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 --> 00:02:48.920 posting and they're dropping miracles. And it's like, well, who's this Ricky Paul guy with the 26 00:02:48.920 --> 00:02:56.040 craziest miracle stories ever? And so it's 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 teenager dude, 34 00:03:42.040 --> 00:03:49.400 or there's a whole group of young boys, teenage boys. And yeah, you know, all for the mongomob 35 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:56.200 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 and 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 00:04:15.560 --> 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 forward, Tāwhirimātea, blow wind, blow wind, 75 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:08.360 we tell you to blow wind, all that stuff. 76 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.280 They're doing it, screaming, yelling at us, 77 00:06:10.280 --> 00:06:11.480 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 --> 00:06:32.800 So I just, I said, bro, go up on that stage. 86 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:35.200 There's a little miniature stage in the corner 87 00:06:35.200 --> 00:06:38.320 of the community center or the classroom at the time. 88 00:06:38.320 --> 00:06:40.120 So I get them to go up on the stage. 89 00:06:41.640 --> 00:06:46.120 And so I just say, you know, Jesus, just, you know, 90 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.240 blow a bit of wind in here, type of thing. 91 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.360 And then all of us start feeling this breeze 92 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:51.760 going around our legs. 93 00:06:51.760 --> 00:06:55.080 And three of them, three of the five or six boys 94 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:57.880 just start going, whoa, I can feel it, I can feel it. 95 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.560 But the boy just hardens his heart. 96 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:01.760 So he's like, I can't feel nothing. 97 00:07:01.760 --> 00:07:03.640 Nah, nah, I can't feel nothing. 98 00:07:03.640 --> 00:07:05.720 And so if some of them are like, yeah. 99 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:07.040 So they sort of throw it off too, 100 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:08.960 because you're sort of like the leader of the group. 101 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:10.240 So they sort of shove it to the side. 102 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.120 Nah, nah, nah, actually, we can't feel nothing. 103 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:15.040 I was like, you fellas are lying, you fellas are lying. 104 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:15.880 You can feel that. 105 00:07:15.880 --> 00:07:18.800 So what happens is I say, do it again then. 106 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.640 So they do it, nothing happens. 107 00:07:21.640 --> 00:07:23.560 And then in the spirit, I feel, 108 00:07:24.760 --> 00:07:27.760 I see an angel flying up over me 109 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:32.120 and I felt the angel internally say to me, 110 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:33.360 move out of the way. 111 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.520 So I said, boys, there's an angel coming. 112 00:07:35.520 --> 00:07:38.680 So I move out of the way and a gush of wind just goes, 113 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.240 whoa, through the youth center, through the classroom. 114 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.560 And most of them feel it. 115 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.880 I think he still felt it, but he was just in denial. 116 00:07:47.880 --> 00:07:49.720 So he's like, nah, nah, nah, I didn't feel nothing. 117 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.760 And the boys are like, nah, nah, we felt something, bro. 118 00:07:51.760 --> 00:07:55.560 So he talks them out of their experience and stuff. 119 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:57.200 So he sort of hardens his heart. 120 00:07:58.640 --> 00:08:02.320 Fast track two weeks or so down. 121 00:08:02.320 --> 00:08:04.040 And what happens is he gets caught up in, 122 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.080 he steals a motorbike, this boy, 123 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:11.080 and he's in a mad police chase during school, 124 00:08:11.200 --> 00:08:12.720 I think it is from memory. 125 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.920 And what happened is he's going around town, 126 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.960 the cops catch him, but he's so full of adrenaline, 127 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:21.160 he tries to jump this area on the road 128 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.720 and a logging truck comes and smashes him. 129 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.800 But he goes flying in the air, falls off, 130 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:29.720 basically paralyzes himself from, 131 00:08:30.760 --> 00:08:34.320 I think from the back down, back or the waist down. 132 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:38.919 And so two weeks go on, 133 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:42.520 and my boss at the time in the organization 134 00:08:42.520 --> 00:08:45.240 is a bit edgy because of all the miracles 135 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.680 that are happening, and she doesn't want a bar of God. 136 00:08:47.680 --> 00:08:48.520 So they keep telling you, 137 00:08:48.520 --> 00:08:49.840 oh, that fella keeps praying for us, 138 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:50.880 he keeps praying for us. 139 00:08:50.880 --> 00:08:52.520 So I keep getting warnings, 140 00:08:52.520 --> 00:08:54.720 you're not to pray for people, not to pray for people. 141 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.640 I'm like, they asked for it, I'm not forcing it, 142 00:08:56.640 --> 00:08:58.080 you know, nothing. 143 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.600 And so what happens is the young guy calls my boss 144 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:03.840 and says, can Ricky come and pray for me 145 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:05.320 in the hospital during work? 146 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:08.560 So she comes up to me and she goes, 147 00:09:08.560 --> 00:09:10.400 Rick, again, I won't name him. 148 00:09:10.400 --> 00:09:15.360 The young guy would like you to go and pray for him. 149 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:16.720 I was like, oh, for real? 150 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.400 And she goes, yeah, like during work, 151 00:09:18.400 --> 00:09:20.600 this is the only time I'll let you pray for a client, 152 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:22.520 but that's only because he requested it. 153 00:09:22.520 --> 00:09:23.760 I hope you didn't influence it. 154 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:26.000 I said, no, I haven't even talked to him. 155 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.720 So I go out there, go to the hospital. 156 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:31.240 As soon as I'm in there, for some reason, 157 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.320 I've never really prayed like this. 158 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.840 I felt a little, I don't know, 159 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:38.240 I wouldn't know the feeling, 160 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.480 a bit firm and a bit, not stubborn, 161 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.240 but a bit staunch in the faith. 