WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.120 Okay, fam. I believe we are live now. I think that's working. Yes. So let's just check this 2 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:22.600 and see that we're live. Oh, yes, yes, yes. That is good chicken. Good to see. Hey, everyone. 3 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:29.640 Massive welcome to everyone and massive welcome to the man, Ricky Paul. So good to be with 4 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:34.680 you, bud. How are you doing? Yeah, yeah. Doing good. Thanks, bro. It's been awesome. Just 5 00:00:34.680 --> 00:00:40.600 chilling in Rotorua and yeah, ready to get this get the show rolling. Oh, get the show 6 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:50.160 rolling. That's exciting. We have we've had to be a little bit dynamic on our on our sessions 7 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:55.640 today and our tech today. If I touch anything now, Facebook says you're banned. You're naughty. 8 00:00:55.640 --> 00:01:01.640 You're in the naughty corner. But that's that's OK to be in the naughty corner just 9 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:08.760 for loving Jesus or valuing freedom. And Ricky, honestly, just so stoked to be with you. So 10 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:14.120 stoked for everything that's happening in your world. And be great if you want to pray 11 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:21.600 for us and then we'll we'll get it get it get it on. So it is. So, father, we just thank 12 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:26.320 you that you're here. We just thank you that you're amazing. And just thank you for every 13 00:01:26.320 --> 00:01:30.440 person that's pressing in, that's tuning in live right now for those who are about to 14 00:01:30.440 --> 00:01:35.560 watch the sessions in the near future. We just pray a massive blessing upon everyone 15 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:40.280 right now and even people who are needing healing in their backs. Jesus, we just pray 16 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:45.960 right now that backs be healed in your precious name. Just come sit in this meeting, Holy 17 00:01:45.960 --> 00:01:57.480 Spirit. And do you unleash your name? Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, family, for those who don't 18 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:06.240 know Ricky yet, I'm going to say you're in for an absolute treat. So I think this is 19 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:11.800 your first time connecting with Ricky. So you're in for a real treat here as well. But 20 00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:21.000 I just I'm just thinking a great way to start this chat would be would be kind of going back 21 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.880 into the day of how I first ever heard about Ricky Paul was back in the day. And I don't even know 22 00:02:25.880 --> 00:02:31.400 if this group exists anymore. But do you remember the group Glory Dots? That's right. Yeah, Facebook 23 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:39.320 group Glory Dots. It was a pretty cool group. And it was just basically a Facebook group for people 24 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:44.920 in New Zealand who were hosting miracles and just seeing God doing cool miracles. And so we're 25 00:02:44.920 --> 00:02:49.720 posting in their job and miracles. And it's like, well, who's this Ricky Paul guy with the craziest 26 00:02:49.720 --> 00:02:56.040 miracle stories ever? And so it's just just it was a fun group. It connected a lot of us 27 00:02:56.760 --> 00:03:01.080 Kiwi revivalists around the country. But I thought it'd be really cool to start 28 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:10.680 just by hearing like a classic one of your stories that just they were just I mean, 29 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.880 they just lit me up. I just have you got a classic story that comes to mind of just seeing 30 00:03:15.880 --> 00:03:19.720 God at work in your town? Because what we're going to do is going to go on a journey of just 31 00:03:19.720 --> 00:03:24.920 seeing God at work in your life and the music industry. But you got one that stands out. 32 00:03:25.320 --> 00:03:35.640 Um, yeah, I think first when it comes to mine, what happened was, I was overseeing an alternative 33 00:03:35.640 --> 00:03:42.040 education school of some sort. And whilst doing it, there's this young, young teenager dude, 34 00:03:42.040 --> 00:03:48.600 or there's a whole group of young boys, teenage boys. And yeah, you know, that, you know, all 35 00:03:48.600 --> 00:03:56.200 for the mongomob. Kawerau is a red town, mongomob gang affiliated town. And yeah, what happened was, 36 00:03:58.600 --> 00:04:03.880 I was a bit more raw then, like just busting words of knowledge on anyone and everyone that, 37 00:04:03.880 --> 00:04:09.320 you know, I just, I had a different lens back then where I just wanted to tick off, you know, 38 00:04:09.320 --> 00:04:14.920 God, yeah, I accomplished my works, you know, five words of knowledge, and I was just works based 39 00:04:15.640 --> 00:04:23.000 going for the works based acceptance type of model. And yeah, so there's this group, 40 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:29.240 and there's one guy would always trash me. So he's like, Oh, no, your God's not real, 41 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:33.240 your God's not real, all that stuff. No, no, he is real. He is real, bro. 42 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:38.120 This kept going on for a number of weeks. And what happened was, 43 00:04:38.440 --> 00:04:46.520 um, the boys start, they wanted to have a showdown type of thing. I'm reading hard, 44 00:04:46.520 --> 00:04:51.320 I'm reading Elijah and all that stuff with the prophets at that time. And so I go to school, 45 00:04:51.880 --> 00:04:55.720 or to the class, and the boys like, Oh, Rick, your God's not even real. 46 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:59.880 Tawhirimatea, which in New Zealand, well, there's overseas. 47 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.640 is the god of wind to the native people. 48 00:05:03.640 --> 00:05:05.720 And so what happens is they're like, 49 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:07.680 Tāwhirimātea is way better. 50 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.400 The god of wind's way better than your god. 51 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:12.240 And so I said, oh, yeah, yeah, 52 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.640 but that Tāwhirimātea, the god of wind, 53 00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:15.640 only blows wind, you know, 54 00:05:15.640 --> 00:05:18.400 or farting, as we'll call it in New Zealand and stuff. 55 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:20.640 And he goes, so I said, 56 00:05:20.640 --> 00:05:22.680 that's the only wind he's good at blowing, 57 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:24.520 is out his bottom. 58 00:05:24.520 --> 00:05:26.120 So they're, whatever, whatever, whatever. 59 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:27.880 So one of them goes, 60 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:31.680 I bet you that your god can never, 61 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.080 you won't show up in wind type of thing. 62 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:34.960 So I said, oh, okay. 63 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:38.720 So I told the guys to close all the doors, 64 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:40.440 close all the windows, close everything up 65 00:05:40.440 --> 00:05:43.440 so there's no wind or breeze coming through, 66 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:46.400 turn the air conditioning unit off. 67 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:49.120 So I asked them, six of them, 68 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:50.720 can you guys feel any wind or breeze? 69 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:52.000 They're like, nah, nah, nah. 70 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.200 So I said, okay, you call upon your god, Tāwhirimātea, 71 00:05:55.200 --> 00:05:57.760 and ask him to blow wind in the class 72 00:05:58.640 --> 00:05:59.720 and we'll see if he shows up. 73 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:01.520 So they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. 74 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:06.080 So they go, Tāwhirimātea, blow wind, blow wind, 75 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:07.360 we tell you to blow wind. 76 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:08.960 All this stuff, they're doing it, 77 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:11.480 screaming, yelling, and I was just giggling away. 78 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:12.680 I look quite cute, actually. 79 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.120 So they're doing all that, yelling out and that. 80 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:17.840 And I was like, bro, I can't, I can't feel it. 81 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:19.440 I can't feel it. 82 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:24.440 And so that goes on for what felt like a minute or two. 83 00:06:24.520 --> 00:06:26.520 Then they go, oh, you, they're getting angry. 84 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:27.640 You ask your god to do it. 85 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:32.840 So I just, I said, bro, go up on that stage. 86 00:06:32.840 --> 00:06:34.680 There's a little miniature stage 87 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:36.880 in the corner of the community center 88 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:38.360 or the classroom at the time. 89 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:40.160 So I get them to go up on the stage. 90 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.160 And so I just say, you know, Jesus, just, you know, 91 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.280 blow a bit of wind in here type of thing. 92 00:06:48.280 --> 00:06:50.400 And then all of us start feeling this breeze 93 00:06:50.400 --> 00:06:51.800 going around our legs. 94 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:55.120 And three of them, three of the five or six boys 95 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:57.880 just start going, whoa, I can feel it, I can feel it. 96 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.560 But the boy just hardens his heart. 