Praise | August 21, 2017
August 21, 2017
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Clifton Davis hosts Chonda Pierce, Rev. Michael Spurlock and Aimee Marcoux-Spurlock.
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Praise | August 21, 2017
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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
- 00:07:55.290 --> 00:07:58.140
- STARTED SHARING MY TESTIMONY.
- 00:07:58.140 --> 00:08:00.100
- I USED TO SAY I WASN'T REALLY
- 00:08:00.100 --> 00:08:01.030
- STARTIN' OUT TO BE A COMEDIAN.
- 00:08:01.030 --> 00:08:02.210
- I JUST WANTED TO SHARE MY
- 00:08:02.210 --> 00:08:03.270
- TESTIMONY, AND PEOPLE KEPT
- 00:08:03.270 --> 00:08:05.060
- LAUGHIN' IN MY FACE.
- 00:08:05.060 --> 00:08:05.290
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:08:05.290 --> 00:08:06.210
- IT KIND OF HURTS MY FEELINGS,
- 00:08:06.210 --> 00:08:09.040
- TO TELL YA THE TRUTH,
- 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:10.180
- BUT IT IS A MIRACULOUS THING
- 00:08:10.180 --> 00:08:12.130
- WHEN THE LORD TAKES BROKENNESS--
- 00:08:12.130 --> 00:08:15.060
- AND HE DOES THIS A LOT IN THE
- 00:08:15.060 --> 00:08:16.200
- COMEDY WORLD-- AND HE WEAVES
- 00:08:16.200 --> 00:08:18.140
- THAT BROKEN LIFE TO BE ABLE TO
- 00:08:18.140 --> 00:08:21.090
- DISPENSE LAUGHTER.
- 00:08:21.090 --> 00:08:23.120
- NOW, YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL'S IN
- 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:24.120
- THE BUSINESS OF ROBBIN' US FROM
- 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.040
- ALL GOOD THINGS, AND SO HE'S
- 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:27.010
- TAKEN COMEDY DOWN A TOTALLY
- 00:08:27.010 --> 00:08:28.290
- DIFFERENT PATH, AND THAT SADDENS
- 00:08:28.290 --> 00:08:30.190
- ME SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW?
- 00:08:30.190 --> 00:08:32.110
- AND I DON'T JUDGE THOSE COMICS.
- 00:08:32.110 --> 00:08:34.050
- AS MY MAMA SAYS, "THEY'RE
- 00:08:34.050 --> 00:08:35.160
- WALKIN' IN ALL THE LIGHT THEY
- 00:08:35.160 --> 00:08:36.240
- KNOW."
- 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:37.120
- BUT I CHOOSE TO HANG OUT
- 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.210
- WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT AS
- 00:08:39.210 --> 00:08:42.110
- INEBRIATED AND...
- 00:08:42.110 --> 00:08:43.230
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:08:43.230 --> 00:08:46.120
- ...WELL, OF COURSE,
- 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:47.180
- THAT DEPENDS ON WHAT CHURCH
- 00:08:47.180 --> 00:08:48.080
- YOU'RE AT!
- 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:49.000
- - CLIFTON: THAT'S TRUE!
- 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:49.210
- - CHONDA: YOU KNOW, I CHOOSE TO
- 00:08:49.210 --> 00:08:51.100
- HANG OUT WITH PEOPLE-- I CHOOSE
- 00:08:51.100 --> 00:08:52.030
- TO DO WHAT I DO WHERE PEOPLE
- 00:08:52.030 --> 00:08:53.160
- WILL REMEMBER WHAT I SAID!
- 00:08:53.160 --> 00:08:54.240
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:08:58.170 --> 00:09:01.190
- YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE
- 00:09:01.190 --> 00:09:03.030
- ALWAYS GOING, "AND YOU DON'T DO
- 00:09:03.030 --> 00:09:04.230
- COMEDY CLUBS?"
- 00:09:04.230 --> 00:09:05.080
- I GO, "NO, I SELL A COUPLE OF
- 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:06.290
- THOUSAND TICKETS EVERY NIGHT,
- 00:09:06.290 --> 00:09:07.290
- AND, AS FAR AS KNOW, I DON'T
- 00:09:07.290 --> 00:09:09.080
- THINK ANYBODY'S THAT DRUNK!"
- 00:09:09.110 --> 00:09:12.110
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:09:13.290 --> 00:09:16.290
- I CRACK MYSELF UP!
- 00:09:16.290 --> 00:09:19.010
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:09:20.030 --> 00:09:23.030
- - CLIFTON: AND THAT'S ONE OF
- 00:09:23.030 --> 00:09:24.180
- THINGS THAT MAKES YOU SO VERY
- 00:09:24.180 --> 00:09:25.240
- SPECIAL.
