Speaker 1:
0:00
this week, on this episode of the podcast, we had a guest, a special, another special guest that joined us here at the Killer B Studios.
Speaker 2:
0:06
Yes, it was CCM artist Jason Gray Jason.
Speaker 1:
0:12
Gray yes.
Speaker 2:
0:13
You didn't get his name wrong.
Speaker 1:
0:15
I didn't. But you know, I talked to some people beforehand and they're like yeah, is that, is that John Brown? Or well, there's another one. I told you Joe Gord, is Joe Gord coming tonight? I'm like Joe Gord Is.
Speaker 2:
0:27
Joe Gord Is Jason Gray. You got a taste of what it feels like of us with you.
Speaker 1:
0:35
Jason came and joined us and he shared the importance of finding rest during this Christmas season. I know this episode is going to drop right before Christmas, so if you're kind of caught up in the busyness of all the holiday seasons right now, I think this is going to be a great episode for you to listen to. I don't know if this is going to make the cut Met Olivia, but wasn't it cool. Jason actually debuted a brand new song here, live at the Killer B Studios, I believe the song, if I remember right, was called Be Kind.
Speaker 2:
1:08
Yes, it was. It's an amazing song that I think everyone needs to really listen to.
Speaker 1:
1:14
the lyrics of Now I want to give everybody a heads up, before we jump into the podcast, that we did keep just a small sample clip of each one of the songs that Jason performed in the podcast. Now the audio quality is not great. It has nothing to do with Jason, it has all to do with the technology right now. So the guitar sounds a little tinny, but we wanted to make sure you had the opportunity to hear a sample of Jason's music, in case you have never heard of Jason Gray. So if you enjoy what you hear on the podcast, make sure you go check out Jason Gray on Spotify or YouTube music or whatever platform you like to stream your music on. Well, with that, let's go and jump into the episode. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Killer B Studios. We're so excited. Everybody's here. We're so excited you're all here, thank you. Thank you so much for all your patience. Here's Jason. Jason Gray is here.
Speaker 1:
2:06
We have some problems with his controllers. Like you guys, imagine what it's like to bring a guest and it's never been on an Oculus and their controller, the triggers they stop working. How do you do that? So, but, jason, thanks for thanks for coming out and joining us tonight.
Speaker 5:
2:26
Absolutely. It brought me back to the times that I tried to play video games with my son and just like, just old and slow.
Speaker 1:
2:42
Old is slow. Well, we're super excited to hear I mean, you guys have to give him some confetti. Like usually we bring out the game. So, jason, let me give you some insight. Usually we bring out. We're like, hey, all right, everybody, please welcome our guest, jason Gray, to the Killer B Studios and let's rain him with some confetti. Rain him. Let's rain him, so hey all right, see, yes, we got to give you the full experience here.
Speaker 5:
3:08
Appreciate that. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:
3:11
All right, that's the end of the show. You guys, thank you. Thank you for all.
Speaker 6:
3:14
Now, I'm just joking, that's not the end of the show.
Speaker 1:
3:18
You guys haven't learned the meta safety distance yet. You guys are getting like okay, jason is like the. We have this thing, jason, we call meta age. You're the meta age of like one, like 30 seconds.
Speaker 5:
3:30
Maybe less than one.
Speaker 2:
3:33
Yeah, maybe less than one.
Speaker 1:
3:35
Yeah, All right. Well, you got. We're definitely. We're super excited that you're here Tonight, guys. I asked Jason to come because I love his heart and I love his story. How many people here has heard Jason's music before? Have you guys ever heard Jason Gray's music before? Okay, yeah, so we do. We have some people who are?
Speaker 5:
3:51
that's heard?
Speaker 1:
3:51
Thank you. Thank you very much and any of you that have not. Jason, you want to let them know how, like what's the best way they can find you and connect with you on social media and stuff.
Speaker 5:
4:00
Oh, you know, just if you Google my name I'm sure you'll find your way to me, you know, but like Spotify, itunes, youtube, all the normal places- and is Jason Gray with an A G-R-A-Y?
Speaker 1:
4:18
Have anybody wondered like how do you spell the gray? Is it J? Is it G-R-A-Y or G-R-E-Y? I always get G-R-A-Y, g-r-a-y. All right, yeah, right. So tonight I asked Jason if he would come and join us to talk about rest. I know you got a song, a Christmas song. You're a little of a Christmas tour right now right, I am, that's true.
