Speaker 1: Seven six here at fifty five kro ceed he talks
Speaker 1: to Brian Thomas welcoming back, a man who's been on
Speaker 1: the fifty five Carsee morning show quite a few times
Speaker 1: over the years, to talk about his mission, which you
Speaker 1: can find online at Spirit Worksministries dot com. Welcome back,
Speaker 1: Rick Green, my friend. It's always good talking with you.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Brian's always good to hear the best
Speaker 2: radio boys around.
Speaker 1: You're the best man. I appreciate that. And listen now
Speaker 1: for listeners that aren't familiar with your backstory, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. You had a troubled youth involved in drugs
Speaker 1: and alcohol, you were in prison, and you turn your
Speaker 1: life around. I'm summarizing your amazing transformation. You had a
Speaker 1: moment of clarity and God he reached out to you
Speaker 1: and touched you in some way. And is it that
Speaker 1: one moment in time that you quit drugs and you
Speaker 1: quit your life of grime and you said you were
Speaker 1: going to be You're gonna transform your life for the better,
Speaker 1: and you obviously have. This has been years and years ago,
Speaker 1: and you got a ministry. You help feed the homeless.
Speaker 1: You take sandwiches out to the people who don't have
Speaker 1: a meal every weekend with your wife. You've got a job.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just reconnected yourself. So I got a
Speaker 1: question for you. And I met the young man who
Speaker 1: played in the movie that's coming out, which we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about here, about your life. Now, if you rewind
Speaker 1: Rick Green and put yourself back into that prison cell
Speaker 1: before you had your moment of clarity, and someone walked
Speaker 1: up to you and said, Rick Green, you know there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a movie made about your life. What do
Speaker 1: you think your young man's reaction might have been to that.
Speaker 2: I probably think there was crazy that Satan trying to
Speaker 2: make me believe I was. But that wouldn't sound real
Speaker 2: at the moment, Like what are you talking about? But
Speaker 2: you know, I really learned. I'm really good to get
Speaker 2: myself in the message. I'm just horrible getting.
Speaker 1: Myself out of me.
Speaker 2: That's why I look at my life. You know, just
Speaker 2: talks in a life, it's horrible. Well, you don't care
Speaker 2: about you. You can't care about anything or nothing else
Speaker 2: because you don't love yourself, and I won't bringing anything
Speaker 2: positive to the world. I had to reach out to
Speaker 2: a mighty and holy God to save me. I couldn't
Speaker 2: say myself, I don't want to dine at it. I
Speaker 2: turned time my foot, I didn't want to dine at it.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. And you know the other component of this
Speaker 1: is and I saw a brilliant article written the other
Speaker 1: day by a black preacher from the city of Chicago.
Speaker 1: Corey Brooks is his name, and I'll encourage my listeners
Speaker 1: to look out for it. It's Trump's colorblind messages energizes
Speaker 1: black Americans and boiled down. And I'm really boiling it down.
Speaker 1: His point is, don't turn to government. Rely on your self.
Speaker 1: Self reliance, stable families and education can lift neighborhoods like
Speaker 1: mind untold. Heisi right, And but that's the point. Quit
Speaker 1: looking outside, look to yourself. And if you can rely
Speaker 1: on God as an inspiration and say, listen, I Rick
Speaker 1: Green will not die an addict and change your life.
Speaker 1: That is something that no other human being can control.
Speaker 1: That's you controlling your own destiny. You know.
Speaker 2: That's just the one thing I didn't want my kids
Speaker 2: to hear that I die an alcoholic and an addict.
Speaker 2: That's sur bothering me, probably more than anything. I didn't
Speaker 2: want nobody becoming my children that's how I died. I
Speaker 2: don't know to mean that, just that's an avoidable death
Speaker 2: in my opinion, because your choices can save you or
Speaker 2: they can also defeature. Well, it's you and your choices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I think that's why I love having you
Speaker 1: on the show. It's it's that message is so it's
Speaker 1: fundamental to my being, you know, like I always say,
Speaker 1: I'm going to start trying to control your life for
Speaker 1: somebody else's life when I'm done fixing my own. You know,
Speaker 1: look at the man in the mirror every morning, and
Speaker 1: you know, I got problems with my own. And when
Speaker 1: I'm done perfecting myself, which will never happen, then I'll
Speaker 1: come calling for you. But in the meantime, there ain't
Speaker 1: nobody out there that can tell me how to live
Speaker 1: my life appropriately, and I don't think it would work
Speaker 1: if they tried. In fact, I would probably try to
Speaker 1: reject it if someone engage in those efforts. But in
Speaker 1: any of that, how did you What was your reaction
Speaker 1: to the movie when you finally I got to assume
Speaker 1: you've seen it already.
Speaker 2: Actually, I just looked at it Friday for the first time.
Speaker 2: All the way through, I don't like it because I
Speaker 2: know what it took to get here. There was a
Speaker 2: probably two or three hundred no's and one yes changed everything.
Speaker 2: But I never let nos stop me or deter me.
Speaker 2: All they do push me forward. No, it's not a
Speaker 2: bad word. We all need knowing our life. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just how you take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. And who the message is?
Speaker 2: Take well? God placed in my heart from me, because
Speaker 2: no man placed them in my own. God did. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you're a firm believer in the power of prayer too,
Speaker 1: aren't you.
Speaker 2: Oh? I have to. When Joe called me this morning,
Speaker 2: I just got done praying because I taught my day.
Speaker 2: I found what I call my God time. It's god
Speaker 2: Rick and Coffee. That's why I think God like coffee,
Speaker 2: because we drink coffee every morning and we have our time.