97 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:01.760 So he's like, I can't feel nothing. 98 00:07:01.760 --> 00:07:03.640 Nah, nah, I can't feel nothing. 99 00:07:03.640 --> 00:07:05.720 And so if some of them are like, yeah. 100 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:07.040 So they sort of throw it off too, 101 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:08.960 because you're sort of like the leader of the group. 102 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:10.240 So they sort of shove it to the side. 103 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.120 Nah, nah, nah, actually, we can't feel nothing. 104 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:15.040 I was like, you fellas are lying, you fellas are lying. 105 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:15.880 You can feel that. 106 00:07:15.880 --> 00:07:18.800 So what happens is I say, do it again then. 107 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.640 So they do it, nothing happens. 108 00:07:21.640 --> 00:07:23.560 And then in the spirit, I feel, 109 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.560 I see an angel flying up over me, 110 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:31.920 and I felt the angel internally say to me, 111 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:33.160 move out of the way. 112 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.320 So I said, boys, there's an angel coming. 113 00:07:35.320 --> 00:07:36.600 So I move out of the way, 114 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.960 and a gush of wind just goes, whoa, 115 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:42.080 through the youth centre, through the classroom. 116 00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:44.400 And most of them feel it. 117 00:07:44.400 --> 00:07:45.440 I think he's still felt it, 118 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:47.720 but he was just in denial way. 119 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:49.560 So he's like, nah, nah, nah, I didn't feel nothing. 120 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:51.600 And the boys are like, nah, nah, we felt something, bro. 121 00:07:51.760 --> 00:07:55.560 So he talks them out of their experience and stuff. 122 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:57.200 So he sort of hardens his heart. 123 00:07:58.640 --> 00:08:02.320 Fast track two weeks or so down, 124 00:08:02.320 --> 00:08:04.040 and what happens is he gets caught up in that. 125 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.080 He steals a motorbike, this boy, 126 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:11.080 and he's in a mad police chase during school, 127 00:08:11.200 --> 00:08:12.720 I think it is from memory. 128 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.920 And what happened is he's going around town. 129 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.960 The cops catch him, but he's so full of adrenaline, 130 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:21.160 he tries to jump this area on the road, 131 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.720 and a logging truck comes and smashes him. 132 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.800 But he goes flying in the air, falls off, 133 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:29.720 basically paralyzes himself from, 134 00:08:30.760 --> 00:08:34.320 I think from the back down, back or the waist down. 135 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:38.919 And so two weeks go on, 136 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:42.520 and my boss at the time in the organisation 137 00:08:42.520 --> 00:08:45.240 is a bit edgy because of all the miracles 138 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.680 that are happening, and she doesn't want to bow to God. 139 00:08:47.680 --> 00:08:48.520 So they keep telling you, 140 00:08:48.520 --> 00:08:49.840 oh, that fella keeps praying for us, 141 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:50.880 he keeps praying for us. 142 00:08:50.880 --> 00:08:52.520 So I keep getting warnings, 143 00:08:52.520 --> 00:08:54.720 you're not to pray for people, not to pray for people. 144 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.640 I'm like, they asked for it, I'm not forcing it, 145 00:08:56.640 --> 00:08:58.080 you know, nothing. 146 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.600 And so what happens is the young guy calls my boss 147 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:03.840 and says, can Rikki come and pray for me 148 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:05.320 in the hospital during work? 149 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:08.560 So she comes up to me and she goes, 150 00:09:08.560 --> 00:09:10.400 Rikki, again, I won't name him. 151 00:09:10.400 --> 00:09:15.360 The young guy would like you to go and pray for him. 152 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:16.720 I was like, oh, for real? 153 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.400 And she goes, yeah, like during work, 154 00:09:18.400 --> 00:09:20.600 this is the only time I'll let you pray for a client, 155 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:22.520 but that's only because he requested it. 156 00:09:22.520 --> 00:09:23.760 I hope you didn't influence it. 157 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:26.000 I said, no, I haven't even talked to him. 158 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.720 So I go out there, go to the hospital. 159 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:31.240 As soon as I'm in there, for some reason, 160 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.320 I've never really prayed like this. 161 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.840 I felt a little, I don't know, 162 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:38.240 I wouldn't know the feeling, 163 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.480 a bit firm and a bit, not stubborn, 164 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.240 but a bit staunch in the faith. 165 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:43.720 So he's looking at me, 166 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:45.920 he starts explaining his mother's there. 167 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:46.800 She just says, you know, 168 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:48.560 he's paralyzed from the waist down. 169 00:09:49.880 --> 00:09:51.480 He would love for you to pray for him. 170 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.960 So then I look at him and I call him by name 171 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:58.960 and I say, I thought the guy that I prayed to is his name. 172 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.600 isn't real. And he looks at me and he cries. And then he just 173 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.980 says, I think he is real. And I, for some reason, I just Yeah, I 174 00:10:10.980 --> 00:10:14.480 just was a bit firm with him. And I just said, Why is he real? 175 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.880 And he just said, I because all the stories that I hear around 176 00:10:18.880 --> 00:10:22.680 town, like when you pray for people, things happen. And then 177 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:27.160 he starts weeping. And then I see Jesus in the spirit on the 178 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:31.400 opposite side of his bed. And I say, Well, Jesus and I, yeah, I 179 00:10:31.400 --> 00:10:34.880 would have came across rude if I was watching it. If I was him, 180 00:10:34.880 --> 00:10:38.080 you know, like, and I just said to him, Jesus on the other side 181 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.160 of your bread, what beard? Why don't you tell him what you 182 00:10:40.160 --> 00:10:43.800 want? And so he just starts weeping. And there's probably 183 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:47.240 one of the most emotional prayers. I've got prayers I've 184 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:52.000 ever witnessed. And he starts crying. And he just goes, he's 185 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.120 just sobbing, Jesus, I'm sorry for what I've done. I'm such a 186 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:00.120 bad kid. I know you probably won't want to heal me. But 187 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.600 Jesus, I want to be able to play with my friends. I want to be 188 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.880 able to run around. I want to be able to ride motorbikes again. 189 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:10.160 And if you can do that for me, I'll believe you're real. And 190 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:13.520 it's just stops. And then I say, Is that your prayer? What you 191 00:11:13.520 --> 00:11:17.360 know to him? And he goes, Yep. I put my hand on his head. And 192 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:19.680 then I just say, Lord, I agree with him. And then I felt 193 00:11:20.160 --> 00:11:25.120 massive electricity just through my hand, goes through his head 194 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:29.240 right down to his neck, and his legs start shaking, crying and 195 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:33.080 stuff like, and he's like, I can feel my legs, I can feel my 196 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.640 legs, I can feel my legs. So he starts buzzing out. And I, his 197 00:11:36.640 --> 00:11:39.320 mum came in, she's weeping, saying thank you and all that. 198 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.960 And I feel to leave them. So just say, you know, call him by 199 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:46.440 name, just letting you know, I'll see you back at school. And 200 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:49.440 then within two, three weeks, he was in a wheelchair, but they 201 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:53.480 just slowly built him up. And then, uh, yeah, he just, he's 202 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:58.640 walking now. Mischief, mischief went back to his old ways. But 203 00:11:58.640 --> 00:12:02.440 you know, like, he, he can't deny that God moves and moves 204 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:05.920 in power. And so he tried to mock the youth again, when I was 205 00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:09.160 youth pastoring at the time and just said, Rick, God's not real. 206 00:12:09.160 --> 00:12:12.000 And then I just stopped him and just said, Bro, you remember 207 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:17.040 what happened to you? And then he goes, Oh, yeah, no, he's 208 00:12:17.040 --> 00:12:19.760 real. He's real. You can stay in there. Like you'd always mock 209 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:22.640 the church kids. Yeah. You guys are all right. You guys are 210 00:12:22.640 --> 00:12:27.280 right. That's the first one that came to my mind. Yeah. So 211 00:12:28.800 --> 00:12:36.480 I'm awesome. So cool. Yeah. So cool. Wow. So yeah, um, I, I 212 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:39.760 hear stories that that, you know, these miracle stories 213 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:43.640 hasn't haven't really stopped. Like, yeah, across your journey. 