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Season 4

minority mental health, memories, traditions, hate, bigotry, discrimination, family culture

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Well, good evening, good evening. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Hey,

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how y'all doing out there? Okay, it's roll call time.

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It's roll call time, but I'm going to ask my

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fabulous co host Ms Trey all the way from Virginia

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to open us up with prayer, please if you.

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Don't mind, Bro, Heavenly Father, most gracious Father, thank you

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so much for helping us to rise today and see

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another a brand new day, a day that we've never

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seen before and one that we will never see again.

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And we just thank you so much for waking us

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up because there's so many that did not have the

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opportunity to wake up and be on this side of

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the earth. So we appreciate you all that you've done

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for all of us, for our families, our loved ones,

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and our friends. Please keep us in your hold, Please

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continue to watch over us and guide us so that

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we may be closer to you. Please keep us safe

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on the highways and byways, and help us to recognize

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any dangerous seen and unseen. The night is your call

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as always, Lord, and we thank you for allowing us

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to bring information that we hope that will be helpful

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to someone else. This prayer ask you your most holy

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angracious name Father. Amen.

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Amen, it ain't meen and ain'tmen. We pray that you

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all are keeping hydrated, that you've got water and restaurants

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and letting you bring your little cups into you know,

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your little tumblers in with you, you know, keeping water,

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don't keep, don't drink keep water bottles in your car

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and then drink them. That it's not healthy. You know

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you you drink the water up and do what you

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need to do, keeping your head on a pivot. Even

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if hey, Charles, thank you, it's roll called time. Y'all

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know what to do. Let's come on in, come on in,

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and uh you know, you got to use your sunscreen.

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Even people are with uh uh meling in their skin

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have to use sunscreen because uh that we too suffer

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from skin cancers and things like that. So you don't

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want to do that, I mean you want to you

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don't want to suffer from that. You need to have

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on sunscreen when you go outside now, even on your face,

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your neck, anything that's exposed, your arms, anything that's exposed. Okay,

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so you've got to use wisdom on this next week,

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we're gonna talk about you, you know, ultra violet and

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that and that sun thing and all that good stuff.

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So please please keep yourself safe and and and governing yourself.

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Have on your hat. I had a friend that was

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going was invited to uh something that's they're the water

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and uh marine area back home, and I said, do

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you have your hat? Do you have your shades? And

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she goes, yes, I do. I said, yeah, you know,

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do it and put your sunscreen on. And she was

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quiet what I said? So I said, she probably don't

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even think about that, but no, we need to have

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the sunscreen because this is this type of sun, this

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type of humidity, this type of lack of moisture, and

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I don't know what this is. This is not what

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we grew up with. This is not what we grew

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up with. So just be careful and governing yourself. So, Trey,

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how was your week? Pretty much? Are things up there?

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Well? You know, you like the warmer weather. So anytime

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we don't have hey, mickey, anytime we don't have snow

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on the ground, that's always a good thing. And so

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it's very hot here and so that you know, extreme

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heat weather cautions up in this area. And so just

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like when Missus Gray was saying, just make sure that

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you're hydrated, get you know, get some ice in the water,

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if you can, something that a whole ice, and make

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sure you have it with you all times, you know,

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especially if you're going to be out in it, and

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just just try to recognize, you know, the symptoms or

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the effects that you know, heat exhaustion, what that looks like,

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heat stroke. So if you are out in the community

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or your loved one or some of that body, that

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you would be able to recognize what that looks like,

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because it could be so subtle that you're not just

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you're not recognize what that is. Be very mindful. If

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you don't have to go in it, do not especially

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for wrong period.

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Ben Amen. So you got to govern yourself, guys, and

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just use wisdom. You got to use wisdom because things

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are happening. And like I said, this sun, I don't

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know what sun this is. I don't know what this heat.

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linked to that. But you definitely need to govern yourself

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and make sure you stay safe. And just you know,

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we had the advisory to check on the other Oh okay, okay,

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thanks hey, Annastasia, thank you so much. Yeah, check on

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our aging folks, even if they're in a facility, you

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need to go and check on them. And like I say,

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don't think that they may need sunscreen. But we need sunscreen.

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This is this is something you need that protected that

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barrier as best as you can. Amen and Amen. Just

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a couple of things and then we're going to get started.

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I got a little carried away with Amazon. Well Amazon

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allowed me to get carried away. Let me just put

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it that way. I got some little trinkets and little

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things to celebrate. Uh, there's snow in some places in Colorado. Really, Charles, Colorado,

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Oh my god, all poor people. Oh that's weird. That

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would weird me out. That would weird me out. We're

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in the summer. Oh my god. Wow. But I got somebody,

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you know, you know, I just wanted to celebrate, you know,

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happy birthday America. Wow, Charles. Wow. That thank you for

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telling us that we'll keep them in prayer, certainly because

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I know that must be blowing their minds. But happy

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birthday America, two hundred and fifty years. You don't age

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well at all. You look good for your age, you

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really do. And I'm looking forward to making sure that

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I see that my country is coming back. I want

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my country and I'll explain that a little bit more

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as we go on. But what that means for me,

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and that's just my opinion. But anyway, I got this

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is a bookmark, right, Okay, this is a bookmark, and

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it's you know, seventy seventeen seventy six America twenty twenty six. Right.

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But this is this is not your average this is

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not paper. When I got it, I was like, this

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is kind of heavy. So this is a metal bar,

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I mean a silver bar that serves as a bookmark.

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So I was like, okay, I got to keep that.

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I can't put that in the mail because people wonder

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what the devil is this. But I just want to

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say thank We want to say thank you to our listeners,

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our viewers. You all are making sacrifices just to whether

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you're pulling over in the car and finding the station,

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or you're making sure that everybody's around the TV, or

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you're listening to us on through the social media platforms.

