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Praise | August 21, 2017

Praise

August 21, 2017

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Clifton Davis hosts Chonda Pierce, Rev. Michael Spurlock and Aimee Marcoux-Spurlock.

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- FEMALE ANNOUNCER: TONIGHT
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FROM NEW YORK CITY...
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COMEDIAN, AUTHOR, AND ACTRESS,
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CHONDA PIERCE.
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PASTOR OF SAINT THOMAS CHURCH,
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REVEREND MICHAEL SPURLOCK.
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ACTRESS, SINGER, AND JOURNALIST,
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AIMEE MARCOUX-SPURLOCK.
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AND ACTOR, SONGWRITER, SINGER,
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AND MINISTER, CLIFTON DAVIS,
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- CLIFTON DAVIS: HELLO!
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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WHAT A GREAT CROWD YOU ARE!
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I FEEL THE LOVE!
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AND I FEEL THAT YOU LOVE THE
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LORD, AND I DO TOO.
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HI, I'M CLIFTON DAVIS.
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THIS IS "PRAISE,"
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- CLIFTON: OUR PURPOSE IS TO
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LIFT UP PEOPLE'S LIVES THROUGH
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THE POWER OF GOD, AND GOD
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WORKING THROUGH SO MANY
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WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE
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THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING ON THIS
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NETWORK, THE TRINITY
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BROADCASTING NETWORK.
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HERE'S ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WE'D
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LOVE YOU TO MEET.
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- CHONDA PIERCE: WELL, YOU
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KNOW, IT'S SO FUNNY 'CAUSE
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THERE'S JUST A LINGO WHEN GIRLS
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GET TOGETHER AND WE TALK TO EACH
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OTHER.
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THERE'S A LINGO THAT MEN JUST
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CAN'T UNDERSTAND.
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THERE'S THINGS THAT MEN WOULD
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NEVER SAY TO OTHER MEN.
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IF MEN GOT IN A GROUP OF THEIR
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BUDDIES, NOBODY'S GONNA LOOK AT
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ONE ANOTHER AND GO, "DO THESE
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PANTS MAKE ME LOOK FAT?"
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[LAUGHTER]
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IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN.
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NO MAN LOOKS TO ANOTHER BUNCH OF
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MEN AND GO, "LET'S ALL GO TO THE
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POTTY REAL QUICK."
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[LAUGHTER]
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I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY WE ALL GO
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TO THE POTTY TOGETHER.
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[LAUGHTER]
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I'M NOT SURE.
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IT COULD BE TO HOLD ONTO THE
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SKINNY GIRL UNDER THE HAND
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DRYER.
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[LAUGHTER]
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- ANNOUNCER: EMMY-NOMINATED AND
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BEST-SELLING FEMALE COMEDIAN
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CHONDA PIERCE HAS BEEN
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PERFORMING FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
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SHE'S WON MANY AWARDS AND HAS
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BROUGHT HER HUMOR TO THE BIG
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SCREEN WITH MOVIES "LAUGHING IN
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THE DARK," AND "CHONDA PIERCE:
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ENOUGH."
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IN ADDITION TO MAKING MOVIES,
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CHONDA PIERCE HAS ALSO DEBUTED
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A STAND-UP COMEDY SERIES
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TITLED, "CHONDA: STAND-UP FOR
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FAMILIES."
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CHONDA IS AN AUTHOR AND HAS
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HOSTED MAJOR EVENTS SUCH
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AS THE INSPIRATIONAL COUNTRY
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MUSIC AWARDS, THE CHRISTIAN
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MUSIC HALL OF FAME AWARDS, AND
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CO-HOSTED THE GMA DOVE AWARDS.
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TODAY ON "PRAISE," CHONDA WILL
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SHARE HER LIFE STORY AND FAITH
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WHILE TALKING ABOUT THE
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IMPORTANCE OF SAYING, "YES," TO
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GOD.
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- CHONDA: YOU'RE SO GOOD!
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- CLIFTON: HI, CHONDA!
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- CHONDA: YOU ARE SO GOOD!
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[CLIFTON LAUGHING]
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- CLIFTON: LET 'EM LOVE YOU A
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LITTLE WHILE!
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- CHONDA: YOU'RE SO GREAT.
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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[CLIFTON LAUGHING]
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- CHONDA: ISN'T THIS... THIS
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IS JUST LIKE ONE OF THE FANCIEST
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LITTLE THINGS I'VE EVER DONE!
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[LAUGHTER]
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I'VE BEEN OUT BACK THERE.
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BACK THERE, THEY GOT US PRIME
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RIB, ASPARAGUS, SHRIMP.
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I'M TELLIN' YA, HE'S A GOOD
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COOK!
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[LAUGHTER]
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YOU KNOW, I HAVE
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LOVED YOU FOR YEARS.
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- CLIFTON: IS THAT RIGHT?
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- CHONDA: YES, ABSOLUTELY!
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WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, I
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THOUGHT, "I MIGHT BE A
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PREACHER'S WIFE IF MY PREACHER
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WOULD LOOK LIKE YOU."
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: THAT IS SO KIND OF
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YOU.
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- CHONDA: BUT HE DIDN'T, SO I
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DIDN'T BECOME A PREACHER'S WIFE!
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[LAUGHTER]
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IT'S GOOD TO SEE YA.
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- CLIFTON: GOOD TO SEE YOU!
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SO FANTASTIC TO SEE YOU.
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WE'VE ENJOYED YOUR COMEDY.
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YOU'RE ENTERTAINING FOR SO LONG,
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AND IT'S NICE TO HAVE YOU RIGHT
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HERE ON TBN.
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I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN
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ON TBN BEFORE.
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- CHONDA: YOU KNOW, I THINK,
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LITTLE THINGS HERE AND THERE
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ALONG THE WAY, LIKE THE LITTLE
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SPOT YOU GOT OUT THERE IN
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CALIFORNIA, THE LITTLE SPOT YOU
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GOT IN TEXAS, BUT USUALLY, JUST,
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I KIND OF HANG OUT IN THE
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BATHROOM TILL SOMEBODY LETS ME
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TALK.
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: SHARE WITH US HOW
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YOU SAY, "YES," TO GOD IN YOUR
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- CHONDA: YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SAY
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THAT THE SHEKINAH GLORY SHINED
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DOWN IN MY LITTLE BEDROOM AS A
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KID AND SAID, "GO BE FUNNY,"
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'CAUSE, BACK THEN, I WAS KIND OF
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GETTIN' A WHOOPIN' FOR WHAT I
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[LAUGHTER]
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AND SO I WAS THE MIDDLE CHILD
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OF A VERY HOLINESS DENOMINATION,
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YOU KNOW, AND MY DAD WAS A
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PREACHER, AND SO, IN THE SOUTH,
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WHEN YOU GROW UP A PREACHER'S
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KID AND A MIDDLE CHILD,
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YOU EITHER BECOME, YOU KNOW,
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A PREACHER'S WIFE OR A
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BARTENDER.
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[LAUGHTER]
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SO I NEVER ACQUIRED THE TASTE
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FOR EITHER ONE, AND SO, BUT I,
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AS A THEATER ARTS MAJOR,
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I GOT A JOB AT A THEME PARK
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IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
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AT THAT TIME, IT WAS CALLED
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OPRYLAND, AND THE SHOW THEY PUT
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ME IN, GAVE THE HISTORY OF
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COUNTRY MUSIC.
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NOW, THE FUNNIEST THING IS, I
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USED TO HAVE TO HIDE A RADIO
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UNDER MY BED BECAUSE I GREW UP
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IN SUCH STRICT HOUSEHOLD THAT,
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YOU KNOW, ROCK AND ROLL'S GONNA
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SEND YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL IN A
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HANDBASKET.
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[LAUGHTER]
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BEER WAS GONNA SEND YOU TO
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HELL IN A HANDBASKET.
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BOYS WAS GONNA SEND YOU TO HELL
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IN A HANDBASKET.
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SO I HAVE BEEN LIVING 50 YEARS
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TRYIN' TO CLIMB OUT OF A HAND
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BASKET.
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[LAUGHTER]
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AND SO THE SWEET THING IS,
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IT WAS A TIME IN MY--
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NOW, HERE'S HOW THE PROVIDENCE
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OF GOD WORKS IN YOUR LIFE IF
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YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION,
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I THINK.
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I GOT A JOB AT A THEME PARK, AND
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IT WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE, AT THE
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AGE OF 23, WHEN NOTHING WAS
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REALLY THAT FUNNY.
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I WAS NEWLY MARRIED, TERRIFIED,
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GOT PREGNANT, HAD A BEAUTIFUL
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LITTLE BABY GIRL, BUT I HAD LOST
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BOTH MY SISTERS-- DIED AT AN
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EARLY AGE.
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MY BIG SISTER WAS 20.
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SHE WAS KILLED IN A CAR
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ACCIDENT.
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ABOUT 18 MONTHS LATER, MY LITTLE
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SISTER PASSED AWAY WITH
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LEUKEMIA.
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SHE WAS 15.
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AND IN THE MIDST OF THAT, MY
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PARENTS DIVORCED.
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NOW, MY FATHER WAS ONE OF THOSE
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HELLFIRE, BRIMSTONE PREACHERS
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AND, AT THE SAME TIME, WAS NOT A
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GOOD FATHER.
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HE WAS NOT A GOOD MAN.
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LIVING WATER STILL FLOWS THROUGH
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CRACKED VESSELS, AND SO I STILL
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SAW GOD AT WORK IN MY CHILDHOOD,
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BUT THE MAN THAT WOULD COME HOME
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FROM THE PULPIT ON SUNDAYS WAS
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NOT A GOOD MAN, AND IT WAS A
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VERY-- IT LEFT LOT OF QUESTIONS
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IN MY CHILDHOOD, A LOT OF THINGS
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THAT I WAS ANGRY AT GOD ABOUT, A
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LOT OF FRUSTRATIONS AT GOD, A
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LOT OF SADNESS AND GRIEF, AND
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ALL THE SUDDEN, GOD FOUND ME A
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JOB WHERE, FIVE TIMES A DAY, 6
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DAYS A WEEK, I HAD TO MAKE A
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GROUP OF PEOPLE LAUGH IN ORDER
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TO GET A PAYCHECK, AND I HAD TO
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DO IT IMPERSONATING COUSIN
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MINNIE PEARL...
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"HOWWWDY!"
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: YES, I KNEW MINNIE
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PEARL!
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I WAS ON "HOLLYWOOD SQUARES"
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WITH MINNIE PEARL!
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- CHONDA: OH, MY GOD!
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NEVER KNEW WHO SHE WAS.
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I'VE MET HER.
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I MET THE REAL MINNIE PEARL.
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HER NAME WAS SARAH CANNON.
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HAD PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY IN
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HER KITCHEN ONE TIME, AND WE GOT
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TO TALKIN'.
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ONE TIME I WAS WORKIN' ON THE
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GRAND OLE OPRY FOR HER AS SHE
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GOT OLDER, AND I REMEMBER HER
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COMIN' BACK AND TELLING ME,
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"NOW, DO YOU REALLY LIKE THIS
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KIND OF A THING?"
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AND I WAS, LIKE, "WELL, SURE.
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I'M REALLY ENJOYIN' THE WHOLE
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COMEDY THING."
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AND SHE SAID,
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"WELL, HONEY, YOU WILL NEVER
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KNOW WHAT LAUGHTER REALLY IS
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UNTIL YA MAKE PEACE WITH GOD,"
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AND I THOUGHT, "MY MOTHER TOLD
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YOU TO SAY THAT, DIDN'T SHE?"
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: HOW ABOUT THAT!
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- CHONDA: BUT SHE WAS RIGHT!
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THE AUTHOR OF ALL CREATIVITY IS
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THE CREATOR HIMSELF, AND HE GAVE
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US EVERY EMOTION TO GET TO
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EXPLORE AND GET TO BE A PART OF,
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AND HE BROUGHT THAT MEDICINE OF
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LAUGHTER TO ME.
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EVEN THOUGH I WAS DISPENSING IT,
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IT WAS THE SOUND OF PEOPLE'S
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LAUGHTER AND THE JOY OF THE LORD
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THAT BEGAN TO HEAL MY BROKEN
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HEART IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT
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SHORED ME UP FOR YEARS TO COME,
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AND I LEFT THE PARK, AND I
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STARTED SHARING MY TESTIMONY.
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I USED TO SAY I WASN'T REALLY
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STARTIN' OUT TO BE A COMEDIAN.
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I JUST WANTED TO SHARE MY
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TESTIMONY, AND PEOPLE KEPT
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LAUGHIN' IN MY FACE.
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[LAUGHTER]
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IT KIND OF HURTS MY FEELINGS,
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TO TELL YA THE TRUTH,
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BUT IT IS A MIRACULOUS THING
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WHEN THE LORD TAKES BROKENNESS--
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AND HE DOES THIS A LOT IN THE
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COMEDY WORLD-- AND HE WEAVES
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THAT BROKEN LIFE TO BE ABLE TO
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DISPENSE LAUGHTER.
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NOW, YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL'S IN
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THE BUSINESS OF ROBBIN' US FROM
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ALL GOOD THINGS, AND SO HE'S
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TAKEN COMEDY DOWN A TOTALLY
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DIFFERENT PATH, AND THAT SADDENS
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ME SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW?
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AND I DON'T JUDGE THOSE COMICS.
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AS MY MAMA SAYS, "THEY'RE
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WALKIN' IN ALL THE LIGHT THEY
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KNOW."
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BUT I CHOOSE TO HANG OUT
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WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT AS
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INEBRIATED AND...
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[LAUGHTER]
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...WELL, OF COURSE,
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THAT DEPENDS ON WHAT CHURCH
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YOU'RE AT!
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- CLIFTON: THAT'S TRUE!
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- CHONDA: YOU KNOW, I CHOOSE TO
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HANG OUT WITH PEOPLE-- I CHOOSE
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TO DO WHAT I DO WHERE PEOPLE
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WILL REMEMBER WHAT I SAID!
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[LAUGHTER]
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YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE
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ALWAYS GOING, "AND YOU DON'T DO
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COMEDY CLUBS?"
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I GO, "NO, I SELL A COUPLE OF
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THOUSAND TICKETS EVERY NIGHT,
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AND, AS FAR AS KNOW, I DON'T
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THINK ANYBODY'S THAT DRUNK!"
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[LAUGHTER]
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I CRACK MYSELF UP!
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: AND THAT'S ONE OF
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THINGS THAT MAKES YOU SO VERY
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SPECIAL.
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- CHONDA: THAT I LAUGH AT MY
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OWN JOKES-- THAT'S WHAT!
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: NO, THAT-- SEE?
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SEE, I'M STILL BEIN' A STRAIGHT
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MAN AGAIN!
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- CHONDA: I KNOW!
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I LOVE THAT ABOUT YOU!
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- CLIFTON: I WAS STRAIGHT MAN
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FOR SHERMAN HEMSLEY FOR 5 YEARS!
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- CHONDA: OH, MY GOODNESS, YES,
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YES!
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- CLIFTON: BUT THAT YOU DON'T
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HAVE TO BE DRUNK TO THINK YOU'RE
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FUNNY!
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- CHONDA: THAT'S RIGHT!
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: THAT'S WHAT I'M
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SAYIN'!
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- CHONDA: THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT!
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- CLIFTON: IT'S HILARIOUS, YOUR
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PERSPECTIVE ON STUFF.
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I MEAN, WE WERE TALKIN' IN THE
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GREENROOM ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT
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MIGHT'VE BEEN SAID AT YOUR
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CHURCH OR WHATNOT LIKE THAT, AND
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I'M CURIOUS AS TO WHAT KIND OF
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ADVICE YOU WOULD GIVE TO OTHER
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COMEDIANS SEEKING TO GO INTO THE
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ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY?
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- CHONDA: WELL, I THINK, "GO."
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YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN
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THE CHURCH WORLD-- AND I CAN
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SPEAK TO THAT BECAUSE I'M IN
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THAT WORLD, AND I WAS ONE OF
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'EM, YOU KNOW, AND STILL AM, BUT
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THERE WAS A TIME WE WOULD GET
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ANGRY OR FRUSTRATED OR A
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RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION ABOUT WHAT
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WAS ON TELEVISION, AND, YES,
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THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT ARE
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JUST NOT GODLY THAT WE WISH
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AND WHAT WE DID WAS PULL ALL OUR
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YOUNG PEOPLE OUT.
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"WE'RE GONNA PULL 'EM OUT OF THE
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ARTS.
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WE'RE GONNA TELL 'EM, 'NO, YOU
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NEED TO GO BE A DOCTOR OR A
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TEACHER OR, YOU KNOW, A
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OR YOU NEED TO TEACH SUNDAY
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SCHOOL,'"
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AND WE FORGOT TO TELL 'EM,
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"NO, YOU NEED TO GO TEACH
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SCHOOL IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL.
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YOU NEED TO GO WHERE THE SINNERS
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ARE."
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AND WE WOULD BOYCOTT, AND
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WE WOULD DO ALL THESE THINGS,
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YOU KNOW, FUSSIN' AT HOLLYWOOD,
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AND THERE IS A PLACE FOR THAT,
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BUT FOR THE MOST PART, WHAT
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HAPPENED IS A GENERATION WOULD
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GO BY, AND THEN, ALL OF A
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SUDDEN, WE GOT NO REPRESENTATION
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OUT THERE BECAUSE-- AND SO...
