September 28, 2023 • 45 mins
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Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind creative of Sherri Lynn, A.K.A. Producer Sherri? Join us as we enter the world of Sherri, the producer of the Brant Hansen Show, podcast host, and a true creative powerhouse. In this fascinating conversation, Sherri passionately discusses her love for creation and how she believes it brings us closer to the nature of God. As we navigate her creative journey, we dive into the positive impact of her works on both the creator and the audience.
As a lover of theater and storytelling, Sherri Lynn opens up about her deep appreciation for creators like Shonda Rhimes and Aaron Sorkin, whose narratives leave a lasting impression. We indulge in a lively discussion about shows like Ted Lasso and Entourage, exploring how they uniquely portray friendship and human dynamics. Moreover, Sherri reveals how characters can become a vital part of our lives and how revisiting familiar stories can be comforting during stressful times.
Continuing our conversation, we venture into the often daunting topic of rejection and the pursuit of creative passions. Sherri recounts her experiences of self-publishing a book that was initially rejected by Christian publishers. Her story is a testament to unwavering faith and determination.
Unravel the enigmatic world of creativity with us and Sherri Lynn in this podcast replay, recorded live the the Metaverse.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But welcome to today's podcast replay from the
Killer B Studios.
Let's go ahead and dive on in.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello friends my name is Rick Partey and I want to
welcome you to the Killer BStudios.
Get ready to experience all thebuzz of Killer B and don't
forget to like the world.
Grab a seat, invite yourfriends and let's throw some
confetti In three, two, one.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hey everybody, hey guys, how are you guys all doing
tonight?
This is awesome.
Look at everybody.
I see Metacodes, deener,firemaster, swordcat, ttv, luke
the Goat, sils, hidden Blaze,lady Hawk, kuwalt and Good
Soldier oh my gosh, thank youfor joining us tonight at the
Killer B Studios.
Our guest tonight.
Her name is Sherri Lynn NowSherri.
(00:47):
If any of you guys know theBrand Hansen show, she's also
known as producer Sherri.
Also, if you guys, how many ofyou guys listen to podcasts?
There's some confetti.
If you guys listen to podcasts,oh yeah, anybody.
Okay, okay, we got a few peoplehere.
Okay, there we go.
Metacod is throwing confettitoo, okay, so you guys need to
check out Now.
Listen to what I'm saying,listen to how I say it, because
(01:10):
it's going to be tricky.
You want to do a search for theBrand and Sherri Oddcast.
You'll find out, probably laterat some point.
If you listen to podcasts,you're going to find out.
It is a podcast.
So, even though it's an oddcast, it is a podcast, but it is an
amazing podcast.
So you guys should definitelycheck it out.
Are you ready?
Are you ready to bring out ourguest now?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I am so ready.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So ready.
Okay, so you guys.
So Sherri, she's like the metaage of.
I mean, she's been on here, Ithink, for like right about 30
minutes.
Right now it might take her 20minutes to walk out here.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, she's going to be doing better than I did on my
first show.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, mrs Killer B was crazy.
This is also the fun part, she.
You know, you never know what'sgoing to happen when you bring
somebody new out here, but welove giving them the experience,
so of course, one of thoseexperiences is the confetti,
right?
So as we welcome her out, youguys please let's rain her with
confetti, let's hit the guestmusic, please, arcane, and let's
bring out our guest.
Please, welcome to the stage,sherri Lynn.
(02:12):
Everybody, let's throw someconfetti and welcome out Sherri.
Sherri, come on out, here shecomes.
Here she comes.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Everybody.
Just hold on one second, I amso here All right now here's the
couch.
You did it, am I looking?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
at everybody.
Yeah, that's it.
You got it.
You got it, sherri oh gosh thisis really something Hi, all
right hey.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Y'all that confetti is for you, Sherri.
Oh, that's nice.
That's a ooh.
We don't do that in the actualworld because someone has to
clean that up.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So this is nice, it's nice that we have to do it like
this Okay so, I am right now.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'm on the couch.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You are on the couch.
You are on the couch, yep,you're there.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Did.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I just wave, you just wave at everybody.
All right, that's the show.
You guys have a great night.
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Okay, Whoa my goodness All right.
Well, thank you guys for havingme.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I appreciate it.
It's our pleasure.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
We love to give the opportunity for people to come
and to see what's happening inthe metaverse and how this
allows us to connect with people.
So we're so glad you're here,so glad to be here, sherri.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
All right, glad to be here.
So hold on.
So I'd just be like that yeah,there you go, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Or you could throw.
You know, we haven't taughtSherri how to throw confetti.
If you take, now hold on yourcontrollers, If you take both
your controllers and just kindof do like you're doing like a
rainbow, it'll throw confetti.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Do I hold the things down?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
The two you don't have to put anything.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
There you go, you did it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You guys see that yeah.
All right, that's for all ofyou.
So I'm going to go ahead andgive you a little bit of a quick
overview, to just take about 30seconds and tell her by a
little bit about who you are.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Who is Sherri Lynn?
Who is Sherri Lynn?
I always start with.
I am a daughter, I am a sister,I am a niece, I'm an auntie.
I love all of those things andso grateful I love the Lord and
I get to do the thing that Ialways wanted to do, which is
make things.
I love the way that I am andthe fact that I can do that for
(04:19):
a living always blows my mind.
I'm grateful every single day,every single day.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
I know when I talk to you,sherri, about coming on, I said,
you know, whatever topic thatreally fits with what you're
going through today, it'ssomething that you would really
enjoy talking about, and youtold me that you would like to
talk about.
I know you got some thingsgoing on.
You'll probably share some ofthat.
You said you would like to talkabout the process of creativity
(04:44):
, so I would like to ask you whythe topic of creativity?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Because it's always something that is in front of
mind for me, because I'm alwayseither making something or
thinking about making something,and I am obsessed with
documentaries.
I think that the process ofdoing something far outweighs
the product many times.
So we'll see the product ofwhatever it is, but what in the
(05:13):
world did you go through to makethat?
And I just love that idea andanytime I can study it or talk
to people about it, it's just.
I think the process of makingsomething is, as it gets us very
close to the nature of God,right.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Because he is our creator.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
He is the creator, and so the fact that he gives us
the opportunity to participatein something like that is
wonderful to me.
My favorite thing about theater, one of my favorite things I
many things favorite thingsabout theater, but one of my
favorite things is is that thefact that that is an empty stage
there's nothing and no one onit and I Always take a moment,
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no matter how hectic the day isthe show.
I take a moment and think aboutthe fact that I made something
up, and because I made somethingup, there's gonna be union
people here.
There's gonna be people runningall over the place.
You're gonna make up one and bechanging costumes Just because
you made something up, and Ithink that you know.
I've seen some of my favoritecreators, like Shonda Rhimes is
(06:20):
one of my all-time favorites.
Yeah, erin sorkin people likethat, who who writes so
beautifully but so funny.
If you know, I hate so-and-soon Grey's Anatomy, or I get hate
when scandal was on.
I hate Olivia.
I've already won.
You know what I mean becauseyou're you are literally talking
(06:41):
about something I made up.
Yeah, yeah, it's agitating, youand I really just sat somewhere
and thought that, and so if youthink you're hurting my feelings
, it's telling me you didn'tlike the plot of one of these
episodes.
Yeah, I made it up and you talktime that you'll never be, able
to get back and watched it.
And that's that blows my mind.
(07:02):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I've thought about that a lot of times because,
like, on the flip side of thecoin, there's so many characters
that someone has written that Ilove so deeply, that I feel,
like they're a part of my life.
You know, anne of Green Gablesis one of them, and I'm
listening to the audiobookversion of and of Green Gables
and I'm just reminded every timeI listen to it, like someone
(07:26):
thought of this character that Inow think of as a friend, and
it's, it's wild?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, I do want to.
I ask God for that because Ihave Characters like that too
that I love and and that showsthat I love that bring me
comfort.
And I watch over and over again.
I don't know if any of you dothat.
Oh yeah, watch the same thingover and over again because,
like the stress sometimes Iheard someone talk about that
the stress of watching, watchingsomething new You're already
(07:57):
have anxiety over a day orwhatever, and now all of a
sudden you're like I don't know,because I don't know what's
coming right.
Yeah but a series that you'vewatched, that you love, and you
love those people.
That's always how I want to beable to write.
Yeah, yeah what is one?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
of those series that you go back to over and over.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh, this is touchy and scary, because then everyone
says you watch what like?
It's almost like if you don'twatch Sesame Street and you're
going to hell.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I feel better about this.
One of my go-tos is Ted lasso.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Okay, yeah, ted lasso is pretty safe, though, like I
mean, he's a happy, happy, luckyguy.
I'm shorter stuff.
I didn't, I couldn't get intothat.
I watched the first episode andI couldn't quite understand
what I was supposed to be.
Feel it again.
Okay, okay, try it again.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
At least watch the first season to like really get
the taste of it.
Yeah, okay, it's so much deeperthan just like it is at first.
It's like goofy, like you know,like no one acts like that, but
keep watching, you're gonna bepleasantly surprised, I think
all right, I have to try that.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Okay, so One of my absolute favorites.
It's like a comfy blanket to meall the time.
I've never said this publiclybefore.
So here I am and in this studiometaverse pouring out my heart.
And it is not a show that isabout Christians, nor was it
written for Christians.
(09:26):
So let me be very clear and ifyou, if you're, if you're
evangelical, panties twist easy.
This is not the show that youwant to watch.
