stuff.

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I know a lot of people that I know don't

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no longer have their moms, and so I know it's tough.

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It's tough every year. It's tough every holiday, it's tough

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every birthday. You know, when you've lost somebody, and that's

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the physical not only the physical losing of somebody, but

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when you have emotionally disconnected from somebody you know and

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you can't help but think about them, you know, and

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see you know, you wonder what they're up to. You

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pray that they're okay. Then you're real bad rained today, Okay, Mickey,

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thank you, Please be safe, Please be safe. Thank you

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Mickey for that. So I know it was a a

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it's a bittersweet holiday. And we've got more to come.

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We've got Father's Day coming up next month, and you know,

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of course we got the holidays and everything. So I understand,

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and I know, I can only imagine. My parents been

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gone for over thirties, nearly thirty years, twenty eight to

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thirty years, and it's never it's never easy. I'm always

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thinking about them, so, you know, but I'm just glad

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that we made it through another holiday, another awareness. And

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again this is Old Americans Month. It starts on the fifth,

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it's on the fifteenth, but we won't you know, we

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won't be on point. You know, we won't be available

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on that day. It's Friday. But I wanted to talk

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about that. It's origins origins rather. Old Americans Month originated

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April of nineteen sixty three, when President John F. Kennedy

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met with the next National Council of Senior Citizens to

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address the needs of older adults, leading to the designation

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the designation of may as Senior Citizens as Senior Citizens

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and to address the needs of old people at the

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Senior Citizens Month. I'm sorry. It was established to honor

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the contributions of seniors, particularly as roughly one third of

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Americans over sixty five living poverty at that time, at

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this time, at the time, and I know that right

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now that's probably much more of seniors living in poverty, okay,

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below the poverty line, because they are all but counting

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on their Social Security or their SSI or their ssd I.

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They've gone through possibly their pensions that they've had even

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before the war kicked off, the hot you know, kick

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thing to gear, high gas rates, high food and grocery bill,

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and of course all the utilities have gone up as well.

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So this is interesting that how it was formulated and

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was formalized. They passed the Older Americans Act through President

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Johnson in nineteen sixty five, and basically it was to

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promote community based services that enable independent living. That's all

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it was, you know, And I know this is a

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population that's so easily forgotten about people. You know, unless

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you've got a senior person in your life, they're not

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thinking about them. They're trying to care for them. I

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do commend people who do care for their elders. That's

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something very near and dear to me. That's a population

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that will always be near and dear to me. They're

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the lead population and the lead content for in my

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lead population. For my nonprofit, we adopt senior residential facilities.

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I'm doing a gig twice a month, go to a facility,

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and I'm the motivation, motivating person. I want to motivate

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them and let them know you are important. Mississippi, Texas

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at LA bad weather all weekend just passed. Okay, Misty,

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thank you. Okay, Well, I pray that I'm glad. We

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all need to look out for each other. Hey, Annastagia,

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thank you. Yes, y'all stay safe out there. Okay, I

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hope you just got to have your umbrellas, your ponchos,

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whatever's gonna take. All right, Please stay safe out there

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and watch those roads. But yes, we all have to

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take care of each other. We have to be one big,

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happy family. I can share with you all now. I

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just finished my fifth book. Yeah, it only took me

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less than two weeks to finish it, and that included

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a photoshoot, graphic designs and everything. I have yet to

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upload it to the publishers, but it's on its way.

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And I'm talking about my love for my elders and

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my family and stuff. Because this is my autobiography. At

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least it's part one of my autobiography. I can't tell

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y'all everything. You just have to figure it out because

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I'm not telling you. I love to be transparent, don't

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get me wrong, but I am not going to tell

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you everything. But God just directed me. And it's really

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neat as you need this time. Hang on a minute,

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get away from there, excuse me.

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Yeah.

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See, she's she's real slick, she's a very she's smart,

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she knows, she's just like a four year old child

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that's two. She knows what she's doing. But nevertheless, uh,

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and it was interesting to write and to think, you know,

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talk about things. You finish it already. Yeah, it's finished,

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I know. Yeah. Our news reminds us to check older folks.

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Oh okay, nice, nice, nice. And it's sad that we

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have to be reminded. Except for the crew, for our tribe,

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Except for our tribe, they're gonna always be in tune, connected,

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knowing what's going on, know what the needs are. So

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I'm not worried about my tribe. They are tribe setting

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it straight. Tribe. I'm not We're not worried about that

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because they're gonna know if I need to know something,

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what's going on, in Mississippi, Louisiana, or New York or Washington. Rather,

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they're gonna I got people or they're just a phone

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call away, and they'll let us know what's going on

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up there. So please continue to reach out to them

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and everything. And I may need you all to work

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on a project with me for the group that I

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see on a regular we'll talk about it. I'll see

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what God wants to say about that. But yes, ma'am,

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the cover, the cover, I'm gonna tell you right now,

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my photographers, photographer by a photographer is off the chain.

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Just the cover alone. People are gonna buy the book

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just the cover alone. And I'm not gonna go in

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there any more details. But just the cover alone. People

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are going to want the book just to just and

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put it out on their mantles or whatever. Just just

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the cover. It's gonna just take you out. I mean,

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I just couldn't believe it. He put it, put it together.

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Now we're on a timeline and deadline, and I'm just

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letting you see. You can see when God purposes you

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to do a thing, do it. Do it. Just do it.

