Renewal & Repurposing

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1:18 Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome. Welcome. It's May. It is May fourth, whether you like it or not, it is May. It is springtime. It is here, whether it's pouring and raining or snowing in some places, or you're going through whatever. And we're gonna talk about the Earth and how you look at the earth and all that good stuff. But welcome to another segment of setting it Stray with Miss Gray and her fabulous. Co host hallelu and hallelu Hey. Let's go, let's take it to prayer, and then we're gonna come back and check in. Lord. We just thank you and praise you, for you alone are worthy to be praised. You just keep blowing my mind with surprises and miracles and supernaturalness and revelations and oh my god, I can't. I'm just over. I'm just over.

2:10 I'm filled up. My cup is running over. But I want more and I want more more of you. I want to be more like you. And I thank you for the opportunity. I thank you for waiting on me. I thank you for just not giving up on me. I thank you for holding me when I didn't know I was needed to be held. Thank you for consulting me and put you know and consoling me. Thank you for constructive criticizing because I can only get better. I can only get better for Kingdom's sake. Now we just thank you. I thank you for my co host, Ms. Trey. I thank you for Miss k I thank you for our engineer behind the scenes, rebel who's bad to the bone, bad to the ball in a good way. And I thank you for the audience that's going to join us tonight.

2:54 I thank you for the topic. God, I just thank you for everything. That's all. There's not enough words, Lord, there are not enough words to praise you. They're not. They're not. The best I can do is give you my life. Now we're gonna get behind the cross. We're gonna lean in and listening with intensity, waiting for direction, waiting for next steps. Whatever it is that you choose to do and. To say to reveal tonight, have your way, sir, We bow out all this and more. We ask in Jesus' name, Amen, and amen, and a man stray tray. Okay, I can't hear you. You're behind them. Okay, there you are. I'm gonna tell you face to east. Now. You know we got to face the east.

3:35 Had it? How's the weather out there? Warming up? This weather is crazy, so today it would in the seventies. I think tomorrow is gonna be eighties, and I think the next day is gonna go back down the sixties. So we're a roller coaster here. But I'll take it. I'll say we're. Doing we're doing the same thing. We're doing this exact same thing. We really are. You don't know they try now, the meteorologists here, they don't even try to guess on anything. You know, what you may need to take an umbrella. You may need, you know the other day, a few days ago, we had put out some old paint cans. And stuff out in the front. Hey, hey, hey, can you say happy birthday? Well, whoever Mark is, happy birthday Mark? Hein't Charles, Happy birthday Mark?

4:20 Many more, many more, many more. Blessings. That's off to you. Thank you, Charles. Give you a shout out there. But I you know, and all of a sudden, this wind it literally sounded like a tornado with the wind gusts, and it didn't rain till later. So I had to have my son go out grab the cape pant pant pans of the you know, the cans of paint. And when it was on the side, I said, bring it in, just put it in the dumpster and our bins, but right now, and then we'll take it back out once it dies down. I don't know what that was. I don't know what that was all I know. And then all of a sudden, the rain just came, just like somebody's just standing on the clouds and just pouring down buckets and rain. My lawn needed it because I think it was Saturday. Because I forgot oh god, I got the moment. I gotta, you know, water my yard.

5:10 We only get two days out of the week to do that. And it rained enough, it rained enough to make up for the week, it really did, and then it went away. It just went away. It's like, uh, okay, I don't know what's wrong with it. I don't know. But you know, we're gonna talk about colors and and and the importance of that and also really taking care of our you know, understanding what the weather is doing. We've got to be very much more more intent. And and and aware of what's going on and what you're listening and what you're hearing out there, because the weather is doing its own thing. You know, there was a commercial that said, don't mess with don't fool with mother Nature. Don't fool with mother nature.

5:52 And you remember that, Remember that commercial And it was a lady and stuff. Like that, huh fool mother nature. Yes, yes, And. I'm telling you amen. Yeah, So don't don't mess with the weather. Have to question the weather these days yet. Well, just Micky, just make sure you have an umbrella. You have a poncho, and I would get it's gonna be a little costly, but I'll go to Amazon and get me the umbrella that covers that's round it. It does not flip up or anything. And for me, you know, I only have this hand with these digits on it. It's very convenient as a great handholding. And I am covered. It comes down to like here, top of my shoulder, right by my shoulder. Here will go and invest in that it's worth it. Oh, I'm sorry, Go ahead, No, no, no, I'm just saying it's got different cults.

