Tragedy To Glory Featuring Bo Wright

Engagining in a discussion with the retired NFL player Bo Wright, it was revealed that he was selected by the Buffalo Bills during the seventh round of the 1988 NFL Draft.

Episode Transcript

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Did you with this? Make yourfeeling on in your tails? S?
Got know my people in wet clowestelling my mental unforts. I'm foring link
my flothes. If you don't know, you're messing with the rook or player
pros like the party. Hey,what's up? Everybody? Welcome to another
edition of the Walking This Way IntactWOS podcast. This is a special audition
with doing a noon edition of that. Of course, I am from the

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Jackson your broadcast once again either dl W. That's data is for a
first tip for everybody wants to knowwhat that means. Very excited then they
have a very special Gifts to matter. Have our feature guests and my special
guest co host this afternoon as well. She's a talking about her bitches schedule
all the way out of Houston,Texas. Shoot, how you've been doing?

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I know you've been having a veryproductive schedule and you're doing a lot
of great things as well, changinglives, helping lives and all the other
great stuff. So how have youbeen what's been going on? I know
you've been doing a lot a lotof work of course in Texas outside of
Tasas, So who else has beengoing on with you. What's up?
I'm Furman Jackson and walk in hisWays Impact boys. Good to see everyone,

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Furman. I am fantastic, soglad to be on the show with
you today. I am so gratefulfor just being able to be on your
platform and just share not only thelove of God, but any of the
knowledge that I have as a licensedfinancial professional and just being you know,
forty eight years old in this worldand the wisdom that God has allowed me
to impartan to your audience today.And I'm so super excited about our guest

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today, mister bo Right. Youknow, I'm excited for this incredible inspiration
that he's going to impartner us withus today. Furman. So how you
been. It's good to see you. Brother to God be the Glory Man.
Everything right on schedule. Everything's righton schedule. So grateful to be
and that's what it's all about.I said, I'm going to induce that

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somebody I said, I guess thisafternoon is a former legendary Alabama football player
n a athlete. Ball Right,of course, he is a notable figure
in the world of football. Rightwas selected by the Buffalo Bills in the
seventh round of the nineteen eighty eightNFL Draft and went on to play for
the Bills and the Ennopolis coach.At this time in the NFL, he

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joined the Arena Football League TAMA,based on him unfortunley. On December first,
nineteen ninety one, Wright was shotin the back of the other leg
while visit his parents at Mobile,Alabama, which is my hometown. Of
course, this incident lede him toexperience a period of depression and invol in
a home for activities. However,Right has since made a positive transformation in

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his life by giving back to thecommunity and sharing inspiring story to help others.
And I want to share this,Sharlough. I actually I met mister
Wright at his lowest points. Hewas incarcerated while I was working for the
Mobile kind of shared department, andthat's what I met him. Man.
And people say, yeah, he'sa football player. He played for the
Buffalo Bills in the late eighties andhe was well known around the city of

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Mobile. And I met this lord'spoint when he was in the work release
program and based at that time hewas at the darkest time in his life.
But today he has truly transformed hislife. Shallow he got a book
that he's working on, the SharedStory and the Nameless episode. It's called
From Tragedy to Glory, and wewant to hear our guests. Go ahead

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and do some stuff. I knowI need the introduction, but uh boy,
right, go ahead and guce yourselfto the audience here on the Walking
This Way and takebars podcast and afterthat, I'm a gentleman some of it.
Sharlow kick out some questions to youas well, So go ahead and
induce yourself here on this great,great Wednesday afternoon. Wow, man,
that was awesome. Man, Thanksfor having me here, you know,

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and I just I look at itas an opportunity to to share with with
with God's people. What what youknow, what He's done in my life
and from the depths of destruction thathe's brought me to, from Blinton being
living on the streets to now livingin the suburbs and with a beautiful suv

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and just to give me more hopefor a brighter future and a better day,
to be a to be the rolemodel and the icon that God created
me to be. You know.That's that's that's all I want to do,
is be a better person every day. I want to you know,

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I had a coaches to always say, get a little bit better every day.
Every day. I want to geta little bit better every day that
I can sprinkle it on somebody else, you know, to make this a
better place to live, better communityto live in, better city, better
country, a better nation. That'sall I want to do at the end
of the day, mister Jackson,My only the only thing I want to

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hear God say is you did agood job today. That's the only thing
that matters to me. Nothing elsereally matters, you know, as long
as I hear him say, youdid a good job today. So thanks
for having me here. Man,this what's up? So I said,
I'm kicking off with my sister.I'm being a gentleman. So I said,
I know, I sent her.I sent her doing information via DM,

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you know, so she get aglimph of what we're doing today,
and I know she got some questionsshe wanted to ask you. So go
ahead shout out with the questions,you know. You know, I feel
I'm smiling a lot. I don'tknow why, but there's such great energy
already on the show, and Ifeel like I'm just smiling my tees are
probably going to be hurting later ontoday. But you know, you know

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both. You know, I've beenin radio for her. I was in
radio for eight years, and soI do understand when you have a guest
come on, and when you're goingto interview a guest, it's important to
know a bit more about the guests, right, And so I did a
little googling on the little googler thereand I learned a bit more about you,
and I got more excited about yourstory. So we understand it right

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now. You're walking in power,you're walking in your purpose, and you're
helping the youth that you're doing thosethings. But let's go back because I
think it's important that we go backto know you know where you came from.
You know, you're the oldest ofyou're the youngest of seven, right,
and you had two parents in thehousehold. Your parents both work consistently

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together. And you mentioned that younever went without anything, right, You
had the night home, you hadthe parents in the house, you ate
well, you knew nice people,and all of those things. So how
important would you say is it toliterally have both parents in the house,
Because there's a lot of broken homesnowadays, right, there's a lot of

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single parents and there's a lot ofthings that the people that children don't get
because they don't have both family,both parents. So how important was it
for you to have your mom anddad in your life? Wow? That
is you know. When I wasin midsy school, my pastor, Pastor
Joe down that in mal Hebret Mobile, Alabama, he used to always say

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that the spirit of God, it'llsearch it the audience and it'll tell you
what to say. So it hadto search it and tell you what to
ask me because I had it inmy notes of things that I wanted to
I wanted to speak on on familybecause family ain't nothing like family. Family

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is the backbone to community. Communityis the backbone to the area we live
in. And if we all gottogether in family, because I heard people
say it takes the whole village toraise the kid. And that's so true.

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Because I'll tell you what, speakingof family, and this goes out
to all the single moms, singledads, married moms, whatever. Always
teach your kids about what thus saidthe Lord, even though you're gonna think

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they're not listening. A lot oftimes they may not be listening because in
the day the time we live in, they got that phone, they got
that chip and they're doing this.But you gotta continuously tell your kid.
I remember to tell you something aboutmy mom. But the first recollection I
started having as a kid, Iwas about five years old and my mama

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was teaching. She was teaching mehow to pray the Lord's prayer. And
she told me, she said,come on, get down on your knees,
and this is how you and shestarted reciting the Lord's prayer, Father,
whom are in heaven, How willbe thy name, that that kingdom
come, that thou will be doneon earth as it is in heaven.