But entourage is a.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Are you serious nom?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
just joking, I've never you've got to be kidding
me, oh my gosh Sherry.
You and brand I, I the show.
The reason why I love the showso much is because it it's so
much like my life in as muchthat friendship, those guys that
(10:02):
the whole show is aboutfriendship.
So whatever they go through,whatever they do, what do you
know All the you know stuff thatthey do go through?
Whatever they are best friendsand no Relationship that any of
them have ever supersedes thatkinship they have with each
other and I have friendshipslike that and it just yeah, it
(10:25):
it's.
That's the show that I think,because it's about entertainment
too and I love that.
Yeah, and it just every, everyaspect of it works for me and so
I have had that show with methrough very tough times.
The Vinnie and Turtle and dramaand in E and Ari, all of those
characters are like, those aremy boys and so yeah.
(10:48):
So if you watch and you're like,holy man, this is the most
defiled, awful Boxery I've everseen in my life, I get it, but
there's something about thefriendship of it all.
I'm a sucker for friendship.
If any show does that.
I love friends.
Yeah, I love Seinfeld, theAnother one that you you know
(11:11):
what I'll defend.
This one, though dead to me, Iwill defend, and the reason why,
I the reason.
Dead to me.
I have her anger and her youknow language, and all of that
is because she's an angry Woman.
She is an angry, hostile womanand I just think anything that
(11:32):
lets women be something otherthan an object to stare at or a
I don't mean any harm, guys.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
No.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Woman.
That is something other than it, clearly a part of a man's
imagination that they brought tous on the screen.
Yeah, a three-dimensional womanwho has emotions and is not
afraid to show them is very it'svery compelling and so dead.
To me was a good one, becausetheir friendship Was so deep and
I just love anything aboutfriendship because that those
(12:06):
are type relationships I have.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I loved Dead to me because I was like I want to be
as patient with my friends asJudy is.
Yeah, and no matter what.
Yeah.
Now I can't remember whatChristina Applegate's character
was named Jen, jen, okay, yes,nothing that Jen threw at Judy
made her stop loving her and.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I was like.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That is what I want to be like, and I mean, it's
hilarious to and dark and it is.
I mean, the writing was justfascinating.
But yeah, I love dead, to metoo and the chemistry.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Anytime you have chemistry and you have
friendship like that, I mean theJen, there's this part, there's
a part I'm not, it's not toomuch of a spoiler alert they
kind of friendship kind offizzles out, and then something
happens and Jen picks up andsays hey, I need you to come
home.
She calls Judy and says I needyou to come home.
(13:00):
And that is one of my favoritelines is because they had fallen
out she had put her out.
It was all terrible and a minutethat something horrible
happened.
That was the first person shecalled and again, I have those
kind of friendships and soanything that shows that and I
also write that.
So the musical that I wrotethat was about a black pastor
(13:21):
and a white pastor, you know,combining their churches.
It was about friendship.
It was about those two guys andI knew that in our current
culture of race People wouldnaturally pick sides and then
people always want to try tofind you're not gonna find it
with me, by the way, you'llthink you do, but you won't
people want to find out whatpolitical sides are on, so they
(13:43):
can either love you or hate you.
And they were trying to findthat in the musical and I just
wouldn't let it be because itwasn't about anything other than
these friends and they're lovefor each other and they're love
for Christ.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So, that's awesome.
So the, the, the musical, isthat available?
Can people people watch?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
we are working on making it available.
I mean it was.
It was live streamed, which wasyou know?
Talk about the process ofcreativity, guys, holy man to.
I took some comfort in the factthat Netflix tried to live
stream what was it?
Love it first sight, somethinglike that, some kind of reality
(14:23):
show.
They were trying to live streamthe finale of it and everything
crashed and they couldn't do itand people were upset and
people were and I to my team, Iwas like guys, we must have
really pulled something off.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Because we ours actually work like we.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I remember telling the guy when he did live stream
he would do a finished product.
So we already filmed this.
Now we're gonna live stream it.
He had never, done a live show,live streamed At the moment,
where everyone's gonna bewatching, meaning if something
falls apart, yeah, everybodywill see that.
(14:59):
You know, if it stoppedstreaming and all of these
thousands of people have paid tosee it Like it had the
potential of disaster written.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh yeah, so you did our actual real live live stream
, so it's the live show.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Live stream, yes, and it was.
Putting that together Was thehardest thing that I have ever
done.
And again, the process ofcreativity is not just Making
something.
I, you know, I can write, I canact, I can do all of those
things.
If someone asked me what mytalent like actual talent is, my
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actual talent is finding peoplewho are good at their thing,
convincing them that they canhelp me with my thing and then
letting them just go do thatright.
Micromanaging, not you knowwhat did you have a chance to
get it like?
Really Showing people a visionand getting them sold on that
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vision and then us as a teamgoing to make that happen.
That's in my truest essence.
I am a producer and a director.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I love that, so that's a good question to.
I would like to ask you, sherry, is when it comes to like the
definition of creativity To you,what would that definition be
like?
Is it a skill, a mindset orsomething else Like what would
you define creativity as?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Well, I think all of us are creators in some way.
It's just, are you driven bythat Right like every if you, if
you make a avocado toast, Iwill tell you I can't do that.
I can make nothing.
So if you did that, you madethat, it was, there was nothing
and you made something Right.
So I think everyone can do thatin some way.
(16:46):
But or if you're driven by it,that need to make something, to
create something too.
That's why, when people arelike you know, it's not now in
this kind of celebrity drivenworld a lot of times young
people are asking me how do Ibecome a celebrity?
Well, get on it, get on theinternet and do something stupid
.
Everyone will see it.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
It's actually not that hard.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yes, and everyone will see it right.
But if you're asking me how tomake your thing, I always tell
people I never wait forpermission to do it now.
To be sure.
That a lot of times meansyou'll be spending your own
money to make it sure Becauseyou know some like for my book
and that no Christian publisherWanted to.
(17:36):
They wanted to publish a bookfrom me.
Of course you would.
I have a platform, right.
That's.
It comes on the money right andexposure.
But a book called I want topunch you in the face, but I
love Jesus, a PMS companion book, is not quite what Christians
are looking for.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, thank you .
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I appreciate that, I do I.
But I wanted that, that's whatI wanted to say.
And so they were like how aboutright this?
How about right that?
How about right this?
No, I'm not good.
So if I was driven by money, ifI was driven by, driven by a
celebrity, then sure, now I can,I'll write whatever you tell me
to write.
But I knew what I would justsay, I knew what I felt like God
was giving me, and so I don'task you for permission.
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May I please publish it?
You know, if you say no to me,then I'll find a way to publish
it, and I did and and then Itrust God with the rest of the
process.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I love that.
I love that.
That reminds me to I think itwas Elma show we had in here
Once and we were talking aboutthat and she said the word no
just doesn't.
That doesn't mean don't take itas rejection, it just means not
here the distance, the rightperson, so go around that and
find the, you know.
Don't let no be your stoppingpoint if that's something you
really want to do.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
It just means not here, yeah, not the right person
and let me say this, it canalso mean not now, and so I have
learned not to be Driven in away that I'm unwise, right?
So if I want to do something,want to make something In my
younger years, I would just doit because they'd be like no one
can do that, and I do it tospite you, right?
(19:05):
I'll show you that I can makethat, that I can do that.
And then there's a reason whyeverybody was like no, because
that don't work right now, andso you've just made a fool of
yourself.
So even then, I learnedsomething from it.
Right, but there is some wisdomif you have wise people around
you or like yes to that, but notnow.
There is something to listeningto that.
(19:27):
So I don't I don't want to makeit like I'm just a maverick.
And just jumping off buildings,you know, with you know pens and
papers and writing stuff.
There are times where it's likeyes to that, but not now.
And then there's other times.
For Gosh, I think it was DaveChappelle who said Like a, an
idea is I can't remember how hesaid it, but basically it's sort
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of like a car to self-driving,like you just get it and it's
gonna take you somewhere.
It's an idea that just takesyou and you can't you can't stop
it right, it's just carryingyou.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So oh yeah that's good, yeah, and I think that I
love that too, because you knowthere's a lot of people here
that I know you guys are in themetaverse, you guys are, you
guys have cool things that youguys are doing, and I know that
sometimes you can take some heatfrom the outside world Because
they're not in here, they don't,they don't know, they haven't
experienced it.
There's a lot of people's got alot of thoughts and theories
but they haven't been in hereand experienced it and Seen the
(20:19):
connections.
And and I want to encourage youguys, keep doing what you're
doing.
You do it because you lovedoing it.
I mean everybody that I've metin here that's building
something or you know they'redoing a show.
They're doing it because theylove it and it's we talked about
this last week Like, make sureyou have your purpose, like what
is your purpose, like what youknow what we do here at the
studio.
We have a purpose statement forwhat we do and if, if two
(20:41):
people show up, that's if oneperson shows up, that's success
for us, because Someone ishearing a story and we're we're
building connections orrelationships and that's what
the studio is about.
So I want to encourage you guys.
You know you might hear peoplePush you, push away or say this
is just a game.
You guys know there's a lot ofstuff that's getting ready to
change and Do keep doing whatyou do because you love doing it
(21:03):
.
But no, also there's gonna be aprocess through that.
I mean, we know there's a lotof bugs that we deal with in
here, because this beta stuffeverybody's learning and we have
to Kind of flow with it.
That's kind of the process whenyou're, when you're going out
Doing something that nobody elsehas done and you you feel like
you're alone.