6:41 Go ahead. I would task people right now because if you're trying to figure out what's going on with the weather, I just want to say, research global warming. Research what global warming is. And so sometimes it might be hard to predict because I think the weather is doing some stuff that we've never seen before. The earth is changing. It's stuff weather. You're hot weather in the wintertime and cold weather in the summertime. You know, glaciers and melting. Just just google. Don't don't take our word for it. Yes, don't just play on news stations. Look up what global warming looks like and determine for yourself to see if this is what this is.

7:21 Yeah, and be listening. I know many of you do not like to watch the watch TV and hear the news. And I know because we don't trust the news anymore. They've already been revealed and exposed that they lie, they make up stuff, they don't want to report, the happy stuff they want to, you know, and then they're speculating, and we know, we know, but every now and then you've got to listen in and especially hurricane season is here. I'm not waiting till June first. It is here because whatever we went through this past weekend, I don't know what that was all. And then it was a cool breeze before. It rained, it was a cool breeze. And I'm like, what is it one Today it was a cool breeze, no rain, no clouds. So you know, you just got to be aware because we may not be able to talk, we may not be able to give you an update. And we're all in different states, we're all in different cities, and things touched down in this city and right across the street. They don't have a problem.

8:17 It's here. Whatever it is is here. The earth is moaning, she's travailing, she is crying out all the litter and all the garbage, and you throw stuff out your car and it goes down a drain and after the water builds up, then you've got alligators coming up through the drain because you don't built it up where they can walk across the water down there, or you've got drains that are causing flooding. Because you just throw stuff out the car. I was at just an industrial place today earlier, and there was a little piece of. Candy paper, peppermint paper, and. I just it flew down, and the Holy Spirit said, look at you.

8:58 You got a big old trash bag in your car. I stopped what I was doing, picked it up, and threw it properly away. If I can get to it, I'm gonna get to it. But I have a trash bag in my car. So I don't know why you're all throwing stuff out. I don't know why you're eating while driving. I remember those days. But the Earth is moaning, She's crying out, saying you gotta stop this or I'm gonna wreak havoc. I am going to wreak havoc, and you can't stop me because you don't know what I'm gonna be doing. It's nothing. There's no predictability with the weather. We need to take better care of the planet. We do misty we do, and there are products out there that are healthy, you know, health conscious and healthier if you have a pet, you know, sprays or pesticides or they're getting they're more safer, a little bit more safer. Yes, it's gonna cost, forget about the price. What does it cost your health? What does it cost your health?

9:50 It's not odd because I know it's the Lord bringing it too. I was just having a conversation yesterday with someone and and there is like Washington, DC has a rodent infestation or has had a rodent infestation and for years, you know, I don't know, And they were talking about we have a conversation about remedies to it. And I think because they were looking at what do you do? And the rodents were our big as cat and the cats can't. Overtake a lot of these rodents. And so what was come up with was that they used dogs because some dogs hunt to try to decrease some of the rodent population. And then not really thinking about it, and said, well, but then you know, the humane societyal peda society was upset because they were using the dogs to try to help control the rat population.

10:53 But the other way that's taking place is if I'm not mistaken that they're using pesta. See, but if you're talking about pesticides, if you're talking about the chain of commands, the food chain, So the animal eats the pesticide, the whatever animal that eats that is also eating the animal and the pesticides, and so it's a chain of what it effects, and it affects the domesticated animals and stuff like that. So you try to figure out, well, what is the best way to curb that. And right now they're building up so many places city wise that is taking the habitats of those that those animals or creatures that live in like a forest or the woods or something, they have no place, and so they're trying to find okay.

11:41 And so now humans and these wilder. Animals are cohabitating because people need places to live and so do these animals. And so how curb that and the pesticide we all know, especially when they're prey on food produce, and it's affecting our food produce, and that means it's affecting our elf, you know, because we don't know what they're putting in that. And so just looking at this whole ecosystem and how can we how can we better improve our environment because we have to live off of this. It is one way. The meat eater and or just plant eater. You still have to because we're getting poisoned and and and stuff is just not like it used to be so fun.