162 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:43.720 So he's looking at me, 163 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:45.920 he starts explaining his mother's there. 164 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:46.800 She just says, you know, 165 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:48.560 he's paralyzed from the waist down. 166 00:09:49.880 --> 00:09:51.480 He would love for you to pray for him. 167 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.960 So then I look at him and I call him by name 168 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:58.960 and I say, I thought the guy that I prayed to is his name. 169 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.600 isn't real. And he looks at me and he cries. And then he just 170 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.980 says, I think he is real. And I, for some reason, I just Yeah, I 171 00:10:10.980 --> 00:10:14.480 just was a bit firm with him. And I just said, Why is he real? 172 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.880 And he just said, I because all the stories that I hear around 173 00:10:18.880 --> 00:10:22.680 town, like when you pray for people, things happen. And then 174 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:27.160 he starts weeping. And then I see Jesus in the spirit on the 175 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:31.400 opposite side of his bed. And I say, Well, Jesus and I, yeah, I 176 00:10:31.400 --> 00:10:34.880 would have came across rude if I was watching it. If I was him, 177 00:10:34.880 --> 00:10:38.080 you know, like, and I just said to him, Jesus on the other side 178 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.160 of your bread, what beard? Why don't you tell him what you 179 00:10:40.160 --> 00:10:43.800 want? And so he just starts weeping. And there's probably 180 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:47.240 one of the most emotional prayers. I've got prayers I've 181 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:52.000 ever witnessed. And he starts crying. And he just goes, he's 182 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.120 just sobbing, Jesus, I'm sorry for what I've done. I'm such a 183 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:00.120 bad kid. I know you probably won't want to heal me. But 184 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.600 Jesus, I want to be able to play with my friends. I want to be 185 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.880 able to run around. I want to be able to ride motorbikes again. 186 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:10.160 And if you can do that for me, I'll believe you're real. And 187 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:13.520 it's just stops. And then I say, Is that your prayer? What you 188 00:11:13.520 --> 00:11:17.360 know to him? And he goes, Yep. I put my hand on his head. And 189 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:19.680 then I just say, Lord, I agree with him. And then I felt 190 00:11:20.160 --> 00:11:25.120 massive electricity just through my hand, goes through his head 191 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:29.240 right down to his neck, and his legs start shaking, crying and 192 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:33.080 stuff like, and he's like, I can feel my legs, I can feel my 193 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.640 legs, I can feel my legs. So he starts buzzing out. And I, his 194 00:11:36.640 --> 00:11:39.320 mum came in, she's weeping, saying thank you and all that. 195 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.960 And I feel to leave them. So just say, you know, call him by 196 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:46.440 name, just letting you know, I'll see you back at school. And 197 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:49.440 then within two, three weeks, he was in a wheelchair, but they 198 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:53.480 just slowly built him up. And then, uh, yeah, he just, he's 199 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:58.640 walking now. Mischief, mischief went back to his old ways. But 200 00:11:58.640 --> 00:12:02.440 you know, like, he, he can't deny that God moves and moves 201 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:05.920 in power. And so he tried to mock the youth again, when I was 202 00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:09.160 youth pastoring at the time and just said, Rick, God's not real. 203 00:12:09.160 --> 00:12:12.000 And then I just stopped him and just said, Bro, you remember 204 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:17.040 what happened to you? And then he goes, Oh, yeah, no, he's 205 00:12:17.040 --> 00:12:19.760 real. He's real. You can stay in there. Like you'd always mock 206 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:22.640 the church kids. Yeah. You guys are all right. You guys are 207 00:12:22.640 --> 00:12:27.280 right. That's the first one that came to my mind. Yeah. So 208 00:12:28.800 --> 00:12:36.480 I'm awesome. So cool. Yeah. So cool. Wow. So yeah, um, I, I 209 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:39.760 hear stories that that, you know, these miracle stories 210 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:43.640 hasn't haven't really stopped. Like, yeah, across your journey. 211 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:49.520 So and even even into recording studios and, and things like 212 00:12:49.520 --> 00:12:54.200 that, you want to, you know, let us in on what's recording 213 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.600 studios and all the all the inner workings? What's happening 214 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:58.160 right now? 215 00:12:58.800 --> 00:13:03.960 Yeah, yeah. So obviously, yeah, for those who don't know, yeah, 216 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:09.960 work in the recording industry. Yeah. Sorry, Ben. Yeah, I was 217 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.120 just gonna say just kind of, as you're starting that be great, 218 00:13:13.160 --> 00:13:16.200 great space now just to kind of share your what you're doing in 219 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.600 the industry. And then also tell us about your album. That's 220 00:13:20.760 --> 00:13:27.080 about to drop and, and how you know, like, what's the results 221 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:29.080 of it? What's happening with it? There's a lot of buzz around at 222 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.560 the moment. So be cool just to hear that and then hear as well 223 00:13:31.560 --> 00:13:32.880 what's been doing in the studio. 224 00:13:34.400 --> 00:13:37.320 Yeah, so I don't want to chew too much of the time. But in the 225 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.640 last five years, Benji is well aware as many of my close mates 226 00:13:40.640 --> 00:13:43.000 and it's public, I share the testimony, but it'll just chew 227 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.720 so much of the time. But basically, I had a crazy rough 228 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:51.240 patch, just morally foul made a fool of myself, but held myself 229 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:56.520 accountable. And just journey that whole process. And coming 230 00:13:56.520 --> 00:14:01.680 out of that, before COVID hit, I was struggling to find a job, 231 00:14:01.880 --> 00:14:07.920 like some people and in that I just cried and I said, God, I, I 232 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:12.880 got no skill, you know, all I know how to do is teach and 233 00:14:12.880 --> 00:14:15.680 preach and all that stuff. But because I'd stood down from 234 00:14:15.680 --> 00:14:19.440 ministry and was on a journey of healing, and reconciliation, 235 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:23.840 restoration and all that stuff. I just knew it wasn't time for 236 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.920 that. And so I just said, God, the only thing I know how to do 237 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:33.920 is make beats. And so if you can use that, and you open the doors 238 00:14:33.920 --> 00:14:37.440 up for that, I'll just jump in on that and literally in three 239 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:42.480 seconds, like, straight immediately, my phone goes off 240 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:47.760 and a guy, a very famous guy in the New Zealand music industry 241 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:51.880 says, is this Ricky Paul? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was 242 00:14:51.880 --> 00:14:55.560 actually in a tearful, quite a heartfelt moment with the world. 243 00:14:55.560 --> 00:14:58.840 So it was that fast. I was doing it, I was trying to like, oh, 244 00:14:58.840 --> 00:14:59.400 yeah, yeah, yeah. 245 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 246 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 247 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 248 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 249 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 250 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 251 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 252 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 253 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 254 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 255 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 256 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 257 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 258 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 259 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 260 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 261 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 262 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 263 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 264 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 265 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 266 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 267 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 268 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 269 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 270 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 271 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 272 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 273 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 274 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 275 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 276 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 277 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 278 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 279 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 280 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 281 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 282 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 283 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 284 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 285 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 286 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 287 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 288 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 289 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 290 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 291 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 292 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 293 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 294 00:19:55.280 --> 00:19:59.840 uh and my kingly role uh is the music industry and so 295 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.000 So everything I do there may look devilish, 296 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.560 even the cover, because it's a black on black cover. 297 00:20:08.560 --> 00:20:10.440 So I've had some Christian mates say, 298 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.680 oh man, black on black, that's so evil. 299 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:15.800 It looks so dark and it gives me a freaky feeling. 300 00:20:15.800 --> 00:20:19.920 I'm like, oh man, so that's a whole nother topic. 301 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.200 I can do a whole sermon just on all that stuff. 302 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:24.480 But yeah, so basically I went in, 303 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:26.360 it's called the golden era and the golden era, 304 00:20:26.360 --> 00:20:27.200 for those who don't know, 305 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.920 hip hop is a 90s, 2000s sound. 306 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:34.000 And I just felt God say that he wanted me 307 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:38.440 to revive the golden era. 308 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:41.160 And so I just jumped in and caught it, 309 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:44.600 the golden era, season one, the golden era album. 310 00:20:44.600 --> 00:20:45.840 I even caught it, you know, 311 00:20:45.840 --> 00:20:48.160 that and so just finding the golden people. 312 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:51.720 And so I just honed in on that and a lot of artists. 313 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:55.920 And I have a lot of international artists on the album, 314 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:58.160 but I took them off because I felt God say, 315 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:02.080 I wanted you to start with the New Zealanders. 316 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.840 Go and find what they call the legends in rap or hip hop 317 00:21:07.840 --> 00:21:10.880 from the 90s, 2000s and revive them. 318 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.400 So I just went on a massive mission to get them, 319 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.080 which it's very hard to collect those. 320 00:21:17.080 --> 00:21:19.040 And so people in hip hop, that's where the hype is 321 00:21:19.040 --> 00:21:22.360 because it's quite a hard album, 322 00:21:22.360 --> 00:21:25.360 near impossible album to pull off in New Zealand 323 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.520 with those names on there. 324 00:21:27.520 --> 00:21:30.640 And so I've just had massive favor in doing that, 325 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:32.760 but yeah, that's called the golden era. 326 00:21:32.760 --> 00:21:35.160 And so God, like a lot of other Christians, 327 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.360 has just been speaking to me, 328 00:21:37.360 --> 00:21:40.960 downloading Revelation to me via the whole 2-2, 329 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:43.760 the Kia David stuff and, you know, 330 00:21:43.760 --> 00:21:45.320 magic on that. 331 00:21:45.320 --> 00:21:48.640 It's due to be released, isn't it? 332 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:49.480 On Tuesday, right? 333 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:52.680 Which is the 22nd of the 2nd, 2022? 334 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:54.560 Yeah, 2-2, 2-2-2. 335 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:56.520 Here's a fun thing, 336 00:21:56.520 --> 00:21:59.440 is that we're booked in for a C-section. 