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He'll bring everybody you need, you know, and all the

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working pieces, all the working parts, those who excel better

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in areas that you don't excel good in. He'll bring

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it all together and he will pay for it. He

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will provide the financing, whatever you need. He will do

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it in Jesus' name. So I'm excited about that. I

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want to share with you, Trey, come on back in

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here and talk. Will be on Amazon and auto audiobooks. Yeah,

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I'm gonna make it into an ebook and yes, but

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mister you can always just let me know. And it's

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in the back to be in the back of my

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car like the other books and the bookmarks. So you

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just let me know you want one. You can sell

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me and we can keep it moving. Okay, I'll get

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it to you and autographed and everything. Oh I think

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I should. That's the way I need to market it.

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You want an autograph book of any of my books,

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let me know you our engineer. You get in touch

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with her. She knows how to reach me. You have phone,

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my phone numbers right there scrolling it for the past

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four years, so you know use it. Say hey, listen

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is who I am. Some of you are on my

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setting it Straight page on Facebook. Let me know message me.

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I can get it to you, not a problem, and

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the book rates are still inexpensive, so I can I

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can mail it real quick. But I wanted to share

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this weekend and then, like I said, you know, trade

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you come on in and give us some updates and

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what your thoughts are about older Americans month and then

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I'm going to share a testimony. I'm gonna mute myself.

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Especially on hot days, the news and radio reminds to

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check the older people. Nice, nice, go ahead, tray, come

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Yeah, you know, I think that people forget about some

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of our older population. But then I do know some

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older adults that they're still thriving. They're still getting out

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exercise and driving, you know, in their nineties and so,

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but you do have some that are more vulnerable that

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maybe live alone, that don't have the resources. I'm not

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sure what's being cut, you know, the food supply, what

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they're able to buy, the foods, the snap benefits, so

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you know, definitely check on their aging, especially extream code

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and extream heat heat weather. You know, look at stuff.

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home and you notice the grass is not cut or overgrown, or.

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a wellness check if they're not you know, if you're

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not close to the loved one, or if you're a

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neighbor of a loved one. But it's just so many

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just listening and reading about older folks have so much

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knowledge we should have conversations with Yeah, exactly, Mickey, there's.

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A lot of knowledge behind our seniors.

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You know, I enjoy talking with them and learning about history,

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their life experiences. And you know, there used to be

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a time where younger, younger folks would listen to older people,

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and now some of the things are I see a

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lot of disrespect with what they're.

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Saying in front of people.

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You know, I said, I mean, I didn't say I

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was an angel, but knew what to say and what

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not to say and speak to people. And when you

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walk past or say excuse me, or you walk you know,

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you're greeting, say hello and thank you. We've lost so

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some of that, and sometimes it's not even our younger generation.

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It's adults just like us who seem to have lost

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their manners. But you know, like I said, the older populations,

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you know, that definitely, you know, I care, you know,

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was one of the caregivers for my dad. You know,

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it's for daughters, and so we each had a part

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in his care and so just watching him and just

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you know, even now reminiscing about some of the things

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that he told us that my mom as well.

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My mom passed on.

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Twenty something years ago, but even talking about her things,

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I still talk about things that she has told me

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and different different sayings and how she said different things

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and what she is still and not only my sisters

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and myself, you know, but our family and other people.

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So you know, definitely that population has a lot of

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wisdom and they just want people to listen, you.

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Know, you have them just want to be heard. That's it, Amen.

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And speaking of wisdom, I'm going to go over some

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scriptures with that, but I want to share something with you.

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My daughter took me out to dinner for yesterday, and

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this is the first time I would say for Mother's Day,

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they've done something. Each of them did something separate what

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was on their hearts. And I already sent them a

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text of the things I want that could be purchased

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for Christmas or my birthday or Mother's day, and so

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what I didn't get with, you didn't get off that list.

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You got mother, you got my birthday coming up, and

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you've got Christmas. But anyway, we went to a very nice,

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high ended restaurant here. I didn't even know it existed.

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It's tucked away on one of our busiest streets and

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it was packed. It was packed. So we get in

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there and they take us to the table all the

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way like seemingly in the back. We were near the

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almost near the kitchen, near the exit door that you

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cannot go out of because it will alarm set off

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an alarm. Anyway, so we're sitting there and it's just

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really neat, and all of a sudden we're eating and

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Belissia looks up. Now my back is to the door.

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I mean literally, I could do this, and the door's

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right there. So and she said, oh my god, she said, mommy.

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And she's looking up and I'm turning around and there's

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a roach. There's a roach on the top of the door.

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And I was like, okay, and she said, looks like

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it's got wings and I said, oh okay. So our

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server wasn't the brightest. She wasn't the brightest. She wasn't

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the brightest, and she at this point she was not

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going to get a tip. I don't care what it

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said on the receipt. She wasn't she wasn't attentive. I

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don't know what her issues were. I didn't care. You

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came to work, okay, and you need to be attentive.

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You don't have to be so friendly, but you need

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to be attentive. Everybody else was very friendly, thank you,

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welcome to it's just your first time here, you know,

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blah blah blah, and you know and stuff. So anyway,

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I motioned to her and I she said, yes, yeah,

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so fake. But anyway I motioned, I said, you see

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that she could. I said no, no, no, don't, don't

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cause a scene here, but get me a manager. And

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so she goes off, and instead of getting the manager,

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she's telling the other servers and they're all trying to

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see what. They're looking at us, and I'm pointing up like,

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don't look at me, it's up there. So some of

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the other customers were, you know, soon caught on. So

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finally a manager comes over and he's looking at well,

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I guess he was a manager, but he's looking up

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at it and He's like, huh, well, you know this

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is this is Florida. This is Florida the weather. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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now what you're not gonna do, no, sir, this is

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this is This door is never opened. Number one. As

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much as your front door is open, that's number one.

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We know what, we're up to date on our codes

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and everything. I'll just get a spray. I said, well,

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you won't do it tonight, and you don't need to

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see anybody at this table. Oh this, you're gonna have

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to move us because I don't know what that's going

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to do and you don't want it landing on me.