Speaker 5:
4:44
It's a tour that I do each year with my son, who probably would have been able to navigate all this better than me, or if he'd been here. You know like I'm usually asking him like, how do I work my printer? You know, and he's like printer, what's one of those?
Speaker 1:
5:03
As we talk about rest, finding rest during this season, how many of you feel like right now in the season, everything's just like go, go, go. Any of you? Can you relate to that? Yeah, okay, cool, cool, olivia. How about yourself, would you say? You get a little overwhelmed during this time of the year.
Speaker 2:
5:23
Absolutely so overwhelmed. For sure. I feel like this is the first time since, like 2019, where it feels like life is like back to normal and it's just crazy, crazy busy.
Speaker 1:
5:38
I have to say, meta Olivia, I'm pretty shocked that you showed up dressed up in that. I've seen people's avatars of Christmas hats. Now I don't know if you guys know, but she has a outfit, a Christmas sweater, for every day up to Christmas and today, if you check out on social media, she has a whole costume on ears and everything.
Speaker 2:
5:57
Yeah, I know, and that it can get exhausting.
Speaker 1:
6:02
You have to wear a costume every day, so yeah, well, I know like for me, we're traveling right now and I know, jason, you're in the middle of a tour and I have to admit that I've been kind of feeling like I just need a break. I was actually just on a meeting today with some friends in business and just run different businesses, and one of them said I like to take a whole week off before the new year, just me and my wife, and just kind of refresh ourselves for the new year. And I'm like man, you got me thinking like gosh. I need to do that. I need to do that, jason, as we get ready to, I want to hand this over to you to share your thoughts about rest, but before would you take about 30 seconds and just let everybody know a little bit about yourself, who you are, since some of these people don't even know who you are yet.
Speaker 5:
6:55
Yeah, sure, I'm a singer, a songwriter. If you've never seen me before, one of the things I want you to know about me is that I do suffer from a speech impediment, known as stuttering. Here it is right there, and so I just want you to know that that's. It's not the oculus glitching or anything like that, it's just it's just what I do.
Speaker 5:
7:27
So some people think it's cute, you know. But I'm from Minnesota, but I moved to Nashville about six years ago and I've recorded I don't know eight records, I think. And what else you want to know about me, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3:
7:51
There's going to be like a.
Speaker 5:
7:52
Q&A time at the end.
Speaker 1:
7:53
right, yeah, that's right, that's right, is that?
Speaker 5:
7:55
right, okay, cool.
Speaker 1:
7:56
That's right. Yep, that's right.
Speaker 5:
8:02
I'm an expert regarding me, so you can ask me anything that you want to.
Speaker 1:
8:06
There you go. An expert regarding me. Well, and I have to say, if you guys, if you are Christmas music fans, you have to check out Jason's record, because that's actually one of my favorites. The first time I ever heard Jason perform was at a Christmas concert called the Hold the Name of God. Okay, and it was the first time I got to hear Jason.
Speaker 5:
8:23
With Andrew Peterson. So I recorded a Christmas album a number of years back where I wrote a song for each of the characters in the nativity scene and my hope was that if I told their story as authentically human as I knew how, that it would remind us a lot of our own stories, you know, and that if that happened, if we had a oh, me too. I've experienced that. I've felt that way. If I can make that happen for a listener, then maybe they could be transported to the manger scene themselves in the front row.
Speaker 1:
9:07
Wow.
Speaker 4:
9:08
I love that.
Speaker 5:
9:09
So it's kind of like a deconstruction of the nativity scene is kind of what it is, so yeah.
Speaker 2:
9:16
That's awesome.
Speaker 1:
9:17
Well, you know what? I don't know? Jason has just learned a lot about Killer Bee Studios and Jason, that's the mindset behind the studios here is for people to come and just share real life stories too and kind of realize that you know what? Maybe we're all a lot more, we have a lot more in common than we realize. How do you find rest in this season right now?
Speaker 5:
9:58
Yeah, you know, I I was just meeting with my mentor earlier today and you know he he's a he's the wisest man I know, His name is George and we were talking about depression actually, and he was was was talking about the mistake that that we can often make is that we've we fight with depression, we reject our depression, we try to manage it. But he said, you know, you have to have a relationship with it like you do anybody else, Right? Okay? So, for instance, if I'm going to be, if I'm going to be in a conversation with you and I want to listen, I can listen at the level of your words. I can listen to your words. If I do that, I'm actually not a very good listener, right. Or I can listen to your heart that's behind your words. That's a better listener. A great listener actually listens to the interpreter of your heart behind your words, and that's the Holy Spirit, right? Okay?
