716. Theron Johnson: Faith and Filmmaking

[00:00:00] The stories, the journeys, the testimonies, the spiritual detox. Welcome back. Welcome back DJ Focus, Dice Gamble. You tap back into the fix. Your source of faith and views hip hop aren't being poetry. It's time for our spiritual detox. And

[00:00:14] Dice, we got one form today, Dice. When I tell you, we all get to excited too much. You know, every 9 in we get to super excited when we get to chance to talk with some

[00:00:22] moveers and shakers and some people doing some powerful things and other spaces. But listen, this is our first, we got a Limpian champion on with us right now. I feel like I don't

[00:00:32] know what to do, Dice. I feel like, you know, this is, you know, we have our little list of things, the confidence we want to do in our little space. So this is a high

[00:00:40] one for us. But we excited to talk a little bit to everything. We're going to talk, you know, listen, he's a producer. He's an actor. Of course, to his wife, you might have seen them

[00:00:48] on the USA by a sled team, two as well from the years back. And he can do a lot of more dope things. He's in a lot of dope movies and films and series that are coming out. If

[00:00:58] you have not seen them, listen to one and only the Ron Johnson, what's going on, sir? Oh, oh, another right on. Man, we good man. I'm sure you're, man. Yeah, this is this is making a year right here. This is it. This is it. So I'm excited.

[00:01:15] Listen, I'm just here to hear. I'm like a flounder wall right now. Like, please tell us all the things. Okay, I'm just going to ignore himself. Like, because you got me with that one. Yeah, I thought I was good. So you know, I, I follow sports. So that's

[00:01:30] one thing. And I remember faces. I'm pretty good. I might never remember names, but I remember faces. Yeah. And he had a lot of articles. He had a lot of attention his way. So listen, come on in, take us through the sports journey, your sports career. You being

[00:01:45] on the USA by a sled team. I have to catch people up on date for that for the people who don't know about all that you accomplished with the box they're taking. Well, you

[00:01:54] know, it was funny. I've always played football, ran track in high school. And then my younger brother went to high school, right around the corner for this brand new gym with our

[00:02:06] filbans. It was like the new, the new state of our type of gym. So when they started putting a plaque, sorry, they started putting like a turf field and something like the nice little

[00:02:16] indoor tracks and stuff. So he's had managed to go around and check it out on the side. All right, I was like I'm tired of seeing the gold gems. Hold much of me heads in here

[00:02:25] anyway, you know what I mean? So I go in there and I see gosh trying out, you know, they weren't there trying to say, what are they trying for? God comes over to say, what are

[00:02:34] they trying to put US boss latin on my, in lemon? He's hot. I like $2,000, right? So it was high. So the guys say hey man, you know, you do like you're pretty good shape. Once

[00:02:55] you go in and take off running and you see if you fast, so not like, hold up. You say you're trying off the boss latin. I said who does that? I said what is this cool

[00:03:04] running? Is this the joke? So I left and walked out and they were down here the next week. So I came back down there. And everybody, funny guys down there and they all trying out,

[00:03:16] I was like alright, let me go eat a dust-o kick-suff. I go ahead and I ran, I jumped, I did a squat test and I did like a kettlebell toss, well I got it. And I didn't realize

[00:03:31] that they was recording all my stuff. So they called me and he was like hey man, you got some pretty good scores. I want to send you stuff up the late classes. I was like, late classes. Late classes with where? He's talking about the move. Late classes with

[00:03:45] a get- That movie was scary. So the dude came over and he broke it down, he was like no man. So I was a 19, 19, two Olympic box lead, strength coach. I'm trying a

[00:03:59] little walker, will he go, Greg, hurry up, hurry up, he's got some sight. In my mind I was like look man, take me down and race in park. I'm guaranteed you. I'm cool right? So

[00:04:11] long before I ended up driving like nine, nine and a half hours upstate New York and up in Adderondex. I didn't know where I was. Next thing you know, I see a great

[00:04:22] big tall ski jump on my. Look over with a head like the 1980 games of and then next thing you know, I come about to the clearance. It's great big Olympic style building but they're

[00:04:34] rings on out there up over here now. So I went out to dinner for like 30 different guys and I tried out, you know, we did everything. And I did really well. Came back home, went back up there and invited me back. They broke everything down, we had everybody

