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Bishop Ezekiel Williams stars in "Voices of Fire" on Netflix; Pastor of Faith World Ministries, Inc. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: is Bishop Ezekiel Williams. He is the pastor and founder
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Speaker 1: of Faith World Ministries in Norfolk, Virginia, and currently started
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Speaker 1: in the Netflix docuseries Voices of Fire. The six episode
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Speaker 1: series follows singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer for Royal Williams
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Speaker 1: and who is his nephew, Bishop Willims. In this core
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Speaker 1: of team influential gospel leaders venture into Hampton, Rhodes and
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Speaker 1: He's gonna tell us what happened to the roads is
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Speaker 1: all about to find undiscovered talent Please working to money
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Speaker 1: making conversations. The inspiration behind the Voices of Fire, Bishop
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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Williams. How you doing, sir? Thank you so much, sir.
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Speaker 1: I am well and glad to be here. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: first of all, I've seen the series twice. It was
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Speaker 1: when it first came out, it was trending and still
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Speaker 1: is trending on Netflix. A top top you know, you
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Speaker 1: do a top ten if you have don't have a
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Speaker 1: Netflix account. When you're parting up top ten, that means
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Speaker 1: everybody's watching it. And usually how it works is this
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Speaker 1: is a series, It's six episodes, so as people watch
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Speaker 1: another expert to go next to and it causes your
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Speaker 1: serious to trend, which bolds well because that's what Netflix want.
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Speaker 1: And Voices of Fire is um I would call like
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Speaker 1: an audio testimonial. Can I say that? I think you can?
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Speaker 1: I think I think that's that's a good, uh good
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Speaker 1: way to put it. And uh, if I had to
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Speaker 1: have a different title, the title workshop Voices of Fire,
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Speaker 1: it could have been this is my story, that could
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Speaker 1: have been the title, UM feel the voice that could be.
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Speaker 1: But the name of this series is Voices of Fire,
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Speaker 1: and that works out just fired. I'm just telling you, Bishop,
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Speaker 1: it took me on a journey and allowed me to
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Speaker 1: think about my life, think about the expectations people have
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Speaker 1: for you, for yourself, the setbacks that you had even life.
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Speaker 1: And I got emotional at times. Tell me your goal
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Speaker 1: because because you think you hit all the points with me,
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Speaker 1: that's wonderful. I am so glad you're here and just amaze,
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Speaker 1: uh that you were able to take the time to
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Speaker 1: do it twice all six episodes. Thank you so much. Listen,
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Speaker 1: we aim to touch lives. My whole goal, it's just
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Speaker 1: spread the good news about Jesus. Christ, and so I've
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Speaker 1: come to realize that people don't always want to hear
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Speaker 1: you preach over the pulpit. So music is a medium
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Speaker 1: that we can utilize, the tool that we can utilize
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Speaker 1: that transcends all walks of life. Everybody's uh loves music,
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Speaker 1: and so we found that that was a good way
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Speaker 1: to get the message out. And so I think that
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Speaker 1: that has been achieved. But in the process, I believe
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Speaker 1: that the Lord does what he does, and he touches lives.
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Speaker 1: He takes one one incident and he causes a different
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Speaker 1: outcome in everybody's life. And so when we came together
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Speaker 1: and we began to sing and to to to worship
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Speaker 1: as we did, and to write even record the testimonies
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Speaker 1: of so many individuals, man, let me tell you, it
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Speaker 1: was amazing and it just invoked all kinds of emotions. Well,
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Speaker 1: Bishop um this series when he was when he was
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Speaker 1: brought to me, I had to bring it to show
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Speaker 1: in the fact, I want to get Larry, who is
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Speaker 1: your music director. I want to get paid who's your
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Speaker 1: vocal coach? And my boy Patrick, you know, he's the
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Speaker 1: he's the comedy relief, but he's also a brilliant choirmaster. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's don't be real about when Lynnette walked back from
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Speaker 1: he said, Uh, she can sing and she find he's real.
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Speaker 1: He's real. Love, he loved, he's serious, can be very much.
