WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:10.279 Merry Christmas. 2 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:13.000 It reminds me of is the Charlie Ron Christmas when 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.199 he's doing fur lease Beethoven and he said, what kind 4 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.120 of Christmas song is. 5 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:21.120 That it's Beethoven and Christmas music? Well, that's yes, Christmas music. 6 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:24.519 Welcome back Rob Riders in the studio with his guitar 7 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:27.559 of course, Brian Thomas wishing everyone a very merry Christmas 8 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.879 and celebrating the fifty five k S Morning Show Christmas Special, 9 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.679 which I always look forward to every year because we 10 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.359 get to lighten things up and getting a celebratory mood 11 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.799 in spite of all of the muck that's still going 12 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:41.479 on in the world. And today a very special, extra 13 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:46.520 special day because our friend Rick Green from spirit Works 14 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:50.520 Ministries is back in studio with director Savon and the 15 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.560 star of the movie Curtis to talk about the upcoming 16 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.399 movie about Rick Green's life. Rick Green had a moment 17 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.880 of clarity and he's going to remind us his backs 18 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.439 story on this and how God transformed his life. And 19 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.359 you can find Rick and learn more about it and 20 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.439 get books at spirit Works Ministries dot com. Joe's already 21 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:12.239 added that to the blog pay fifty five krcy dot 22 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:15.040 com Rick, so Curtis. Great to have you guys in 23 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:16.920 the studio. Welcome back, especially Rick. 24 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:17.480 Good to see me. 25 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:19.799 Hey, thank you for having me. I've been waiting on 26 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.040 this day for a long time. It's been nine years 27 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:24.079 trying to get this movie. 28 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:25.879 Move that mic a little closer to you when you've 29 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.680 got it. Nine years since the Did the concept come 30 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:29.959 up for the movie nine years ago? 31 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:30.480 Yeah? 32 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.680 God pushed me to make this movie and he never 33 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.319 stopped pushing me. And I remember sank God. I never 34 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:39.400 made a movie and he just kept pushing me. 35 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:41.200 God pushes you a lot. 36 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.400 I love him. He loved me well. 37 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:47.079 I know that the whole point of the movie, which 38 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:49.680 is an amazing thing, and it's uplifting. And some people 39 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.760 have strugg obviously. We have clinics, and we have rehab programs, 40 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:56.079 and we have jails for people who commit crimes a 41 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:58.359 lot of times because they're involved with drugs. We have 42 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:00.799 people that grow up in bad households and bad lives. 43 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.159 That's the story of your life, but not everybody has 44 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:08.400 God stepping in and then immediately transforming it, which is 45 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:11.680 really the most amazing part about your story. Remind my 46 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.439 listeners that backstory. So they have some context for those 47 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.199 who haven't heard you here on the fifty five Krsey 48 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:16.680 Morning Show. 49 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:19.759 Well, I grew up in the projects of Cincinnati. It 50 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.280 was tough, and there was a lot of violence, and 51 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.840 there was always alcohol and drugs in our home. I 52 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:28.800 tell people one of my first memories and smell at 53 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.680 three or four year old. I still smell it to 54 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:33.759 this day. It's the smell of a bar. When I 55 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:36.159 got older and went to a bar, I didn't realize 56 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.919 that was my home. I saw things, I heard things, 57 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.039 you know, four and five year old shouldn't have heard. 58 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.400 There was just a lot of evil in our home, 59 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:49.000 and I was doing anything that I could to escape it. 60 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.039 Because my mom never told me she loved me. And 61 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.840 I'm sixty one. I feel damaged from that to this day. 62 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:58.360 I imagine I never understood how someone could birth you 63 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:00.000 and not say they love you. 64 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.159 And I didn't know what to do with that pain. 65 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:05.919 And one day I snuck downstairs and got one of 66 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:10.680 my fathers beer. They're wrong way laughing and y'alling the adults. 67 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.199 I thought they were having fun. I wanted to have fun. 68 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.319 I didn't know by grabbing that beer it will go 69 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:18.120 from beer it will go from weed, it will go 70 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:18.680 to cocaine. 71 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:19.599 They will go to prison. 72 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:22.759 I didn't see all those steps Satan had before me, 73 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.680 and I fell for every one of them. But I 74 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:28.879 told people I can't blame Satan or anybody from my 75 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.280 whole life. When I blamed the man in the mirror. 