[00:04:52] together. So now that 30 levels up there the first week, it was like 15. So I ended up beating all up in my king of second place. So this was a thing. That's like what is

[00:05:06] so where do you find me again? I said I'm from Maryland. It was like what? You got to get slow down there? I'm just like cloudy. Okay. But the difference is you know, so I had

[00:05:21] a sense of humor and I'm not been pregnant to what they were going at, you know, because a brother on a biopsy routine, you talk about gas on North Dakota, Michigan, you know,

[00:05:32] Denver all through mixed snowy states. So it was mad because I blew them out. But anyway, came home. I looked at my balls. I didn't know you had any, I didn't know you needed sponsors. We couldn't we couldn't get paid because we're, you know, we're not professional

[00:05:47] athletes. So we're minor professional athletes. So they ran me through that whole thing and I just went to my balls and I said, so I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I got

[00:05:58] I'm, I made the world cup team. So just imagine all the things we're going to do and I'm just like wait, I'm married. I got two kids. I don't want to figure this out. So

[00:06:11] this is kind of, you know. So my boss said, I'll tell you what, you go up there and you could peat. I'm going to pay you why you leave and you go train. So that was a, that was what

[00:06:23] that. So but I mean, that was good, but it was just like a lot of these got I didn't find out to later on. I was up there. Somebody's got something to be awesome. Wow, where did parents have

[00:06:35] taken out second-long second mortgages and stuff the paper to be up there to train? And then we're looking at me like I was like a specimen of something. It's like man how do you do that?

[00:06:45] Like this is like, I got a train so hard. I got to eat right. I got to make sure I get eight hours to sleep on my ground. I don't love to tell you. But you know and it was just like the language

[00:06:57] was different because I'm you know we're more private attract football basketball, you know baseball sports like that but Bob said it was crazy. So when out there competed, got only a team two. We want overseas. We competed, payment, you know, 10th, 6th and 4th place competed

[00:07:20] against like the world's best athletes. I tell you what the first round I went down to the event already come home. Wow. You're talking about going 110 miles an hour and a mile with G-force is probably about 78, 78 G-force and I'm talking about compression.

[00:07:41] And we had a down. So the first round I went down, I thought we crashed and I didn't know what it was that because it's so hot and you get hit from side by side right? I'll get out of my

[00:07:54] helmet. I have to not back here. Here's coming this way. Oh, not above all and it was like yeah I was like oh. Good say for me. This is the reason I've revved the Ronald I'm sorry.

[00:08:13] It's a reason but um you know what I can say about it man it was something different and I'm always always one of those guys man look I'm gonna try and I'm gonna try and

[00:08:26] figure what it is. But it was such an experience man because I got to meet some of these people man that literally took this stuff series. I'm talking about training, sleeping, doing everything

[00:08:38] by the book and it took me a while but yeah I finally got to it. I was able to compete, go to Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Utah, um, stunning most beautiful places I've ever seen in my life.

[00:08:55] This is when we had to raise the phone so you flip it. It was from places that I've seen over in Switzerland and Italy, that picture, like a catch-up of a phone wouldn't even,

[00:09:10] you just had to embrace it. It was just like the air was different like elevation like the food was really, really good like this stuff over here is water down. Sorry but uh I will come home from

[00:09:24] training and I will literally just be quiet because I'm just like I can't even believe. I'm out here some pink for something that I have no eye like I never won't go to stay. Maybe I'll be a

[00:09:38] bopsler. Wow that's amazing. I appreciate you sharing that I was sitting here like that's crazy but I'm curious how did you go from bopsled to movies like how do we do that? Okay if you just

[00:09:58] especially at the Sydney, I've been here these people all the peach cobbie you can't even remember and then so I started doing like theater like elevation school, the drama class.

[00:10:14] So when I got to high school I was like man I ain't doing, I'm just gonna play ball, I ain't going nothing. I ain't reading, I'm not doing nothing. So it's always been a part of me because

[00:10:24] I was raised around a whole bunch of characters. My uncle was funny, my aunt was funny, my grandmother was just you know I'm telling me she would come in a house and you'll slip to poke that. What's

[00:10:38] wrong with you? You know come in a house and no speak it was alright. Did you sleep with me last night? Sounds like somebody come up.