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Speaker 1: And so you know, because you said that in your
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Speaker 1: in the documentary about sometimes people don't want to hear
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Speaker 1: you preach it. Sometimes you have to do You have
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Speaker 1: to tell the story of the gospel a different way.
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Speaker 1: And music always connect with people. But but this was
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Speaker 1: a local project we called Hampton Roads. Tell everybody about
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Speaker 1: Hampton Rhodes, Virginia. Well, Hampton Roads, uh is a wonderful
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Speaker 1: place to reside. Of course, it's uh heavily military in
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Speaker 1: our area, and so it's transient. We have people who
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Speaker 1: come from all parts of the world uh to reside here.
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Speaker 1: They're here for a season and then they're gone. Some
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Speaker 1: people take up their roots or make plant their roots here.
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Speaker 1: And um, it's always been a musical area. Were seated
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Speaker 1: right here on the eastern seaboard, uh right you know,
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Speaker 1: below New York and d C. And right above North Carolina,
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Georgia, and all of these places are very
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Speaker 1: very musical places. But it makes Virginia it makes Hapton
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Speaker 1: Roads almost like a melting pot or um, as they
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Speaker 1: say in New Orleans, a big pot of gumbo. We
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of everything, and we've produced some
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Speaker 1: of the nation's greatest artists uh that there ever was,
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Speaker 1: and so I'm very very proud of that, and um
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Speaker 1: uh music just kind of flows throughout the antire You know.
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Speaker 1: The interesting thing about because I've been in the area
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Speaker 1: a lot. You know, Steve Harvey and I are the
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Speaker 1: Chrysler Hall. I know exactly. I've been on that stage,
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Speaker 1: Chrysler Hall, so I know the brilliance, that facility, the quality.
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Speaker 1: I know that community. So a lot of many a
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Speaker 1: concert down in that Chrysler Hall area and great food,
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Speaker 1: a very uh community driven area down there. But you
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Speaker 1: the thing I want to talk about this series is
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Speaker 1: that you got me emotional. Then you taught me something
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Speaker 1: a boy sopranos, altos and tennis. And then these three
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Speaker 1: individuals I mentioned their name earlier, Peggy the vocal code,
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Speaker 1: Patrick chef math choir master excuse me, and then the
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Speaker 1: more Larry talk about how they came together in the
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Speaker 1: project because we know about Forrell, superstar rapper, and I
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Speaker 1: also learned two things about Farrell. Off stage, he's a
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Speaker 1: for real On stage, he's a Farrell because on stage
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Speaker 1: that star power takes over. Stage, He's humble, he's a
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Speaker 1: he's he's a great person both places, but it's a
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Speaker 1: different He understands his position in life. On stage he's
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Speaker 1: a superstar. Off stage he's a humble, engaged individual. But
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Speaker 1: you had three people that help you carry this magnificent series.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about them absolutely, And that's an easy thing
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Speaker 1: to do, because for me it was a no brainer. Um.
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Speaker 1: Most of us have worked together all of our lives. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Peggy was one of the individuals who gave me, uh,
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Speaker 1: my first opportunity of exposure with some of the greatest
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Speaker 1: stars that would come to the Hampton Roads area. As
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Speaker 1: I played music most of my life piano and organ,
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Speaker 1: and I was able to play for her choir, legendary choir,
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Speaker 1: the Philharmonics and UM and so she gave me the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to work with them at maybe the age about
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Speaker 1: fifteen years old. And so, UM, I have a long
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Speaker 1: lasting relationship with her. She's one of the best at
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Speaker 1: what she does. And UM, of course Patrick Riddick, we
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Speaker 1: grew up in the same church he's younger than I,
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Speaker 1: but we both attended the same church, New Jerusalem, Church
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Speaker 1: of God in Christ, where our late founder was the
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Speaker 1: late Bishop Barnett Carl thora Good, the man installed so
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Speaker 1: much in all of us, and and so working with
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Speaker 1: him there at the church, I knew his ability, his competence,
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Speaker 1: and uh, I knew that he was going to be
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Speaker 1: the one for the job. And then Larry George, a
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Speaker 1: young man. He's my own pastor of music there at
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Speaker 1: Faith World Ministry, and so we couldn't do anything without him.
