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Uplift: Personal journey filled with warmth about a husband-and-wife team who founded homeless shelter in Pickens County, South Carolina. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: your show started. My guess is.
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  Speaker 2: Two of them, husband and wife tandem got two of
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  Speaker 2: them found it the first and only homeless shelter in
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  Speaker 2: Pickens County, South Carolina. Their Black Leg nonprofit that serves
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  Speaker 2: fifty to sixty individuals daily with shelter meals and the Central.
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  Speaker 1: Care, all free of charge.
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  Speaker 2: Their journey of faith, resilience, and service has been recognized
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  Speaker 2: by local and state leaders and honored both of them
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  Speaker 2: with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. Let's hear their inspirational
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  Speaker 2: story and how their faith and hard work is changing lives.
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  Speaker 2: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass Tracy and Sunshine Gan.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Dean, I'm award winning baker.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm a ward winning baker. This is what I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna do. I've done this a long time, y'all tell
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  Speaker 2: me a day. I'm gonna come down there, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring some of my desserts I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the pineapp upside down cake. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about Jeremy Cockley cake I'm talking about I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: peach cobbler I'm talking about I'm gonna see y'all pictures too.
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  Speaker 2: When I ain't see y'all picture. Let y'all know this
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  Speaker 2: is what I do. Okay, this is what I do.
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  Speaker 2: Because when I saw this, because I did it for
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  Speaker 2: a foundation, a shelter in Mississippi, they asked me like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I shocked, shock flew down there, baked it all in
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  Speaker 2: their kitchen, which I might do down there for y'all might
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  Speaker 2: just come down there and bake it all at your
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  Speaker 2: kitchen and it's all.
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  Speaker 1: It's all. It'd be easy for me to do it
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  Speaker 1: that way too. But I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: Before the summer's out, y'all will see my face and
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  Speaker 2: I'll be coming down to Pickings County, South Carolina, and
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  Speaker 2: I will feed those.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty to sixty people. Now after I leave, they gonna
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  Speaker 1: be mad because there.
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  Speaker 3: Right right every day.
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  Speaker 2: But I would do that money because when you do,
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  Speaker 2: when you do guard to work and do blessing it
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  Speaker 2: because I do a lot of work you're doing with the.
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  Speaker 1: Homeless experience is not east.
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  Speaker 2: It's like these It's almost seems like a mont you
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  Speaker 2: can't climb. It's a mon you can't climb because you
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  Speaker 2: you We want them to see the opportunity, but they
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  Speaker 2: don't see it. But that's my version of it. Talk
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  Speaker 2: about let's talk about it started with you, sunshine, how
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  Speaker 2: you get in this business? And how did you meet
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  Speaker 2: this handsome guy with this Michael Jordan cap on his
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  Speaker 2: name Tracy.
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  Speaker 3: We met as teenagers. So yeah, we've been together a
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  Speaker 3: long time. But our story started out kind of rocking.
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  Speaker 3: We got married young.
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  Speaker 4: I was eighteen, two weeks before I was about to
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  Speaker 4: turn nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: He was twenty when we got married.
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  Speaker 4: Just a couple of years of our marriage was really rocky,
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  Speaker 4: ed up, splitting up, and we were separated for eight years.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's not split job, woul, y'all separate. Now let's
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  Speaker 2: get to you, Tracy. Tracy, you got Michael Jordan's ken.
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  Speaker 2: You play basketball, brother, I asked you.
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  Speaker 5: That's the main part of the store. See, all my
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  Speaker 5: life it was all about basketball. You know, I ain't
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  Speaker 5: my player for just to go to the pros, go
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  Speaker 5: college and go priy. I haven't played against Kevin Gordon
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  Speaker 5: and that's one of my highlights on my life. But
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  Speaker 5: down here that it wasn't no studying, no books, It wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: My focus was on basketball. So my twelfth grade year
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  Speaker 5: I banged my New York and basketball wasn't in a
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  Speaker 5: picture no more. But since I spent all them years
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  Speaker 5: focused on basketball, I had nothing to fall off from.
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  Speaker 6: Fall back home to the streets. That's all I knew
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  Speaker 6: was the streets.