[00:10:55] You know she just you know like what my mom like my grandmother raised me. My mom like oh can I get my son back? Yeah alright you be here and you know so I think I always would look at film but I see moves

[00:11:18] I'm like why are you going to do it? Why did he put him keys in his pocket and stuff right? Why did he not check so I'm criticized and everything because I see everything what I have

[00:11:32] and right. So I was like you know what I think I might try this. So I started auditioning, I started driving all over the place and I would go out there, I would get the park,

[00:11:46] I would put it for something small they would cast me for something big and I and what really spark would really spark it for me to start writing my own stuff was I drove all of

[00:11:56] the Atlantic City I went in for this big series of things I did for a meeting and everything like that ago I was doing a small park they cast me for a lead role and I was up front and honest with

[00:12:06] the guys I was like listen I love to do it but you got to let me know we can advance when you guys are going to shoot because you know I'm four hours away I'm in my own right? Yeah my

[00:12:15] party's been with this night so I'm here to do the cat that I got replaced and I didn't know anything I'm calling the guys call me back so I'm taking a nice long drive across the bay bridge and

[00:12:29] I was inside but I'm going to do my own I don't know how to start it I'm gonna get on the word I'm gonna go through the back I'm gonna go through back the you know back stories for actors

[00:12:40] I want to be able to you know lock in and be able to digest and see where I can go with this so I just tapped in people that I watched grow up who are always watched you know back then we

[00:12:53] didn't have in the net you know yeah we don't worry about but um it was for uh then saying like watch me and you wanna learn right so um you know my lady she's a like a guru uh let me see a specialist

[00:13:12] and uh in the county because she's like an English supervisor so I said hey you got to read these semicolons you know but I don't know what it was it was just like I got it got this

[00:13:32] three o'clock in the morning like you know we got up downstairs I decided right I was so hooked on that all I didn't know anything about you know cut to outside exterior I didn't know anything about that next thing you know ended up right nine episodes wow wow

[00:13:51] it was because it was a different high it was like wow my hold up this is we get like another people and I ended up meeting people that I was auditioning that I was auditioning with

[00:14:04] listening to how they would you know project their lines and stuff so I'm like I got a park for you I know you can do this I'm gonna send you the slides and I want you

[00:14:16] to call me back and I want to hear it and I hear it and I'm just like you it so I've got to pick I've got to recruit I've got there listen and you all the same you out of like man let's

[00:14:29] try this dude I hate you guys but it was just it was just that it was like no this is what I'm gonna do I played a play drums in a band for all these years I'm you know musicians I just got

[00:14:44] tired of the up and down on you know can't find a guitar played can't find a keyboard played and he's here the cheery he comes back and I was like you a drummer did a backbone right yeah

[00:14:57] don't like all right that's enough so I walked away from it I started doing this and of course you know you start reaching out to people around here in the area nobody responds back

[00:15:08] oh yeah from this information I got to be out nothing I didn't get nothing um so I stopped following people on Instagram and I ran into my directors and they was job actual coats

[00:15:25] he's out of fily yeah miles away so I drove up there in all this and four part I got me my little 30 seconds of frame outside I'm doing it but that's all that took for me

[00:15:43] but it took for me to get around a watch and see how everything was set up like you're just from lighting's movement everything and um I reached out to him I called him he didn't answer the

[00:15:55] phone you're up to a message hey I'm out of the country so that's something such I'll call you back I was on Amazon about the order in my hand the house and I was worth a quick bit and then

[00:16:05] know what the hell I was doing I didn't know nothing about a little bit of a light a chord being a gaffered duct tape I didn't know nothing said to take you know but it was it was just

[00:16:21] it was just burning outside and it's two hours about the hit you know purchase phone ring and mind you like three times I gave him a call he didn't call back by three months

[00:16:33] but this thought was fast to recover it happened I'll create a third thing on the show so the working on this project since 20 late 2019 in the 2020 and I called he called

[00:16:48] back I said hey man look I got nine episodes I said I got nine episodes I'll talk about it what the hell I'm doing he's back all right how much liquid you got I said what's liquid he said money I said man

[00:17:10] see so that's it was my better cow setup I brought grocery after all change you know I'm going through stuff right so I had a little bit of a slash you know I have like a five thousand

[00:17:29] of credit card and like find out the house now I said he said hey man um send me your stuff and I'll call you back at 72 hours he said but I'm keeping you said but keep I don't touch anything on the 250