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No no, no, no, no, no no no. But I'm just saying,

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you know, we just I said, no, what I'm telling

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you is no, this door is never opened. And that's

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been sitting in here for a little minute. I forgot

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to tell him that he needs to go and they

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need to check all corners, under the tables, under the chairs,

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because it reproduces real quick, a roach, just like an

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ant reproduces really quick. So but I forgot to tell

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him that part. So when he came off his little

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high horse and realized, he said, are you from here,

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I said, not Orlando, but I'm a native Floridian, and

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I know my, I know my, I know my little barmits,

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I know him. He said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, here

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comes another. Now this is the big manager. He didn't

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have on the same outfit that everybody else had on

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or the colors. He had a linen napkin in his hand.

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Next thing, I know, he's all in the corner trying

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to get it. He got it. I started clapping, Thank you,

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somebody did it because y'all were going to have to

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can't spray while people eating, Thank you Mickey. But you know,

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he was just trying to just be weird. You know,

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I don't want to use the S word, but anyway,

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and I'm like no. Then that manager came back to

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our table. He said, I am so sorry that happened.

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You know, what, have you ordered dessert yet? I said, no,

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we haven't. We're just trying to get through this because

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they bring the meats to you, and they carve your

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meats right in front of you. I was like, oh

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my god. And so and I had my Saratoga mineral water,

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you know, like they have on top shelf. It's a

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good water too. If you're like a little you know,

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a little bubbly in your water. Anyway, and I mean

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they bring the bottle. They don't even you know. I'm like, okay,

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this is real bright. We could we could split the bottle,

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but no, she had her bottle. I had money. So anyway,

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he said, please order, and dinner is on us tonight.

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I said, shut the front door. He said no, ma'am.

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He said no, because we're not going to do that.

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We want you back. We want you to have a

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good experience here, and that was not a good experience.

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So we are sorry. And I said, well, thank you

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so much. He said, no problem, we got it. It's

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on us. Order what you want. That sounds like Time

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Day Brazil. Nope, no, no, but nope, but maybe similar.

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They had those big skewers and they carving the meat

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at the table side. I was like, okay, wow, I

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didn't even know they existed. I really did. So anyway,

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so here comes our server, so we by the time

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we ordered, she brings the menu for the dessert. I

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ordered dessert and then she comes. She said, well, I'm

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gonna go get the bill. I said, there is no bill.

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She said.

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I was like, hell, watch Okay, here we go, Here

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we go, Here we go, here we go. Do you

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know that girl came back with the bill and the

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little cover thing and I looked at it. So she

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comes back and she goes, is it? I said, we're not.

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You all are paying for our dinner the night. I

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beg your pardon. Go get a manager, Just go get

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a manager. Well a manager didn't come back to the table.

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They snatched it about of her hand, and the other

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bill she brought back had zero balance. But I was

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kind enough. It is a high high ended restaurant. Yeah, yeah,

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you could tell who's gonna you know, you're gonna go

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to ihop and they gonna cut your meat at the table.

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They're not go do that. But it was really nice,

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and I said we will go back because the food

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is I mean, I didn't go to the buffet. On

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the way out, I'm looking at the buffet like I

454
00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:39.920
should have went over to the buffet first, but I

455
00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:42.559
wanted to really get into the food, thinking that, you know,

456
00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:45.200
I need to save my appetite. And definitely for dessert,

457
00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:49.119
they had key lime pie, real key lime key West

458
00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:53.920
type of pie. Okay, not the store bought kind, but anyway,

459
00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:57.519
I'm a connoisseur of key lime pie, all right, just

460
00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:00.000
like I just like for sweet potato pote. All right.

461
00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:02.440
You can make stuff if you want to, but we

462
00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:05.400
go call you out anyway. So I just want to see,

463
00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:07.920
let you see the glory of God. My daughter wanted

464
00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:10.759
to treat me. She is not on a major you

465
00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:13.359
know all that. She don't. She don't punch a clock,

466
00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:17.200
pay anybody for work. You know, she's relying on you know, scholarships,

467
00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:20.000
and you know her her hair business and need a

468
00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:23.480
salon business, and her you know, food catering business. She's

469
00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:25.640
not punching the clock. But she was determined to do

470
00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:27.799
that for me. She already had planned it out for

471
00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:30.200
a long time, and advance already called in for the

472
00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.359
reservation everything. And here's God, that sounds like a good

473
00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:36.720
time minus the critter. Yeah, we're watching the critter VISTI

474
00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:39.440
I was like, well, okay, you gotta die. I already

475
00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:41.640
told her, well you will die tonight. I did tell

476
00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:43.680
her you gonna died a night. This is it. Hopefully

477
00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:46.200
you've had your fun whatever you did. But like I said,

478
00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:48.359
I did forget to tell them, you need to go

479
00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:51.799
search everywhere corners and stuff because it's laid eggs. It's

480
00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:54.960
it's not it's it's laid eggs. So but yeah, and

481
00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:57.440
then she gets blessed back by our she don't have

482
00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:59.319
to pay anything. I went on here, I said, no,

483
00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:02.519
let me pay the tip. Let me get this child tip.

484
00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:05.759
And I landed on eighteen percent. And normally I'll give

485
00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:08.880
twenty one percent or more, but you know, she barely.

486
00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:11.400
I said, I can do that, and then the Lord blessed.

487
00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.319
I got that money back. I got the money back,

488
00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:16.799
so you know, but that's how God works when you

489
00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:18.680
least expect it, and when you have a good heart

490
00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:20.519
and everything. So I wanted to share that with you

491
00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:23.359
all tonight. But now I'm gonna segue back to our

492
00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:27.599
scriptures of the aging and elderly. Isaiah forty six and

493
00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:30.519
four said, even to your old age and gray hairs,

494
00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:33.200
I am he. I am he who will sustain you.