But here's the great thing youguys are connecting with people
all over here and in horizons.
(21:25):
You're not doing it alone.
You don't have to.
There's a lot of amazing peoplein here that want to help you
out.
So I don't know about you,sherry, but I've.
You know I'm a creative.
You know I got some.
I do some creative stuff too,and but I sometimes can take
things personal when whensomebody kind of doesn't like
the creativity.
Have you ever struggled withthat before?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, I think when I was younger I obviously no one
likes to be disliked and you put, you know, your blood on a page
and someone laughs at it ordoesn't like it.
That is that's disheartening,sure.
But I think that if you'rereally, if I'm really sold on it
(22:05):
right, I think when it hurts meis when I wasn't quite sold on
it to begin with and I stillwent and did it, or still you
know what I mean.
Like, if you're doing comedyand you get up and you do it and
you're like that's it, itdoesn't quite work, but I'm
going to try to push it through,and then it bombs, then that
hurts a little more becauseinside you knew that wasn't
fully formed.
(22:26):
Like I think that's whathappens to me when I'm on stage
or trying to do a joke.
It's not there yet, it's notthere for you to put it out
there, but I'm like let's rushit out.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Let's roll with it, yeah, and when it gets a big
goose egg.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
then you're like, yeah, that hurts, and so I won't
say that it doesn't.
But you know, even in radio,you know you are giving
something.
It's mass media.
Yeah, you're giving somethingto the masses.
So, as I tell my mom all thetime, she you know my family
gets a little touchy if they seesomeone say something about me
(23:00):
online or something like that,because they're my family, Right
.
But I always say as long asthere's more laughs than booze,
we've paid the mortgage today.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I love that.
That's great.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
So you know, I can't I.
How dare I go to God and say,yes, let me be able to do all
these creative things, please?
And, by the way, everyoneshould love me.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, that doesn't.
That doesn't make any sense.
Thank you, yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I love it and sometimes it hurts and you just
shake it off and keep makingstuff.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You know one of the things I tell Mrs Killer B,
because I always tell I tell alot of jokes but they say I kind
of overdo it because a lot ofthem they say are bad jokes.
But I always look like if Ijust keep pushing them out there
, somebody's going to laugh atone and I'm like there, it was
right there.
There it is, I'll take it.
It took me 20 to get there, butI got a good one.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
There are times that I've gone on stage and they
haven't laughed and I'm like youknow what, I don't care,
because that was funny, and soyou guys didn't get it.
I still stand by that joke.
So, yeah, there are times whereI'm like nope, that was funny,
you guys just didn't get it.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He is not paying the mortgage with his dad jokes.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Now wait a minute.
Why are you laughing at that?
That wasn't supposed to be ajoke.
No, that was pretty funny Maybeshe's telling you the one
telling the jokes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's just some real life painful humor right there.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
That's why the laughs seem kind of forced.
The jokes flow naturally, butthe laughter seems forced on my
mind.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah, that's something to really consider.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I should pay attention to that.
I should pay attention to that.
Just think about it.
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I just know how to read the room yet, yeah, it's
great.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Right now.
I think it's a great time to doa contest.
Let me give you guys a heads up.
After we do the contest, we'regoing to bring up the mic for if
anybody has a question orthought that you guys would like
to ask Sherry, you guys will beable to jump down here in the
mic box here.
But let me give you guys aheads up.
The way the contest works iswe're going to pull a random
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name.
It'll appear right above thebig B up here.
Whoever's name comes up heregets to jump up on the stage and
grab the honey stick.
And then you guys get a whackthe B.
Where's the honey stick?
It's actually right up here.
See the big B.
See the big B up here.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Oh, okay, where's the honey stick?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
The honey stick is right here.
It's the whack of B stick rightthere.
In the case, I see Okay, yeah,so, okay.
So whoever is the winner gets50 more points.
Make sure you check out yourhigh-fativity ranking.
You get points for every minuteyou're in here during their
shows.
What that does is the people.
Every six months, twice a year,we actually give away a headset
(25:51):
that's autographed by ourguests Right now, the headset
that Sherry has on.
She's going to autograph theheadset and then we'll give two
of those away, one every sixmonths.
The top five people will be ina random drawing and we'll do a
big night for giving thatheadset away.
We just gave one away, I thinkit was like a month ago.
So, with that Arcane, can you goahead and cue the contest?
(26:12):
Skyler, let's hit that music.
Bring up, skyler, come on up.
Skyler.
Yeah, welcome to the Killery'sTears man.
Yeah, it's great seeing you.
Oh, I love the glasses too.
All right, go ahead and grabthat whack of B stick, all right
.
So, skyler, I want you to.
Actually, that's not the B,that's a good stretch, though.
You come on up front here.
So come right here.
I had to stand up for that one,yeah, no, so stand right here
(26:33):
and I want you to watch our show.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,okay, okay, okay.
So stand right here and I wantyou to watch right here.
He's going to bring up the Bgong.
All right, go ahead and bringthat gong up.
All right, there you go.
Whack that B.
That's a lot easier, right?
All right, there you go.
All right, skyler.
Thanks man.
You can just throw that.
There you go.
Thanks for joining us, man.
Thank you, all right, 50 pointsfor Skyler Arcane.
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Can you go ahead and bring upthe Q&A mic?
I was about to be blinding youguys.
Did you ever think you wouldsee a gong come out of the floor
?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
I've never thought that I'd see anything like this
Like I'm still, I'm still, I'mstill, I'm still.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I'm still in space invaders and asteroids on the on
the tarry.
That's what I'm saying.
You're too young to even knowwhat that means yes.
You should be glad to know thatfor a long time.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Mr Killer B was calling that theB bong because
he could not get that word right.
So be glad you missed that bigyeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'm going to say yeah , that's not the, that laughter
didn't come forced, though, whenI said it, so I'm going to be
glad that laughter didn't comeforced, though, when I said it.
So if anybody has a, if anybodyhas a Q, if everybody has a
question or a thought, just jumpon down here by the mic and
we'll go ahead and let you guysshare your thought or question.
Brittany, thanks for joining us, hey.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Hi, it's great to see you.
Yeah, I'm so happy to be here.
Thanks for the invite.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Hi Sherry, how are you?
Hi Am I waving?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yep, you're waving Yep, All right, so I read that
you and I'm sorry I came in.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
You may have already spoken about this.
I came in a little later.
I read that you are a formeryouth pastor.
Yes, and so what?
I want to know what youropinion is right now about what
we're seeing in the media aboutthe youth, like what's going on
with the youth.
You know as far as thedirection that you feel like the
youth is going and what can youdo, or what can we do, to
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encourage the youth to do betteror to stay focused?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Great question how do I feel,gosh man, I think that, honestly
, and this is something thatI've been thinking about.
So that's why the question isso interesting, because when I
was a youth minister, the peoplethat I was and I'm dating
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myself now but the people that Iwas ministering to are now
adults, like in their late 20sand some early 30s, right and so
, and it's all come full circlebecause you get out, you start
in church if people start, ifkids started in church, and it
all seems kind of lame, kind ofwho knows, and you go to college
(29:09):
and you get all these questionslike how do you know and what
are you?
And then you start to get outin the culture and see there's
no real answer out there.
And then it's like it starts tocome full circle back, so that
people always ask me do I havechildren?
I did not birth children, and Ialways say my phone and my cash
app says that I do.
So they will call, and I thinkthat something that Brant does
(29:34):
Brittany that is is is so.
It is so profound and if wehave the courage to do it,
everyone is deconstructingChristianity, right?
Well, who's now this and nowthat?
Now that it's great, Iunderstand.
I've had my own deconstructionprocess for myself.
I would invite young people totell me how it's working.
(29:55):
Like this is what the culturesays is right.
This is what they say is good.
This is what's it.
Look at where we're at.
You need the statistics thatsay that this is working, that
people have joy, that peoplehave peace, that people have a
stable mind, stable lives.
(30:15):
If, can you tell me thatBecause that's the thing is that
we never question culture, andI think that's something that
Brant does so well is to sayhere are the cultural things,
for instance, this will be youguys probably never invite me
back in here, and if you did, Iwouldn't know how to get around
anyway, but Do you have thebands already?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Do you have the bands already?
The?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
concept of personal truth.
Okay, that's something thatyouth, that's a cultural thing.
That's my truth, that's mytruth.
Okay, so fine.
But the thing is, is that, howcan that continue to work?
If I have a truth and you havea truth, what we will get to
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which is where I believe we arenow, and I think young people
would say this if you said thatto them we'll get to a point
where we can have no commonsense, because the only common
sense we would have is if we hada common truth.
But without a common truth, ifyou have a truth and I have a
truth we can never have anythingin common.
It would, by definition, have aseparated, and that's what we
(31:25):
see right, interesting, yeah,and there's no one can gosh, you
can't even say anything, andpeople are like what do you mean
by that?
Like there's no commonality andthere's no community.
And I think it's because I amdemanding that everyone see
everything the way I see it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
You see what I'm saying.
So I think a deconstruction ofculture, first saying what are
the cultural ideas, and thentaking them one by one and say
let's go through here and let'ssee if this works or not.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It'll take some time, It'll take some energy, but I
think that that and the actualunderstanding of the gospel
Calvary I say it all the timebecause I think it gets lost in
Christianity.
People are deconstructingChristianity, tearing
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Christianity apart.
We never go to the cross.
Was that real or was it not?
What was it for?
What did it buy?
What did it Like?
All that?