214 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:49.520 So and even even into recording studios and, and things like 215 00:12:49.520 --> 00:12:54.200 that, you want to, you know, let us in on what's recording 216 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.600 studios and all the all the inner workings? What's happening 217 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:58.160 right now? 218 00:12:58.800 --> 00:13:03.960 Yeah, yeah. So obviously, yeah, for those who don't know, yeah, 219 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:09.960 work in the recording industry. Yeah. Sorry, Ben. Yeah, I was 220 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.120 just gonna say just kind of, as you're starting that be great, 221 00:13:13.160 --> 00:13:16.200 great space now just to kind of share your what you're doing in 222 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.600 the industry. And then also tell us about your album. That's 223 00:13:20.760 --> 00:13:27.080 about to drop and, and how you know, like, what's the results 224 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:29.080 of it? What's happening with it? There's a lot of buzz around at 225 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.560 the moment. So be cool just to hear that and then hear as well 226 00:13:31.560 --> 00:13:32.880 what's been doing in the studio. 227 00:13:34.400 --> 00:13:37.320 Yeah, so I don't want to chew too much of the time. But in the 228 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.640 last five years, Benji is well aware as many of my close mates 229 00:13:40.640 --> 00:13:43.000 and it's public, I share the testimony, but it'll just chew 230 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.720 so much of the time. But basically, I had a crazy rough 231 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:51.240 patch, just morally foul made a fool of myself, but held myself 232 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:56.520 accountable. And just journey that whole process. And coming 233 00:13:56.520 --> 00:14:01.680 out of that, before COVID hit, I was struggling to find a job, 234 00:14:01.880 --> 00:14:07.920 like some people and in that I just cried and I said, God, I, I 235 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:12.880 got no skill, you know, all I know how to do is teach and 236 00:14:12.880 --> 00:14:15.680 preach and all that stuff. But because I'd stood down from 237 00:14:15.680 --> 00:14:19.440 ministry and was on a journey of healing, and reconciliation, 238 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:23.840 restoration and all that stuff. I just knew it wasn't time for 239 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.920 that. And so I just said, God, the only thing I know how to do 240 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:33.920 is make beats. And so if you can use that, and you open the doors 241 00:14:33.920 --> 00:14:37.440 up for that, I'll just jump in on that and literally in three 242 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:42.480 seconds, like, straight immediately, my phone goes off 243 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:47.760 and a guy, a very famous guy in the New Zealand music industry 244 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:51.880 says, is this Ricky Paul? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was 245 00:14:51.880 --> 00:14:55.560 actually in a tearful, quite a heartfelt moment with the world. 246 00:14:55.560 --> 00:14:58.840 So it was that fast. I was doing it, I was trying to like, oh, 247 00:14:58.840 --> 00:14:59.400 yeah, yeah, yeah. 248 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.920 this is right yep yep yep the manly voice back on so oh i'm just letting you know we've got a brand 249 00:15:07.920 --> 00:15:12.880 new artist who's about to blow up in new zealand and your name running around in the circles that 250 00:15:12.880 --> 00:15:20.480 you're the best and so we'd love for you to come in and produce the guy's single so fly out there 251 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:28.160 and i'm a bit nervous and um yeah so what happens is that he just as soon as we get to the recording 252 00:15:28.160 --> 00:15:34.240 studio i'm thinking it's a done deal but he says to me you've got to play you just if you can play 253 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:39.920 three beats if we don't like any of those three beats that you play um you're on the next flight 254 00:15:39.920 --> 00:15:44.240 home because money is time and we can't afford to sit around listening to beats and all that 255 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:49.120 stuff we'll do and so i'm nervous and i'm like oh for real so i'm laughing i'm giggling i'm thinking 256 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:53.200 they're being sarcastic i mean you know playing their old jokes but the guy looks at me and goes 257 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:59.600 nah like for real if you haven't got the heat or the fire or the beats the good beats then 258 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:05.200 you're on the next flight so i was like oh sorry i thought you were joking so like no no time's 259 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:09.760 money time's money so i'm like oh just so i'm while i'm processing that and setting up i'm 260 00:16:09.760 --> 00:16:16.320 asking god for wisdom and so i just i just felt to ask him hey um can you just play me what you've 261 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:22.160 already got because i've got thousands of instrumentals of beats and i don't you know i 262 00:16:22.160 --> 00:16:27.040 could play a country western song but you're going for a techno album so if you just show me 263 00:16:27.040 --> 00:16:32.560 what you've got then i'll be able to i guess narrow down my beats of choice so he does it 264 00:16:32.560 --> 00:16:40.480 within five seconds i'm like yeah cool sweet i'll play the first one the um recording studio everyone 265 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:45.920 in the recording studio is oh you know losing it and then guys are you'll play the next one 266 00:16:45.920 --> 00:16:49.920 i just want i just think you've fluked it you know like so i play the next one 267 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:55.840 and uh everyone just goes nuts again play another one third one everyone goes nuts again and then 268 00:16:57.040 --> 00:17:02.000 uh the guy the manager the artist manager goes up because the guy had already the artist had 269 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.800 already finished the album and i was only coming in to do the single so he grabs a vivid and puts 270 00:17:06.800 --> 00:17:12.240 a vivid right through the whole thing and then he says we're doing a whole a brand new album and 271 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:18.240 you're producing the entire thing right now come on so you've got a whole week to make an album so 272 00:17:18.800 --> 00:17:26.000 technically we did it in a day and a half and that won him an award and uh opened up a few more 273 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:34.880 doors for me locally and yeah so that's how i sort of got back in yeah yeah class tracking oh man 274 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:40.960 that's that's wild and um yeah so if we just jump back to sam's question as well you've been in the 275 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:46.000 space now or even actually your your album now like let's hit that like what's happening with 276 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:52.480 your album now sounds like there's lots of buzz i just bought a vinyl which is kind of cool 277 00:17:53.040 --> 00:18:01.040 um pretty stoked on that yeah yeah so um so i went i went uh the album's probably about two 278 00:18:01.040 --> 00:18:08.480 years old for me so it's taken a while and um for those who don't know like how i because i 279 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:13.680 always get told even when i became a christian earlier because i used to make music for famous 280 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:18.560 people even before i become a christian but the church that i attended at the time they had the 281 00:18:18.560 --> 00:18:24.320 theology that oh you know um mindset that oh right you gotta lay that down at the altar and burn all 282 00:18:24.320 --> 00:18:30.400 that and um you're making the devil's music so and that's all i knew you know so i was like okay 283 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:35.440 cool yeah i don't want to make the devil's music and so so all that to say is i started getting 284 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:44.000 bombed with that but then i just um i think it was danny silk uh from bethel reading bethel 285 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:50.160 california and so um i just heard a bit of message that sort of set me free and 286 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:55.120 i just went hardcore and basically he just said if you love making music it wasn't to me 287 00:18:55.120 --> 00:19:00.480 personally but uh it was just a podcast i think if you love making music or you're a producer 288 00:19:00.800 --> 00:19:06.320 um oh you know and you want to make music for whoever snoop dogg and all that stuff then go 289 00:19:06.320 --> 00:19:11.440 do it and he didn't say snoop dogg but worldly artists secular artists and so i thought oh whoa 290 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.680 christian's allowed to do that so um i just basically had went for a massive journey of 291 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:23.120 healing in that and walking that out and so i just jumped straight and throw it straight over the edge 292 00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:32.560 and so uh part i guess part of the journey was me learning how to navigate our poor says that 293 00:19:32.560 --> 00:19:38.400 you're both the king and the priest and so um you know realizing what your priestly role is to the 294 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:43.840 church to the body of christ which to me even though i haven't preached uh much over the last 295 00:19:43.840 --> 00:19:49.680 four or five years that is definitely i guess my gift that i have towards the body of christ the 296 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:54.400 way that i serve the body of christ but in the marketplace or in extending the kingdom 297 00:19:55.280 --> 00:19:59.840 uh and my kingly role uh is the music industry and so 298 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.000 So everything I do there may look devilish, 299 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.560 even the cover, because it's a black on black cover. 