337 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:01.320 We're booked in for a C-section for Alana 338 00:22:01.320 --> 00:22:02.840 on Tuesday as well. 339 00:22:02.840 --> 00:22:04.000 Oh, wow, wow. 340 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:06.960 Oh, that's crazy. 341 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.200 Yeah, so that's kind of exciting. 342 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:11.480 I've been thinking about your date there as well 343 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:13.720 as we've kind of been building towards that. 344 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:16.360 Yeah, I was pretty dumb because like, 345 00:22:16.360 --> 00:22:17.440 oh, it's cool at the same time. 346 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:19.160 Kanye's decided to drop his album 347 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:22.320 on the 22nd of the 2nd, 2022, you know? 348 00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:23.160 Ah. 349 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:24.840 So I'm trying to, 350 00:22:24.840 --> 00:22:27.320 I'm lucky that New Zealand is like 16 hours 351 00:22:27.320 --> 00:22:28.440 or whatever it is ahead of them. 352 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:33.440 So I may go, stay, go number one for like 10 hours 353 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.120 and then he'll just swipe me off. 354 00:22:36.120 --> 00:22:37.160 Yeah, yeah. 355 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:38.160 But it's cool, yeah. 356 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:39.440 So that's the golden era. 357 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:44.440 And going back to Seb's question, 358 00:22:46.280 --> 00:22:48.560 in amongst those recording sessions, 359 00:22:48.560 --> 00:22:50.920 I've sat down with a lot of the artists 360 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:56.440 and a lot of them are gang members and stuff. 361 00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:59.880 And real, they can come across, 362 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:01.160 some of them are real street guys, 363 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:03.960 like actual gangsters that get into the whole, 364 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:07.320 try not to divulge, you know, 365 00:23:07.320 --> 00:23:11.040 but shooting and stuff and real crime. 366 00:23:11.040 --> 00:23:15.640 And I've just had to learn how to navigate in that too 367 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.800 when I was sitting around people who just pulling out, 368 00:23:19.080 --> 00:23:24.080 cocaine and large amounts of money and guns and stuff. 369 00:23:25.320 --> 00:23:30.320 And so, yeah, I just, one, I don't act like a gangster. 370 00:23:31.040 --> 00:23:34.160 Two, I know I'm not a gangster and I just keep it music, 371 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:38.240 but it's awesome because a lot of them always ask, 372 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:39.640 and it's quite an organic thing 373 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:42.760 as we're back in the days or several years ago, 374 00:23:42.760 --> 00:23:45.240 I would always go in there again with the whole, 375 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:46.880 oh, I've got to see God move. 376 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:51.880 And, you know, sort of force something with the gift. 377 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:55.560 And yeah, but they just come in natural and just, 378 00:23:55.560 --> 00:23:57.360 hey bro, like, what are you doing on the weekends? 379 00:23:57.360 --> 00:23:59.760 You know, like, do you go to the strippers or something? 380 00:23:59.760 --> 00:24:02.680 I'm like, nah, bro, nah, I don't do that. 381 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:03.640 Oh, well, what do you do? 382 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:05.880 I just, oh, I go to church and stuff. 383 00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:06.720 Hey, for real. 384 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:09.160 And so they'll just give their whole view of God 385 00:24:12.560 --> 00:24:14.400 or the slave master. 386 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:18.160 So yeah, a different God, if we put it that way, 387 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:19.560 but their view of him. 388 00:24:19.560 --> 00:24:23.080 And so it's just amazing that God would just put me 389 00:24:23.080 --> 00:24:23.920 in that place. 390 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.680 And by then, usually I'll just, you know, 391 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.680 with wisdom, kindness, just say, 392 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:31.920 hey bro, you're just letting you know 393 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:35.360 that that's the wrong, that's a different God, bro. 394 00:24:35.360 --> 00:24:36.200 Like, you know, that's, 395 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:37.760 you and I are talking about a different God. 396 00:24:37.760 --> 00:24:39.840 And so then I talked to him about, 397 00:24:39.840 --> 00:24:43.040 told him about Jesus and, you know, 398 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:46.000 if you haven't seen Jesus say it, do it, 399 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:47.040 then it's not from God. 400 00:24:47.040 --> 00:24:49.280 So I just give them a little, 401 00:24:49.280 --> 00:24:50.960 the difference between him and the prophets 402 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:53.760 or him and Moses and those under the law. 403 00:24:53.760 --> 00:24:56.640 And just sort of, it's crazy. 404 00:24:56.640 --> 00:24:58.000 Like a couple of my mates, 405 00:24:58.000 --> 00:24:59.000 one of them is watching now, 406 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:00.160 he's an Indian. 407 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:01.320 engineer, recording engineer. 408 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:04.960 Yeah, hey, bro, I don't want to call him out. 409 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:10.080 You know who you are? And so, yeah, so he would go into the 410 00:25:10.080 --> 00:25:13.640 sessions after me on some of them with these. I don't even 411 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:17.200 like calling them gang members, but artists. And so you just 412 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:20.480 say, bro, they're talking about God and how God is kind. And 413 00:25:20.800 --> 00:25:23.280 he's different to how our dads raised us, you know, even though 414 00:25:23.280 --> 00:25:26.280 they'll give us a hiding and all that stuff. So it's really cool 415 00:25:26.280 --> 00:25:32.520 to see God do that. But I've been in other sessions where God 416 00:25:32.520 --> 00:25:37.880 will break out by healings. And there was one where I was asked 417 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:42.760 to produce a movie soundtrack, a big movie soundtrack. And so as 418 00:25:42.760 --> 00:25:46.800 I went into the recording session to produce, someone as a 419 00:25:46.800 --> 00:25:51.320 joke just said, Oh, this guy was a pastor, get him to pray. And 420 00:25:51.320 --> 00:25:54.920 so I was like, Oh, yeah. So I sort of quickly pounced on it. 421 00:25:55.120 --> 00:25:57.360 So so yeah, I'll pray. Okay, everyone take your hats off. 422 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:04.320 They took their hats off. And so you had two CEOs of, I won't 423 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:09.040 say which labels, but very big labels. You hit one of the guys 424 00:26:09.040 --> 00:26:11.680 who's part of the director's team and all this stuff, because 425 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.520 they wanted the movie obviously, to match the visuals and the 426 00:26:15.520 --> 00:26:20.800 soundtrack to match all this and all that. So they all took their 427 00:26:20.800 --> 00:26:24.400 hats off. And so I was a bit shocked. I was sort of joking. 