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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Seven six here at fifty five kro ceed he talks
to Brian Thomas welcoming back, a man who's been on
the fifty five Carsee morning show quite a few times
over the years, to talk about his mission, which you
can find online at Spirit Worksministries dot com. Welcome back,
Rick Green, my friend. It's always good talking with you.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hey, good morning, Brian's always good to hear the best
radio boys around.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You're the best man. I appreciate that. And listen now
for listeners that aren't familiar with your backstory, and it's
pretty amazing. You had a troubled youth involved in drugs
and alcohol, you were in prison, and you turn your
life around. I'm summarizing your amazing transformation. You had a
moment of clarity and God he reached out to you
(00:58):
and touched you in some way. And is it that
one moment in time that you quit drugs and you
quit your life of grime and you said you were
going to be You're gonna transform your life for the better,
and you obviously have. This has been years and years ago,
and you got a ministry. You help feed the homeless.
You take sandwiches out to the people who don't have
a meal every weekend with your wife. You've got a job.
(01:20):
I mean, you just reconnected yourself. So I got a
question for you. And I met the young man who
played in the movie that's coming out, which we're gonna
talk about here, about your life. Now, if you rewind
Rick Green and put yourself back into that prison cell
before you had your moment of clarity, and someone walked
up to you and said, Rick Green, you know there's
(01:41):
gonna be a movie made about your life. What do
you think your young man's reaction might have been to that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I probably think there was crazy that Satan trying to
make me believe I was. But that wouldn't sound real
at the moment, Like what are you talking about? But
you know, I really learned. I'm really good to get
myself in the message. I'm just horrible getting.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Myself out of me.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
That's why I look at my life. You know, just
talks in a life, it's horrible. Well, you don't care
about you. You can't care about anything or nothing else
because you don't love yourself, and I won't bringing anything
positive to the world. I had to reach out to
a mighty and holy God to save me. I couldn't
say myself, I don't want to dine at it. I
(02:26):
turned time my foot, I didn't want to dine at it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's amazing. And you know the other component of this
is and I saw a brilliant article written the other
day by a black preacher from the city of Chicago.
Corey Brooks is his name, and I'll encourage my listeners
to look out for it. It's Trump's colorblind messages energizes
black Americans and boiled down. And I'm really boiling it down.
His point is, don't turn to government. Rely on your self.
(02:54):
Self reliance, stable families and education can lift neighborhoods like
mind untold. Heisi right, And but that's the point. Quit
looking outside, look to yourself. And if you can rely
on God as an inspiration and say, listen, I Rick
Green will not die an addict and change your life.
That is something that no other human being can control.
(03:16):
That's you controlling your own destiny. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's just the one thing I didn't want my kids
to hear that I die an alcoholic and an addict.
That's sur bothering me, probably more than anything. I didn't
want nobody becoming my children that's how I died. I
don't know to mean that, just that's an avoidable death
in my opinion, because your choices can save you or
they can also defeature. Well, it's you and your choices.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, exactly. I think that's why I love having you
on the show. It's it's that message is so it's
fundamental to my being, you know, like I always say,
I'm going to start trying to control your life for
somebody else's life when I'm done fixing my own. You know,
look at the man in the mirror every morning, and
you know, I got problems with my own. And when
I'm done perfecting myself, which will never happen, then I'll
come calling for you. But in the meantime, there ain't
(04:10):
nobody out there that can tell me how to live
my life appropriately, and I don't think it would work
if they tried. In fact, I would probably try to
reject it if someone engage in those efforts. But in
any of that, how did you What was your reaction
to the movie when you finally I got to assume
you've seen it already.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Actually, I just looked at it Friday for the first time.
All the way through, I don't like it because I
know what it took to get here. There was a
probably two or three hundred no's and one yes changed everything.
But I never let nos stop me or deter me.
All they do push me forward. No, it's not a
(04:48):
bad word. We all need knowing our life. Yeah, it's
just how you take it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, that's true. And who the message is?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Take well? God placed in my heart from me, because
no man placed them in my own. God did. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And you're a firm believer in the power of prayer too,
aren't you.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh? I have to. When Joe called me this morning,
I just got done praying because I taught my day.