300 00:20:08.560 --> 00:20:10.440 So I've had some Christian mates say, 301 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.680 oh man, black on black, that's so evil. 302 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:15.800 It looks so dark and it gives me a freaky feeling. 303 00:20:15.800 --> 00:20:19.920 I'm like, oh man, so that's a whole nother topic. 304 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.200 I can do a whole sermon just on all that stuff. 305 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:24.480 But yeah, so basically I went in, 306 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:26.360 it's called the golden era and the golden era, 307 00:20:26.360 --> 00:20:27.200 for those who don't know, 308 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.920 hip hop is a 90s, 2000s sound. 309 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:34.000 And I just felt God say that he wanted me 310 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:38.440 to revive the golden era. 311 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:41.160 And so I just jumped in and caught it, 312 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:44.600 the golden era, season one, the golden era album. 313 00:20:44.600 --> 00:20:45.840 I even caught it, you know, 314 00:20:45.840 --> 00:20:48.160 that and so just finding the golden people. 315 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:51.720 And so I just honed in on that and a lot of artists. 316 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:55.920 And I have a lot of international artists on the album, 317 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:58.160 but I took them off because I felt God say, 318 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:02.080 I wanted you to start with the New Zealanders. 319 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.840 Go and find what they call the legends in rap or hip hop 320 00:21:07.840 --> 00:21:10.880 from the 90s, 2000s and revive them. 321 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.400 So I just went on a massive mission to get them, 322 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.080 which it's very hard to collect those. 323 00:21:17.080 --> 00:21:19.040 And so people in hip hop, that's where the hype is 324 00:21:19.040 --> 00:21:22.360 because it's quite a hard album, 325 00:21:22.360 --> 00:21:25.360 near impossible album to pull off in New Zealand 326 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.520 with those names on there. 327 00:21:27.520 --> 00:21:30.640 And so I've just had massive favor in doing that, 328 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:32.760 but yeah, that's called the golden era. 329 00:21:32.760 --> 00:21:35.160 And so God, like a lot of other Christians, 330 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.360 has just been speaking to me, 331 00:21:37.360 --> 00:21:40.960 downloading Revelation to me via the whole 2-2, 332 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:43.760 the Kia David stuff and, you know, 333 00:21:43.760 --> 00:21:45.320 magic on that. 334 00:21:45.320 --> 00:21:48.640 It's due to be released, isn't it? 335 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:49.480 On Tuesday, right? 336 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:52.680 Which is the 22nd of the 2nd, 2022? 337 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:54.560 Yeah, 2-2, 2-2-2. 338 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:56.520 Here's a fun thing, 339 00:21:56.520 --> 00:21:59.440 is that we're booked in for a C-section. 340 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:01.320 We're booked in for a C-section for Alana 341 00:22:01.320 --> 00:22:02.840 on Tuesday as well. 342 00:22:02.840 --> 00:22:04.000 Oh, wow, wow. 343 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:06.960 Oh, that's crazy. 344 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.200 Yeah, so that's kind of exciting. 345 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:11.480 I've been thinking about your date there as well 346 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:13.720 as we've kind of been building towards that. 347 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:16.360 Yeah, I was pretty dumb because like, 348 00:22:16.360 --> 00:22:17.440 oh, it's cool at the same time. 349 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:19.160 Kanye's decided to drop his album 350 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:22.320 on the 22nd of the 2nd, 2022, you know? 351 00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:23.160 Ah. 352 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:24.840 So I'm trying to, 353 00:22:24.840 --> 00:22:27.320 I'm lucky that New Zealand is like 16 hours 354 00:22:27.320 --> 00:22:28.440 or whatever it is ahead of them. 355 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:33.440 So I may go, stay, go number one for like 10 hours 356 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.120 and then he'll just swipe me off. 357 00:22:36.120 --> 00:22:37.160 Yeah, yeah. 358 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:38.160 But it's cool, yeah. 359 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:39.440 So that's the golden era. 360 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:44.440 And going back to Seb's question, 361 00:22:46.280 --> 00:22:48.560 in amongst those recording sessions, 362 00:22:48.560 --> 00:22:50.920 I've sat down with a lot of the artists 363 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:56.440 and a lot of them are gang members and stuff. 364 00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:59.880 And real, they can come across, 365 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:01.160 some of them are real street guys, 366 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:03.960 like actual gangsters that get into the whole, 367 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:07.320 try not to divulge, you know, 368 00:23:07.320 --> 00:23:11.040 but shooting and stuff and real crime. 369 00:23:11.040 --> 00:23:15.640 And I've just had to learn how to navigate in that too 370 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.800 when I was sitting around people who just pulling out, 371 00:23:19.080 --> 00:23:24.080 cocaine and large amounts of money and guns and stuff. 372 00:23:25.320 --> 00:23:30.320 And so, yeah, I just, one, I don't act like a gangster. 373 00:23:31.040 --> 00:23:34.160 Two, I know I'm not a gangster and I just keep it music, 374 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:38.240 but it's awesome because a lot of them always ask, 375 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:39.640 and it's quite an organic thing 376 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:42.760 as we're back in the days or several years ago, 377 00:23:42.760 --> 00:23:45.240 I would always go in there again with the whole, 378 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:46.880 oh, I've got to see God move. 379 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:51.880 And, you know, sort of force something with the gift. 380 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:55.560 And yeah, but they just come in natural and just, 381 00:23:55.560 --> 00:23:57.360 hey bro, like, what are you doing on the weekends? 382 00:23:57.360 --> 00:23:59.760 You know, like, do you go to the strippers or something? 383 00:23:59.760 --> 00:24:02.680 I'm like, nah, bro, nah, I don't do that. 384 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:03.640 Oh, well, what do you do? 385 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:05.880 I just, oh, I go to church and stuff. 386 00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:06.720 Hey, for real. 387 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:09.160 And so they'll just give their whole view of God 388 00:24:12.560 --> 00:24:14.400 or the slave master. 389 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:18.160 So yeah, a different God, if we put it that way, 390 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:19.560 but their view of him. 391 00:24:19.560 --> 00:24:23.080 And so it's just amazing that God would just put me 392 00:24:23.080 --> 00:24:23.920 in that place. 393 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.680 And by then, usually I'll just, you know, 394 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.680 with wisdom, kindness, just say, 395 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:31.920 hey bro, you're just letting you know 396 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:35.360 that that's the wrong, that's a different God, bro. 397 00:24:35.360 --> 00:24:36.200 Like, you know, that's, 398 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:37.760 you and I are talking about a different God. 399 00:24:37.760 --> 00:24:39.840 And so then I talked to him about, 400 00:24:39.840 --> 00:24:43.040 told him about Jesus and, you know, 401 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:46.000 if you haven't seen Jesus say it, do it, 402 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:47.040 then it's not from God. 403 00:24:47.040 --> 00:24:49.280 So I just give them a little, 404 00:24:49.280 --> 00:24:50.960 the difference between him and the prophets 405 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:53.760 or him and Moses and those under the law. 406 00:24:53.760 --> 00:24:56.640 And just sort of, it's crazy. 407 00:24:56.640 --> 00:24:58.000 Like a couple of my mates, 408 00:24:58.000 --> 00:24:59.000 one of them is watching now, 409 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:00.160 he's an Indian. 410 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:01.320 engineer, recording engineer. 