428 00:26:25.280 --> 00:26:27.520 So they all got their hats off. I've got the photo on my phone. 429 00:26:27.520 --> 00:26:30.720 But some people will know who a lot of these people are if I 430 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:35.680 show the photo. And so I just closed my eyes. And I just 431 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:38.880 prayed what I would think is a normal prayer. So Holy Spirit 432 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:43.440 come. And to be honest, I just try to do a generic one. Because 433 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.600 it caught me off guard that they were that easy to, you know, 434 00:26:45.600 --> 00:26:49.600 sort of like, set up for prayer. So be set for prayer. So I just 435 00:26:49.600 --> 00:26:51.520 said, Jesus, I just pray that you come, you know, that you 436 00:26:51.600 --> 00:26:54.560 guide all the musicians that we have an amazing thing that the 437 00:26:54.560 --> 00:26:59.280 movie does well, and all that. And one guy starts crying. And 438 00:26:59.280 --> 00:27:04.160 he's a famous thing. And he just starts saying, man, I haven't 439 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:07.200 felt that feeling since Sunday school, when I used to go to 440 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:10.720 Sunday school as a kid, I don't believe in God now. But when I 441 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:13.600 was in Sunday school, it's that same feeling. My parents went to 442 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:16.160 this whole like talking with this funny language like 443 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:19.840 tongues. So another guy goes, another artist goes, I've heard 444 00:27:20.080 --> 00:27:26.240 this stuff. So I'm sitting there, and I'm not really 445 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.720 engaging. I'm just sort of, again, still buzzing out there. 446 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:33.120 They let me pray for the session. And so another artist 447 00:27:33.120 --> 00:27:37.120 comes in, he walks in. And he just looks around and people are 448 00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:40.880 just still talking about the language. And he just goes, 449 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:47.680 yo, this feels like a church in here. But what's been going on 450 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.720 there just feels like a church. My mom's a pastor. So this guy 451 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.000 and I didn't even know the guy was a pastor. He goes, I was a 452 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.760 pastor. It feels like a church. And it feels like one of those 453 00:27:57.760 --> 00:27:59.760 ones where people fall over one of those churches. 454 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.360 So I'm just sitting there. And so one guy goes, Oh, you know, 455 00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:08.080 since you were a pastor and all that stuff, like, what are we 456 00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:11.280 feeling? So I just start talking about the Holy Spirit and all 457 00:28:11.280 --> 00:28:15.120 that stuff. So we're meant to start recording around 10 458 00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:18.320 o'clock. It's nine, we didn't stop talking about God till 459 00:28:18.320 --> 00:28:23.200 about 1130. And then what happened is one of the artists 460 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:26.480 goes out for smoke. And we're meant to do this hardcore 461 00:28:27.360 --> 00:28:30.560 swearing track, you know, like quite an explicit type of track 462 00:28:30.560 --> 00:28:33.280 is what they wanted for the certain scene, or the end of the 463 00:28:33.280 --> 00:28:37.840 film, I think for the score or whatever. And so the guy comes 464 00:28:37.840 --> 00:28:40.240 back and he comes, he walks in and goes, I think I've got the 465 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:43.840 chorus in 10 minutes. So he goes in there and he starts singing. 466 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:47.920 I don't really want to sing it too, because some people might 467 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.200 go, Oh, he's talking about this guy and all these people. So 468 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:56.800 he starts singing basically about God. And he starts talking 469 00:28:56.800 --> 00:29:01.280 about how he had a moment in his life where God felt like God 470 00:29:01.280 --> 00:29:05.200 wasn't there. But if anything, he's here closer than what we 471 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:09.760 think, top of the thing. He hasn't felt that since Sunday 472 00:29:09.760 --> 00:29:12.080 school, he was the first one that identified that God wasn't 473 00:29:12.080 --> 00:29:17.520 out something. And so he starts weeping and other guy, the big 474 00:29:17.520 --> 00:29:22.000 one of the big CEOs walks in the main guy of this big record 475 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:25.040 company in Australasia, New Zealand, Australia, all that 476 00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:28.640 stuff, Southern Hemisphere. He comes in because it's the first 477 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:32.640 movie to come out of this, you know, with a big multi million 478 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.720 dollar budget of this sort around music. And so he walks 479 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:41.840 in. And some people, the guy, the other producer that was in 480 00:29:41.840 --> 00:29:44.480 the room said he'll probably trash it because it's talking 481 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.520 about God. And I was like, Yeah, and I naturally thought, 482 00:29:47.520 --> 00:29:52.400 Oh, yeah, they probably won't. So he walks in, and he hears 483 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.200 the chorus going over and over. And he starts going off by 484 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:59.840 bombing his head. That's a smash. That's a hit. That's going 485 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 486 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 487 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 488 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 489 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 490 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.600 i'll just sorry mate 491 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 492 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:45.680 you're talking about me bro 493 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 494 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 495 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 496 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 497 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 498 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 499 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 500 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 501 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 502 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 503 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 504 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 505 00:32:03.520 --> 00:32:09.600 big