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  Speaker 5: So things things had gotten bad, And I knew she
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  Speaker 5: was the one because first I met her doing like
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  Speaker 5: a shootout. It was a shootout, and I lost my
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  Speaker 5: gold caps and I went back to go found my
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  Speaker 5: gold caps. And I've seen Sunshine walking up the street
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  Speaker 5: and it was like a little at first sight.
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  Speaker 2: Lo, lo, lord, they need to stop. This man just
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  Speaker 2: said it was a shootout, he lost his gold cap.
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  Speaker 2: Then he says, Sunshine just calmly walking up the street. See, wow,
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  Speaker 2: this story ain't adding up now either that there is
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  Speaker 2: a file of the neighbor yours. Y'all in and sit
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  Speaker 2: on my ducking bullets, because I'm gonna let y'all know
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  Speaker 2: such time as an attractive drummer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell y'all right now. So sometimes walking down.
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  Speaker 2: The street, bullets flying everywhere, he's looking for his gold caps.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was the day after.
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  Speaker 1: I don't there.
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  Speaker 2: After, I don't even go down that street for a more.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see her first was a first, he did,
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  Speaker 5: you can't know we've been cod block and going on.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, right, But yeah, I knew she was doing one. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So let's get your story straight.
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  Speaker 2: Because Rachean got out of her line because it was
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  Speaker 2: the next day suns Tinne was walking down the street.
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  Speaker 1: But the way you told that story, though, Tracy, it's
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  Speaker 1: all like, man, I.
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  Speaker 2: Lost my good cap sometimes sometimes walking down the street.
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  Speaker 1: Slide fast bullets that for me for they proof, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I saw. Continue, Tracy, you too much.
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  Speaker 5: Boy, So you know the day for a while and
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  Speaker 5: this I knew what she was doing. One like me
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  Speaker 5: and my homeboy got into it with somebody and we
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  Speaker 5: I think I thought we almost killed the dude.
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  Speaker 6: So we was on a run from.
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  Speaker 5: The police and the other dudes, and I caught Sunshine
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  Speaker 5: and she came and scooped me up and.
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  Speaker 6: In the country, so I knew she was down for that, right.
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  Speaker 2: What i'ma just educate y'all. Now, See, this is our country,
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  Speaker 2: he is see taking county is the country. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what part of the country she went that
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  Speaker 2: he calls the country, but I can assure you.
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  Speaker 1: It gets real dark that night. I'm from the country.
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  Speaker 1: I know what country looks like.
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  Speaker 2: You got our house, you got a little thing next
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  Speaker 2: to the bed. That's what he talked about country. I
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  Speaker 2: know he talked about y'all. I think I got to
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  Speaker 2: educate my people because they ain't never.
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  Speaker 1: Had no country people like y'all on my call before now.
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  Speaker 2: But but we having fun here because of the fact that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you have to have to uplift people. You
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  Speaker 1: have to have a sense of humor because there's so
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  Speaker 1: much darkness in what y'all do.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what motivated your son Shine as well as Tracy
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  Speaker 2: to pursue this path because I see homeless people all
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  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one thing that I didn't mention earlier.
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  Speaker 4: While we were separated, there was a short time frame
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  Speaker 4: where I was homeless, and but luckily I had my
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  Speaker 4: brother that I could go with and you know, with
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  Speaker 4: him probably for about a year until I got back
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  Speaker 4: on my feet. Then I moved in with my mother, wow,
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  Speaker 4: and then ended up getting you know, my own place back.
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  Speaker 4: So that's pretty much my touch on, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, being connected with homelessness.
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  Speaker 4: Now, his story is a lot deeper as far as
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  Speaker 4: homelessness is involved.
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  Speaker 5: We moved to Anser and All and moved answer, and
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  Speaker 5: I was doing good. I had got a good job,
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  Speaker 5: were doing good. God bless us with the brand new trailer.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we were doing well for ourself. And then
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  Speaker 5: my nephew got murdered. There was they were trying to
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  Speaker 5: get I think they were trying to get me. But
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  Speaker 5: since I moved, that got my nephew. Something in me snapped.
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  Speaker 5: And when it snapped, I went back to the streets
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  Speaker 5: and something. The first time I got my job broke
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  Speaker 5: and my wife next time something happened like that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gone.