411 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:04.960 Yeah, hey, bro, I don't want to call him out. 412 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:10.080 You know who you are? And so, yeah, so he would go into the 413 00:25:10.080 --> 00:25:13.640 sessions after me on some of them with these. I don't even 414 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:17.200 like calling them gang members, but artists. And so you just 415 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:20.480 say, bro, they're talking about God and how God is kind. And 416 00:25:20.800 --> 00:25:23.280 he's different to how our dads raised us, you know, even though 417 00:25:23.280 --> 00:25:26.280 they'll give us a hiding and all that stuff. So it's really cool 418 00:25:26.280 --> 00:25:32.520 to see God do that. But I've been in other sessions where God 419 00:25:32.520 --> 00:25:37.880 will break out by healings. And there was one where I was asked 420 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:42.760 to produce a movie soundtrack, a big movie soundtrack. And so as 421 00:25:42.760 --> 00:25:46.800 I went into the recording session to produce, someone as a 422 00:25:46.800 --> 00:25:51.320 joke just said, Oh, this guy was a pastor, get him to pray. And 423 00:25:51.320 --> 00:25:54.920 so I was like, Oh, yeah. So I sort of quickly pounced on it. 424 00:25:55.120 --> 00:25:57.360 So so yeah, I'll pray. Okay, everyone take your hats off. 425 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:04.320 So they took their hats off. And so you had two CEOs of, I won't 426 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:09.040 say which labels, but very big labels. You hit one of the guys 427 00:26:09.040 --> 00:26:11.680 who's part of the director's team and all this stuff, because 428 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.520 they wanted the movie obviously, to match the visuals and the 429 00:26:15.520 --> 00:26:20.800 soundtrack to match all this and all that. So they all took their 430 00:26:20.800 --> 00:26:24.400 hats off. And so I was a bit shocked. I was sort of joking. 431 00:26:25.280 --> 00:26:27.520 So they all got their hats off. I've got the photo on my phone. 432 00:26:27.520 --> 00:26:30.720 But some people will know who a lot of these people are if I 433 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:35.680 show the photo. And so I just closed my eyes. And I just 434 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:38.880 prayed what I would think is a normal prayer. So Holy Spirit 435 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:43.440 come. And to be honest, I just try to do a generic one. Because 436 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.600 it caught me off guard that they were that easy to, you know, 437 00:26:45.600 --> 00:26:49.600 sort of like, set up for prayer. So be set for prayer. So I just 438 00:26:49.600 --> 00:26:51.520 said, Jesus, I just pray that you come, you know, that you 439 00:26:51.600 --> 00:26:54.560 guide all the musicians that we have an amazing thing that the 440 00:26:54.560 --> 00:26:59.280 movie does well, and all that. And one guy starts crying. And 441 00:26:59.280 --> 00:27:04.160 he's a famous thing. And he just starts saying, man, I haven't 442 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:07.200 felt that feeling since Sunday school, when I used to go to 443 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:10.720 Sunday school as a kid, I don't believe in God now. But when I 444 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:13.600 was in Sunday school, it's that same feeling. My parents went to 445 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:16.160 this whole like talking with this funny language like 446 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:19.840 tongues. So another guy goes, another artist goes, I've heard 447 00:27:20.080 --> 00:27:26.240 this stuff. So I'm sitting there, and I'm not really 448 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.720 engaging. I'm just sort of, again, still buzzing out there. 449 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:33.120 They let me pray for the session. And so another artist 450 00:27:33.120 --> 00:27:37.120 comes in, he walks in. And he just looks around and people are 451 00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:40.880 just still talking about the language. And he just goes, 452 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:47.680 yo, this feels like a church in here. But what's been going on 453 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.720 there just feels like a church. My mom's a pastor. So this guy 454 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.000 and I didn't even know the guy was a pastor. He goes, I was a 455 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.760 pastor. It feels like a church. And it feels like one of those 456 00:27:57.760 --> 00:27:59.760 ones where people fall over one of those churches. 457 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.360 So I'm just sitting there. And so one guy goes, Oh, you know, 458 00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:08.080 since you were a pastor and all that stuff, like, what are we 459 00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:11.280 feeling? So I just start talking about the Holy Spirit and all 460 00:28:11.280 --> 00:28:15.120 that stuff. So we're meant to start recording around 10 461 00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:18.320 o'clock. It's nine, we didn't stop talking about God till 462 00:28:18.320 --> 00:28:23.200 about 1130. And then what happened is one of the artists 463 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:26.480 goes out for smoke. And we're meant to do this hardcore 464 00:28:27.360 --> 00:28:30.560 swearing track, you know, like quite an explicit type of track 465 00:28:30.560 --> 00:28:33.280 is what they wanted for the certain scene, or the end of the 466 00:28:33.280 --> 00:28:37.840 film, I think for the score or whatever. And so the guy comes 467 00:28:37.840 --> 00:28:40.240 back and he comes, he walks in and goes, I think I've got the 468 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:43.840 chorus in 10 minutes. So he goes in there and he starts singing. 469 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:47.920 I don't really want to sing it too, because some people might 470 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.200 go, Oh, he's talking about this guy and all these people. So 471 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:56.800 he starts singing basically about God. And he starts talking 472 00:28:56.800 --> 00:29:01.280 about how he had a moment in his life where God felt like God 473 00:29:01.280 --> 00:29:05.200 wasn't there. But if anything, he's here closer than what we 474 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:09.760 think, top of the thing. He hasn't felt that since Sunday 475 00:29:09.760 --> 00:29:12.080 school, he was the first one that identified that God wasn't 476 00:29:12.080 --> 00:29:17.520 out something. And so he starts weeping and other guy, the big 477 00:29:17.520 --> 00:29:22.000 one of the big CEOs walks in the main guy of this big record 478 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:25.040 company in Australasia, New Zealand, Australia, all that 479 00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:28.640 stuff, Southern Hemisphere. He comes in because it's the first 480 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:32.640 movie to come out of this, you know, with a big multi million 481 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.720 dollar budget of this sort around music. And so he walks 482 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:41.840 in. And some people, the guy, the other producer that was in 483 00:29:41.840 --> 00:29:44.480 the room said he'll probably trash it because it's talking 484 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.520 about God. And I was like, Yeah, and I naturally thought, 485 00:29:47.520 --> 00:29:52.400 Oh, yeah, they probably won't. So he walks in, and he hears 486 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.200 the chorus going over and over. And he starts going off by 487 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:59.840 bombing his head. That's a smash. That's a hit. That's going 488 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.600 on the movie and that's going to be right at the very end because it sounds like it's a good way 489 00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:08.400 and a happy way to wrap the movie up and all this stuff and so he just goes yeah we're going to make 490 00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:17.520 that a uh like a single or single and um yeah so it just yeah we just see god do amazing things so 491 00:30:17.520 --> 00:30:23.760 whenever those guys get me in now they always want me to um pray this is actually one of them 492 00:30:23.760 --> 00:30:32.400 morning is that coming through yeah oh it's all done oh yeah it is coming through now 493 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.600 i'll just sorry mate 494 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.640 there's one of the guys there actually yeah that's hilarious that's so cool man 495 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:45.680 you're talking about me bro 496 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:57.440 sure totally yeah so yeah so just see god move healings get some international uh people uh 497 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:04.000 artists uh when i meet them in new zealand and stuff we'll just divulge you know or share that 498 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:09.360 they were in a christian family and asked if i believe in god and all that stuff and then god 499 00:31:09.360 --> 00:31:16.880 will give me words of knowledge for them and uh see god do wild things yeah yeah i mean you're 500 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:20.480 you're in the thick you're in the thick of the music culture you work with a lot of the big 501 00:31:21.520 --> 00:31:26.000 names and labels which is pretty exciting are you like are you allowed a name drop and just say who 502 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.000 you've been working with in the sense of like where your music goes because as a beat artist 503 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:35.280 people don't necessarily know that those are your beats but they're all over the world yeah um 504 00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:41.440 um yeah i'm mindful that most of the guys wouldn't on this may not even know the rap 505 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:50.000 realm you know yeah yeah this is jesus culture yeah yeah um um yeah there are some rappers 506 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:53.760 these ones i'll name some that weren't in around so they go oh let's certainly pray for snoop dog 507 00:31:53.760 --> 00:32:02.880 but like but yeah i've got uh songs of uh snoop dog with um yeah uh who else would be big ones 508 00:32:03.520 --> 00:32:09.600 big singers