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So she was teaching me the modelprayer. And it's just when my mom
passed away. She went to bewith the Lord a year ago on our
birthday, which was September the nineteenth. I was born September nineteen. She
was born September nineteen, and shewent to be with the Lord on September

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nineteen. And our last conversation thatwe had, she said, let Mama
pray for you and that and I'lljust I'll never forget it. That was

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the first conversation I remember us havingas a kid, as the first when
I was about four or five orsix years old, and I started praying
when I was I was I startedwith saying and then I say, Lord,
let me make it to the NFL. I ain't even know what the
NFL was. I just knew Ihad a fund for sports. Whatever I

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started press, I said, Lord, let let me make it to the
NFL. And lo and behold,one day I ended up in the NFL.
You know, I know that nowlooking back on it. The NFL.
When I got there, they toldme it's stuard for not for long.
Get your money, get you afew years in, and then you
go, you gotta go getta getsomething you got. You got to do

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something else. Uh. So youknow my mom, she she's anc and
I was telling mister Jackson about her. She is. She was a Nicon.
She she was the first black femaleto get in line with the males
over at Scott Paper Company. Shewas a supervisor for thirty two years.

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She was. My mom would callme some holidays because I was the only
one at the house. Everybody elsewas gone. They were grown or whatever
it was in them teenage years.They were feeling themself whatever I was the
only one there I remember, andshe would call me some holidays, she
said, Baby, she said,uh, Mama thought I was going to

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be home this evening because she wouldwork seventy three, three to eleven,
eleven and seven. She said,Mama thought, uh, Mama thought I
was gonna be home this evening forThanksgiving. Say Thanksgiving may been Christmas,
I don't even remember, she said. But Mama got to work over she
said, Mama got to stay tilleleven o'clock tonight. And she said,

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but you know where all the foodis. It is a the refrigerator,
and you just go in there andtake care of yourself. And man,
my mom, my mom was.She was just she was a legend.
She was everything to the community.Everybody call her mama. Everybody loved her.
Every It was just I ain't wanther to leave you. She well,

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she left it. But you knowsomething, I'll tell you this.
I'll tell you this. I'll tellyou this, Missus Jackson. That the
person can die. It's just likeJesus Christ. They crucified Jesus and they
kill assassinated doctor Martin Luther King.The person can die, but the spirit

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that the person left behind is gonnalive forever. So it's like, you
know, it's like my mom.She ain't never passed away. God gave
her to us, to me andus for ninety one years. My mom
died. She was ninety one yearsold. God bless her heart. God,
I still hear her talking to me, just like she's still here.

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I just don't. I don't seeher, you know, but I see
her picture, and I don't likelooking at the picture. I rather just
hear her because my eyes started towell up and I started when y'all,
I you wanted to see her.But I still hear her talking to me
to this day. Man, Godbless her soul, rest her soul and
everything. And I tell people,I tell people all the time, I

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say, listen, you know.If I could, uh, if I
could ask my mama one question,I would ask her, Mom, do
you want to come back? Andshe would she would say no. She
say, I miss you guys,and I love all you guys because it
was seven of us. She said, but no, Mama, don't want
to come back. Mama, seeyou when you cross over to Glory,

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because Glory women is a beautiful placeplace of everything, place of rest,
streets paid with gold, mansion andglory. And you know the word that
God says, eyes has not seen, none has ears don't have the hearts
of man the things that God hasprepared for us. So Mama's a little

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better place, and I will physicallysee her one more time, I mean
again and go Intames burned out offourth Worth tentions. He said, hey,
y'all a coming session, So beshot to James, him and his
wife. Also for people out offourth worst, so be shoting. We
never want to get those who tuneingin who are watching live dreams of course

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like that. Just listen to yourstory about your mother and how your mother.
I just got fit talking to mymom earlier before we got on the
show, and just chariting the timewe have with our parents. You know,
be shot to my mom and mydady both still living and always want
to charity these times while they stillhere and never want to live in regret

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of so may you're here tomorrow you'regone, But also saying, at least
I had that relationship. There wasno hard feelings, it was no bad
turns, and knowing that if wewhenever we depart, we know that though
things have been blessed. So thoseyou got your parents still live and cherish

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your parents, you know, talkingto make that, make that time with
them because tomorrow is not promised.So don't put off the marrow. We
you can do today. And youmentioned the NFL, and you know that
that late eighties you went to theBuffalo Bills in the late eighties. I'm
not a Buffalo Bill film with Cowboysfan, always will, but you had

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the opportunity to play for the BuffaloBill. And take us to that journey,
oh, when you first got draftedin the NFL. And I know
that's a big accunstman coming out ofAlabama Mobile preache area to go to the
NFL. And I know they treatedyou like a like a legend an icon
to they do that journey. AndI know Charlotte want to ask some questions

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well also, so take us tothat journey when you first enter the NFL
knowing you're playing with well known legendaryplayers. Now I'll tell you what it
was. It was. It waspeople asked me all the time, they
say what what what what? What? What was it like playing in the
NFL. And uh, every timethey asked me, I have to take
a deep breath and just true.It was like a fantasy. It was

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like a dream, like I wasdreaming. I didn't like everywhere I went
everything was free. Every store Iwent in in the mall, all the
shoes were free. Every restaurant Iwent, all the food was free.
Everybody just was loving on you.They were and they were just you know,

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I tell people when I got toAlabama, when I graduated from high
school in eighty eight, it waslike a fantasy. It was like a
pre wreck to get into the NFL. Because when I got on campus in
eighty three, it was like everybodytreated treated us like celebrities, and we
treated everybody liked celebrities. You know, they were trying to help you graduate.

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Come on, man, come tothis study session. Or she was
saying, come on, come tothe study station. Her had my phone
NUMBERA call me and we're gonna havea study station and give it. And
a lot of times we got tothose study sessions. Man, they already
had the answence to the test.So it was like a fantasy Alabama,
you know, and everything, man, it was just you know, it

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is what it is. You know. I just think I just thank God
for allowing me the opportunity because whenI got to Blunt High School in seventy
eight, seventy nine or whatever itwas. When I got there, we
wasn't doing very much. We wasn'twinning very much. We weren't doing nothing.
But to god, the guys Icame up, went through little league

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football, through the park league.We were like, we winners. We
won everywhere we went when we wereLittle league. And then we got to
Blunt High School, were like weI don't know what they were doing.
We were ready for them to goso we could take so we could take
over. And then you know,we we went on a run, man,

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and and we we set the cityor Pretching on fire. You know,
we were the first team in BluntHigh School history to go to the
playoffs. And I was in uhin my senior year in eighty three.
Man, we had the city onfire. They had they gave us a
key to the city and and itwas just it was a It was a
heck of a ride. Man.It was somebody keep calling my phone.