I found what I call my God time. It's god
Rick and Coffee. That's why I think God like coffee,
because we drink coffee every morning and we have our time.
We communicate. Then I read my Bible. Then I saw
it my day. I can't start my day with my
God time. I can't go to bed with not my
(05:27):
gone time. I prayed before I would have dead. Means
God we spend our time then not going to sleep,
and I sleep wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's sounding a great name for a podcast. God Rick
and Coffee. Consider that one man. Anyway, I think you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Like coffee, he shold up prey in morning.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's good anyway. I was fortunate enough to have the
director and the young man who portrays you in the
movie in the studio with you the last time you
were here. What do you think of his performance? How
did it all work out in your mind?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I think he did great. Stepty, he didn't know when
he walked in he was going to be the lead,
and everyone on them and said, just humbled me, Brian,
because everyone sold out. No, Rick didn't have no blank
and I couldn't pay nobody. All I could do with
feed them, and that humbled me. They gave me their
talent and their time and their effort, and I said, God,
you love me that much. Well, you know I'm talking
(06:27):
when somebody who did something for you they don't have
to and they get nothing in return, it bothered me.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, I wouldn't think they got nothing in return. I
mean what they got is to help you spread this
inspirational message and the hope. And I think your movie
will provide hope to people because your story provides hope
to people that you know, this isn't a death sentence.
It doesn't have to be the way your life is
going to continue. You have the ability within yourself to
transform yourself. So what they get out of it is
(06:55):
spreading this message, which I have to imagine that everyone
involved in this movie shares your message of faith and belief.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, I'm not so because some of them I
never you know, met before, and we didn't really talk
a lot. But I tell you what, they showed up
and they did their job. They showed up every day
and they did their job, and they humbled me. It
just showed me no matter what the media or anyone
want to Pertray does a lot of good people in
the world. It's just, in my opinion, seemed like nobody
(07:27):
want to interview them. There's a lot of good people
in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes there are, and you know that, and you're one
of them. You gave your kidney to a guy you
didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You know, that definitely was a god thing. Because I'm
just as human as anybody else. You know. I can
be here in the boat, I can be aggravated, I
could be mean. I'm just human. But God told me
the help.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This man, well, that was amazing. That man happened to
be What was the son of Marvin Gay, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah? Marvin Gavids third, April twenty ninth, twenty fourteen. And
I can't forget that day.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Neither can he. You saved his life just because he
heard a news story about him. He reached out to him.
Next thing you know, guess what, It's a match. So
there you go. Rick's giving his kidney over to him. Man,
he didn't know. That's really cool. And every weekend you're
feeding the homeless and you have a charitable mission along
this guys along that we're along this line spirit Worksministries
(08:28):
dot com. Joe put the link on my blog page
fifty five Carsey dot com. So if he can help Rick,
he could sure use a donation because this is coming
out of his pocket. But ultimately we need to double
back to the movie. When is it coming out? And
where should people be to see the release?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Uh, We're going to er at March sixth at my
home church of Springdale Nazarine. That's one one one seven
seven Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, Ohio four five two four six.
There'll be two showing a seventh thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's only an hour long, our long flick six pm.
And seven thirty star times again Springdale Nazarene Church on
Springfield Pike. That will also be on my blog page
fifty five Casee dot com. Rick Green, True inspiration. Love
having you come on the show. And I hope everyone
gets a chance to see the movie and uh and
I hope everyone stops by your website and helps you
(09:22):
fulfill your mission at Spirit Spiritworksministries dot com. Rick, my
dear friend. Best of luck for the movie. I hope
it's a huge success. And thank you for what you're
doing in the community each and every day, and thank
you for the inspiration that you provide my listeners.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You're welcome, and Brian, thank you for always for kinocial
Spirit Works from the third time we met, Happy to humble.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Listen. Man, that's what the show is all about. You know,
you got such a great message. Well, I mean I
would be an idiot if I didn't try to spread
it along with you. I mean, it's just it's inspirational,
it's uplifting and it and again it represents kind of
what I'm about, the self determination. You you have proven
it to everyone who's facing challenges that you can overcome them.