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Thank you so much. It really does us good here

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that somebody not only that you're listening, but lives are changing,

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and you know, we're change agents here. So we love

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it and we just thank you and we give you

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resources as much as we can. I got a question

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from the viewership asking about Pastor Giles or Prophet Giles.

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Minister Giles book called Shift, and I don't have it

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right in front of me, but I have my copy. Yes,

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that's a very good book. He is a prophet that

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I follow and listen to and UH all the time.

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Whatever he says, either God has already told me or

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God is in the process of telling me. The prophecies

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are true, they're raw, They're going to get more raw,

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so that you all can never ever say, no one

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can ever say we didn't know. I'm hoping that with

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setting it straight, between setting it straight, ministers, that you're

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listening to prophets, that you're listening teachers, and you know,

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tell the evangelists that you wouldn't you cannot say. You

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will never say we didn't know, because we're going to

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warn you. And I've lost people because they've misinterpret what

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we said, whatever the case, or they just couldn't handle it.

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And I get that. I get that, so you know,

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but I just want you to be encouraged. But yes,

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the question is is it a good book? Is it

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a good book read? Yes, he just came out with

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that book. He also had another other book and they're

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over there on my shelf and they're facing that way.

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I'm so sorry, but yes, it's called Shift and it

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is as a book, and it's out. It's been out

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since June twenty thirty. It hit the market accordingly, and

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mine was landed at my door on the twenty third.

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So it's a very good book. And we talk about

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shifting the importance of shifting. You've got to be able

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to pivot. You've got to be able to pivot in

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this lifetime, in this life style, in a culture that

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we live in. I'm pulling up his books now, guys.

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But you got to be able to shift. You can't

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stay stuck. You can get mad at us all you

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want to, but I don't want you to staying stuck

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because you don't realize what you're missing out on. You

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don't realize it. And the glory of God and the

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promises of God. And I could go on. You know, man,

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I'm a social worker. I cannot talk anybody so but

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not trade. I cannot talk trade, you know. Let her

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and the last little another little study guide I thought,

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and I think I mentioned this already. It's called the

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Bible Study Guide. It's a little book, but it's not

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a bottle book. It's sixty six pages. It's a page

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for each book in the Bible that tells you who

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they thought the author, who they think the author is.

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It tells you what the theme was, what the signs

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of the time were. Really on one page, it's really neat.

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Let me see if I can open it up for you.

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It's really inter Wow, it's right there. It tells you

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who wrote it, the time, the theme, and what was

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and what you would hope to get. Thank you, what

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you would hope to get from it? And again Amazon

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is called the Bible Study Guides. You know, for those

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of you who are going to be getting into some

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intense study of the world. You want to know who

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wrote it and where did it come from, what was

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it representing. You have the former book that by Pastor

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Jiles was Shift your Life, Shift Your Life. No, that's

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the one that now Shift your Life. Now it was

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When God Speaks. I'm sorry. The former book was called

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when God Speaks. Yeah, I have that one as well.

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He is in town. He is in town. He's having

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his Mantle conference that will start Wednesday, but tomorrow he's

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having a special session for ministers pastors. And tomorrow evening

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we have someone from the Shark Tank that's going to

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be talking to entrepreneurs. So we're going to try to

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get up in there and see what Robert I cannot

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pronounced his last name, so but it's Robert, you know who. Robert.

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He has a set of twins and he's one of

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my favorite sharks. But he's gonna be there, and I

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think Sherry Shepherd is coming as well. He's gonna have

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some other guests that talk about the spirit, you know,

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the business of entrepreneurism and what that all means. So

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I'm excited. We're gonna have over ten thousand people here

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in Orlando. They already landed, they're already here, they're in

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the hotels and stuff, and they're getting ready to house

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upon both the Doctor Phillip Center and the Kia Center,

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and I think it could seat ten thousand people, So

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we're gonna max out because they've already sold out. Last year,

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when he was announcing it, he said I don't have

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the date yet. People were already calling the office saying

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that sounds like a good experience to have. Are you going, yes, Anastasia,

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I'm going to try to please pray for me because

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it's gonna Doctor Phillip Center is downtown, literally downtown, and

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the parking is kind of you know, but I did

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call someone and asked about some things, and so I'm

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gonna have to just get up really early and just

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to the one for the ministers and pastors and then

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prayerfully miss Kay and I are going to go tomorrow

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evening for the entrepreneur. I just want her to have

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a piece of that. And we're gonna take our handbag.

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hardly wear all black or green or something sort of

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handbag of stand out everything. But God is good, so

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get to it. Our engineer Rebel is awesome at doing

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the reminders of bringing it back around texting us. For

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those of you who don't have you don't take our

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phone number down. That's okay, but you can always take

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our phone number down. You can text the trailer myself

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if you have any questions, as always, because again our

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matto is what. You don't leave us confused. You don't

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leave us confused. We may have so well still have

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some questions, but you don't leave us confused. Okay, okay,

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all right. So tonight we're talking about Minority Mental Health

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Awareness Month. And that's a whole that's a whole long

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title for such a small group of people, but it's

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interesting and I'm gonna have Miss Trey Uh take us

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through that journey and talk about that and uh, everybody,

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I need people. I know it's other people listening in.

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Don't be don't don't be scared or shy. You're not shy.

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Just tell us, Hey, I'm calling from this place. I'm

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calling from that place. I don't need your name, just

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need let us know what you're calling. Check on in.

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Thank you well, thank you, Miss Gray. You know, this

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is one of my my passions is being able to

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bring awareness to mental health because it has and has

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always had some type of stigma, stigma associated with it,

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and especially in the communities of color. You know, some

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people were brought up. You don't we don't talk about

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this or you know, you'll get over it. You're just

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going through something right now. You don't need to air

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your your your dirty laundry out. You'll get you know.