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I don't know what they want,but anyway it was, it was it
was a heck of an experience.Man. Then I got a chance to
come home and play in the SeniorBowl in nineteen eighty eight, and everything
was my life has been like afantasy, you know, not Oh God,
everything that he's done in my life, you know. Then I I

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after I left Buffalo, I wentand tried out for the Indianapolis coach and
I didn't make that team. SoI had a coach called me. He
said, speak the boat, right, I said, it's boat. We
was on the landline then, wedidn't have no cell phone. He said,
I saw in the papers where yougot wived by the Indianapolis coach.
You want to come down here toTampa to try to make the team and

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work your way back up to theNFL. I was like, yeah,
absolutely, Coach, he said,well, we're put your mail tickets,
your flight tickets at the airport andyou just come on down here. So
I get on the flank shoot shootdown to Tampa. And the team was
moving from Pittsburgh to Tampa. Andwe had a lot of ex NFL players
who were trying to work that wayback up to the league, and I

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was one of them, and wecaught lightning in a bottle. As a
matter of fact, we went onto be Arena Bowl champions in nineteen ninety
one. The team was Brian newThey had just moved from Philadelphia down to
Tampa and everybody was excited. Andyou know, we had to sun Coast

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Dome where we played at. Itwas sold out every week. They were
giving away houses, they were givingaway trips to Hawaii, they were giving
away cars, they were giving awayeverything. And we you know, we
I tell I tell the people whofollow Tom Brady, I never met Tom
Brady or nothing like that. Thatwe started that a long time ago before

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before they got started winning championship.We were the first team down there to
win a championship. Then I camehome to visit my parents. Wait wait,
wait, wait, you're getting intothe nitty gritty. Wait a second
home on wait second, because beforewe get to that, because that is

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what you're about to speak upon,is a very pivotal time in your life,
right, and it literally changed thetrajectory of your life. So before
we go there, I do havea question I wanted to ask before we
talk about the change that happened inyour life that really really tells the tale.
Right. First of all, canwe say shout out to your beautiful

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mother who was born on September nineteenth, had her seventh beautiful child on the
nineteen went home to glory on thenineteenth ninety one beautiful years. Showed you
nothing but work ethic thirty two yearsin the same year she was a woman.

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And so it's so funny to mewhen you're like, God, my
mother showed me how to pray,and so it's funny to me when you're
like, I just asked to gointo the NFL. I don't know how
that happened. I just happened.Well, God said he will give us
the desires of our heart right ifwe seek his righteouses first. So because
your mother taught you the Lord's prayer, because your mother told you how to
seek him first, you just simplyspeaking those desires of your heart, God

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actually granted you those things. Right, So I think we need to acknowledge
that that's where that came from.Right, You didn't follow up these guys
I want to go to the NFL. No, you had a praying mother
that knew where are the answers from? You have w did you even now
covering you? Right? So,when the draft came, because I'm just

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trying to paint the picture of yourbeautiful family the day of the draft.
I want to know where your momwas? Your mom, there was your
dad there? Where are your sixother siblings there with everybody around you,
And what that anticipation was like becauseyou went to the seventh round, brother,
and then when Buffalo Bill's called botright, was it Mayhem? Was

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it somber? Was it? Like? I want to know that was like
a time ball went off. Backthen, the draft was twelve rounds.
They know, they've shown it toseven rounds, and back then it was
twelve. And it was a twoday event. And we were all living

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off campus because we we were donewith Alabama football days and they had us
apartments off campus and all of that, and and and we had our apartment
was right across from the pool.So we had a draft party and we
had everything that you know, youknow, just the draft party, all
the food and whatever you want anduh oh ha, Mercy. People kept

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calling me you got drafted yet becauseit was off TV. It wasn't on
TV no more if the first threeround was on TV. But then they
kept you call No, I ain'tgot drafted yet, they ain't got drafty
yet. I called you one assoon as they called my name. So
for day one went by, Ididn't get drafted. I'm like, wow.
So I kept believing, kept believing. So the next day I had

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some friends come over there bringing megifts, all kind of short sets and
off fens and all kind of stuff. Honey, don't worry abody, You're
gonna get drafted today, I said, you know, I hope. So
so the next day came and thatbefore we could either crank up or whatever,
my phone rang. I answered thelandline Corners landline. Hello. He

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said, this is Chip, somebodyfrom the Buffalo Bills. He said,
can I speak the boat right?I said, yeah, this boat and
he said, we've just drafted youin the seventh round. And boy,
when he said that, life asI knew it, it just it expanded.

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I ain't gonna say it changed,and I can say it changed.
But I threw that phone up inthe air like it was a baseball.
I started to run it all overthe apartment complex. I'm going to the
Babolon Bills, Barbalon Bills, andwow, man, I it was.
It was. It was an amazingtime. Man. It was so just

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like a fantasy and continuation because whenI got to Alabama, it was like
a fantasy. And then when Igot when they call my name, it
was like a fantasy. And uh, man, I had an opportunity to
marry my college sweetheart. It's AngelaDavis. You know she's she's the sister
of Vivian Davis the senate later yeah, center, And I saw a thing

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about her, her son, Shamarion the on the what what do they
call it, the news breaking chamorroChamar whatever his name, the younger guy
that he's he's getting to back togetherand everything, and I'm glad to see
that in him. He's running forsome kind of district, some kind of
senate or something like that. Butyou know, it was it was an
outstanding thing. Man. I thinkI give God the glory and uh for

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for allowing me to experience such abeautiful life. And that's it. Food
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Jackson Junior broadcasting out a d FWdow wre titch is alone with my favoritepecial
against Charlotte Houston, Texas and nowvery yes tonight well today of course is
former NFL player college standout both right, he awesome stories. He's talking about
his mother for those and miss talkingabout his mother, the experience he went

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through the NFL, of course,and that transition of being a pro athlete
making it to the to the NFL. And that's we know the NFL is
the privilege. We know we hada lot of great players who were good
in college but never made this helpto get to the NFL. But you
want the one who was fortunate enoughto bless enough and God bless you to

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be on that platform. And let'stalk about with the financial of the situation.
We know when the athletes shot,he want time in on that.
When the athletes get these big timecontracts. They're very excited, you know,
especially if you come from wherever backgroundhe came from to when you get
that first contract, I gotta gobuy everything. I gotta go do this
and do this. How was itwhen you first got that big come track?

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What would you deal with it?How was it getting out? Like
I said, never seen that typeof money before, because we do.
The NFL played a lot of thesegreat players a lot of great money.
They saw them say, generational willand we know some players went to them
times where they blew it all orthey had got bad advice from people and

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blew it up. So let's talkabout that too, the financial side of
the NFL, where you got thatbig contract and what kind of money.
I'll tell you, I'll tell youwhat. I'll tell you what missus Jackson.
You know, back when I waswhen I was in the league in
eighty eight, eighty nine, wewent to that first Super Bowl in Buffalo,

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there was like a financial supersize fromthen to now because back in when
I played, the highest paid playerin the league was our quarterback, mister
Jim Kelly. Yet Jim kill andhe made like I think it was one

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point one million dollars. That's alot of money back That was decent money
back then. Because he had amansion. We should go over to his
house after the games. He hadbedrooms everywhere and every day just like like
like six Flags of Disneyland. Sobut anyway, you fast forward to twenty

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twenty four, you got these youngmen making forty million dollars a year.
Yeah, that's like that's like nightand day. You know. I got
a little nephew name Jacoreyan Bennett.He plays for the Vegas Raiders. I
never met Jackorean. He's asked mysister Geneva. That's Geneva's son, Mario

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Mario, that's Mario's son. ButI never met Corria. I don't know
the money. I put it likethis in my two years in Buffalo,
I probably it made about about twohundred thousand, if I had to guess.
Yeah, that was a lot earlier. Yeah, that was well,
I'll tell you what. I'll tellyou what. God had given me the

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skill set where I could have playedthe game ten or fifteen years. Died
and and I mean retired and movedto South Beach, got an ocean side
condominium and and and died and wentto hell, never known who my Lord
and Savior was, Jesus Christ,so that that he didn't let that happen.