(10:05):
And I appreciate that so much, Rick Green, we'll talk
again soon and maybe get a post debut assessment from
you after the movie debuts. I hope everyone shows up. Rick,
take care of my friend. We'll have you on road again. Sure,
sure thing, you too, brother seven sixteen fifty five krc
DE talk station Coming up next. Christopher Smitheman with a
(10:25):
Smither event. The first word. My good friends at Foreign Exchange,
and I really feel that they are friends, and you'll
feel that way too, because they'll take great care of you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We need.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You have a traditionally imported car. It's time to get
it into Foreign Exchange. I have your car service with
a full warranty on parts and service, service done by
an AC certified Master technician and paying less than the dealer.
That's right. And we'll be in there at some point
with a Kia. Tell you Rye, we got a used
one to replace the Honda. Needed to replace that Honda.
(10:54):
My son's got it now. But it's an important car,
so it's going to full exchange when it needs an
oil change or any service. That's where it's gonna go,
even if it's not under warranty, because I know I
won't pay as much. It's a dealer for the oil
change much in the way I found that out about
my German where my houry German cars, my wife and
I drive them. You go to foreign exchange and you
(11:14):
save hundreds of dollars at least in our case, which
is just mind boggling to me, same oil, same filter,
one hundred couple, one hundred dollars savings. Yeah, that's the point.
Great service, family friendly environment. You can talk to the
mechanic if you choose to, but you're not paying as
much as a dealer. Westchester location is the one of
the location I recommend. It's the Tylersville egsit off of
(11:36):
I seventy five, just east on Tylersville off seventy five
two streets, hanging right on Kinglin. You're there to reach
them for an appointment five one three six four four
twenty six twenty six five one three six four four
twenty six twenty six. Please tell them, Brian said, Hi
online four and X. That's four in the letter X
dot com. This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station.
(11:58):
You struggling with
Seven six here at fifty five kro ceed he talks
to Brian Thomas welcoming back, a man who's been on
the fifty five Carsee morning show quite a few times
over the years, to talk about his mission, which you
can find online at Spirit Worksministries dot com. Welcome back,
Rick Green, my friend. It's always good talking with you.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hey, good morning, Brian's always good to hear the best
radio boys around.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You're the best man. I appreciate that. And listen now
for listeners that aren't familiar with your backstory, and it's
pretty amazing. You had a troubled youth involved in drugs
and alcohol, you were in prison, and you turn your
life around. I'm summarizing your amazing transformation. You had a
moment of clarity and God he reached out to you
(00:58):
and touched you in some way. And is it that
one moment in time that you quit drugs and you
quit your life of grime and you said you were
going to be You're gonna transform your life for the better,
and you obviously have. This has been years and years ago,
and you got a ministry. You help feed the homeless.
You take sandwiches out to the people who don't have
a meal every weekend with your wife. You've got a job.
(01:20):
I mean, you just reconnected yourself. So I got a
question for you. And I met the young man who
played in the movie that's coming out, which we're gonna
talk about here, about your life. Now, if you rewind
Rick Green and put yourself back into that prison cell
before you had your moment of clarity, and someone walked
up to you and said, Rick Green, you know there's
(01:41):
gonna be a movie made about your life. What do
you think your young man's reaction might have been to that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I probably think there was crazy that Satan trying to
make me believe I was. But that wouldn't sound real
at the moment, Like what are you talking about? But
you know, I really learned. I'm really good to get
myself in the message. I'm just horrible getting.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Myself out of me.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
That's why I look at my life. You know, just
talks in a life, it's horrible. Well, you don't care
about you. You can't care about anything or nothing else
because you don't love yourself, and I won't bringing anything
positive to the world. I had to reach out to
a mighty and holy God to save me. I couldn't
say myself, I don't want to dine at it. I
(02:26):
turned time my foot, I didn't want to dine at it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's amazing. And you know the other component of this
is and I saw a brilliant article written the other
day by a black preacher from the city of Chicago.