- 00:09:25.260 --> 00:09:28.260
- - CHONDA: THAT I LAUGH AT MY
- 00:09:28.260 --> 00:09:29.170
- OWN JOKES-- THAT'S WHAT!
- 00:09:29.170 --> 00:09:30.180
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:09:30.180 --> 00:09:31.200
- - CLIFTON: NO, THAT-- SEE?
- 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.100
- SEE, I'M STILL BEIN' A STRAIGHT
- 00:09:34.100 --> 00:09:35.020
- MAN AGAIN!
- 00:09:35.020 --> 00:09:35.290
- - CHONDA: I KNOW!
- 00:09:35.290 --> 00:09:36.280
- I LOVE THAT ABOUT YOU!
- 00:09:36.280 --> 00:09:37.160
- - CLIFTON: I WAS STRAIGHT MAN
- 00:09:37.160 --> 00:09:38.070
- FOR SHERMAN HEMSLEY FOR 5 YEARS!
- 00:09:38.070 --> 00:09:39.020
- - CHONDA: OH, MY GOODNESS, YES,
- 00:09:39.020 --> 00:09:40.060
- YES!
- 00:09:40.060 --> 00:09:41.290
- - CLIFTON: BUT THAT YOU DON'T
- 00:09:41.290 --> 00:09:43.220
- HAVE TO BE DRUNK TO THINK YOU'RE
- 00:09:43.220 --> 00:09:44.190
- FUNNY!
- 00:09:44.190 --> 00:09:46.010
- - CHONDA: THAT'S RIGHT!
- 00:09:46.010 --> 00:09:46.200
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:47.010
- - CLIFTON: THAT'S WHAT I'M
- 00:09:47.010 --> 00:09:47.220
- SAYIN'!
- 00:09:47.220 --> 00:09:48.140
- - CHONDA: THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT!
- 00:09:48.140 --> 00:09:49.120
- - CLIFTON: IT'S HILARIOUS, YOUR
- 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:51.240
- PERSPECTIVE ON STUFF.
- 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:52.110
- I MEAN, WE WERE TALKIN' IN THE
- 00:09:52.110 --> 00:09:54.160
- GREENROOM ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT
- 00:09:54.160 --> 00:09:56.140
- MIGHT'VE BEEN SAID AT YOUR
- 00:09:56.140 --> 00:09:57.170
- CHURCH OR WHATNOT LIKE THAT, AND
- 00:09:57.280 --> 00:10:00.280
- I'M CURIOUS AS TO WHAT KIND OF
- 00:10:00.280 --> 00:10:02.180
- ADVICE YOU WOULD GIVE TO OTHER
- 00:10:02.180 --> 00:10:04.220
- COMEDIANS SEEKING TO GO INTO THE
- 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:06.270
- ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY?
- 00:10:06.270 --> 00:10:09.030
- - CHONDA: WELL, I THINK, "GO."
- 00:10:09.030 --> 00:10:11.010
- YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN
- 00:10:11.010 --> 00:10:12.200
- THE CHURCH WORLD-- AND I CAN
- 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:14.010
- SPEAK TO THAT BECAUSE I'M IN
- 00:10:14.010 --> 00:10:14.240
- THAT WORLD, AND I WAS ONE OF
- 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.030
- 'EM, YOU KNOW, AND STILL AM, BUT
- 00:10:16.030 --> 00:10:17.200
- THERE WAS A TIME WE WOULD GET
- 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:19.040
- ANGRY OR FRUSTRATED OR A
- 00:10:19.040 --> 00:10:20.150
- RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION ABOUT WHAT
- 00:10:21.070 --> 00:10:24.070
- WAS ON TELEVISION, AND, YES,
- 00:10:24.070 --> 00:10:25.010
- THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT ARE
- 00:10:25.010 --> 00:10:26.120
- JUST NOT GODLY THAT WE WISH
- 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:27.040
- AND WHAT WE DID WAS PULL ALL OUR
- 00:10:30.170 --> 00:10:31.100
- YOUNG PEOPLE OUT.
- 00:10:31.100 --> 00:10:32.040
- "WE'RE GONNA PULL 'EM OUT OF THE
- 00:10:32.040 --> 00:10:33.100
- ARTS.
- 00:10:33.100 --> 00:10:33.230
- WE'RE GONNA TELL 'EM, 'NO, YOU
- 00:10:33.230 --> 00:10:34.140
- NEED TO GO BE A DOCTOR OR A
- 00:10:34.140 --> 00:10:35.120
- TEACHER OR, YOU KNOW, A
- 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:36.020
- OR YOU NEED TO TEACH SUNDAY
- 00:10:38.250 --> 00:10:39.150
- SCHOOL,'"
- 00:10:39.150 --> 00:10:39.280
- AND WE FORGOT TO TELL 'EM,
- 00:10:39.280 --> 00:10:40.180
- "NO, YOU NEED TO GO TEACH
- 00:10:40.180 --> 00:10:41.090
- SCHOOL IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL.