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  Speaker 6: Well about a couple months toobout.
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  Speaker 5: A year later, I tried to got shot up, and
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  Speaker 5: that's when Sunshine she left. I did this for a while,
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  Speaker 5: but all y'all men know, man, when that woman leave,
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  Speaker 5: boy ay, everything falls apart. I'm gonna jump all the
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  Speaker 5: way to the park. I was on the run from
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  Speaker 5: the police. I was facing twenty five to life. That
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  Speaker 5: what make me homeless?
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  Speaker 6: When you man, When I was out there doing my thing,
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  Speaker 6: I would help a lot of people, and I had
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  Speaker 6: a lot of homeboys.
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  Speaker 5: But when you on the run, you find out who
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  Speaker 5: really is your friends, You really know who got your back.
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  Speaker 5: And I was only for eight years running from the
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  Speaker 5: police and then one night of God just said, man,
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  Speaker 5: turn yourself in.
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  Speaker 3: So police station turned myself in.
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  Speaker 5: I went to prison, I got out and I went
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  Speaker 5: I went to a homeless shelter.
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  Speaker 6: I went there for.
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  Speaker 5: Two years and it taught me how to turn my
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  Speaker 5: life around instead of being a street person.
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  Speaker 6: Turned my life towards God.
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  Speaker 5: About two weeks for it was a two a two
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  Speaker 5: year program and back to the end, I started reaching
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  Speaker 5: out for Sunshine. I ain't talked to him eight years,
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  Speaker 5: so I couldn't find her. So about two weeks before graduation,
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  Speaker 5: she called me and I'm like, man, as long as
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  Speaker 5: you don't live in Piggins County, man, we can get
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  Speaker 5: back together.
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  Speaker 6: But she lived right in Piggins County. She ain't go nowhere, nowhere,
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  Speaker 6: so now so then, uh, yeah, I am. I know.
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  Speaker 3: God.
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  Speaker 5: God gave me a vision while I was in prison.
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  Speaker 5: He gonna use what I went through to help other people.
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  Speaker 5: But he didn't give me no instruction. So we came
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  Speaker 5: back to Piggins County. We opened up a couple of
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  Speaker 5: thriller stores. Uh, but nobody went and licensed me because
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  Speaker 5: of my background. Nobody church Maacht likened me to preach,
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  Speaker 5: but nobody told me to. This man came to us
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  Speaker 5: sore and he he brought me in. When we went
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  Speaker 5: to his church with four people and we my wife,
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  Speaker 5: his wife, him, oh and our and our child was there.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: He groomed me for about two years and then he
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  Speaker 5: passed away and gave us the church. When he gave
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  Speaker 5: us the church, my first my first two sermons, we
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  Speaker 5: had this homeless people coming to our shelf. It was
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  Speaker 5: like during the cold season and we rolled around piggs hound,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, with no homelean sheept to know where, so
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  Speaker 5: we allowed them to stay inside of the church. Well,
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  Speaker 5: we our church is old, I'm talking about old Catholic church,
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  Speaker 5: so we have no sprinkling system. So somebody told on
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  Speaker 5: us and they told us we couldn't do it no more.
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  Speaker 5: So God say build it yourself. But this time, you
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  Speaker 5: know how hard it is for a convid to get
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  Speaker 5: a job. I found and dollar tree man, I told you,
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  Speaker 5: and God told me to quit, and I didn't.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't up getting robbed in this day.
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  Speaker 5: So I said, I'm I'm with God all the way.
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  Speaker 6: And that's just part of the story right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's now, that's the word is said. That's a hell
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  Speaker 2: of a story. At this part of the story, you
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  Speaker 2: need to stop. I'm told, Glad, I'm telling something.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm told Glad, I ain't rob y'all be laughing. So
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  Speaker 2: if I was around y'all, in fact, when I come
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  Speaker 2: down there, be ready to laugh, be ready to laugh.
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  Speaker 2: You not. I am coming down there, and I am
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  Speaker 2: going to bait. I am going to personally serve my
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  Speaker 2: desserts to your crew.
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  Speaker 3: We would love to have you.
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  Speaker 1: Just you're just you, just to take a gas away.
