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Charlie Wilson Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: and Gentlemen, playing arenas all over the country, selling out
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  Speaker 1: all over the country. Hit song right here number two
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  Speaker 1: on the bill Board. I'm blessed, Ladies and gentlemen, please
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  Speaker 1: walk on the phone the one and only Charlie Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: What's whatever? I'm gonna tell you something, Charlie. Man. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, let me just congratulate you on on you
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  Speaker 1: this show. Man. Um Uh, it's it's truly a blessing
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  Speaker 1: to have you out here. And and uh and people
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  Speaker 1: want to know, um, how to have a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: making money? Well, you know, do you know what, Charlie?
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  Speaker 1: The beauty of my relationship and watching you and I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about that song. I'm blessed because it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, every time I hear it, it means something
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  Speaker 1: different every time to me. And um, and you're you're
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  Speaker 1: an amazing guy man because you've seen songs and don't
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  Speaker 1: take this wrong. They they're just simple thoughts that you
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  Speaker 1: turn into magic. You know what I'm saying. And and
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed it almost, and you can tell me, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm wrong on this. You know you are highly
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  Speaker 1: successful in a group, okay, and now as an individual
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  Speaker 1: artist you far exceeded what you did as a group.
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  Speaker 1: You're now selling venues out And when I hear the
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  Speaker 1: song I'm blessed, it's almost like, um, a public acknowledgement.
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  Speaker 1: Not just you just happen to be allowing us to
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  Speaker 1: hear you sing it, but almost seems like that's a
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  Speaker 1: public acknowledgement of you, what you're telling, what God has
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  Speaker 1: done for you. And if I'm wrong, please help me
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  Speaker 1: and extend the conversation because that's where I hear every time,
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  Speaker 1: because I know I'm only sitting here because I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 1: And I know I'm blessed because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: when I wake up, God has given me another opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to do something I want to do in life. So
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  Speaker 1: if you can found on that song, man, please do
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  Speaker 1: because brother, every time I hear I'm I'm new tears man,
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  Speaker 1: because I know the journey that you've been on, and
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  Speaker 1: I know the journey it takes to stay on it
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  Speaker 1: and to build a career you build and the people
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  Speaker 1: you have around and Michael, your beautiful wife, all these people.
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  Speaker 1: It's important, man, talk to us. Charlie, thank you so much. Man.
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  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. Man. It's just it's a blessing, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, to to wake up um every single day.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a it's a blessing. And
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  Speaker 1: and I always wanted to have a song that I
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  Speaker 1: could thank God, you know, And because so many people
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  Speaker 1: have been really been trying to there's been getting me,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get me to do a gospel record for
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  Speaker 1: so many years. And I have been promising God that
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  Speaker 1: I would, I would shout him out to do something,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And uh was my baby, come on man,
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  Speaker 1: but a little Jesus in the song, come on brother,
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  Speaker 1: what's some God? It's over that, you know, first day,
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  Speaker 1: last night, Come on baby, first day, Jesus, last name Christ,
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  Speaker 1: come on now. And so I was absolutely right. I was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so many, so many, so many times people
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  Speaker 1: have asked me. So I'd said, if I can do
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  Speaker 1: the record, that I could and talk about how good
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  Speaker 1: God has been to me in some way another, and
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  Speaker 1: and still have it. You know. The R and V
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  Speaker 1: and people do with urban stations were played in gospel
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  Speaker 1: stations were played, then I want to have that kind
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  Speaker 1: of a record, and and he blessed me with that record.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not it's dedicated to you and all the
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  Speaker 1: blessing that God has continue to give us all. I
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  Speaker 1: the only one thing to ask if you just take
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  Speaker 1: a moment everything to thank God for the blessings that
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  Speaker 1: he's that He's storing up on all of us. And
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  Speaker 1: so man, I'm solely blessed. You always ask and how
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  Speaker 1: you doing up the child? I'm blessed. And how they
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  Speaker 1: say that, I've we've been saying that my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just it was just it was just so
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  Speaker 1: it was it's time for for a record like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the number one of the last week, week
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  Speaker 1: for the last a couple of weeks. You know they're
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  Speaker 1: tracking their brother. I'll be tracking it man. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just that. Man, thank you all so much for helping
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  Speaker 1: me get that to number one. And and uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a blasting man. Let me let me you just Charlie, now,
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  Speaker 1: how you how do you introduce the song in concert?