Corey Brooks is his name, and I'll encourage my listeners
to look out for it. It's Trump's colorblind messages energizes
black Americans and boiled down. And I'm really boiling it down.
His point is, don't turn to government. Rely on your self.
(02:54):
Self reliance, stable families and education can lift neighborhoods like
mind untold. Heisi right, And but that's the point. Quit
looking outside, look to yourself. And if you can rely
on God as an inspiration and say, listen, I Rick
Green will not die an addict and change your life.
That is something that no other human being can control.
(03:16):
That's you controlling your own destiny. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's just the one thing I didn't want my kids
to hear that I die an alcoholic and an addict.
That's sur bothering me, probably more than anything. I didn't
want nobody becoming my children that's how I died. I
don't know to mean that, just that's an avoidable death
in my opinion, because your choices can save you or
they can also defeature. Well, it's you and your choices.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, exactly. I think that's why I love having you
on the show. It's it's that message is so it's
fundamental to my being, you know, like I always say,
I'm going to start trying to control your life for
somebody else's life when I'm done fixing my own. You know,
look at the man in the mirror every morning, and
you know, I got problems with my own. And when
I'm done perfecting myself, which will never happen, then I'll
come calling for you. But in the meantime, there ain't
(04:10):
nobody out there that can tell me how to live
my life appropriately, and I don't think it would work
if they tried. In fact, I would probably try to
reject it if someone engage in those efforts. But in
any of that, how did you What was your reaction
to the movie when you finally I got to assume
you've seen it already.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Actually, I just looked at it Friday for the first time.
All the way through, I don't like it because I
know what it took to get here. There was a
probably two or three hundred no's and one yes changed everything.
But I never let nos stop me or deter me.
All they do push me forward. No, it's not a
(04:48):
bad word. We all need knowing our life. Yeah, it's
just how you take it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, that's true. And who the message is?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Take well? God placed in my heart from me, because
no man placed them in my own. God did. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And you're a firm believer in the power of prayer too,
aren't you.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh? I have to. When Joe called me this morning,
I just got done praying because I taught my day.
I found what I call my God time. It's god
Rick and Coffee. That's why I think God like coffee,
because we drink coffee every morning and we have our time.
We communicate. Then I read my Bible. Then I saw
it my day. I can't start my day with my
God time. I can't go to bed with not my
(05:27):
gone time. I prayed before I would have dead. Means
God we spend our time then not going to sleep,
and I sleep wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's sounding a great name for a podcast. God Rick
and Coffee. Consider that one man. Anyway, I think you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Like coffee, he shold up prey in morning.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's good anyway. I was fortunate enough to have the
director and the young man who portrays you in the
movie in the studio with you the last time you
were here. What do you think of his performance? How
did it all work out in your mind?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I think he did great. Stepty, he didn't know when
he walked in he was going to be the lead,
and everyone on them and said, just humbled me, Brian,
because everyone sold out. No, Rick didn't have no blank
and I couldn't pay nobody. All I could do with
feed them, and that humbled me. They gave me their
talent and their time and their effort, and I said, God,
you love me that much. Well, you know I'm talking
(06:27):
when somebody who did something for you they don't have
to and they get nothing in return, it bothered me.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, I wouldn't think they got nothing in return. I
mean what they got is to help you spread this
inspirational message and the hope. And I think your movie
will provide hope to people because your story provides hope
to people that you know, this isn't a death sentence.
It doesn't have to be the way your life is
going to continue. You have the ability within yourself to
transform yourself. So what they get out of it is
(06:55):
spreading this message, which I have to imagine that everyone
involved in this movie shares your message of faith and belief.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, I'm not so because some of them I
never you know, met before, and we didn't really talk
a lot. But I tell you what, they showed up
and they did their job. They showed up every day
and they did their job, and they humbled me. It
just showed me no matter what the media or anyone
want to Pertray does a lot of good people in
the world. It's just, in my opinion, seemed like nobody
(07:27):
want to interview them. There's a lot of good people
in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes there are, and you know that, and you're one
of them. You gave your kidney to a guy you
didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You know, that definitely was a god thing. Because I'm
just as human as anybody else. You know. I can
be here in the boat, I can be aggravated, I
could be mean. I'm just human. But God told me
the help.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This man, well, that was amazing. That man happened to
be What was the son of Marvin Gay, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah? Marvin Gavids third, April twenty ninth, twenty fourteen. And
I can't forget that day.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Neither can he. You saved his life just because he
heard a news story about him. He reached out to him.