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it's evolving more where the more you talk about something,

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the more comfortable you are with that. It just so

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happens right now where we're gonna be talking about Minority

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Mental Health Awareness Month and a lady by the name

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of b. B. Moore Campbell actually who you can attribute

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this to, and so let me talk about a little

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bit about her that I've looked up using Google. Was

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an award winning author who also co founded the National

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Alliance of Mental Health. And those who are in the

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mental health field know that's just no me in a

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am I that we use in urban Los Angeles. Her

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advocacy was deeply personal, stemming from her struggle to find

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appropriate mental health resources and support for a family member

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living with bipolar disorder in a community of color. In

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communities of color, and she continues to champion the idea

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that mental health illness, mental illness affects everyone, regardless of race,

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and fantasy stated we need a national campaign to destigmatize

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mental illness. And how true that is when actually with

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some of the background that I have working with mental

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health and mental illness, and I just want to say

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that I am not a licensed therapist. You know, I'm

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not a therapist MS ray is. But what I can

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say is I've worked in the field, and I held

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a position called qualified Mental Health Professional, which allowed me

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to work with children and adults who had social, emotional,

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behavioral or mental health challenges. And what the great part

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about that is that I had the opportunity to assist

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those persons who had a diagnosis recognize their strength because

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let me tell you, if you're struggling with a mental illness,

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it is not easy. It is not easy. And you know,

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without going into a whole issue of what some of

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the side effects or some of the symptoms or things,

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you can recognize if people have a mental illness or

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going through mental challenges. Let's say that because a mental

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illness needs to be documented or diagnosed by someone with

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a license LCSW psychiatrist something like that. So I can't

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diagnose someone, but I have been able to recognize symptoms

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of certain diagnoses. And you will see people sometimes they

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talk to themselves, you know, and having conversations with themselves,

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sometimes talking in the third person, you know, he related

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to themself, you know, having conversations with themselves. Also, you

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might seed depression, people with severe depression where they don't

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want to get out the house or don't want to associate.

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to associate or withdraw from activities, or don't have interest

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in taking care of their activities. They daily living, maybe

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not eating, not showering, not getting up, not wanting to

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go to work, not wanting to be around family, or

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it could be the opposite. It could be overeating or

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eating as a way to kind of soothe what's going

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on with you. And then there's also ways that people

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self medicated through medicinal purposes, whether prescribed or non prescribed,

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whether through alcohol or different drugs or altering substances that

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will decrease the symptoms or something you know, provide a

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scape for lack of a better word, because you know

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some people who hear voices at night or or sometimes

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the only time they can come down is they medicate it,

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or sometimes if they're sleeping, and sometimes the voices can

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be so bad that they cannot sleep. So mental illness

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is real, and like I said, I want you to

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bring it to because I don't want people to be

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afraid of it. Whether you're diagnosed with it or know

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someone that's diagnosed with a mental illness, don't be afraid

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of it. People used to say, aren't you word, I'm

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only four eleven and after a clientele that stood as

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tall as six three sixty four, and people say, well,

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aren't you afraid? I said no, because I know what

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everybody on my caselow had. I know the exact diagnosis

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and I know how to deal with that. And sometimes

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with a diagnosis you can have explosive behaviors or things

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that set you off. Something that is simple that we

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think is simple, but it's major to someone who's having

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a meltdown or something that's disturbed them. Okay, but you

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don't be afraid of or what you What I used

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to do is kind of lean into how can I

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help you better. I wouldn't raise my voice. It'll be

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at an even temperament because sometimes when you raise your voice,

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it depends on what's going on with someone. Is it

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wrong to bring up for someone? If you think a

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person has an issue? I would be very careful, miss Ray.

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You want to did you want to kind of expound

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you're having a good day. You know having a good day?

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Are you having a good day? You're good? You got

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some resources, and it depends on what that relationship is

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to that person. For the most part, I will stand

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out and pray and observe because you just don't know

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what may trigger someone and you don't. You just don't

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want to do that. So it's you know, if you

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think that there may be a viable reason, pray first

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before you approach, and then if it's if it's the

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Lord's will, he'll give you the conversation. He'll give you

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the conversation a half. He really will. So, but you've

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got to be you can't just jump on that because

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they could be high on medica, high on illegal drugs,

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you know, being on high on cocaine, mimic schizophrenia, from

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hallucinations to the violent, violent acts. So yeah, and a

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lot of that, you know, multiple, multiple personality. That's real,

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that's real, you know. So you just got to use

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caution with that first. I would pray first before you approach,

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and then you know, take a look at the surround

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they see what you know, what's going on or whatever,

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and say, hey, you know, you know there's some resources,

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you know, do you know of any resources that can

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help with you? Do you need to talk to somebody?

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But I would go gentle. Even though we are clinicians,

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we're skilled to do it.

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I do.

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I do not approach people and make an assumption. I've

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been in church where a person got up and just

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was just all over the place, and everybody said, oh,

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lay hand in my hands. I said no, no, no,

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no no, and I kept my tone here I stood up.

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This was not my church, but I had to stop

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them because we didn't know what was going to happen.

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What is by pull a fit in the mix? I'll

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come back, we'll circle back to that in a stage,

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but let miss Trade go go forward. But yeah, I'll

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answer that in a minute before we hang up tonight.

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Thank you, Miss Great. So, yeah, so you don't you

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want to be very careful because you don't know what's

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going on, especially if someone's hallucinating and they can think

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that they might think that you're hurting them, or voices

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are telling them to do certain things. So you want

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to be very careful. And I know Miss Gray has

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more of the expertise than that, and so especially in

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the mental health field, if you work with it, it's

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basically knowing where the fine line is. So I would

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never cross into therapy, That's not.

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What I do.