- 00:10:41.090 --> 00:10:42.230
- YOU NEED TO GO WHERE THE SINNERS
- 00:10:42.230 --> 00:10:43.210
- ARE."
- 00:10:43.210 --> 00:10:45.190
- AND WE WOULD BOYCOTT, AND
- 00:10:45.190 --> 00:10:46.280
- WE WOULD DO ALL THESE THINGS,
- 00:10:46.280 --> 00:10:48.140
- YOU KNOW, FUSSIN' AT HOLLYWOOD,
- 00:10:48.140 --> 00:10:49.200
- AND THERE IS A PLACE FOR THAT,
- 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.090
- BUT FOR THE MOST PART, WHAT
- 00:10:51.090 --> 00:10:53.050
- HAPPENED IS A GENERATION WOULD
- 00:10:53.050 --> 00:10:54.040
- GO BY, AND THEN, ALL OF A
- 00:10:54.040 --> 00:10:55.130
- SUDDEN, WE GOT NO REPRESENTATION
- 00:10:55.130 --> 00:10:57.010
- OUT THERE BECAUSE-- AND SO...
- 00:10:57.010 --> 00:10:58.290
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:10:59.050 --> 00:11:02.070
- ...SOMETIMES I LOOK
- 00:11:02.070 --> 00:11:03.220
- AT THE STATE THAT COMEDY IS IN.
- 00:11:03.220 --> 00:11:05.090
- I LOOK AT THE STATE OF WHAT
- 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:06.110
- HOLLYWOOD IS DOIN', AND I GO,
- 00:11:06.110 --> 00:11:07.290
- "YOU KNOW, WE GOT NOBODY TO
- 00:11:07.290 --> 00:11:08.270
- BLAME FOR THAT REALLY BUT US
- 00:11:08.270 --> 00:11:09.270
- 'CAUSE WE TURNED AND RAN INSTEAD
- 00:11:09.270 --> 00:11:12.090
- OF BEING BOLD IN THE LORD AND
- 00:11:12.090 --> 00:11:14.130
- RECOGNIZING WHO HE IS...
- 00:11:14.130 --> 00:11:15.280
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:11:15.280 --> 00:11:17.130
- ...YEAH, AND GOIN'
- 00:11:17.130 --> 00:11:18.050
- OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, GOIN' OUT
- 00:11:18.050 --> 00:11:19.030
- THERE.
- 00:11:19.030 --> 00:11:20.040
- AND WE HAVE A FEW LIKE YOU THAT
- 00:11:20.040 --> 00:11:22.090
- WOULD RISE UP, AND WE'D ALL GET
- 00:11:22.090 --> 00:11:23.150
- TO CHAMPION BEHIND YA, BUT THEN
- 00:11:23.150 --> 00:11:24.260
- WE WERE ALL SCARED TO GO FOLLOW
- 00:11:24.260 --> 00:11:25.180
- YA!
- 00:11:25.180 --> 00:11:26.120
- AND YOU PAVED THE WAY FOR A LOT
- 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:27.250
- OF FOLKS, BROTHER DAVIS, AS WE
- 00:11:27.250 --> 00:11:29.110
- SAY IN THE SOUTH: "BROTHER
- 00:11:29.110 --> 00:11:30.210
- DAVIS"!
- 00:11:30.210 --> 00:11:31.240
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.210
- YOU KNOW, AND WE NEED MORE OF
- 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:36.240
- THAT, AND SO I TELL YOUNG
- 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:37.230
- PEOPLE, "OH, GO, GO.
- 00:11:37.230 --> 00:11:38.210
- GO STUDY COMEDY.
- 00:11:38.210 --> 00:11:40.170
- GO TO THE FINEST SCHOOLS.
- 00:11:40.170 --> 00:11:41.290
- GET OUT THERE IN THOSE CLUBS AND
- 00:11:41.290 --> 00:11:43.130
- BE FUNNIER THAN ANYBODY.
- 00:11:43.130 --> 00:11:45.040
- YOU REPRESENT THE KING OF KINGS,
- 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:47.030
- SO YOU JUST HOLD YOUR HEAD UP.
- 00:11:47.030 --> 00:11:49.060
- NOW, REMEMBER, WHEN YOU DO THAT,
- 00:11:49.060 --> 00:11:51.020
- THE DEVIL'S WAITIN' FOR YA, SO
- 00:11:51.020 --> 00:11:52.250
- SHINE YOUR ARMOR UP, AND YOU
- 00:11:53.070 --> 00:11:56.070
- HANG ONTO THE WORD OF GOD LIKE
- 00:11:56.070 --> 00:11:58.020
- IT'S A SHIELD THAT IT IS, AND
- 00:11:58.020 --> 00:11:59.250
- YOU GO IN THERE AND FIGHT THE
- 00:11:59.250 --> 00:12:00.200
- FIGHT, YEP!