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  Speaker 2: So like I like, I'm stressing myself out, and like
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  Speaker 2: I'm driving to California. Okay, then I have to think
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Then I don't know. I see y'all.
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  Speaker 2: But with this story that you tell, I won't to
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  Speaker 2: get to you to trace a lot of violence, man,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of violence, and you lose a relative, but
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  Speaker 2: you still got this personality of up left and positivity.
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  Speaker 2: How have you not allowed those setbacks stop you from
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  Speaker 2: being the person you are today?
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  Speaker 5: God shows me every day what he did for me.
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  Speaker 5: He showed me his love is grace and his mercy.
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  Speaker 5: One sect one you don't understand. Oh my angle management
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  Speaker 5: came out. I was in prison, Okay, I mean years
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  Speaker 5: in person, I mean years were you're in prison two years.
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  Speaker 5: They dropped mostly all the charges because I turned myself in,
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  Speaker 5: but I was in probation while I was doing it.
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  Speaker 3: My roommate had nine hundred and ninety nine years.
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  Speaker 1: Straight did jail two years.
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  Speaker 2: Man across from here and damn there a thousand years
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  Speaker 2: because I know you didn't tell that man you was
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  Speaker 2: in there for two years.
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  Speaker 6: No, no.
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  Speaker 5: Said, wait from go to church, go to church every day,
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  Speaker 5: go to school.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't see everyone they do.
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  Speaker 7: Man, Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with
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  Speaker 2: There was something staying interesting to me about the church
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  Speaker 2: and you was bringing you bring homeless people in the church,
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  Speaker 2: and they say that was against the rule.
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  Speaker 1: Explain that to me, because I thought that's what the church.
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  Speaker 1: Purpose of the church was to share the dity were.
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  Speaker 6: Different, We were very different.
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  Speaker 5: We hain't got this couple in right and downstairs we
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  Speaker 5: had a kitchen area and you know.
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  Speaker 6: What I'm saying, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 5: So we let them, we allowed them to stay down
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  Speaker 5: there and we started getting back on their feet too.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they got their call, they got a nice job,
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  Speaker 6: they got a call.
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  Speaker 5: They were going through the process, and then somebody heard
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  Speaker 5: about it and we reported it because we because the
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  Speaker 5: church wasn't built for that.
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  Speaker 4: And we don't have a sprinkler system. Yeah you know
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  Speaker 4: one of those sprinkler systems and our church.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't have that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, cool, So it's like basically co violations.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Then we found the building, and then where the building
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  Speaker 5: was it they said they ain't want that kind of
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  Speaker 5: activity in their neighborhoods where they took.
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  Speaker 6: That building from us. But then we were finding blessed.
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  Speaker 2: For one right, So there, that's really good because I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to break down because people hearing certain things that
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  Speaker 2: make stereotype. But really y'all are doing a good deed,
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  Speaker 2: but y'all violating codes right right.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah we did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now you you you know, they can't be everywhere
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  Speaker 2: because everybody don't want a shelter. Okay, you can just
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  Speaker 2: open the shelter over here, people go. Those type people
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  Speaker 2: we don't want near our business or near our homes.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go through the process of finding the shelter,
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  Speaker 2: getting the shelter approve, and then gathering funds to keep
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  Speaker 2: it open. Let's let's find that shelter first, Sunshine.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So, like my husband said, the first building that
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  Speaker 3: we got is exactly what you just described.
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  Speaker 4: It was in the neighborhood and people heard about it
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  Speaker 4: and they were like, no, we don't We don't want
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  Speaker 4: to shelter in our neighborhood. We were still searching for
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  Speaker 4: another building. We had a family friend come to us
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  Speaker 4: and he owned a lot of properties, and so he said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think I got a building that wo
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  Speaker 4: worked good, you know, for a homeless shelter for y'all.
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  Speaker 4: So we went and looked at it, and that building
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  Speaker 4: needed a lot of work.
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  Speaker 3: It was really big.
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  Speaker 4: It was about six thousand square feet upstairs got like
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  Speaker 4: two thousand square feet, but it was completely did It
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  Speaker 4: was like just a big open warehouse face, no walls,
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  Speaker 4: no flooring, no ceiling anything.
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  Speaker 3: It needed a lot of work.