Speaker 2: We communicate. Then I read my Bible. Then I saw
Speaker 2: it my day. I can't start my day with my
Speaker 2: God time. I can't go to bed with not my
Speaker 2: gone time. I prayed before I would have dead. Means
Speaker 2: God we spend our time then not going to sleep,
Speaker 2: and I sleep wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's sounding a great name for a podcast. God Rick
Speaker 1: and Coffee. Consider that one man. Anyway, I think you.
Speaker 2: Like coffee, he shold up prey in morning.
Speaker 1: That's good anyway. I was fortunate enough to have the
Speaker 1: director and the young man who portrays you in the
Speaker 1: movie in the studio with you the last time you
Speaker 1: were here. What do you think of his performance? How
Speaker 1: did it all work out in your mind?
Speaker 2: I think he did great. Stepty, he didn't know when
Speaker 2: he walked in he was going to be the lead,
Speaker 2: and everyone on them and said, just humbled me, Brian,
Speaker 2: because everyone sold out. No, Rick didn't have no blank
Speaker 2: and I couldn't pay nobody. All I could do with
Speaker 2: feed them, and that humbled me. They gave me their
Speaker 2: talent and their time and their effort, and I said, God,
Speaker 2: you love me that much. Well, you know I'm talking
Speaker 2: when somebody who did something for you they don't have
Speaker 2: to and they get nothing in return, it bothered me.
Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't think they got nothing in return. I
Speaker 1: mean what they got is to help you spread this
Speaker 1: inspirational message and the hope. And I think your movie
Speaker 1: will provide hope to people because your story provides hope
Speaker 1: to people that you know, this isn't a death sentence.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be the way your life is
Speaker 1: going to continue. You have the ability within yourself to
Speaker 1: transform yourself. So what they get out of it is
Speaker 1: spreading this message, which I have to imagine that everyone
Speaker 1: involved in this movie shares your message of faith and belief.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not so because some of them I
Speaker 2: never you know, met before, and we didn't really talk
Speaker 2: a lot. But I tell you what, they showed up
Speaker 2: and they did their job. They showed up every day
Speaker 2: and they did their job, and they humbled me. It
Speaker 2: just showed me no matter what the media or anyone
Speaker 2: want to Pertray does a lot of good people in
Speaker 2: the world. It's just, in my opinion, seemed like nobody
Speaker 2: want to interview them. There's a lot of good people
Speaker 2: in the world.
Speaker 1: Yes there are, and you know that, and you're one
Speaker 1: of them. You gave your kidney to a guy you
Speaker 1: didn't even know.
Speaker 2: You know, that definitely was a god thing. Because I'm
Speaker 2: just as human as anybody else. You know. I can
Speaker 2: be here in the boat, I can be aggravated, I
Speaker 2: could be mean. I'm just human. But God told me
Speaker 2: the help.
Speaker 1: This man, well, that was amazing. That man happened to
Speaker 1: be What was the son of Marvin Gay, wasn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Marvin Gavids third, April twenty ninth, twenty fourteen. And
Speaker 2: I can't forget that day.
Speaker 1: Neither can he. You saved his life just because he
Speaker 1: heard a news story about him. He reached out to him.
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, guess what, It's a match. So
Speaker 1: there you go. Rick's giving his kidney over to him. Man,
Speaker 1: he didn't know. That's really cool. And every weekend you're
Speaker 1: feeding the homeless and you have a charitable mission along
Speaker 1: this guys along that we're along this line spirit Worksministries
Speaker 1: dot com. Joe put the link on my blog page
Speaker 1: fifty five Carsey dot com. So if he can help Rick,
Speaker 1: he could sure use a donation because this is coming
Speaker 1: out of his pocket. But ultimately we need to double
Speaker 1: back to the movie. When is it coming out? And
Speaker 1: where should people be to see the release?
Speaker 2: Uh, We're going to er at March sixth at my
Speaker 2: home church of Springdale Nazarine. That's one one one seven
Speaker 2: seven Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, Ohio four five two four six.
Speaker 2: There'll be two showing a seventh thirty.
Speaker 1: It's only an hour long, our long flick six pm.
Speaker 1: And seven thirty star times again Springdale Nazarene Church on
Speaker 1: Springfield Pike. That will also be on my blog page
Speaker 1: fifty five Casee dot com. Rick Green, True inspiration. Love
Speaker 1: having you come on the show. And I hope everyone
Speaker 1: gets a chance to see the movie and uh and
Speaker 1: I hope everyone stops by your website and helps you
Speaker 1: fulfill your mission at Spirit Spiritworksministries dot com. Rick, my
Speaker 1: dear friend. Best of luck for the movie. I hope
Speaker 1: it's a huge success. And thank you for what you're
Speaker 1: doing in the community each and every day, and thank
Speaker 1: you for the inspiration that you provide my listeners.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, and Brian, thank you for always for kinocial
Speaker 2: Spirit Works from the third time we met, Happy to humble.
Speaker 1: Listen. Man, that's what the show is all about. You know,
Speaker 1: you got such a great message. Well, I mean I
Speaker 1: would be an idiot if I didn't try to spread
Speaker 1: it along with you. I mean, it's just it's inspirational,
Speaker 1: it's uplifting and it and again it represents kind of
Speaker 1: what I'm about, the self determination. You you have proven
Speaker 1: it to everyone who's facing challenges that you can overcome them.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that so much, Rick Green, we'll talk
Speaker 1: again soon and maybe get a post debut assessment from
Speaker 1: you after the movie debuts. I hope everyone shows up. Rick,
Speaker 1: take care of my friend. We'll have you on road again. Sure,
Speaker 1: sure thing, you too, brother seven sixteen fifty five krc
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