495
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:35.839
So God tells us, no matter how old you are,

496
00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:39.559
if you trust me, I got you. I will sustain you. Now,

497
00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:42.200
of course, you know the story of Abraham and Sarah.

498
00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:46.119
He promised Abraham a son. He promised it, and he's

499
00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:49.400
and Abraham's like, look, I'm growing older. Here she's growing older,

500
00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:52.759
you know, and you could tell Abraham loves Sarah to

501
00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:56.480
the bidsy lied saying that was his sister willing to

502
00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:59.359
put his life in danger, you know, even before the

503
00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:02.160
Lord and everything. But you know, he's like, we're not

504
00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:03.960
having a child. So Sarah's like, you know what, I

505
00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.200
can't give you kids, so go ahead and lay it

506
00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:09.599
with my housemaiden, you know, hey, guy, and she'll give

507
00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:11.680
you a son. And then of course that's how Ishmael

508
00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:14.359
is born. And we know the story of Ishmael. He's

509
00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:17.319
out there bullying I, you know, let me not get

510
00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:19.599
ahead of the time. So next thing, you know, God

511
00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:22.359
is like, okay, it's time, and Abraham's like time for

512
00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:24.799
what time for you to have your son? And Abraham's like,

513
00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:27.000
you know, I'm one hundred and she's ninety nine, so

514
00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.279
you know, I don't know how you're going to do that.

515
00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:32.400
Guy's like, don't worry about it. I got it. And

516
00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:35.759
here comes Isaac. And then if I Isaac and Ishmael

517
00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:39.640
are standing outside and they're playing, and Ishmael is apparently

518
00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:42.240
a little rough with Isaac. Sarah didn't like it. It

519
00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:45.960
made for a good experience in story for later, yes, yes, yes,

520
00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:50.680
and Sarah's watching as mothers would do, and like, okay,

521
00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:52.880
now you're getting too close, and you're getting a little

522
00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:55.640
you're laying hands too. You know, you're really acting a

523
00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:58.680
little ugly here, and you're not the golden child. If

524
00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:00.759
it wasn't for me, you wouldn't. So I can only

525
00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.400
imagine what was going through Sarah's mind and all she

526
00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.960
All we know is the scene cuts to Sarah saying

527
00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:08.920
tell her she got to leave and take a child

528
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:11.559
with him with him, and Abraham's like, well, but you

529
00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:13.920
told me to do that, and you know he's my son,

530
00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:16.960
and she goes, yes, and she needs to leave. So

531
00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:20.359
Abraham goes to God. He don't call off his crew.

532
00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:22.920
He don't call his mother in law, well she's probably deceased.

533
00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:25.440
He don't call his sisters in law and his brother,

534
00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:28.160
and he don't. He don't call a lot and say

535
00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:31.519
you won't believe. No, He goes. He goes to you know,

536
00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:33.440
a little quiet place. He said, Lord, she's telling me,

537
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.160
And all God said was do what she says. What

538
00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:42.799
she's asking you to do. Abraham didn't why, I mean nothing, Hey,

539
00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:45.559
you and the boy gotta go. We'll give you provisions.

540
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:49.000
We'll give you, give you vitual vituals, vituals, vituals. You

541
00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.319
will give you food. But you gotta go, you gotta go.

542
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.680
And now we know historically Ishmael becomes God made a promise,

543
00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:58.960
He said, don't worry, they're not gonna die. The underneath.

544
00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:01.359
He gets a palm tree. He has her sits sit

545
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:04.000
under it, and all of a sudden the water cameing down,

546
00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.359
and the Aravens came in and fed them. And now

547
00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:10.960
Ishmael turns into it, goes to Asia, and he creates,

548
00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:17.240
you know, the Iranian people and culture and all that.

549
00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:20.640
But he still praise God, he still serves God. But

550
00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.400
he's a very angry little man. And then all of

551
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:25.720
the people who follow him are angry as well. And

552
00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:27.559
that brings us to history. And there you go. You

553
00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:30.519
could do your own research. But anyway, so God says,

554
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:34.400
I'll sustain you Psalms ninety two and fourteen, Verses fourteen

555
00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.960
and fifteen. They will still bear fruit in old age.

556
00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:42.599
They will stay fresh and green, a promise of continued vitality.

557
00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:46.000
He will restore us. I am I'm blowing God is

558
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:50.559
blowing my mind. I'm learning so much about vitamins and

559
00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:52.880
supplements that we need to take. And I'm looking at

560
00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.440
the ingredients of the vitamins, of the supplements. It's not

561
00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:57.920
even vitamins, is supplements. Because I've been on this, you know,

562
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:02.920
my health journey lately, I'm graduating from a major programmers.

563
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.640
I was almost with them a year. I'm healthier, I've

564
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:10.519
lost healthy weight, I've kept it off. You know, it's

565
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.839
just been uh and my one little nail here, you know,

566
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:16.640
my one little nail. It's just it keeps growing. I

567
00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:20.000
cut it and cut it. It keeps growing because I'm here,

568
00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:23.519
you know, eating consuming healthy things, drinking more of my

569
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:26.599
waters and things like that. Yes, I've gone over and said,

570
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:28.079
oh I want to go, and I wanted to. I

571
00:29:28.119 --> 00:29:30.319
want a piece of pie last night. Yeah, I deserved

572
00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:32.200
a piece of pie. But guess what. I drank water

573
00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.720
the whole day yesterday. And I really didn't mean to,

574
00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:36.400
but it just turned out the way I had a

575
00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:40.960
tasteful water. God will restore, he will revitalize you, he

576
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:43.920
will reignite you. He will he will bring you back

577
00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:45.559
to where you need to be. You've got to just

578
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:49.000
listen to your body, and your body is what's talking

579
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:51.440
to you all the time. Number one and number two.