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Speaker 1: I've watched him take a group of singers that were
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Speaker 1: mediocre and just turned them into stella voices, and so
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Speaker 1: he was a no brainer for me to pull them
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Speaker 1: all together to assist me in this project. I have
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Speaker 1: my own musical career, but for some time after I
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Speaker 1: started preaching, I put it on the chef shelf and
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Speaker 1: and and later it was my nephew that helped me
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Speaker 1: to understand, No, the world needs what you have to
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Speaker 1: offer and we need to come together and do something
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Speaker 1: to demonstrate that. And and here's where we are. Are
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Speaker 1: you you you landed in a great place. And you know,
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Speaker 1: Netflix is an amazing storyteller because there was Rodney Scott.
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Speaker 1: I discovered him and that barbecue, his ability to bar
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Speaker 1: based on that storytelling that Chef series. Now we've got
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Speaker 1: a gospel. Here's the thing that interests me the most
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Speaker 1: because it's a diverse gospel. I got the fact that
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Speaker 1: you could have easily said, you know, I'm gonna get
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Speaker 1: the best Black gospel singers, but that wasn't the goal
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Speaker 1: of this series. The goal of this series was to
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Speaker 1: create a diverse so you can pull everybody in. Everybody
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Speaker 1: can understand that they can hear the word, seen the word,
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Speaker 1: and participate technical doctors walking through the steps of why
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Speaker 1: that was important to you? That was very important to
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Speaker 1: me because I have a vision of building or or
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Speaker 1: forming a multicultural church. And so for me, having acquired
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Speaker 1: that just consisted of people who looked like me was
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Speaker 1: not going to help me to accomplish that goal. And
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Speaker 1: so I envisioned the acquire that was comprised of people
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Speaker 1: from all walks of life. And uh, And I guess
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Speaker 1: my whole thought was, you know, we we know in
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Speaker 1: the Black gospel choir. You we know about the announcing,
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Speaker 1: and we know that the powerful individuals that sing. But
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Speaker 1: I was more interested in pulling in Caucasians and Latinos
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Speaker 1: and people from different ethnicities that were also Orientals, that
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Speaker 1: were also equally talented, equally anointed. And I felt like
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Speaker 1: if we put them together in a choir, when people
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Speaker 1: saw people that look like them, or saw individuals who
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Speaker 1: resembled them, it would be an open invitation for them
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Speaker 1: to come and to worship and to be a part
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Speaker 1: of what we were doing at Faith World, and and
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Speaker 1: and so far, I must say it has worked it
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Speaker 1: as we have accomplished that goal. I've been contacted by
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Speaker 1: people from all over the world, and uh, I would
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Speaker 1: have never imagined. I would have never imagined I was
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Speaker 1: thinking on one level, but when you get calls from
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Speaker 1: Brazil and Switzerland and Norway and and um Sri Lanka
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Speaker 1: and so many other places, Uh, it really just blows
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Speaker 1: your mind that God is really able to do, exceeding
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Speaker 1: abundantly above all that we can ask to think according
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Speaker 1: to the power that works in us. Well, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to Bishop of Ezeki Williams Are that I was called
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Speaker 1: the hit series, popular series, the trending series, like voices
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Speaker 1: like on Netli. You know, you used the word gobble earlier,
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Speaker 1: and I I thought ran through my mind when I
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Speaker 1: watched the series, and I want to be an insulting
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Speaker 1: and use the word gouble, but you used the word gumble.
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Speaker 1: Guess what. I'm from Houston, Texas. I love gumbo. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So when I when when when I see you know,
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Speaker 1: whether Maria, you know dan Lee, you know the Pucky Twins,
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Speaker 1: you know all coming together, Ilana. What people need to
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Speaker 1: understand about the series is that this is this series
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Speaker 1: is bigger than music. It's about life. It's about what
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Speaker 1: we need right now when we come out of and
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Speaker 1: going to one. We need to understand that we can
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Speaker 1: all eat at the same table, because that's what happens.