- 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:02.280
- - CLIFTON: GOOD WORD!
- 00:12:02.280 --> 00:12:03.270
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:12:05.030 --> 00:12:08.030
- - CHONDA: I GOT CHILLS!
- 00:12:08.030 --> 00:12:09.250
- - CLIFTON: IT'S VERY TRUE.
- 00:12:09.250 --> 00:12:10.180
- IT'S VERY TRUE.
- 00:12:10.180 --> 00:12:13.140
- YOU KNOW, YOU PAY A PRICE TO BE
- 00:12:13.140 --> 00:12:14.060
- THE ONE WHO STANDS UP AND--
- 00:12:14.060 --> 00:12:15.260
- - CHONDA: YES, AND YOU GET IT
- 00:12:15.260 --> 00:12:17.290
- FROM BOTH SIDES.
- 00:12:17.290 --> 00:12:19.060
- YOU CAN MAKE A BUNCH OF
- 00:12:19.060 --> 00:12:21.050
- BAPTIST DEACONS LAUGH,
- 00:12:21.050 --> 00:12:23.040
- WITH A COUPLE OF CATHOLICS
- 00:12:23.040 --> 00:12:23.240
- SITTIN' THERE AND AN
- 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:24.160
- EPISCOPAL PRIEST...
- 00:12:24.160 --> 00:12:25.170
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:12:25.170 --> 00:12:26.260
- ...AND A FEW PENTECOSTALS
- 00:12:26.260 --> 00:12:28.040
- ON THE BACK ROW.
- 00:12:28.040 --> 00:12:28.250
- WE'LL SEE HOW FUNNY YOU ARE!
- 00:12:28.250 --> 00:12:29.290
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:12:29.290 --> 00:12:32.250
- I'M THINKIN' OF STARTIN'
- 00:12:32.250 --> 00:12:33.200
- A TWO-DRINK MINIMUM.
- 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.010
- THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKIN'!
- 00:12:35.010 --> 00:12:36.110
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:12:36.110 --> 00:12:37.050
- 'CAUSE WE, YOU KNOW,
- 00:12:37.050 --> 00:12:38.020
- WE GOT OUR STUFF, AND WE GOT OUR
- 00:12:38.020 --> 00:12:39.010
- CLUBS, AND WE GOT OUR
- 00:12:39.010 --> 00:12:40.080
- DENOMINATIONS.
- 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:41.070
- WE GOT OUR THINGS.
- 00:12:41.070 --> 00:12:42.060
- I TRY TO MAKE 'EM ALL LAUGH, SO
- 00:12:42.060 --> 00:12:43.230
- I DON'T KNOW.
- 00:12:43.230 --> 00:12:46.010
- I MAYBE AM GOIN' TO HELL IN A
- 00:12:46.010 --> 00:12:47.040
- HANDBASKET.
- 00:12:47.040 --> 00:12:47.180
- I DON'T KNOW!
- 00:12:47.180 --> 00:12:48.070
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:12:48.070 --> 00:12:49.070
- - CLIFTON: NO, YOU CLIMBED OUT
- 00:12:49.070 --> 00:12:49.290
- OF THAT!
- 00:12:49.290 --> 00:12:50.110
- - CHONDA: I CLIMBED OUT OF
- 00:12:50.110 --> 00:12:51.020
- THAT!
- 00:12:51.020 --> 00:12:51.240
- - CLIFTON: WELL, I HEARD
- 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.140
- WHEREVER THERE ARE FOUR
- 00:12:53.140 --> 00:12:55.000
- EPISCOPALIANS, THERE'S A FIFTH.
- 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:56.040
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:12:56.040 --> 00:12:58.220
- - CHONDA: HEY, WE GOTTA BE
- 00:12:58.220 --> 00:12:59.120
- CAREFUL!
- 00:12:59.120 --> 00:12:59.270
- I MET ONE BACKSTAGE!
- 00:12:59.270 --> 00:13:00.280
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:13:00.280 --> 00:13:01.140
- - CLIFTON: I LOVE MY
- 00:13:01.140 --> 00:13:04.040
- EPISCOPALIAN BROTHERS AND
- 00:13:04.040 --> 00:13:04.280
- SISTERS, PRESBYTERIAN...
- 00:13:04.280 --> 00:13:05.180
- - 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.
- 00:13:07.230 --> 00:13:08.170
- - CLIFTON: WE ARE, AS A GROUP,
- 00:13:08.170 --> 00:13:10.140
- THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND I'M
- 00:13:10.190 --> 00:13:13.190
- PROUD TO BE A PART OF THE BODY
- 00:13:13.190 --> 00:13:14.220
- OF CHRIST.