[00:17:45] thousand I might have gotten a problem man tell about can't sit down on us or something like we don't here had no idea right that week I said myself all you only even though I'm much doubt and the stuff that was

[00:18:04] like man if he take my stuff and put it all there and you know I'm saying because he don't know but just so attack because yeah child right he called me Monday and I'm talking about that whole week I was walking on the eggshells phone ring

[00:18:23] man check the emails for me I can explain my junk everything I'm saying all right okay man I hope this dude ain't getting me from my stuff man I'm telling you I'll drive up here I'm so fired up right you're driving

[00:18:38] I'm yeah oh yeah you know so following Sunday about one of club and um he said hey man let me ask you a question you said did you write this? I said yeah he said let me tell you something I have to take classes to write

[00:19:00] he said because I've been on this for a long time he said you get a really good job so we're talking about some who has been working with marquee Johnlandess you know working with you know like a brutal poppin

[00:19:16] yeah all of these guys I'm just hitting here like what he said semita five he says semifine and then you'll semifines you know whatever and I was like oh that's it he was like oh no

[00:19:33] 10,000 I was saying you know we're not doing a series with 10,000 I was stressing he was like he taught my man it's I was like oh right okay so Josh broke me down and he showed me how to

[00:19:46] raise money he showed me how to um all kinds like details and everything I'm gonna know my 401 quick my 401k had defeated out that's how that's how fun the

[00:20:00] bubble us but you know what again I'm gonna take the risk because if I don't I don't believe in failure I believe in the experience I believe in that the you know I see weight on the road you know

[00:20:16] people call me weird but sorry don't worry about it I see weight on the road and I talk in the late hours I babe this is someone I don't even like just I don't even care because I'm in

[00:20:27] and he said we'll look man he didn't build a series man he was like that's gonna call you ladies and dolls let's do what man we said what so let me not go to work how many jobs

[00:20:41] you know so he said no we're gonna turn this into a full flat feature I said what's that I'm talking to him and I'm googling myself because he's sitting the whole different oh okay that's a film all right and then we started building he said what you're

[00:21:02] permission I want to go in and over to rewrite all of this stuff this is your same theme I want to go in because I want to make everything commit because if I put you two in a series

[00:21:12] I could bring you an episode two you're so lit up fine they know who you are when you come back and have a so fine right oh yeah that's yeah that's time you see what I'm saying

[00:21:24] a whole flip he was like we got to get to act as I was like I already got things I think all right he said they back stories already got you said you got locations

[00:21:38] I'm like yeah you got me so we came down he drove down from fairly we did locations we broke everything down when I say he went through every day with a fine tooth comb

[00:21:49] I'm taking notes why he's taking notes you know what I mean because I'm like I'm all done at this time right if that I'm a full one K I sold my car I had a dodge charge here

[00:22:03] I was so dumb yeah I had a caddy I had a Cadm I guess the late I sold that I sold some of my useful equipment I didn't even care I didn't even care and you know what it didn't even bother you

[00:22:17] while I was doing it because when I felt it you know what I mean yeah I just went to the experience so for four years finally you know I used to say something very fine to me while a while ago

[00:22:32] you said man if you're not willing to invest four or five years into something that you really want I don't care if it's a business if you're doing an album or you're writing like doing anything

[00:22:45] then it's not worth because you're not going to appreciate it when you do get something right you know so I'm excited I'm telling you when this film comes out man listen to Rob and we got to get you back all man we appreciate you coming through man

[00:23:04] then kicking it with us man please tell the people how they connect what you're following you on all your social media platforms definitely shout out you know uh uh all the movies and everything

[00:23:13] when they drop in you know and everything you're part of you know so I'm going to get the Graham I'm going to school 32 and I'm going to take top under the scenes and you can look

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[00:23:39] pics you can check out some of the like you'll be able to see a lot of the cast there you'll see a lot of interaction and everything's going on you know I appreciate dice damn DJ focus

[00:23:53] for so for show we appreciate you brother real conversations from real imperfect people in pursuit of a perfect god let's jump into today's real talk topic welcome back welcome back DJ focus dice gamble you tap back into the fix your source of

[00:24:13] faith and fuse hip hop bar and be a poetry yeah it's time to get really any streets dice right let's get real really is real can get real real real real conversations you know I said

[00:24:25] about real stuff this happening in our lives and how we can get better as believe it's that's what the real talk conversation oh thank y'all for tuning in the day dice guy want for y'all again