12:28 It's awesome. This is awesome that you're bringing in. I'm sorry, trades, go ahead, finish up. I'm sorry. Okay, just have to be conscientious. That's all I was gonna say. Very much conscientious because now we can't call it anymore. Thank you, Charles, Yes, hey, thank you. We need to do natural things. Do yeah, let natural things do natural things. Specticizing not good day or the land. It's not. And now look what's also happening our farm. The farmers out there, they're not able to produce stuff. You know, the government has come through you. You spring stuff from the air and all that. And you've got cows and out there goats and sheep and all that chickens and they're eating that. Then you get then you're farming everything. Now, even my neighborhood store Sprouts, it is supposed to be a healthy based store, they have farmed meats, farm seafood.

13:18 And I'm looking at it like and I'm talking to out loud, like what your sprouts? Why do you have anything in here farmed? That don't make any sense? Everything should be wild caught. Now I'm gonna have to go over to Salms. I had to renew my membership in Sam's because SAMs have wild salmon and wild fish over there. So now I'm gonna go all, I gotta go there. I got to have a membership with these people, and then I got to pay their prices. Come on, you're not giving us a break at all. You're not giving us a break at all. And I know you have billions and you've got a bunker and all that, and you think you're safe. You're not safe. Look at your generations, Look at your generations.

13:58 You're trying to and I'm sorry even talking about it at work, you know, maybe even trying to teach our our clients client tell how to farm or grow different things. And even you know, my coworkers were talking about them having maybe putting a little garden, but then you got the deer and the squirrels and the birds who eat that. Right, So if if you're trying to grow your own food healthily, you're not trying to destroy yourself or any animals out there. I mean, let's face it, everybody has to has to consume food. At some point, and they and they gonna, they're gonna come in there. I've got snails on my house. Now I've got snails on my at my business, at my office building, I mean, all of a sudden snails. Then we've got an influx of ants. I mean, the bull ASTs, the red ass, they all, they all coming in together.

14:48 And that's that's no rain. You normally rain ushers, the par metal bug and some of your small roaches and your ants. In no, it's not even raining. And these ants are just they're trying to find food, so they're biting. They're biting whatever they can get a hold of, just to sustain themselves. It costs farmers more money to do things healthier than it does to use the stuff the government provides approves of. It's said, the government makes it harder to be healthy, thank you, miss Yeah. And this is and this is where what comes in conspiracy theory. All this nonsense leads to this and then you got people panicking and all that kind of stuff. But most of what they say is true. Most of what we see in the movies. I was just watching Independence Day Insurgents.

15:30 I was just watching that and am like, this is all true, you know, and they're they're they're flooding the TV now with all the movies and alien invasions and all this kind of stuff. And we got Twilight Zone coming back, we got Creature Feature coming back, you know, and it's it's the truth. I mean, you know, and we used to look at this as entertainment. But some of this, where did they get it from? Where did they get the ideas from? You know? So you if you I'm leading where I'm where I'm where I feel, I hope that to God that I'm correct. Well, I'm hoping this conversation leads to is that you have to lean and depend on the Lord, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They already know you.

16:11 You have to know at certain point conspiracies are actually true, yes, Mickey, even though they and we've got to know the difference between somebody's commentary, their their their opinion versus factual stuff and make sure the data is real these supplements. I was looking at that on my iPad, you know, once you everything all these agorithms, algorithm, algorithms, whatever they call whatever, they call. You know, the moment you click on something, you're just looking at it. Next thing you know, you got all these commercials coming at it. And you can't add all these ads coming at it. And I know you're desperate out there to stay afloat, but I have to pay to remove the ads. I mean, you're just being very evil, very dasty. I got to pay to remove the ads or I'm inconvenienced. I'm trying to do my puzzles for myself care here, come on, all these ads of stuff that I ordered from CBS.

17:04 Well, how do you know that? So some things somebody's out there got this all hooked up by name anything that you click. On or you have interest in, or you Google, or you ask AI. All of a sudden, it's dumping into into all of your media, it's dumping into your email, it's dump ads on my through texting. No, I don't want you to text me, just send me an email, don't bother me, leave me alone. And that people you know out here, they are so desperate, these companies are so desperate that you're harping on people who are just not even barely they're not even surviving. They are just they look forward to the next day. We're almost like a third world country where when you wake up, you don't know if your bank account is empty, you don't know if you're gonna have enough food to feed the family tomorrow. Then all of a sudden, your adult children and relatives got to come and live with you because they get evicted all over the place because they.