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But there's some things that I could would work with

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people on addressing. If you're feeling like this, Hey, let's

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explore some coping skills. Some coping mechanisms that are gonna

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make you feel better. I can do that, and then

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I can coach you on how to do those. So

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those might be simple breathing techniques breathing and slowly and

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exail and slowly breathing the slowly and exceiling slowly several

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times and then stop, monitor how you're feeling, and then

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I can say, if it's still like then's just pride

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a few more times. And if that doesn't work, always

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have something to go back on. So you could say,

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let's take a brief walk, especially if it's too noisy,

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if it's too crowded, because some people you don't like

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the crowds and they get antsy and they get over stimulated.

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with autism. They can get over stimulated and large crowds

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it could be claus to phobic. So you want to

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be mindful of where you're going, especially if you're with

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somebody that struggles with large crowds noises that can set

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them off. Delving in a little bit. Like we talked

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about prior to it fourth of July, the PTSD, you

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want to be mindful of what your environments are going

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to be and even now where theme parts are catering

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to people who are noise sensitive, that have autism, diagnosed

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with autism, where it might be a time where it

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might be days just for people that or might be

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diagnosed with autism, or they wear special earphones that muffle

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out the sounds of the outside and putting something that

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might be a little pleasant for them. So it could

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be some soft music, it could be some soft talking

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or some non invasive talk or music that's going on.

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is drowning out the noise because it can get overwhelming.

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And let me tell you something, it gets overwhere. If

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it's too noisy, it gets overwhelming to me. It hits

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me up on the hip. So I like to reference

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with people that comb you ever gone into a place

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and the music was really you've gone to a club

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or gone I agree, I agree, thank the other kay

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gone to a club or gone to a place where

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the music is really like out and it kind of

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puts you in that music. Like let's say you would

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it be bad to make suggestions to the people who

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maybe having should another person be notified about it? I

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would tread. Now personally, I'll let miss great, But I

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personally would impose that because I'm not sure what's going

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on unless you know what a diagnosis is. And sometimes

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it can be sticky because once you start stepping into it,

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you're going to have to explain it. So if you're

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with somebody that said and you say, hey, I notice

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you're doing this and I'm having this issue, and if

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you're it catch you off guard. If you don't know,

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it could really catch you off guard. So I would

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tread lightly with that, and then I would if you

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it depends on how well you know that person too,

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And let me tell you, you'll find out quickly how well

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you know that person, how well they trust you by

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their responses. So you want to be very careful. What

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do you mean I'm crazy? I didn't say that, and

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that's not what you're saying. But if you're going through

459
00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:01.279
something up there, and I say that the mind, if

460
00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:06.559
it's going through certain things and you're hearing voices, it's

461
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:09.559
not going to make sense. It's not going to make sense.

462
00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:13.240
And so at some point you can care maybe resource

463
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:15.759
it and at a time maybe if you're close enough

464
00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:18.039
with the person said you know what. I know you

465
00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:21.279
were struggling a little bit. Are you okay? Is everything

466
00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:23.839
all right? Is there anything I can do for you?

467
00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:27.519
Is there someone I can contact you? So you're putting

468
00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.039
it in there, you're not making the decision for them.

469
00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.720
And one of the big myths about people going to

470
00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:36.680
therapy they think the therapist tells you what to do.

471
00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:40.559
The therapist actually helps you build on your strength to

472
00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:43.039
figure out what is best for you. Because if the

473
00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:46.039
therapist goes and says, you know what I think you

474
00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:48.960
need to do that, that's not what you're thinking. That's

475
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.119
the therapist view view, and it might not be what

476
00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:55.240
works for you. So the therapist tends to work with

477
00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:58.359
the person to find out, Okay, what are your strengths?

478
00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:00.720
How have you been able to manage how because that's

479
00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.480
some resiliency. Let me tell you, when you're going through

480
00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:05.839
something and you go through it all the time, or

481
00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.720
have been through a mental health it's it's up and down.

482
00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:12.000
Sometimes you're able to manage. You capture that. That's what

483
00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:14.599
therapists do. Well, how were you able to manage this

484
00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:17.319
this time? What can we do more of that? You

485
00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:20.119
can do it the next time. So that they're not

486
00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:24.000
telling you what to do. They're helping you navigate your life,

487
00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:28.960
because it takes somebody coming outside looking in to kind

488
00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:31.200
of help you figure it out, because sometimes he can

489
00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:34.519
be too close to you and tell you the wrong stuff,

490
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:39.200
and then you've you've actually separated yourself from it as

491
00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:42.640
you get up. It puts a wedge in because then

492
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.799
it's too close to the situation. It's very difficult. And

493
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:49.759
I don't know if any therapist that will will provide

494
00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:52.240
therapy to a family member or a close friend. It's

495
00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.079
too close. You need that biased and does not know

496
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.599
you in my right.

497
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:01.039
Miss grades Amen, Amen, because I've had you know, if

498
00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:03.880
mss Cay's had some friends like, well, your mom's a therapist,

499
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:05.599
maybe she can see me, and I would let I've

500
00:28:05.599 --> 00:28:08.960
had to help Lee understand that know that I'm too

501
00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.319
close to the situation. I know the other side, I

502
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:13.880
know I know them personally through her. So no, I

503
00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:16.480
would not be it'll be you know, uh it would

504
00:28:16.599 --> 00:28:18.200
It would not be a good fit and would not

505
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.119
be fair to you. So no, I do not. I

506
00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:22.039
would not see any fan. I don't even see people

507
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:25.039
that I know in therapy. I will not. My students

508
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:27.319
have always wanted to come. No, we could talk over

509
00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:28.680
the phone. But I'm not going to see you as

510
00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:31.960
a patient. It's not fair. It's a compromise it you know,

511
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.759
of judgment and everything. It just puts you in a

512
00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:38.279
bad situation. So no, But I wanted to go back

513
00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:41.240
to the two questions both Bay Anastasia. Would it be

514
00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:44.160
hard or bad to make suggestions to people who may

515
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:49.200
be having a situation unless they unless they ask you, hey,

516
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:51.519
do you know you know I'm going through this. I

517
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:54.000
can't seem to just get myself out of it. What

518
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:58.359
do you think? Well, you know, I wouldn't even go there.