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I had the skill set to playthe game. I was, you
know, two hundred and thirty poundssize I am now and I ran a
four three forty. I could playevery position on the field, and but
it just didn't work out like that, you know, So I thank God,
you know, going through everything thatI went through, being shot in

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the leg by a thirteen year oldkid. They say thirteen, I said
yeah. They said, what arehe doing with a gun? I said,
I don't know, and losing mycareer and everything. Mister Jackson,
I tell you, man, youknow, going through everything I went through,
I met my Lord and Savior,Jesus Christ, So I wouldn't you
know it was painful for a twentyfive year old kid. I'm a twenty

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five year old kid, you know, I'm grown according to the States,
to the laws of Alabama. Butin reality, you're a kid at twenty
five. You don't know nothing.You know what you know, but what
you know ain't the beginning of it. So I met my Lord and Save
with Jesus Christ. Going through everythingI went through, and it was real
painful, you know, going throughwhat I went through, coming home to

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visit my parents and being shot inthe leg by a thirteen year old kid
for whatever reason, no apparent reason, because I didn't know him, he
didn't know me. I put itlike this, People asking me all the
time, what was he trying torob you or something? I said,
well, I don't know. Iain't I a don't't have five I was

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with me. I was trying tobuy a bag of weed. I ain't
no business. That's another story though. And uh, as a matter of
fact, when I was getting outof the shower, my mama heard my
keys rilling, and she say,where you going. I said, I'll
be right back. She said,well Quila called while he was in the

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shower. She said, I said, well, she knows how to get
in because I got a friend ofmine. We were real tight friends.
And she would come over and bringthe yogurt, We eat the yogurt and
walnuts and whatever and do what kidsdo. And and the night when it
happened, it was sort of kindof like the Tupac movie. I went
on all eyes on me. Hetold that little girl, he said,

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I'd be right back. One hour. I told my mom, I said
I'd be right back. She said, what she called, I said,
she knows how to get in.So I left, went down there,
almost never came back. Wow,I mean, it was it was.
It was something, man, Letme tell you something. Because when it
happened, when I made the transactionand I started taking, I took,

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I turned around and took one,two, three, four, bah shot
went on and I was like,my leg kicked up in the air like
a horse just kicked up, andI just I was I just took off
running. You know, my carwas over there, but I ran the
other way from the car because Iain't know if they's been to shoot the

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car. I didn't know what.I knew the little guy who was driving
the car his car, but Ididn't know the other little thirteen year old
kids sitting over there in the uhin the passenger seat. I didn't know
him at all. Man, itwas it was. It was heartbreaking.
But you know, that's a scripturethat says all things worked to the good
of those who loved the Lord andyou and you have to kind of put

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that in perspective, how everything climbstogether to work to the good because I
had it. Had it not happened, who knows why it would be.
Now you know what, Bo,you say something very profound as you're speaking,
and that I thank you for lettingus Knowmber, because I was going

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to say because of course I readyour story and I but I didn't know
we was out of pocket a littlebit. I didn't know we were out
of pocket a little bit. Somy question is you know you like you
know you don't want to cut youknow, saying you know right now,

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I know anything not go that gothere that day number one? Was there
anything that told you not today?Was your mom even a warning not to
go either way? This is thething that I wanted to say because you

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said something and I have to goahead. Who okay? You satis scripture
that I was. This is oneof my favorite scriptures in the Bible,
and it's romans Ate, and itsays eight twenty eight says and we know
that in all things God works forthe good of those who love Him who
have been called according to His purposefor those God for new He also predestined

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to be conformed to the image ofhis son, that he might be the
first born among many brothers and sisters, this is my favorite part of the
scripture. And those he predestined hehas also called those he also justified,
and those who justified he also glorifiedyou, just saying that there's a there's

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more to that scripture I had totalk about, right, because whoever got
predestined bo right, he also meanthat. Okay, okay, I'm going
to allow you these highs of yourlife, but there's going to be something
that's going to happen because I havecalled you to a different purpose. I

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have predestined you, I have calledyou, I have justified who you are,
and I'm going to get the gloryout of your story. So even
using that thirteen year old child rightwho was out of his mind, sinceless
act of gun violence that landed youin the hospital for not one day,
not two days, not three days, not four, but thirty one long

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days from a shot to the leg, right now, it wasn't a shot
to your heart, It wasn't ashot to any major you know organ,
It was a shot to your leg. The one thing that God gave you
power into doing was using your legs. Right. So now we're sitting at
the hospital thirty one days later,did Jesus meet you there? Did you

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meet Did Jesus meet you there?Or was it after your recovery? Well,
I'll tell you this. I wasin that hospital for those thirty one
days. I was in ICU witha breathing apparatus on my face and had

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no idea what was going on.Was heavily sedated, you know. I'll
tell you what. When the shothappened, I took off running. I
ran past my car and I ranpast I stopped at a couple of houses,
knocking on the door, and nobodyanswered me. And I was on
my way to try to turn andmake the cut to go to my mama's

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house where I came from, becauseI was I left my car over there
and I turned the corner, goingby three blocks to my mama's house and
I couldn't. Everything locked up.I got all my organs and whatever,
and I threw myself over this guy'sfence and I started boom, boom boom,

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just knocking as hard as I canknock on his door, and uh,
I didn't hear nobody, and uhthen he finally came to the door.
He said, what's going on?I said, call, I said,
call the ambulance. I've been shot. He said, Man, if
you don't get off my porch,I'm gonna let my dog go. I

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said, oh, noez, Isay, please, don't let your dogs
out. So the next man toldme I had to go back to that
manhouse and thank him for everything thathe did. Because I was laying up
in the hospital, tell you whenwhen when I try to answer your question

(39:52):
if I can. And when Iwas laying up in that hospital, I
was in ice you with a breathingapparatus on, and they would h they
were they were, you know,going about going about their business. And
I was at ICU for like probablyabout ten days. Then they moved me
to regular population. That my afterten days, and then my doctor came

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in there. And it was ayear. Alabama was playing Michigan in some
Bowl game down in Miami, andI asked my doctor. Finally with my
legs split open on both sides tothe red meat on both sides of my
cap is split. But anyway,I finally got my nerves up to ask
my doctor. I was like,Doc, I could talk, I wasn't

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so sedated and everything I said,do you think that I'm gonna be able
to play ball again, and thatyoung man looked at me with a straight
face, he said, I don'tthink so. And you know, when
he said that, my whole worldas I knew it, because I had

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I still had aspirations of playing playingmore ball. But when he told me
that, he then started explaining theinjuries and what happened and what it did
and all of that kind of stuff, and and uh, it was,
it was. It was a shock. Put it like that, you make

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it worse? Did you run?Make that make the injury worse? You
know, that's a good question thatI don't know. I had a guy.
I was showing the guy, oneof the guys, some of the
some of the scars or whatever,and he was like, when they had