17:59 Lack money management. So all of a sudden, now you got all these people with the mindset of not changing. Now. I was just talking to somebody about that today. The mindset hasn't changed. My photographer, that's what I was talking to, because he was like, yeah, you know the system. I said, no, no, no, that's not the system. I said, you should have learned something from COVID from twenty twenty a whole. There's a lot of valuable lessons in that. But instead you get mad because even though the landlords received their back pay of. Stimulus through the stimulus moneies. You still are the same person that before in twenty nineteen and twenty seventeen and twenty sixty that didn't pay your rent on time and you. Were gainfully employed. So after the world started re you know, opening up again, jobs started having it come on back and everything.

18:43 You didn't change. You were still lay with the rent. You didn't change. So yes, the landlord had a right to say, I gotta advict you because you're the same You're doing the same thing before twenty twenty happened and the photographer was like, wow, miss Gray, Yeah, I didn't think about it like that. Yeah, you're supposed to. Just like when it rains in its storms the weather, the dirt flips over, new dirt comes up, the old dirt is washed away, And. Like Trey said, I mean, you're interrupting all these species. We got more alligators now. I know everybody likes to pickle on Florida and about the alligator about that. Back in the day, we didn't have problems with alligators. We did not have when I was living in Palm Beach County, early years of living here in Orlando, we didn't have problems with alligators coming up at the resort because there's no fence there, and because it's hungry. It's come from the ante coastal into these small lakes and places that you've got bodies of water.

19:37 We've got the bears. I'm not gonna even talk about the bears, and I don't want to talk about the sloths. You see what's happening to the sloth. The sloth. We don't even hear about the sloth fakes, the zoos opium. I didn't even know what a sloth was until I watched the movie. And I love the sloths. They're so cool, got some long nails. And for an animal that moves intense, believe and on purpose at a slow spec pace. Is deadly. You come up on it and you mess with his baby. We all of a sudden, you're supposed to open up sloth world and we get them here. You transport them in from wherever, and they're dying. They're coming in all diseased up from where Who was the first sloth that infected the other ones?

20:23 And they're dying. And Peter has a right to put their foot in this and say, okay. We demand to know what you're doing. What's going on here? We've first of all, you never heard of a sloth. Now they're all of a sudden they are big. Adam thinks to zozopia. And then all of a sudden, now we here they are beautiful animals. Don't bother nobody. Now we get them here in that and he's suppoed to open up a whole theme park about them. And they're dying, but something is go ahead. Petrey. I have to think, you know, as you know, I used to go to the zoos years ago, you know, or. And you look at them, but you have to think. And and because they're animals, something, the bears are taking over and gave it. Yeah, well I wentn't down it because they're they're they're they're moving about to in Virginia, the bears to to where it's where they're building up.

21:16 So there're sightings of bears where it hasn't been before. But when you uproot things, things happen. And I can only imagine. You know, we talk about and I think looking at the Whale movie years ago, free Willie and Free Willy had that curve in the top fin whatever that the dorsal fin. I think that's the fin. But I want to say, and I don't quote me, but I heard to say that when they're in captivity, they're fin flipped over. Now I don't know if that's true or whatever. You but I can only imagine you're going to your downside. So you have this grave big ocean or this grave, big forest or woods, and you're now confined to something way smaller that might be the size of a house.

22:07 Maybe maybe your cages is maybe a size of a house. They're not a very big one, So imagine that. And then you have people coming and darking at you twenty four or how many hours are they looking at you? That could be traumatized. And we don't think animals are affected by a lot of stuff. I don't think. I think we try to negate that animals are affected by their environment. And you know, you look at when I've seen movies or shows where if animals say, what is it like a wild animal and their baby dies the morning and the moaning that comes from there not wanting to leave them behind, you know, imagine that, you know, and then you know, coming into where you're a captive and you don't have the space to.

22:59 Move about, and how what does that do? And then you have people that are feeding some. Of these animals that are loose about, like the gators and the bears and stuff, and which makes them more comfortable with being around human beings. So it's like a whole lot of things that are tied into one that I think we just don't think about We all want to be able to cohabitate on this earth because it's God's earth and he put everything on it. But where's the happy medium. You know, it's so many buildings taking over things. You don't even have the greenery or the green edge or the you know, the habit natural habitats anymore like you're used to.