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Speaker 1: People feel that when you look different, that you don't
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Speaker 1: have the same sensibilities, the same eating habits, are the
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Speaker 1: same lifestyle needs. And what this series did for me,
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Speaker 1: I believe you put some people in an uncomfortable environment
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Speaker 1: and they became comfortable and that's where the anointing part
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Speaker 1: comes out. Correct. Yeah, yes, yes, absolutely, and all things
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Speaker 1: work together for the good of them that love the Lord.
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Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, when we put those individuals together,
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Speaker 1: we did not know initially that or what that story
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Speaker 1: was us or how amazing their stories were, but God knew,
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Speaker 1: and so it was an opportunity for us to work together,
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Speaker 1: to get to know one another. And there was a
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Speaker 1: love that UH began to develop between the choir members
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Speaker 1: and the directors, and we became one big family. And no,
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Speaker 1: they didn't say, okay, Bishop Williams, we want to become
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Speaker 1: members of your church necessarily, but that was a love
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Speaker 1: that superseded even that kind of commitment. And I think
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Speaker 1: it's a wonderful thing because um, God has the ability
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Speaker 1: to erase all the boundaries and all of all of
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Speaker 1: the lines of division. And in a time when our
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Speaker 1: country has seen so much division, I thought it was
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Speaker 1: amazing that this series came out UM at a time
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Speaker 1: during our election and all of that, when there was
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Speaker 1: so much division working in our country. This series came
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Speaker 1: out to show that we can work together. There are
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Speaker 1: still people who don't see color, but we just see souls,
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Speaker 1: the series and half seen this series, I'm just I'm
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Speaker 1: just bringing back good feelings, a good time, good news.
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Speaker 1: As they said, I'm bringing back good news. Now you
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Speaker 1: have four black people here, well five you want to
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Speaker 1: cleave forever? Who say I want to bring together mixed voices?
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Speaker 1: Because a Lana, she was fifteen years old, she only
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Speaker 1: has one ear, so she can only really hear fifty
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Speaker 1: of the sound she's white at tag. Okay, I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna and then you have dan Lee. Who are I
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Speaker 1: say that was the one that was gonna make me cry?
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Speaker 1: But I'm sure you guys cried a lot too. So
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Speaker 1: when she did just Jesus Loves Me, I went, okay,
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Speaker 1: a saw. I know I've sung in my life so
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Speaker 1: many times, But why is this song affected me? I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna ask you that question, Bishop, Why did that song
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Speaker 1: when she sunk it den Lee affect me? Well? Because
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Speaker 1: she she sang that song from a place of sincerity.
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Speaker 1: She sang that song from a place of experience. Um.
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Speaker 1: We don't know everybody's story, we don't know everybody's welcome life.
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Speaker 1: But I can imagine um that she's had her challenges
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Speaker 1: and as we all have experienced, rejection and many different
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Speaker 1: things in life, and to come to a place where, um,
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Speaker 1: she understands that regardless of what I've been through, regardless
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Speaker 1: of what I've had to deal with in life, regardless
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Speaker 1: to to to the different hills and valleys and mountains
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Speaker 1: and low places that Jesus loves me. When you come
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Speaker 1: to that reality, when you come to that place of awareness,
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Speaker 1: that there's nothing that you can do that will cause
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Speaker 1: him to not love you, or that will um prevent
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Speaker 1: his love in your life. It's a wonderful place to
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Speaker 1: be alive. And and and I think that's where she was,
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Speaker 1: um and when the tears were flowing and she says
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Speaker 1: Jesus loves me. And I don't want to give away
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Speaker 1: too much, but when she but when she says everybody
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Speaker 1: deserves to be loved, I cannot watch that scene without
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Speaker 1: tearing up. I get it, I get it, and and
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Speaker 1: that's a message that we want the world to get well.