um uh shucks i can't even think of any 509 00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:19.120 yeah but there's yeah heaps of rappers heaps of rappers singers um reggae artists world renowned 510 00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:26.880 reggae artists yeah multi-platinum guys yeah so and what i i mean what i love about that and what 511 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:33.360 i love as well about your journey is you had this process where you know it's like this dynamic of 512 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:40.560 the sacred and the secular being separated um to the point that there's no longer any influence 513 00:32:40.560 --> 00:32:48.880 christian influence in the secular realm but now god's saying you know hey jump back in that space 514 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:54.480 and just the fact that you're carrying jesus so beautifully so powerful you pray and the atmosphere 515 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.600 shifts in that moment to the point that it shifts the whole ending and actually the culture of the 516 00:32:59.600 --> 00:33:08.240 movie shifts um from what you're carrying into that place and uh yeah i guess something i love 517 00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:13.760 just to hear a little bit about your thoughts is you know how how are christians in that space 518 00:33:13.760 --> 00:33:19.920 of music uh able to start shaping culture now yeah like it's um 519 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:26.240 i do i do actually encounter a lot of christians in 520 00:33:28.080 --> 00:33:37.200 sorry in the music industry um uh some of them you know i guess trapped in it caught in it 521 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:43.680 in the cycles and so there's there's one guy who's a there's a pastor as well um 522 00:33:45.040 --> 00:33:52.240 and he he got he got um you know he sucked into the whole sleeping around part of the 523 00:33:52.960 --> 00:34:00.080 um music industry and sleeping with multiple women and so he always tried to encourage me 524 00:34:00.800 --> 00:34:06.640 because he felt bad that i was so good in some ways yeah and so 525 00:34:08.080 --> 00:34:16.000 it's sad you get a lot of wounded christians they and like if uh because the church i guess um you 526 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:23.840 know not just for example like like david garrett how they've pioneered the whole band um keyboard 527 00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:30.000 drums bass and all that stuff that whole movement when you get guys like me or other people other 528 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:37.440 artists who you know use beat machines or something it doesn't god's not in that music you know so 529 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:42.080 there's no place for them to creatively express so therefore they're like okay the church don't 530 00:34:42.080 --> 00:34:46.719 want my gift so i might as well go out there you know but yeah i'm saying that they go out into 531 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:54.400 i guess the world of the secular market and they get smashed and so um for me i've just had to learn 532 00:34:54.400 --> 00:35:00.000 even though it wasn't the recommended route for me to get there um because of 533 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.780 my previous journey when I come out of the last five years and hitting absolute 534 00:35:03.780 --> 00:35:08.780 rock bottom. And I just sort of learned my boundaries. 535 00:35:09.380 --> 00:35:12.780 I learned boundaries a lot. Yeah. Yeah. 536 00:35:13.260 --> 00:35:16.260 It was a dumb, I wouldn't have chose that way to learn it, but I've learned. 537 00:35:19.980 --> 00:35:23.740 And learning the boundaries when I'm in those circles, we have got, you know, 538 00:35:24.260 --> 00:35:28.740 woman galore around alcohol, money, cocaine, 539 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.000 drugs, all that stuff. 540 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:35.720 The moment I feel my heart pull or I get tempted to try it, 541 00:35:35.720 --> 00:35:37.860 I quickly put it down. I've learned to put a boundary. 542 00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:41.760 There's a gracious moment where I just have to hop down and say, Hey guys, 543 00:35:42.160 --> 00:35:46.540 see you tomorrow. Done my job. Like, you know, and all that stuff. 544 00:35:46.540 --> 00:35:49.560 And they actually, they actually respect you for a day. 545 00:35:49.560 --> 00:35:51.780 And so in doing that, 546 00:35:51.780 --> 00:35:54.840 a lot of some Christians have come clean on me and just, Oh bro, you know, 547 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.940 it turns into like repentance sessions and profiles like you, 548 00:35:59.780 --> 00:36:03.340 all that stuff. And, but the church don't like me, the church judged me. 549 00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:08.220 And so, um, you know, the devil will happily receive the church's rejects, 550 00:36:08.220 --> 00:36:09.060 you know? So like, 551 00:36:10.780 --> 00:36:15.340 so they just get stuck in that cycle. And as much as I'm, 552 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.340 I guess I'm caught in there to set the captors free, you know, 553 00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:24.420 it's also to set the Christians free as well. Not saying that I'm, 554 00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:28.940 I'm the same. I get it, man. Yeah. It's crazy how many are in there, 555 00:36:28.940 --> 00:36:31.820 but some of them are scared to be honest. Um, 556 00:36:32.140 --> 00:36:36.500 but what I shared to some of those guys or some of my friends in the industry 557 00:36:36.500 --> 00:36:40.900 is they actually respect you. They don't like the whole Bible bashing component, 558 00:36:40.900 --> 00:36:43.660 you know, like forcing yourself or your theology or, 559 00:36:44.660 --> 00:36:48.460 but they respect you a lot more. And they actually, um, 560 00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:50.860 if anything, they enforce the boundaries on your behalf too. 561 00:36:50.860 --> 00:36:55.840 Like I've been in moments where gang members or artists will force cocaine 562 00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:59.640 or certain drugs on me and other artists who know that I'm a Christian will go 563 00:36:59.640 --> 00:37:03.560 in there and just say, bro, don't, don't hear the offer him that that guy loves 564 00:37:03.560 --> 00:37:06.600 God, bro. And if you miss his life, I will miss you up. 565 00:37:10.600 --> 00:37:13.800 So they end up, they start fighting on behalf of my righteousness, you know? 566 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:18.000 That's awesome. Yeah. 567 00:37:18.020 --> 00:37:18.860 That's so cool. 568 00:37:20.420 --> 00:37:23.380 Yeah. That was awesome, man. That was so good. 569 00:37:24.500 --> 00:37:26.340 So cool, man. I, you know, 570 00:37:26.460 --> 00:37:29.780 it's something that something that I've kind of seen a little bit recently. Um, 571 00:37:29.860 --> 00:37:34.100 and I know you're, you're dabbling in the space a little while, but, um, 572 00:37:35.180 --> 00:37:39.300 but for example, just this kind of merging of, um, 573 00:37:39.500 --> 00:37:42.540 merging tech business, um, 574 00:37:42.580 --> 00:37:46.740 within the music industry happening right now, like the Snoop dog, you know, 575 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:51.280 you sold $44 million worth of NFTs, um, and this week, 576 00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:54.200 uh, which is a little nuts. Um, I know you've got, 577 00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:58.600 I think you've got some, um, NFTs in the work as well. And so, you know, 578 00:37:58.600 --> 00:38:03.400 what's, um, you speak to what you're seeing and that just at the trend of the 579 00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:07.260 emergence of, you know, as, as, as culture explodes, as, 580 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:09.600 as things explode, uh, how, you know, 581 00:38:09.600 --> 00:38:13.400 business is kind of taking a forefront inside and said the music industry and, 582 00:38:13.500 --> 00:38:15.780 and, and tell us about your NFT project too. 583 00:38:16.660 --> 00:38:22.060 Yeah. Yeah. No, cool. So my one's still, uh, I guess we're still, um, 584 00:38:23.780 --> 00:38:28.540 I sort of, I'm still deciding, I guess, what route I want to go with my NFT, 585 00:38:28.540 --> 00:38:33.340 but, um, yeah, it's amazing. Like if anything, 586 00:38:33.700 --> 00:38:37.420 you know, mindful in my heart goes out to those who have hit a, 587 00:38:37.860 --> 00:38:42.680 a hard place financially or they've lost their jobs and all that stuff. 588 00:38:42.700 --> 00:38:46.180 And I guess, you know, the world, uh, 589 00:38:47.140 --> 00:38:48.680 in the world's economy or whatever, you know, 590 00:38:49.180 --> 00:38:52.260 economic system that isn't working to or looking to good, you know, 591 00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:55.780 or too bright. But, uh, for me, 592 00:38:55.820 --> 00:38:59.140 like I've just taken a whole different stance and if anything, 593 00:38:59.140 --> 00:39:03.060 I think it's we're in the best times to make money, you know, like, uh, 594 00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:06.220 I'm really, really excited. Um, 595 00:39:07.580 --> 00:39:11.820 about all these opportunities and obviously NFTs are another opportunity for 596 00:39:11.820 --> 00:39:12.800 people to make a lot of money. 597 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:16.320 It's beautiful for the artists or for guys like myself. Um, 598 00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:19.960 because I guess the same way that cryptocurrency, 599 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:23.320 I don't know if a threat is the right word, but it sort of is like, 600 00:39:23.600 --> 00:39:26.720 as a threat to the banks, the banking systems is the same way. 601 00:39:26.720 --> 00:39:30.160 The NFTs are to the recording industry, um, 602 00:39:30.180 --> 00:39:32.920 because it cuts out all the middlemen. And so, you know, 603 00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.880 you're no longer an artist who's going to keep you bound and 604 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:41.520 own all your property, intellectual property for 10, 30 years, you know, 605 00:39:42.120 --> 00:39:46.560 so you now get out there and make all the money and connect with all your 606 00:39:46.560 --> 00:39:47.360 fans. One-on-one. 607 00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:49.320 The middleman. 