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  Speaker 1: So first of all, we're gonna talk about that tour
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  Speaker 1: Fantasia and Johnny Gil you know, I Love, Johnny Guili
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  Speaker 1: Death Phantasias. I'm sure she's still kicking off through shoes
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  Speaker 1: and then it's you. And but the thing about this day,
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  Speaker 1: how do you introduce that song in your concerts? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I just go at it. I don't even I don't
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  Speaker 1: even say another people being just amused because when they
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  Speaker 1: hear it, I don't. I don't sing the hook right
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  Speaker 1: away like like I do on the record. I just people,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll be watching people look at it, and then
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  Speaker 1: I just go off into the verses. Uh. But I
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  Speaker 1: just go right into it. Man. I used to put
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  Speaker 1: this thing all in front of it, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: I was just saying, okay, you know I already I
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  Speaker 1: testified enough. People know what to see this. Man. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as they hear the music, they go right in
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  Speaker 1: and I just go to thing. And I at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of my two year I was I was talking
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  Speaker 1: about how good I've been least God has been this,
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  Speaker 1: and God has been doing this for me, and and
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm I'm gonna see here, I'll do know
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  Speaker 1: this record right here. That's how I used to do it.
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  Speaker 1: But now I just go right into it. Man. It's
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  Speaker 1: just man, I'm blessed man, have so many people staring
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  Speaker 1: at me from so many thousands and thousands and thousands
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  Speaker 1: of see. Uh, you know, I don't say I started out,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I started out in clubs, you know, clubs
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  Speaker 1: by myself. You know, I had to I had to
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  Speaker 1: start over from the ground up, you know. I first
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  Speaker 1: I had to get off some monder the ground to
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  Speaker 1: get on top of the ground. Uh, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the floor, you know. And then uh so when
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  Speaker 1: you say the Magic CD was the first was the
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  Speaker 1: first climb out the Magic CD. And then of course
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  Speaker 1: you know, there goes my Baby, brought you all the
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  Speaker 1: way back? Correct, Well, Charlie last night my first number
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  Speaker 1: one was without you, right right right right right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was a two thousand about you. And then uh
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  Speaker 1: we went from that the childer last named Wilson and
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  Speaker 1: still one of my favorite songs Man still woman favorite
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  Speaker 1: Magic Abrica, Daver, Hocus Pokus, and then there goes my Baby.
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  Speaker 1: It's the funny part about it. I was I was
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  Speaker 1: just you know, I live in Houston and I was
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  Speaker 1: just visiting and I was used on Magic one or two.
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  Speaker 1: It's the one of another station. And that's the first
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  Speaker 1: time and you was it was on a Saturday, and
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  Speaker 1: you was doing a concert in Houston that night, and
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  Speaker 1: it was that they were in the theater. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the first time I heard that song. You're introduced it,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember I went back to Steve, I says Steve, Um,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie got a hit. Dude, he's with me. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I heard this song in Houston, and dude, I just
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  Speaker 1: heard it for the first time. This dude got a hit.
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  Speaker 1: And brother, come on, now, come on, now, get more
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  Speaker 1: than a hit. Brother. You had a career maker, man,
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  Speaker 1: and then you did the Hoodies for us. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell u some abody like a special story about
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Wilson as a man, as a performer. He heard
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  Speaker 1: his back at the Hoodies one year and we went
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  Speaker 1: in the dressing room and we we When we went
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  Speaker 1: in the dress room to tell him it was all right,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to perform, he said, I don't do
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  Speaker 1: that's because you told us it ain't about you. What
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  Speaker 1: seant ain't about you. He's about my fans. Because you
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  Speaker 1: told us. You're clearly you're cleared it up right there.
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  Speaker 1: YouTube ain't about y'all. It's about those fans, that those
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand people, it was a level thousand people waiting
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  Speaker 1: to see you. And we said, well, what you're gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: He said, get me out there, give me a chair,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do my show. Charlie Wilson, y'all performed
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  Speaker 1: for an hour and a half the Gray This concert
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life and live and never
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  Speaker 1: stood one time but to say good night. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: had a herniated this man. I I did that show.
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  Speaker 1: I had one mother next night and then I went.
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  Speaker 1: I went from there straight to Los Angeles, from the airport,
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  Speaker 1: straight to this to this to this hospital doctor and
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  Speaker 1: he put me right in and operated on my back
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  Speaker 1: the next morning. Wow, was like dude, and operated on
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  Speaker 1: my back because I couldn't walk. I totally, I couldn't walk.
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  Speaker 1: I was so hurt about said I couldn't walk, and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't. I didn't know what was wrong with me.
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  Speaker 1: And I take two steps and down I go, and
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  Speaker 1: then I know I didn't know what was going on
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  Speaker 1: with my legs. And he said, we gotta her needed dish.