- 00:13:14.220 --> 00:13:15.170
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:13:15.170 --> 00:13:16.170
- - CHONDA: WE CAN BE ACTORS AND
- 00:13:16.170 --> 00:13:17.200
- COMEDIANS AND TEACHERS AND
- 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:19.230
- POLICEMEN, AND WE CAN BE CHURCH
- 00:13:19.230 --> 00:13:22.000
- PEOPLE, AND RIGHT NOW, ABOVE ALL
- 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.110
- 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
- 00:13:30.250 --> 00:13:32.140
- KINDS OF COLORS, AND UNDER THE
- 00:13:32.140 --> 00:13:34.280
- UMBRELLA OF WHO HE IS, WE ARE
- 00:13:34.280 --> 00:13:37.140
- ONE.
- 00:13:37.140 --> 00:13:39.030
- AND IT'S NOT THAT WE ALL BLEED
- 00:13:39.030 --> 00:13:40.250
- RED.
- 00:13:40.250 --> 00:13:42.150
- IT'S THAT CHRIST BLED FOR ALL OF
- 00:13:42.150 --> 00:13:43.140
- US.
- 00:13:43.140 --> 00:13:44.270
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:13:46.130 --> 00:13:49.130
- - CLIFTON: WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
- 00:13:49.130 --> 00:13:50.210
- 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
- 00:15:52.160 --> 00:15:53.200
- DEPRESSION AND ADDICTION, AND,
- 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:56.000
- YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME YOU TURN ON
- 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:56.270
- THE TELEVISION, ANOTHER ONE OF
- 00:15:56.270 --> 00:15:58.120
- US CRAZY COMEDIANS HAVE DONE
- 00:15:58.120 --> 00:15:59.180
- SOMETHIN' CRAZY, AND SO, YOU
- 00:16:01.010 --> 00:16:04.010
- KNOW, WE'RE PRONE TO LOVE THE
- 00:16:04.010 --> 00:16:05.100
- LAUGHTER, AND THERE ARE TIMES
- 00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:06.110
- WHEN I DON'T FEEL FUNNY, AND THE
- 00:16:06.110 --> 00:16:07.210
- GREAT THING IS I DON'T HAVE TO
- 00:16:07.210 --> 00:16:09.170
- FEEL FUNNY BECAUSE THE JOY OF
- 00:16:09.170 --> 00:16:11.110
- THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH.
- 00:16:11.110 --> 00:16:13.200
- - CLIFTON: OH, HALLELUJAH!
- 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:14.160
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:16:15.130 --> 00:16:18.130
- - CHONDA: AND YOU KNOW,
- 00:16:18.130 --> 00:16:19.280
- SOMETIMES I DO GRIEVE FOR
- 00:16:19.280 --> 00:16:21.250
- THE COMICS OUT THERE THAT ARE
- 00:16:21.250 --> 00:16:22.230
- BEAUTIFUL AT THE CRAFT, AND
- 00:16:22.230 --> 00:16:23.270
- PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING AND HAVIN' A
- 00:16:23.270 --> 00:16:25.120
- WONDERFUL TIME, AND I GRIEVE FOR
- 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.150
- THEM BECAUSE I THINK, WHEN YOU
- 00:16:27.150 --> 00:16:28.220
- GO HOME, THERE'S STILL A DEEP
- 00:16:28.220 --> 00:16:29.190
- SADNESS.
- 00:16:29.190 --> 00:16:31.270
- THERE IS A DARKNESS.
- 00:16:31.270 --> 00:16:33.170
- THERE IS SOMETHIN' YOU'RE
- 00:16:33.170 --> 00:16:34.060
- CLAMORING FOR, AND WHEN I GO
- 00:16:34.060 --> 00:16:36.020
- HOME, I'M STILL GRINNIN' AND
- 00:16:36.020 --> 00:16:36.270
- LAUGHIN' AND SMILIN' BECAUSE GOD
- 00:16:36.270 --> 00:16:38.060
- SHOWED UP, YOU KNOW?
- 00:16:38.060 --> 00:16:40.010
- AND HE GAVE ME THIS WONDERFUL,
- 00:16:40.010 --> 00:16:42.230
- FUN TIME, YOU KNOW, WITH THE
- 00:16:42.230 --> 00:16:45.020
- BODY OF CHRIST, AND LET ME TELL
- 00:16:45.020 --> 00:16:47.040
- YOU, YOU GUYS HAVE GIVEN ME
- 00:16:47.040 --> 00:16:47.290
- GREAT MATERIAL!
- 00:16:47.290 --> 00:16:49.260
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:16:49.260 --> 00:16:52.170
- THOU ART NUTS!
- 00:16:52.170 --> 00:16:53.140
- I'M JUST SAYIN'!
- 00:16:53.140 --> 00:16:56.080
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:56.280
- I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!
- 00:16:56.280 --> 00:16:57.180
- - CLIFTON: I LOVE IT!