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Speaker 1: But tell everybody. I spoke to the bishop prior to
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Speaker 1: the interview so I can get it out of my
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Speaker 1: system because I knew that if I reveal this on
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Speaker 1: the show, how to slow down. And had to take
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Speaker 1: some moments together myself because only her rose when she
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Speaker 1: saw Yeah, she took me there, good old girl out
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Speaker 1: of Houston, Texas country as you can get it. And
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Speaker 1: you know Marcus took me there. When you hear his story,
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Speaker 1: because I can't tell you the story, you need to
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Speaker 1: watch the series. But everybody has a testimony. Then they
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Speaker 1: tells them why they walked through these doors and why
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Speaker 1: they were chosen because there were three thousand appricans Okay,
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Speaker 1: three hundred were cut down to three hundred, and they
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Speaker 1: came in and we saw a part of these stories. Now,
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Speaker 1: the part of this story is that what you had
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Speaker 1: to deal with in in your compadres, I want to say,
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Speaker 1: because y'all had to see it all, we only saw
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Speaker 1: a version of that. Where were you guys that emotionally
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Speaker 1: doing this whole journey? Bishop? Well, it was very difficult.
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Speaker 1: I think it was hard for for everyone involved, but
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Speaker 1: it was difficult for me because, um, the talent was
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Speaker 1: so good. I mean, if you had to score from
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Speaker 1: one to a hundred for each individual's um we had
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Speaker 1: out of the three hundred, we have probably had two
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Speaker 1: hundred one hundreds. So at that point, you know, you
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Speaker 1: have to make some decisions and it can't just be
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Speaker 1: based on their musical ability, and that becomes very difficult
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Speaker 1: because you see in everybody's eyes and you hear in
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Speaker 1: everyone's voice that this is something that they've dreamed, dripped about,
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Speaker 1: and this is something that they've wanted to do, uh
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Speaker 1: for sover very long, and they're right here on the
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Speaker 1: at the brink of their their dream coming true, and
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Speaker 1: you have to decide will you make it? Uh? Will
21:52
Speaker 1: we send you home? It's a very very difficult place
21:55
Speaker 1: to be in. And we labor greatly uh in that
21:59
Speaker 1: and and and there were sometimes of frustration, um that
22:04
Speaker 1: there were even individuals that that the other said, hey,
22:10
Speaker 1: we gotta let them go. That I even went back.
22:12
Speaker 1: It's not shown on the video, but I even went
22:15
Speaker 1: back and said, can't we give them a one more chance?
22:17
Speaker 1: Is there anything else we can do? My heart, my
22:20
Speaker 1: heart was very, very very attached to much of what
22:23
Speaker 1: was taken place because because you say it at the beginning,
22:26
Speaker 1: no callbacks, one shot to showcase your tap. That's right,
22:32
Speaker 1: absolutely and and and trust me, I was reminded of
22:37
Speaker 1: that several times during the process as I tried to
22:42
Speaker 1: bother and reason uh with individuals concerning other thingers, I
22:48
Speaker 1: was reminded, you know, you know, we gotta what what
22:52
Speaker 1: what did Ferel say, Um, we want to acquire full
22:56
Speaker 1: of unicorns? And so um that made the difference. That
23:01
Speaker 1: made the difference because you said bus voice is different styles,
23:08
Speaker 1: cultural difference, and you want to mail that into one
23:13
Speaker 1: giant unicorn, which I felt was accomplished. But it's broken
23:17
Speaker 1: down each series the first three episodes are to me,
23:22
Speaker 1: the most emotional part of the series. Don't get me wrong,
23:25
Speaker 1: The others are there too, because you get to know
23:28
Speaker 1: the people, You get to hear that story, you get
23:30
Speaker 1: to see that that passionate singing that coming from the
23:35
Speaker 1: you know he and Ki Ki and a classical apple training.
23:38
Speaker 1: You know, you talk about Damien and his uh, his
23:41
Speaker 1: attempts with his life and how I went sideways several times,
23:45
Speaker 1: and because I read dan Lee uh you know Jasmine,
23:48
Speaker 1: you know, when she auditioned for the first time in
23:51
Speaker 1: front of her real and again doubting herself like she
23:54
Speaker 1: doubted herselves so many times in the life. And that's
23:57
Speaker 1: why I recommended people to see this, because you know,
24:00
Speaker 1: I created money making conversation because I always tell people that,
24:03
Speaker 1: you know, there's as so many opportunities to be great
24:06
Speaker 1: or seek that opportunity, and we don't do it. And
24:08
Speaker 1: that's what this series exposed because a lot of people
24:10
Speaker 1: are looking for that second third or they are they
24:13
Speaker 1: returned from a walkaway moment that they missed out on.