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  Speaker 4: So we were sitting there thinking, how in the world
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  Speaker 4: are we going to get this building, you know, up
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  Speaker 4: to code to become my own in a shelter. So
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  Speaker 4: I started reaching.
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  Speaker 3: Out to people. That's one thing I do.
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  Speaker 4: I stayed on the grind, reaching out and especially once
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  Speaker 4: my husband told me his vision on what he wanted
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  Speaker 4: to do as far as opening a shelter. So I
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  Speaker 4: started contacting companies, contractors, CEOs and telling them, you know
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  Speaker 4: what our plans are and that we got this building
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: that needs a lot of work. Before I knew it,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: the project took off. We had all the companies pouring
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: into us. Lows came in and started building walls on
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: one side. Home depot came in, started pouring in money,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Churches came together and started putting down flooring, ceiling, and
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: before we knew it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Took two years to get done. But before we knew it,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: we we did it.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: To build a new hours take about six months to
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a year.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Now, okay, so do y'all did the wows two years?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: That's pretty quick. That's pretty quick.
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  Speaker 8: With no funding, with no fund and reduced some fighting
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: to hold off, fighting, hold fight because nobody they painted
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: the picture is they didn't have a problem.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, and so we had to go up and
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: getting a lot of people.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: But when we finally got the word to open, the
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: pandemic hit that same day.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, wow, it took us two years, It.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Did pant did come along.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: It was a Friday when we got our certificate of
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: occupancy to open.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: At least you got that. But God was good to
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: give you that. Now, if the party a hit and
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you didn't get the certificate, even in the summer time
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: for you looking around for a certificate.
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  Speaker 6: But the people don't get twisted. We're not a big corporation, right.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: So when we was building a shelf, it was me
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: and my wife doing the trips to loads, get the pipes,
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: to get the flooring, to get it was me and
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: my wife doing it because thed Blessings with all a
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: boss truck. So everything that we did, it would just
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  Speaker 5: meet in my own wife and it caused her to
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: have a lot of health problems, right.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I've got a congestive heart failure.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Now, okay, so but how you what you're doing to
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: that is that you're more sleep or you're taking pills
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: for that, sunshine.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I'm taking pills for it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I've actually hospitalized twice since twenty twenty three.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I'm on medication.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, we all well be down there to see you. Okay,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: give your hugs because I'm good at that. I got
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: six sisters. Now, so Jeorge, what I or your wife?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Don't be dunking on my head now, I know you're
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: you're being shooting up even I come back, I got
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: shot out of Pickings counted. You thought I was trying
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: to play on your wife. I'm just ugging though.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: That's all.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I brought Tim Kinks down there. Come on now, tell
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: y'all watch Tracy. Yeah to watch Tracy man.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: He be waking over there, man rolling dice in the corner.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about this award though, because you know, I've
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: been blessed to get a presidential lifetime ate the ward
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: sitting off, I've gotten two of them. At first, when
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I got my first one, I didn't. I couldn't believe
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: that somebody nominated me won. And the second that I
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: got it, okay, I got it for real presidential lifetime achievement.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: The ward okay, sitting on my office on my wall.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Now we down there at Pinkings Pickings, Pickings County, South Carolina.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: You know, looking at your life, you know YO came together,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: separated Tracy two years and concertrated, sat across the man
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: with a thousand years.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: You know, shootouts, did the wrong things, more wrong things
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: you did right in your early years. Yes, I can
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: say that.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I can say that, and such show you don't getting
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that with it, hormlest lifestyle.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And now y'all gonna get the president.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Y'all got it. I'm not gonna get got it. Talk
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: about that journey such and then I want to hear
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: from country over there.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I'm calling them country traits. Talk to me such.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: It was kind of with our commendation letters, started like
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: with local government, started like with our local mayors.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Then it went up to like our local governors.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: And then with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, I'm like, wow, okay,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: so yeah, I think.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: You really made it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: But I don't know.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: It was just it was it was shocking I put
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: it that way.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Well, it ain't shocking to me because you deserve it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: And that young man sitting right next to you, Tracy,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: you know because you know, because Tracy know what, Because
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of things are expected of people, and then
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: when they fall off that track, then people don't expect
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: anything of them. You a man if a faith, hard work,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: and understand set back. You know, you because in some