- 00:16:57.180 --> 00:16:58.110
- OH, MY GOODNESS!
- 00:16:58.160 --> 00:17:01.180
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:17:01.180 --> 00:17:03.060
- - CHONDA: WAIT!
- 00:17:03.250 --> 00:17:06.250
- THIS IS GOIN' ON MY RESUME!
- 00:17:06.250 --> 00:17:08.290
- ALL OF A SUDDEN, CLIFTON DAVIS
- 00:17:08.290 --> 00:17:11.000
- WAS SPEECHLESS.
- 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:12.220
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:17:12.220 --> 00:17:15.140
- - CLIFTON: SO TRUE!
- 00:17:15.140 --> 00:17:16.290
- - CHONDA: IT'S GOIN' ON MY
- 00:17:16.290 --> 00:17:17.190
- RESUME!
- 00:17:17.190 --> 00:17:18.080
- I TELL YOU, CHONDA...
- 00:17:21.070 --> 00:17:24.050
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:17:24.050 --> 00:17:26.170
- I DID COMEDY FOR YEARS.
- 00:17:26.170 --> 00:17:27.050
- - CHONDA: I KNOW!
- 00:17:27.050 --> 00:17:28.030
- - CLIFTON: WHEN I HAD TO, I WAS
- 00:17:31.180 --> 00:17:32.100
- FUNNY, BUT I WAS A SCRIPT
- 00:17:32.100 --> 00:17:33.080
- COMEDIAN.
- 00:17:33.080 --> 00:17:35.040
- - CHONDA: YEAH, YEAH, THAT'S
- 00:17:35.040 --> 00:17:35.270
- GOOD!
- 00:17:35.270 --> 00:17:36.160
- - CLIFTON: I DIDN'T DO
- 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:37.100
- STAND-UP.
- 00:17:37.100 --> 00:17:38.090
- THE SCARIEST JOB IN SHOW
- 00:17:38.090 --> 00:17:39.100
- BUSINESS IS STAND-UP COMEDY.
- 00:17:39.100 --> 00:17:41.190
- - CHONDA: YEAH, 'CAUSE YOU
- 00:17:41.190 --> 00:17:42.130
- STAND UP ALONE!
- 00:17:42.130 --> 00:17:43.190
- - CLIFTON: THAT'S RIGHT!
- 00:17:43.190 --> 00:17:44.110
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:17:44.110 --> 00:17:46.070
- EVEN IN CHRISTIAN COMEDY
- 00:17:46.070 --> 00:17:48.010
- 'CAUSE SOMETIMES CHRISTIANS
- 00:17:48.010 --> 00:17:49.100
- CAN BE THE WORST
- 00:17:49.100 --> 00:17:50.010
- AUDIENCE EVER!
- 00:17:50.010 --> 00:17:51.010
- - CHONDA: OH, ARE YOU KIDDING
- 00:17:51.010 --> 00:17:51.230
- ME!
- 00:17:51.230 --> 00:17:52.050
- I DON'T GET HECKLED.
- 00:17:52.050 --> 00:17:54.120
- I GET E-MAILS THAT I'M GOIN' TO
- 00:17:54.120 --> 00:17:55.040
- HELL.
- 00:17:55.040 --> 00:17:55.130
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:57.030
- I WOULD RATHER YA JUST
- 00:17:57.030 --> 00:17:57.210
- HECKLE ME, OKAY?
- 00:17:57.210 --> 00:17:58.260
- JUST HECKLE ME.
- 00:17:58.260 --> 00:17:59.190
- I DON'T NEED THE SCRIPTURE
- 00:17:59.190 --> 00:18:00.290
- VERSE.
- 00:18:00.290 --> 00:18:02.000
- I GET IT FROM MY MAMA, YOU KNOW?
- 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.070
- - CLIFTON: IT'S THE SCARIEST
- 00:18:03.070 --> 00:18:04.090
- THING.
- 00:18:04.090 --> 00:18:05.190
- - CHONDA: IT IS SCARY!
- 00:18:05.190 --> 00:18:06.070
- - CLIFTON: SO I LOVE DOING
- 00:18:06.070 --> 00:18:07.030
- COMEDY.
- 00:18:07.030 --> 00:18:07.250
- 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,
- 00:18:14.070 --> 00:18:17.020
- 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!
- 00:18:23.090 --> 00:18:25.150
- - CHONDA: AW, THANK YOU VERY
- 00:18:25.150 --> 00:18:26.100
- MUCH!
- 00:18:26.100 --> 00:18:27.110
- YOU KNOW, I LOVE-- THERE ARE A
- 00:18:27.110 --> 00:18:28.240
- LOT OF ASPECTS TO COMEDY.
- 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:30.200
- YOU DON'T HAVE TO JUST DO
- 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:31.090
- STAND-UP.