I think that deconstructingculture, really building up the
gospel and then let peoplechoose because Jesus did, that's
good yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's good, you know it's interesting.
You guys were talking aboutthis too, because I've been
reading a book and I've beenreading segments of it too, Mrs
Killer Bee, and it's called whatAre we Chasing, and it has a
lot to do with.
It talks a lot about whatculture puts out, what we should
be doing and how, if you don'tdo what culture is pushing and
saying you need to do, it's likewell, then you're kind of
(32:57):
looked down upon Likesomething's wrong with you,
Right, or you're being lazy oranything like that.
But it's really showing andexplaining the importance of
culture.
Just because it's what cultureis doing doesn't mean that it's
right or that it's best for youand it's okay for you to step
back.
Yeah, Today I read a part whereit actually was sharing a story
of instead of imagining you'restanding in a right next to a
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big oak tree and what do you seewhen you're right next to that
oak tree, what you see is youbasically are going to see the
bark of that tree, but take 10steps back.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Now, what do you see?
Maybe you see the branches andthe tree.
Take 10 more steps back.
Now you're starting to seethere's other trees.
Take 10 more steps back.
Now you're seeing the sky.
You're seeing the whole forest.
And he was talking about likethat's what we need to be
thinking about with.
We're so focused on whatculture is telling us, but we
need to slow down and startstepping back.
And slowing down is not a wordthat's popular in culture at all
(33:52):
, and especially if you're inthe creative field too, you
could be running.
I mean, well, I know I've doneit several times.
I'm sure anybody here wouldprobably say like, how many of
you would say like you're likerunning like 100 miles per hour,
a lot, and there's going to beseasons for that.
But if you're doing itconstantly, all the time and
that's where I was I was like Iliterally thought I'm not a book
reader.
It takes me some time to read abook.
(34:12):
But I was literally sittingthere.
I was like I don't know what.
I want to read something, but Idon't know what, and I just did
a search for well, what am Ichasing?
And there it was, and it hasbeen an amazing book so far.
So definitely should check itout.
If anybody here, just let meknow.
I'll send you a link to it ifyou're interested in learning
more about it.
But that was really good.
I thank you, sherry.
Thank you for sharing that.
(34:32):
Does anybody else have aquestion or thought?
Feel free to jump in the mic.
Good soldier, you're muted.
Just let you know.
Good soldier, you're muted.
Thank you, brittany.
Hey, good soldier.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Okay, here's my question your faith.
Do you find that it doesn'tinterface well with your job and
other creative people that arearound you, or do you find it's
like more of a stumbling block?
Or perhaps you're like a WhiteHouse, where it attracts
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attention and gives peopleguidance?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Ah, that's a great question, thank you.
For me, my faith is a part ofme.
As I wouldn't be able to wakeup and be like I've decided I'm
not going to be black today.
I can't do that.
(35:28):
My faith is just that much apart of me how it intersects
with what I do, because I can'tgive it up and I won't, and it
is my voice.
You see what I'm saying, like alot of people would say I talk
kind of churchy sometimes and Ido it like so.
It's like well, how do you putthese words into language
(35:53):
everyone understands?
Well, this is my voice, this ismy faith, this is who I am and
it has taken me some time to becomfortable with the fact.
That's who I am and whetherthat is popular to culture or
not popular to culture, itactually is who I am and my
faith will come out in all thethings that I do.
(36:13):
Where it could be weird, if I'mhonest, is not on the secular
side, but on the Christian side,so on the church side of what
people expect you to make, whatthey expect you to say, how they
for instance.
I'm working on a new book,that's.
I haven't told anybody to seethis.
(36:34):
Here you go, guys.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
It's killer B exclusive yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
It's based on my mother's saying.
She lives with me.
She's probably wondering whatin the world I'm doing.
I'm just sitting in a chair,talking to no one.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I can see your mom too.
Her mom's great.
I get that.
What are you doing there?
What is going on?
Speaker 4 (36:52):
She already got goggles on in there y'all she
talking to herself.
She finally broke.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You should have said hey, stop right now and say yes,
lord, yes, lord.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Get in here, mom.
You can't hear Jesus, but it'sa book about her sayings.
And so the title right now isHoly Ghost Mama.
That's a working title, butit's about all the things that
she says that are so profoundand I just want people to hear
them, right?
And so I was going, it wasgoing through an editor, and the
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editor said back to me well,you know what's the lesson?
How, at the end, can we tiethis all together?
Well, that's a Christian thingLike a Christian thing is like a
Sunday school thing where youhave to be like and so therefore
, you know to always rememberlike that kind of thing.
Whereas for me.
(37:43):
I don't want to do that Like Iwant to be like Jesus was where
the Prodigal Son story endsopen-ended.
We don't know what happened atthat party, we don't know if the
older son came in.
We don't know anything Right,we just know the story that he
gave us and he was OK with youwrestling at the end.
So I think that I struggle moreon the Christian side.
Well, like the book I said Iwanted to write and no Christian
(38:04):
publisher wanted to do it Right.
So I think what, what, what?
When I say Christian, I'mtalking about the industry.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
If.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
I may Right.
So the what the industryexpects from you, what the
product expects you to produce,is not always what I am
producing, which is why I findmyself producing my own stuff,
yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
So yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Well, that was a good question.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
To your point.
I mean, that's what thePharisees thought about Jesus
too.
They didn't like what he wassaying, you know so it makes
sense, you're not.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Yeah, I mean you have a culture, christian Christian
you know industry has a cultureand has a way of speaking.
And I had an agent tell me youare way too secular for
Christian and to Christian forsecular and I think that's
actually a really great placefor me to be.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
It's a great place to be.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, I love that yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
You're not the first author that I've heard say that
either.
An author that I love, SeanAniquist, has said the same
thing yeah.
And so it's.
You're never going to pleaseanyone.
You just have to use your voicethe way God's given it to you,
and you know so many beautifulthings.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good, yep, I love that you
know that leads a good questionthat I have for you how do you
incorporate feedback into thecreative process?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I try to divorce myself of emotion so I don't
feel like you know.
Oh, they're hurting my feelings.
I try to take that out of itand try to find the actual, the
actual nugget of truth in it.
And that's not always easy, butI'm better for it.
I surround myself with peoplewho will, who are really
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wonderful creatives, who aresmarter and more creative than I
am and who will tell me thetruth.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Awesome.
I love that.
That's great.
That's great.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah, the more you, the more you create and do
things, the less people tell youthe truth actually.
So it's very important tosurround yourself with people.
That makes sense.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
As a follow up for that.
Are there ever times, though,where even the people close to
you maybe don't get exactly whatyou're going for, and you know
that that's just what you haveto do, and just go ahead and do
it?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yeah, absolutely yeah .
I have a short series podcastcalled snacks and good company
and I wanted that name becausethat's the feeling I wanted when
we talked about things that itfelt like you were with your
friends eating snacks and it wasjust good company and everybody
hated it.
Every single person was likethat is the dumbest name I have,
(40:41):
like they just hated it.
And then when it all cametogether and they could hear the
jingle, they could hear themusic, they saw the logo, then
it was like, oh yeah, noweverybody's like, oh, snacks are
good company, snacks are goodcompany.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, but no, nobody was on board with that.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
They all hated it, but I knew that that was the
tone I wanted, so I stuck withit.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
All right.
So what we're going to do nowis we're going to go ahead and
get ready to wrap up afterwards.
Again, when you hear the outromusic, everybody jump up on
stage.
Make sure you kind of give giveSherry some space, because she
doesn't, she might not know howto move.
Yeah, so, while I try toposition the camera, you told me
to smile, yeah, smile.
You pushed your thumb up, thereyou go.
So she just had a smile for thecamera.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
But yeah, so you know , Sherry, I really do appreciate
you braving this out and cominghere to see what this is about.
Out of everything we talkedabout today, what would be your
takeaway you would hope peoplewould walk away with today?
Speaker 4 (41:40):
I think that how much creativity is a part of who God
is.
I really do believe that.
I think storytelling, whichthis is a part of that.
You know, the door, what's it?
That's a part of it, like justgiving people something in their
mind that expands them tokingdom possibilities.
(42:03):
That's what I believe in story,and so I do that.
However you do that, whetheryou're someone who is an artist
and you draw, you paint, youwrite, you create these worlds,
whatever you do, I would say tothink about how can I make
people think of a kingdompossibility?
(42:24):
Do I do.
You know if you're a believer.
If you're not, you know I getit.
But for me, as a person offaith and who believes in Jesus
and we've talked about thegospel how many different ways
can I tell people how much heloves them?
How many different ways can Ishow them how deep that was, how
(42:45):
, what that love?
Think about it.
We talked about it on the radio, like music.
Why does music affect us somuch?
Yeah, you know what I mean.
If we weren't created, that'sreally weird, that music that
you could hear a chord changeand get goosebumps right.
That is something God gave tous because he loves us, right,
and a way to communicate.
So I think, thinking about allof those things, I don't know
(43:08):
that the church is all.
We've always kind of givenlittle lanes where you can
create, but this in and ofitself shows that God, the
vastness of God, whatever Godputs in your heart to make, make
it, and make it not for abillion people to see it.
Make it because it opens a mindto a kingdom possibility.
And if it opens just one mind,two minds, three minds, whatever
(43:30):
it is, thank him for it andmake the thing.
Just make the thing.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Just make it stop thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Stop talking about it .
Stop Make the thing, just makeit.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
So I love that.
I love that.
Sherry, how can people connectwith you outside of here, in
real life, like on social media?