singers um uh shucks i can't even think of any 506 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 507 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 508 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 509 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 510 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 511 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 512 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 513 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 514 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 515 00:33:13.760 --> 00:33:19.920 of music uh able to start shaping culture now yeah like it's um 516 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:26.240 i do i do actually encounter a lot of christians in 517 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 518 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 519 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 520 00:33:52.960 --> 00:34:00.080 um music industry and sleeping with multiple women and so he always tried to encourage me 521 00:34:00.800 --> 00:34:06.640 because he felt bad that i was so good in some ways yeah and so 522 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 523 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 524 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 525 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 526 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 527 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 528 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 529 00:34:54.400 --> 00:35:00.000 even though it wasn't the recommended route for me to get there um because of 530 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.780 my previous journey when I come out of the last five years and hitting absolute 531 00:35:03.780 --> 00:35:08.780 rock bottom. And I just sort of learned my boundaries. 532 00:35:09.380 --> 00:35:12.780 I learned boundaries a lot. Yeah. Yeah. 533 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. 534 00:35:19.980 --> 00:35:23.740 And learning the boundaries when I'm in those circles, we have got, you know, 535 00:35:24.260 --> 00:35:28.740 woman galore around alcohol, money, cocaine, 536 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.000 drugs, all that stuff. 537 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:35.720 The moment I feel my heart pull or I get tempted to try it, 538 00:35:35.720 --> 00:35:37.860 I quickly put it down. I've learned to put a boundary. 539 00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:41.760 There's a gracious moment where I just have to hop down and say, Hey guys, 540 00:35:42.160 --> 00:35:46.540 see you tomorrow. Done my job. Like, you know, and all that stuff. 541 00:35:46.540 --> 00:35:49.560 And they actually, they actually respect you for a day. 542 00:35:49.560 --> 00:35:51.780 And so in doing that, 543 00:35:51.780 --> 00:35:54.840 a lot of some Christians have come clean on me and just, Oh bro, you know, 544 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.940 it turns into like repentance sessions and profiles like you, 545 00:35:59.780 --> 00:36:03.340 all that stuff. And, but the church don't like me, the church judged me. 546 00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:08.220 And so, um, you know, the devil will happily receive the church's rejects, 547 00:36:08.220 --> 00:36:09.060 you know? So like, 548 00:36:10.780 --> 00:36:15.340 so they just get stuck in that cycle. And as much as I'm, 549 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.340 I guess I'm caught in there to set the captors free, you know, 550 00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:24.420 it's also to set the Christians free as well. Not saying that I'm, 551 00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:28.980 I'm the same. I get it, man. Yeah. It's crazy how many are in there, 552 00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:31.860 but some of them are scared to be honest. Um, 553 00:36:32.180 --> 00:36:36.540 but what I shared to some of those guys or some of my friends in the industry 554 00:36:36.540 --> 00:36:40.940 is they actually respect you. They don't like the whole Bible bashing component, 555 00:36:40.940 --> 00:36:43.680 you know, like forcing yourself or your theology or, 556 00:36:44.700 --> 00:36:49.020 but they respect you a lot more. And they actually, um, if anything, 557 00:36:49.020 --> 00:36:50.900 they enforce the boundaries on your behalf too. 558 00:36:50.900 --> 00:36:55.880 Like I've been in moments where gang members or artists will force cocaine 559 00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:57.680 or certain drugs on me. 560 00:36:57.680 --> 00:37:00.440 And other artists who know that I'm a Christian will go in there and just say, 561 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:04.200 bro, don't, don't hear the offer him that that guy loves God, bro. 562 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:06.640 And if you miss his life, I will miss you up. 563 00:37:10.640 --> 00:37:13.840 So they end up, they start fighting on behalf of my righteousness, you know? 564 00:37:16.520 --> 00:37:18.040 That's awesome. Yeah. 565 00:37:18.060 --> 00:37:18.900 That's so cool. 566 00:37:20.460 --> 00:37:23.420 Yeah. That was awesome, man. That was so good. 567 00:37:24.540 --> 00:37:26.380 So cool, man. I, you know, 568 00:37:26.500 --> 00:37:29.820 it's something that something that I've kind of seen a little bit recently. Um, 569 00:37:29.900 --> 00:37:34.140 and I know you're, you're dabbling in the space a little while, but, um, 570 00:37:35.220 --> 00:37:39.340 but for example, just this kind of merging of, um, 571 00:37:39.540 --> 00:37:42.580 merging tech business, um, 572 00:37:42.620 --> 00:37:46.740 within the music industry happening right now, like the Snoop dog, you know, 573 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:51.280 you sold $44 million worth of NFTs, um, and this week, 574 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:54.240 uh, which is a little nuts. Um, I know you've got, 575 00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:58.640 I think you've got some, um, NFTs in the work as well. And so, you know, 576 00:37:58.640 --> 00:38:03.420 what's, um, you speak to what you're seeing and that just at the trend of the 577 00:38:03.420 --> 00:38:07.280 emergence of, you know, as, as, as culture explodes, as, 578 00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:09.640 as things explode, uh, how, you know, 579 00:38:09.640 --> 00:38:13.440 business is kind of taking a forefront inside and said the music industry and, 580 00:38:13.500 --> 00:38:15.780 and, and tell us about your NFT project too. 581 00:38:16.660 --> 00:38:22.060 Yeah. Yeah. No, cool. So my one's still, uh, I guess we're still, um, 582 00:38:23.780 --> 00:38:27.740 I'm sort of, I'm still deciding, I guess, what route I want to go with, um, 583 00:38:27.780 --> 00:38:32.780 my NFT, but, um, yeah, it's amazing. Like if anything, 584 00:38:33.700 --> 00:38:37.420 you know, mindful in my heart goes out to those who have hit a, 585 00:38:37.860 --> 00:38:42.660 a hard place financially or they've lost their jobs and all that stuff. 586 00:38:42.680 --> 00:38:46.160 And I guess, you know, the world, uh, 587 00:38:47.120 --> 00:38:48.660 in the world's economy or whatever, you know, 588 00:38:49.160 --> 00:38:52.240 economic system that isn't working to or looking to good, you know, 589 00:38:52.240 --> 00:38:55.760 or too bright. But, uh, for me, 590 00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:59.120 like I've just taken a whole different stance and if anything, 591 00:38:59.120 --> 00:39:03.040 I think it's we're in the best times to make money, you know, like, uh, 592 00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:06.200 I'm really, really excited, um, 593 00:39:07.560 --> 00:39:11.800 about all these opportunities and obviously NFTs are another opportunity for 594 00:39:11.820 --> 00:39:12.820 people to make a lot of money. 