76 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.159 Nobody forced me that I chose it. 77 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.479 Yeah, that you know, I make that point about my 78 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:41.039 philosophy is boiled down. There's a Dosto, yesk he cuote it, 79 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:42.319 and I don't have to quote the whole thing. But 80 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:46.039 the point he makes to his friends this conversation that 81 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:48.840 they're heading amongst themselves is you know, look around you, 82 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:50.840 the beautiful that, the star of the moon, the stars, 83 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:53.599 the birds, all this beauty we have and all these 84 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.199 wonderful things that were surrounded by. And he makes the 85 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:02.080 point life is heaven and you only need to recognize that, 86 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:04.240 and you'll embrace each other and weep. I think it's 87 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.919 kind of how the quote goes, but I've always interpreted 88 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:11.400 that to mean you're responsible for how you perceive life. 89 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.719 If you go around and you are in fact surrounded 90 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:16.680 by bad things, it's easy to fall into the trap 91 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:20.639 of viewing everything negatively and making your life because you 92 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:25.279 choose to do that a hell or you could look 93 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:28.199 at life as the gift that you've been given from God. 94 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.600 Life is that ultimate gift from God, and enjoy it 95 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:34.399 and embrace it while you got it. Because you know, 96 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:36.439 you may believe in heaven, you may believe that there's 97 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:39.720 going to be some beautiful angelic environment after this life 98 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.560 is over, and that's wonderful, But this is what you 99 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:45.839 actually are dealing with and have. So if you choose 100 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:47.800 to make it a hell hole, that is the person 101 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:49.120 in the mirror's choice to do it. 102 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:49.680 Yeah. 103 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.839 I always tell people I don't think addiction is all powerful. 104 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:56.000 People might want to perceive it. It's that's the case 105 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.639 while come eleven kids, all of us them become malcoholic 106 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:03.000 and addicts the point almighty, if people want to perceive it, 107 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:05.519 why am I doing it today? 108 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:06.160 Yeah? 109 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.800 I didn't want to die inn at it. I looked 110 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:10.680 at him in the mirror and I didn't like him, 111 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.439 and I divorced him twenty six years ago and I'll 112 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:16.560 never go back to him. 113 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:19.560 Well, I didn't want to be him no more. 114 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:22.720 Well, and if you had remained that person, you probably 115 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.279 wouldn't be alive, and you certainly wouldn't have a movie 116 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:29.000 made about your life and this miracle that you experienced. 117 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.680 What was the moment that How did it occur to 118 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.839 you when this conversation you're having with yourself about and 119 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.000 reflecting on where you are looking at the drug addicted 120 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:44.079 person who's been in prison and experienced all this. You 121 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:45.920 always described it as sort of it was almost like 122 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.839 instantaneously you transformed in a moment's time. What was that 123 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.519 like and it was like a lightning bolt? Or did 124 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:55.560 you just immediately realize that God was right there and 125 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:58.480 he was going to show you a different way. And 126 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.000 it's hard for someone who hasn't inside to proceed it. 127 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.040 I was in the jail, so I probably at the 128 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:08.519 lowest point of my life, and I tell people I 129 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.360 hate standing this point, but I have to say it. 130 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:13.720 I remember saying whispered to me, why don't you just 131 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:17.600 kill yourself because you'll never You'll never beat me? And 132 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.639 it angered me, and I said, why don't you kill yourself? 133 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.560 I never heard nobody whis we that to me? I 134 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.199 know God is holy, righteous and he loved me. He 135 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.839 never talked to me like that. I said, that's the enemy, 136 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.160 and I said, why don't you kill yourself? 137 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:33.560 Wow? 138 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.199 It angered me, but that anger pushed me in the 139 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:40.600 right direction. Yeah, but I never heard nobody say that 140 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.879 to me, and I was offended. But something woke up 141 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:44.879 in me when he said that. 142 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:49.120 Well, you know, the Lord works some mysterious ways. It 143 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.959 may very well have been God's suggestion to you about that, 144 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.639 to bring about that moment of clarity, like, dude, you've 145 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:58.439 reached the lowest point you're ever going to reach. Why 146 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:00.360 don't you just get rid of yourself? And that was 147 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.759 the motive. I mean right there, it's like, you know, 148 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:04.680 God's thinking, of souf, what are we going to do 149 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:06.759 to make Rick a better person? 