519
00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:00.480
I wouldn't say what if it was me? You know, No,

520
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:01.880
you don't want to do that, and say you know what,

521
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.799
well do you have? Do you attend? Do you have

522
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:07.319
a pastor or somebody in the community that you can

523
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:09.400
go to that you feel that you go to. Do

524
00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:11.640
you have the insurance or would you like to talk

525
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.079
to somebody bias? Now I used to tell people use

526
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:17.319
me as an example, say hey, you know what my

527
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:19.559
professor was talking We were in class the other night

528
00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:22.279
and she was talking about in sociology and how families

529
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:25.119
and stuff like that use me use me, or you

530
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:28.119
can use the show. Hey, we're talking about mental health stuff.

531
00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:30.519
But you know, and they were saying this, you know,

532
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.119
and if we see somebody and we think they're going

533
00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:36.119
through and you may be surprised at the recipient. If

534
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.400
you run across anyone who thinks that things are under control,

535
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:40.720
but they really Oh yeah, Charles all the time, all

536
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:44.480
the time, So stay out of their other's business. Well, Mickey,

537
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:47.680
I would just tread carefully. I mean, I know most people,

538
00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:49.640
you all have a heart on your sleeve and you

539
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:52.240
really want to help everybody, y'all, y'all can't help it,

540
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:55.480
you know. But I would say, you know, go slowly

541
00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:58.400
with it and test the feel. But like I said,

542
00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:00.839
use the show. Hey, you know the night they were

543
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:04.039
talking about mental health issues and I did not know,

544
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:06.519
Like I'm gonna talk about bipolar. Bipolar is an up

545
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:10.599
and down personality. On this day they're happy, this day

546
00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:13.240
they're depressed, and you can't get them out and they

547
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.880
go up and down. Bipolar means they have two polars,

548
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:21.640
two personalities, two sets of energy going on, and they

549
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:23.839
take two sets of medication, one to bring them down

550
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:25.160
and the other one to bring them up out of

551
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:27.839
the depression. So you got an anxious person and a

552
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:31.319
highly depersed person and one personality and one person and

553
00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:34.039
it goes up and down like that. Yes, we tell

554
00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:38.160
everyone we can get to listen to listen to us. Okay,

555
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:42.000
and I'm telling you you know again, you know, just

556
00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:44.440
say hey, you know, listen to this show. Refer them

557
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:46.799
to if we were talking about that topic on the

558
00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:51.039
show about people going through depression or you know, inflammation

559
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.599
or whatever, you know, Refer them to the show because

560
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:56.400
we've we've given us some decent information and it's pretty

561
00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.200
you know, pretty much modified. And then that could take

562
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:01.920
that response possibility to offer you to feel like you've

563
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:04.039
got to go help. I got to have an answer.

564
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:06.200
I went through that even as a therapist, as a

565
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:09.079
as a mediator, as a spiritual mentor. I was like, okay,

566
00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:11.359
I'm the mediator. They come to me for answers. I

567
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:13.839
got to have the answers. And then Lord's like, oh,

568
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:15.359
so are they coming to you or they're coming to me?

569
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:17.359
Are they looking for you or they looking for me?

570
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:20.640
Lots of people need to listen to They need to

571
00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:23.440
listen to listen each week, Ben, go ahead, Tay you

572
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:26.039
trying to say something, Oh.

573
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:28.720
Sometimes can't hear you? Hear me? Now?

574
00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:29.559
There you are?

575
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:32.160
There you are sometimes with the bipolar, correct me, if

576
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:35.680
my mom is gray that with bipolar, sometimes you can

577
00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:39.160
feel so high that you're invincible, that you could do

578
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.200
it all. And sometimes you can be so low that

579
00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:45.559
you feel like you just it's no hopeless hopelessness. So

580
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:46.279
those are like.

581
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:49.559
Mm hmm and one person two extreme.

582
00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:53.240
One person m and so I think just just just

583
00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:56.440
doing that, but yet answering the question too. Working in

584
00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:58.920
this field, a lot of people think that they've got

585
00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:02.079
control of it. And that's the scary part of it

586
00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:06.119
because sometimes they do not, especially when and I'm going

587
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:11.720
to say this that sometimes medications are prescribed okay, and

588
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:15.359
as a QMHP or what the role that I worked in,

589
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.240
I couldn't. I did not tell people that they, you know,

590
00:32:18.279 --> 00:32:20.799
you need to take the medication. What I did was

591
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:25.599
I used their therapist or psychiatry sessions, the custom to

592
00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:29.400
understand what this medicine is for, what am I taking

593
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:32.680
it for? If I take it, what are the side effects?

594
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:35.920
If I don't take it? What could be the consequences?

595
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:38.480
And I also tell them because sometimes they would say

596
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:42.079
that it feels like I'm a guinea pig. Well, for

597
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.720
lack of a better term, you are, because they're trying

598
00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:48.160
to figure out your chemical balance or what the better

599
00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:52.079
dosage or whatever medications are. And sometimes you have a medication,

600
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.640
take one medication for this, and then you have to

601
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:58.359
take another medication to manage the symptoms of it, and

602
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.160
they need to tweak it. So it's going to feel

603
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:04.160
like a roller coaster. Some of the medications want you

604
00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.039
to eat more, or it causes you to eat more.