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to cut that, when they didthat, what's that from? What what
they did that? And he wasasking, you need to suit him.
I said, no, man,that's what I said. You gonna let
bigos bigos. You know, Istill didn't seen an opportunity to run,
to work out and on and tryto keep my body up to date,

(42:05):
keep it, you know, cleanand sober and and still working out because
like my mom, when my mompassed away, my mom was ninety one
years old. She was still onthat treadmill at ninety eighty nine, whatever
that up in the til she was, she was still going. So I
come from a youthful tree and uhand it just I came from such a

(42:29):
loving family man. So much lovewas in my family with my siblings and
everybody. It was just like onebig I want to be married so bad.
I don't know what to do.I want a family so bad.
I want a church home so bad. I don't to I just I want

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a church building. I have afoundation called Team New Life, and we
educate kids on the danger of drugsand alcohol, and we teach them how
to resolve conflict and the importance ofproper nutrition. You know, because my
life is dedicated to these kids,and you know they are the foundation for
tomorrow and everything I can do tohelp them. You know, that's what

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I want to do. You know, people say, well, your life,
your career was hinted about thirteen yearold kid. You know, you
know some of these kids they don't. And like I said, it takes
the whole village. And I justwant to do my part. Like doctor
Martin Luther King said, he said, I just want to do God's will,
and that's all I want to do. Whatever I and I sub teach

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down in the Mobile County Public schoolsystem when I was living there, and
you know, I wanted, Iwanted to change every kid. And then
I had to come into the realizationthat it wasn't for me to change every
kid, because I'm like, boy, come here one day one of my
kids. He was doing something,picking with this girl, messing with this

(43:59):
guy, and all kinds of stuff, and I said, I said,
come here. I said, sitdown right here. So he sat down,
and I said, what's wrong withyou? Yo? Man? I
said, you don't act like that, and he looked at me with a
straight faith. He said, coach, I ain't had my medicine, you
know. And kids are just soprecious, they say the during these things,

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and they so teachable. Some ofthem are so teachable. Because I
tried to establish a report with him, because I had a lady tell me
a long time ago, she said, you got to reach the child before
you can teach the child. Andthat made a lot of sense, you
know. So I try to establisha report with him, you know,
I try to meet him right wherethey are, you know, just the

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same way God does us, meetsus right where we are. You know,
some people talking about well when Iget clean up and going to church,
just go to church, you know, and let the process be the
process. And you know, Igive God all the glory. Man,
I'm just my life now. I'lltell you what my life right now is

(45:07):
better than what it was when Iwas playing ball for the Buffalo Bills.
Right now, this day, Iwouldn't say, we want to put you
on a time machine and let yougo back, and we're gonna put you
back in the NFL, or youwant to stay where you are now.
I said, don't worry about thetime machine. I'm good right here.

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You know, I love it,man. You know it's I'm in a
learning season in my life. Ido a lot of studying, and you
know, I want to try tomake some kind of invention, some kind
of I don't know what kind ofinvention that you know, we can become
millionaires, kingdom millionaires kingdom money.I ain't talking about some millionaire strip club

(45:55):
money or no foolishness like that.I'm talking about God's money. To be
faithful to his money right now,to the little bit. You know,
it's just like if I go,if I leave here, crank my truck
up and go, and I seesomebody that's homeless. First of all,
I'm say, Lord, bless themheaven mind, because I remember that was

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me one time, and and andI'm gonna I'm gonna try to give them
something if it ain't, but Itry to give them at least three dollars.
I said this for the Father,the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
because when we look at the people, the homeless population, I didn't
had dinner. I tell people,I was telling somebody the other day.
I'd have had dealer with the millionaires, people made millions of dollars, and

(46:37):
I'd have had dinner with the peoplewho used to payinghandle or payanhandle whatever.
I have slept with the millionaires,I'd have slept with the with the with
the homeless people. And it ain'treally know. The only difference is some
of them got money and something andand the homeless people don't got money.

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They got an addiction, usually somekind of addiction. And you know,
but I just people are people.I look at the homeless population like the
man in and and and in frontof the circle k panhandler, the millionaire

(47:17):
up there ain't got ain't no betterthan him, not in my eyes anyway,
my mom. That's the way mymom raised us. And uh,
she don't look over nobody, youknow. Because God can take the homeless
man that's in front of the circlek doing what he do, and he
can raise him up to be theking of the city. And he can

(47:40):
take the multi millionaire and allow himto come down. So God is,
you mean, God is if hewant to do it, he can do
it. That's what I believe.Now. I could be as wrong as
two left shoes, and I standcorrectly if I am wrong. But I
you know, that's that's the wayI try to live life, you know,

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I try to I try to treatpeople. My mom always says.
She said, well, you gottatreat people the way you want to be
treated. She said, don't worryabout how they treat you, she said,
because the ones that do you bad, she said, it's not them
anyway, she said, it's justthe spirit in the person that makes the
person mistreat you or say something rude, or act in any kind of ruly

(48:23):
manner. She said, But yougotta you gotta sew seize, she said,
whatever sees you So that's the harvestcoming back to you. So if
you nice to people, if you'refriendly with people, you're courteous, and
if you're kind to people, andif you're complimentary to people, she said,
that goes with the same seas gonnacome back to you. She said,
somebody's gonna be courteous to you,kind to you. They're gonna be

(48:45):
complimentary to you. She said,that's just the way that she said,
the Kingdom of God is liking untoseed time, harvest time. So that's
the way I try to live.I'll tell you what. The other day
I was at I was at theI was at the Walmart. I spent
a lot of time at the Walmart, and and uh, you know,
I'm always in there, like,hey, how you doing. You know,
I like your hair. I tellall women, I said, you're

(49:05):
beautiful, because in my estimation,I was raised by women, so I
look at all women, that's beautiful. You gotta be beautiful to carry a
seed for nine months. You mightnot be beautiful quote unquote in the natural
according to what man say beauty is. But you got to be beautiful to

(49:28):
carry that seed for nine months.I couldn't carry it for nine months.
So you gotta be something. Yougot a mother's intuition, you got.
I guess you're born with leadership skills. You gotta be a leader to leave
your child. And you know,I just not just the way I try

(49:52):
to live. Man. You know, it is what it is. You
know, I'll just take it andrun with it. You know. That's
that's the way I live my life. The Word of God governs my life
every day. And don't just governmy life on Sunday mornings. It governs
my life every day. I wantpeople when they have an encounter with me,

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I want them to leave and gohome or go wherever they're going.
And said, it was something specialabout that young man, that's all.
And I don't want it. Ain'tno kind of put on. It's who
I am. You know. Iwas talking to one of my buddies one
night. We talked for like fivehours. Looked at the call call duration

(50:37):
said five hours and forty two minutesor something, and he said, you
got the gift of charisma. Isaid, well, I know what charisma
is. I said, but whatis the gift of it? And he
said, well, people are justdrawn to you. And you know,
nobody ever told me that before,you know, and if he said,

(50:57):
he said, and people want thatgift, he said, but they ain't
got it. I said, Idon't know. I don't know nothing about
all that. I said, that'sthe way my mama raised us, because
I remember when we went into therestaurant business down downtown Mobile, Alabama.
My mom would let homeless people sleepin her restaurant that didn't have no whe
We had this little guy named Dave. He worked in the restaurant and Dave