24:16
Speaker 1: You know, you know, Dame is one of those people,
24:19
Speaker 1: you know, and that's really was enlightening and inspiring to me.
24:23
Speaker 1: So there is a strong level of inspirational inspiration in
24:27
Speaker 1: this series as well, correct, Bishop, That's right, absolutely, there's
24:31
Speaker 1: a strong level of inspiration and and and that actually
24:38
Speaker 1: was kind of where it boiled down to in the
24:40
Speaker 1: selection of some of those difficult choices, those difficult choices
24:45
Speaker 1: that we had to make in selecting singers. Um when
24:48
Speaker 1: they had the talent and they had it all going
24:51
Speaker 1: for them, then we had to go to the place
24:54
Speaker 1: of saying, but who moves the audience the most? Who
24:58
Speaker 1: who brings the spirit at them? You know? And so
25:02
Speaker 1: that spiritual emotional um element was was very important as well.
25:10
Speaker 1: You know, there's here's the fun part about the whole
25:12
Speaker 1: series to me. If you see Michael Jordan walking the room,
25:17
Speaker 1: you know, first of all, he's six six, and you're
25:19
Speaker 1: gonna notice something different about him. You know, he's six
25:21
Speaker 1: six or defensive tackle or football he may be like
25:26
Speaker 1: through hundred powers, so you're gonna notice something different about him.
25:29
Speaker 1: So you're gonna assume there's something unique or special about
25:33
Speaker 1: that person, and it may cross humble rumbles in the room,
25:36
Speaker 1: who's that guy? Who's that guy? But this show reveals
25:40
Speaker 1: how God has talented people just walking around. They have
25:45
Speaker 1: restricted their responsibility of that talent. And that's what this
25:49
Speaker 1: series is all about. And the classic example is Maria. Absolutely,
25:58
Speaker 1: come on, we'll come on with that. Tell her absolutely
26:02
Speaker 1: this this young girl, Um, she reminds me of a
26:07
Speaker 1: Sandy Patty and just a little frame, um, you know,
26:14
Speaker 1: and you just don't expect her to be able to
26:18
Speaker 1: do what she does. But then she she sings from
26:22
Speaker 1: a place of sincerity and in pureness, and her voice,
26:26
Speaker 1: my god, it just penetrates your heart and it's just amazing.
26:32
Speaker 1: She's um, you know, she has a an affiliation with
26:37
Speaker 1: Native Americans and and that's something that you would not
26:42
Speaker 1: have known and just her whole upbringing and you just
26:47
Speaker 1: gotta see it. You just gotta see. That's all I'm saying.
26:52
Speaker 1: She is a hard part about it. We're talking about
26:55
Speaker 1: the series, but we can't tell you about the series
26:58
Speaker 1: because we went to juror need to be somewhat original. Yeah,
27:03
Speaker 1: we want you to walk in and see what we
27:05
Speaker 1: felt visually and emotionally, and I think I think we've
27:08
Speaker 1: done a really good job of that and telling you
27:11
Speaker 1: the how we will impacted. Of course, you know you
27:14
Speaker 1: were there for the entire three hundred auditions, I've seen
27:17
Speaker 1: a small window of it. But to answer your question,
27:20
Speaker 1: when you say a certain people who doubt it, Maria
27:23
Speaker 1: was one of those people who had doubt what she
27:25
Speaker 1: left the room. Yes, Patrick had issues because I don't
27:32
Speaker 1: know exactly exactly. And it's it's it's very very uh
27:42
Speaker 1: what would I say. It's a very fulfilling um um
27:47
Speaker 1: feeling that you get from this when you get to
27:50
Speaker 1: see them fight their way back and and make believers
27:55
Speaker 1: out of the people who doubted them. Um. More than
27:58
Speaker 1: one occasion, we were skeptic and and we just didn't know.