150 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:07.079 Here? 151 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:09.800 We really got to I don't want to say, like 152 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.079 b slap them, you know. And you just responded with 153 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.439 the same kind of message back at that evil message, 154 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:20.000 which is that's awesome, all right, which is inspirational, which 155 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:21.600 is how you ended up writing a book about it. 156 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:23.519 You've actually written quite a few books. You have some 157 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.759 children's books on your website. You wrote Spirit Works, a 158 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.759 God story about your life in this transformation. And somehow, 159 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.120 in some way Savant, the director of the movie, found out, 160 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:36.079 how did you you can get the mic. Now take 161 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:36.800 it away from Rick. 162 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:37.279 Your turn. 163 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:39.920 How did you find out about this story and what 164 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:41.399 was your I mean, how did you decide to make 165 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:42.199 a movie out of it? 166 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.600 Well, Rick reached out to my cousins. You do poetry. 167 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.519 I'm only recalled exact time or how soon after Rick 168 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:51.319 talked to her that he reached out to me. But 169 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:54.319 I mean, people call an email and text me all 170 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:57.519 the time, and you just say, okay, well, I'm in 171 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.279 the service business. I'm gonna be polite and respe lying 172 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.120 back as best as I can. But Rick was very 173 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:06.800 adamant through his process, and he's been adamant throughout it. 174 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:10.000 Oh yeah, So he reached out. We met up and 175 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:12.240 I heard his story. I'm like, oh yeah, this is 176 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.079 definitely different from what I've done. I would love to 177 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:18.759 brain this to life. So we met up, and Rick 178 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.600 has been constantly pushing it since day one. 179 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.399 He doesn't give up, does he? 180 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.040 No, he doesn't need And are you still doing your 181 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.560 your mission work and handing out food and. 182 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.320 Sandwiches and stuff to the folks that in need? 183 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:36.919 Oh yeah, I feed the homeless every Saturday and off 184 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.559 side of Hamilton Avenue. I love my assignment. I hope 185 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.440 God never removed me from it. We're year seven, We're 186 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.960 over ten thousand bags. Now, are you kidding me? I 187 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:49.039 don't know how me and my wife find the money. 188 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:50.600 God just keep me. 189 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.679 Well, that's what the donate button is for on your website. 190 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:56.919 So I'll encourage my listeners in this giving holiday spirit. 191 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:02.279 A donation to Spirit Works will end up helping Rick 192 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.799 and his wife hand out sandwiches to the homeless in 193 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:09.879 downtown Cincinnati every Saturday throughout the year. So inspirational it is. 194 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:13.120 We'll continue, and we're gonna meet the actor who plays Rick. 195 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.639 His name is Curtis. He's in studio as well, and 196 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.080 I was joking with both of them. I said, Man, Curtis, 197 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.120 how'd you get this role? You're so much better looking 198 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:25.080 than Rick. I gotta say, I gotta want to mention 199 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:29.759 and recommend strongly to my friends Fasten pro roofing the 200 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.840 honest professionals. You know, honesty is a rare commodity in 201 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:36.200 the roofing business. There are some really sadly unscrupulous folks 202 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.360 in the UH in the roofing business. Because you know, 203 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.519 I think about seniors particularly, but then again, I think 204 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.720 about myself. I have never liked getting on my roof. 205 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:46.919 He got Every year we hang up the Christmas wreaths, 206 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.240 usually my wife does it. I just got to think 207 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:50.919 about it. If you know, if there's there's not like 208 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:55.120 some security there, I'm not I don't get vertigo. I 209 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:56.320 just don't want to fall off the roof, and I 210 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.559 certainly don't want to be a punchline like Willie Cunningham 211 00:09:58.720 --> 00:09:59.399 is stuck on the roof. 212 00:09:59.440 --> 00:09:59.799 He had to call. 213 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.159 But that's the point. Most people don't spend any time 214 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:04.720 on the roofs. You don't know what you're looking for 215 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.360 when you're up there. Anyway, What does a roof problem 216 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:10.399 look like? Other than shingles actually missing? Can you determine 217 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.000 whether the roof's got hail damage or not? 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Here you go. 240 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.000 You're a Channel nine first one and wether forecast. Got 241 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.399 a wintery mix out there, off and on. I guess 242 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.559 they say we may get some accumulation. Today's high thirty 243 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:27.600 four going down to twenty five overnight. In a reminder 244 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:30.320 about potential slick spots. If you're out and about tonight, 245 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.320 be careful thirty two the heights. Tomorrow is sunny sky. 246 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.080 It's going to be a few clouds overnight down to 247 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.480 eighteen degrees. Sunday is going to be a mostly sunny 248 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.960 day with a high thirty three thirty seven degrees. Right now, 249 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:41.639 it's time for a traffic update check. 