580
00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:54.599
Number two, it's meant to heal itself. I can't say

581
00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:57.960
that enough that this blows my mind. The body is

582
00:29:58.240 --> 00:30:01.759
meant to heal there as age. I think once you

583
00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:07.039
turn nineteen, the first thing to go is either your

584
00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.759
your smell, your sense of smell. Some's the good, glad

585
00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:12.200
things of getting better for your health. Amen, thank you, missy.

586
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:15.920
I think it's either your smelling or your hearing goes

587
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.799
first as soon as you're turning like nineteen twenty years old.

588
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:21.960
And of course if you're not listening to loud music

589
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:24.359
all your life and you're not doing other stuff to

590
00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.240
your health to make that go. But yeah, your sens

591
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.079
it starts to deteriorate. Not when you turn fifty five

592
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:32.079
and sixty, No, when you turn nineteen and twenty. By

593
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:34.759
the time you're thirty days are already drying up a

594
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:37.960
little bit. There. It's not reproducing depending on your healthy

595
00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.039
you're eating habits. If you're eating all the carbs and

596
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:43.440
start you foods and stuff like that, they go against

597
00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:46.160
you because you're not eating your leafy greens, you're not

598
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:48.599
drinking your water, you're drinking sodas. You're drinking beer, and

599
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:50.799
I'm not gonna even get into the alcohol piece. I'm

600
00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:53.160
not even going there and smoking and vaping, I'm not

601
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:55.200
gonna even go there. I'm just talking about if you

602
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:58.279
were eating a healthy having a healthy outlook on what

603
00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:02.079
the food that you eat. Okay, here we go. Proverbs

604
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.839
sixteen to thirty one. Gray hair is a crown of glory.

605
00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:07.759
It is gained in a righteous life. So if you're

606
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:12.319
living as close to God as you can, holiness, righteousness,

607
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:16.680
he says, it is gained in a righteous life. So

608
00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:20.079
gray hair is a crown of glory, and that's God's

609
00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:26.240
gift back to us. Second Corinthians. Second Corinthians four and sixteen.

610
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.519
Though outwardly they are we are wasting away, yet inwardly

611
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:33.559
we are being renewed day by day. I'll renew your

612
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.279
youth like the eagle. You know the story about the eagle.

613
00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:38.359
Even though you know everybody wants to come along and

614
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:42.319
say that's fake. Eagles don't go into a rock and

615
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.880
heal themselves. Well, they've got documentaries on whether I don't

616
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.480
know if they created AI forty years ago. I've got

617
00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:54.119
YouTube documentation from forty to fifty years ago. Where they

618
00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:58.599
follow eagles. But eagle is the most profound bird. It's

619
00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:03.759
a very strong and wise bird. And it's teflon's the

620
00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:08.720
claws and the beak and the feathers, I mean ages.

621
00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:11.119
So how does he get rid of it? I don't

622
00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:12.960
hear people talk about they found a dead eagle in

623
00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:15.799
their backyard, or they found the dead eagle in the mountains.

624
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:17.680
I don't you don't hear about that.

625
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:18.039
I don't know.

626
00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:20.119
I don't know where they go when they pass away.

627
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:23.359
But I do know. An eagle will not fight on

628
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:26.519
your level. It will scoop you up and take you hot.

629
00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:30.400
And most animals cannot ascend, they can't take the air,

630
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:32.799
the finning of the air. An eagle not gonna sit

631
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:35.720
down and come down to your level. Study the bird,

632
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:40.079
study it and watch it on your We used to

633
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:43.000
use watch Wild Kingdom now trade. I know I'm dating myself.

634
00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:44.680
I don't know if you ever remember. They came on

635
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.119
Sunday nights called Wild Kingdom for one hour and they

636
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:52.599
talked about every type of Perkins Perkins was his last name,

637
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.759
And they talked about all the animals. They observed them,

638
00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:59.240
They camouflaged themselves. They watched how the ego. They watched

639
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.680
the mere cat, they watched that lions, that tigers and bears.

640
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:06.039
Oh my, and they reported back and we could see

641
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:08.720
the characteristics, you know, we can see that, we can

642
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:11.200
see their personalities and things like that. And then that

643
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.640
Steve Irvin, he came along. He's done, you know, he's

644
00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.920
gonna God rest his soul. But I think his family,

645
00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:20.279
son and daughter are still keeping up with the wildlife,

646
00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:23.480
you know, pursuits and stuff. You heard about the sloths.

647
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:26.519
I still can't get over that. How the slough's just dying,

648
00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:29.839
just dead and getting all these weird diseases and stuff.

649
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:33.440
Nobody hears about the lifestyle of a slough thanks to Zutopia,

650
00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:35.240
that's all. That's the first time I ever heard of

651
00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:38.599
a slow to be honest with you, Zutopia the movie,

652
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:41.200
and I was like, oh my god, they're really slow people.

653
00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:45.000
It will slow animals rather. But nevertheless, gray hair is

654
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:48.079
a crown of glory. It is gained in a righteous

655
00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:51.720
second Corinthians four and sixteen. Again, though outwardly we are

656
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:55.440
wasting away. That's why the Bible reminds us that we

657
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:59.240
are temporarily in these bodies. It's a temporary thing. It's

658
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:02.759
gonna waste the way it goes back to dust. But inwardly,

659
00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:06.319
you have eternal life more abundantly, and that's what you

660
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:08.119
want to you want to keep. But you want to

661
00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:12.679
keep your vessel externally and inwardly internally, you want to

662
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:15.840
keep it as healthy as possible, you really do. I

663
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:18.639
don't like the fact that I'm shuffling, you know, I'm

664
00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:21.719
shuffling because of our you know, knees and stuff like that.