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didn't have nowhere to go. Hewas homeless. He wasn't even from the
city of Mobile, and Mama letDave sleep in that restaurant. As a
matter of fact, she brought himhome because Mama owned like one two houses
on the street, three houses onthe street, and she would let him
sleep at the house across the streetand had a lot of junk in it,
a lot of stuff. Was likea storage house, and she would
let him sleep in the house sometime, and sometimes she would let him sleep

(51:44):
in the building. You know.So I just I thought, it just
be I just want to be agood man, a good person. You
know, I ain't got to befamous, I ain't got to be a
millionaire, even though I believe onedamn a be a multi millionaire. You
know, if God sees fit forit, and if he doesn't fit forward,
that's cool with me, because ifhe doesn't do it, it ain't
like you know, it ain't likehe can't do it. So I got

(52:07):
some ideas. I heard master pHe said, Broke people think about money,
he said, Rich people think aboutpossessions. He said that, Uh,
what does he say? He said, And wealthy people think about inventions
and ideas. So I'm trying tocreate some ideas, trying to get like
mister Jackson and get into the streamingbusiness and all that kind of stuff.

(52:30):
But trying to be be the best, best know how to Gotta take another
quick commercial break and Q and aconversation. I've always been told that I'm
too small, I'm not big enough, I'm not fast enough. I don't

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have what it takes. I prepare, so no one can take what it's
mind, No one can replace mymind. Ar to be the best,
to stay there, sweat it's necessary. I'm older. Of course I'm older.
That's the beauty of sixteen years plusa different level of bliss, different

(53:15):
level of understanding, different level ofpunishment. I want to live long after
my records default, long after myrings of tartists, and then what you
got to do to make sure youmu chase your legacy every second of your
life? Who would you be remembered? How would you be remember? Why
wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement? Help leave your mark to endure for

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album? Hey, what's up?We're back here on Walking This Way Afternoon
special. I am firm and JacksonGeni along with my lovely beautiful sister shout
out of Houston Tases with our veryspecially kids out of my hometown of Mother
Alabama. Ball right, it won'tbe No, I won't be doing the

(54:01):
show tonight. That's why I'm doingthe show early days that it won't be
the show tonight. I'll be onanother platform at eight pm. Bitch out
to Stephanie. I'm being on herplatform at eight, so it would not
be a show tonight at seven.That's why I'm doing the show earlier today
and also will be back here Saturdaymorning of course at ten am on the
Walk in This Waves platform. Wehad a lot of great guests lined up

(54:22):
for the month, though, what'sit March in March, right March.
In month of March, I havea very special guest coming on at the
end of the month. She wasa porn star in a doulpe felm industry.
She's gonna be coming on. Shewent from porn star to entrepreneur.
She'll be sharing her story. She'swell known dope them actress. I'm very

(54:45):
excited about that coming on the show. That's what I love about this show,
and I love what God is takingthis show with the transparency shallow,
with all these guesses coming on withdifferent from every different walks of life.
When they see the walk in thisway, they said, it's just Christian
nice, not that we want tolike everybody come on to share his store,
to share their testimony. That thetransparency. That's why I like by

(55:07):
shollow the transparency. Now people aretaking the masses off. Now they're coming
not there with what stripper says.The Bob said, Adam E was naked
and unashamed. We get into thattime now where we're becoming naked and undershamed.
It was a long time ago.We were a great to share the

(55:27):
stuff that we went through, thestuff that we experienced. Now the boldness.
God has given a lot of peopleboldness now to come and say,
hey, I'm gonna X, I'mgonna sick, I'm an X added,
I'm an ex prostitute, I'm anex homosexual, I'm an X this,
I'm anna extact and sharing their storieswhere we're helping people now, they've taking

(55:47):
a mask off. I remember yearsago did an episode called Beauty and the
Beast. I had an X poornstar, an X prostitute, an ex
homosexual. They would share their storyand people was coming out of woolwork.
Sam, thank you for sharing this, Thank you for putting it out there,
because this is something I was dealingwith from my life. We have

(56:10):
people who being molested who was afraidto share the story. And then we
have bo right on here who wasincarcerated when I met him, and he
sharing his story and not being ashamedbecause we have we do shows people.
I don't want to talk about that, but no, why not talk about
it when you give someone else?Yeah, yeah, it's our testimony.

(56:32):
There's power. There's power in ourtestimony. Right and so God takes so
many messages and makes masterpieces out ofthem. Rightly looking, and we were
different people you know, they werein their worst condition and God took them
and he made them you know whatI'm saying, to be pillars in in

(56:53):
in history, right, even withyourself, mister bowl right, God,
Yeah, you are a great pathand then you know something happened that changed
that so that God's greater purpose cancome out of you, you know,
and it comes in ways that wedidn't know that it would come. And
so I am really interested in howyou actually landed in jail, you know,

(57:15):
because let's talk about it. We'regoing through this process if we have
time for it. Firm, I'mnot really sure. We're going through this
process. You know, you comefrom a great family. You know,
your mom teaching you how to prayearly. You actually now you're in in
in sports and guys, get yourfamily, get your kids into sports,
get them in the things team sports. That's going to build great character in

(57:35):
them if you can, if that'ssomething they enjoy doing. But anyway,
you're doing all of these things,Bulb, tragedy happens, right, you're
at the height of your life.You go home for it just a little
bit, haven't been there for eightyears. You go back to your hometown
and bulb lit. A little transactionturned up to be you know, it
almost cost you your life now thirtydays. The doctor's like, no,

(57:57):
it's not going to happen again.So I'm assuming that you had some kind
of identity crisis. Can we talkabout identity crisis here? Because many times
your identity can be into what youdo. Right, I'm a football player,
is who I am? You knowthat's what I do, right?
Or me I'm in radio, It'swhat I do. But something happens that
allows you to have this identity change. And so when did you have I'm

(58:21):
sure you had an identity crisis.So can you tell us, just real
briefly, what that looked like andif that identity crisis lated you intrepression into
substance abuse and harmful decisions. Well, I'll tell you what. I went
from the hospital dope to the streetdope, and I had no clue.

(58:45):
There was no generation in front ofus to show us what it was like.
I was just trying to cope withlife anyway. Because the lady,
my nurse, one of the headcharged nurses, she said, tell me,
because I used to be calling formedication. She said, we just

(59:07):
gave you your medication ten minutes ago. I said, well, I don't
care. I'm still in pain.And then and then she kept telling me.
She said, well, let metell you something. I'm gonna give
you this medication, she said,but I want you to know that it
is highly addicted, she said,And and and you could. I don't
know when you leave us, youknow what the deal is gonna be.