Speaker 4 (43:48):
Yeah, yeah, everywhere I am at, I am Sherry
Lynn, so I am Sherry'sS-H-E-R-R-I-L-Y-N-N, and so that
can be my website.
That's all my social mediahandles.
That's how you find me.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Awesome, yeah, and you guys can check out the
Killer B Studios Instagram.
We'll have a link on there andif you're listening to the
podcast, you can check out thepodcast notes.
You'll find a link in there toimserrylncom.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Thank you for joining us today at Killer B Studios.
Remember to text the word BUZthat's BUZZ to 863-262-7763.
For studio looks and don'tforget to like the world.
That's very important.
We'll see you next time andhave a killer day.
But welcome to today's podcast replay from the
Killer B Studios.
Let's go ahead and dive on in.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello friends my name is Rick Partey and I want to
welcome you to the Killer BStudios.
Get ready to experience all thebuzz of Killer B and don't
forget to like the world.
Grab a seat, invite yourfriends and let's throw some
confetti In three, two, one.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hey everybody, hey guys, how are you guys all doing
tonight?
This is awesome.
Look at everybody.
I see Metacodes, deener,firemaster, swordcat, ttv, luke
the Goat, sils, hidden Blaze,lady Hawk, kuwalt and Good
Soldier oh my gosh, thank youfor joining us tonight at the
Killer B Studios.
Our guest tonight.
Her name is Sherri Lynn NowSherri.
(00:47):
If any of you guys know theBrand Hansen show, she's also
known as producer Sherri.
Also, if you guys, how many ofyou guys listen to podcasts?
There's some confetti.
If you guys listen to podcasts,oh yeah, anybody.
Okay, okay, we got a few peoplehere.
Okay, there we go.
Metacod is throwing confettitoo, okay, so you guys need to
check out Now.
Listen to what I'm saying,listen to how I say it, because
(01:10):
it's going to be tricky.
You want to do a search for theBrand and Sherri Oddcast.
You'll find out, probably laterat some point.
If you listen to podcasts,you're going to find out.
It is a podcast.
So, even though it's an oddcast, it is a podcast, but it is an
amazing podcast.
So you guys should definitelycheck it out.
Are you ready?
Are you ready to bring out ourguest now?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I am so ready.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So ready.
Okay, so you guys.
So Sherri, she's like the metaage of.
I mean, she's been on here, Ithink, for like right about 30
minutes.
Right now it might take her 20minutes to walk out here.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, she's going to be doing better than I did on my
first show.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, mrs Killer B was crazy.
This is also the fun part, she.
You know, you never know what'sgoing to happen when you bring
somebody new out here, but welove giving them the experience,
so of course, one of thoseexperiences is the confetti,
right?
So as we welcome her out, youguys please let's rain her with
confetti, let's hit the guestmusic, please, arcane, and let's
bring out our guest.
Please, welcome to the stage,sherri Lynn.
(02:12):
Everybody, let's throw someconfetti and welcome out Sherri.
Sherri, come on out, here shecomes.
Here she comes.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Everybody.
Just hold on one second, I amso here All right now here's the
couch.
You did it, am I looking?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
at everybody.
Yeah, that's it.
You got it.
You got it, sherri oh gosh thisis really something Hi, all
right hey.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Y'all that confetti is for you, Sherri.
Oh, that's nice.
That's a ooh.
We don't do that in the actualworld because someone has to
clean that up.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So this is nice, it's nice that we have to do it like
this Okay so, I am right now.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'm on the couch.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You are on the couch.
You are on the couch, yep,you're there.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Did.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I just wave, you just wave at everybody.
All right, that's the show.
You guys have a great night.
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Okay, Whoa my goodness All right.
Well, thank you guys for havingme.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I appreciate it.
It's our pleasure.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
We love to give the opportunity for people to come
and to see what's happening inthe metaverse and how this
allows us to connect with people.
So we're so glad you're here,so glad to be here, sherri.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
All right, glad to be here.
So hold on.
So I'd just be like that yeah,there you go, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Or you could throw.
You know, we haven't taughtSherri how to throw confetti.
If you take, now hold on yourcontrollers, If you take both
your controllers and just kindof do like you're doing like a
rainbow, it'll throw confetti.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Do I hold the things down?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
The two you don't have to put anything.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
There you go, you did it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You guys see that yeah.
All right, that's for all ofyou.
So I'm going to go ahead andgive you a little bit of a quick
overview, to just take about 30seconds and tell her by a
little bit about who you are.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Who is Sherri Lynn?
Who is Sherri Lynn?
I always start with.
I am a daughter, I am a sister,I am a niece, I'm an auntie.
I love all of those things andso grateful I love the Lord and
I get to do the thing that Ialways wanted to do, which is
make things.
I love the way that I am andthe fact that I can do that for
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a living always blows my mind.
I'm grateful every single day,every single day.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
I know when I talk to you,sherri, about coming on, I said,
you know, whatever topic thatreally fits with what you're
going through today, it'ssomething that you would really
enjoy talking about, and youtold me that you would like to
talk about.
I know you got some thingsgoing on.
You'll probably share some ofthat.
You said you would like to talkabout the process of creativity
(04:44):
, so I would like to ask you whythe topic of creativity?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Because it's always something that is in front of
mind for me, because I'm alwayseither making something or
thinking about making something,and I am obsessed with
documentaries.
I think that the process ofdoing something far outweighs
the product many times.
So we'll see the product ofwhatever it is, but what in the
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world did you go through to makethat?
And I just love that idea andanytime I can study it or talk
to people about it, it's just.
I think the process of makingsomething is, as it gets us very
close to the nature of God,right.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Because he is our creator.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
He is the creator, and so the fact that he gives us
the opportunity to participatein something like that is
wonderful to me.
My favorite thing about theater, one of my favorite things I
many things favorite thingsabout theater, but one of my
favorite things is is that thefact that that is an empty stage
there's nothing and no one onit and I Always take a moment,
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no matter how hectic the day isthe show.
I take a moment and think aboutthe fact that I made something
up, and because I made somethingup, there's gonna be union
people here.
There's gonna be people runningall over the place.
You're gonna make up one and bechanging costumes Just because
you made something up, and Ithink that you know.
I've seen some of my favoritecreators, like Shonda Rhimes is
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one of my all-time favorites.
Yeah, erin sorkin people likethat, who who writes so
beautifully but so funny.
If you know, I hate so-and-soon Grey's Anatomy, or I get hate
when scandal was on.
I hate Olivia.
I've already won.
You know what I mean becauseyou're you are literally talking
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about something I made up.
Yeah, yeah, it's agitating, youand I really just sat somewhere
and thought that, and so if youthink you're hurting my feelings
, it's telling me you didn'tlike the plot of one of these
episodes.
Yeah, I made it up and you talktime that you'll never be, able
to get back and watched it.
And that's that blows my mind.
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So.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I've thought about that a lot of times because,
like, on the flip side of thecoin, there's so many characters
that someone has written that Ilove so deeply, that I feel,
like they're a part of my life.
You know, anne of Green Gablesis one of them, and I'm
listening to the audiobookversion of and of Green Gables
and I'm just reminded every timeI listen to it, like someone
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thought of this character that Inow think of as a friend, and
it's, it's wild?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, I do want to.
I ask God for that because Ihave Characters like that too
that I love and and that showsthat I love that bring me
comfort.
And I watch over and over again.
I don't know if any of you dothat.
Oh yeah, watch the same thingover and over again because,
like the stress sometimes Iheard someone talk about that
the stress of watching, watchingsomething new You're already
(07:57):
have anxiety over a day orwhatever, and now all of a
sudden you're like I don't know,because I don't know what's
coming right.
Yeah but a series that you'vewatched, that you love, and you
love those people.
That's always how I want to beable to write.
Yeah, yeah what is one?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
of those series that you go back to over and over.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh, this is touchy and scary, because then everyone
says you watch what like?
It's almost like if you don'twatch Sesame Street and you're
going to hell.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I feel better about this.
One of my go-tos is Ted lasso.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Okay, yeah, ted lasso is pretty safe, though, like I
mean, he's a happy, happy, luckyguy.
I'm shorter stuff.
I didn't, I couldn't get intothat.
I watched the first episode andI couldn't quite understand
what I was supposed to be.
Feel it again.
Okay, okay, try it again.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
At least watch the first season to like really get
the taste of it.
Yeah, okay, it's so much deeperthan just like it is at first.
It's like goofy, like you know,like no one acts like that, but
keep watching, you're gonna bepleasantly surprised, I think
all right, I have to try that.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Okay, so One of my absolute favorites.
It's like a comfy blanket to meall the time.
I've never said this publiclybefore.
So here I am and in this studiometaverse pouring out my heart.
And it is not a show that isabout Christians, nor was it
written for Christians.
(09:26):
So let me be very clear and ifyou, if you're, if you're
evangelical, panties twist easy.
This is not the show that youwant to watch.
But entourage is a.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Are you serious nom?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
just joking, I've never you've got to be kidding
me, oh my gosh Sherry.
You and brand I, I the show.
The reason why I love the showso much is because it it's so
much like my life in as muchthat friendship, those guys that
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the whole show is aboutfriendship.
So whatever they go through,whatever they do, what do you
know All the you know stuff thatthey do go through?
Whatever they are best friendsand no Relationship that any of
them have ever supersedes thatkinship they have with each
other and I have friendshipslike that and it just yeah, it
(10:25):
it's.
That's the show that I think,because it's about entertainment
too and I love that.