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[APPLAUSE]
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...SOMETIMES I LOOK
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AT THE STATE THAT COMEDY IS IN.
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I LOOK AT THE STATE OF WHAT
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HOLLYWOOD IS DOIN', AND I GO,
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"YOU KNOW, WE GOT NOBODY TO
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BLAME FOR THAT REALLY BUT US
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'CAUSE WE TURNED AND RAN INSTEAD
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OF BEING BOLD IN THE LORD AND
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RECOGNIZING WHO HE IS...
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[APPLAUSE]
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...YEAH, AND GOIN'
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OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, GOIN' OUT
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THERE.
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AND WE HAVE A FEW LIKE YOU THAT
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WOULD RISE UP, AND WE'D ALL GET
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TO CHAMPION BEHIND YA, BUT THEN
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WE WERE ALL SCARED TO GO FOLLOW
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YA!
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AND YOU PAVED THE WAY FOR A LOT
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OF FOLKS, BROTHER DAVIS, AS WE
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SAY IN THE SOUTH: "BROTHER
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DAVIS"!
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[LAUGHTER]
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YOU KNOW, AND WE NEED MORE OF
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THAT, AND SO I TELL YOUNG
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PEOPLE, "OH, GO, GO.
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GO STUDY COMEDY.
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GO TO THE FINEST SCHOOLS.
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GET OUT THERE IN THOSE CLUBS AND
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BE FUNNIER THAN ANYBODY.
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YOU REPRESENT THE KING OF KINGS,
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SO YOU JUST HOLD YOUR HEAD UP.
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NOW, REMEMBER, WHEN YOU DO THAT,
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THE DEVIL'S WAITIN' FOR YA, SO
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SHINE YOUR ARMOR UP, AND YOU
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HANG ONTO THE WORD OF GOD LIKE
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IT'S A SHIELD THAT IT IS, AND
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YOU GO IN THERE AND FIGHT THE
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FIGHT, YEP!
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- CLIFTON: GOOD WORD!
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[APPLAUSE]
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- CHONDA: I GOT CHILLS!
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- CLIFTON: IT'S VERY TRUE.
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IT'S VERY TRUE.
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YOU KNOW, YOU PAY A PRICE TO BE
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THE ONE WHO STANDS UP AND--
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- CHONDA: YES, AND YOU GET IT
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FROM BOTH SIDES.
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YOU CAN MAKE A BUNCH OF
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BAPTIST DEACONS LAUGH,
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WITH A COUPLE OF CATHOLICS
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SITTIN' THERE AND AN
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EPISCOPAL PRIEST...
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[LAUGHTER]
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...AND A FEW PENTECOSTALS
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ON THE BACK ROW.
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WE'LL SEE HOW FUNNY YOU ARE!
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[LAUGHTER]
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I'M THINKIN' OF STARTIN'
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A TWO-DRINK MINIMUM.
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THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKIN'!
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[LAUGHTER]
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'CAUSE WE, YOU KNOW,
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WE GOT OUR STUFF, AND WE GOT OUR
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CLUBS, AND WE GOT OUR
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DENOMINATIONS.
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WE GOT OUR THINGS.
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I TRY TO MAKE 'EM ALL LAUGH, SO
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I DON'T KNOW.
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I MAYBE AM GOIN' TO HELL IN A
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HANDBASKET.
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I DON'T KNOW!
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: NO, YOU CLIMBED OUT
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OF THAT!
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- CHONDA: I CLIMBED OUT OF
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THAT!
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- CLIFTON: WELL, I HEARD
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WHEREVER THERE ARE FOUR
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EPISCOPALIANS, THERE'S A FIFTH.
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CHONDA: HEY, WE GOTTA BE
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CAREFUL!
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I MET ONE BACKSTAGE!
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[LAUGHTER]
00:13:00.280 --> 00:13:01.140
- CLIFTON: I LOVE MY
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EPISCOPALIAN BROTHERS AND
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SISTERS, PRESBYTERIAN...
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- CHONDA: I DO TOO.
00:13:05.180 --> 00:13:06.080
YOU KNOW, IT TAKES ALL OF US!
00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:07.230
IT TAKES ALL THE DENOMINATIONS.
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- CLIFTON: WE ARE, AS A GROUP,
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THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND I'M
00:13:10.190 --> 00:13:13.190
PROUD TO BE A PART OF THE BODY
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OF CHRIST.
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[APPLAUSE]
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- CHONDA: WE CAN BE ACTORS AND
00:13:16.170 --> 00:13:17.200
COMEDIANS AND TEACHERS AND
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POLICEMEN, AND WE CAN BE CHURCH
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PEOPLE, AND RIGHT NOW, ABOVE ALL
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ELSE, OUR COUNTRY NEEDS TO SEE
00:13:24.110 --> 00:13:26.100
THAT, AS THE FAMILY OF GOD,
00:13:26.100 --> 00:13:29.090
THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF
00:13:29.090 --> 00:13:30.250
OCCUPATIONS, AND THERE ARE ALL
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KINDS OF COLORS, AND UNDER THE
00:13:32.140 --> 00:13:34.280
UMBRELLA OF WHO HE IS, WE ARE
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ONE.
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AND IT'S NOT THAT WE ALL BLEED
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RED.
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IT'S THAT CHRIST BLED FOR ALL OF
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US.
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[APPLAUSE]
00:13:46.130 --> 00:13:49.130
- CLIFTON: WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
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FOR PEOPLE TO LAUGH?
00:13:50.210 --> 00:13:52.040
- CHONDA: WELL, ONE, I NEED TO
00:13:52.040 --> 00:13:53.140
MAKE A LIVIN'.
00:13:53.140 --> 00:13:54.030
[LAUGHTER]
00:13:54.030 --> 00:13:56.210
- CLIFTON: THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD
00:13:56.210 --> 00:13:57.130
REASON!
00:13:57.130 --> 00:13:58.230
- CHONDA: I GOT A MORTGAGE.
00:13:58.230 --> 00:13:59.130
I'VE GOT A MORTGAGE, SO THERE'S
00:13:59.130 --> 00:14:00.070
ONE, YOU KNOW?
00:14:00.070 --> 00:14:01.070
I THINK -- LET'S BE HONEST.
00:14:01.070 --> 00:14:03.170
I HAD A LITTLE GRANDMOTHER WHO
00:14:03.170 --> 00:14:05.000
NEVER WORE A PAIR OF SLACKS IN
00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.110
HER LIFE WHEN SHE COME TO KNOW
00:14:06.110 --> 00:14:07.290
JESUS, AND SO RIGHT BEFORE THEY
00:14:07.290 --> 00:14:09.140
SHUT THE LID, I DID PUT JEANS ON
00:14:09.140 --> 00:14:10.150
HER 'CAUSE I THOUGHT THAT WOULD
00:14:10.150 --> 00:14:11.240
BE FUNNY.
00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:12.150
[LAUGHTER]
00:14:12.150 --> 00:14:14.050
I JUST WANTED TO SEE HER SHOW
00:14:14.050 --> 00:14:15.250
UP IN HEAVEN AND GO, "I
00:14:15.250 --> 00:14:16.280
DID NOT PUT THESE ON, LORD!"
00:14:16.280 --> 00:14:18.140
[LAUGHTER]
00:14:18.180 --> 00:14:21.180
HONEY, SHE HAD THE HAIR UP.
00:14:21.180 --> 00:14:23.100
SHE NEVER HAD THAT HAIR DOWN,
00:14:23.100 --> 00:14:24.250
AND WHEN SHE DIED, I JUST WANTED
00:14:24.250 --> 00:14:26.190
TO TAKE THAT LITTLE PENTECOSTAL
00:14:26.190 --> 00:14:27.210
BUN DOWN AND...
00:14:27.210 --> 00:14:28.210
[LAUGHTER]
00:14:28.210 --> 00:14:30.180
...I WANTED SO BADLY TO SEE
00:14:30.180 --> 00:14:31.280
WHAT WAS UP IN THERE, YOU KNOW?
00:14:31.280 --> 00:14:33.150
'CAUSE SHE HAD A DOG THAT HAD
00:14:33.150 --> 00:14:36.080
DIED, AND WE WONDERED WHERE THAT
00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:37.290
CHIHUAHUA WENT AND...
00:14:37.290 --> 00:14:39.250
[LAUGHTER]
00:14:41.100 --> 00:14:44.100
NOW HERE'S THE TRUTH OF
00:14:44.100 --> 00:14:45.080
THE MATTER.
00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:46.190
THERE ARE BEAUTIFUL CHRISTIANS
00:14:46.190 --> 00:14:47.130
THAT LIVE THEIR LIFE LIKE THAT,
00:14:47.130 --> 00:14:48.090
AND I LOVE 'EM, AND THEY LOVE
00:14:48.090 --> 00:14:49.100
ME, AND THEY INVITE ME INTO
00:14:49.100 --> 00:14:50.080
THEIR CHURCHES EVEN WITH MY
00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:51.030
LIPSTICK.
00:14:51.030 --> 00:14:52.110
I DON'T CARE.
00:14:52.110 --> 00:14:53.200
[LAUGHTER]
00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:54.080
AND THEY DON'T CARE,
00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:54.250
YOU KNOW?
00:14:54.250 --> 00:14:55.150
AND SO THAT'S WHAT'S BEAUTIFUL,
00:14:55.150 --> 00:14:57.000
BUT WHAT SAY ABOUT THAT IS I, AS
00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:58.280
A YOUNG PERSON, DIDN'T WANT WHAT
00:14:58.280 --> 00:15:01.110
MY GRANDMOTHER HAD, AND I
00:15:01.110 --> 00:15:03.020
DECIDED I WANTED TO LIVE MY LIFE
00:15:03.150 --> 00:15:06.150
SO PEOPLE AROUND ME WOULD WANT
00:15:06.150 --> 00:15:08.000
WHAT I'VE GOT.
00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:09.190
[APPLAUSE]
00:15:09.190 --> 00:15:11.100
AND I DON'T KNOW OF A BETTER
00:15:11.180 --> 00:15:14.180
WAY TO DO THAT THOUGH
00:15:14.180 --> 00:15:16.230
BUT WHEN YOU LAUGH.
00:15:16.230 --> 00:15:17.190
IT IS SO CONTAGIOUS, AND THE
00:15:17.190 --> 00:15:18.220
JOY, AND IT'S NOT MY STRENGTH.
00:15:18.220 --> 00:15:20.180
LOOK, I AM 3 YEARS INTO BEING A
00:15:20.180 --> 00:15:22.140
WIDOW.
00:15:22.140 --> 00:15:23.290
LOST THE LOVE OF MY LIFE.
00:15:23.290 --> 00:15:25.120
I WAS MARRIED TO HIM FOR 31
00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.000
YEARS, AND HE UP AND DECIDED TO
00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:28.120
GO ON TO HEAVEN WITHOUT ME, AND
00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:29.180
I'M REALLY TICKED OFF AT HIM
00:15:29.180 --> 00:15:30.100
RIGHT NOW.
00:15:30.100 --> 00:15:31.050
[LAUGHTER]
00:15:31.050 --> 00:15:33.180
AND LET ME TELL YA,
00:15:33.180 --> 00:15:34.040
CHRISTIANMINGLE, THERE AIN'T A
00:15:34.040 --> 00:15:35.250
WHOLE LOT OF MINGLIN' ON
00:15:35.250 --> 00:15:36.130
CHRISTIANMINGLE...
00:15:36.130 --> 00:15:37.120
[LAUGHTER]
00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.210
...BUT THESE ARE DESPERATE
00:15:39.210 --> 00:15:40.140
TIMES.
00:15:40.140 --> 00:15:41.060
[LAUGHTER]
00:15:43.060 --> 00:15:46.060
SO ALL I'M SAYIN' IS THERE ARE
00:15:46.060 --> 00:15:48.280
DAYS I DON'T FEEL LIKE LAUGHIN'.
00:15:48.280 --> 00:15:51.130
YOU KNOW, COMEDIANS ARE
00:15:51.130 --> 00:15:52.160
NOTORIOUS FOR COMIN' FROM DEEP
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DEPRESSION AND ADDICTION, AND,
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YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME YOU TURN ON
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THE TELEVISION, ANOTHER ONE OF
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US CRAZY COMEDIANS HAVE DONE
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SOMETHIN' CRAZY, AND SO, YOU
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KNOW, WE'RE PRONE TO LOVE THE
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LAUGHTER, AND THERE ARE TIMES
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WHEN I DON'T FEEL FUNNY, AND THE
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GREAT THING IS I DON'T HAVE TO
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FEEL FUNNY BECAUSE THE JOY OF
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THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH.
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- CLIFTON: OH, HALLELUJAH!
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[APPLAUSE]
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- CHONDA: AND YOU KNOW,
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SOMETIMES I DO GRIEVE FOR
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THE COMICS OUT THERE THAT ARE
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BEAUTIFUL AT THE CRAFT, AND
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PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING AND HAVIN' A
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WONDERFUL TIME, AND I GRIEVE FOR
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THEM BECAUSE I THINK, WHEN YOU
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GO HOME, THERE'S STILL A DEEP
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SADNESS.
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THERE IS A DARKNESS.
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THERE IS SOMETHIN' YOU'RE
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CLAMORING FOR, AND WHEN I GO
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HOME, I'M STILL GRINNIN' AND
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LAUGHIN' AND SMILIN' BECAUSE GOD
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SHOWED UP, YOU KNOW?
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AND HE GAVE ME THIS WONDERFUL,
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FUN TIME, YOU KNOW, WITH THE
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BODY OF CHRIST, AND LET ME TELL
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YOU, YOU GUYS HAVE GIVEN ME
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GREAT MATERIAL!
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[LAUGHTER]
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THOU ART NUTS!
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I'M JUST SAYIN'!
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[LAUGHTER]
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I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!
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- CLIFTON: I LOVE IT!
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OH, MY GOODNESS!
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CHONDA: WAIT!
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THIS IS GOIN' ON MY RESUME!
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ALL OF A SUDDEN, CLIFTON DAVIS
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WAS SPEECHLESS.
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: SO TRUE!
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- CHONDA: IT'S GOIN' ON MY
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RESUME!
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I TELL YOU, CHONDA...
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[LAUGHTER]
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I DID COMEDY FOR YEARS.
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- CHONDA: I KNOW!
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- CLIFTON: WHEN I HAD TO, I WAS
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FUNNY, BUT I WAS A SCRIPT
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COMEDIAN.
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- CHONDA: YEAH, YEAH, THAT'S
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GOOD!
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- CLIFTON: I DIDN'T DO
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STAND-UP.
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THE SCARIEST JOB IN SHOW
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BUSINESS IS STAND-UP COMEDY.
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- CHONDA: YEAH, 'CAUSE YOU
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STAND UP ALONE!
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- CLIFTON: THAT'S RIGHT!
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[LAUGHTER]
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EVEN IN CHRISTIAN COMEDY
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'CAUSE SOMETIMES CHRISTIANS
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CAN BE THE WORST
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AUDIENCE EVER!
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- CHONDA: OH, ARE YOU KIDDING
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ME!
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I DON'T GET HECKLED.
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I GET E-MAILS THAT I'M GOIN' TO
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HELL.
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[LAUGHTER]
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I WOULD RATHER YA JUST
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HECKLE ME, OKAY?
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JUST HECKLE ME.
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I DON'T NEED THE SCRIPTURE
00:17:59.190 --> 00:18:00.290
VERSE.
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I GET IT FROM MY MAMA, YOU KNOW?
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- CLIFTON: IT'S THE SCARIEST
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THING.
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- CHONDA: IT IS SCARY!
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- CLIFTON: SO I LOVE DOING
00:18:06.070 --> 00:18:07.030
COMEDY.
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I'VE BEEN A PART OF COMEDIC
00:18:07.250 --> 00:18:09.270
SHOWS AND SKETCHES AND VARIETY
00:18:11.070 --> 00:18:14.070
SHOWS OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS,
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BUT WHAT YOU DO IS EXCITING TO
00:18:17.020 --> 00:18:19.230
ME BECAUSE YOU ARE SO GOOD AT
00:18:20.090 --> 00:18:23.090
IT!
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- CHONDA: AW, THANK YOU VERY
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MUCH!
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YOU KNOW, I LOVE-- THERE ARE A
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LOT OF ASPECTS TO COMEDY.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO JUST DO
00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:31.090
STAND-UP.
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THERE'S IMPROV.
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THERE'S COMEDIC ROLES IN MOVIES,
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AS YOU WELL KNOW, AND I'M JUST
00:18:35.120 --> 00:18:36.030
NOW TAPPING INTO THAT A LITTLE
00:18:36.030 --> 00:18:37.250
BIT AT THIS STAGE OF MY LIFE,
00:18:37.250 --> 00:18:39.200
WHICH I NEED TO BE RETIRING, BUT
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I STILL LOVE CLIMBIN' ON MY BUS
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AND GOIN' ON TOUR AND GOIN' FROM
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CITY TO CITY.
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IT'S STILL MY FAVORITE THING TO
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DO, AND WITHOUT COMEDY, LET'S BE
00:18:46.290 --> 00:18:48.030
HONEST.
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WITHOUT YOU GUYS, THERE WOULD BE
00:18:48.270 --> 00:18:50.230
NO STAND-UP COMEDIANS.
00:18:50.230 --> 00:18:52.140
WE'D JUST BE IN A PADDED CELL,
00:18:52.140 --> 00:18:53.060
TALKIN' TO OURSELVES.