605
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.279
Some of it takes the adpotat a weight of Some

606
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:12.880
of the medications make you feel so groggy that you

607
00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:16.160
feel like you're floating, or your days. But let me

608
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:20.759
just say this, not saying either way. If medication has

609
00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:25.519
been suggested to you find out exactly, write stuff down

610
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:27.720
before you go. So it can take a while to

611
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:30.599
get things to work correct. Yes, it can, because they

612
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:32.720
have to find out what your balance is. It depends

613
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:36.200
on your weight, it depends on your height, your body makeup,

614
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:38.920
you know, because what works on a person that's short

615
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:41.880
might not work on somebody that's called somebody that's slim

616
00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:44.000
might not work. To say, it's the doses. So they're

617
00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:46.240
trying to find that happy medium. And let me tell

618
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:49.960
you that I've seen people have a happy medium where

619
00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.799
it's just okay, I can function during the day. There's

620
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.279
a lot of people that are walking around that have

621
00:33:55.440 --> 00:34:00.119
got a mental health diagnosis that work every day and

622
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:03.359
their whole positions that you probably would not recognize. Why

623
00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:07.279
because they recognize that when I'm feeling like this, I'll

624
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:09.679
do that. So you have to learn how to matter

625
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:13.039
and sometimes they can actually wean it off over a

626
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:15.960
period of time. But let me tell you something. The

627
00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:19.199
key to taking medication is you have to be consistent.

628
00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:21.760
You can't take it today and not take it tomorrow.

629
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.480
They suggest that may you try it on a weekend

630
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:26.400
or a time where you don't have to go into

631
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:29.199
work to see how it affects your body, and it

632
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.039
takes a few weeks to get into your system and

633
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:34.880
when the doctors ask you, so that's called the medication

634
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:38.039
management piece. The doctor will ask you, but you need

635
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:39.599
to be honest. Don't go in there and tell the

636
00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:41.960
doctor I've been taking the medication and it's not working

637
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.119
and you haven't been taking it, because they're gonna you

638
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:47.159
see how that works. So you have to be very

639
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:50.119
honest on what that does to you, and you know,

640
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:53.960
just kind of drawing it back, just knowing your body

641
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:56.679
and recognize this is I can't function in a day.

642
00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:58.960
It's making it so the doctor will say, okay, this

643
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:01.480
what makes you sleepy? Let me cut this one back,

644
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:05.639
and how is this? Okay? Well, the voices are strong, Okay,

645
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.320
let me increase that. You see what I mean, because

646
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.880
you want to do the voices because the voices of

647
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:14.559
there it starts having you go all over the place, and.

648
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:16.239
You want to make sure your provider is going to

649
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:19.360
asking you some key questions, especially when they're starting your

650
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.719
off on out on new medication. They should be asking you,

651
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:27.199
has your sleeping pattern change? Has your eating pattern change?

652
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:30.840
Do you feel that your balance is good? Those are

653
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:34.000
some three key questions they need to ask you, especially

654
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:36.960
when they're trying you out on new medication. Has your

655
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:41.400
sleeping pattern change? Has your eating pattern change? How's your balance?

656
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:45.639
Do you feel balanced? Do you are you functioning? I'm

657
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.519
telling you, how's your memory? Are you experiencing some short

658
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:53.760
term memory loss versus long term? Do functional addicts fit

659
00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:57.360
in the same case? Functioning addicts no charles because they function?

660
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.199
You said the key word. My deceased husband and my

661
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:04.239
brother older brother were functioning alcoholics. How were they functioning.

662
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:06.840
They would function because they would remember the next day.

663
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:11.039
They didn't slur their speech. They remember things, and that's

664
00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:13.559
one thing when you're truly dealing with somebody whose alcoholic

665
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:15.519
gets drunk and everything. They can't remember the night before,

666
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:18.760
they can't remember hours before. These two could remember stuff.

667
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:23.559
So they function because they forced themselves. Especially my husband.

668
00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:26.639
He out of DUI once driving trucks and a state

669
00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:29.079
trooper pulled him over, scared him half the death, as

670
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:30.920
if because he really thought that this guy was going

671
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:32.920
to follow him around for the rest of his career.

672
00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:35.199
He said, if I catch you again, you'll never drive

673
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:38.119
a truck again. So from then my husband would have

674
00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:41.360
this habit. When he's on the clock, he is not drinking,

675
00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:43.519
but when he has to get take his ten hours

676
00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:45.679
off and go ahead a hotel, be at a hotel,

677
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.679
or be home, he starts his drinking and he drinks

678
00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:50.960
until he can't drink no more and he goes asleep,

679
00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:53.880
but he takes a shower, he takes all his regular

680
00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:57.400
medications in between, so he's got up and downers uppers

681
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:01.000
and downers because he's a functioning alcoholic. He cannot go

682
00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:04.639
two weeks without drinking anything. He couldn't. My brother was

683
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:06.840
the same. My brother would go to sleep in a club.

684
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:09.559
People have left him in locked cars. They've left them

685
00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:12.039
in a club because they couldn't wake up. So that's

686
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:14.320
the whole key is functioning now. No, it's never a

687
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:17.119
good thing, but that's the lifestyle they chose. That's the

688
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:21.199
lifestyle that they chose. So it's gonna make sure I

689
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:24.599
get all the questions here and as far as far

690
00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:28.280
as medication, and that's with anything only if you're getting

691
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:32.039
a decongestin that promises you it can relieve the cough

692
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:36.000
in eight hours, and FDA approved that that's the only

693
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.119
thing that's gonna work in eight hours. Within the next

694
00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:41.559
eight hours you take this decongested, you're gonna feel a

695
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:43.599
little bit better. But you only got eight hours. We

696
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:46.920
can only hold it for eight hours. But medication and supplements,

697
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:49.400
even supplements, you've got to be on it for a minute.

698
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:52.000
You can't just take a supplement for a week. You

699
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:55.400
can't just take bottom of c for a week and think, oh, okay,

700
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:57.280
now you know I'm good. I got vitam in c

701
00:37:57.400 --> 00:37:59.440
I'm not gonna catch a cold. No, that's got to

702
00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:02.320
get in your system. And your system is fighting stuff too.