- 00:18:31.090 --> 00:18:31.240
- THERE'S IMPROV.
- 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:33.070
- THERE'S COMEDIC ROLES IN MOVIES,
- 00:18:33.070 --> 00:18:35.120
- 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
- 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:41.100
- I STILL LOVE CLIMBIN' ON MY BUS
- 00:18:41.100 --> 00:18:42.270
- AND GOIN' ON TOUR AND GOIN' FROM
- 00:18:42.270 --> 00:18:44.050
- CITY TO CITY.
- 00:18:44.050 --> 00:18:45.270
- IT'S STILL MY FAVORITE THING TO
- 00:18:45.270 --> 00:18:46.290
- DO, AND WITHOUT COMEDY, LET'S BE
- 00:18:46.290 --> 00:18:48.030
- HONEST.
- 00:18:48.030 --> 00:18:48.270
- 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.
- 00:18:57.240 --> 00:18:59.260
- I GOT AN AWARD NOT LONG AGO AS
- 00:18:59.260 --> 00:19:01.170
- THE MOST AWARDED FEMALE COMIC IN
- 00:19:01.170 --> 00:19:03.200
- HISTORY.
- 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.000
- - 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
- 00:19:24.210 --> 00:19:26.090
- 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
- 00:22:56.130 --> 00:22:57.110
- A LOT OF PEOPLE IN MY PAST TO
- 00:22:57.130 --> 00:23:00.150
- CHANNEL.
- 00:23:00.150 --> 00:23:01.080
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:23:01.090 --> 00:23:04.090
- THERE'S ONE IN EVERY CHURCH!
- 00:23:04.090 --> 00:23:05.270
- COME ON, TELL THE TRUTH!
- 00:23:05.270 --> 00:23:06.240
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:07.260
- - 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
- 00:23:20.070 --> 00:23:23.040
- WHAT'S GOIN' ON IN OUR COUNTRY,
- 00:23:23.040 --> 00:23:25.060
- AND I THINK JESUS, WHEN HE SAID
- 00:23:25.060 --> 00:23:27.000
- NOT TO THE ROCK STAR, NOT TO THE
- 00:23:29.120 --> 00:23:30.080
- ORGANIZATIONS, HE SAID TO THE
- 00:23:30.080 --> 00:23:31.100
- 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?
- 00:23:39.140 --> 00:23:42.010
- WHAT HE CHARGED THE CHURCH TO
- 00:23:42.010 --> 00:23:42.220
- DO, WHAT DID WE DO?
- 00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:43.150
- DID WE BUILD A GREAT PRAISE
- 00:23:43.150 --> 00:23:45.010
- BAND, OR DID WE FEED THE
- 00:23:45.010 --> 00:23:46.010
- HOMELESS?
- 00:23:46.010 --> 00:23:47.120
- [CHONDA GASPS] OOH...
- 00:23:47.120 --> 00:23:48.100
- - CLIFTON: OH-OH, YOU PREACHIN'
- 00:23:48.100 --> 00:23:49.200
- NOW, CHONDA.
- 00:23:50.010 --> 00:23:53.010
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:23:53.010 --> 00:23:54.240
- - CHONDA: YEAH, AND THE PRAISE
- 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:56.070
- BANDS ARE GREAT.
- 00:23:56.070 --> 00:23:57.150
- 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'
- 00:23:59.250 --> 00:24:02.040
- 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'.
- 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.080
- - CLIFTON: YEAH.
- 00:24:18.080 --> 00:24:18.230
- - CHONDA: YEAH.
- 00:24:18.230 --> 00:24:19.160
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:20.070
- - CLIFTON: CHONDA, WHAT ADVICE
- 00:24:20.070 --> 00:24:22.170
- WOULD YOU GIVE TO PEOPLE TO SAY,
- 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:26.000
- "YES" TO GOD, NO MATTER WHAT?
- 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:28.000
- - 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."
- 00:24:34.290 --> 00:24:35.140
- 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.
- 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:46.270
- I FOUND CONFIRMATION IN THE
- 00:24:46.270 --> 00:24:47.190
- 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.
- 00:24:52.170 --> 00:24:54.260
- - CLIFTON: AMEN,
- 00:24:54.260 --> 00:24:57.140
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:24:57.140 --> 00:24:58.240
- I DIDN'T ALWAYS SAY, "YES," TO
- 00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:59.150
- GOD.
- 00:24:59.150 --> 00:25:00.200
- - 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!
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- THERE'S SO MUCH I WANNA LEARN
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- ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF YOUR LIVES.
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- I WANNA TAKE JUST A MOMENT TO
- 00:46:23.160 --> 00:46:25.170
- TALK TO AIMEE ABOUT YOUR
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- 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
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- CAREER IN ORDER TO SUPPORT HIS
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- MINISTRY, OR WERE YOU ABLE TO
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- 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
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- 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.