[00:24:36] uh we're going to talk about it uh the choices you make what they do affect their how come you're out come so okay they do they do they do first thing you should learn at home is you know like if you do something there will be a reaction

[00:24:52] because every action has an equal and opposite reaction that is the law you know that is an earthly law turns out as a spiritual law too as well focus how about that yeah he has a spiritual law

[00:25:06] especially for everybody out there sending sense sending with that sexual sin yeah it's a spiritual yeah you know it's a few out there that still was you know don't want to fight you know that temptation

[00:25:17] that uh that keeps the rise and then a lot of Mara upset when the outcome comes up and you know we are pregnant you know so I thought that he says you know I'm just saying you know

[00:25:28] it's a lot of it's a lot of fellas I talk to I could have chance to you know just have conversations with him there upset and I said well you know you had to play in that too as well though you

[00:25:39] go get mad at her you know you trying to do things the wrong way and you know unfortunately you got caught up I guess I don't know I mean it there I was I you know I don't

[00:25:50] also blessed it comes probably with the baby I've got this guard that but I just said a lot of man look at that as a trap and I say well no they didn't trap you she didn't force you now

[00:26:00] she ain't forced you I don't know so many of them and they may have oh yeah yeah world is a little different I wouldn't put a pass I'm pretty sure it's some more math they're like yeah now we're gonna do this today like I don't know

[00:26:15] I mean I think Austin and I definitely know this is a fact Austin stems from pride so whether it's sexual you know whether it's stealing whether it's you know but it's pride

[00:26:27] it's all I can do what I want to do I can do what I want to do all of it it all stems from pride there is there is no sin that doesn't stem from pride I mean I remember one time um I was talking

[00:26:40] to one of my girlfriend she was like now what if I'm just like late for work because that overslip I said that's a pride as she right you thought she didn't have to go to bed on time you thought

[00:26:49] she didn't have to wake up one time you know yeah no that's you you could be late for work but is your job you said you would show up one time but you know something happened in your

[00:27:01] mind where you just didn't prepare the night before for some reason you didn't count your job worthy enough to be there to take all the precautions to get up make sure you had gas in your

[00:27:10] car make sure you was ready to rock you ain't breakfast you packed your lunch night before orange a closed it's pride I ain't gotta do it I'll do it okay so I'm just saying I know our subject today is what?

[00:27:26] Listen yeah we already did too let's get it like let's stop playing games you know saying like this ain't the week this is the week for games this is the it's you are y'all gonna grow

[00:27:38] you know I'm saying if you tuned in and you haven't grown a bit I don't know we definitely do it's wrong but choices you make they do affect the outcome so of whatever it is

[00:27:49] whatever it is even a relationship how high you upset you think you want to swing on somebody oh there will be a reaction there will be a we'll be in the wrong person need to do this

[00:28:01] there's something coming behind that so it's like that's why we do have to you know kind of be conscious of what we do and for those of you who set goals at the top of the year we always think

[00:28:11] about the end first you know and that's another thing about our faith is we think about the end first you know like how did Christ ended on the cross you know and then what is the end

[00:28:23] gonna look like for us like that's how we should be thinking before we open our mouth to say something negative to the person in front of us or we cut somebody off in track picker we want

[00:28:33] to cut somebody out at the grocery store or you know you know like you need to think about the end before you really have an action so yeah some people think they can do what they want to say

[00:28:47] what they want to say and go what they want to go on life and that's just not the truth not true for also yeah well let's get back to somebody's biblical principles because you brought it up

[00:28:57] dice you know spiritual but let's talk about that you know you reap what you sow you know I think somebody all run away from that uh Galatians six uh I think it's Galatians six

[00:29:08] seven through eight uh they talk about uh yeah your choice is the term the harvest you reap tomorrow and you guys you know I you brought up you know you should be thinking about what you do but

[00:29:20] I don't think a lot of people do that's what we're talking about it today yeah that's the flammable that is the problem you got to pick and before you do things what you react before you say

[00:29:30] things oh my goodness well you still you brought up the kid thing you brought up the you know unmarried sex or whatever the promiscuity agree and you know yeah it could bring forth the child

[00:29:45] so are you ready to prepare for or are you ready for that child are you prepared for that child can you pay for everything that child needs well the next 18 years before you you know go in this corner