665
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:25.079
And I walk down with my head down because if

666
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:27.800
I'm getting out of the car, the ground is so unleveled.

667
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:31.119
There's rocks everywhere, there's debris in the road. Nobody's coming

668
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:34.119
along and cleaning up these parking lots or parking spaces.

669
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:36.559
So I have to look down while I'm walking because

670
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.480
I am not gonna fall. I am not gonna stumble.

671
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:41.320
And I just want to get it in the store.

672
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:42.960
And when I'm in the store, I'm up because it's

673
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.840
a cleaning floor, hopefully, but I have to watch for

674
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:48.599
the size that the floor is wet because I'm not

675
00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:53.440
gonna fall. I'm never falling. I'm never going back into ospital. Amen.

676
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:57.840
But we're renewed, we're new. My favorite one of my

677
00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.599
favorite scriptures in Psalms eighty one and six. Your youth

678
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:03.639
like I will, yeah, yeah, I renew your I re

679
00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:06.559
remove the shoulders, the burden from your shoulders, and free

680
00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:09.920
your hands from the pots. I'll remove you out of

681
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:12.239
the way. The burdens are gonna be here. My yolk

682
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:16.320
is easy, My burden is light. So burdens of crisis, conflicts,

683
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:19.039
all that's gonna be here. But how you face it,

684
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:21.280
how you deal with it, when you give it to him.

685
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.519
I'm telling you you are once you are really cross over.

686
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:26.760
I know most of you are working every minute of

687
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:30.079
the day to keep your relationship going. And everything I

688
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.480
know you are, I know you are. And once you

689
00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:34.480
get to a place of easement where you're like, you

690
00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:37.320
don't worry about certain things like you used to, You're

691
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:40.119
gonna be like, oh my god, are you serious? I

692
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:42.639
should have gave my life a long time ago. What

693
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:45.320
was I thinking leaning onto my own understanding?

694
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:46.079
No?

695
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:49.960
Okay? Psalm seventy one nine, verse nine, and verse eighteen.

696
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.840
Do not cast me away when I'm old, Do not

697
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.360
forsake me when my strength is gone. And you tell

698
00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:58.000
and this person is praying in God's in the presence

699
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:00.639
of God. Don't don't cast me away when I'm old.

700
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:03.679
And you see in the Old Testament, everybody lived to

701
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:07.039
be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years old, okay,

702
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.840
And we got people now living to be one hundred,

703
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:14.199
living to be ninety nine and actively driving, actively having

704
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:18.440
a very vital life and productive life. So it's meant

705
00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:20.280
to be. It's meant to be, so trad you come

706
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:21.400
on in and I don't want to take up there

707
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:23.400
all this time. I can't believe it's seven thirty eight.

708
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:24.519
It was just seven.

709
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:27.360
I mean, I was agreeing with it.

710
00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.480
It was great, you know, listening to that, and so,

711
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:36.079
but I it would behoove just finding out, especially if

712
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:39.559
you're you know, you have older loved ones. What they remember,

713
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:42.360
you know than your family. What do they remember about family,

714
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:45.360
any family history that they could pass down that you

715
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:48.360
can share, anything that stood out with them, you know,

716
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:53.159
anything that was similar to what's going on now, things

717
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:57.719
better than or better now, or just having like dialogue

718
00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:02.079
with them. And it's nothing like spending time with a senior,

719
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:05.800
you know, just just understanding that. And I think you

720
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:07.480
know a lot of times you have some of them

721
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.599
that that that don't have people to talk to, and

722
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:13.360
it can be very lonely, or don't have family or

723
00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:16.320
something like that, so it can be very lonely. Maybe

724
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:20.119
make a card or volunteer at a site or a

725
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:23.159
nursing home, assistant living facility or something like that, and

726
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:26.239
they you know, I used to visit clients in an

727
00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:30.039
assistant living facility and skill building and the people that

728
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:32.159
weren't even know my caseload were just glad to see

729
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:34.320
a guest and sometimes they were talking to me and

730
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.000
my coworker just just have a sense of what was he,

731
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:39.960
you know, and watch TV with them and stuff and

732
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:43.159
it's it's just it was just nice, you know, and

733
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:46.920
got my juices running, Like what what difference can I make?

734
00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:50.000
I think I did make a difference because my case

735
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.079
slod they were a little older, they were they were

736
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:54.760
senior and getting them to do so, you know, just

737
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:59.039
not being afraid. And some younger folks that were new

738
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:00.920
to the field didn't know what to do with the

739
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:03.400
older population. With the older ones, I mean younger ones,

740
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:05.480
what would you do with them? I should just make

741
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.599
it a like And so I said, you might not

742
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:12.280
have like a coloring book. Coloring book but try out

743
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:14.679
with a mandela. But the only thing with that you

744
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:17.639
have to result back. Some of the mandela's or adult

745
00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:20.960
coloring books were too tedious and overwhelming, and they're small,

746
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:24.320
so they weren't big objects where they can color in.

747
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:27.199
But just just remembering their childhood.

748
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.719
And I had somebody that that had dementia and you know,

749
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:33.760
playing music from their era and seeing them light up

750
00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:36.480
because that was something that was familiar to them. So

751
00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:39.039
it doesn't have to be a scary experience, you know,

752
00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:40.960
it does not have to be scary.