Speaker 5:
11:15
So when I'm, when I'm overwhelmed and and stressed out, and if, if that's over a prolonged period of time, that can turn into depression, and you know so. So how do I listen to my depression? How do I not resist it? How do I not reject it? How do I accept it and move with it. I think I do that by listening to it, recognizing that my depression is going to exaggerate Right, it's going to emphasize things. It's going to you know, and and.
Speaker 5:
11:53
But if, instead, if I listen to, to the heart behind my depression, you know it's trying to tell me something important. You know, maybe it's it's saying that that I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm over extended, Okay. So if I'm overextended, though, what can I do about that? If it's, if it's just a busy season where the demands aren't going away, right, Like, like, even if I need a break, the demands are there, Well, you learn how to you, you, you, you shrink the window of response down to what do I need this minute, and you do that minute by minute, moment by moment. You learn self care moment by moment, right.
Speaker 5:
12:47
And that means. All right, I recognize I'm I'm not going to get a day off, but right now I recognize I need a moment off. So maybe I'm just going to sit in my car and I'm going to breathe for one minute before I go into my next meeting. They'll still be waiting there for me. I can take a minute, right, and then I go into the meeting and I do what I have to do there after it's over. Okay, maybe I take one more minute, maybe I sit in my car and and and I, I, you know if I'm paying attention to myself, I notice you know what. I think. I need to hear my favorite song right now. I just need to, you know, and I'm just gonna play a song for about three minutes. It's all those little acts right During my day. It's a very demanding season right now, and when I make my lunch I'm working from home. One of the things that I do is like okay. So me and my boys, when they were growing up, we loved the cartoon Adventure Time. Do you remember that show?
Speaker 1:
14:07
Adventure Time. Anybody remember Adventure Time? Yeah, confetti, yeah, okay.
Speaker 5:
14:14
It's hilarious. I think the guys who worked on it like it's maybe we're on a drug trip like you know, like most of the time when they were doing these episodes. But it's cerebral and quirky and it's just my sense of humor. I just love it. And my boys recently said have you ever watched it all the way through? If you do that like, it's very poignant actually. So I'm working my way through Adventure Time now, at 50 years old, and it's great because the episodes are only 10 minutes long. So anyway, I bring that up because it has become a little oasis where I don't have time to watch an hour show or a half hour show, but I have time when I make my lunch to sit down and I watch 10 minutes of Adventure Time, like when I'm intentional about all that. It really changes things.
Speaker 5:
15:18
You know, one thing that pops into my mind that seems pertinent right now is I remember about eight years ago I was in a severe place of burnout and I told my mentor. I said you know what? I think I need to quit. I need to quit the music business. He said you know, a lot of people think they need to quit, but really you just need to quit for 24 hours, and I remember about that time. Justin Bieber announced that he was done making pop music, you know. I thought, oh, this is like what George was talking about. I bet he just needs to quit for now and I bet in about two weeks he'll realize.
Speaker 5:
16:15
No, no, I think this one's supposed to be doing and he'll be back right and just kind of seeing that play out with Bieber, you know, helped me to understand myself more too and to realize I might emotionally feel like overwhelmed and I need to be done, cancel everything. But really, maybe I only need a day, maybe I only need an hour, maybe I only need a 10 minute episode of Adventure Time and that's enough, you know. So it's about paying attention and taking those small breaks moment by moment when you're in a very demanding season.
Speaker 1:
17:02
So Thank you. I mean that was deep. That was deep and that was good. That was really good. I know that. Metal Libby, you have a question.
Speaker 5:
17:11
I brought in Adventure Time, adventure Time. I brought in Bieber. You bring it all in.
Speaker 1:
17:17
Well, I have to say, like I'll tell you right now, like that, really for myself I don't know about anybody here, but if that's just what Jason just shared, spoke to you in some way, please share some confetti and I haven't tell you, jason, like even for myself to think about that, like what you said, like there's different seasons. Sometimes you're in a season that you just can't take a long break and I've never really have sat back and thought, like you know we go from. If you're not working from home and you still have to drive in somewhere, you start thinking about that. Like you're transitioning from work to home life, to family life. You have a family, you have kids, so like to go from one next to the other. It's probably a really good idea to take even just a few minutes just to sit in your car and let go of everything.
Speaker 1:
18:02
Play your favorite song, or yeah, play your favorite song and then transition to okay, I'm leaving that behind, I'm transitioning to my family time and my friends time, and I've never really thought of it that way you know if you do that intentionally too, I think you reap a bigger benefit as opposed to like, like angrily, you know, like.