23:41 The pollution is higher. Things are flying in in the air. Not only how they're flying planes and helicopters, you're flying drones now now they're talking about maybe flying cars, vehicles flying It's a lot of movement that burns up stuff that messes up the air. Mickey uh stated that they get depressed and their fins bend. Yeah, that's because I think their fins. Their fins bend, so you know, and they. All have that and there's a crying out and you know, and I understand the zoos. I mean, we've had to protect you know, most of the time that's to protect the animal. You know, you put them in a. Safe place and stuff, but you're not keeping them safe, You're not you know.

24:24 And I know I joked about it, but it was really true. There was an elephant she was. I want to say. Her name was Ella or Effie, and hear at the Sandford Zoo and the people were all looking at her, the kids and laughing at her and stuff. She was kind of spotted a little bit. You could tell she was aged. But her snout was attached to a chain that was attached to a. Peg in the sand. Now I don't know why they didn't concrete that in, but they figured, oh, she's not gonna go anywhere, no big deal. So she you know, all these kids that they're looking and there they were jeering at her, they were laughed. They had footage, they had camera camera footage showing the kids long you know, of it, and she just look and then she, you know, she wiggled herself and then this's what next morning, huh Fie or Ellie?

25:07 Uh said? Okay, all she did was yank, yank. It was gone and she was on the interstate. She was on the interstate, and I'm like, okay, and I go, Ellie, go just go. She don't even know where she was going, but she was gone. I don't blame you. You picking at me. I got feelings too. She knows she was aging. We know when we're getting you're getting older or younger, you. Know, and and and and and it's it's it's it's a really sad day. And I don't know what. You know, you got to leave the animals. Alone because God got scriptures concerning his animals. Now you leave the animals alone. I put them here to provide and and to be nourishment for you. Yeah, but you you don't. You don't. You don't just be nasty with them and stuff like that.

25:47 And now we got and these alligators are not small either. They're huge. They are thick, they are big, and they are not there. You could I know, once upon a time you could say go run zig zag and that ah they run zigzag with you this new breath of stuff, so you know, you know, and talking about this today, we're talking about renewal and repurposing and in the image of it referring to colors, you know. And I was just well, okay, I'm gonna tell you a big secret. Don't tell anybody. I'm starting on my fifth book and I've got a chapter on about colors. No, no, don't get cared away.

26:27 Stop it. I wasn't trying to do that just yet. I'm trying to take a breather. I'm retiring from everything. But God is good. God, you know I checked with him. I said, God, they say, they say, and he said, go ahead, it's time. I said, okay, But I'm talking about colors. And I know I've talked about this in the four years that we have been on the air. Colors make up a difference. And you don't have to take my word tomorrow. If you're a feeling, if you got you've got meetings all day, you're gonna barely get go and go out for your thirty minute lunch or you packing your lunch tonight. Where a one of your favorite colors? Where one of your favorite colors? I don't care if it's a blouse or skirt pants, Where one of your favorite or your accessories?

27:10 What? Oh? Thank you? Vicky shucks? Oh missy stop it now, stop it, no, no, no one, it's not great. I'm trying to retire. Y'all write your books. Where are y'all books at? That's what I want to trade. Where your book at? Where's your program? MANU will and stuff like that. Don't be trying where y'all stuff at. But let me tell you something. God said, Okay, you can retire from this. But you have a word, You have words, You have things to tell people. People need to learn from you. And so that's where he keeps pushing you the way he's doing. So he hasn't told me that yet. He's kind of like, you. Know, because you know I told you. You know you could write that down, you know, you know you can blog that, you know. And you're like, oh, no, he ain't talking to me. Yeah, you're talking that.

27:56 Okay, I'm not gonna make you laugh because I can't help you with cbr pones. Some stuffing my way is U congrats on it. Yes, I agree to Charles, but you know, God, missus Gray. Lady, No, no, no, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I see, I can't even put my head up to the other ear. Jesus have a little short there. God knows telling you. You know that, I'm telling. You you you jazz, You're just a plethora of a whole lot of it. But I'm over it now. Been there, done that, and you're seeing this book. This is my autobiography. Yeah, I've been there. I don't even have to tell you much because you all know everything. I know where are your books?