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  Speaker 1: I think then in my ally on me and and
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  Speaker 1: all of that, and so he said, man, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go in and get cleared out for you.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, man, I'm not getting the operation on
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  Speaker 1: my back anyway. No stretch starts so short. He uh,
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  Speaker 1: Dr Watkins, he uh with his sad day, I have
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  Speaker 1: you walking the next morning he got. Next morning, man
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  Speaker 1: on the whole guy just stood me up. I walked
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway. I was like, wow and me. He
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  Speaker 1: told me not because did you no more shows? He said,
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  Speaker 1: He's gotta give me least like six months. I was
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  Speaker 1: like six months, man, I got no six months. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta perform in like two weeks. There you go, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. Now said now you know us, and I
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  Speaker 1: gotta pay unit since I guess you're doing. Then. I
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  Speaker 1: think about a week later, I was doing the the
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  Speaker 1: Uh it was a soul trade news, wasn't I think
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  Speaker 1: Fedric was hosting that year. And I was not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be on my feet and I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: like that out of the pit man. I was down
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  Speaker 1: the aisle and man, everybody at my chop there if
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  Speaker 1: I was mad at me on that one man, I
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  Speaker 1: was not supposed to be a Brook's outstanding down and
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  Speaker 1: what you started, uh dancing buck man? Well, I saw you.
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  Speaker 1: I know what you're crazy, but would do man? Hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about this tour right quick. Man, I know
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  Speaker 1: That's my man, he's in arenas now Johnny Gill's opening,
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  Speaker 1: which is incredible to how Johnny Gill open, that's how
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  Speaker 1: strong and this show is. Then Fantasia, then the incredible
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  Speaker 1: one and only Charlie Wilson, Charlotte Willson. Just say something
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  Speaker 1: about this show man. You know I'm gonna keep selling
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  Speaker 1: it because that's how I do it. I'm gonna put
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  Speaker 1: it on my Facebook and everybody no need to go
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  Speaker 1: see this show. But do your thing, man, tell them
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  Speaker 1: about it. Man, this show is one of the most
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  Speaker 1: incredible shows had. I'm setting out all of the arenas
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  Speaker 1: around around the country. Um, Johnny, like you said, opens
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  Speaker 1: in the Fantasia. Everybody put it on the best show
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  Speaker 1: they put on. Everybody's got the eight plus eight plus
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  Speaker 1: plus game and uh, you know, and I closed it out,
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  Speaker 1: shut it down at the end. But it's just great
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  Speaker 1: to have uh, some co stars with me and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and that's just marvelous and just love to perform,
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  Speaker 1: and and and and and love to put their best
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  Speaker 1: footfall at every single night and just try to shut
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  Speaker 1: it down every night. You know. It's just it's marvelous
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  Speaker 1: to have people like that with you, and and and
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  Speaker 1: leaving no old spars man. Everybody is putting the air
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  Speaker 1: game down, man. And I know, let me tell this
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  Speaker 1: about everybody. Okay, if you've seen Charlie Wilson before, the
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  Speaker 1: show is always different. I wanna just let you know
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  Speaker 1: that now. He don't ever come back with the exact
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  Speaker 1: same show. So you go, I see, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you need to gonna take your butt up there and
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  Speaker 1: see Charlie again, because I'm telling you he's the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: live performer. He's the consummate professional. He's about trying to
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  Speaker 1: take your money. He's about to entertain you at the
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  Speaker 1: highest level entertainment possible. He puts on the show, he
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  Speaker 1: changed his clothes his dancers changed clothes. He gets up
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  Speaker 1: there and get he sweats. He changed his colors, the
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  Speaker 1: lights change, he ain't there then he dare here magicians.
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  Speaker 1: I'm us if Charlie Wilson does a show. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to spend your money, you know black people,
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  Speaker 1: then hold on to their money. Look here, spend your
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  Speaker 1: money on something that's worth pile. Go see Charlie Wilson's
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  Speaker 1: Fantasia and Johnny gil Go to ticket mouthster right now,
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  Speaker 1: or five three thousand, one eight hundred seven four or
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  Speaker 1: five three thousand how to sell tickets and and and
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  Speaker 1: call your local radio station and tell him, bless you
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  Speaker 1: need to go back to number one. Bugging the deaf,
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  Speaker 1: bug them gospel stations, bugged them, R and B station,
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  Speaker 1: bug Ricky Smiley, bugs Stephen Harvey, bug Jfter Brown, bug
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  Speaker 1: Tom Jonna. We need to get some blessings back to
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  Speaker 1: number one. On the way you're gonna do that, Black people,
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  Speaker 1: empower yourself. This just like voting. Go out there and
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  Speaker 1: put that song back number one. Yes, sir, I love you,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Wilson, Brother, I love you, Stay strong, brother, and
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