00:18:53.060 --> 00:18:54.120
[LAUGHTER]
00:18:54.120 --> 00:18:57.060
SO YOU GUYS ARE THE ONES
00:18:57.060 --> 00:18:57.240
THAT REALLY MAKE IT WORK.
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I GOT AN AWARD NOT LONG AGO AS
00:18:59.260 --> 00:19:01.170
THE MOST AWARDED FEMALE COMIC IN
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HISTORY.
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- CLIFTON: WOW!
00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:06.050
- CHONDA: AND I REMEMBER WHEN
00:19:06.050 --> 00:19:07.260
THEY HAD THE BIG PARTY THOUGH--
00:19:07.260 --> 00:19:09.110
[APPLAUSE]
00:19:09.110 --> 00:19:10.110
HERE'S WHAT I GOTTA TELL YA.
00:19:10.110 --> 00:19:11.070
WHEN THEY HAD THE BIG PARTY FOR
00:19:11.070 --> 00:19:13.160
ME AND EVERYTHING, AND MY
00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:14.050
AGENT'S ALL PROUD, AND MY
00:19:14.050 --> 00:19:15.120
MANAGER'S ALL PROUD, AND THE
00:19:15.120 --> 00:19:16.050
RIAA, OR WHATEVER THE COMPANY
00:19:16.050 --> 00:19:18.050
THAT--
00:19:18.050 --> 00:19:19.030
- CLIFTON: RIAA.
00:19:19.030 --> 00:19:20.170
- CHONDA: -- WHATEVER!
00:19:20.170 --> 00:19:21.090
THEY GIVE YOU GOLD RECORDS AND
00:19:21.090 --> 00:19:22.000
PLATINUM RECORDS.
00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:23.010
SO THEY WERE READIN' THIS BIG
00:19:23.010 --> 00:19:24.010
PROCLAMATION, YOU KNOW, AND
00:19:24.010 --> 00:19:24.210
GIVIN' ME A BIG OLE THING THAT
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HAD SIX PLATINUM RECORDS ON IT,
00:19:26.090 --> 00:19:27.250
AND I SAID, "THIS IS SO HARD
00:19:27.250 --> 00:19:30.080
TO BELIEVE 'CAUSE THERE'S
00:19:30.080 --> 00:19:30.280
WANDA SYKES AND
00:19:30.280 --> 00:19:32.040
ELLEN DEGENERES AND WHOOPI, AND
00:19:32.040 --> 00:19:34.090
THERE'S JOAN RIVERS.
00:19:34.090 --> 00:19:35.220
YOU KNOW, I'M JUST SO HONORED."
00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:37.070
AND THEY SAID, "I KNOW.
00:19:37.070 --> 00:19:38.090
WE DID THE MATH TWICE 'CAUSE WE
00:19:38.090 --> 00:19:39.060
AIN'T NEVER HEARD OF YA."
00:19:39.060 --> 00:19:40.160
[LAUGHTER]
00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:52.200
- CHONDA: SO WHAT HAS HAPPENED
00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:53.180
IN MY LIFE, I THINK, WHERE I
00:19:53.180 --> 00:19:55.020
DON'T GET THE SITCOMS, YOU KNOW,
00:19:55.020 --> 00:19:56.110
OR I AM TOO OVERTLY-- YOU KNOW,
00:19:56.110 --> 00:19:57.230
I LOVE TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS, SO
00:19:57.230 --> 00:19:59.220
IT'S HARD TO SHUT ME UP, SO THAT
00:19:59.220 --> 00:20:01.050
DOESN'T SIT WELL ON A LOT OF
00:20:01.050 --> 00:20:03.100
SHOWS, YOU KNOW, WHERE I DON'T
00:20:03.100 --> 00:20:05.000
GET, YOU KNOW, THE AFFIRMATION--
00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.100
I GET MOMENTS LIKE THIS TO HANG
00:20:07.100 --> 00:20:08.290
OUT WITH YOU AND THE BODY OF
00:20:08.290 --> 00:20:10.050
CHRIST, YEAH!
00:20:10.050 --> 00:20:11.060
[APPLAUSE]
00:20:11.060 --> 00:20:14.050
- CLIFTON: AND, OF LATE, YOU'RE
00:20:14.050 --> 00:20:16.040
APPEARING IN MOVIES.
00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:17.080
THERE'S A MOVIE COMING OUT,
00:20:17.080 --> 00:20:18.240
CALLED "ALL SAINTS."
00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.060
- CHONDA: OH, IT'S SO GOOD!
00:20:21.060 --> 00:20:21.260
- CLIFTON: LET ME INTRODUCE OUR
00:20:21.260 --> 00:20:24.100
AUDIENCE TO THE FILM
00:20:24.100 --> 00:20:25.250
"ALL SAINTS."
00:20:25.250 --> 00:20:27.090
- CHONDA: OH, GOOD!
00:20:27.090 --> 00:20:27.290
- CLIFTON: TAKE A LOOK.
00:20:27.290 --> 00:20:29.190
[MUSIC]
00:20:29.190 --> 00:20:30.100
- MALE: DEAR FRIENDS IN CHRIST,
00:20:30.100 --> 00:20:31.030
[MUSIC]
00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:33.190
- MICHAEL: WE DIDN'T MEET
00:20:33.190 --> 00:20:34.080
BEFORE.
00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:34.230
I'M MICHAEL.
00:20:34.230 --> 00:20:35.080
- MALE: YOU'RE HERE TO SELL THE
00:20:35.080 --> 00:20:36.000
CHURCH, AIN'T YA?
00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:36.150
- MICHAEL: THE FACT IS, THEY
00:20:36.150 --> 00:20:37.060
HAD 12 PEOPLE IN THAT CHURCH
00:20:37.060 --> 00:20:37.260
TODAY.
00:20:37.260 --> 00:20:38.110
- MALE: JESUS HAD 12 PEOPLE.
00:20:38.110 --> 00:20:39.030
HE DONE ALL RIGHT, DIDN'T HE?
00:20:39.030 --> 00:20:40.000
- MALE NARRATOR: A NEW PASTOR'S
00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:41.230
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: TO CLOSE A
00:20:41.230 --> 00:20:43.040
STRUGGLING CHURCH.
00:20:43.040 --> 00:20:45.160
- AIMEE: MICHAEL, YOU'RE NOT
00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:46.070
HERE TO PERFORM CPR.
00:20:46.070 --> 00:20:47.130
- MICHAEL: IF PASSIN' OUT A FEW
00:20:47.130 --> 00:20:48.240
FLYERS HELPS MY CONGREGATION
00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:50.060
FEEL THEY CAN LET THE CHURCH GO,
00:20:50.060 --> 00:20:51.190
I'M GONNA DO IT.
00:20:51.190 --> 00:20:52.180
- NARRATOR: REFUGEES SEARCHING
00:20:52.180 --> 00:20:54.050
TO FIND A NEW HOME.
00:20:54.050 --> 00:20:56.070
- YE WIN: WE HAVE 15 NEW FAMILY
00:20:56.070 --> 00:20:58.010
AND NOT ENOUGH FOOD FOR THEIR
00:20:58.010 --> 00:20:58.220
CHILDREN.
00:20:58.220 --> 00:20:59.070
- MICHAEL: WELL, HERE'S THE
00:20:59.070 --> 00:21:00.180
THING, YE WIN, WE'RE CLOSING THE
00:21:00.180 --> 00:21:01.140
CHURCH.
00:21:01.140 --> 00:21:02.050
WE'RE BROKE.
00:21:02.050 --> 00:21:02.220
- YE WIN: WHAT IS "BROKE"?
00:21:02.220 --> 00:21:04.050
[MUSIC]
00:21:04.050 --> 00:21:05.130
- NARRATOR: TOGETHER, THEY'LL
00:21:05.130 --> 00:21:06.040
RISK IT ALL FOR HOPE.
00:21:06.040 --> 00:21:07.020
- MALE: SEE, WE PLANT A GARDEN.
00:21:07.020 --> 00:21:09.030
VERY GOOD GROUND AT ALL SAINT.
00:21:09.030 --> 00:21:10.200
- ATTICUS: WHAT DO YOU THINK
00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:11.190
WILL HAPPEN TO THEM WHEN WE
00:21:11.190 --> 00:21:12.160
LEAVE?
00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:13.110
- MICHAEL: LET'S KEEP THEM IN
00:21:13.110 --> 00:21:14.030
OUR PRAYERS AND ASK FOR GOD'S
00:21:14.030 --> 00:21:15.040
HELP.
00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:16.160
- ATTICUS: AREN'T YOU GOD'S
00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:17.060
HELP?
00:21:17.060 --> 00:21:18.010
[MUSIC]
00:21:18.010 --> 00:21:19.080
[THUNDER PEALING, RAIN FALLING]
00:21:19.080 --> 00:21:21.180
- MICHAEL: I THINK GOD SPOKE TO
00:21:21.180 --> 00:21:22.100
ME.
00:21:22.100 --> 00:21:22.210
- AIMEE: WHAT DID HE SAY?
00:21:22.210 --> 00:21:23.260
- MICHAEL: HE SAID, "I'VE GIVEN
00:21:23.260 --> 00:21:25.000
YOU LAND.
00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:25.170
I'VE GIVEN YOU FARMERS.
00:21:25.170 --> 00:21:26.240
DO THE MATH."
00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:27.270
- AIMEE: HE SAID, "DO THE
00:21:27.270 --> 00:21:28.180
MATH?"
00:21:28.180 --> 00:21:29.070
- MICHAEL: HE WANTS US TO SAVE
00:21:29.070 --> 00:21:30.130
THIS LITTLE CHURCH BY MAKING THE
00:21:30.130 --> 00:21:31.120
LAND INTO A FARM.
00:21:31.120 --> 00:21:32.190
[MUSIC]
00:21:32.190 --> 00:21:35.040
- MALE: THAT VOICE YOU HEAR, BE
00:21:35.040 --> 00:21:36.010
SURE IT'S GOD'S VOICE, NOT YOUR
00:21:36.010 --> 00:21:37.120
OWN.
00:21:37.120 --> 00:21:38.240
- MALE: THEM PEOPLE ARE NOT
00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:39.140
HERE TO PICK YOUR BEANS.
00:21:39.140 --> 00:21:40.030
THEY'RE HERE TO BE AMERICANS.
00:21:40.030 --> 00:21:42.120
- MICHAEL: WHAT'S MORE AMERICAN
00:21:42.120 --> 00:21:43.050
THAN FARMING?
00:21:43.050 --> 00:21:43.180
- MICHAEL: START A FARM AND
00:21:43.180 --> 00:21:44.140
WORK TOGETHER AND SAVE THE
00:21:44.140 --> 00:21:45.060
CHURCH.
00:21:45.060 --> 00:21:46.000
- MALE: AMEN!
00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:46.240
- MALE: HOW'RE YOU GONNA PLOW?
00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:47.170
- MICHAEL: IT'S FUNNY YOU
00:21:47.170 --> 00:21:49.000
SHOULD MENTION THAT...
00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:51.040
- MALE: YOU'RE BLOWING YOUR
00:21:51.040 --> 00:21:52.020
BOSS'S CHANCE AT A BIG SALE
00:21:52.020 --> 00:21:52.240
HERE, PREACHER.
00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:53.240
- AIMEE: YOU RISKED OUR CAREERS
00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:54.170
ON THIS.
00:21:54.170 --> 00:21:55.200
[GRUNTING LOUDLY]
00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.150
- MALE: YOU SWORE AN OATH AS A
00:21:56.150 --> 00:21:57.250
MINISTER TO GOD, NOT TO ME, TO
00:21:57.250 --> 00:21:58.160
OBEY, EVEN WHEN YOU DISAGREE.
00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:00.110
- MICHAEL: SWORE AN OATH AS A
00:22:00.110 --> 00:22:02.040
CHRISTIAN TO CARE FOR THE LEAST
00:22:02.040 --> 00:22:03.280
OF THESE.
00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:04.220
[MUSIC]
00:22:04.220 --> 00:22:06.060
TASTE AND SEE...
00:22:06.170 --> 00:22:09.170
- MICHAEL: THIS WHOLE THING,
00:22:09.170 --> 00:22:10.170
IT'S NOT SOME EGO TRIP OF MINE,
00:22:10.170 --> 00:22:11.090
IS IT?
00:22:11.090 --> 00:22:12.120
[MUSIC]
00:22:12.140 --> 00:22:15.140
...FOR HARVEST
00:22:15.140 --> 00:22:17.060
GROW BY PLANTING ME
00:22:17.060 --> 00:22:19.160
- MICHAEL: I THOUGHT I KNEW THE
00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:20.080
WILL OF GOD.
00:22:20.080 --> 00:22:21.180
- MICHAEL: IS IT HIS VOICE I
00:22:21.180 --> 00:22:22.090
HEARD OR WAS IT MINE?
00:22:22.090 --> 00:22:23.170
- MICHAEL: WE'RE BACK WHERE WE
00:22:23.170 --> 00:22:24.270
STARTED.
00:22:24.270 --> 00:22:25.190
- AIMEE: I WANNA SHOW YOU
00:22:25.190 --> 00:22:26.140
SOMETHING.
00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:27.240
WE ARE NOT WHERE WE STARTED.
00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:29.010
- CHONDA: ISN'T THAT GOOD?
00:22:39.190 --> 00:22:42.160
- CLIFTON: GOOD MOVIE TO BE A
00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:43.080
PART OF!
00:22:43.080 --> 00:22:43.260
- CHONDA: IT IS!
00:22:43.260 --> 00:22:44.150
IT GIVES ME CHILLS EVERY TIME I
00:22:44.150 --> 00:22:45.230
SEE THAT TRAILER BECAUSE--
00:22:45.290 --> 00:22:48.290
I HAVE A VERY SMALL PART, BUT I
00:22:48.290 --> 00:22:50.020
PLAY A REALLY MEAN CHURCH
00:22:50.020 --> 00:22:50.280
BIDDY.
00:22:50.280 --> 00:22:52.270
CAN WE SAY THAT ON TBN?
00:22:52.270 --> 00:22:53.240
- CLIFTON: I THINK YOU CAN.
00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:54.270
- CHONDA: OKAY, WELL, I PLAYED
00:22:54.270 --> 00:22:56.130
A MEAN CHURCH BIDDY, AND I HAD
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A LOT OF PEOPLE IN MY PAST TO
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CHANNEL.
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[LAUGHTER]
00:23:01.090 --> 00:23:04.090
THERE'S ONE IN EVERY CHURCH!
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COME ON, TELL THE TRUTH!
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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: WHAT WE CALL IN
00:23:07.260 --> 00:23:08.270
ACTING, "SENSE MEMORY."
00:23:08.270 --> 00:23:09.200
- CHONDA: YEAH, THERE YA GO!
00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:10.210
THAT WAS MY SENSE MEMORY, AND I
00:23:10.210 --> 00:23:12.100
STILL HAVE THE MEMORY!
00:23:12.100 --> 00:23:13.040
AND SO SHE HAD NO SENSE, I WILL
00:23:13.040 --> 00:23:15.140
THAT STORY IS SO GOOD BECAUSE
00:23:18.180 --> 00:23:20.070
IT'S SO TIMELY RIGHT NOW WITH
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WHAT'S GOIN' ON IN OUR COUNTRY,
00:23:23.040 --> 00:23:25.060
AND I THINK JESUS, WHEN HE SAID
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NOT TO THE ROCK STAR, NOT TO THE
00:23:29.120 --> 00:23:30.080
ORGANIZATIONS, HE SAID TO THE
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CHURCH, "FEED MY SHEEP," I THINK
00:23:31.100 --> 00:23:33.190
HE REALLY MEANT IT, AND I THINK
00:23:33.190 --> 00:23:36.070
WHEN HE COMES BACK, WE'RE GONNA
00:23:36.070 --> 00:23:38.200
BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT DID
00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:39.140
WE REALLY DO?
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WHAT HE CHARGED THE CHURCH TO
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DO, WHAT DID WE DO?
00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:43.150
DID WE BUILD A GREAT PRAISE
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BAND, OR DID WE FEED THE
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HOMELESS?
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[CHONDA GASPS] OOH...
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- CLIFTON: OH-OH, YOU PREACHIN'
00:23:48.100 --> 00:23:49.200
NOW, CHONDA.
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[APPLAUSE]
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- CHONDA: YEAH, AND THE PRAISE
00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:56.070
BANDS ARE GREAT.
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WE GOT A GREAT ONE AT MY CHURCH,
00:23:57.150 --> 00:23:58.080
BUT I'M JUST SAYIN' WE NEED A
00:23:58.080 --> 00:23:59.250
BALANCE, AND WE'RE FORGETTIN'
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SOMETIMES SOME OF THE THINGS
00:24:02.040 --> 00:24:03.140
WE'RE CALLED TO DO.
00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:04.280
WE HAVE PEOPLE OUT THERE ARGUE
00:24:04.280 --> 00:24:06.140
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL
00:24:06.140 --> 00:24:07.150
SPECTRUM ABOUT IMMIGRATION,
00:24:07.150 --> 00:24:08.280
ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT TO DO WITH
00:24:08.280 --> 00:24:10.150
PEOPLE THAT ARE COMIN' INTO THE
00:24:10.150 --> 00:24:11.110
WORLD.
00:24:11.110 --> 00:24:12.030
I DON'T KNOW ALL OF THAT.