608 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:52.200 Yeah. 609 00:39:52.200 --> 00:39:54.280 It's awesome. Awesome to see like, you know, 610 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:58.200 just the when you start having that decentralized conversation, you know, 611 00:39:58.200 --> 00:39:59.880 anything starts to be possible. 612 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:21.000 Specifically for artists, music artists, digital artists, physical arts, is really the best part about the NFT space is putting power back to the people and cutting out some of the bureaucracy within the industry. 613 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:28.000 Yeah, all those greedy corporations, it's crazy what they lock you into. 614 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.000 They're even worse than the banks. 615 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:33.000 Yeah. 616 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:47.000 Yeah, so it's just a beautiful space. And so I was blessed to get some of Snoop Dogg's NFTs before he actually... 617 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:49.000 No way. That's awesome. 618 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.000 I got like eight of them. I got them for like $30, those ones, I think. 619 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.000 What are they worth now? 620 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.000 They're worth heaps. 621 00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:00.000 Give a rough ballpark on what they're going for now. 622 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:03.000 I don't know. So he made $44 million. Was it $44 million? 623 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:04.000 Yeah. 624 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:10.000 I just knew, yeah, I've got some gold. I just haven't even looked into it. 625 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:21.000 One of the articles I saw about it said they're running for about five grand each, which would be like, you know, 0.45 Ethereum. 626 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.000 Yeah. 627 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:32.000 So that's cool. So part of the ideas that I'm throwing backwards and forth, I nearly got ideas from my bro Ben Runciman that was on here earlier. 628 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:33.000 Yeah. 629 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:34.000 Hey Benji. 630 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:36.000 Yeah man, he was on a little while ago. 631 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:48.000 But also with Benji as well, I've thrown ideas in and around doing for my album, possibly like 22 or 25 NFTs. 632 00:41:48.000 --> 00:42:01.000 And because I've got this track that to me embodies the full revival thing that I felt God told me to do in the New Zealand hip hop industry. 633 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:11.000 And so I've got guys who are, I guess, currently, I was going to say killing it, but there's a street that are doing well for themselves. 634 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:18.000 Today I'm trying not to get through the whole urban thing going on, language, but also the greats, you know. 635 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:32.000 And so to put them all on one track, and I've always had like a common prophetic word from people, from known prophets to say that I'll be one to unify generations and stuff. 636 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:41.000 And so that was one thing that I said, God, if that's the call of my life, let me create a song that has all of them on it. 637 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:48.000 So I got three generations of artists all on one track, not all of them, but a heck of a lot of them. 638 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:54.000 And there's like 18 of them, I think, and all on one song, which is huge. 639 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.000 Three or five mix, which is quite a beefy song. 640 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:01.000 But yeah, it was 23 minutes, 22 minutes, actually. 641 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:07.000 I didn't realize, but it was 22 minutes long and I narrowed it down to 12 because it was just overkill. 642 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:11.000 The length, I have someone sit there for 22 minutes. 643 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:14.000 So, yeah, so I did that. 644 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:18.000 But all of that to say is that that is the song that I'm wanting to put on the NFT. 645 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:26.000 And so everyone in New Zealand will probably understand how big this track really is, because some of them haven't heard from these artists in many years and artists. 646 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:33.000 And so, yeah, putting that into an NFT and the idea, this is me just even verbally processing. 647 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:50.000 And as I mentioned with Benji and Ben, to make the different scales of exclusivity, you know, like these guys will own the track, listen to the track for whatever it is, $100 and 12 of them will pay whatever, $5,000. 648 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:59.000 And they'll get to have ownership over the song, get a percentage of the streams, the sales or it's really endless. 649 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:03.000 But also they become like my 12 disciples. 650 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:09.000 Yeah, so to put like a mentoring component to them is what Benji was encouraging me to do. 651 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:16.000 So I haven't got that far yet to the NFT, but those are ideas that I'm really looking into. 652 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.000 It's just because I'm still doing the vinyl. 653 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000 There's such a lot of work and I don't have a team. 654 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.000 It's only me doing it. 655 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:30.000 So, yeah, I'm doing a lot of the back behind the scenes stuff to get the album really pushing and pumping and stuff. 656 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.000 That's awesome, man. 657 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:36.000 Hey, I know that we're going to actually be, what is it? 658 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.000 We've got it coming up tomorrow. 659 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:44.000 We'll be with Eric Skelton, who's actually running a massive NFT project, which is going to be really cool. 660 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.000 So we'll unpack. 661 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.000 If you didn't know what an NFT is, we'll unpack that more and more. 662 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:53.000 Rookie, real quick, because we've got to bring it in for a landing now. 663 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:59.000 Some people might be in this place with like hearing about NFTs and crypto for the first time and not really understanding it. 664 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:00.000 I just love it. 665 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.640 to share the story of one of your youth who rocked up you know the last time you saw him 666 00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:11.600 you were you know doing some counseling because he wasn't in school one of the next times you see 667 00:45:11.600 --> 00:45:19.920 him he rocks up in a Lambo this kid from Kawaro tell us this story and especially with the dynamic 668 00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:27.200 of you know like emerging technology is worth paying attention to yeah for sure for sure like 669 00:45:27.200 --> 00:45:35.840 um i've seen it happen maybe three four times over in the last couple years um just the 670 00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:41.680 opportunities that i've missed hey man it's it's gut-wrenching but the first one that benji's 671 00:45:41.680 --> 00:45:47.120 referring to is so i'm from a small town and while i'm youth mentoring i'm in the high school whilst 672 00:45:47.120 --> 00:45:55.920 in the high school part of my role is to um was to reintegrate uh the youth um either back into 673 00:45:55.920 --> 00:46:01.440 training uh some form of education type of a thing just to you know because they'll be 674 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:08.640 absent away at home you know and truant and all that so i i called up this one kid say bro come 675 00:46:08.640 --> 00:46:12.720 to the high school and uh we'll sit down we'll do like an action plan you know how to get you 676 00:46:12.720 --> 00:46:18.240 back into school find your job or some training you know go on a course so he comes in and he 677 00:46:18.240 --> 00:46:23.040 sits down i get to know him a nice kid and i'm thinking why is he truant you know he's got no 678 00:46:23.040 --> 00:46:31.120 what i would think um no issues at home you know or major issues and so he just starts going off 679 00:46:31.120 --> 00:46:35.520 so if you just give me a thousand dollars i can make you a rich man and i was like what do you 680 00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:40.880 mean i'm not giving you a thousand dollars i'm laughing with him you know straight up straight 681 00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:45.120 up there's this thing called bitcoin and i remember at that time seeing it on the internet on 682 00:46:45.120 --> 00:46:49.200 whether it was bebo i can't remember like there'll be little pop-ups of this new thing called 683 00:46:49.200 --> 00:46:54.720 bitcoin i remember seeing i'm telling him nah nah nah don't do that bro that's that's a scam 684 00:46:54.720 --> 00:46:58.400 that's a scam what people are even calling it nowadays you know that's a scam they're still 685 00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:06.080 calling it a scam and so it's probably one of the most successful scams so he's going you should go 686 00:47:06.080 --> 00:47:10.080 you should go do this and so um i'm like nah nah nah they're just trying to steal your money 687 00:47:10.080 --> 00:47:15.120 and he says he says if you come on sir give me a thousand dollars i'll make you rich you won't 688 00:47:15.120 --> 00:47:20.160 regret it so no i can't do it sorry buddy you're gonna have to do you're gonna go i have to find 689 00:47:20.160 --> 00:47:25.680 you a job so he goes he gets so he says that's