Yeah, and it just every, everyaspect of it works for me and so
I have had that show with methrough very tough times.
The Vinnie and Turtle and dramaand in E and Ari, all of those
characters are like, those aremy boys and so yeah.
(10:48):
So if you watch and you're like,holy man, this is the most
defiled, awful Boxery I've everseen in my life, I get it, but
there's something about thefriendship of it all.
I'm a sucker for friendship.
If any show does that.
I love friends.
Yeah, I love Seinfeld, theAnother one that you you know
(11:11):
what I'll defend.
This one, though dead to me, Iwill defend, and the reason why,
I the reason.
Dead to me.
I have her anger and her youknow language, and all of that
is because she's an angry Woman.
She is an angry, hostile womanand I just think anything that
(11:32):
lets women be something otherthan an object to stare at or a
I don't mean any harm, guys.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
No.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Woman.
That is something other than it, clearly a part of a man's
imagination that they brought tous on the screen.
Yeah, a three-dimensional womanwho has emotions and is not
afraid to show them is very it'svery compelling and so dead.
To me was a good one, becausetheir friendship Was so deep and
I just love anything aboutfriendship because that those
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are type relationships I have.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I loved Dead to me because I was like I want to be
as patient with my friends asJudy is.
Yeah, and no matter what.
Yeah.
Now I can't remember whatChristina Applegate's character
was named Jen, jen, okay, yes,nothing that Jen threw at Judy
made her stop loving her and.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I was like.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That is what I want to be like, and I mean, it's
hilarious to and dark and it is.
I mean, the writing was justfascinating.
But yeah, I love dead, to metoo and the chemistry.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Anytime you have chemistry and you have
friendship like that, I mean theJen, there's this part, there's
a part I'm not, it's not toomuch of a spoiler alert they
kind of friendship kind offizzles out, and then something
happens and Jen picks up andsays hey, I need you to come
home.
She calls Judy and says I needyou to come home.
(13:00):
And that is one of my favoritelines is because they had fallen
out she had put her out.
It was all terrible and a minutethat something horrible
happened.
That was the first person shecalled and again, I have those
kind of friendships and soanything that shows that and I
also write that.
So the musical that I wrotethat was about a black pastor
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and a white pastor, you know,combining their churches.
It was about friendship.
It was about those two guys andI knew that in our current
culture of race People wouldnaturally pick sides and then
people always want to try tofind you're not gonna find it
with me, by the way, you'llthink you do, but you won't
people want to find out whatpolitical sides are on, so they
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can either love you or hate you.
And they were trying to findthat in the musical and I just
wouldn't let it be because itwasn't about anything other than
these friends and they're lovefor each other and they're love
for Christ.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So, that's awesome.
So the, the, the musical, isthat available?
Can people people watch?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
we are working on making it available.
I mean it was.
It was live streamed, which wasyou know?
Talk about the process ofcreativity, guys, holy man to.
I took some comfort in the factthat Netflix tried to live
stream what was it?
Love it first sight, somethinglike that, some kind of reality
(14:23):
show.
They were trying to live streamthe finale of it and everything
crashed and they couldn't do itand people were upset and
people were and I to my team, Iwas like guys, we must have
really pulled something off.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Because we ours actually work like we.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I remember telling the guy when he did live stream
he would do a finished product.
So we already filmed this.
Now we're gonna live stream it.
He had never, done a live show,live streamed At the moment,
where everyone's gonna bewatching, meaning if something
falls apart, yeah, everybodywill see that.
(14:59):
You know, if it stoppedstreaming and all of these
thousands of people have paid tosee it Like it had the
potential of disaster written.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh yeah, so you did our actual real live live stream
, so it's the live show.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Live stream, yes, and it was.
Putting that together Was thehardest thing that I have ever
done.
And again, the process ofcreativity is not just Making
something.
I, you know, I can write, I canact, I can do all of those
things.
If someone asked me what mytalent like actual talent is, my
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actual talent is finding peoplewho are good at their thing,
convincing them that they canhelp me with my thing and then
letting them just go do thatright.
Micromanaging, not you knowwhat did you have a chance to
get it like?
Really Showing people a visionand getting them sold on that
(16:00):
vision and then us as a teamgoing to make that happen.
That's in my truest essence.
I am a producer and a director.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I love that, so that's a good question to.
I would like to ask you, sherry, is when it comes to like the
definition of creativity To you,what would that definition be
like?
Is it a skill, a mindset orsomething else Like what would
you define creativity as?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Well, I think all of us are creators in some way.
It's just, are you driven bythat Right like every if you, if
you make a avocado toast, Iwill tell you I can't do that.
I can make nothing.
So if you did that, you madethat, it was, there was nothing
and you made something Right.
So I think everyone can do thatin some way.
(16:46):
But or if you're driven by it,that need to make something, to
create something too.
That's why, when people arelike you know, it's not now in
this kind of celebrity drivenworld a lot of times young
people are asking me how do Ibecome a celebrity?
Well, get on it, get on theinternet and do something stupid
.
Everyone will see it.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
It's actually not that hard.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yes, and everyone will see it right.
But if you're asking me how tomake your thing, I always tell
people I never wait forpermission to do it now.
To be sure.
That a lot of times meansyou'll be spending your own
money to make it sure Becauseyou know some like for my book
and that no Christian publisherWanted to.
(17:36):
They wanted to publish a bookfrom me.
Of course you would.
I have a platform, right.
That's.
It comes on the money right andexposure.
But a book called I want topunch you in the face, but I
love Jesus, a PMS companion book, is not quite what Christians
are looking for.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, thank you .
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I appreciate that, I do I.
But I wanted that, that's whatI wanted to say.
And so they were like how aboutright this?
How about right that?
How about right this?
No, I'm not good.
So if I was driven by money, ifI was driven by, driven by a
celebrity, then sure, now I can,I'll write whatever you tell me
to write.
But I knew what I would justsay, I knew what I felt like God
was giving me, and so I don'task you for permission.
(18:17):
May I please publish it?
You know, if you say no to me,then I'll find a way to publish
it, and I did and and then Itrust God with the rest of the
process.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I love that.
I love that.
That reminds me to I think itwas Elma show we had in here
Once and we were talking aboutthat and she said the word no
just doesn't.
That doesn't mean don't take itas rejection, it just means not
here the distance, the rightperson, so go around that and
find the, you know.
Don't let no be your stoppingpoint if that's something you
really want to do.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
It just means not here, yeah, not the right person
and let me say this, it canalso mean not now, and so I have
learned not to be Driven in away that I'm unwise, right?
So if I want to do something,want to make something In my
younger years, I would just doit because they'd be like no one
can do that, and I do it tospite you, right?
(19:05):
I'll show you that I can makethat, that I can do that.
And then there's a reason whyeverybody was like no, because
that don't work right now, andso you've just made a fool of
yourself.
So even then, I learnedsomething from it.
Right, but there is some wisdomif you have wise people around
you or like yes to that, but notnow.
There is something to listeningto that.
(19:27):
So I don't I don't want to makeit like I'm just a maverick.
And just jumping off buildings,you know, with you know pens and
papers and writing stuff.
There are times where it's likeyes to that, but not now.
And then there's other times.
For Gosh, I think it was DaveChappelle who said Like a, an
idea is I can't remember how hesaid it, but basically it's sort
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of like a car to self-driving,like you just get it and it's
gonna take you somewhere.
It's an idea that just takesyou and you can't you can't stop
it right, it's just carryingyou.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So oh yeah that's good, yeah, and I think that I
love that too, because you knowthere's a lot of people here
that I know you guys are in themetaverse, you guys are, you
guys have cool things that youguys are doing, and I know that
sometimes you can take some heatfrom the outside world Because
they're not in here, they don't,they don't know, they haven't
experienced it.
There's a lot of people's got alot of thoughts and theories
but they haven't been in hereand experienced it and Seen the
(20:19):
connections.
And and I want to encourage youguys, keep doing what you're
doing.
You do it because you lovedoing it.
I mean everybody that I've metin here that's building
something or you know they'redoing a show.
They're doing it because theylove it and it's we talked about
this last week Like, make sureyou have your purpose, like what
is your purpose, like what youknow what we do here at the
studio.
We have a purpose statement forwhat we do and if, if two
(20:41):
people show up, that's if oneperson shows up, that's success
for us, because Someone ishearing a story and we're we're
building connections orrelationships and that's what
the studio is about.
So I want to encourage you guys.
You know you might hear peoplePush you, push away or say this
is just a game.
You guys know there's a lot ofstuff that's getting ready to
change and Do keep doing whatyou do because you love doing it
(21:03):
.
But no, also there's gonna be aprocess through that.
I mean, we know there's a lotof bugs that we deal with in
here, because this beta stuffeverybody's learning and we have
to Kind of flow with it.
That's kind of the process whenyou're, when you're going out
Doing something that nobody elsehas done and you you feel like
you're alone.
But here's the great thing youguys are connecting with people
all over here and in horizons.
(21:25):
You're not doing it alone.
You don't have to.
There's a lot of amazing peoplein here that want to help you
out.
So I don't know about you,sherry, but I've.
You know I'm a creative.
You know I got some.
I do some creative stuff too,and but I sometimes can take
things personal when whensomebody kind of doesn't like
the creativity.
Have you ever struggled withthat before?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, I think when I was younger I obviously no one
likes to be disliked and you put, you know, your blood on a page
and someone laughs at it ordoesn't like it.
That is that's disheartening,sure.