00:24:12.030 --> 00:24:13.060
WHAT I DO KNOW IS WHEN THEY'RE
00:24:13.060 --> 00:24:14.240
IN YOUR BACK DOOR AND THEY SHOW
00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:15.230
UP HUNGRY, YOU'VE GOT TO DO
00:24:15.230 --> 00:24:16.160
SOMETHIN'.
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- CLIFTON: YEAH.
00:24:18.080 --> 00:24:18.230
- CHONDA: YEAH.
00:24:18.230 --> 00:24:19.160
[APPLAUSE]
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- CLIFTON: CHONDA, WHAT ADVICE
00:24:20.070 --> 00:24:22.170
WOULD YOU GIVE TO PEOPLE TO SAY,
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"YES" TO GOD, NO MATTER WHAT?
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- CHONDA: YEAH, THAT-- TRUST.
00:24:28.290 --> 00:24:31.290
A "YES" TO GOD MEANS YOU HAVE
00:24:31.290 --> 00:24:33.160
TOTALLY TRUSTED HIM: "I DON'T
00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:34.290
UNDERSTAND IT."
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IT MAY LOOK IMPOSSIBLE.
00:24:35.140 --> 00:24:36.090
IT MAY SOUND CRAZY: "MY PARENTS
00:24:36.090 --> 00:24:38.170
MAY THINK I'M NUT," "MY SPOUSE
00:24:38.170 --> 00:24:40.050
IS GONNA WORRY, BUT, GOD, THIS
00:24:40.190 --> 00:24:43.190
IS WHAT I FEEL THE DIRECTION GOD
00:24:43.190 --> 00:24:45.000
HAS ME GO IN.
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I FOUND CONFIRMATION IN THE
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SCRIPTURE.
00:24:47.190 --> 00:24:49.140
I DECIDED TO SAY, 'YES.'"
00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:51.250
AND THEN TRUST THAT HE WILL DO
00:24:51.250 --> 00:24:52.170
WHAT HE SAYS HE WILL DO.
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- CLIFTON: AMEN,
00:24:54.260 --> 00:24:57.140
[APPLAUSE]
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I DIDN'T ALWAYS SAY, "YES," TO
00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:59.150
GOD.
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- CHONDA: ME NEITHER.
00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:01.070
[LAUGHTER]
00:25:01.070 --> 00:25:03.170
I JUST MADE JOKES ABOUT MY NOSE.
00:25:03.170 --> 00:25:06.030
[LAUGHTER]
00:25:06.030 --> 00:25:07.290
- CLIFTON: BUT FINALLY, ONE
00:25:07.290 --> 00:25:08.290
DAY, I DID, AND LIFE HAS BEEN
00:25:08.290 --> 00:25:11.110
BETTER EVER SINCE, EVEN WHEN I
00:25:11.110 --> 00:25:12.280
TRIPPED AND FELL OR--
00:25:12.290 --> 00:25:15.290
- CHONDA: YES, OR DIDN'T GET
00:25:15.290 --> 00:25:16.260
WHAT YOU WANTED.
00:25:16.260 --> 00:25:17.120
- CLIFTON: -- DIDN'T GET WHAT I
00:25:17.120 --> 00:25:18.040
WANTED OR LOST A LAWSUIT THAT I
00:25:18.040 --> 00:25:20.260
THOUGHT I SHOULD WIN, I STILL
00:25:20.260 --> 00:25:22.270
WATCHED GOD MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
00:25:22.270 --> 00:25:25.040
IN MY LIFE BECAUSE ALL ALONG THE
00:25:25.040 --> 00:25:28.040
WAY, HE SAID, "ARE YOU EXPECTING
00:25:28.040 --> 00:25:29.250
THE LAWSUIT TO TAKE CARE OF YOU,
00:25:29.250 --> 00:25:31.160
OR ME?"
00:25:31.160 --> 00:25:34.100
- CHONDA: WOW!
00:25:34.100 --> 00:25:35.060
[APPLAUSE]
00:25:35.060 --> 00:25:36.260
THAT'S TRUE!
00:25:36.260 --> 00:25:38.190
- CLIFTON: AND HE HAS TAKEN
00:25:38.190 --> 00:25:40.110
REAL GOOD CARE OF ME EVER SINCE.
00:25:40.110 --> 00:25:42.030
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO
00:25:42.030 --> 00:25:45.030
IN YOUR CAREER, COMING UP?
00:25:45.030 --> 00:25:47.070
- CHONDA: OH, GETTIN' OUT OF
00:25:47.070 --> 00:25:50.030
SPANX WILL BE THE FIRST THING I
00:25:50.030 --> 00:25:51.000
DO.
00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:52.110
[LAUGHTER]
00:25:52.110 --> 00:25:54.290
OH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKIN'
00:25:54.290 --> 00:25:56.000
IMMEDIATELY!
00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.030
[LAUGHTER]
00:25:57.030 --> 00:25:57.170
I WILL HAVE A PAIR OF SCISSORS
00:25:57.170 --> 00:26:00.050
CUTTIN' 'EM OFF WHEN
00:26:00.050 --> 00:26:01.190
THIS IS OVER.
00:26:01.190 --> 00:26:04.070
YOU KNOW, STAY LISTENING.
00:26:04.070 --> 00:26:06.240
WHAT I WANNA DO IS KEEP
00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.150
LISTENING FOR THE NEXT THING.
00:26:08.150 --> 00:26:10.010
I'VE BEEN A TOURING COMEDIAN NOW
00:26:10.010 --> 00:26:11.070
FOR 20 YEARS.
00:26:11.070 --> 00:26:12.190
I GET ON A BUS AND HEAD OUT IN A
00:26:12.190 --> 00:26:14.140
COUPLE OF WEEKS.
00:26:14.140 --> 00:26:15.220
CHONDA.ORG, AND YOU CAN FIND OUT
00:26:15.220 --> 00:26:17.260
WHERE I AM.
00:26:17.260 --> 00:26:18.220
COME SEE ME...AND PRAY!
00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:20.230
PRAY FOR ME.
00:26:20.230 --> 00:26:21.160
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY TIME I
00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:22.200
GO OUT AND I BEGIN TO TALK
00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:24.160
HONESTLY ABOUT MY VIEWPOINT OR
00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:26.240
MY IDEAS THROUGH COMEDY BUT ALSO
00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:29.040
THROUGH SOME MINISTRY TIMES, GOD
00:26:29.040 --> 00:26:31.130
SHOWS UP, AND I SEE THE CHURCH;
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:34.200
I HAVE SEEN THE CHURCH FOR 57
00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:37.150
YEARS, THE GOOD AND THE BAD, AND
00:26:37.150 --> 00:26:39.080
THE UGLY OF US, AND LET'S BE
00:26:39.080 --> 00:26:40.240
HONEST.
00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:41.130
WE HAVE SOME WHACKY PEOPLE OUT
00:26:41.130 --> 00:26:43.000
THERE, AND THEY LIKE TO FIND THE
00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:44.260
NUTTY ONE OF US TO PUT 'EM ON
00:26:44.260 --> 00:26:46.090
TV.
00:26:46.090 --> 00:26:47.070
[LAUGHTER]
00:26:47.070 --> 00:26:48.110
YOU KNOW, AND I WANT SO BADLY
00:26:48.110 --> 00:26:50.100
TO GO TO SOME OF THESE THINGS
00:26:50.100 --> 00:26:51.280
AND GO, "THEY'RE NOT WITH US.
00:26:51.280 --> 00:26:53.020
REALLY, THEY'RE NOT."
00:26:53.020 --> 00:26:53.270
[LAUGHTER]
00:26:53.270 --> 00:26:55.080
YOU KNOW, I WANNA REALLY DISPLAY
00:26:55.080 --> 00:26:56.240
THE LOVE OF CHRIST IN ANY AREA
00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:59.130
THAT HE TAKES ME TO, AND I WANNA
00:26:59.130 --> 00:27:01.000
BE WILLING TO BE ABLE TO DO
00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:02.290
THAT, SITTIN' ON THE SUBWAY OR
00:27:02.290 --> 00:27:04.130
ON THE FRONT PORCH OF THE HOUSE,
00:27:04.130 --> 00:27:06.150
OR ON THE STAGE OF CARNEGIE
00:27:06.150 --> 00:27:08.000
HALL.
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:08.240
I WANT TO BE READY FOR WHAT GOD
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:10.140
WANTS AT ALL TIMES, AND YA HAVE
00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:12.210
TO DO THAT BY KEEPING YOUR EAR
00:27:12.210 --> 00:27:15.040
TO THE GROUND AND LISTENING FOR
00:27:15.040 --> 00:27:16.240
HIM AND KNOW NONE OF THE OTHER
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:17.230
VOICES THAT SHOW UP TO GIVE YOU
00:27:17.230 --> 00:27:19.140
GREAT ADVICE, YEAH.
00:27:19.140 --> 00:27:20.130
THAT'S WHERE I AM.
00:27:20.130 --> 00:27:22.040
[LAUGHTER]
00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:28.160
THAT AND CO-HOSTING
00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:29.230
A SHOW WITH CLIFTON DAVIS,
00:27:29.230 --> 00:27:31.170
THAT'S ON MY BUCKET LIST.
00:27:31.170 --> 00:27:32.170
[LAUGHTER]
00:27:32.170 --> 00:27:33.150
- CLIFTON: HONEY, I WISH!
00:27:33.260 --> 00:27:36.260
[LAUGHTER]
00:27:36.260 --> 00:27:38.120
I WISH WE COULD MAKE IT HAPPEN
00:27:38.120 --> 00:27:39.280
SOONER RATHER THAN LATER!
00:27:39.280 --> 00:27:40.280
- CHONDA: AND MAYBE FIND A MAN!
00:27:40.280 --> 00:27:41.210
[LAUGHTER]
00:27:43.130 --> 00:27:46.130
ARE YA MARRIED?
00:27:46.130 --> 00:27:48.010
- CLIFTON: I'M HAPPILY MARRIED!
00:27:48.010 --> 00:27:49.110
- CHONDA: AW...
00:27:49.150 --> 00:27:52.150
[LAUGHTER]
00:27:52.150 --> 00:27:53.110
THE LORD GIVES AND
00:27:53.110 --> 00:27:54.270
THE LORD TAKES AWAY!
00:27:54.270 --> 00:27:56.280
[LAUGHTER]
00:27:59.050 --> 00:28:02.070
- CLIFTON: HAVE YOU HEARD ANY
00:28:02.070 --> 00:28:02.290
STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE SERVING
00:28:02.290 --> 00:28:03.190
COMMUNION?
00:28:03.190 --> 00:28:05.210
[LAUGHTER]
00:28:05.210 --> 00:28:07.240
- CHONDA: OOP!
00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:08.210
YES, I HAVE!
00:28:08.210 --> 00:28:11.080
- CLIFTON: MAYBE JUST ONE?
00:28:11.080 --> 00:28:12.040
- CHONDA: WELL, ONE, I WILL SAY
00:28:12.040 --> 00:28:13.140
THIS: WHEN I WAS A KID, I GOT IN
00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:14.160
TROUBLE BECAUSE WE WENT NEXT
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:15.270
DOOR TO THE CHURCH-- WE ALWAYS
00:28:15.270 --> 00:28:16.190
LIVED NEXT DOOR.
00:28:16.190 --> 00:28:17.260
WE FOUND THE LITTLE GLASSES OVER
00:28:17.260 --> 00:28:18.200
THERE, MY BROTHER AND MY
00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:20.180
SISTERS, AND WE WERE TINY, AND
00:28:20.180 --> 00:28:21.280
WE WENT OUT ON THE FRONT PORCH
00:28:21.280 --> 00:28:23.100
OF OUR PORCH AND PLAYED
00:28:23.100 --> 00:28:25.150
"'GUNSMOKE' SALOON" WITH THE
00:28:25.150 --> 00:28:26.060
COMMUNION GLASSES.
00:28:26.060 --> 00:28:28.170
[LAUGHTER]
00:28:28.170 --> 00:28:29.170
WE WOULD JUST SLIDE 'EM DOWN
00:28:29.170 --> 00:28:30.080
TO ONE ANOTHER, AND MY
00:28:30.080 --> 00:28:30.250
MOTHER CAME.
00:28:30.250 --> 00:28:31.150
SHE WAS MORTIFIED.
00:28:31.150 --> 00:28:32.240
SHE GOES, "PUT THOSE BACK IN THE
00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.170
CHURCH," AND WE WERE LIKE, "WE
00:28:33.170 --> 00:28:34.110
OFFERED 'EM A DRINK.
00:28:34.110 --> 00:28:35.170
I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SO
00:28:35.170 --> 00:28:36.070
UPSET ABOUT!"
00:28:36.070 --> 00:28:38.040
[LAUGHTER]
00:28:38.040 --> 00:28:39.120
EVERYBODY THAT CAME OVER TO
00:28:39.120 --> 00:28:40.020
INVITE, YOU KNOW, TO WELCOME
00:28:40.020 --> 00:28:41.120
THE NEW PASTOR TO TOWN,
00:28:41.120 --> 00:28:42.110
WE POURED 'EM A LITTLE BIT OF
00:28:42.110 --> 00:28:43.280
GRAPE JUICE AND PASSED OUT
00:28:43.280 --> 00:28:44.230
SHOTS.
00:28:44.230 --> 00:28:47.230
WE PASSED OUT SHOTS TO THE
00:28:47.230 --> 00:28:48.190
NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW?
00:28:48.190 --> 00:28:51.060
WE WOULD DO STUFF LIKE THAT.
00:28:51.060 --> 00:28:52.060
I COULD REMEMBER, AS A KID, MY
00:28:52.060 --> 00:28:53.290
FAVORITE STORY IS MY DAD
00:28:53.290 --> 00:28:55.200
PREACHIN', AND HIS PANTS WERE
00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:57.010
UNZIPPED, WHICH THAT DOES HAPPEN
00:28:57.010 --> 00:28:57.280
SOMETIMES AND...
00:28:57.280 --> 00:28:59.270
[LAUGHTER]
00:28:59.270 --> 00:29:00.230
...AND HE STEPPED TO THE SIDE
00:29:00.230 --> 00:29:01.190
OF THE PULPIT AND JUST SPIT FIRE
00:29:01.190 --> 00:29:03.020
AND PREACH AWAY, AND PEOPLE
00:29:03.020 --> 00:29:03.290
WOULD START SNICKERIN',
00:29:03.290 --> 00:29:05.190
AND THEN HE'D GO OVER THERE, AND
00:29:05.190 --> 00:29:06.120
PEOPLE WOULD START SNICKERIN'.
00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:07.140
FINALLY, MY BROTHER TOOK A
00:29:07.140 --> 00:29:08.290
POSTER, AND HE WENT TO THE BACK
00:29:08.290 --> 00:29:10.240
OF THE CHURCH AND HELD IT UP,
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:11.250
AND IT SAID, "DAD, ZIP IT UP!"
00:29:11.250 --> 00:29:14.190
[LAUGHTER]
00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:16.100
AND HE LOOKED AT THE
00:29:16.100 --> 00:29:17.110
CONGREGATION, AND HE SAID, "I
00:29:17.110 --> 00:29:18.170
KNOW YOU'RE WANTIN' ME TO ZIP IT
00:29:18.170 --> 00:29:19.180
UP, BUT I'M NOT GONNA DO IT!
00:29:19.180 --> 00:29:20.240
[LAUGHTER]
00:29:31.150 --> 00:29:34.150
- CLIFTON: THAT'S HILARIOUS!
00:29:34.150 --> 00:29:35.240
- CHONDA: THE LITTLE GIRL WITH
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:36.170
THE TIME CARD OVER THERE IS
00:29:36.170 --> 00:29:37.120
GOIN', "ZIP IT UP, ZIP!"
00:29:37.120 --> 00:29:38.190
[LAUGHTER]
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:43.200
- CLIFTON: SHE'S AS SWEET AS
00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:44.190
SHE CAN BE.
00:29:44.190 --> 00:29:45.090
THAT'S MOLLY!
00:29:45.090 --> 00:29:46.190
- CHONDA: SHE IS, MOLLY.
00:29:46.190 --> 00:29:47.080
- CLIFTON: YEAH, SEE, MOLLY'S
00:29:47.080 --> 00:29:48.000
DOIN' HER--
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:48.120
- CHONDA: SHE FLIPPED THOSE
00:29:48.120 --> 00:29:49.040
THINGS OVER.
00:29:49.040 --> 00:29:49.220
SHE KEEPS STARTIN' OVER.
00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:50.200
"I'M A START ALL OVER."
00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:51.080
[LAUGHTER]
00:29:51.080 --> 00:29:53.090
- CLIFTON: YEAH, SHE HADN'T
00:29:53.090 --> 00:29:55.130
BEEN HERE LONG, SO SHE DOESN'T
00:29:55.130 --> 00:29:56.140
KNOW WHERE THEY ARE.
00:29:56.140 --> 00:29:58.000
"OH, THAT'S NOT IT.
00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:59.270
WAIT A MINUTE-- OH!
00:29:59.270 --> 00:30:01.020
NO, THAT AIN'T IT."
00:30:01.250 --> 00:30:04.250
[LAUGHTER]
00:30:04.250 --> 00:30:05.170
NO, I THOUGHT THAT WAS-- WHAT'S
00:30:05.170 --> 00:30:06.090
THIS?