Speaker 5:
18:27
I get home and, oh man, I gotta go in. There's gonna be these demands. You know I'm just gonna stay in my car, you know, but like, if you can do all that, like you mean it, like, all right, I'm home. There are people here that need my attention, need my love, and I'm gonna pause for one minute and just breathe before I go in. You know, I remember when my boys were learning piano, the most important thing that they would do is they would sit at the piano and then put their hands on the keys and then rest, take a deep breath and then play, and so it's like that.
Speaker 1:
19:13
It's just doing that you know and I have to say, jason, with your calm voice, can you just for a second, just say let's just rest for a minute?
Speaker 5:
19:21
Yeah, are you asking me to say that?
Speaker 1:
19:24
Yeah, I'm asking you to say it.
Speaker 5:
19:25
Like Mr Rogers, you seem like remember the Mr.
Speaker 4:
19:27
Rogers. How many players saw Mr Rogers?
Speaker 1:
19:29
I mean okay, yeah, okay, Mr Rogers became one of my heroes.
Speaker 5:
19:35
Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's okay to rest for 30 seconds, for a minute, whatever you need to do.
Speaker 1:
19:50
All right, that's it. I think I was really enjoying the silence. I don't know about you guys, but I mean I've had a crazy day, so just the silence for a minute actually helps. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
20:01
I had a counseling session and she was talking about like my stress manifests into anxiety, not depression.
Speaker 2:
20:08
So I like spiral out of control, but going along with what you say. I know I get into the, I'm too busy to even take three minutes or whatever. But she gave me an exercise that I just wanted to pass along and it's called the container exercise and what you do is take all your work, your busy, your negative thoughts, whatever it may be, and you imagine yourself putting them all in a container, closing up the container and throwing it out of sight, because that helps your brain to visualize all of that gone, so you can get that three minutes of rest. So I just wanted to pass that along because I was like, oh, we just talked about that today, so yeah.
Speaker 5:
21:01
That's great.
Speaker 2:
21:02
Along with that.
Speaker 1:
21:03
That's great. I love that. That's a really good analogy. I got probably a pretty big container to put away after. Yeah, I'm opening up the box here. So if you're sharing that both of you, jason, you're sharing about dealing with, like recognizing the depression, I think that you're right, like it's self care, recognizing what's really going on at that moment. If it's anxiety or depression, what's really going on right now. I've had to look at my time and realize at times that you know what? I don't have enough margin in my day. I got my day packed so full I've got to find and add some margin in there. There are the things that are more urgent and not really important.
Speaker 1:
21:44
Yeah, the things that are fighting for my time, and I guess I mean to even think about it. Not everyone's distractions are the same. Like you know, rest, when we get caught up in business it's because of distractions or things that's going on in our life, but it's not always going to be the same for everybody. There's distractions.
Speaker 5:
22:03
Yeah, and the conversation I had with my mentor today. We were talking about the idea of making friends with your depression, like changing our posture toward it. You spoke with me about doing that with anxiety as well. Like I was having a conversation with him about anxiety. Heidi said, well, hold up, you speak about anxiety as if it's only a bad thing. I said, well, yeah, george, anxiety bad, right, yeah, clearly bad. He goes. Well, he said no, anxiety is just anxiety, it's neutral. It's what you do with it that makes it good or bad, he goes.
Speaker 5:
22:58
Anxiety is actually a very powerful tool if you learn how to use it, because it gives you focus, right, okay. Like, if you hear a sound in the middle of the night, you know and you jump out of bed and you feel anxiety, and the anxiety brings all of you online. Right, the anxiety brings all of your physical, emotional, mental attention and points it at one problem. What is that sound I just heard? That's really useful, right? My manager is kind of this anxious person and it's his secret weapon. I mean, he's really great at aiming his anxiety at problems. You know, I love that about him. So it's all about having a grown-up relationship with these powerful forces in our life. My depression is alerting me at times that you should maybe start trying to build some more margin in your life. You know.
Speaker 1:
24:18
No, I love that, and I think that we have to be willing to recognize it and lay it down Like lay, whatever that, like you said, to take that time to lay that down to find out what you really need inside as well. I've always looked at it as a bad thing too, so that was great that you pointed that out about anxiety Isn't that great. It can be a negative word but it's a warning sign, it's an alert. Let us know, hey, something needs your attention.