But I think that if you'rereally, if I'm really sold on it
(22:05):
right, I think when it hurts meis when I wasn't quite sold on
it to begin with and I stillwent and did it, or still you
know what I mean.
Like, if you're doing comedyand you get up and you do it and
you're like that's it, itdoesn't quite work, but I'm
going to try to push it through,and then it bombs, then that
hurts a little more becauseinside you knew that wasn't
fully formed.
(22:26):
Like I think that's whathappens to me when I'm on stage
or trying to do a joke.
It's not there yet, it's notthere for you to put it out
there, but I'm like let's rushit out.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Let's roll with it, yeah, and when it gets a big
goose egg.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
then you're like, yeah, that hurts, and so I won't
say that it doesn't.
But you know, even in radio,you know you are giving
something.
It's mass media.
Yeah, you're giving somethingto the masses.
So, as I tell my mom all thetime, she you know my family
gets a little touchy if they seesomeone say something about me
(23:00):
online or something like that,because they're my family, Right
.
But I always say as long asthere's more laughs than booze,
we've paid the mortgage today.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I love that.
That's great.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
So you know, I can't I.
How dare I go to God and say,yes, let me be able to do all
these creative things, please?
And, by the way, everyoneshould love me.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, that doesn't.
That doesn't make any sense.
Thank you, yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I love it and sometimes it hurts and you just
shake it off and keep makingstuff.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You know one of the things I tell Mrs Killer B,
because I always tell I tell alot of jokes but they say I kind
of overdo it because a lot ofthem they say are bad jokes.
But I always look like if Ijust keep pushing them out there
, somebody's going to laugh atone and I'm like there, it was
right there.
There it is, I'll take it.
It took me 20 to get there, butI got a good one.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
There are times that I've gone on stage and they
haven't laughed and I'm like youknow what, I don't care,
because that was funny, and soyou guys didn't get it.
I still stand by that joke.
So, yeah, there are times whereI'm like nope, that was funny,
you guys just didn't get it.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He is not paying the mortgage with his dad jokes.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Now wait a minute.
Why are you laughing at that?
That wasn't supposed to be ajoke.
No, that was pretty funny Maybeshe's telling you the one
telling the jokes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's just some real life painful humor right there.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
That's why the laughs seem kind of forced.
The jokes flow naturally, butthe laughter seems forced on my
mind.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah, that's something to really consider.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I should pay attention to that.
I should pay attention to that.
Just think about it.
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I just know how to read the room yet, yeah, it's
great.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Right now.
I think it's a great time to doa contest.
Let me give you guys a heads up.
After we do the contest, we'regoing to bring up the mic for if
anybody has a question orthought that you guys would like
to ask Sherry, you guys will beable to jump down here in the
mic box here.
But let me give you guys aheads up.
The way the contest works iswe're going to pull a random
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name.
It'll appear right above thebig B up here.
Whoever's name comes up heregets to jump up on the stage and
grab the honey stick.
And then you guys get a whackthe B.
Where's the honey stick?
It's actually right up here.
See the big B.
See the big B up here.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Oh, okay, where's the honey stick?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
The honey stick is right here.
It's the whack of B stick rightthere.
In the case, I see Okay, yeah,so, okay.
So whoever is the winner gets50 more points.
Make sure you check out yourhigh-fativity ranking.
You get points for every minuteyou're in here during their
shows.
What that does is the people.
Every six months, twice a year,we actually give away a headset
(25:51):
that's autographed by ourguests Right now, the headset
that Sherry has on.
She's going to autograph theheadset and then we'll give two
of those away, one every sixmonths.
The top five people will be ina random drawing and we'll do a
big night for giving thatheadset away.
We just gave one away, I thinkit was like a month ago.
So, with that Arcane, can you goahead and cue the contest?
(26:12):
Skyler, let's hit that music.
Bring up, skyler, come on up.
Skyler.
Yeah, welcome to the Killery'sTears man.
Yeah, it's great seeing you.
Oh, I love the glasses too.
All right, go ahead and grabthat whack of B stick, all right
.
So, skyler, I want you to.
Actually, that's not the B,that's a good stretch, though.
You come on up front here.
So come right here.
I had to stand up for that one,yeah, no, so stand right here
(26:33):
and I want you to watch our show.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,okay, okay, okay.
So stand right here and I wantyou to watch right here.
He's going to bring up the Bgong.
All right, go ahead and bringthat gong up.
All right, there you go.
Whack that B.
That's a lot easier, right?
All right, there you go.
All right, skyler.
Thanks man.
You can just throw that.
There you go.
Thanks for joining us, man.
Thank you, all right, 50 pointsfor Skyler Arcane.
(26:54):
Can you go ahead and bring upthe Q&A mic?
I was about to be blinding youguys.
Did you ever think you wouldsee a gong come out of the floor
?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
I've never thought that I'd see anything like this
Like I'm still, I'm still, I'mstill, I'm still.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I'm still in space invaders and asteroids on the on
the tarry.
That's what I'm saying.
You're too young to even knowwhat that means yes.
You should be glad to know thatfor a long time.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Mr Killer B was calling that theB bong because
he could not get that word right.
So be glad you missed that bigyeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'm going to say yeah , that's not the, that laughter
didn't come forced, though, whenI said it, so I'm going to be
glad that laughter didn't comeforced, though, when I said it.
So if anybody has a, if anybodyhas a Q, if everybody has a
question or a thought, just jumpon down here by the mic and
we'll go ahead and let you guysshare your thought or question.
Brittany, thanks for joining us, hey.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Hi, it's great to see you.
Yeah, I'm so happy to be here.
Thanks for the invite.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Hi Sherry, how are you?
Hi Am I waving?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yep, you're waving Yep, All right, so I read that
you and I'm sorry I came in.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
You may have already spoken about this.
I came in a little later.
I read that you are a formeryouth pastor.
Yes, and so what?
I want to know what youropinion is right now about what
we're seeing in the media aboutthe youth, like what's going on
with the youth.
You know as far as thedirection that you feel like the
youth is going and what can youdo, or what can we do, to
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encourage the youth to do betteror to stay focused?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Great question how do I feel,gosh man, I think that, honestly
, and this is something thatI've been thinking about.
So that's why the question isso interesting, because when I
was a youth minister, the peoplethat I was and I'm dating
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myself now but the people that Iwas ministering to are now
adults, like in their late 20sand some early 30s, right and so
, and it's all come full circlebecause you get out, you start
in church if people start, ifkids started in church, and it
all seems kind of lame, kind ofwho knows, and you go to college
(29:09):
and you get all these questionslike how do you know and what
are you?
And then you start to get outin the culture and see there's
no real answer out there.
And then it's like it starts tocome full circle back, so that
people always ask me do I havechildren?
I did not birth children, and Ialways say my phone and my cash
app says that I do.
So they will call, and I thinkthat something that Brant does
(29:34):
Brittany that is is is so.
It is so profound and if wehave the courage to do it,
everyone is deconstructingChristianity, right?
Well, who's now this and nowthat?
Now that it's great, Iunderstand.
I've had my own deconstructionprocess for myself.
I would invite young people totell me how it's working.
(29:55):
Like this is what the culturesays is right.
This is what they say is good.
This is what's it.
Look at where we're at.
You need the statistics thatsay that this is working, that
people have joy, that peoplehave peace, that people have a
stable mind, stable lives.
(30:15):
If, can you tell me thatBecause that's the thing is that
we never question culture, andI think that's something that
Brant does so well is to sayhere are the cultural things,
for instance, this will be youguys probably never invite me
back in here, and if you did, Iwouldn't know how to get around
anyway, but Do you have thebands already?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Do you have the bands already?
The?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
concept of personal truth.
Okay, that's something thatyouth, that's a cultural thing.
That's my truth, that's mytruth.
Okay, so fine.
But the thing is, is that, howcan that continue to work?
If I have a truth and you havea truth, what we will get to
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which is where I believe we arenow, and I think young people
would say this if you said thatto them we'll get to a point
where we can have no commonsense, because the only common
sense we would have is if we hada common truth.
But without a common truth, ifyou have a truth and I have a
truth we can never have anythingin common.
It would, by definition, have aseparated, and that's what we
(31:25):
see right, interesting, yeah,and there's no one can gosh, you
can't even say anything, andpeople are like what do you mean
by that?
Like there's no commonality andthere's no community.
And I think it's because I amdemanding that everyone see
everything the way I see it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
You see what I'm saying.
So I think a deconstruction ofculture, first saying what are
the cultural ideas, and thentaking them one by one and say
let's go through here and let'ssee if this works or not.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It'll take some time, It'll take some energy, but I
think that that and the actualunderstanding of the gospel
Calvary I say it all the timebecause I think it gets lost in
Christianity.
People are deconstructingChristianity, tearing
(32:16):
Christianity apart.
We never go to the cross.
Was that real or was it not?
What was it for?
What did it buy?
What did it Like?
All that?
I think that deconstructingculture, really building up the
gospel and then let peoplechoose because Jesus did, that's
good yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's good, you know it's interesting.
You guys were talking aboutthis too, because I've been
reading a book and I've beenreading segments of it too, Mrs
Killer Bee, and it's called whatAre we Chasing, and it has a
lot to do with.
It talks a lot about whatculture puts out, what we should
be doing and how, if you don'tdo what culture is pushing and
saying you need to do, it's likewell, then you're kind of
(32:57):
looked down upon Likesomething's wrong with you,
Right, or you're being lazy oranything like that.
But it's really showing andexplaining the importance of
culture.