28:40 Tell us, eld K, what is your book on how to rather an effective Sunday school? How to be the church secretary? Where's your book? Elda K. I know you're listening. I know you listen. Where's your book? Trade you? You you've got three books out there on domestic dollars all by itself, three books from thirty forty fifty. You ain't that old, thirty forty years of experience. And you, yeah. Rubble, where's your book? I know you've got a book. I know you got a book that rebel drawl just fell off her chair. But anyway, and y'all's I know you got something to say, y'all blog it out and all that kind of Oh yeah, don't let me come, don't let me come to your state. Don't let me come to your state. We gonna write a book. Watch. I remember the.

29:24 Young lady who's assisted me in writing, typing up the book in class, and she'll tell you. I'm listening. I know you are, eld I know you are. Y'all know you are. You sitting there wondering what should I do today? Won't you just start talking and talk about grandparenting or something? You got something to say to you. You think you're fooling people sitting there in the cut and being quiet. Yeah, you can go. Ahead and fan yourself, trey all you want to you, y'all got stuff to say. Y'all can pat me on the thank you? Yeah, but where's your stuff? I don't want any more mandate mantles for other people. I've already said.

30:04 I relaxed mine, I exercised, I inspired mine. All this other stuff is from other people because you ain't doing stuff, and y'all need to at least write something. Come on, now, run a children's book, misty out there? You can write children's book. Kids an buy it? You got an audience poetry? Who is my my poetry? People out there? I'm sending a book, a bunch of poetry. Uh huh, what you put your finger up there for? Uh huh? What you put your finger up there for? I write poetry. Excuse me, I said, I write portray. I hear you. I don't know nothing. I ain't never seen a card. I ain't never seen nothing. I ain't seen. Nothing, you know, I'm finding So this is the thing.

30:46 Oh, it's a thing. Let me sit back, let me lay back, a little bit. Let me lay back so I can really hear. This kind of recline a little bit. Just just hold on, hold on one second, so it's coming at you. Most of my poetry is inspired by things that are going on, so it could be a thought or they That's how I used to write. Right now, i'm developing some cards. I am doing that. But I have written poetry for people who lost. Loved ones and they wanted to do a dedication to their loved ones. I've done, yeah, I've done several of those. At fact, when my mother passed, I did three poems for her, one from her from my dad, one from her children, and one from her grandchildren their perspective of what, you know, we thought of her. And so I've done some dedication poetry to people who can you just write something?

31:43 I said, well, just tell me about your loved one. So I've done quite a few of those. And once they tell me, then I'll put something together and you know, they have somebody read it and or put it in the obituary program. So I've done some stuff like that. But you know, but do you know what's happening? Do you know what's happening now? We've got that pop up cards now they pop up the whole little whatever is in there, they pop up. We've got musical cards now now on Facebook. You could write to this company and tell this when you were talking about, you know, about your mom and being a you know, grandparent and things like that and how people viewed her and all that, Well, they're making it. To song now.

32:25 Yeah, and this is all passed y'all by This is all passed y'all by the Lord used to tell me your money is in your attic. I'm like, what money's in the attic? Had to get rid of stuff to make room for new stuff, or not to even make room for new stuff. You're talking about You're not making it is me the money. What's your gift? What's your skill? What's your talent? What's your talent? We can blog now, you could do a one page website and blog. It's all but blogging. That young couple years ago when I first moved here. I've been here almost twenty five years when at first I'm listening to the news and new couple they just got married. They were getting ready to renovate one room in their apartment, so they wanted to keep their relatives updated instead of calling them and stuff, so they were videotape it ness the twenty four hours later, American Express was calling them saying, can we put a commercial on your web on your page? And they became millionaires overnight.

33:22 And I'm not talking to Trey. I'm not talking to our viewers and our listeners out there. I'm not talking to y'all. I'm talking to the world. You complain of what you don't have while you're sitting there not exercising what you're doing. In my mind, as a child, all I wanted to do is return back to the stage. I love performing, singing, speaking, acting. I loved it, not realizing millions of years later, I'm getting married and relocate to Orlando and they've got a history center here and one of the librarians say, you know what you are so funny. I've got a friend looking for someone to portray doctor Mary MacLeod Bethune. I was like be Mary maclow Thine. I did my research, I made the contact with down.