595 00:39:12.820 --> 00:39:16.340 It's beautiful for the artists or for guys like myself. Um, 596 00:39:16.780 --> 00:39:19.980 because I guess the same way that cryptocurrency, 597 00:39:20.300 --> 00:39:23.340 I don't know if a threat is right word, but it sort of is like, 598 00:39:23.620 --> 00:39:26.140 as a threat to the banks, the banking systems, 599 00:39:26.140 --> 00:39:30.180 it's the same way that NFTs are to the recording industry, um, 600 00:39:30.200 --> 00:39:32.940 because it cuts out all the middlemen. And so, you know, 601 00:39:32.940 --> 00:39:37.940 you're no longer an artist who's going to keep you bound and own all your 602 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:41.520 property, intellectual property for 10, 30 years, you know? 603 00:39:43.160 --> 00:39:46.440 You now get to put that out there and make all the money and connect with all 604 00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:47.280 your fans. 605 00:39:48.520 --> 00:39:49.360 The middleman. 606 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.880 Yeah. It's awesome. Awesome to see like, you know, just the, 607 00:39:55.200 --> 00:39:58.240 when you start having the decentralized conversation, you know, 608 00:39:58.240 --> 00:39:59.920 anything starts to be possible. 609 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. 610 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:28.000 Yeah, all those greedy corporations, it's crazy what they lock you into. 611 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.000 They're even worse than the banks. 612 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:33.000 Yeah. 613 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... 614 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:49.000 No way. That's awesome. 615 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.000 I got like eight of them. I got them for like $30, those ones, I think. 616 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.000 What are they worth now? 617 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.000 They're worth heaps. 618 00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:00.000 Give a rough ballpark on what they're going for now. 619 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:03.000 I don't know. So he made $44 million. Was it $44 million? 620 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:04.000 Yeah. 621 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. 622 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. 623 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.000 Yeah. 624 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. 625 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:33.000 Yeah. 626 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:34.000 Hey Benji. 627 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:36.000 Yeah man, he was on a little while ago. 628 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. 629 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. 630 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. 631 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. 632 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. 633 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. 634 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. 635 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. 636 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.000 Three or five mix, which is quite a beefy song. 637 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:01.000 But yeah, it was 23 minutes, 22 minutes, actually. 638 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. 639 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:11.000 The length, I have someone sit there for 22 minutes. 640 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:14.000 So, yeah, so I did that. 641 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. 642 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. 643 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. 644 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. 645 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. 646 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:03.000 But also they become like my 12 disciples. 647 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. 648 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. 649 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.000 It's just because I'm still doing the vinyl. 650 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000 There's such a lot of work and I don't have a team. 651 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.000 It's only me doing it. 652 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. 653 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.000 That's awesome, man. 654 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:36.000 Hey, I know that we're going to actually be, what is it? 655 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.000 We've got it coming up tomorrow. 656 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. 657 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.000 So we'll unpack. 658 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.000 If you didn't know what an NFT is, we'll unpack that more and more. 659 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:53.000 Rookie, real quick, because we've got to bring it in for a landing now. 660 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. 661 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:00.000 I just love it. 662 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 663 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 664 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 665 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 666 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 667 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 668 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 669 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 670 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 671 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 672 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 673 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 674 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 675 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 676 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 677 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 678 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 679 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 680 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 681 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 682 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 683 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 684 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 685 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 686 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 687 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 688 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 689 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 690 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 691 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 692 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 693 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 694 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 695 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 696 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 697 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 698 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 699 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 700 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 701 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 702 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 703 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 704 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 705 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 706 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 707 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 708 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 709 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 710 00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:55.040 that's amazing but it haunts me 711 00:49:57.520 --> 00:49:59.840 i know that thousand dollars yeah 712 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.920 Like, I don't know his number or nothing. 