753
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:46.559
You can age productively. You can really age productively and happy,

754
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.880
and you can be happy with it. Okay. So you know,

755
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:52.880
for those of you who are called, and everybody has

756
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:56.360
a calling, whether it's to children, it's to teenagers, it's

757
00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:59.599
it's girls or boys, or young men and young adults,

758
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:04.880
the gen zs, the millennials or aging population, everybody's got.

759
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:09.320
Everybody has a population that you like, start there, Start there.

760
00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:09.920
You know.

761
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:13.679
I just was telling somebody recently. They were like, oh, yeah,

762
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.360
I was at a training last week, full days, eight

763
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:19.880
hour training and most and everybody in there. I think

764
00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:22.000
I wasn't the youngest one in there, but I was

765
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.159
about the third youngest one and everybody else was way

766
00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:26.760
older than me. And because they just heard about it,

767
00:39:26.800 --> 00:39:28.519
and they were like, you know, just be something fun

768
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:30.639
to do. And they were just great. And we'd sat

769
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:33.280
around at lunchtime and just to talk about stuff and

770
00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:36.639
life and everything, family and how people you know, using

771
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:40.039
them and stuff like that, and you know, and they

772
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:42.679
were going through trials right there. They were going through

773
00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:46.199
some critical issues, but still pressed on to get to

774
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.280
the workshop, to get to the training. They still pressed on.

775
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:51.679
Most of you all be like, oh no, I can't

776
00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:53.599
go my hand right or whatever the case. You know,

777
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:57.519
you're like come up with an excuse. And that morning,

778
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.320
on the next morning, Wednesday morning, we were to be

779
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:03.159
presenting me and my teammate, and so i'm I'm in

780
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:05.719
traffic and I look over and as a gentleman, and

781
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:07.840
I rolled down my one. His windows were down, and

782
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.440
I said, excuse me. He said yes. I said, good morning.

783
00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:12.599
He said good morning. I said, man, you have an

784
00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:15.440
awesome day to day. Because the devil was telling me, oh,

785
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:17.800
you're not gonna say it, and I did, and he said,

786
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:19.960
you have a man, you have a good day. He said,

787
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:22.599
you have a pretty smile. I said, oh, God, bless you.

788
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:24.599
I bet you say that to all the girl. He said, no,

789
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:26.639
I don't. I say okay then, but anyway, and it

790
00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:30.159
was no flirtation, nothing like that. He was just really respectful.

791
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:31.880
He said thank you, and I'm going to have a

792
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:34.119
good day. Now. You don't know where he was headed.

793
00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:35.880
I presume he was in work because he had on

794
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.679
you know, work, a shirt and tie. You know, but

795
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:40.119
you don't know what was going on with him. You

796
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:42.559
don't know what he left, what he endured the night before,

797
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.840
what he's doing. You know. All I know is I

798
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:48.239
needed to get out of my head because it was

799
00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:52.039
the first time I was presenting in seven years with markers,

800
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.679
doing flip charts and everything and doing a training like that.

801
00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:58.920
It's the first time and it's scripted. So that's what

802
00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:02.039
really helped me. Because I'm always in proving all the time.

803
00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:04.119
You know, even when I'm minister in the church. I

804
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:05.880
may have some notes that's just the sticky notes with

805
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:08.679
the scriptures on it. But I don't have paper or

806
00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:11.159
get my iPad like some people. Somebody these pastors do

807
00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:13.599
you know, let us see, you got an iPad, but

808
00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:14.960
you got to keep looking at it because you don't

809
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.880
know what you're really talking about because you don't have

810
00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:19.480
it in your heart. But so you know. But it

811
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:21.880
was just a great time with these ladies. You always

812
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:24.199
got one that thinks they know everything, and you just

813
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:26.679
I look over them, and every time she would say something,

814
00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:29.159
I just started laughing. Everybody's like, oh no, no, no, no,

815
00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:31.440
no no. I said no, no, no, don't better. No, she

816
00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:33.400
means what she says. She said what she means. We

817
00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:35.159
can tell how she was when she was in her day,

818
00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:39.119
and everybody just fell out live but she okay, chaplain okay.

819
00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:43.840
And then a lady, my partner, my yeah, my teammate,

820
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:46.920
she bought all four of my books. She bought all

821
00:41:46.920 --> 00:41:49.519
four of my books. She could not afford that, but

822
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:51.760
she bought all four of my books. I autographed them

823
00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:54.000
and took them the next day. That's why, mis see,

824
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:55.159
that's why I have them in the back of my

825
00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:57.920
car so I can get them to you real quick. Amen.

826
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:00.960
So you know, it's it's just time to do what

827
00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:04.639
you need to do. Purpose yourself, don't fear aging. Make

828
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:09.280
sure you're aging healthy, you know, as healthy as you can. Okay,

829
00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:11.719
that's all you need to do clear. You got to.

830
00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:13.280
You gotta get stuff out of your head. So you

831
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:15.840
gotta forgive and forget. You gotta get stuff. You can't

832
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:18.480
clog up this brain anymore. It's already clogged up with

833
00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:21.840
all the stuff we've been through. It's holding that, it's harvesting, that,

834
00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:25.519
it's harboring, that, it's hoarding that. You gotta let it go.

835
00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:28.000
If it's not being productive, if it's not helping you

836
00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:32.159
to be live a better life, let it go. It's okay, disconnect.

837
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:34.559
I talk about that in my new book, I'm Easy.

838
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:36.679
It's easy for me. I thank god I was adopted.

839
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:40.360
I thank god I was adopted. The skill set. I

840
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:43.039
have my emotional skill set. It's off the change. And

841
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:45.320
I know people don't believe it. They're like, but that's

842
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.679
your but she's your No, I'm not under obligation. That's obligation.