Speaker 5:
24:46
Yeah, yeah, like, all these things can be powerful tools if we learn how to use them. Well, you know. But in the song I wrote about rest, which is the song I wrote about the innkeeper, just because I Imagine him, you know, okay, if the inn is full, that means he's busy, you know, and overbooked and all of that. And man, I know, I know how that feels, you know, and you know it's like when your kid. Do you remember those last ten days before Christmas, man? It seemed like it took forever.
Speaker 5:
25:38
And then as you get older, as you get older, it's like, oh my gosh, the days are coming too fast. I can't stop and.
Speaker 5:
25:46
And, and I think, as, as we get older and and, more responsibilities and, and, and that can lead us to being Overwhelmed, and and and and spread too thin, and that can turn into depression and that and that can harden into anger.
Speaker 5:
26:06
So I wanted to do a song that was kind of about what happens when our, our depression, hardens into anger. And the story of the innkeeper is is the story of a person so, so in the grip of, of All the things that you know, of all the demands in their life, so in the grip of that that it has blinded them to the wonder that appears at their front step, and and so An interesting line in the song, the way, the way I wrote it, like I wanted to Show how, when our, when our busyness, turns into depression and then hardens into anger, it can change our view of God too, right. So at the end of the song he says oh, come, oh come, emmanuel with a sword, deliver Israel. You know, and it's all of a sudden, his God is a God of Vengeance and anger, because that's where he's at, you know. And and that can, that can happen, I can happen to us.
Speaker 5:
27:22
You know, I think a lot of religious people in our culture right now are our. The world experiences us as Angry and judgmental, and a part of that might because me, because of this thing that we're we're talking about, you know. So.
Speaker 1:
27:41
Okay, so your song grass, yeah, yeah, do you have a?
Speaker 5:
27:45
do you have a guitar by it? I do. I might have to coin out to go grab. Well, you can point out okay, does anybody here?
Speaker 1:
27:53
okay, if you guys want to hear Jason do, can you do your song? Rest for us, would you?
Speaker 2:
27:56
I can you?
Speaker 1:
27:57
guys want to hear it, you throw some confetti. Okay, I'll be right back.
Speaker 5:
28:03
I've never played without being able to see before, so I Just want to assure everyone that, no matter how things go right now, I sound fantastic on my records. Here we go. I Just hard to see, our hard to hit the courts about seeing. Are you able to hear the guitar? All right, yeah, we can hear it. Yeah, sounds great, okay. Yeah, if you need me to sing louder or play harder, just speak up while I'm playing. I'll do that. I can. All right, we go Okay.
Speaker 3:
28:50
I found them standing in my door.
Speaker 5:
28:55
In the clumsy silence of the poor.
Speaker 3:
29:01
I've got no time for precious things, but at least they won't be wondering if they're sleeping on my stable floor. Yeah, I Don't know room story. Tonight the only empty bed is mine, cuz I'm overbooked and I'm overrun with too many things that must be done till I'm numb and running. I need rest. I need rest.
Speaker 5:
29:50
Lost inside a forest of a million trees, trying to find my way back to me.
Speaker 3:
29:59
I need rest. That was amazing. Yeah, look at all the confetti out there.
Speaker 1:
30:10
That was great taste, thank you, and that was wow All right so we have Eric Eric. Okay, I'm just going to say Eric Is Eric here, is Eric here, let's see. Do you have a question or a thought you'd like to share?
Speaker 3:
30:21
I like the song. It's pretty nice. It's really smooth too, Okay is that?
Speaker 1:
30:26
how do you say your name? Eric is the name. Wow, Brian.
Speaker 3:
30:32
So my dad's name is Eric, but I'm actually Sophia his daughter.
Speaker 5:
30:37
Hello Sophia, hello Sophia.
Speaker 1:
30:39
Hello Sophia, hello Sophia how old are you, sophia?
Speaker 3:
30:42
Six, I'm going to turn seven. Oh, happy birthday, sophia. My birthday is January 18th, wow.
Speaker 6:
30:47
So I'm going to be kind of older than you.
Speaker 3:
30:55
Well, you're way older than me. I like your man, so like I'm trying to say I'm going to like turn before you.
Speaker 6:
31:11
Yes, yes.
Speaker 5:
31:12
I love it. I'm 50 years old, can you?
Speaker 6:
31:14
believe that You're 50, so we're going to I know.
Speaker 5:
31:18
That's how.
Speaker 6:
31:19
I feel about it.
Speaker 5:
31:20
That's why I need rest. I'm very tired.
Speaker 1:
31:25
Yeah, lots of rest. Hello, hello how you guys doing Good, it's good to see you.