Just because it's what cultureis doing doesn't mean that it's
right or that it's best for youand it's okay for you to step
back.
Yeah, Today I read a part whereit actually was sharing a story
of instead of imagining you'restanding in a right next to a
(33:20):
big oak tree and what do you seewhen you're right next to that
oak tree, what you see is youbasically are going to see the
bark of that tree, but take 10steps back.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Now, what do you see?
Maybe you see the branches andthe tree.
Take 10 more steps back.
Now you're starting to seethere's other trees.
Take 10 more steps back.
Now you're seeing the sky.
You're seeing the whole forest.
And he was talking about likethat's what we need to be
thinking about with.
We're so focused on whatculture is telling us, but we
need to slow down and startstepping back.
And slowing down is not a wordthat's popular in culture at all
(33:52):
, and especially if you're inthe creative field too, you
could be running.
I mean, well, I know I've doneit several times.
I'm sure anybody here wouldprobably say like, how many of
you would say like you're likerunning like 100 miles per hour,
a lot, and there's going to beseasons for that.
But if you're doing itconstantly, all the time and
that's where I was I was like Iliterally thought I'm not a book
reader.
It takes me some time to read abook.
(34:12):
But I was literally sittingthere.
I was like I don't know what.
I want to read something, but Idon't know what, and I just did
a search for well, what am Ichasing?
And there it was, and it hasbeen an amazing book so far.
So definitely should check itout.
If anybody here, just let meknow.
I'll send you a link to it ifyou're interested in learning
more about it.
But that was really good.
I thank you, sherry.
Thank you for sharing that.
(34:32):
Does anybody else have aquestion or thought?
Feel free to jump in the mic.
Good soldier, you're muted.
Just let you know.
Good soldier, you're muted.
Thank you, brittany.
Hey, good soldier.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Okay, here's my question your faith.
Do you find that it doesn'tinterface well with your job and
other creative people that arearound you, or do you find it's
like more of a stumbling block?
Or perhaps you're like a WhiteHouse, where it attracts
(35:04):
attention and gives peopleguidance?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Ah, that's a great question, thank you.
For me, my faith is a part ofme.
As I wouldn't be able to wakeup and be like I've decided I'm
not going to be black today.
I can't do that.
(35:28):
My faith is just that much apart of me how it intersects
with what I do, because I can'tgive it up and I won't, and it
is my voice.
You see what I'm saying, like alot of people would say I talk
kind of churchy sometimes and Ido it like so.
It's like well, how do you putthese words into language
(35:53):
everyone understands?
Well, this is my voice, this ismy faith, this is who I am and
it has taken me some time to becomfortable with the fact.
That's who I am and whetherthat is popular to culture or
not popular to culture, itactually is who I am and my
faith will come out in all thethings that I do.
(36:13):
Where it could be weird, if I'mhonest, is not on the secular
side, but on the Christian side,so on the church side of what
people expect you to make, whatthey expect you to say, how they
for instance.
I'm working on a new book,that's.
I haven't told anybody to seethis.
(36:34):
Here you go, guys.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
It's killer B exclusive yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
It's based on my mother's saying.
She lives with me.
She's probably wondering whatin the world I'm doing.
I'm just sitting in a chair,talking to no one.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I can see your mom too.
Her mom's great.
I get that.
What are you doing there?
What is going on?
Speaker 4 (36:52):
She already got goggles on in there y'all she
talking to herself.
She finally broke.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You should have said hey, stop right now and say yes,
lord, yes, lord.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Get in here, mom.
You can't hear Jesus, but it'sa book about her sayings.
And so the title right now isHoly Ghost Mama.
That's a working title, butit's about all the things that
she says that are so profoundand I just want people to hear
them, right?
And so I was going, it wasgoing through an editor, and the
(37:23):
editor said back to me well,you know what's the lesson?
How, at the end, can we tiethis all together?
Well, that's a Christian thingLike a Christian thing is like a
Sunday school thing where youhave to be like and so therefore
, you know to always rememberlike that kind of thing.
Whereas for me.
(37:43):
I don't want to do that Like Iwant to be like Jesus was where
the Prodigal Son story endsopen-ended.
We don't know what happened atthat party, we don't know if the
older son came in.
We don't know anything Right,we just know the story that he
gave us and he was OK with youwrestling at the end.
So I think that I struggle moreon the Christian side.
Well, like the book I said Iwanted to write and no Christian
(38:04):
publisher wanted to do it Right.
So I think what, what, what?
When I say Christian, I'mtalking about the industry.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
If.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
I may Right.
So the what the industryexpects from you, what the
product expects you to produce,is not always what I am
producing, which is why I findmyself producing my own stuff,
yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
So yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Well, that was a good question.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
To your point.
I mean, that's what thePharisees thought about Jesus
too.
They didn't like what he wassaying, you know so it makes
sense, you're not.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Yeah, I mean you have a culture, christian Christian
you know industry has a cultureand has a way of speaking.
And I had an agent tell me youare way too secular for
Christian and to Christian forsecular and I think that's
actually a really great placefor me to be.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
It's a great place to be.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, I love that yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
You're not the first author that I've heard say that
either.
An author that I love, SeanAniquist, has said the same
thing yeah.
And so it's.
You're never going to pleaseanyone.
You just have to use your voicethe way God's given it to you,
and you know so many beautifulthings.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good, yep, I love that you
know that leads a good questionthat I have for you how do you
incorporate feedback into thecreative process?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I try to divorce myself of emotion so I don't
feel like you know.
Oh, they're hurting my feelings.
I try to take that out of itand try to find the actual, the
actual nugget of truth in it.
And that's not always easy, butI'm better for it.
I surround myself with peoplewho will, who are really
(39:50):
wonderful creatives, who aresmarter and more creative than I
am and who will tell me thetruth.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Awesome.
I love that.
That's great.
That's great.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah, the more you, the more you create and do
things, the less people tell youthe truth actually.
So it's very important tosurround yourself with people.
That makes sense.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
As a follow up for that.
Are there ever times, though,where even the people close to
you maybe don't get exactly whatyou're going for, and you know
that that's just what you haveto do, and just go ahead and do
it?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yeah, absolutely yeah .
I have a short series podcastcalled snacks and good company
and I wanted that name becausethat's the feeling I wanted when
we talked about things that itfelt like you were with your
friends eating snacks and it wasjust good company and everybody
hated it.
Every single person was likethat is the dumbest name I have,
(40:41):
like they just hated it.
And then when it all cametogether and they could hear the
jingle, they could hear themusic, they saw the logo, then
it was like, oh yeah, noweverybody's like, oh, snacks are
good company, snacks are goodcompany.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, but no, nobody was on board with that.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
They all hated it, but I knew that that was the
tone I wanted, so I stuck withit.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
All right.
So what we're going to do nowis we're going to go ahead and
get ready to wrap up afterwards.
Again, when you hear the outromusic, everybody jump up on
stage.
Make sure you kind of give giveSherry some space, because she
doesn't, she might not know howto move.
Yeah, so, while I try toposition the camera, you told me
to smile, yeah, smile.
You pushed your thumb up, thereyou go.
So she just had a smile for thecamera.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
But yeah, so you know , Sherry, I really do appreciate
you braving this out and cominghere to see what this is about.
Out of everything we talkedabout today, what would be your
takeaway you would hope peoplewould walk away with today?
Speaker 4 (41:40):
I think that how much creativity is a part of who God
is.
I really do believe that.
I think storytelling, whichthis is a part of that.
You know, the door, what's it?
That's a part of it, like justgiving people something in their
mind that expands them tokingdom possibilities.
(42:03):
That's what I believe in story,and so I do that.
However you do that, whetheryou're someone who is an artist
and you draw, you paint, youwrite, you create these worlds,
whatever you do, I would say tothink about how can I make
people think of a kingdompossibility?
(42:24):
Do I do.
You know if you're a believer.
If you're not, you know I getit.
But for me, as a person offaith and who believes in Jesus
and we've talked about thegospel how many different ways
can I tell people how much heloves them?
How many different ways can Ishow them how deep that was, how
(42:45):
, what that love?
Think about it.
We talked about it on the radio, like music.
Why does music affect us somuch?
Yeah, you know what I mean.
If we weren't created, that'sreally weird, that music that
you could hear a chord changeand get goosebumps right.
That is something God gave tous because he loves us, right,
and a way to communicate.
So I think, thinking about allof those things, I don't know
(43:08):
that the church is all.
We've always kind of givenlittle lanes where you can
create, but this in and ofitself shows that God, the
vastness of God, whatever Godputs in your heart to make, make
it, and make it not for abillion people to see it.
Make it because it opens a mindto a kingdom possibility.
And if it opens just one mind,two minds, three minds, whatever
(43:30):
it is, thank him for it andmake the thing.
Just make the thing.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Just make it stop thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Stop talking about it .
Stop Make the thing, just makeit.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
So I love that.
I love that.
Sherry, how can people connectwith you outside of here, in
real life, like on social media?
Speaker 4 (43:48):
Yeah, yeah, everywhere I am at, I am Sherry
Lynn, so I am Sherry'sS-H-E-R-R-I-L-Y-N-N, and so that
can be my website.
That's all my social mediahandles.
That's how you find me.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Awesome, yeah, and you guys can check out the
Killer B Studios Instagram.
We'll have a link on there andif you're listening to the
podcast, you can check out thepodcast notes.
You'll find a link in there toimserrylncom.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Thank you for joining us today at Killer B Studios.
Remember to text the word BUZthat's BUZZ to 863-262-7763.
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