843
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:53.960
That's my cousin. So I'm obligated to be nice to you.

844
00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:56.599
You're not following the law of God. I'm good and

845
00:42:56.679 --> 00:42:58.400
I got scripted. I mentioned that in the book too.

846
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:01.039
So anyway, we only got a few more minutes, five

847
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:03.679
more minutes here, trade, please take it away. I'm gonna

848
00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:07.320
mute myself and just listen please, Well I was just.

849
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:10.760
Gonna say too, you know, as we get older, just

850
00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:14.960
identifying resources that that would assist you with with the

851
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:20.079
aging process, because you know, if people don't realize, seniors

852
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:24.679
or persons sometimes get depressed because they can't do what

853
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:26.960
they used to do. You know, they can't move like

854
00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:29.440
they used to do, they can't drive like they used

855
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:34.199
to do. The you know, mobility might be limited. Some

856
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.039
people may have passed on, you know, so that it

857
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:41.239
creates loneliness. So just identifying, you know, as you age,

858
00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:44.519
maybe you know once a year, who are the resources

859
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:46.800
or people that you can go to or places that

860
00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:49.840
you can go should this, that and the other thing happened.

861
00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:51.599
You know, people that you can call on if you

862
00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:54.360
need a ride, or someone that you can call on

863
00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:56.719
if you need them to check check on your or

864
00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:59.480
go with you to the hospital or something like that,

865
00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:01.960
or somebody just just you want to hang out with

866
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:04.760
that shares the same interest. So it doesn't even have

867
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.519
to be like that, because I know we talk about like,

868
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:09.880
oh it's dooming gloom, but I know eighty or ninety

869
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:14.960
years years of old person that are still moving and

870
00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:18.840
grooving and driving so I guess it just depends on

871
00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:21.280
how you look at it and how you like you said,

872
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:26.039
grow old gracefully and you it'll be what you make it.

873
00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:28.719
And that's that's with any age. It is what you

874
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:29.159
make it.

875
00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:31.000
And if you're gonna make it dooming gloom is gonna

876
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.679
be dooming glue. If you're determined that you're gonna it's

877
00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:37.320
gonna be upbeat and you're gonna be active, you'll you'll

878
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.360
gravitate towards doing more of that and just kind of

879
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:45.159
sitting by and sitting idle, you know. And uh, I

880
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:50.119
know this one situation where a gentleman was getting services

881
00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.800
in the house and the goal was to get him

882
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:56.760
more community based services or going out in the community

883
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.239
at a at a site, and it was said that

884
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.199
you know, the person's old, they need to you know,

885
00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:05.880
they be retired age and be home.

886
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:07.599
And sedentary and stuff like that.

887
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:10.519
Well, the outcome of that that person is out in

888
00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:13.960
the community every day and it's not sleeping when they're

889
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:17.719
out in the community, and they're stimulated by the goings

890
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:21.679
on around them and.

891
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:24.199
Just thriving, just thriving.

892
00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:28.559
So and that person's in their eighties, so that goes

893
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:33.679
to show you. If you stimulate someone, then things will happen.

894
00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:36.280
If they're not stimulated, other things will happen. Like you're

895
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:39.039
not going to be as motivated or trying. And like

896
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:41.119
like I tell people, if if I stay in the

897
00:45:41.159 --> 00:45:42.159
house all day.

898
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:44.039
I'm probably going to sleep most of it.

899
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:46.639
You know, I'm not a big TV watcher per se,

900
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:49.079
But it's a few things that that can happen.

901
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.599
Sit there and eat or go to sleep.

902
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:55.880
But if you're stimulated by stuff, the less likely you'll

903
00:45:55.960 --> 00:45:58.480
be depressed for that. And so you got to get

904
00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:02.400
moving and get you know, motivated, and move whatever motivates

905
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:04.079
you or whomever motivates.

906
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:06.559
And I know some of you are still on some

907
00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:10.199
of our elders are on a limited income. And you know,

908
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:13.440
but I promise you if you get back, if they

909
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:15.519
get they should start building a friend base so they

910
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:18.519
can learn on each other, lean on each other as well.

911
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:23.639
You're right, mister, they need to get out. And you know, church, unfortunately,

912
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:27.039
churches don't support that. They age. Once you get a

913
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:31.440
certain age, they're sitting you down, unfortunately. And that's your

914
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:35.159
wisdom pack right there, that's your foundation, those are your pillars.

915
00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:39.519
I'm not gonna sit anybody that's an elderly person down.

916
00:46:39.639 --> 00:46:42.599
I'm not doing that. I'm gonna keep them active my advisor.

917
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:45.760
I have an advisory board on top of my board

918
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:48.880
of directors. And they don't. We've never met. I mean,

919
00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:51.000
they don't meet to each other. We talk. I have

920
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access to them, they have access to me. I keep

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them updated on what I'm doing. What do you think

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about this? Should we do this? And they're always giving

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me ideas, you know, and I know that's just me,

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but that's just me. It works for me, and I'm

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happy about it. And my aging folks are gonna be

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just as important to me forever, forever. So anyway, well,

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I'm glad the feud a few of you all joined

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us tonight. Always remember that you can Everything is archived

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and all of the hundred one hundred platforms, so you

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can always go back and look up and listen to

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our programs, our podcasts, our conversations. I thank all of

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you all for sharing, because I see that, we see

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that on the setting it straight page you're sharing it.

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So thank you so much, because it's about changing lives, guys.

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It's about changing lives, and if we can have an

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impact on five people, one person, we've done our job.

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So anyway, with that, I think we have one more

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Monday Night and then we have a holiday. So we're

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gonna see you next week, same time, same stations, Night night.

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Night.

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Artist The

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