28:04
Speaker 1: But these same individuals went to work. I mean, they
28:08
Speaker 1: brought their a game and they went to work, and
28:11
Speaker 1: before it was over, we were all we were all
28:14
Speaker 1: convinced that they were the right choice. Absolutely. You know
28:18
Speaker 1: the Clock Sisters when it came out in um one
28:23
Speaker 1: not one thing that kept saying. The mother major of
28:26
Speaker 1: the choir was talking about that one voice. One voice.
28:30
Speaker 1: You know, I want all y'all. Y'all might be separate,
28:33
Speaker 1: but we need one voice. The Pucket Twins come on that. Yeah,
28:39
Speaker 1: I told you I've seen this series twice now, so
28:43
Speaker 1: I ever I can talk to you about this series,
28:46
Speaker 1: all and all fair, but the Pocket Twins one voice
28:50
Speaker 1: tell us about that one voice, one voice? Uh, I really, honestly,
28:55
Speaker 1: it was my first time experiencing anything like that. I was,
29:00
Speaker 1: I was moved beyond expression when I heard them. That's something.
29:06
Speaker 1: It has to be something in their DNA being twins. Um.
29:11
Speaker 1: I've often heard that twins can sometimes know what the
29:15
Speaker 1: other one is thinking, and they can feel what the
29:17
Speaker 1: other one is going through. Well, if any of that
29:20
Speaker 1: is true, these twins um have the ability to have
29:25
Speaker 1: a unified voice. Um when they sing. There are times
29:30
Speaker 1: when you can't tell one from the other. And it's amazing.
29:35
Speaker 1: And not to mention, um, these are not what you
29:38
Speaker 1: would call, uh, your classical or your classic soul for singers. Um.
29:46
Speaker 1: These these these boys are white, these white boys. And
29:50
Speaker 1: I mean when I wouldn't you were feeling too much,
29:56
Speaker 1: too much, But I'm telling you, I mean, they let
30:02
Speaker 1: you have it, and it's amazing. You gotta see it.
30:07
Speaker 1: You gotta see it. You won't regret it, No, you
30:09
Speaker 1: won't to get uh. The couple of the additional note
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Speaker 1: to the Voices of the Fire Choir will be releasing
30:14
Speaker 1: his first single hit the refresh in February. Hit the
30:18
Speaker 1: refresh in February, and if you want to see him
30:20
Speaker 1: February six on b ET the Voice of the Fire Choir.
30:25
Speaker 1: Voices of Fire Choir were performing on the twenty second
30:27
Speaker 1: annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration. And now we're gonna see
30:31
Speaker 1: him on the for real, not just on Netflix on cable. Well,
30:35
Speaker 1: what's the big expectation. What's the journey from? Because in
30:38
Speaker 1: the beginning you told them you're gonna sing here, You're
30:40
Speaker 1: gonna premier here. The opportunity to travelers, country, travelers, world,
30:45
Speaker 1: is your vision happening. It's happening, man, It's happening. And
30:49
Speaker 1: I must admit, I gotta be honest. Much of what
30:52
Speaker 1: I was saying initially was by faith. I was speaking
30:57
Speaker 1: by faith. I was I was calling those things that
31:00
Speaker 1: be not as though they were and calling them into existence.
31:04
Speaker 1: But God is not letting me down, He's not failing me.
31:07
Speaker 1: These opportunities are manifesting daily. Um. We're receiving calls from
31:14
Speaker 1: so many individuals and UM just trying to pick the
31:17
Speaker 1: right uh, make the right decisions as to the different
31:22
Speaker 1: events that we should do. But it's been amazing, and
31:27
Speaker 1: you know this whole thing with the BT and the
31:31
Speaker 1: Gospel Uh celebration for the Super Bowl is one of
31:35
Speaker 1: those things. I would have never imagined that I would
31:38
Speaker 1: be involved in anything like that, But that's the door
31:42
Speaker 1: that has opened, along with so many other doors. And
31:46
Speaker 1: and and yes we have um we have also uh
31:51
Speaker 1: worked a contract with our c a inspiration and to
31:55
Speaker 1: be on that label or to be a part of
31:58
Speaker 1: that family. UM with so many other gospel grades, I'm
32:04
Speaker 1: not even gonna start naming them, but you know, the
32:07
Speaker 1: greatest are the greats are there and uh to be
32:11
Speaker 1: listed there among those individuals, it's it's just a true
32:14
Speaker 1: testament that dreams really do come true. And UH and
32:19
Speaker 1: God is faithful to fulfill his word in your life.