why i'm here is i'm on i'm telling you that i'm 690 00:47:25.680 --> 00:47:32.320 gonna go to new world uh for those international just like a grocery store 7-eleven would they 691 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:38.240 call it a 7-eleven just yeah just just grocery store grocery store and so um they'll go over 692 00:47:38.240 --> 00:47:44.000 there he said he'll go in there and he'll make 10 000 us dollars which i think at the time he 693 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:49.040 in fact it didn't probably take him six months to make and he's going to dump that 10 000 us 694 00:47:49.040 --> 00:47:54.640 dollars into bitcoin and so i keep i'm trying to talk him out of it don't do it bro don't do it 695 00:47:54.640 --> 00:48:02.320 bro you'll be sorry you know all that stuff and um yeah so he does it so i have to write him off and 696 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:07.680 tell the ministry of education he's not interested in coming back to school he's going to get a job 697 00:48:07.680 --> 00:48:17.840 in new world and invest money so may have what felt like a six months or a year later um he's 698 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:25.200 dating one of our girls in the church and so um one of the girls who's our youth leader upcoming 699 00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:29.840 youth leader starts saying rick do you remember that i was like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i remember 700 00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:36.640 him he's rich ass now like what do you mean he's rich ass oh he's got like a lamborghini and stuff 701 00:48:36.640 --> 00:48:41.440 he just bought his mom uh a house in koto uh now he's going to go buy them a house in 702 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:47.280 in auckland and he's going to buy his own house in auckland he's going to buy him a hammer i'm 703 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:54.720 thinking whatever and so so she she says no for real for real and so i end up seeing him 704 00:48:55.920 --> 00:49:01.760 and he rocks up in the baddest car ever and i look at him and i just say bro what's this because of 705 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:07.440 those things those bitcoin things and he goes yeah yeah and i don't i can't remember i i don't 706 00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:14.720 know what bitcoin started at but i'm it was literally new and he'd done ten thousand dollars 707 00:49:14.720 --> 00:49:21.360 u.s dollars into them they might have been three cents i don't know zero below the decimal i don't 708 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:28.720 know like wow he killed it and so he just yeah he just he's still in auckland now just 709 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:37.120 yeah i think he might be 23 24 now and yeah he did say though is that if i ever 710 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:42.960 did a missions trip and took young people overseas as an offering he didn't come to church nor did he 711 00:49:43.520 --> 00:49:47.840 to my knowledge receive christ but he said i love what you do with young people that 712 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:52.160 and if you ever want to take them overseas i'll pay for their tickets yeah so cool man 713 00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:55.040 that's amazing but it haunts me 714 00:49:57.520 --> 00:49:59.840 i know that thousand dollars yeah 715 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.920 Like, I don't know his number or nothing. 716 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:04.000 I'll probably, I'll give you a thousand dollars now, bro. 717 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:05.680 You know, like, yeah, yeah. 718 00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:07.400 But yeah, just people, I just want to encourage you. 719 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:10.800 I know it's frightening to try and, you know, 720 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:13.760 to invest into something that you don't understand. 721 00:50:15.160 --> 00:50:17.440 But yeah, just, it's worth it. 722 00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:18.280 It's worth it. 723 00:50:18.280 --> 00:50:20.520 And it'll just keep going up, you know, like, yeah. 724 00:50:20.520 --> 00:50:22.400 And you're listening to the right people. 725 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:23.240 Yeah. 726 00:50:23.240 --> 00:50:24.080 That's cool. 727 00:50:24.080 --> 00:50:26.000 We're going to bring it in for a close here, 728 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:31.000 but Leonard Ravenhill said the opportunity of a lifetime 729 00:50:31.200 --> 00:50:35.560 must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity, 730 00:50:38.040 --> 00:50:39.040 which is a real thing. 731 00:50:39.040 --> 00:50:40.840 You know, you do actually miss out sometimes. 732 00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:42.880 So that's what we're excited about 733 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:44.520 for the rest of the summit, 734 00:50:44.520 --> 00:50:46.480 helping everyone align, position, 735 00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:50.240 get ready for the opportunities that God's presenting to, 736 00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:52.640 you know, like, Ricky, I just love the story so much. 737 00:50:52.640 --> 00:50:55.040 You know, like just hearing some of your story, 738 00:50:55.040 --> 00:50:57.400 opportunities are available now to shape culture. 739 00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:01.080 Opportunities are available to carry the presence 740 00:51:01.080 --> 00:51:05.200 of the Holy Spirit into your marketplace city. 741 00:51:05.200 --> 00:51:08.240 Opportunities are available now to be creative. 742 00:51:08.240 --> 00:51:10.160 Opportunities are available now to, you know, 743 00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:11.920 to steward your personal gift, 744 00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:14.520 to, you know, to be that person of influence 745 00:51:14.520 --> 00:51:16.360 in your sphere of influence. 746 00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:18.640 Opportunities available in tech and business, 747 00:51:18.640 --> 00:51:19.480 all exploding. 748 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:23.920 So really, really pumped for the next couple of days 749 00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:24.840 with everyone. 750 00:51:25.640 --> 00:51:28.880 And we'll be jumping, we'll be live like straight away. 751 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.840 I'm going to basically send Nick the Zoom link, 752 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:33.840 and then we'll just be jumping straight back in here. 753 00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:36.720 But Rick, do you want to pray for us? 754 00:51:36.720 --> 00:51:38.720 And we just want to say thanks again, man. 755 00:51:38.720 --> 00:51:39.560 Such a blessing. 756 00:51:39.560 --> 00:51:41.720 And everyone's just absolutely loving this. 757 00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.160 So yeah, and I see a few questions here about NFT. 758 00:51:45.160 --> 00:51:46.200 So watch for tomorrow. 759 00:51:46.200 --> 00:51:47.960 We're going to be breaking that all down. 760 00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:49.960 You'll get it piece by piece and blow by blow, 761 00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:52.880 and you'll understand it a lot better. 762 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:54.480 So yeah, if you want to take it away, 763 00:51:55.120 --> 00:51:56.480 and once again, thanks so much, man. 764 00:51:56.480 --> 00:51:57.320 Sweetest. 765 00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:58.720 Yeah, no, it's an honor, Benji. 766 00:51:59.680 --> 00:52:01.120 Sebastian, it's an honor. 767 00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:06.080 So Lord, we just thank you for this awesome time. 768 00:52:06.080 --> 00:52:08.640 We just thank you for this amazing family. 769 00:52:08.640 --> 00:52:12.720 And Lord, we just, yeah, we just partner with you. 770 00:52:12.720 --> 00:52:14.040 Holy Spirit. 771 00:52:14.040 --> 00:52:18.000 And yeah, we just love you. 772 00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:18.840 We just love you. 773 00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:19.920 We just love you. 774 00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:23.080 And man, yeah, joy. 775 00:52:23.080 --> 00:52:25.240 Lord, I just release joy upon everyone. 776 00:52:25.240 --> 00:52:28.080 And yeah, you're just so amazing, Jesus. 777 00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:30.480 And just bless each and every person. 778 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:31.960 May they be equipped. 779 00:52:33.120 --> 00:52:36.680 And Lord, that you encourage them to step out in faith 780 00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:42.760 and to just, yeah, be amazing and just own it. 781 00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:43.680 Yeah. 782 00:52:46.160 --> 00:52:47.440 I don't have to laugh too much. 783 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:51.280 Yeah, joy, joy over you all. 784 00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:52.360 Come on, man. 785 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:53.200 Come on. 786 00:52:53.200 --> 00:52:55.040 Oh, thanks so much, bro. 787 00:52:55.040 --> 00:52:56.080 So stoked. 788 00:52:56.080 --> 00:52:59.600 Such a blessing to hear stories from your world. 789 00:52:59.600 --> 00:53:00.960 Always light me up. 790 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:03.680 And always stories I've never heard before as well. 791 00:53:03.680 --> 00:53:05.840 It's like exploding so much goodness. 792 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:07.800 So thank you so much for what you're carrying. 793 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:09.760 And I'm excited for my vinyl. 794 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:10.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. 795 00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:11.960 I can sign it too, bro. 796 00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:13.400 Yes, please. 797 00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:14.480 Yeah, yeah. 798 00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:15.680 All right, cool, man. 799 00:53:15.680 --> 00:53:16.520 See you. 800 00:53:16.520 --> 00:53:17.360 See you later. 801 00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:18.200 Thank you, bro.