703
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:05.039
I remember I talked about going to the you know

704
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:08.239
a doctor last week. My system is fighting stuff too

705
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:11.559
until they realize, oh, you're here to help, okay.

706
00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.039
You know.

707
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.119
So that's why when I pray, when I take whatever

708
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:19.159
medication or supplements or vitamins i'm taking, go, I take

709
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:21.639
it and say, go do what you've been created to do.

710
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:24.480
Go do what you need. I speak to my body

711
00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:26.760
and I speak to whatever i'm taking because i'm taking

712
00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:29.400
liquid vitamins I'm taking out to go, do what you

713
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:32.079
need to do, and do it quickly. I'm telling you,

714
00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:36.119
our body was meant to heal. Our bodies were meant

715
00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:38.559
to heal. But you've got to be winning and let

716
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:41.320
it go and to do the work. It takes work,

717
00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:44.239
and sometimes it will take a lifetime. Because we got

718
00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:47.239
culture stuff that we family, stuff that we were used to,

719
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:50.000
traditions and stuff. You don't even realize it was no

720
00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.880
big deal to have sweets and you don't put a

721
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:55.480
half a pile of sugar in desserts and stuff like that.

722
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:57.880
I mean, that's the way you were raised, and it's

723
00:38:57.880 --> 00:38:59.639
come to find out some of the sugar's not. Praying

724
00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:01.400
is very helpful, yes, miss, and you can find the

725
00:39:01.400 --> 00:39:04.119
best answers in prayer. You said it all, I rest

726
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:08.119
my case and that's why. Now now is it kind

727
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:11.639
of coming together now? How we always encourage you to

728
00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:15.320
search the scriptures, find the ancestors and the scripture that

729
00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:19.800
you can relate to see how they work through their situations,

730
00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:24.239
how God brought them through their situations. Try to relate,

731
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.199
find somebody in the Bible you can relate to start praying.

732
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:33.119
Pray without ceasing, pray strategically and specifically. It's all the

733
00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:36.440
circle of life. It's all the circle of life. To

734
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:39.280
know that the subconscious is your enemy. You've got to

735
00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:41.159
clear that thing out and the only way you're going

736
00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:43.360
to do it is to forgive and forget. It all

737
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:47.159
makes sense now, right, It's an AHA moment now, And

738
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:49.159
don't think this is just for getting better faith. Listening

739
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.239
to this home. It's the thank you God, bless you.

740
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:55.480
And you're not alone because this is this is not

741
00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:58.400
easy for us. We're just as human as you are.

742
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:00.800
We got we got battle. What was going on all

743
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:04.320
the time, So we're doing the same fight. We're probably

744
00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:07.400
the medication to part of the pun. I got to

745
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.079
stay in my word because right now the world is

746
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:12.119
trying to You got one half of the world pushing

747
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:14.760
oh Jesus is coming back any day now. No man

748
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:17.000
knows the day of the hour, so let's get that clear.

749
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:19.679
Then we got other people over here pushing oh Ai

750
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:21.559
is gonna take over the world, and ar is gonna

751
00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:24.519
be your god little g No. Like I just told

752
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:26.679
somebody on the phone over the weekend, give me some water.

753
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:28.960
We can witch of the west. Give me some water.

754
00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:32.159
I can shut a computer down. I can shut you

755
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:35.280
can shut a robot down. Give me some water. Give

756
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:40.519
me some water and done. Mute point cheers, Drink your water.

757
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:41.760
Make sure you stay hydrated.

758
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:51.199
So it's like I said, the mental health piece, I'm

759
00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:54.440
very passionate about Emma's gray is too, because I think

760
00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:58.239
people feel hopeless if they think something's going on. But

761
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:03.199
also mental health health does not necessarily mean mental illness,

762
00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:06.519
so let's look at that. The mental health is how

763
00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:09.800
you take care of your thoughts. You know. One of

764
00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:12.920
the things are you know, and I've always somebody's always

765
00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:15.719
getting on me. Putting on your arm of God, you know,

766
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:18.519
the helmet of salvation, being able to guard your thoughts,

767
00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:21.039
your thought process, things to go in, things that you

768
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:25.559
think out, and then you know the spiritual the spiritual things.

769
00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:30.000
Also recognize things that you take in, things that you watch,

770
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:33.599
things that you surround people you surround yourself with. If

771
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:37.400
you go around people that it's always chaotic and you

772
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.280
feel a certain way when you're around them, it's like

773
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:42.760
like you're on needles, then maybe you don't. I'm not

774
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:46.559
saying don't be around them, but limit that, especially if

775
00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:50.239
it affects your mental health. You also want to recognize,

776
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:52.800
you know, like I said, places that are allowed or

777
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:57.480
people that are negative or or or ungodly. You want

778
00:41:57.519 --> 00:41:59.760
to be careful to that. Surround yourself with people who

779
00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:03.639
are like minded with you. If you're an entrepreneur in

780
00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:06.360
spirit or you want to be line yourself with people

781
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:09.599
that are going to encourage you or motivate you. If

782
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:11.599
you want to learn more about the Word of God,

783
00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:14.760
line yourself with people who are talking about the Word

784
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.360
of God. And I think I've been transparent on this.

785
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:21.119
I've always believed in God, I always grew I grew

786
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:23.599
up believing in God. My grandfather was a minister. I

787
00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:25.719
went to church. Sometimes you can get lost in thoughts

788
00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:29.039
I've gotten in my own head exactly, Mickey. And so

789
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:32.199
that's why we said, you always want to make sure

790
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:34.639
that you align yourself with people that are gonna have

791
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:39.280
that you can not rely on, but kind of consult

792
00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:43.400
and be very mindful of who you convey certain things to.