Speaker 6:
31:32
It's always good to be with my brothers and sisters.
Speaker 6:
31:34
Yes, amen. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, my pleasure, man. Thanks for putting this on. It's always a pleasure to come to your events, thank you. I just wanted to say that it was a great song, and from one musician to another it's very difficult to try to play live In the setting, and I thought you did a great job, man. Oh, thank you, earlier. We were discussing quiet and, as a songwriter, I think in your songwriter I could see it, I can hear it. Here's an idea for you that kind of came to my mind as we were talking about, or you guys were talking about, this idea about quitting, turning it into quiet. Well, as I was up there listening, I was listening to a song and sometimes you want to quit and you had enough. Well, if you take that E and you add it to the quit, you've got quiet and sometimes, as the Lord will have us do, just be quiet and be still Talk to your father right.
Speaker 4:
32:34
So, anyway, I just was thinking about that.
Speaker 6:
32:35
I thought it's gonna share, but thank you for what you guys do. I appreciate you. I love you. Brothers and sisters, come on, come on.
Speaker 2:
32:43
We need that price.
Speaker 1:
32:45
So come on down. You're muted right now.
Speaker 4:
32:49
I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 5:
32:52
Hello Yvonne.
Speaker 4:
32:53
Okay, my question for you, like I like to ask everybody, is what is your life? Verse?
Speaker 5:
32:58
I would say, if you asked me from my autograph, I always do. Isaiah 4916 says see, I have carved your name in the palm of my hands. The other verse that I love is Paul's exasperated naming of the human condition right, and he says what's wrong with me? Why do I do what I don't want to do? And what I do want to do I don't do that, you know, I just. I love that acknowledgement of our complexity Awesome.
Speaker 4:
33:34
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1:
33:37
Yvonne Diner. Come on up Diner.
Speaker 4:
33:41
All right, mine really, jason, isn't a question, it's more of a comment. So I have a playlist on my Google play called warrior and when I go through troubling times or when things you know, I'm struggling with things, I play the songs on that warrior playlist and your songs are on that playlist and I I listened to contemporary Christian music. That's about 90% of what I listened to. So you are somebody that I listened to all the time on KLOV and and the message on serious XM, smile FM, and your songs are on there and they're always very uplifting and they do reach. They do reach us, they do reach us. So I just wanted to let you know that and it's really great to meet you.
Speaker 5:
34:35
Brenna, it's me you too. Yeah, Thank you Thank you.
Speaker 1:
34:38
Thank you, Diner. Jason, you're going to close out. Close out with a killer. B exclusive.
Speaker 5:
34:43
All right, are we doing it?
Speaker 1:
34:46
And you guys ready for it?
Speaker 5:
34:48
So a lot of people ask me hey, where do your song ideas come from? You know, and I like to. I like to read a lot, you know, and, and and if I, if I happen upon a quote that moves me or helps me, you know, I think maybe it'll. It'll help somebody else too, you know, and so I'll. I'll. I'll very often adapt that into songs, and it's especially helpful if whoever originated the quote is dead, so that I don't have to pay him royalties. You know, so I've been. I've been building my career on the back of, of, of, of Ted, people who are way wiser than me. So this is one of those songs.
Speaker 3:
35:34
Yeah, there we go, there, it is, there, it is.
Speaker 5:
35:37
So this is a song inspired by a quote that my, my pastor used to use at the end of all of his emails, and it's been attributed to Philo of Alexandria, and I bet you've heard it or heard a version of it. It goes like this be kind for everyone, you know is in the middle of a great battle and and that would just be at the end of his emails all the time. And it just got in there and it just began to do its work in me, you know. So, like when I'm at the grocery store and the guy behind the counter is is rude or giving me some attitude, you know, in that moment I can. I can choose to give that back, or I can turn the other cheek. You know he might have something going on and I can either make things worse, or or I can be kind and in some small way, you know at least, not make things worse, but maybe even make them a little bit better, you know so anyway.
Speaker 5:
36:35
So this song is called Be Kind and it'll. It'll be out in just a few weeks. Yeah, that's our ghost.
Speaker 3:
37:13
To be kind is everyone you meet is fighting their own battle. The fight in their own battle. So be kind is everyone you see needs to know that matter. They need to know that matter, so be kind.
Speaker 1:
37:46
Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 5:
37:48
Thank you for being that was great.
Speaker 1:
37:51
Wow, that was awesome. Jason, and you chose us on this. Be kind for killer B. Studio for killer.
Speaker 3:
37:57
B.