(59:30):
But anyway, to make a longstory short, I went from the hospital
dope to the street dope. Andwith the street dope came the life style
and everything with it. All likethe day was saying, take you up
to this high mountain and show youall this. So with the with the
I wouldn't say and stop there.So with the street dope came all the

(59:54):
glamor, all the difference whatever feedme, and all the different limelighte and
all just I became addicted to thestreets too, to cocaine, crack,
cocaine, powder, cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, foolishness my past thresh,

(01:00:21):
he said, foolishness. So Ibecame addicted to foolishness what God called me
massiviousness. I became addicted to lisciviousness. And and God allowed me to go
down that road until I got tothe end of that role. I got

(01:00:45):
to the end of that role,and I said, Father, if this
is the life I've got to live, I said, if I got to
live in these conditions, I said, you might as well call me home
to glory. And truthfully, Iain't even know if I was going to
glory. I just know I wastired of living in those conditions. I

(01:01:13):
wasn't raised like that. Mama didnraised us like that, none of that,
you know, we I didn't growup in that environment. As a
matter of fact, I didn't evenknow about that environment. The only thing
I knew was going to football practice, coming home, doing their homework,
making the honor roll. I wason the roll list. I was on
the other roll list at Maddy T. Blow High School. We called it

(01:01:37):
straight straight a students list. Iwas on the students list, and you
know, and that was all Iwas familiar with. And I wanted so
bad to get back to that life. Right I say, now, I'm
all that life. I'm living thatlife, and I wouldn't trade it for

(01:02:00):
nothing. I got a friend ofmine, he uh, he's been cleaning
sober for like seven years and Uh, what you gonna do with all them
cars out there? He said,Man, I bought me a car for
every year I've been cleaning sober.Wow, he said, I bought me
a car for every year I've beencleaning sober. And you know, it

(01:02:22):
ain't nothing like it, man,it ain't nothing like walking in your purpose,
walking in your calling. It's sucha it's like a surreal life.
It's like like I'm living a fantasy. It's like it ain't the football fantasy.
It's it's just the fantasy of life. When I wake up like with

(01:02:47):
expectations every day. I know thatGod is gonna send me a wife any
day. I know that. Imean, I just I'm gonna just because
I'm a Ephesians three twenty baby.Ephesians three twenty says, unto him who's
able able to do exceedingly an abundantlyabove all, we can think right.

(01:03:14):
And I ask God for big thingsbecause I'm used to having big things.
And you know, I like thenetwork with people, and I like to
share things with people. I rememberone crystal, like I had my mom
and then brought me two bodicoocles,and I was letting everybody else ride one

(01:03:34):
I rode the other one. Youknow, I just like to I want
to see people happy. I wantto see people living and enjoy laughing because
I like to laugh all the time. I like to just laugh, crack
jokes, and you know because theWord of God says laughter is like medicine
to the soul. So I wantto be, you know, just all

(01:04:00):
that God created me to be whenI leave here and go home to glory,
I want my tank to be empty. I want to have been in
loved on everybody because I saw mymom, my mom, like I said,
my mom raised us. I wantto have loved on everybody, gave
everybody some ideas or inventions or ledhim to Christ. I was. I

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was in Walmart. I was inWalmart about five or six months ago,
right over there investment. And Iwent back to the pharmacist and I was
asking the little girl. I said, what is chapstick? That stuff?
I got right, chapstick? Shesaid, she said, chapstick is over
there. She's a pretty little girl. She's about she likes she about nineteen

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twenty. And I said, hI said, I said, I'm said,
how the conversation going, I said, I said, do you know
Jesus your Lord and Savior. That'swhat I said. I said, do
you know Jesus your Lord and Savior? And she was like no, And
I said, because you when Iask people that, they first thing they

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says, yes, yeah, Ido. And I asked her, I
said, do you know him asyour lord? She said no. I
say, well, do you wantto know him as your Lord and savior?
And she said yes. And whenshe said that, my heart dropped.
I was like, wow, becauseyou'll ask one hundred people and you'll

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get one out the one hundred thatsays yes, that says that they don't
know Jesus. Everybody know him aclaim ain't know him anyway, they know
ovehim. It's one thing to knowovenim, and it's another thing to be
walking in your gifts and your talents. But that's a whole other topic.
And I just I say, wellyou just will you repeat after me?
I said, Romans ten nine saysthat if you confess Jesus's Lord and you

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believe that God used the Holy Spiritto raise him from the dead, then
according to Romans chapter ten, versenine, you are saved. So she
said it. She said the sentner'sprayer and gave her life to Christ and
to God be the glory Man.Thank God for that, for that moment,

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you know. And I met anotherlady now, she said, baby,
you're a kingdom builder. I didn'tknow. I was telling her what
happened. She was an elderly lady, and I was telling her what happened,
telling her the same story that Ijust got through telling you and missus
Jackson. And she said, Babe, you're a kingdom builder. I said,
wow. You know, I justwant to you know, I want

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to do the best I can doevery day of my life. You know.
I try to live every day likelike it's my last day, because
you don't know one day it's gonnabe your last day. Yeah, yeah,
we don't. We all like fullof full of fun, full of
joy, full of love. Ilike to laugh, I like to work

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out. I like to I liketo watch them Christian networks. I don't
watch all that internet stuff, allthat. I don't want nothing to Television
would tell you a vision. That'swhy they put all them internet movies on.
You got a fifteen thousand movies.I said, what is all this?
I said, what my local channels? Why can get TVN Why can

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get the news, why can getthis? I said, I don't want
to see all them shoot them uptrying to everybody shooting the gun. They
just shooting at everybody. And whatthey shooting at, who they're trying to
kill. I don't know. Butthat Internet is really got a grip on
on the United States. I want. One time I was downtown Mobile.

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I was out there on the beltline and I said Google. I said,
what's what's the phone number to Google? And they said eight six six
six six six six six. Isay, what is that the mark of
the beast or why? But thatGoogle? It's something serious, you know.
I mean it serves its purpose forthe people that know how to use

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it, but for the kids thatdon't, it's it's a bad too to
put in the hand of as individual. You know. Some people say,
yeah, this whole nother broadcast somefood. B shot to Data in the
coming session. He's a recording artisthere in Dallas. In Dallas digs be

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shot to him on the YouTube side, be shot out to Horace Marek on
the face on the YouTube side,Home big shot to him, be shout
to Internet homes on the Facebook side. The Hello, big shout out to
her as well. So we aboutto go to get off this thing.
I gotta I got to schedule,I gotta keep up with But I appreciate

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you both for hanging out with usbefore going the further shot. We have
anything you want to plug in beforewe're ready to leave the air man.
You know what, uh Furman,I just want to leave with this scripture
because I think it's so important thatwe we follow God's rules about our lives.
And bo, I'm so proud ofyou that you have taken on you

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know, your purpose and living forGod. And guys, this is the
last thing I just want you know. If you a plug, if you
need any financial planning, guys,that is exactly what I do. I
help families earn more income, becomeproperly protected, debt free, and financially
independent. And having your financial houseis so very important. So I'm licensed
here in Texas. It can helpyou with those needs. But I want

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to leave with this verse, withthis verse firm and it's love and action,
and it's Romans twelve nine, andit says love must be sincere hate
what is evil, cling to whatis good, be devoted to one another
in love, honor, one anotherabove yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal,

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but keep your spiritual fervor serving theLord. Be joyful in hope,
patient and affliction, faithful in prayer. Come on, somebody, share with
the Lord's people who are in needpage practice hospitality. So Bo, As
long as you continue to love sincerely, put God first, seek His righteousness,