250 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.480 From the UCU Tramphing Center for Unmatched Cancer Care CHOOS 251 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:48.879 the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, the only regional program 252 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:52.720 offering protown therapy called five one three, five to eighty 253 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.080 four being highway traffic not bad at all to deal 254 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.480 with this morning. The lone exception is southbound two seventy 255 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:03.840 five be on the breaks from the Lawrence purg Ramp 256 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.519 across the Carrol Cropper Chuck King ramon fifty five krs. 257 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:08.840 The talk station. 258 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:20.159 Godress, g Mary, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ, 259 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.759 our saved was born on Christmas Day to save us 260 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:25.519 all from. 261 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.080 Zoyf and power. And we will go on astray. 262 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.960 Ho tidings of colme. 263 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:35.320 Food and joy, covert en joy, Oh tidings of. 264 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.200 Come food and joy wonderful. 265 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:43.960 It's like one one favorite Christmas tunes Rob Ryder in Studio, 266 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:45.759 which is of course tradition here on the fifty five 267 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.519 KOs Morning Show. And we are celebrating Christmas and in 268 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.799 a great way today doing the talking all about Rick 269 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.200 Green and his story which he calls a God's story 270 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:59.200 and Savanti director who has directed the movie. And it 271 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:01.840 is in post production, meeting the filming is done. You're 272 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:04.440 doing the editing right now? Or is it all done? 273 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:05.360 You got it in the can? 274 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.240 No, the movie's done and we have a date for it. 275 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.960 Oh so it's it's finished March sixth. 276 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.799 March six. Now where where we before we meet the 277 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.440 actor who Curtis Williams who's playing Rick in the movie. 278 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.240 Where's the movie going to be available? Is going to 279 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.440 be on in movie theater? Is gonna be online? How 280 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:25.360 are we gonna find it? 281 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:29.440 We are doing our first showing March six, six pm 282 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:33.480 and seven point thirty at the Springdale Nazarene Church. That's 283 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:37.639 one one one seven seventh Springfield Pike. That's Cincinnati, Ohio 284 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:40.360 four five two four six. What do those first two 285 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.159 showings and then we'll have it online with an announcement 286 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:43.720 to follow. 287 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.200 Well, you have an invitation in counter your twenty twenty 288 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:50.559 five to come back or even just call him with 289 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.960 a segment to remind people it's coming out and to 290 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.559 get there and to see it and uh and uh. 291 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:59.200 We'll get people's reaction from it as well. Moving over 292 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:01.440 to the young man who was in studio, nineteen year 293 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:05.840 old Curtis Williams, who has was selected to play Rick 294 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:07.679 Green in the movie. Curtis, Man, it's great to meet 295 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:09.200 you today and good to have you in the studio. 296 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:10.919 It's great to be here. Thank you for having me. 297 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:12.919 And the congratulations on Land of the Park. And I 298 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.200 gave you props for you know, outshining Rick over here 299 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:17.799 in terms of you know, I'm sure that's why. 300 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:18.120 He picked you. 301 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.000 It's like I want my young self to be a 302 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:24.480 you know, good looking guy. Anyway, what was it like 303 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:27.120 playing Rick? And I guess I want to ask you 304 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:30.159 from your experiences of life and you graduated from gamble 305 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:31.480 Gamble Montessories. 306 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:31.759 All right. 307 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:33.840 I want to make sure people knew that local man 308 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:38.519 you are. Can you relate to Rick's young young life? 309 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:40.360 You know all I don't want you to reveal personal 310 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:43.639 family is serious, but as an actor playing a man 311 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:47.000 who went through these hardships, could you connect with him 312 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:47.720 on some level? 313 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:52.519 I couldn't really relate to him as much as in 314 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:56.320 terms of like all the trauma that he went through right, thankfully, 315 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:59.559 very much, thankfully. And I had a very good life 316 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:02.919 growing up. But that's why I was kind of excited 317 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:04.639 to do this role because I was kind of playing 318 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:06.879 something that I never did before the challenge. 319 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:09.679 And that's that's just how you grow as an actor. 320 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.200 You play roles that you're not really sure like how 321 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.480 you're gonna do, like once the cameras are on, and 322 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:23.399 I just feel like that's like like that's just always 323 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.759 going to help you improve, like with every step of 324 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:26.080 the way. 325 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:29.240 Sure, yeah, it's a growth thing, and it's like absolutely. 