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- - AIMEE: YES, I SAY, "YES," TO
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- 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
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- SEMINARY, ATTICUS WAS GETTING
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- 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
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- JOBS AS I COULD, AND THAT MEANT
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- RETOOLING MY THOUGHTS ABOUT A
- 00:47:53.260 --> 00:47:56.260
- CAREER, SO THINKING DIFFERENTLY,
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- USING, YOU KNOW, GOD'S GIFTS IN
- 00:48:01.150 --> 00:48:04.150
- THE WAY THAT HE GAVE THEM TO ME:
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- 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
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- THE OPERA COMPANY THAT WAS THERE
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- IN MILWAUKEE, SO THAT WORKED OUT
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- BEAUTIFULLY.
- 00:48:22.050 --> 00:48:25.050
- AND THEN, WHEN I WAS SINGING
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- WITH THAT OPERA COMPANY AND
- 00:48:27.180 --> 00:48:29.100
- TEACHING AT THE CONSERVATORY
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- THERE, I MET SOMEONE WHO WAS A
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- COMPOSER WHO COMPOSED AN OPERA,
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- A ONE-WOMAN OPERA, FOR ME, SO
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- THAT WORKED OUT BEAUTIFULLY.
- 00:48:39.010 --> 00:48:41.110
- SO CHRIST WAS WORKING IN SO MANY
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- DIFFERENT WAYS, EVEN BECAUSE I,
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- YOU KNOW, JUST KEPT SERVING HIM,
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- AND I THINK, ALL TOLD, I THINK I
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- WORKED FIVE JOBS DURING
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- SEMINARY!
- 00:48:53.070 --> 00:48:55.240
- - CLIFTON: TALK ABOUT SAYING,
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- "YES," TO GOD!
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- - 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
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- SOMETHING I REALLY WANNA GRASP.
- 00:49:04.130 --> 00:49:06.000
- YOU SAID, "YES," TO GOD, AND
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- YOUR HELPMATE, YOUR EQUAL, YOUR
- 00:49:08.010 --> 00:49:10.070
- CALLED PARTNER IN LIFE, SAID,
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- "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
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- 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
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- COULD NOT HAVE POSSIBLY
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- FORESEEN!
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- - 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
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- AS A BODY OF BELIEVERS.
- 00:49:33.120 --> 00:49:36.120
- FOLLOW WHAT GOD SAYS TO DO, AND
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- HE WILL WORK EVERYTHING ELSE
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- OUT!
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- HE WILL!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- - 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
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- 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]
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- CAME TO BE PART OF THAT PROJECT,
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- AND THEY WERE MOVING STORIES,
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- AND EACH ONE OF THEM FELT A
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- CONNECTION TO THE PROPERTY, A
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- CONNECTION TO THESE FIELDS OF
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- FAITH.
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- - CLIFTON: WHEN IS THIS FILM
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- GOING TO BE RELEASED?
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- DO YOU KNOW YET?
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- - MICHAEL: AUGUST 25TH.
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- - CLIFTON: AUGUST 25TH.
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- WE TYPICALLY DON'T GIVE A DATE,
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- BUT ON THIS CASE, I THINK WE
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- WILL.
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- THIS FILM IS A MUST-SEE.
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- - AIMEE: YES!
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- IT'S AN EVIDENCE OF FAITH IN GOD
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- AT WORK AND A TREMENDOUS
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- TESTIMONY TO YOUR LIVES AND HOW
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- YOU HAVE POSITIVELY IMPACTED THE
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- WORLD, RIGHT WHERE YOU WERE.
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- MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU
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- EACH AND EVERY DAY THROUGHOUT
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- YOUR MINISTRY.
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- MIKE SPURLOCK, AIMEE SPURLOCK!
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- LET'S HEAR IT FOR THEM!
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- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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- - MICHAEL: THANK YOU, CLIFTON.
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- - AIMEE: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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- GOD BLESS YOU.
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- - CLIFTON: THANK YOU!
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- WE'RE COMING TO THE END OF
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- ANOTHER SHOW, AND I, FOR ONE,
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- AM ALWAYS HAPPY WHEN I THINK
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- I'M GONNA HOST, AND I END
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- UP GETTING FED.
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- IT'S LIKE I'M SITTING AT A FEAST
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- THAT I DIDN'T EXPECT, AND I GET
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- TO OVEREAT SPIRITUAL FOOD!
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- I'M NOT GONNA BELCH...
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- ...BUT I HOPE THAT YOU'VE
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- BEEN FED AS WELL.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE
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- YOU'VE MET HERE HAVE
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- TOUCHED SO MANY, AND WE WANNA
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- ENCOURAGE YOU, IN YOUR OWN WAY,
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- TO SAY, "YES," TO GOD.
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- GOD BLESS YOU, AND THANK YOU
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