00:30:06.090 --> 00:30:06.290
[LAUGHTER]
00:30:06.290 --> 00:30:08.200
OH, MY GOODNESS!
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.040
- CHONDA: WE DIDN'T GET TO ANY
00:30:10.040 --> 00:30:11.010
OF OUR QUESTIONS, FOR HEAVEN'S
00:30:11.010 --> 00:30:11.280
SAKE!
00:30:11.280 --> 00:30:13.230
- CLIFTON: OH, THERE WE ARE!
00:30:13.230 --> 00:30:14.140
[LAUGHTER]
00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:17.240
- CHONDA: I WAS GOING TO SOUND
00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:19.210
BRILLIANT BUT--
00:30:19.210 --> 00:30:21.160
- CLIFTON: NOT TO WORRY!
00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:22.050
- CHONDA: YEAH, NOT TO WORRY!
00:30:22.050 --> 00:30:23.000
[LAUGHTER]
00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:24.130
- CLIFTON: I'M JUST PICKING UP.
00:30:24.130 --> 00:30:25.240
I WAS ON SAMMY DAVIS JR.'S SHOW
00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:27.160
ONCE.
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:29.130
HE HAD A TALK SHOW, AND I WAS
00:30:29.130 --> 00:30:31.000
HIS GUEST, AND IN BETWEEN,
00:30:31.010 --> 00:30:34.010
SOMEBODY PUT A GLASS DOWN OF
00:30:34.010 --> 00:30:36.280
WATER, AND THE WATER SPILLED A
00:30:36.280 --> 00:30:37.290
LITTLE BIT, AND HE WENT, "OH,
00:30:37.290 --> 00:30:38.200
THAT'S ALL RIGHT," AND HE GOT
00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:39.220
SOME TISSUES OVER HERE, AND HE
00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:41.150
STARTED WIPING THE TABLE, AND
00:30:41.150 --> 00:30:43.120
THE CAMERA CAME UP AND,
00:30:43.120 --> 00:30:44.180
"TWO...ONE..."
00:30:44.180 --> 00:30:46.170
AND HE WAS LIKE THIS,
00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.200
LOOKING AT THE CAMERA.
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:50.200
HE SAYS, "I OWN THIS SHOW, AND
00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:51.170
THEY STILL GOT ME CLEANIN' UP
00:30:51.170 --> 00:30:52.190
THE PLACE!"
00:30:52.190 --> 00:30:55.100
[LAUGHTER]
00:30:55.100 --> 00:30:58.030
HE WOULD NEVER MISS A MOMENT!
00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:03.180
- CHONDA: THAT'S QUICK TIMING,
00:31:03.180 --> 00:31:04.100
I TELL YOU, BACK THEN!
00:31:04.100 --> 00:31:05.160
NOW EVERYTHING HAS TO BE
00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:07.000
SCRIPTED, OR THEY GET NERVOUS,
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:08.110
OR THEY START FLIPPIN' THE TIME
00:31:08.110 --> 00:31:09.120
CARDS, BUT I JUST SAY...
00:31:09.120 --> 00:31:11.190
[LAUGHTER]
00:31:11.190 --> 00:31:13.060
...I LIKE IT, THIS POINT
00:31:13.060 --> 00:31:13.240
IN MY LIFE WHERE, YOU KNOW,
00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:14.290
IF I GET THE HOOK AND
00:31:14.290 --> 00:31:17.120
Y'ALL NEVER COME SEE ME, ALL
00:31:17.120 --> 00:31:18.190
RIGHT, I GOT MY MORTGAGE PAID
00:31:18.190 --> 00:31:20.030
THIS MONTH.
00:31:20.030 --> 00:31:21.120
I DON'T CARE!
00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.130
[LAUGHTER]
00:31:23.130 --> 00:31:25.030
I'M TOO OLD AT THIS POINT
00:31:25.030 --> 00:31:25.260
IN MY LIFE TO BE WORRIED ABOUT
00:31:25.260 --> 00:31:27.040
WHAT EVERYBODY THINKS, YOU KNOW?
00:31:27.040 --> 00:31:28.010
[APPLAUSE]
00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:33.080
- CLIFTON: WOULD YOU GIVE SOME
00:31:33.080 --> 00:31:34.030
COUNSEL TO AN AUDIENCE--
00:31:34.030 --> 00:31:35.190
- CHONDA: YES, TRIAL BY FIRE!
00:31:35.190 --> 00:31:37.150
IF YOU GET IN MENOPAUSE AND
00:31:37.150 --> 00:31:39.150
YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH THE FIRE...
00:31:39.150 --> 00:31:41.220
[LAUGHTER]
00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:43.210
...YA GET ON THE OTHER SIDE
00:31:43.210 --> 00:31:44.170
OF THE FIRE, AND YOU LIKE
00:31:44.170 --> 00:31:45.060
YOURSELF AGAIN, YOU KNOW?
00:31:45.060 --> 00:31:46.100
DURING MENOPAUSE, YOU DON'T LIKE
00:31:46.100 --> 00:31:47.230
YOURSELF, YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR
00:31:47.230 --> 00:31:48.230
NEIGHBOR, YOU DON'T ANYBODY.
00:31:48.230 --> 00:31:49.270
SOMEDAY, YOU'RE GONNA BE ALL
00:31:49.270 --> 00:31:51.240
NICE AGAIN, AND THAT'S WHEN
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:53.010
MENOPAUSE IS OVER, SO MENOPAUSE
00:31:53.230 --> 00:31:56.230
IS THE GREATEST EVANGELISTIC
00:31:56.230 --> 00:31:57.220
TOOL OUT THERE.
00:31:58.100 --> 00:32:01.120
IT REALLY IS.
00:32:01.120 --> 00:32:02.240
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT HAS TO DO
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:03.230
WITH ANYTHING...
00:32:03.230 --> 00:32:04.200
[LAUGHTER]
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:06.230
- CLIFTON: CHONDA PIERCE,
00:32:06.230 --> 00:32:07.170
EVERYBODY!
00:32:07.170 --> 00:32:08.150
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
00:32:08.170 --> 00:32:11.170
- CHONDA: I LOVE YOU!
00:32:11.170 --> 00:32:12.060
- CLIFTON: I LOVE YOU!
00:32:12.060 --> 00:32:13.120
- CHONDA: SUCH AN HONOR TO BE
00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:14.040
WITH YOU!
00:32:14.040 --> 00:32:15.000
- CLIFTON: OH, I AM THRILLED!
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.060
DON'T YOU GET AWAY FROM HERE
00:32:17.060 --> 00:32:18.120
WITHOUT MAKIN' SURE I HAVE
00:32:18.120 --> 00:32:21.090
ALL YOUR CONTACT INFO.
00:32:21.090 --> 00:32:23.160
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:25.180
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
00:32:25.180 --> 00:32:26.260
I WANT YOU TO MEET,
00:32:26.260 --> 00:32:28.250
VIA VIDEO, OUR NEXT GUEST.
00:32:28.270 --> 00:32:31.270
- NARRATOR: REVEREND MICHAEL
00:32:31.270 --> 00:32:32.180
SPURLOCK WAS FIRST CALLED TO THE
00:32:32.180 --> 00:32:33.220
MINISTRY TO HELP A SMALL CHURCH
00:32:33.220 --> 00:32:35.130
IN TENNESSEE WITH 25 MEMBERS AND
00:32:35.130 --> 00:32:37.100
A CRIPPLING DEBT.
00:32:37.100 --> 00:32:39.020
ONE SUNDAY MORNING, A COMMUNITY
00:32:39.020 --> 00:32:40.230
OF KAREN REFUGEES FROM BURMA
00:32:40.230 --> 00:32:42.240
ATTENDED AND ASKED FOR HELP WITH
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.110
FOOD, CLOTHING, TRANSPORTATION,
00:32:44.110 --> 00:32:46.120
MEDICAL CARE, AND EMPLOYMENT.
00:32:46.120 --> 00:32:48.040
DESPITE PROBLEMS AND FEARS HE
00:32:48.040 --> 00:32:49.240
FACED, REVEREND SPURLOCK SAID,
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:51.240
"YES," TO THE VOICE OF GOD, TO
00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:52.190
HELP A GROUP OF IMPOVERISHED
00:32:52.190 --> 00:32:54.150
SOUTHEAST ASIAN REFUGEES MAKE
00:32:54.150 --> 00:32:56.010
THEIR HOME IN THE UNITED STATES
00:32:56.010 --> 00:32:57.220
WHILE THEY SHOWED HIM HOW TO
00:32:57.220 --> 00:32:59.050
SAVE HIS DYING CHURCH.
00:32:59.050 --> 00:33:01.110
AIMEE MARCOUX-SPURLOCK IS A
00:33:01.110 --> 00:33:02.200
CLASSICALLY TRAINED SINGER AND
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:04.110
ACTRESS, WHO HAS PERFORMED OVER
00:33:04.110 --> 00:33:05.190
50 OPERATIC, MUSICAL THEATER,
00:33:05.190 --> 00:33:07.250
AND ORATORIO ROLES.
00:33:07.250 --> 00:33:10.000
SHE'S ALSO AN AWARD-WINNING
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:11.050
REPORTER AND ONE OF THE FIRST ON
00:33:11.050 --> 00:33:12.270
THE SCENE AT THE WORLD TRADE
00:33:12.270 --> 00:33:14.160
CENTER ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001.
00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.160
AIMEE ALSO HELPED TEACH ENGLISH
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:18.090
AND STARTED A CHILDREN'S CHOIR
00:33:18.090 --> 00:33:19.220
TO THE KAREN REFUGEES.
00:33:19.220 --> 00:33:21.120
HERE TO SHARE THEIR ENCOURAGING
00:33:21.120 --> 00:33:23.000
STORY, REVEREND MICHAEL AND
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:24.150
AIMEE SPURLOCK.
00:33:24.150 --> 00:33:26.080
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
00:33:26.080 --> 00:33:27.000
- CLIFTON: HELLO, MIKE!
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:27.190
HOW'RE YOU DOING?
00:33:27.190 --> 00:33:28.040
HI, AIMEE!
00:33:28.040 --> 00:33:30.150
- AIMEE SPURLOCK: OH, HEY!
00:33:30.150 --> 00:33:31.100
- CLIFTON: GOOD TO SEE YOU!
00:33:31.100 --> 00:33:33.230
PLEASE, HAVE A SEAT.
00:33:33.230 --> 00:33:34.170
- MICHAEL SPURLOCK: THANK YOU.
00:33:34.170 --> 00:33:35.280
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
00:33:39.020 --> 00:33:42.020
- CLIFTON: THEY LOVE YOU!
00:33:42.210 --> 00:33:45.210
- MICHAEL: THAT'S VERY NICE.
00:33:45.210 --> 00:33:46.170
- CLIFTON: AND THEY WERE
00:33:46.170 --> 00:33:48.180
CLEARLY INTRODUCED TO SOME OF
00:33:48.180 --> 00:33:49.090
YOUR EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE
00:33:49.090 --> 00:33:50.250
TRAILER FOR "ALL SAINTS," WHICH
00:33:50.250 --> 00:33:51.280
IS REALLY A FILM ABOUT YOUR
00:33:51.280 --> 00:33:53.150
LIVES, ISN'T IT?
00:33:53.150 --> 00:33:55.250
- MICHAEL: THAT'S UNDERSTATING
00:33:55.250 --> 00:33:58.220
IT.
00:33:58.220 --> 00:34:00.060
ACTUALLY, IT'S THE STORY OF A
00:34:00.060 --> 00:34:01.120
AND A GROUP OF REFUGEES FROM
00:34:05.230 --> 00:34:06.140
SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND MORE
00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:09.070
IMPORTANTLY, IT'S GOD'S STORY OF
00:34:09.070 --> 00:34:11.230
AT A CERTAIN TIME, AND I AND MY
00:34:14.260 --> 00:34:17.140
WIFE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE A
00:34:17.140 --> 00:34:18.200
PART OF IT.
00:34:18.200 --> 00:34:20.050
- CLIFTON: TALK TO ME FOR A
00:34:20.050 --> 00:34:21.270
MINUTE, IF YOU WOULD, ABOUT HOW
00:34:21.270 --> 00:34:22.280
THE TWO OF YOU MET AND GOT
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:23.260
MARRIED.
00:34:23.260 --> 00:34:26.220
WELL, THERE'S AN OPERA STAR
00:34:26.220 --> 00:34:28.200
HERE, AND HERE'S A PASTOR.
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:31.280
HOW DID THAT NOT BECOME OIL AND
00:34:32.050 --> 00:34:35.050
WATER?
00:34:35.050 --> 00:34:37.000
- AIMEE: WELL, HE WASN'T A
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:37.200
PASTOR WHEN I MET HIM.
00:34:37.200 --> 00:34:39.270
LET'S JUST SAY THAT!
00:34:39.270 --> 00:34:40.200
[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]
00:34:40.200 --> 00:34:43.000
WE WERE IN CENTRAL PARK
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:44.220
ON THE HOTTEST DAY
00:34:45.220 --> 00:34:48.220
ON JUNE 29TH.
00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:55.080
[CLIFTON SINGING A CAPPELLA]
00:34:55.080 --> 00:34:57.020
SATURDAY IN THE PARK,
00:34:57.020 --> 00:34:57.280
THOUGHT IT WAS THE...
00:34:57.280 --> 00:34:59.170
- CLIFTON: OH, WELL, CAN'T GO
00:34:59.170 --> 00:35:00.100
ANY MORE THAN THAT!
00:35:00.100 --> 00:35:01.180
- AIMEE: NO, YOU CAN'T GO ANY
00:35:01.180 --> 00:35:02.100
MORE THAN THAT!
00:35:02.100 --> 00:35:02.240
- CLIFTON: IT'LL COST MONEY!
00:35:02.240 --> 00:35:03.210
- AIMEE: THAT'S RIGHT!
00:35:03.210 --> 00:35:04.230
YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
00:35:04.230 --> 00:35:05.080
BUT IT WAS JUNE 29TH, 1997, AND
00:35:05.080 --> 00:35:08.030
I WILL TELL YOU, I WAS WALKING
00:35:08.030 --> 00:35:10.000
WITH A FRIEND OF MINE, AND HE
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:11.250
WAS WALKING WITH A FRIEND OF
00:35:12.130 --> 00:35:15.130
HIS, AND I SAID-- I HAD JUST
00:35:15.130 --> 00:35:17.090
BROKEN UP WITH THIS FELLA, AND
00:35:18.060 --> 00:35:21.060
MY FRIEND SAID TO ME, "SHHH..."
00:35:21.060 --> 00:35:22.230
AND I SAID, "WHY?"
00:35:22.230 --> 00:35:24.020
AND HE SAID, "BECAUSE I WANNA
00:35:24.020 --> 00:35:26.110
HEAR WHAT THIS FELLA IS SAYIN'."
00:35:26.110 --> 00:35:29.010
SO, ME, BEING THE VERY SHY,
00:35:29.010 --> 00:35:30.230
DEMURE PERSON THAT I AM...
00:35:30.230 --> 00:35:32.140
[LAUGHTER]
00:35:32.140 --> 00:35:34.020
...I WENT UP BEHIND, AND I
00:35:34.020 --> 00:35:35.020
TAPPED THIS FELLA ON THE
00:35:35.020 --> 00:35:37.150
SHOULDER, AND I SAID, "EXCUSE
00:35:37.150 --> 00:35:38.210
ME, SIR, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
00:35:38.210 --> 00:35:41.050
WHAT IT IS THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING
00:35:41.050 --> 00:35:41.270
ABOUT."
00:35:41.270 --> 00:35:43.290
AND THIS ONE TURNS AROUND
00:35:43.290 --> 00:35:44.270
WITH THESE BIG, BEAUTIFUL
00:35:44.270 --> 00:35:47.190
EYES AND SAYS, "WELL, THE
00:35:47.190 --> 00:35:49.100
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOURBON AND
00:35:49.100 --> 00:35:51.080
SOUR MASH IS..."
00:35:51.170 --> 00:35:54.170
AND THAT WAS IT!
00:35:54.170 --> 00:35:55.200
[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]
00:35:57.050 --> 00:36:00.070
- CLIFTON: I SURE DIDN'T EXPECT
00:36:00.070 --> 00:36:01.010
THAT!
00:36:01.010 --> 00:36:03.200
[LAUGHTER]
00:36:05.180 --> 00:36:08.180
HOW ABOUT THAT!
00:36:08.180 --> 00:36:09.160
WELL, IT WAS THE PARK.
00:36:09.160 --> 00:36:10.290
- MICHAEL: IT WAS THE PARK.
00:36:10.290 --> 00:36:12.070
- CLIFTON: IT WAS THE SUMMER,
00:36:12.070 --> 00:36:14.010
AND IT WAS BEFORE MINISTRY.
00:36:14.010 --> 00:36:15.260
- MICHAEL: YES!
00:36:15.260 --> 00:36:18.170
IT WAS ALSO LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
00:36:18.250 --> 00:36:21.250
- AUDIENCE: AW...
00:36:21.250 --> 00:36:22.290
- MICHAEL: I WAS SMITTEN WHEN I
00:36:22.290 --> 00:36:23.210
TURNED AROUND AND SAW HER, AND
00:36:23.210 --> 00:36:25.060
WE STOOD, TALKING FOR 2 HOURS,
00:36:26.060 --> 00:36:29.060
AND I GOT HER PHONE NUMBER...
00:36:29.060 --> 00:36:30.160
- AIMEE: MM-HMM...