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and all that you do, hewill continue to open up the doors
that no man can shut. Hewill continue to open and pour you out
of blessing that you're that will overflowyour cup, that you will be able
to give to more and more people. I truly believe that your purpose is
just beginning, and I thank Godfor you coming on this broadcast because God
is going to do something incredible andamazing just by coming on here and sharing

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what God has done for you.I totally totally believe that. And so
Firman, thanks so much for alwaysbeing faithful and always being here and consistent
for the people. Wow, that'sawesome. Appreciate it. I say,
keep it the great work, humblethat you're doing out in Alabama. Go
ahead. I just want to say, I want to just add this on

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to it. It's in my spiritthat before the foundations of the world.
God knew you, he told Jeremiah, and he's telling everybody that's in the
sound of my voice, I knewyou. So don't argue with If God
told you to do it, goahead and do it. Don't be like

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the the the lay of the seein church. Luke warm, he says,
because if you neither hot nor youneither you need a cold, nor
you're hot, you just stagnant.You just in the way, he says,
then you I'll have to spew youout of my mouth. So find
out what your spiritual gifts and yourspiritual talents are, and then put it

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in operation. Let the process begin. Every everything is a process. You're
not gonna it's just like going toschool. You're gonna start in the first
grade and then you're gonna work yourway up to graduation. So the same
thing in the spiritual world. Yougotta start the process. Don't ain't no
sense in laying it no longer.You ask God, get involved in your

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with your local churches, and andand and you get find out what your
gifts and your talents are and startto put them in operation. Let the
process begin. Because let me tellyou something, I hate to be the
very bad news because if if ourgifts and talents aren't being used and God
gonna say a part from me,I never knew you, and I don't
I don't wish that on nobody,you know, because we're all equal in

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the sight of God, but we'reall different. So find out what was
happening and get get get going withyou with your with your gifts, in
your talents, and let God beGod. Man. It's so nice meeting
y'all. Man, y'all got theabove, so God and you are so

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educated. Mister Jack you, ohy'all. I gotta get it, get
it, get get it, getit, and be able to get in
touch with you guys, because I'mtrying to get my book we published.
And uh, don't worry about Italked to Marquise like I told you.
I talked to him not so longago. He wants you to connect with

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him about your book and stuff Itold you about it. So he wants
you to connect with him. SoI'm gonna see you, man if I
see you with information DM, Sogo ahead, Andy and connect with him
and he'll let you know what youneed to do. With y'all, Just
take it from there. Also withthe finances as well. I got Sharlah
here as well. She hit mewith my ralph a A and all the

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other great stuff I got going ontoo, and so getting plug in with
that with the finances, especially entrepreneurswho entrepreneurship and all this stuff. Yeah,
y'all make sure I got shot stuffin order. And then and then
what we're gonna do Part two?This gotta be this a continuation. Definitely,

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I'm ready for part two. Whateveryou're right, I said, a
part two of like I got theschedule, I got to stick to.
That's all about the instructures. Igotta said, I gotta stick to.
So yes, just whenever you get, whenever you whenever you when God leeds
you to do it, then it'sgonna happen. It's don't have the soon,

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so I said, we got theleaders thing. Man, y'all,
enjoy your afternoon, enjoy your day, and go hang out. It's a
few days. I went to thegym this morning, got my feet down
and my hair cut. It's gotit's all having fun and stuff like that.
And also Robinson be shot to missmister Robinson, that Willie Robinson be

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shot him he's a former athlete toas well be shot. To Maria,
Maria said, have blessed everyone beshot. Everybody's coming with all their love
and so ma as well. LikeI said, we're back here. I
won't be on him tonight. I'llgo on another platform eight. So y'all,
I tuned in with that at eighto'clock. W it's gonna be talking
about. But we know it's gonnabe fun. So man, y'all enjoy,

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y'all wins to get out, enjoythe day. It's a beauty for
to day. I know the peoplein Dallas, I know they probably also
in Houston as well. And ofcourse mob bus y'all get out, go
to the bookstore, go walk orwalk does enjoy life. And you have
any financial court concerns, get withshallow Yeah, his license in that area.
I'm just trying to get, youknow, long term specialist talk.

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I'm talking to the fellas. Tothe fellas they long term think about.
You know, you mentioned Bo youwant to get married. That's no part
of no marriage. You know,having heard pretended household potent, just get
god me, is something happened toyou. The finances would be there,
But that's so many other things aboutnon community. But I'm blass shallow.

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It's raised up to be able todo about that stuff. So y'all have
any questions, give a shadow todayabout your afriady going. Don't just focus
on your four one k at yourjob. Get I'm telling you what's going
on, and help me with theshoutout, will get off the air.
I remember they always told me there'snot gonna be no more social security in
my generation, and I'm seeing itcome to pass. There is not no

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more Social security ladies. Now thatit's in a bill and you can look
this up. They if you owestudent, did they gonna take your sol
security? Wow? The bill?So y'all need to go ahead and stop
thinking about your financial start getting anyother account takes free money. Yeah,
And then that MONE will always bethere, just not just for a time,

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whenever you need it. I willbe there and you don't miss it
because I'll have shot atte with meand I have it amount. I go
in every every week, of course, and every month growing and you'll see
and it's comes to growing and youdon't even miss it. So I'm proud
of you too. But like there, y'all ain't get this stuff. I'm

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telling you there's not gonna be nomore so secure. I'm telling you admitted
in the bill that if you oldstudent loan, did they gonna take your
social security? They gonna get theirmoney in one way of another. Wow
for that. So get yourself together. So when you get rich there,
I'm doing good. Your soci securitygone. Don't rely on social security.
Get that rough, that's tax freemoney you get trying to break it down?

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Go ahead, yeah, gonna breakit down right quick. So listen,
you are absolutely correct. It's soimportant that we're building our financial houses
properly. So many times we won'tgo get the other houses and things,
but we don't build our financial houseproperly. We don't have enough life insurance
to protect us. We don't have, you know, an emergency fund or
rough I ray or college fund oradult funds for our children. We don't

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plan for our goals and dreams.But guys, with the plan, you
can do all of those. Peopledon't plan to fail, They just fail
to plan. And so I ama financial coach as you did not know
that you need because how do youwin the money game if you don't know
the money rules and just right,Firman, since you've been taking my advice,
you got some things popping, andI'm so proud of you. So
we're going to keep on that sameroad and then when it's time, we're

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gonna get some more things popping.Right. So, guys, I want
to do exactly the same thing I'mhelping Firman do. That's just to get
control over his finances and be empoweredby doing that. And you can by
education. So thanks so much forme for that shout out, and I'm
here for any of your questions orconcerns that any of you may need.
That's so I say we'll be backhere now on this platform. Another platform.

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I got five, so because theone come up so many'all have a
great day. We'll be back heretonight. Now now don't walk in this
way we platform and have a greatday. Love me, No one know

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we love it ain nobody stop dothe love fashion told me from my host,
from my fiece Celia chose me tome loved, don't. I don't

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know what you've been told, butall I know is that your love peez
worth more than go to. Soyou took a while from me to understand
what the love like. Perse It'sin half the man, you know my

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love. But yeah yet just alove me, Love me now, I
know we love you. Please me, nobody stop yours your last know me.

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Oh my,