[00:29:56] and dip off with this chick like you like think about the n first like have you do y'all know if you the one y'all got anything that you could have forever that could possibly kill you like this

[00:30:06] this person is slip with how many people because whoever they slip with that's how many people you about to sleep with so you it's like you guys think before you do things and trust me I'm not a

[00:30:16] hundred percent in this area but I burn myself enough to now I think about the end before I make the decision and uh I've had two people give me a tip they were like before you make a big decision

[00:30:29] think about it for 24 hours come back to it and then if you feel the same way the next day then go for it you know like and then hey if you're thinking about responding to somebody's

[00:30:38] text or email or tweet or a post wait to the next day you know or just you know go ahead and type it up and just post it over in your notes and then tomorrow if you feel the same way didn't send it

[00:30:50] but like think about the end before you do a thing before you say a thing if you can you know I think what you're getting to the habit of this is easier to do easy you're going to do

[00:31:02] what so wait and you see it's have consequences and yeah I thought you ought to don't realize it but no everything yeah yeah I just said especially you know if it's been

[00:31:12] you to commit this in over and over again and you think you want different results it's not how it works so that's why we we need a savior to help us to really think different really be led by the spirit

[00:31:25] shall stop everybody to understand absolutely it's a spiritual fight nice process up then that that spiritual fight is real sometimes until I really start looking past the situation and look more spiritually at the situation that's when that's when I got better and do the

[00:31:44] right of me 28 and one and through two just speaks on listen the blessings of obedience we need to continue to be obedient to God's commandments and I think that'll help us to meet the mark in this

[00:31:58] area because a lot of times we say we believe in God's world we say we trust in the hand we trust in His process but we're not we're going out and making these flesh moves not faith moves

[00:32:09] flesh moves and then when we must bust these flesh moves dice and then the outcomes don't come out the way we want them to come out oh we mad at God shall stop the yard it be mad at God God be like

[00:32:20] I'm getting into y'all I like I said I said before I know we are probably gonna get very good break but I don't have a lot of victim friends like if you can't own it if you can't own your

[00:32:32] part and the choices you make on the day-to-day basis we most likely are not friends at all like I would rather have and I do have friends that admit when they're wrong in apologize or say

[00:32:44] I did that on purpose because I was salty like I have friends like that that are just like I know where I am and I'm not in a good place and yeah so we would you know like I respect people

[00:32:54] like that and people they always blame and oh man it's my old trying to take me down or everybody would woo woo woo but y'all it none of them you get to own what you do in this life and here's a deal

[00:33:07] thinking with the end first is very biblical um obviously we have plenty of scripts even from Proverbs 22 and 6 trying to child up and he's gonna go even when he's old he will not depart from it

[00:33:19] obviously we know that um we all have to appear before the judgment seat of Christ and each one of us we'll receive what's due for what we've done in the body whether it's good or evil that second current

[00:33:29] thing is 5 and 10 there will be a day adjustment first John 1 and 9 like if we could best our sin and see his fave one just forgive our sins and it cleans us from all of our unrighteousness

[00:33:40] but it's just we have constant scripture that reminds us there will be a day that you will own what you do and I love minister to unsafe people because they're like we even know there's a god

[00:33:52] well you have a conscience like this is this is part of your um consequence for sin like how do you know when you've done something wrong God has given you a conscious and you feel it regardless

[00:34:06] if you believe in God or not you that is there to help guide us while we're here on this earth to let us know you know you know you're wrongs back and yeah and that thing will stay with you

[00:34:17] it'll haunt you some people would haunts for years until they understand I need to accept Christ I need to receive forgiveness so I can get that thing up off me so yeah we need to be

[00:34:27] thinking of the end in mind first yeah we do and uh listen to choices you make they do affect your outcome and um I know dice a lot of time and I love the example my old man gave me um I always

[00:34:42] always tell uh you know not even just youth but even man you know you can use that excuse all you won't but uh my old man he's always say listen you gotta hold yourself accountable for your actions

[00:34:53] because early on you know I come from a pretty decent family he's always hang around a lot of cousins and everything so he would always tell me when we went over my grandparents house again

[00:35:03] summertime that I had a choice because I had a couple of you know cousins that you know we're getting this stuff and I use to get this to step two but not as much as now he's like you can choose