32:22
Speaker 1: If you make sure a promise, He's gonna make good
32:24
Speaker 1: on it. And it's happening. It's happening. It's a wonderful thing. Well, Bishop,
32:29
Speaker 1: I survived, I've done this interview. Uh, you know, yes,
32:35
Speaker 1: Jesus does love us all. And then Dan Lee says
32:39
Speaker 1: the temple in the beginning, that's the only thing I'm
32:41
Speaker 1: gonna give aware about this series. And there are unicorns
32:45
Speaker 1: in this series. There is redemption that is uplift. There
32:49
Speaker 1: is motivation than there is second chance in this series.
32:52
Speaker 1: Most importantly, there are blessings both giving and received. In
32:56
Speaker 1: this series is voices of fire. Uh, the inspiration I'm
33:01
Speaker 1: speaking to him here, He's an inspiration to me. I'm
33:03
Speaker 1: a fan of his. He may not know it, but
33:05
Speaker 1: now he knows it publicly that any time he has
33:08
Speaker 1: a home and money making conversation, any platform I have,
33:11
Speaker 1: so send me some banners. So when y'all air on
33:14
Speaker 1: February six, I want to put it on all my
33:16
Speaker 1: social media. When the single come out, please let me
33:19
Speaker 1: know so I can post it on And then I
33:22
Speaker 1: want to if I can get my my I called
33:24
Speaker 1: my my trio, my three amigos, if I get him
33:27
Speaker 1: on the show to talk together before February six, Let's
33:31
Speaker 1: make that happen too, because they deserve but shine as
33:35
Speaker 1: your game giving right now because they were the anchors
33:38
Speaker 1: for you, and there were the blessings being able to
33:42
Speaker 1: like when she took a lot of pulled her aside
33:45
Speaker 1: and there's some extra work to get her to the
33:48
Speaker 1: next level of her success. That's what you get out
33:50
Speaker 1: of this series. You know, we got divorce, we got
33:54
Speaker 1: the American Idol, just a different show just to show
33:59
Speaker 1: about receiving and getting blessings testimonials because they are allowed
34:04
Speaker 1: to tell the story. And my man, Bishop, you're blessing brother.
34:10
Speaker 1: Thank you God, bless you man, and thanks for having
34:13
Speaker 1: us on the show. We enjoyed it and and will
34:17
Speaker 1: definitely make sure that our guys are part of it.
34:20
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to do well well. First of all,
34:23
Speaker 1: you noticed through to Sarity, when people come on to
34:25
Speaker 1: the show, they always get caught off guard because I'm
34:27
Speaker 1: such a sincere interviewer because I've been blessed man my life.
34:32
Speaker 1: I've been doing the things I want to do in
34:33
Speaker 1: my life, Sinse, I was eighteen years old, and it's
34:35
Speaker 1: only through you know, proper relationships, proper opportunities, proper blessings,
34:40
Speaker 1: proper understanding with God that is giving me taking advantage
34:43
Speaker 1: of it. And that's what this serious is about. And
34:45
Speaker 1: I can talk over and over about it, but you
34:47
Speaker 1: gotta see that if you have doubts in your life
34:49
Speaker 1: about what you want to achieve, if age has stopped you,
34:52
Speaker 1: a handicap has stopped you, uh, the people around you
34:55
Speaker 1: have stopped you, That's what it is about. It's let
34:57
Speaker 1: you know that only you can stop yourself if God
35:01
Speaker 1: gives you an opportunity to achieve. Step through that darkness
35:05
Speaker 1: and there's light on the other side, and it's called opportunity.
35:08
Speaker 1: And that's where voices so fires all about. Thank you
35:10
Speaker 1: Bishop for coming on my show. Thank you God, blessed cool.
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