713 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:04.000 I'll probably, I'll give you a thousand dollars now, bro. 714 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:05.680 You know, like, yeah, yeah. 715 00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:07.400 But yeah, just people, I just want to encourage you. 716 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:10.800 I know it's frightening to try and, you know, 717 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:13.760 to invest into something that you don't understand. 718 00:50:15.160 --> 00:50:17.440 But yeah, just, it's worth it. 719 00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:18.280 It's worth it. 720 00:50:18.280 --> 00:50:20.520 And it'll just keep going up, you know, like, yeah. 721 00:50:20.520 --> 00:50:22.400 And you're listening to the right people. 722 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:23.240 Yeah. 723 00:50:23.240 --> 00:50:24.080 That's cool. 724 00:50:24.080 --> 00:50:26.000 We're going to bring it in for a close here, 725 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:31.000 but Leonard Ravenhill said the opportunity of a lifetime 726 00:50:31.200 --> 00:50:35.560 must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity, 727 00:50:38.040 --> 00:50:39.040 which is a real thing. 728 00:50:39.040 --> 00:50:40.840 You know, you do actually miss out sometimes. 729 00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:42.880 So that's what we're excited about 730 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:44.520 for the rest of the summit, 731 00:50:44.520 --> 00:50:46.480 helping everyone align, position, 732 00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:50.240 get ready for the opportunities that God's presenting to, 733 00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:52.640 you know, like, Ricky, I just love the story so much. 734 00:50:52.640 --> 00:50:55.040 You know, like just hearing some of your story, 735 00:50:55.040 --> 00:50:57.400 opportunities are available now to shape culture. 736 00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:01.080 Opportunities are available to carry the presence 737 00:51:01.080 --> 00:51:05.200 of the Holy Spirit into your marketplace city. 738 00:51:05.200 --> 00:51:08.240 Opportunities are available now to be creative. 739 00:51:08.240 --> 00:51:10.160 Opportunities are available now to, you know, 740 00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:11.920 to steward your personal gift, 741 00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:14.520 to, you know, to be that person of influence 742 00:51:14.520 --> 00:51:16.360 in your sphere of influence. 743 00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:18.640 Opportunities available in tech and business, 744 00:51:18.640 --> 00:51:19.480 all exploding. 745 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:23.920 So really, really pumped for the next couple of days 746 00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:24.840 with everyone. 747 00:51:25.640 --> 00:51:28.880 And we'll be jumping, we'll be live like straight away. 748 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.840 I'm going to basically send Nick the Zoom link, 749 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:33.840 and then we'll just be jumping straight back in here. 750 00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:36.720 But Rick, do you want to pray for us? 751 00:51:36.720 --> 00:51:38.720 And we just want to say thanks again, man. 752 00:51:38.720 --> 00:51:39.560 Such a blessing. 753 00:51:39.560 --> 00:51:41.720 And everyone's just absolutely loving this. 754 00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.160 So yeah, and I see a few questions here about NFT. 755 00:51:45.160 --> 00:51:46.200 So watch for tomorrow. 756 00:51:46.200 --> 00:51:47.960 We're going to be breaking that all down. 757 00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:49.960 You'll get it piece by piece and blow by blow, 758 00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:52.880 and you'll understand it a lot better. 759 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:54.480 So yeah, if you want to take it away, 760 00:51:55.120 --> 00:51:56.480 and once again, thanks so much, man. 761 00:51:56.480 --> 00:51:57.320 Sweetest. 762 00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:58.720 Yeah, no, it's an honor, Benji. 763 00:51:59.680 --> 00:52:01.120 Sebastian, it's an honor. 764 00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:06.080 So Lord, we just thank you for this awesome time. 765 00:52:06.080 --> 00:52:08.640 We just thank you for this amazing family. 766 00:52:08.640 --> 00:52:12.720 And Lord, we just, yeah, we just partner with you. 767 00:52:12.720 --> 00:52:14.040 Holy Spirit. 768 00:52:14.040 --> 00:52:18.000 And yeah, we just love you. 769 00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:18.840 We just love you. 770 00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:19.920 We just love you. 771 00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:23.080 And man, yeah, joy. 772 00:52:23.080 --> 00:52:25.240 Lord, I just release joy upon everyone. 773 00:52:25.240 --> 00:52:28.080 And yeah, you're just so amazing, Jesus. 774 00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:30.480 And just bless each and every person. 775 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:31.960 May they be equipped. 776 00:52:33.120 --> 00:52:36.680 And Lord, that you encourage them to step out in faith 777 00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:42.760 and to just, yeah, be amazing and just own it. 778 00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:43.680 Yeah. 779 00:52:46.160 --> 00:52:47.440 I don't have to laugh too much. 780 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:51.280 Yeah, joy, joy over you all. 781 00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:52.360 Come on, man. 782 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:53.200 Come on. 783 00:52:53.200 --> 00:52:55.040 Oh, thanks so much, bro. 784 00:52:55.040 --> 00:52:56.080 So stoked. 785 00:52:56.080 --> 00:52:59.600 Such a blessing to hear stories from your world. 786 00:52:59.600 --> 00:53:00.960 Always light me up. 787 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:03.680 And always stories I've never heard before as well. 788 00:53:03.680 --> 00:53:05.840 It's like exploding so much goodness. 789 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:07.800 So thank you so much for what you're carrying. 790 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:09.760 And I'm excited for my vinyl. 791 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:10.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. 792 00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:11.960 I can sign it too, bro. 793 00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:13.400 Yes, please. 794 00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:14.480 Yeah, yeah. 795 00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:15.680 All right, cool, man. 796 00:53:15.680 --> 00:53:16.520 See you. 797 00:53:16.520 --> 00:53:17.360 See you later. 798 00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:18.200 Thank you, bro.