[00:35:14] to go with them and continue to do the things that they do and getting trouble or you can choose to say you know what I'm gonna go find something else to do I'm not going to allow for you know I'm

[00:35:24] saying if you would call it peer pressure but the pressure of thinking okay they trying to play me and say like I'm Jake if I all come do this with them or do that with them it's like no

[00:35:35] I'm not in there that had a couple of cousins that was in gangs got a couple of cousins that we you know Constance was picking up things and then they'll belong to them and walking off with it so

[00:35:45] that very different you know say a situation this might not be everybody's situation but my old man told me after I got that I got in trouble that one time and I didn't take anything I didn't do anything

[00:35:55] but of course I was with them so it's guilty by association store manager at a store you know I had all three of us where all of us all our dads had to come up there so my dad and my two uncles

[00:36:05] had to come get me in my other two cousins but yeah I was just with him why they was doing it I went doing that so he I still got that that weapon because I know this is me that what you don't

[00:36:15] think about go with them no more and I do it but it was more of me being peer pressure to go with them because it's like I don't want to be the one make lot to go do this and get foolish dumb

[00:36:26] not understanding okay we could probably get caught I just get out this day so yeah like you said I just I bring that back up because again a lot of times we just do things off impulse and peer pressure you're not really thinking why am I about to

[00:36:42] yeah why am I about to go in this mall and try to steal these jeans and possibly maybe my peers are getting a maybe won't but I don't really want to go to jail let's be very clear

[00:36:51] I was always clear about that that part yeah no I'm glad you said you were always clear about that Franklin Covey has on their website and for those of you who don't know Franklin Covey

[00:37:03] obviously this is like an older type of organizing system and Dr. Stephen Covey he created a lot of management tools for people to have busy lives and stuff but he had on his website this little

[00:37:17] snippet here it's called the habit of personal vision to begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination you need to know where you're going

[00:37:27] in order to better understand where you are now so that the steps you take are always in the right direction it's easy to get caught up in activity track trap in the business of life

[00:37:39] to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's been leaning against the wrong wall people are working harder than ever but because they lack clarity and vision they aren't going far they in essence are pushing a rope with all of their might

[00:37:53] so there's a really cool like breakdown of some of the importance to important things of why even in life period you should think about the end in mind like for kids with furniture you know

[00:38:06] expecting moms think about this like the corners on the coffee tables you know the corners on the dresser the clothes to go into the wall you know like because you know these kids tell

[00:38:14] it heads up so let's talk it's like I was wondering like I'm sorry I gotta say about that corner owner okay the corner there yeah that table I never crossed the hard my life

[00:38:28] woo get a get you on it it's like if you don't know bro I'm trying to tell you I hear shopping I just want to decorate my little apartment and they have a baby okay okay you

[00:38:38] go learn you know I'm saying you gotta think what they end in mind like even for us as my mom I'm not talking about that little bit more dice I don't you said you out there uh shopping

[00:38:48] uh in a decorating your house you would you say decorating the beberal yeah you're decorating the house you're decorating like you just get new stuff and you know that credit up one of

[00:38:56] that credit up and don't have money to pay for so yeah that's what's all about right yeah absolutely you're gonna be broke too this baby's about to wear and you out because

[00:39:03] you go buy diapers every day milk is 25 hours a can so I didn't did and then they talk about that part and we're in a credit card up you ain't had a money that too but like I said thinking

[00:39:12] with the end in mind like it's a whole lifestyle change when you have a child which means if I'm thinking especially like when you were talking about earlier if you think about having any type of

[00:39:22] sex with anybody you need to think about all the other possibilities that could come with that so it's like yeah are you ready for the whole thing you know what I'm saying and uh

[00:39:32] I mean you know family and all family and all family and all and the dangers of things like even if you are you married and cheating like okay you seem to get mad and you break up

[00:39:42] I'd come into your house I'd look for you you know our our day married is whoever they married to come and look for you like life gets real you may make this little small decision in the moment

[00:39:54] because you didn't think about what it was going to turn into you know um so yeah I mean that's why I was saying the lay no hands on any man swiftly or you will become a part-take grab this sand

[00:40:05] and that's that's just a scripture that reminds us to pray about everything you know make sure you know what you're getting yourself into you know this is a warning you know like you need

[00:40:15] to know who you're dealing with when you're making business deals like even when you're in the you need no so you need to think about things um before I know people they've left their wives