Next thing you know, guess what, It's a match. So
there you go. Rick's giving his kidney over to him. Man,
he didn't know. That's really cool. And every weekend you're
feeding the homeless and you have a charitable mission along
this guys along that we're along this line spirit Worksministries
(08:28):
dot com. Joe put the link on my blog page
fifty five Carsey dot com. So if he can help Rick,
he could sure use a donation because this is coming
out of his pocket. But ultimately we need to double
back to the movie. When is it coming out? And
where should people be to see the release?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Uh, We're going to er at March sixth at my
home church of Springdale Nazarine. That's one one one seven
seven Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, Ohio four five two four six.
There'll be two showing a seventh thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's only an hour long, our long flick six pm.
And seven thirty star times again Springdale Nazarene Church on
Springfield Pike. That will also be on my blog page
fifty five Casee dot com. Rick Green, True inspiration. Love
having you come on the show. And I hope everyone
gets a chance to see the movie and uh and
I hope everyone stops by your website and helps you
(09:22):
fulfill your mission at Spirit Spiritworksministries dot com. Rick, my
dear friend. Best of luck for the movie. I hope
it's a huge success. And thank you for what you're
doing in the community each and every day, and thank
you for the inspiration that you provide my listeners.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You're welcome, and Brian, thank you for always for kinocial
Spirit Works from the third time we met, Happy to humble.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Listen. Man, that's what the show is all about. You know,
you got such a great message. Well, I mean I
would be an idiot if I didn't try to spread
it along with you. I mean, it's just it's inspirational,
it's uplifting and it and again it represents kind of
what I'm about, the self determination. You you have proven
it to everyone who's facing challenges that you can overcome them.
(10:05):
And I appreciate that so much, Rick Green, we'll talk
again soon and maybe get a post debut assessment from
you after the movie debuts. I hope everyone shows up. Rick,
take care of my friend. We'll have you on road again. Sure,
sure thing, you too, brother seven sixteen fifty five krc
DE talk station Coming up next. Christopher Smitheman with a
(10:25):
Smither event. The first word. My good friends at Foreign Exchange,
and I really feel that they are friends, and you'll
feel that way too, because they'll take great care of you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We need.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You have a traditionally imported car. It's time to get
it into Foreign Exchange. I have your car service with
a full warranty on parts and service, service done by
an AC certified Master technician and paying less than the dealer.
That's right. And we'll be in there at some point
with a Kia. Tell you Rye, we got a used
one to replace the Honda. Needed to replace that Honda.
(10:54):
My son's got it now. But it's an important car,
so it's going to full exchange when it needs an
oil change or any service. That's where it's gonna go,
even if it's not under warranty, because I know I
won't pay as much. It's a dealer for the oil
change much in the way I found that out about
my German where my houry German cars, my wife and
I drive them. You go to foreign exchange and you
(11:14):
save hundreds of dollars at least in our case, which
is just mind boggling to me, same oil, same filter,
one hundred couple, one hundred dollars savings. Yeah, that's the point.
Great service, family friendly environment. You can talk to the
mechanic if you choose to, but you're not paying as
much as a dealer. Westchester location is the one of
the location I recommend. It's the Tylersville egsit off of
(11:36):
I seventy five, just east on Tylersville off seventy five
two streets, hanging right on Kinglin. You're there to reach
them for an appointment five one three six four four
twenty six twenty six five one three six four four
twenty six twenty six. Please tell them, Brian said, Hi
online four and X. That's four in the letter X
dot com. This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station.
(11:58):
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