00:36:30.160 --> 00:36:31.260
- MICHAEL: ...AND SHE WOULDN'T
00:36:31.260 --> 00:36:32.180
RETURN MY CALL FOR A WEEK.
00:36:32.180 --> 00:36:33.100
- AIMEE: NO, NOT ONE.
00:36:33.100 --> 00:36:35.060
- MICHAEL: BUT I PERSISTED,
00:36:35.060 --> 00:36:36.140
AND, WELL, YOU KNOW, HERE WE
00:36:36.140 --> 00:36:37.060
ARE.
00:36:37.060 --> 00:36:37.290
- AIMEE: WE WERE MARRIED 6
00:36:37.290 --> 00:36:38.220
MONTHS LATER.
00:36:38.220 --> 00:36:40.000
- CLIFTON: PRAISE THE LORD!
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.110
[APPLAUSE] HOW LONG YOU BEEN
00:36:41.110 --> 00:36:42.010
TOGETHER?
00:36:42.010 --> 00:36:42.260
- MICHAEL: WE WILL HAVE BEEN
00:36:42.260 --> 00:36:45.210
MARRIED 20 YEARS THIS DECEMBER.
00:36:45.230 --> 00:36:48.230
- CLIFTON: TWENTY YEARS THIS
00:36:48.230 --> 00:36:50.000
DECEMBER!
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:52.010
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
00:36:52.010 --> 00:36:52.270
WHAT A BLESSING!
00:36:52.270 --> 00:36:55.210
TELL US ABOUT THE SITUATION YOU
00:36:55.210 --> 00:36:57.080
FACED WHEN YOU WERE FIRST CALLED
00:36:57.080 --> 00:36:59.170
TO BE PASTOR OF ALL SAINTS
00:36:59.170 --> 00:37:01.090
CHURCH.
00:37:01.090 --> 00:37:02.260
- MICHAEL: WELL, I WAS RIGHT
00:37:02.260 --> 00:37:04.060
OUT OF SEMINARY, AND MY BISHOP
00:37:04.060 --> 00:37:07.030
APPOINTED ME TO THIS CHURCH THAT
00:37:07.030 --> 00:37:09.130
HAD BEEN REALLY KNOCKED BACK ON
00:37:09.130 --> 00:37:10.150
ITS HEELS, AND WHEN I ARRIVED,
00:37:10.150 --> 00:37:11.290
IT WAS 25 MEMBERS WITH AN
00:37:12.100 --> 00:37:15.100
$850.000 MORTGAGE,
00:37:15.150 --> 00:37:18.150
$5.500-A-MONTH MORTGAGE PAYMENT,
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:22.280
AND $10.000 IN THE BANK, AND IT
00:37:23.200 --> 00:37:26.200
WAS NO PLUM.
00:37:26.210 --> 00:37:29.210
MY MOTHER-IN-LAW TOLD THE BISHOP
00:37:30.130 --> 00:37:33.130
WHEN I WAS ORDAINED, "WHY DID
00:37:33.130 --> 00:37:35.030
YOU GIVE MICHAEL SUCH A CRUMMY
00:37:35.030 --> 00:37:35.270
JOB?"
00:37:35.270 --> 00:37:37.000
[LAUGHTER]
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.210
AND MY BEST FRIEND SAID,
00:37:42.220 --> 00:37:45.220
"MICHAEL, IF YOU PULL THIS
00:37:45.220 --> 00:37:46.210
ONE OFF, YOU'LL BE A HERO, AND
00:37:46.210 --> 00:37:47.210
IF YOU DON'T, NOBODY WILL BLAME
00:37:47.210 --> 00:37:48.220
YA."
00:37:48.220 --> 00:37:49.200
[LAUGHTER]
00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:51.260
BUT WHAT WE DID WHEN WE GOT
00:37:51.260 --> 00:37:53.000
THERE, WE DID THE MATH.
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.040
AND I ARRIVED IN THE SUMMER OF
00:37:55.040 --> 00:37:57.150
2007.
00:37:57.150 --> 00:37:59.140
WE DID THE MATH VERY QUICKLY AND
00:37:59.140 --> 00:38:00.230
DETERMINED THAT THE ONLY OPTION
00:38:00.290 --> 00:38:03.290
WAS TO SELL THE CHURCH AND THE
00:38:03.290 --> 00:38:05.020
LAND THAT IT SAT ON, TO TRY TO
00:38:05.020 --> 00:38:08.010
REPLANT THE CHURCH FROM SCRATCH,
00:38:08.010 --> 00:38:10.110
MAYBE IN A RENTED STOREFRONT OR
00:38:10.110 --> 00:38:12.020
SOMETHIN' LIKE THAT, AND WE SET
00:38:12.020 --> 00:38:14.150
THE WHEELS IN MOTION TO DO THAT.
00:38:14.200 --> 00:38:17.200
THAT WAS OUR PLAN, AND THEN GOD
00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:19.210
HAD AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PLAN.
00:38:19.210 --> 00:38:22.180
- CLIFTON: DON'T YOU JUST LOVE
00:38:22.180 --> 00:38:23.120
IT
00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:25.040
WHEN GOD'S PLANS COME TOGETHER?
00:38:25.040 --> 00:38:26.200
- MICHAEL: THAT'S RIGHT, AND IT
00:38:26.200 --> 00:38:27.220
TOOK A WHILE FOR HIS PLAN TO
00:38:27.220 --> 00:38:29.020
REVEAL ITSELF TO US.
00:38:30.250 --> 00:38:33.250
HE HAD TO PUT SOME OTHER THINGS
00:38:33.250 --> 00:38:35.010
IN PLACE ALONG THE WAY BEFORE WE
00:38:35.010 --> 00:38:37.010
COULD REALLY GET TO RUNNING,
00:38:37.010 --> 00:38:39.120
AND, THAT WAS, THE WHEELS FOR
00:38:39.230 --> 00:38:42.230
SELLING THE CHURCH JUST MOVED SO
00:38:42.230 --> 00:38:45.010
SLOWLY, MUCH MORE SLOWLY THAN
00:38:45.010 --> 00:38:46.250
WE THOUGHT.
00:38:47.130 --> 00:38:50.130
AND WE THOUGHT WE'D BE OUT OF
00:38:50.130 --> 00:38:51.040
THE BUILDING BY CHRISTMAS.
00:38:51.040 --> 00:38:53.190
WE WERE STILL THERE IN
00:38:53.190 --> 00:38:55.020
CHRISTMAS, AND THEN WE THOUGHT,
00:38:55.020 --> 00:38:55.240
"WELL, WE'LL BE GONE BY EASTER,"
00:38:55.240 --> 00:38:56.220
AND WE WERE STILL THERE IN
00:38:56.220 --> 00:38:57.110
EASTER.
00:38:57.110 --> 00:38:58.290
- CLIFTON: THE DEBTS KEEP
00:38:58.290 --> 00:38:59.240
PILING UP WITH EACH MONTH
00:38:59.240 --> 00:39:01.020
THOUGH.
00:39:01.020 --> 00:39:01.230
- MICHAEL: WELL, THIS IS WHAT
00:39:01.230 --> 00:39:02.220
WE THOUGHT THAT WE WERE GONNA
00:39:05.160 --> 00:39:06.070
BURN THROUGH THAT $10.000 BY
00:39:06.070 --> 00:39:07.180
DECEMBER, AND WHEN DECEMBER
00:39:07.180 --> 00:39:09.260
ROLLED AROUND, WE STILL HAD
00:39:09.260 --> 00:39:11.090
$10.000 IN THE BANK.
00:39:11.090 --> 00:39:13.240
- AIMEE: EVERY LITTLE STEP WE
00:39:16.210 --> 00:39:17.230
TOOK, SOMEHOW, GOD AMAZINGLY
00:39:18.050 --> 00:39:21.050
PROVIDED FOR US.
00:39:21.110 --> 00:39:24.110
THERE WAS A CHECK IN THE MAIL
00:39:24.110 --> 00:39:26.210
THAT CAME FROM SOMEWHERE.
00:39:27.190 --> 00:39:30.190
IT WAS A BLESSING.
00:39:30.190 --> 00:39:32.160
EVERY DAY WAS A BLESSING.
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:34.230
- MICHAEL: NOW, NOT TO JUMP TOO
00:39:36.060 --> 00:39:39.060
FAR AHEAD, BUT I WILL, I WAS
00:39:39.060 --> 00:39:40.150
TALKING TO MY SUCCESSOR ABOUT A
00:39:40.150 --> 00:39:42.210
YEAR AGO, AND WE WERE TALKIN',
00:39:42.210 --> 00:39:44.200
AND I ASKED HIM HOW THE
00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:46.030
FINANCIAL SITUATION WAS AT THE
00:39:46.030 --> 00:39:48.110
CHURCH THESE DAYS, AND HE SAID,
00:39:48.110 --> 00:39:49.270
"WELL, YOU KNOW, SOME MONTHS,
00:39:49.270 --> 00:39:52.100
EXPENSES ARE HIGHER, SOME ARE
00:39:52.100 --> 00:39:53.140
LOWER, BUT WE ALWAYS SEEM TO
00:39:53.140 --> 00:39:54.130
HAVE ABOUT $10.000 IN THE BANK."
00:39:54.130 --> 00:39:56.060
[LAUGHTER]
00:39:56.060 --> 00:39:58.250
- CLIFTON: HOW ABOUT THAT!
00:39:58.250 --> 00:40:00.250
- MICHAEL: AND I'M TELLING YOU,
00:40:00.250 --> 00:40:02.100
THAT, TO ME, HAS ALWAYS BEEN,
00:40:02.100 --> 00:40:04.260
LIKE, THE CRUSE OF OIL IN THE
00:40:04.260 --> 00:40:06.130
LITTLE BIT OF MEAL, AND ALL
00:40:06.130 --> 00:40:08.080
SAINTS HAS ALWAYS HAD JUST WHAT
00:40:08.160 --> 00:40:11.160
IT NEEDS AND ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN
00:40:11.160 --> 00:40:13.120
ITSELF.
00:40:13.120 --> 00:40:16.110
- CLIFTON: YOU HEAR THAT,
00:40:16.110 --> 00:40:17.120
HONEY?
00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:18.290
WE ALWAYS HAVE ENOUGH TO PAY THE
00:40:18.290 --> 00:40:20.210
RENT!
00:40:20.210 --> 00:40:21.280
[LAUGHTER]
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:24.020
- MICHAEL: THAT'S RIGHT!
00:40:24.020 --> 00:40:25.080
- CLIFTON: HAD TO TELL MY WIFE,
00:40:25.080 --> 00:40:26.140
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN'?
00:40:26.140 --> 00:40:27.140
- AIMEE: OH, YEAH!
00:40:27.140 --> 00:40:28.130
- MICHAEL: IT'S GOOD TO REMIND
00:40:28.130 --> 00:40:29.120
OURSELVES OF THESE THINGS.
00:40:29.120 --> 00:40:30.160
GOD SHOWED ME THAT LONG AGO,
00:40:34.110 --> 00:40:35.110
THAT, YOU KNOW, I WASN'T TO
00:40:35.110 --> 00:40:37.100
DEPEND ON ANYTHING BUT HIM.
00:40:38.060 --> 00:40:41.060
- MICHAEL: TO HAVE A HELPLESS
00:40:41.060 --> 00:40:41.270
- CLIFTON: I'M A GOD-DEPENDENT.
00:40:44.030 --> 00:40:45.050
- AIMEE: ABSOLUTELY.
00:40:45.050 --> 00:40:46.130
- CLIFTON: AND I COUNT ON HIM,
00:40:46.130 --> 00:40:47.190
AND I SHARE HIM WITH WHEREVER I
00:40:47.190 --> 00:40:48.220
GO BECAUSE HE'S SOMEBODY YOU CAN
00:40:48.220 --> 00:40:49.240
ALWAYS COUNT ON.
00:40:49.240 --> 00:40:50.230
- AIMEE: YES, SO TRUE.
00:40:50.230 --> 00:40:53.040
[APPLAUSE]
00:40:53.190 --> 00:40:56.190
- CLIFTON: WOULD YOU SHARE WITH
00:40:56.190 --> 00:40:58.040
US A LITTLE BIT OF THE BACKSTORY
00:40:58.040 --> 00:41:00.270
ABOUT THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN
00:41:00.270 --> 00:41:02.250
FAMILY?
00:41:02.250 --> 00:41:03.240
WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES AGAIN?
00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:04.190
KAREN-- AND YE WIN?
00:41:05.080 --> 00:41:08.080
- MICHAEL: IT'S THE KAREN, IT'S
00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:09.240
K-A-R-E-N, AND THEY'RE AN ETHIC
00:41:09.240 --> 00:41:12.010
MINORITY FROM BURMA OR WHAT IS
00:41:12.010 --> 00:41:12.240
NOW KNOWN AS MYANMAR.
00:41:12.240 --> 00:41:14.210
THEY, IN WORLD WAR II, THE KAREN
00:41:15.110 --> 00:41:18.110
SIDED WITH THE BRITISH AGAINST
00:41:18.260 --> 00:41:21.260
THE BURMESE GOVERNMENT, WHO
00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:24.200
SIDED WITH THE JAPANESE IN
00:41:24.200 --> 00:41:25.140
WORLD WAR II, AND EVER SINCE
00:41:25.140 --> 00:41:27.120
THEN, ONCE THE BRITISH WITHDREW
00:41:27.140 --> 00:41:30.140
FROM BURMA, THE KAREN HAD BEEN
00:41:30.210 --> 00:41:33.210
PERSECUTED BY THE GOVERNMENT,
00:41:33.210 --> 00:41:35.290
BOTH FOR THEIR ETHNICITY AND FOR
00:41:35.290 --> 00:41:37.110
THEIR CHRISTIANITY.
00:41:37.110 --> 00:41:39.080
THEY'RE PREDOMINANTLY CHRISTIAN
00:41:39.080 --> 00:41:41.090
PEOPLE, AND MANY HAVE FLED
00:41:42.240 --> 00:41:45.240
ACROSS THE EASTERN BORDER OF
00:41:45.240 --> 00:41:47.190
BURMA INTO REFUGEE CAMPS IN
00:41:47.190 --> 00:41:50.120
THAILAND, AND THAT'S WHERE THIS
00:41:50.120 --> 00:41:52.160
COMMUNITY THAT CAME TO US IN
00:41:52.160 --> 00:41:54.160
SMYRNA, TENNESSEE, ORIGINATED
00:41:54.160 --> 00:41:56.140
FROM.
00:41:56.140 --> 00:41:58.280
THEY WERE SPONSORED FOR
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:00.270
RELOCATION BY THE U.S.
00:42:00.270 --> 00:42:02.120
GOVERNMENT, UNDER POLITICAL
00:42:02.120 --> 00:42:04.040
REFUGEE STATUS, TO COME TO THE
00:42:04.040 --> 00:42:05.230
UNITED STATES, AND THERE ARE
00:42:05.230 --> 00:42:08.020
COMMUNITIES OF KAREN THROUGHOUT
00:42:08.020 --> 00:42:10.210
THE U.S., MOSTLY IN THE EASTERN
00:42:10.210 --> 00:42:12.220
PART OF THE UNITED STATES, BUT
00:42:12.220 --> 00:42:15.060
FROM AS FAR NORTH AS NEW YORK,
00:42:15.060 --> 00:42:17.240
TO AS FAR SOUTH AS FLORIDA AND
00:42:17.240 --> 00:42:18.220
TEXAS.
00:42:21.060 --> 00:42:24.060
- CLIFTON: HOW DID THEY END UP
00:42:24.060 --> 00:42:24.280
AT ALL SAINTS?
00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:27.040
- MICHAEL: WELL, GOD SENT THEM
00:42:27.040 --> 00:42:28.210
TO US BECAUSE WE NEEDED 'EM.
00:42:28.210 --> 00:42:31.040
- CLIFTON: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY
00:42:31.040 --> 00:42:32.040
THAT?
00:42:32.040 --> 00:42:33.110
- MICHAEL: I MEAN THAT WE WERE
00:42:33.110 --> 00:42:35.080
IN THE PROCESS OF SELLING THE
00:42:35.080 --> 00:42:37.120
CHURCH, WHICH SAT ON 22 ACRES OF
00:42:37.120 --> 00:42:38.230
LAND, 17, WHICH WAS GOOD,
00:42:38.230 --> 00:42:41.040
OLD-FASHIONED BOTTOM FARMLAND, A
00:42:41.040 --> 00:42:43.040
PIECE OF PROPERTY I ALWAYS
00:42:43.040 --> 00:42:46.000
THOUGHT WAS EXTRAVAGANT FOR A
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:48.140
CHURCH TO HAVE, AND WHEN THEY
00:42:49.060 --> 00:42:52.060
ARRIVED AFTER EASTER IN 2008,
00:42:52.130 --> 00:42:55.130
THEY ASKED-- WELL, THEY CAME TO
00:42:55.130 --> 00:42:56.280
US, LOOKING FOR A CHURCH.
00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:58.000
THEY WANTED A PLACE TO WORSHIP,
00:42:58.000 --> 00:42:59.250
AND WHEN-- AIMEE WAS THE FIRST
00:43:00.200 --> 00:43:03.200
ONE TO MEET THEM AT THE DOOR,
00:43:03.200 --> 00:43:05.020
AND MERCIFULLY, SHE KNEW WHAT TO
00:43:05.020 --> 00:43:07.030
SAY WHEN THEY ARRIVED.