34:05 There was an actor performing her, presenting her for fifteen years. Adding Bessie Coleman and Mary Anne Carrol. All three women never wore makeup. All I did was take my little Red Potter puff map my face with nothing on it, put some vasoline on my lips. It became a pang opportunity. But it's my hobby. It's my hobby. And then people are like, then, I had no idea, never wanted a podcast, never wanted to. Be not on radio. I want you to see me because I wrote that in the book as a chapter. You know, I love acting, and everybody's, oh my god, you're like Oprah Winfrey. I'm like, no, I'm not. No, I'm not. I can't dress.

34:46 But anyway, never mind, Am I gonna bring that up? No, I'm not, because I don't lie. It's not gonna bring it up. But I get where they were coming from because they're like, you're animated, you're extroverted. Oh my god. Yeah, because I love doing that. So guess what. I was able to go ahead and retire now because I don't have the energy and I don't have patience, so I cannot go back and. Do that in it. But I'm watching listening. It's good when a hobby makes money. And amen, say it again on the stage, thank you. Yeah, But y'all sitting on stuff because right now people are still reading books. I was watching Storage Wars over the weekend, the new episodes, and one of the guys got a storage full of books. He said, I don't know what I'm gonna do with these books. So he found a gentleman who recycles books. He has access to people where he can recycle books, and they pay him for old.

35:42 Titles like you should have hurt the man. He said, What I look for is it a catchy title? Is the book still in good shape? Look at pawn Stars. They've got a librarian, young lady who referenced books. So when somebody brings in a book and says, oh, this is George Washington's handwriting, Rick, them call their friend. They always got a friend for every genre. But this young lady is a. Library, has a library and background, and she looks at the books that she if it's worn or whatever. Now is this is not a collector's item, This is not original. This is just one of the macks that they did in the nineteen sixties. You know, to get the book, I mean the history. So I watched it. I didn't know why I was watching these shows, but I'm listening to history. But you got old books out there, there's somebody, there's an audience for that.

36:25 It's money. Even though they threw away a bulk of the books they brought and he said, no these, yeah you can. He said, you probably look at it about fifteen hundred dollars. So that meant that he would go back to his little gift store or his little store, because most of the folks on storage wars have stores, and you could. Now he could sell that book for two dollars or twenty dollars because he knows somebody will buy it. So, I mean, I don't know what else. I mean, the world right now, people are still reading hard books. Oh god, look at the time, it's already. We only got ten more minutes. Where's the time? Oh my god. And you know you have little people, you need to tell them what their gifts and their skills are and bark upon. I did that with all three of my kids, because my oldest was very tall. We were just talking about storage sales last week. Shut the front door, Mickey, shut up so many things. People don't know what they lose when they let the storage go.

37:19 Yes, and we got a whole. Drama series renewed for the twenty twenty six on Storage Wars, and there's one in Texas and there's one in the California area. And they rerunning it. They rerun it over the weekend and now they've just renewed, so now you can look at it, go ahead and go back on demand and put it in your library, put it on your watch list, so you could go back and just sometimes I just sit and binge watch. I love it the stuff that they find, how they get price everything. Then they got a young fellow on that I brought this up before, young fella and he's always on this pull. So they're like, why are you on the phone. He said, oh, I'm selling. I'm selling my stuff. He'll buy a storage and he said, oh yeah, this is this is cel, this is self. He already put it on his Epsy account and it's already sold. So that's that new age I mean that that that that. I don't want to say new age. I don't like that work that phrase.

38:14 That's that. That's that, that's that gen Z or Millennia stuff. Sell it right there. All he has to do is package and mail it on the person, meet him at wherever. He don't even have a store. His stores online. Yeah, no overhead, that. Had it all, no overhead. It's right there. I would love to do it. I think I could do the storage business right now. I would love to. But I would have the network with folks who've got mom and pop stores, vintage stores and stuff like that, so I could go in and get that. Just look, I say, a storage for it, and I mean they got access to all these people who know their history, who know the value of stuff. It's amazing. I dare you to watch it when you're bored and have nothing else better to do.