793
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:45.880
I know the people in my circle that I can

794
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:48.840
go to or whatever situation that's going on with me,

795
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:52.440
and it's not gonna go anywhere. Sometimes you have people

796
00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:54.880
that want to know because they want to know and

797
00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:57.519
not want to help. It's just that's the nosiness part

798
00:42:57.559 --> 00:42:59.360
of it. And you have some people that want to

799
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:02.239
really help, but sometimes they can be overhelped and put

800
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.920
their spin on things. And sometimes I can make you

801
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:08.639
more frustrated than when you started out. I said, day

802
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:10.920
I should have just kept that to myself. I'm more

803
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:13.079
frustrated now than I did when I brought it to it,

804
00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:15.760
So you cannot have to weigh it. But I just

805
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.239
want to just tell you do not be afraid to

806
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:22.519
manage your mental health, whether it's a mental health or

807
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:26.280
whether it's a mental illness. And sometimes people with mental

808
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.920
illness cannot recognize that. That's why you say you have

809
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.480
to be very mindful. Make sure you don't have false

810
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:37.280
friends exactly exactly exactly, and those are not friends, so

811
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:40.039
you need to recognize you and write them down your

812
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:42.599
resources in a book. If I got this going on,

813
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:44.360
I know I can go talk to this person. If

814
00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:46.440
I got that going on, I know I can talk

815
00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:48.480
to this person anytime I need to talk about the

816
00:43:48.519 --> 00:43:51.199
Lord or something that's going on, or I need some motivation.

817
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:54.440
I know Ms Graded is a phone call away, but

818
00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:57.519
not the same thing. But I know and I trust

819
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.840
her because she's not gonna sugar coat anything. She's gonna

820
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.199
tell me what God said. He's gonna tell me God this,

821
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:06.480
and God said do that. And when she says it

822
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:09.559
like that, okay, Ms Gray, all right, Nisha, I got you.

823
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:12.639
I hear you loud and clear, because I trust her

824
00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.559
like that. I know she she hasn't misguided me yet.

825
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:18.360
And so you want people like that. And and like

826
00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:21.039
she said, we got our numbers there. And I'm not

827
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:24.119
a therapist, so I can't provide therapy, but I can

828
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:26.079
provide a listening here. And that's what you can do.

829
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:29.000
For people that you know they're going something, just let

830
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:31.360
them get it off the chest. Sometimes it might be hard.

831
00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:33.800
Just don't say anything unless they ask you. But what

832
00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:35.599
do you think about that? And well, what do you

833
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:38.159
feel about it? Put it back on them, you know

834
00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:42.800
what I mean. We'll talk more about how to guide

835
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:44.840
through that. But we don't want to get where you're

836
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.079
providing therapy because that got to know where that line

837
00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:50.760
is because you want you don't want to take on

838
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:53.400
it to the point that it's affecting your mental health.

839
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:56.840
Oh oh, thank you, thank you.

840
00:44:57.360 --> 00:44:59.920
That's what we do. But if I could before we

841
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:01.760
get off the mean the Lord wants me to give

842
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:05.599
you all Ephesians, Chapter six. Ephesians is in the New Testament,

843
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:12.239
chapter six, verses ten through sixteen eighteen. Here we go

844
00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:15.840
put on the hall. Therefore take unto you the whole

845
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:18.760
armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand

846
00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:21.920
in the evil day. And having done all to stand

847
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:27.280
stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and

848
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:31.840
having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod

849
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:35.920
with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. Above all

850
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:39.599
make it cheap taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye

851
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:42.599
shall be able to quench all the fiery darks of

852
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:46.280
the wicked, and take the helmet of salvation and the

853
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:50.239
sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

854
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:55.079
Praying always with all prayer and supplications in the Spirit,

855
00:45:55.639 --> 00:46:02.199
and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints,

856
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:05.559
and for me, that utterance may be given unto me,

857
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:09.360
that I may open my mouth boldly to make known

858
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:12.639
the mystery of the Gospel. But I am an ambassador

859
00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:16.199
in bonds that therein I may speak boldly as I

860
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:20.880
ought to speak. Ephesian six ten through eighteen, Verses ten

861
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:25.719
through eighteen, mainly eleven through eighteen, but Ephesian six, okay,

862
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:29.760
chapter six, read that that learned that that's the that's

863
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:32.920
the whole armor of God. Amen. Amen, this was a

864
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:35.320
great night. I love you all. We love you all

865
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:38.519
with the love of God. Were praying for you. We've

866
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:39.400
got more questions.

867
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:39.960
Let me know.

868
00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:43.440
We can roll this over to next week. Definitely, anything

869
00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:45.039
else you want to say, trade before we go.

870
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:49.440
They can google National Alliance or Mental Illness or NOMI,

871
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:52.239
those are some those are that's a resource that you

872
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:54.400
can look forward with you stage that show has given

873
00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:55.320
us a still.

874
00:46:56.440 --> 00:47:00.000
What we say, we said that show has given up,

875
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.800
so shield, well we're giving you. We protect now. We

876
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:06.800
do protect you in the sense. Now this devil can't

877
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:10.039
get to you all. He's gonna try while you're listening

878
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:13.039
for this fifty minutes, we cover you in the spirit

879
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:16.679
because what that means is he has to hit us first, Namely,

880
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:18.519
he has to hit me first before he come for you.

881
00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:21.199
And if he's hitting me, he's distracted because he can't

882
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:23.199
be everywhere at the same time. So if he's on,

883
00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:25.320
if I say, hey, guys, a mother attack, y'all, pray,

884
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:27.800
don't do what you need to do, don't worry about me,

885
00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:30.360
don't worry about me, and I'll talk about that next

886
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.239
week because we will be back here, same time, same station.

887
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:39.599
Stay walk, keep your water going. Night night, We love you.

888
00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:08.280
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