00:43:07.030 --> 00:43:08.270
- AIMEE: THE FIRST QUESTION--
00:43:08.270 --> 00:43:10.120
THEY CAME TO ME, AND, OF COURSE,
00:43:10.120 --> 00:43:12.210
ON A NORMAL SUNDAY, I AM THE
00:43:16.270 --> 00:43:19.270
KIND OF PERSON-- OF COURSE,
00:43:19.270 --> 00:43:22.040
IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU.
00:43:25.240 --> 00:43:26.130
WELCOME.
00:43:26.130 --> 00:43:27.100
GOD BLESS YOU.
00:43:27.100 --> 00:43:27.260
WE'RE SO THRILLED TO SEE YOU."
00:43:27.260 --> 00:43:29.220
AND THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE
00:43:29.220 --> 00:43:31.140
THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE, YOU KNOW,
00:43:34.200 --> 00:43:35.120
AS NORMAL PEOPLE, LET'S JUST
00:43:35.120 --> 00:43:37.060
SAY.
00:43:37.060 --> 00:43:39.120
- CLIFTON: WHAT'S DIFFERENT
00:43:39.120 --> 00:43:40.020
ABOUT THEM?
00:43:40.020 --> 00:43:41.090
- AIMEE: WELL, LET'S SAY, THEIR
00:43:41.090 --> 00:43:42.020
SKIN IS DARK.
00:43:42.020 --> 00:43:44.260
THEY HAD MAKEUP ON THEIR FACES.
00:43:44.260 --> 00:43:47.240
THEY HAD YELLOW MAKEUP HERE
00:43:47.240 --> 00:43:50.240
BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN IN DAYS OF
00:43:50.240 --> 00:43:52.220
PRAYER, I FOUND OUT LATER,
00:43:52.220 --> 00:43:55.220
PRAYING AND HOPING, AND PRAYING
00:43:55.220 --> 00:43:58.170
THAT THE FIRST PERSON THAT THEY
00:43:59.070 --> 00:44:02.090
MET WOULD BE A WELCOMING PERSON.
00:44:02.260 --> 00:44:05.260
THE FIRST QUESTION THAT THEY
00:44:05.260 --> 00:44:08.200
ASKED ME WAS, "DO YOU BELIEVE IN
00:44:08.200 --> 00:44:10.110
JESUS CHRIST?"
00:44:11.050 --> 00:44:14.050
AND I SAID, "WHY, YES, I DO
00:44:14.050 --> 00:44:16.080
BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE
00:44:16.080 --> 00:44:18.120
RISEN LORD," AND THEY SAID,
00:44:18.120 --> 00:44:21.010
"DOES THIS CHURCH BELIEVE AS YOU
00:44:22.060 --> 00:44:25.060
BELIEVE?"
00:44:25.060 --> 00:44:27.010
AND I SAID, "YES, IT DOES, AND
00:44:27.150 --> 00:44:30.150
WE WELCOME YOU.
00:44:30.150 --> 00:44:33.100
PLEASE COME IN, AND I WANT TO
00:44:33.100 --> 00:44:35.000
INTRODUCE YOU TO MY HUSBAND."
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.270
- CLIFTON: WOW.
00:44:37.270 --> 00:44:38.260
- MICHAEL: SO THEN THEY CAME
00:44:38.260 --> 00:44:39.170
DOWN TO MY OFFICE, AND THEY SAID
00:44:39.170 --> 00:44:40.220
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A CHURCH,
00:44:40.220 --> 00:44:42.200
AND THEY NEEDED HELP WITH FOOD,
00:44:42.200 --> 00:44:44.120
CLOTHING, TRANSPORTATION,
00:44:44.120 --> 00:44:45.290
EMPLOYMENT, MEDICAL CARE...
00:44:45.290 --> 00:44:47.240
[LAUGHTER]
00:44:47.240 --> 00:44:48.250
...ET CETERA, ET CETERA,
00:44:48.250 --> 00:44:49.140
ET CETERA!
00:44:51.050 --> 00:44:54.050
AND I THOUGHT, "OH, GOODNESS,
00:44:54.110 --> 00:44:57.110
THIS COULD SWAMP AN ALREADY
00:44:57.110 --> 00:44:59.270
VULNERABLE CHURCH."
00:44:59.270 --> 00:45:01.160
- CLIFTON: THERE GOES THE
00:45:01.160 --> 00:45:02.050
$10.000!
00:45:02.050 --> 00:45:02.210
[LAUGHTER]
00:45:02.210 --> 00:45:04.290
- MICHAEL: YOU GOT IT!
00:45:04.290 --> 00:45:07.150
I TOLD THEM WE WERE BROKE.
00:45:07.150 --> 00:45:09.220
WE WERE LOSING OUR CHURCH.
00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:12.280
I DIDN'T SEE ANY WAY HOW WE
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:14.120
WOULD BE ABLE TO HELP THEM
00:45:14.120 --> 00:45:16.110
MATERIALLY, BUT THEN, INSTANTLY,
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.000
I'M THINKING, I DON'T KNOW WHAT
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.210
WE'RE GONNA DO ABOUT THIS TO
00:45:24.210 --> 00:45:25.250
WHAT JESUS SAYS, "IF SOMEONE
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:30.000
COMES TO YOU AND THEY ARE NAKED,
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:31.280
THEY'RE HUNGRY, THEY'RE THIRSTY,
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:34.130
THEY'RE HOMELESS, YOU DO IT TO
00:45:34.130 --> 00:45:36.030
THEM, YOU'VE DONE IT TO ME; YOU
00:45:36.200 --> 00:45:39.200
DON'T DO IT TO THEM, YOU'VE NOT
00:45:39.220 --> 00:45:42.220
DONE IT FOR ME."
00:45:42.230 --> 00:45:45.230
AND SO I HAD--
00:45:45.230 --> 00:45:46.070
THERE WAS NO CHOICE.
00:45:46.070 --> 00:45:47.100
IF WE'RE REALLY GOING TO CLAIM
00:45:47.100 --> 00:45:48.050
THE TITLE OF "CHRISTIAN," WE
00:45:48.050 --> 00:45:50.110
HAVE TO BE WILLING TO DO THE
00:45:50.110 --> 00:45:52.190
DEEDS AND NOT JUST TALK THE
00:45:52.190 --> 00:45:55.130
TALK, AND I FOUND MYSELF SAYING,
00:45:55.130 --> 00:45:57.150
"LOOK, I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS IS
00:45:57.150 --> 00:45:59.100
GONNA WORK OUT, BUT, YOU ALL,
00:45:59.100 --> 00:46:01.010
COME ON, AND WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT
00:46:01.010 --> 00:46:02.150
TOGETHER," AND THAT'S WHAT THEY
00:46:02.150 --> 00:46:03.260
DID.
00:46:03.260 --> 00:46:05.240
EVERYTHING CHANGED AFTER THAT!
00:46:07.140 --> 00:46:10.140
- CLIFTON: WOW, WHAT AN AMAZING
00:46:10.140 --> 00:46:11.250
STORY!
00:46:11.250 --> 00:46:13.240
[APPLAUSE]
00:46:15.050 --> 00:46:18.050
THERE'S SO MUCH I WANNA LEARN
00:46:18.050 --> 00:46:19.240
ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF YOUR LIVES.
00:46:20.160 --> 00:46:23.160
I WANNA TAKE JUST A MOMENT TO
00:46:23.160 --> 00:46:25.170
TALK TO AIMEE ABOUT YOUR
00:46:25.170 --> 00:46:28.040
OPERATIC CAREER.
00:46:28.040 --> 00:46:30.080
JUST, VERY QUICKLY, YOU'VE SUNG
00:46:30.080 --> 00:46:32.110
ALL OVER THE WORLD!
00:46:33.140 --> 00:46:36.140
DID YOU HAVE TO SUBJUGATE THAT
00:46:36.140 --> 00:46:39.130
CAREER IN ORDER TO SUPPORT HIS
00:46:39.130 --> 00:46:40.230
MINISTRY, OR WERE YOU ABLE TO
00:46:40.230 --> 00:46:41.190
FIND A WAY TO FULFILL YOUR
00:46:41.190 --> 00:46:43.260
CALLING IN THE ARTS AS WELL AS
00:46:43.260 --> 00:46:46.160
YOUR CALLING TO BE THE FIRST
00:46:46.160 --> 00:46:48.020
LADY AND A SERVANT OF THE LORD?
00:46:49.090 --> 00:46:52.090
- AIMEE: WHAT WAS INTERESTING--
00:46:52.090 --> 00:46:54.100
AND WE WERE JUST, SORT OF,
00:46:54.100 --> 00:46:55.240
TALKING ABOUT THIS IN THE
00:46:55.240 --> 00:46:57.240
GREENROOM-- IS THAT WHEN MICHAEL
00:46:57.240 --> 00:46:59.270
DECIDED THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:46:59.270 --> 00:47:02.070
CAME TO HIM AND SAID, "I WANT
00:47:03.160 --> 00:47:06.160
THE FIRST THING THAT I SAID WAS,
00:47:09.170 --> 00:47:11.020
"WHO AM I TO ARGUE WITH THE
00:47:11.020 --> 00:47:13.220
HOLY SPIRIT?"
00:47:13.220 --> 00:47:15.160
- CLIFTON: WOW.
00:47:15.160 --> 00:47:16.270
- AIMEE: YES, I SAY, "YES," TO
00:47:16.270 --> 00:47:17.190
AND, "YES, I WILL SUPPORT YOU."
00:47:19.270 --> 00:47:20.270
AND I DIDN'T KNOW HOW THAT WAS
00:47:20.270 --> 00:47:21.200
GOING TO WORK.
00:47:21.200 --> 00:47:23.190
I DIDN'T KNOW HOW IT WOULD LOOK.
00:47:24.160 --> 00:47:27.160
I HAD JUST HAD ATTICUS, SO HE
00:47:27.160 --> 00:47:29.050
WAS JUST A WEE THING, YOU KNOW,
00:47:29.160 --> 00:47:32.160
MAYBE 2 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME,
00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:35.020
BUT WHEN WE LEFT TO GO TO
00:47:35.020 --> 00:47:36.100
SEMINARY, ATTICUS WAS GETTING
00:47:38.040 --> 00:47:41.040
READY TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN.
00:47:41.040 --> 00:47:43.130
I HAD ON MY PLATE THE FACT THAT
00:47:43.130 --> 00:47:45.050
I NEEDED TO SUPPORT THIS FAMILY,
00:47:45.050 --> 00:47:48.040
AND THAT WAS WORKING AS MANY
00:47:48.040 --> 00:47:50.030
JOBS AS I COULD, AND THAT MEANT
00:47:50.030 --> 00:47:52.180
RETOOLING MY THOUGHTS ABOUT A
00:47:53.260 --> 00:47:56.260
CAREER, SO THINKING DIFFERENTLY,
00:47:56.260 --> 00:47:59.180
USING, YOU KNOW, GOD'S GIFTS IN
00:48:01.150 --> 00:48:04.150
THE WAY THAT HE GAVE THEM TO ME:
00:48:04.150 --> 00:48:06.240
TEACHING, STARTING A CHORISTER'S
00:48:08.130 --> 00:48:11.130
PROGRAM, AND HE ALSO GAVE ME THE
00:48:11.130 --> 00:48:14.110
GIFT OF BEING ABLE TO SING WITH
00:48:14.110 --> 00:48:16.180
THE OPERA COMPANY THAT WAS THERE
00:48:16.180 --> 00:48:18.190
IN MILWAUKEE, SO THAT WORKED OUT
00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.000
BEAUTIFULLY.
00:48:22.050 --> 00:48:25.050
AND THEN, WHEN I WAS SINGING
00:48:25.050 --> 00:48:27.180
WITH THAT OPERA COMPANY AND
00:48:27.180 --> 00:48:29.100
TEACHING AT THE CONSERVATORY
00:48:29.100 --> 00:48:30.240
THERE, I MET SOMEONE WHO WAS A
00:48:31.170 --> 00:48:34.170
COMPOSER WHO COMPOSED AN OPERA,
00:48:34.170 --> 00:48:37.040
A ONE-WOMAN OPERA, FOR ME, SO
00:48:37.040 --> 00:48:39.010
THAT WORKED OUT BEAUTIFULLY.
00:48:39.010 --> 00:48:41.110
SO CHRIST WAS WORKING IN SO MANY
00:48:41.110 --> 00:48:43.040
DIFFERENT WAYS, EVEN BECAUSE I,
00:48:43.080 --> 00:48:46.080
YOU KNOW, JUST KEPT SERVING HIM,
00:48:46.080 --> 00:48:48.250
AND I THINK, ALL TOLD, I THINK I
00:48:49.020 --> 00:48:52.020
WORKED FIVE JOBS DURING
00:48:52.020 --> 00:48:53.070
SEMINARY!
00:48:53.070 --> 00:48:55.240
- CLIFTON: TALK ABOUT SAYING,
00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:56.280
"YES," TO GOD!
00:48:56.280 --> 00:48:57.220
- AIMEE: YES, AND THAT WAS THE
00:48:58.150 --> 00:49:01.170
BEAUTIFUL THING.
00:49:01.170 --> 00:49:03.060
- CLIFTON: AND I THINK THAT'S
00:49:03.060 --> 00:49:04.130
SOMETHING I REALLY WANNA GRASP.
00:49:04.130 --> 00:49:06.000
YOU SAID, "YES," TO GOD, AND
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:08.010
YOUR HELPMATE, YOUR EQUAL, YOUR
00:49:08.010 --> 00:49:10.070
CALLED PARTNER IN LIFE, SAID,
00:49:12.070 --> 00:49:15.070
"YES," TO GOD AS WELL, AND AS A
00:49:15.070 --> 00:49:17.090
RESULT...
00:49:17.090 --> 00:49:19.120
[APPLAUSE]
00:49:19.120 --> 00:49:20.270
...TOGETHER, YOU WERE ABLE
00:49:20.270 --> 00:49:21.210
TO FOLLOW THE PATHWAY THAT
00:49:21.210 --> 00:49:22.190
GOD HAD PREPARED FOR YOU,
00:49:22.190 --> 00:49:24.070
AND HE OPENED DOORS THAT YOU
00:49:24.070 --> 00:49:25.240
COULD NOT HAVE POSSIBLY
00:49:25.240 --> 00:49:27.060
FORESEEN!
00:49:27.060 --> 00:49:28.220
- AIMEE: YES, THAT'S TRUE.
00:49:28.220 --> 00:49:29.260
- CLIFTON: WHAT AN AMAZING
00:49:29.260 --> 00:49:30.160
EXPERIENCE FOR US TO LEARN FROM
00:49:30.160 --> 00:49:32.180
AS A BODY OF BELIEVERS.
00:49:33.120 --> 00:49:36.120
FOLLOW WHAT GOD SAYS TO DO, AND
00:49:36.120 --> 00:49:39.120
HE WILL WORK EVERYTHING ELSE
00:49:39.120 --> 00:49:41.000
OUT!
00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:43.080
HE WILL!
00:49:43.080 --> 00:49:44.000
EVEN THOUGH IT MAY SEEM LIKE AN
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:46.010
IMPOSSIBLE HILL TO CLIMB, JUST
00:49:48.050 --> 00:49:51.050
TRUST THE LORD.
00:49:51.050 --> 00:49:53.160
SAY, "YES," TO GOD.
00:49:53.160 --> 00:49:55.100
WHAT A WONDERFUL THING THAT YOU
00:49:55.100 --> 00:49:56.250
HAVE DONE.
00:49:56.250 --> 00:49:57.140
- MICHAEL: WELL, WHAT'S THE
00:49:57.140 --> 00:49:58.230
ALTERNATIVE?
00:49:58.230 --> 00:49:59.190
- CLIFTON: EXACTLY.
00:49:59.190 --> 00:50:00.120
- MICHAEL: "NO."
00:50:00.120 --> 00:50:02.010
- CLIFTON: YOU SAY, "NO," AND
00:50:02.010 --> 00:50:02.220
THEN YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN.
00:50:02.220 --> 00:50:03.270
- MICHAEL: YEAH, YOU DON'T
00:50:03.270 --> 00:50:05.170
WANNA BE ON THAT SIDE OF THE
00:50:05.170 --> 00:50:06.160
COIN.
00:50:06.160 --> 00:50:07.220
- AIMEE: THE ALTERNATIVE IS THE
00:50:07.220 --> 00:50:08.140
WAGES OF SIN.
00:50:08.140 --> 00:50:10.150
- CLIFTON: WELL, SEE, THAT'S
00:50:10.150 --> 00:50:11.160
THE THING ABOUT BEIN' ON YOUR
00:50:11.160 --> 00:50:12.090
OWN.
00:50:12.090 --> 00:50:13.290
YOU KNOW, YOU ALWAYS WANNA BE ON
00:50:13.290 --> 00:50:15.100
YOUR OWN WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG.
00:50:15.100 --> 00:50:17.280
"I WANNA BE ON MY OWN.
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:18.160
I WANT MY OWN PLACE.
00:50:18.160 --> 00:50:21.020
I WANT MY OWN CAR.
00:50:21.020 --> 00:50:22.070
I WANT MY OWN WOMAN."
00:50:22.070 --> 00:50:24.070
AND THEN, AS SOON AS YOU GET
00:50:24.070 --> 00:50:25.250
YOUR OWN PLACE,
00:50:25.250 --> 00:50:26.190
YOU GOT YOUR OWN ELECTRIC BILL!