38:56 I'm telling you. So it's out there and there's no reason for you not office people. Has card stock them so you don't have to go and find a printing shop to print your stuff or the who has the card stock, paper construct you know, paper like devices, and you could go get you I was talking to the yell this type of She said, you know a profit, professor, you know, she called me prof She says, no profit, You. May need to just go ahead and get you a printing machine. I said, yeah, I think I'm gonna have to start self printing if God's going to keep me doing this, you know, so I could get my profit, so I could get something. All I have to do is I've already I just connected with the the office of Coffee. Right, how do we do this? It's there to do. Life is a little bit easier behind the scenes, but you gotta want it bad enough.

39:41 You out there and you're complaining. I got to punch this clock. I don't like my co workers. I got to do this. There's a large strift sale at the New Orleans Convention Center coming up, we think this weekend. See look at that, look at that, and that could be a way of connecting. There may be some mom and pop store, you know, folks owners come into that in. Your area and they would love for you, somebody to partner with that. And you do the storage. You know, Consimon's Shops kick this off. Remember there was because Simon's Shops started. It's been here, it's been here, and look what it's blossomed into. We've got dropped, We've got reality shows on this stuff now antiques people go, uh, thrift shopping. Uh that there was another one, garage sailing people, fad sales. It's a show. So you can't you can't unless you try and and it doesn't go anywhere, and you just can't get a leg up. Then you leave it alone. You let it go and try something else.

40:35 I know people who are getting ready to retire and stuff they can bake out of this world, and I'm like, go, why don't you just do a little baking things use You can just use Facebook advertise what you're making, what you're baking this weekend. Do you know how many people there's a lady here. We believe in reuse, repurpose, renewed. Thank you, missy, repurposing, renewal. They repurpose the wood that you walk on, they repurpose the trees are cut down. And I'm going to say this real quick. It was in the Daily Word and one of the listen to the gospel radio station up here, and people believe he's talking about this. But back in the sixties, the Department the government administration was looking for somebody to make their pins and the pen.

41:20 The person couldn't. They couldn't, so somebody told them, and I think it was just they tried to be funny, but they told them to go contact. The Light, not the Lighthouse for the Blind, but the Blind Society. The Blind Society, And they did and they made it to the specification of what they needed the ink, the pens, and only government officials use these pins. You can't go and buy them anywhere unless you work for the government. They could write upside down. Now that's a pilot pin right there. They could write. A mile long of ink. And it was something else that they could do. It was in the Daily Word. So I went to the problem, got my Daily Word and said, oh my god, it was Friday's Daily World. I said, oh, it is here, let me see what else it does. But the Blind Society, I know y'all didn't know that. I know y'all didn't know that. Because I had to make a copy of this.

42:04 I was like, and I put it on Facebook too. I was like, oh my god, are you serious. The Blind Society makes the government pens to the exact specific specific made it exactly like they made it. Wow, so you can repurpose it. And yet y'all have to check my my Facebook page. But yeah, and to the oh here it is God's and it's onder God's perfect specifications. Oh God, oh wow, Yeah. It's there, and I'm like, what, yeah, seventy and they make they contracted for them. In the nineteen sixties nineteen sixty seven to blind factory workers to assemble, and they made.

42:48 Seventy million pins. Million pins. Okay, they used extensively by the military personnel. Can be used to write upside. Down, make a mile long line of ink and withstand extreme temperatures. The blind factory worker. Wow, And they're still doing it to this day. Talk about repurposing. You're here, You're still here. You woke up this morning. You woke up this morning with energy. You've got ideas. They're in your head, and they're in your your journals, they're on your vision board. What would it take to ignite a fire under you to get you started? Let's not even look back at the excuses. Let's not even look back to Why don't look at the path that was? Yes, say what is going to? What is stopping you right now?

43:40 For saying I have even if it's one card, even if it's just one I go to a storage and I take a look, and I go ahead a network with the mom and pop antique shops that I go, and the consignment shop is saying, hey, if I break some good stuff, maybe we could partner here. Would you mind? What's stopping you? Ain't right? What's stopping you. I can tell you we only got one more minute yourself, yourself, and we can't talk about it anymore. That's the only deal I can make with you. We can't talk about it. I don't know what can excite you. I don't know what can motivate you. You've got purpose. God, don't make junk. One man's junk is another man's treasure. We've heard it, we've lived it.

44:21 Just do something different, Just try, just try. And we're gonna talk about this next week, same time, same stay shine, who Sick