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: way you saw the lords of life because you get.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Behind the brow. I got a brother, or that a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: brother who was behind broad I know that.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I know that look across the other side when I
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: know that person has no rights, no more on that
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: other side. And you see that every day man at
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that homeless shelter, fifty sixty people you're feeding on a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: daily base. How do your inspirational lifestyle is told to
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: them to keep them going because you are a difference maker.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, sir, uh I stay my testimony. I don't.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: I'm not no ordinary pastor. I'm I'm not like the
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: other ones.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Man, I'm really down to earth, and I don't I
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: don't forget where I come from. I really don't. And
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I share my story to show them that if I
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: can make it, they can make it too. And it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: not about my preaching.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: It's about my walk. I walked the talking.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Times come up and I know they're watching me, but
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: get cussed out they watching me. So instead of cussing back,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: I gotta parint. So I got I got to live
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: by example because my life man, people did already talking,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: but they live differently. If I'm gonna walk this, if
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna talk this talk, I'm gonna walk it. And
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: I got to show them. Man, no matter what you've
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: been through in your life, God could take you further
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: in life if you just got to let you do that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: You to it. I can't forget where I came from. Man,
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: I'm about to do something stupid. God will remind me
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: of a cold.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Toilet right right right, well, my brother and my sister,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I want to donate one thousand dollars, thank you, thousand dollars.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you something right now, such and
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: get that W nine to me today so I can
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: have my wife process it and we put that check
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: in the mail on Tuesday morning. Okay, thousand dollars to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: your foundation. Just get that W nine to me today
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: and that that's gonna happen. And I'm gonna come down
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: there and I'm gonna bake for you, Trace.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bay for Sunshine. I'm baked for you, Tracy.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: And I think I'm just gonna I'm just gonna bring
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: it all already done. I'm gonna bring it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I would just lay my back of my truck down,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: put it all in the drive down there so we
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: can unload it all to y'all can see by work
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: and we take photos and all that good stuff.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: I just want to be gonna dolation part.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: We want to say thank you because we do not
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: charge our residents to stay there, right, And I said,
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: I don't get paid to preach. All the money go
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: towards go towards the shelter, and we really lean on God.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: And what you just did that is from God. We
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: really want to say thank you so much.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Hey man, thank you cause you know I don't get
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: by changed on all my interviews. Okay, I have to
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: be inspired to Okay, I work after my money.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just doing right.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Dow checks Okay, A thousand dollars, okay, I can do.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I buy some shoes, some clothes, get on the trip,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: go to Miami. Okay, I work hard, but I also
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: know y'all work harder. Y'all changing lives and so well,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: about thousand dollars gonna affect way more people than myself.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: But more important than two things I promise to you,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: and I can start one today. I'm gonna see you
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: those photos of those little three little the little bitty bottles.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that photo to y'all. I gotta work
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to do it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I this call got right chicks, kind of got mail
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: and eye it licks stamps.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I gotta do everything, y'all for people to work.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm ever interview y'all again, yeap
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: for me to work. I gotta bake, I gotta write
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: a check out, I gotta mail stuff, I gotta take
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: a photo. That's a lot of work for this interview, y'all.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: But thank y'all. Thank y'all for CONCERNTU.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Thank thank yous to such I thank you for contacting me, Tracy,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you for allowing me to meet you. Brother and
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: y'all beautiful couple men and uh hey man, and you
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: stay healthy, young lady, you stay healthy and uh but
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: get that information to me today. So I give my
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: wife the process it because I feel good about my
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: life to be able to position, to be any position
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: to make this type of donation.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna come down there and see you. Tracy.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: I just want to say thank you for taking the
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: time to interviews. Thank you for even paying attention to us, because,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: like you said, being from world Pickings County, and I'm.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Always telling that people were listening when somebody from the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: country said they living somebody else.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: They don't living in the country.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: That's the part of the country you don't even want
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: to go in. That's the part of the counting. You
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: have no idea where you going. Okay, word they said,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: turn right at the tree, the big oak, or the mailbox.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: If the cow is still standing there, make a left.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: The only run down born.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Make a left, and that you come to the end
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: of the road. If you see a rock, make a left.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I'll be standing there the road waving.
• 27:52
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• 27:53
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