00:50:26.190 --> 00:50:28.030
[LAUGHTER]
00:50:30.130 --> 00:50:33.130
YOU GOT YOUR OWN RENT THAT'S
00:50:33.130 --> 00:50:34.030
LATE!
00:50:34.030 --> 00:50:34.230
[LAUGHTER]
00:50:34.230 --> 00:50:37.070
YOU GOT ALL THAT STUFF THAT
00:50:37.070 --> 00:50:38.140
YOU WANT.
00:50:38.140 --> 00:50:39.220
THEN YOU WANT YOUR OWN CAR THAT
00:50:39.220 --> 00:50:41.070
KEEPS BREAKIN' DOWN, AND YOU
00:50:41.070 --> 00:50:43.000
WANT YOUR OWN GIRLFRIEND, WHO
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:44.120
WANTS A MUCH BETTER CAR!
00:50:44.120 --> 00:50:45.150
[LAUGHTER]
00:50:46.230 --> 00:50:49.230
SOMETIMES BEIN' ON YOUR OWN
00:50:49.230 --> 00:50:50.150
ISN'T ALL ITS CUT OUT TO BE!
00:50:50.150 --> 00:50:53.080
- AIMEE: THAT'S RIGHT!
00:50:53.080 --> 00:50:53.270
- MICHAEL: I READ SOMETHIN' THE
00:50:53.270 --> 00:50:55.020
OTHER DAY.
00:50:55.020 --> 00:50:56.240
IT SAID THE ANTHEM IN HEAVEN IS
00:50:56.240 --> 00:50:57.160
"LOOK WHAT GOD WROUGHT."
00:50:57.260 --> 00:51:00.280
AND THE ANTHEM IN HELL IS,
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:02.270
"I DID IT MY WAY."
00:51:02.270 --> 00:51:04.130
[LAUGHTER]
00:51:05.160 --> 00:51:08.160
- CLIFTON: LOOK WHAT GOD HATH
00:51:08.160 --> 00:51:09.170
WROUGHT.
00:51:09.170 --> 00:51:10.150
MM-HMM...
00:51:10.150 --> 00:51:12.010
[CLIFTON SINGING A CAPPELLA]
00:51:12.010 --> 00:51:12.290
[MUSIC]
00:51:12.290 --> 00:51:14.000
I DID IT MY...
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:15.160
- CLIFTON: OH, LORD.
00:51:15.160 --> 00:51:16.070
[LAUGHTER]
00:51:16.070 --> 00:51:17.060
NO, NO, NO, I DON'T WANNA
00:51:17.060 --> 00:51:17.250
SING THE ANTHEM IF THAT'S
00:51:17.250 --> 00:51:18.200
THE ANTHEM IN HELL.
00:51:18.200 --> 00:51:21.120
I'D RATHER NOT DO IT MY WAY.
00:51:21.120 --> 00:51:22.290
I FOUND OUT ALONG THE ROAD THAT
00:51:22.290 --> 00:51:24.170
MY WAY IS NOT THE WAY.
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.280
GOD'S WAY IS MUCH BETTER THAN MY
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:30.000
WAY.
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:31.040
HOW DID YOU BOTH WORK WITH THE
00:51:31.040 --> 00:51:33.210
CHURCH AND THE KAREN REFUGEES?
00:51:34.070 --> 00:51:37.070
- MICHAEL: WELL, WHEN THEY
00:51:37.070 --> 00:51:39.270
ARRIVED, WE BEGAN LOOKING AROUND
00:51:39.270 --> 00:51:42.230
FOR WAYS THAT WE COULD HELP
00:51:42.230 --> 00:51:44.150
THEM, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE
00:51:46.120 --> 00:51:49.120
THINGS THAT HAPPENED THERE.
00:51:49.120 --> 00:51:51.070
IT WASN'T JUST-- I'VE BEEN
00:51:51.070 --> 00:51:52.170
TELLING THE STORY FOR A LONG
00:51:52.170 --> 00:51:54.100
TIME NOW, AND FOR A WHILE, I
00:51:54.100 --> 00:51:56.020
THOUGHT THAT THE MIRACLE THAT
00:51:56.020 --> 00:51:57.230
HAPPENED AT ALL SAINTS WAS THAT
00:51:57.230 --> 00:51:59.160
WE SAVED THE CHURCH, AND IT'S
00:51:59.160 --> 00:52:02.030
ONLY, IT SEEMS LIKE, IN THE PAST
00:52:02.030 --> 00:52:04.050
MONTH, THE PENNY DROPPED, AND IT
00:52:04.050 --> 00:52:06.070
OCCURRED TO ME THAT, WELL, YEAH,
00:52:06.090 --> 00:52:09.090
THAT WAS IMPORTANT THAT THE
00:52:09.090 --> 00:52:10.220
CHURCH GOT SAVED-- THAT THE
00:52:10.220 --> 00:52:12.090
CHURCH GOT SAVED SO THAT THE
00:52:12.090 --> 00:52:14.090
LIFE COULD HAPPEN THERE.
00:52:14.090 --> 00:52:16.170
THE BUILDING WAS NOT THE END IN
00:52:16.170 --> 00:52:18.080
ITSELF, SALVATION OF THE
00:52:18.080 --> 00:52:18.290
BUILDING.
00:52:18.290 --> 00:52:20.250
IT WAS TO PROVIDE A SAFE HAVEN
00:52:20.250 --> 00:52:23.000
WHERE PEOPLE'S LIVES COULD BE
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.030
TRANSFORMED FOR SERVICE TO THE
00:52:25.070 --> 00:52:28.070
LORD.
00:52:28.070 --> 00:52:29.160
AND WE HAD A FELLOW.
00:52:30.020 --> 00:52:33.020
HIS WIFE WAS A REGULAR
00:52:33.020 --> 00:52:34.250
PARISHIONER OF OURS, AND WHEN
00:52:34.250 --> 00:52:37.010
SHE STARTED COMING TO CHURCH
00:52:37.010 --> 00:52:38.140
WITH US, SHE ASKED HIM IF HE
00:52:38.140 --> 00:52:41.120
MINDED IF SHE WENT TO CHURCH,
00:52:41.120 --> 00:52:42.240
AND HE SAID, "YEAH, AS LONG AS I
00:52:42.240 --> 00:52:44.040
DON'T HAVE TO GO WITH YA."
00:52:44.040 --> 00:52:46.220
AND THEN SHE BEGAN TELLING
00:52:46.220 --> 00:52:48.000
HIM ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING
00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:49.280
ON THERE, OUR WORK WITH
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:50.210
THE KAREN, AND HE GOT
00:52:50.210 --> 00:52:51.220
CURIOUS AND STARTED COMIN'
00:52:51.220 --> 00:52:54.030
AROUND EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE.
00:52:54.210 --> 00:52:57.210
AND THEN HE WAS TRYIN' TO QUIT
00:52:57.210 --> 00:52:58.270
SMOKING, AND HE CAME TO SEE ME
00:52:58.270 --> 00:53:00.230
AND SAID HE WAS HAVING A LOT OF
00:53:00.230 --> 00:53:03.010
TROUBLE, AND WE GOT TO TALKING
00:53:03.010 --> 00:53:05.280
ABOUT MATTERS OF FAITH AND THAT
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.090
SORT OF THING, AND HE TOLD ME,
00:53:07.090 --> 00:53:08.160
"YOU KNOW, I DON'T EVEN THINK
00:53:08.160 --> 00:53:09.190
I'M A BELIEVER ANYMORE."
00:53:09.190 --> 00:53:11.270
SO I PULLED OUT--
00:53:11.270 --> 00:53:13.030
YOU KNOW, IN OUR CHURCH,
00:53:13.030 --> 00:53:14.220
WE HAVE THE CREED, A
00:53:14.220 --> 00:53:16.150
STATEMENT OF FAITH.
00:53:16.150 --> 00:53:18.040
I SAID, "WELL, LET ME JUST RUN
00:53:18.050 --> 00:53:21.050
SOME QUESTIONS BY YOU.
00:53:21.050 --> 00:53:21.280
DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?"
00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:23.010
AND HE SAYS, "WELL, YEAH, YOU
00:53:23.010 --> 00:53:24.120
KNOW, I BELIEVE IN GOD," AND I
00:53:24.120 --> 00:53:25.110
SAID, "DO YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS
00:53:25.110 --> 00:53:26.100
CHRIST?"
00:53:26.100 --> 00:53:27.140
"WELL, YEAH, OKAY, YEAH, I DON'T
00:53:27.140 --> 00:53:28.200
HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT
00:53:28.200 --> 00:53:31.110
EITHER."
00:53:31.110 --> 00:53:32.020
AND WE JUST WENT THROUGH
00:53:32.020 --> 00:53:32.230
THE WHOLE THING, AND HE
00:53:32.230 --> 00:53:33.250
DIDN'T OBJECT TO ANYTHING, AND
00:53:33.250 --> 00:53:35.010
AT THE END, I SAID, "SOUNDS LIKE
00:53:35.010 --> 00:53:36.180
YOU'RE A BELIEVER, TO ME, BUT
00:53:36.180 --> 00:53:39.150
HERE'S WHAT I THINK GOD HAS SENT
00:53:39.150 --> 00:53:42.150
YOU TO ME FOR.
00:53:42.150 --> 00:53:44.090
GOD HAS SENT YOU TO ME--"
00:53:44.090 --> 00:53:45.210
BECAUSE HE WAS STATIONED IN ASIA
00:53:47.070 --> 00:53:50.070
FOR THE MARINES, AND HE TAUGHT
00:53:50.160 --> 00:53:53.160
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TO
00:53:53.160 --> 00:53:56.100
SOUTHEAST ASIAN REFUGEES-- AND I
00:53:56.100 --> 00:53:57.240
SAID, "GOD HAS SENT YOU HERE TO
00:53:57.240 --> 00:53:59.020
START AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
00:53:59.020 --> 00:54:00.190
PROGRAM FOR THE KAREN," AND HE
00:54:01.190 --> 00:54:04.190
SAID, "WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M STILL
00:54:04.190 --> 00:54:05.210
NOT QUITE CERTAIN ABOUT THIS
00:54:05.210 --> 00:54:06.280
BELIEVING THING," AND I SAID,
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:08.100
"WELL, I DON'T WANT YOU TO TEACH
00:54:08.100 --> 00:54:09.050
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
00:54:09.050 --> 00:54:10.090
I JUST WANT YOU TO TEACH THEM--"
00:54:10.090 --> 00:54:11.090
[LAUGHTER]
00:54:11.090 --> 00:54:13.120
- CLIFTON: HOW TO SPEAK
00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:14.010
- MICHAEL: THAT WHAT HAPPENED
00:54:17.160 --> 00:54:18.080
TO PAUL WAS THROUGH THE WORK
00:54:18.080 --> 00:54:18.290
THAT WE WERE DOING HERE, HIS
00:54:18.290 --> 00:54:20.080
ENTIRE FAITH LIFE CHANGED
00:54:20.080 --> 00:54:22.110
DRAMATICALLY, AND HE'LL TELL YOU
00:54:22.110 --> 00:54:25.060
"I USED TO SAY, 'I WOULD NEVER
00:54:28.290 --> 00:54:31.110
DARKEN THE DOOR OF A CHURCH
00:54:31.110 --> 00:54:32.010
AGAIN' AND NOW I HAVE THE KEY."
00:54:32.010 --> 00:54:33.280
[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]
00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:35.120
- CLIFTON: YES!
00:54:35.120 --> 00:54:36.240
- MICHAEL: AND THAT'S JUST ONE
00:54:36.240 --> 00:54:39.220
STORY OF SO MANY TRANSFORMED
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:43.000
LIVES OF PEOPLE DRAWING CLOSER
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:45.010
TO JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE WORK
00:54:45.010 --> 00:54:45.240
THAT WENT ON THERE.
00:54:45.240 --> 00:54:48.170
- AIMEE: AND THAT'S THE
00:54:48.170 --> 00:54:50.070
BEAUTIFUL THING ALSO ABOUT BEING
00:54:53.040 --> 00:54:56.040
THERE WHEN WE WERE THERE TO
00:54:56.040 --> 00:54:57.220
WATCH THE FILMING OF THE MOVIE.
00:54:57.270 --> 00:55:00.290
EVERYONE, FROM THE PERSON WHO
00:55:00.290 --> 00:55:02.030
WORKED ON THE CRAFT SERVICES
00:55:02.030 --> 00:55:03.140
TABLE, TO THE PERSON BEHIND THE
00:55:03.140 --> 00:55:05.110
CAMERA, TO EVEN SOME OF THE
00:55:05.110 --> 00:55:07.290
ACTORS, HAD THEIR OWN FAITH
00:55:07.290 --> 00:55:10.060
JOURNEY AND STORIES ABOUT HOW IT
00:55:13.060 --> 00:55:16.060
WAS THAT THEY CAME TO ALL
00:55:16.090 --> 00:55:19.090
SAINTS, AND HOW IT WAS THAT THEY
00:55:19.090 --> 00:55:21.110
CAME TO BE PART OF THAT PROJECT,
00:55:21.110 --> 00:55:23.260
AND THEY WERE MOVING STORIES,
00:55:25.010 --> 00:55:28.010
AND EACH ONE OF THEM FELT A
00:55:29.020 --> 00:55:32.020
CONNECTION TO THE PROPERTY, A
00:55:32.200 --> 00:55:35.200
CONNECTION TO THESE FIELDS OF
00:55:35.200 --> 00:55:36.200
FAITH.
00:55:36.200 --> 00:55:39.070
- CLIFTON: WHEN IS THIS FILM
00:55:39.070 --> 00:55:39.280
GOING TO BE RELEASED?
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:41.030
DO YOU KNOW YET?
00:55:41.030 --> 00:55:42.030
- MICHAEL: AUGUST 25TH.
00:55:42.030 --> 00:55:43.020
- CLIFTON: AUGUST 25TH.
00:55:43.020 --> 00:55:44.250
WE TYPICALLY DON'T GIVE A DATE,
00:55:44.250 --> 00:55:47.000
BUT ON THIS CASE, I THINK WE
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:47.230
WILL.
00:55:47.230 --> 00:55:49.040
THIS FILM IS A MUST-SEE.
00:55:49.040 --> 00:55:51.240
- AIMEE: YES!
00:55:51.240 --> 00:55:53.070
IT'S AN EVIDENCE OF FAITH IN GOD
00:55:53.150 --> 00:55:56.150
AT WORK AND A TREMENDOUS
00:55:58.020 --> 00:56:01.040
TESTIMONY TO YOUR LIVES AND HOW
00:56:01.040 --> 00:56:03.070
YOU HAVE POSITIVELY IMPACTED THE
00:56:03.070 --> 00:56:05.140
WORLD, RIGHT WHERE YOU WERE.
00:56:05.140 --> 00:56:08.080
MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU
00:56:08.080 --> 00:56:09.290
EACH AND EVERY DAY THROUGHOUT
00:56:09.290 --> 00:56:12.100
YOUR MINISTRY.
00:56:12.100 --> 00:56:14.010
MIKE SPURLOCK, AIMEE SPURLOCK!
00:56:14.010 --> 00:56:15.150
LET'S HEAR IT FOR THEM!
00:56:15.150 --> 00:56:17.010
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
00:56:17.010 --> 00:56:18.150
- MICHAEL: THANK YOU, CLIFTON.
00:56:18.150 --> 00:56:19.070
- AIMEE: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:56:19.070 --> 00:56:20.120
GOD BLESS YOU.
00:56:20.120 --> 00:56:20.290
- CLIFTON: THANK YOU!
00:56:20.290 --> 00:56:23.200
[APPLAUSE]
00:56:23.200 --> 00:56:25.260
WE'RE COMING TO THE END OF
00:56:26.070 --> 00:56:29.070
ANOTHER SHOW, AND I, FOR ONE,
00:56:29.070 --> 00:56:30.120
AM ALWAYS HAPPY WHEN I THINK
00:56:30.120 --> 00:56:33.000
I'M GONNA HOST, AND I END
00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:34.170
UP GETTING FED.
00:56:34.220 --> 00:56:37.220
IT'S LIKE I'M SITTING AT A FEAST
00:56:37.220 --> 00:56:39.010
THAT I DIDN'T EXPECT, AND I GET
00:56:39.090 --> 00:56:42.090
TO OVEREAT SPIRITUAL FOOD!
00:56:42.090 --> 00:56:45.040
I'M NOT GONNA BELCH...
00:56:45.160 --> 00:56:48.160
[LAUGHTER]
00:56:48.160 --> 00:56:51.120
...BUT I HOPE THAT YOU'VE
00:56:51.120 --> 00:56:52.060
BEEN FED AS WELL.
00:56:52.060 --> 00:56:54.010
[APPLAUSE]
00:56:54.180 --> 00:56:57.180
THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE
00:56:57.180 --> 00:56:59.230
YOU'VE MET HERE HAVE
00:56:59.230 --> 00:57:01.160
TOUCHED SO MANY, AND WE WANNA
00:57:01.200 --> 00:57:04.200
ENCOURAGE YOU, IN YOUR OWN WAY,
00:57:04.200 --> 00:57:06.230
TO SAY, "YES," TO GOD.
00:57:07.270 --> 00:57:10.270
GOD BLESS YOU, AND THANK YOU
00:57:10.270 --> 00:57:11.190

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