[00:40:26] or their husbands for somebody else while they were married and then it happens at him all day left me when I was like yeah because that's how you met him you met them unfaithfully and y'all both was unfaithful which was a red flag of course yeah your relationship

[00:40:41] probably ain't gonna work out you know praner but yeah we wouldn't be thinking about the end in mine like like we were talking about buying things buying cars can you afford it buying a new home

[00:40:51] can you afford it yes we want what we want but we got to think about everything I had a friend of my boy house I said do you have an actually 20,000 in the bank for what I was like okay

[00:41:04] problems you find a whole house that's going to have problems yeah all right I was like man if the toilet breakdown H-back system breakdown you gotta watch oh wait a minute I hear your condition you want me to go around this plumbing please the first house I bought

[00:41:22] built it for the ground up got in the house and I was like how you opened a garage and they're like you gotta buy a garage opener and I was like what you gotta buy the unit like yeah you had

[00:41:35] the house built but you need the buy stuff to go with I was like where the blind's at it like you got a bad stuff like and I was like like I just didn't I didn't do the research so I'm like

[00:41:46] man do a grief so yeah you know think about the end like retirement I know a lot of people right now they are not even planning they're just on the internet don't take time trying to become some type

[00:41:56] of superstar for what and I'm like okay that's what I want you need to be maxing out in you know your little stocks bonds ETF NFTs your crypto what are you doing what's the future plan and who's

[00:42:09] gonna take care of you because right now it looks cute when you're 35 living at home which parents but they're welcome a day where you can't be on your own and you should have something

[00:42:20] stored up you know the Bible talks about the talents in the oil and we have so many parables that tell us think with the end in mind first there will come a day where you're gonna need these things

[00:42:31] so it's like we need to prepare ourselves and the only person we can depend on honestly we could depend on Jesus but I'm talking about physically as us so it's like you can't think somebody

[00:42:41] else is gonna take care of you for the rest of your life you do have to have a plan of your own so yeah oh if you don't you go learn all your way so shout out to y'all now that you will come

[00:42:51] up to one way or another that's it going to learn so that's something that's they've got to bring up yeah learn from your mistakes I think for a solution why learn from your mistakes and get better

[00:42:59] so that way you don't continue to make the same mistakes over and over again allow for those valuable mistakes to be examples but grow to get better because again you know you get this life and what

[00:43:11] you do with it is what you do with it so you could take them make these bad decisions these bad choices you could take them not have good integrity in being these bad circles who maybe be leading you

[00:43:21] and ways you you you sit or put in your situations you should be a part of you need to examine your life and make sure that you listen you learn from your mistakes you're growing you're getting

[00:43:32] better and that's pretty great come on y'all know we're gonna bring up that prayer for we get out of here y'all need to pray before y'all make some of these decisions I started up definitely pray

[00:43:39] 20 at least 24 hours or you know maybe going to 3 day fast or something imagine you got God involved in some of the ecosystems and even some of the smaller decisions and even shout out to y'all

[00:43:50] who who uh start to make a decision I know we just uh coming off a great week but let's be very clear I pray y'all making uh the choice you make on what ministry your part of I don't know I can have a lot of

[00:44:04] Christmas outcomes to as well who's taking you who's taking you or the God now yeah guys we didn't just start talking about it now you know we ain't going we ain't going to go tell

[00:44:13] those names out there but I just think y'all ain't being led by the spirit of God and somebody's ministries because y'all ain't growing so if you sit in the ministry and you've been there for two years

[00:44:23] and you still doing the same thing every single thing for two years ago that might not be the ministry for you because if it's not revoked you the change no no yeah why you there what's in your time

[00:44:33] and wasting everybody else's time and race waste not those resources that they got there that you're not being a part of like no that's not how it works so I think a lot of it when you

[00:44:42] talk about the outcomes the things your choices you make a lot of it is spiritual so if y'all would be more spiritual I'm just being a God's plan and purpose call for your life yeah some of

[00:44:54] this stuff y'all might not even begin to I'm just want to put that in your spirit that part guys lost the other top law I just I want to put that out to y'all and you know

[00:45:03] it should be Christ first and you guys are the ambassadors the example and he should be using you everything as always remember to stay focused on turning it negative into a positive

[00:45:12] Jesus Christ is always the answer kingdom of the answer should always be to go to fix this in we out