326 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.000 I always said, you know, I practiced law for sixteen 327 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:35.279 years before I got I was offered this job, right, 328 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:37.440 And I always say to people because a young man, 329 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:40.279 maybe it was just a year older than you, asked 330 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:41.799 me what I want to be on radio? What do 331 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.840 I need to do to do that? And I response 332 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:45.200 to him, I didn't want to be a jerk, but 333 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.519 was practice law for sixteen years. You need life experience, 334 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:50.240 You need to learn a lot of things, and it's 335 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.759 all a building block and you end up every little 336 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:55.799 thing you do builds that knowledge base and you become 337 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:58.279 better a better person for it, and you're capable of 338 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.960 dealing with a broader of topics my case. In your case, 339 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:04.480 of course, this role playing someone that you have no 340 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:08.360 real connection with. Again thankfully, well, of course serve you 341 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:09.759 really well down the road. So you want to be 342 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:12.000 you want to be an actor as a career, Yes, 343 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:14.080 I do, all right, Well how long is you? How 344 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:14.960 long did you feel that way? 345 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:18.840 Ever? Since I was a little kid. 346 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.919 Really, I've always just wanted to be an entertainer, So 347 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:25.120 I just I was just trying to find any way 348 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.759 that I could. So as soon as I graduated high school, 349 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:31.480 I was always looking for possible acting roles, and I 350 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.600 got my first one through my cousin, Yosaia Johnson, who 351 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.639 owns his own production company, Yosaia Vision, which I'm very 352 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:38.759 thankful that he gave me. 353 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:40.440 My very first role, I bet. 354 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:44.000 And I got my second role through four Fall Youth Studios, 355 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.000 which again I'm very thankful that they gave me the 356 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:51.080 opportunity because I was not expecting to get these roles, 357 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:54.120 because of course I was looking for the roles, but 358 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.679 when you don't have as much experience, of course, everyone's 359 00:16:57.720 --> 00:16:59.279 going to say, well, you don't have much experience, so 360 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:00.200 how can we trust. 361 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.240 It's a circular argument. Well, dam if you don't give 362 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:05.119 me the job, how am I going to get the experience? 363 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:05.960 That's what I'm saying. 364 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:10.319 It's crazy, it's crazy. Well, you know, if it wasn't 365 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.480 for God intervening in Rick's life and transforming his life 366 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:16.400 to create a story, then you never have the role 367 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.880 and another building block for your future, your future career. 368 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:22.039 So it's amazing how all those kind of things kind 369 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:23.440 of line up and work out, isn't it? 370 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:24.079 Yes, it is. 371 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:26.759 That's wonderful. And how about the fellow actors that you 372 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:29.119 work with? How many people are in the movie in 373 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:31.119 terms of parts. 374 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:36.000 There's about there's about I won't say, between twenty five 375 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:37.480 or thirty speaking rows. 376 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:38.400 So really it. 377 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:42.119 Was a challenging, but it was fun challenging. 378 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.680 Let's find somebody that can work with this person and 379 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.480 then you get them on set play. Oh, it worked perfect, 380 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:48.799 and then you got to do it like ten to 381 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:50.240 fifteen different more times. 382 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:52.359 Do you have any problem connect with the actors? You 383 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.160 guys all play well together and figure each other out. 384 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.599 And oh yeah, the energy with all my castmates was 385 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.720 absolutely amazing. I was happy to work with an amazing 386 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.559 group of people and possibly learn from them, because I 387 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:08.680 always take every role as a learning experience to take 388 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:10.680 notes from my fellow cast mates on how to do 389 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:13.480 this and how to do that, because again, like that's 390 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:14.960 just how you grow as an actor. 391 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.759 And that's what smart people do. It's like Journeyman Apprentice 392 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:19.960 that you learn from the Journeyman when you're an apprentice, 393 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.640 and next thing you know, you're teaching others the craft yourself. 394 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:24.519 Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. 395 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:29.640 Well, we're looking forward to March sixth to get to 396 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.720 check out the movie at the Springdale Nazarene Church. Got 397 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:35.599 that right, spring down Nazarene Church. You can go ahead 398 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:37.759 and put it down on your calendar now six pm 399 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:39.839 showing a seven thirty showing as well, and then to 400 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.559 the online. But we'll bring the crew back, or at 401 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:46.279