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The Cannon Brothers Podcast | A Walking Miracle with Alex Warren | Episode 002

• Cannon Brothers Company/Each Measure • Season 1 • Episode 2

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In Episode 002, The Cannon Brothers sit down with Alex Warren for one of the most powerful conversations yet. Alex opens up about his life journey, facing a brain tumor, and what it truly means to come out the other side as a walking miracle.

This episode dives deep into resilience, faith, perspective, and the mindset it takes to keep going when everything is on the line.

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SPEAKER_02

Yo, check it out, man. We on the Cannon Brothers, man. We back on the Canon Brothers podcast, man. We got a special guest in the building, man. We got my guy Alex in the building. What is it? Motivational speaker, hustler, um, day trader. Um, a whole bunch of titles. We're gonna get into it. So let me see what's up with the brother. What's up with y'all, man? How y'all feeling today, man?

SPEAKER_03

Feeling good, feeling good, feeling good. You know what I'm saying? Walking in love, feeling good. Man, stop playing.

SPEAKER_02

Walking in love, y'all just fighting outside.

SPEAKER_03

I ain't talking about in love with him. I'm talking about just in love. I'm talking about, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? I'm living by the scriptures. I tried to. Yes, sir. He tried to.

SPEAKER_02

Brother, uh, let them know who you are and all the many things you do.

SPEAKER_01

We're gonna let you. This is my lane. This, oh, this is my camera right here. What's going on, people? Listen, my name is Alex Warren. I'm a motivational speaker, inspirational speaker. Like, we can drop the motivational tag, man, because I believe that motivation comes and goes, right? So, inspiration, people are inspired and provoked to do something. So that's one of my many lanes. Like you said, I'm a day trader. I'm a young adults pastor as well. So I feel you and walking in the scripture. You know, I got, I got, I got, I gotta be right. I gotta do it. We gotta be right, but walking in the scripture. So I mean, that that's just a little about me. I'm a I'm a father, man, got, you know, three beautiful children.

SPEAKER_02

So, you know, let's uh let's get let's get into the uh so what's the background? Where you from? Like, where'd you get your start? I know it wasn't all motivation, and just you just came out the womb passionate. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, where was it? Where was the transition? Like what led you into it? Because I'm kind of doing a lot of mentorship, motivation, and and a lot of brothers that look like us don't even understand as a lane like that. So how did where'd you come from and how did you kind of fall into that?

SPEAKER_01

No, man, that's a that's a beautiful question. So it's funny that you mentioned like you didn't come out passionate. I kind of there, bro. You came out passionate, you walked out the womb, baby. You won't talk the womb like that. I came out the womb, I came out the womb like talking, like for real. Like, you know how I'm from the south, so you know how down south, if you're talking before the age of one, people are like, oh, that boy's gonna be something. That boy's gonna be something, he's gonna be something special. You know, nine times out of ten, they try to label you, but he's gonna be a preacher or something. He's gonna be your TV. I know he's gonna be something. So I came out of the womb like this, but like my story on why I get into motivation, why I get into inspiration, man, because I'm not supposed to be here. I was supposed to be dead at nine years old. Why'd you say that? Man, see, that's a that's a beautiful thing of my story. So at six years old, man, I'll give you you guys not the full story, but just the quick tidbit version of at six years old, I had a brain master, the size of a grapefruit on the left lobe of my brain. The size of a grapefruit. The size of a grapefruit growing on the inside of my brain. And so it lasted for about three years.

SPEAKER_02

How'd you how'd you find out about it? I mean, it's just one day you outside playing, like That's a great question.

SPEAKER_01

So with my, you can I'm, you know, bald and all of that stuff. So I was balding at five years old. And so my my dad used to cut my hair, military guy used to cut my hair, and so my mom was like, hey, did you like like did you nick him or something? Like he he ain't got no hair right here. Like, we cut my baby.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, they argue, hey, they argue. We ain't paying for you. Yeah, yeah, we ain't gonna be like, no, no, you can't have my baby going to school like that. You know, did you nick? He's like, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01

He's like, maybe he hit his head. You know them folk tales, like you hit your head, a piece of hair falls out. I was like, man, you know, grandma and them tripping, but so that's how it started. Then I developed patches, and so then they took me in, and that's when I got diagnosed with a brain tumor. That's how I was in grain food when I left so left over my brain, bro. So and again, it lasted for three years of my life.

SPEAKER_02

You you was you was how old? Six. What does that do to us? Do you understand?

SPEAKER_01

Like, what does that do to a six-year-old? Man, I I completely understand. So that's what I'm telling you. Is like when I came out of the womb, like I'm a faith-based person. Like, my mom indoctrinated me with a word. So at six years old, I understood clearly, like, this was a blessing. It wasn't never a oh, whoa, it's me. It's like, man, why not me? At six. At six years old. I got this is on home video, by the way. This is facts. This ain't nothing that I'm telling you. Yeah, we're gonna get the clips, Mom Dukes. We got this is this is on home video of me saying those things. I actually got a couple clips on my phone.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, yeah, you need that.

SPEAKER_01

This is me, bro. Like, this is me, and I thank God for for parents, right? Good one. Good parents. You got to say, yeah. Shout out to my parents, shout out to my moms, shout out to to my dad. And I have to give my dad some love too, because I think as men and black men, the father's job and the father's role is what? To provide, right? So you didn't see him as much because he was provided. So at that age, I always had a bitterness towards my dad because he wasn't there. And you didn't understand. I didn't understand. So that portion as a child, I didn't understand. But my mom dukes been to the right of me, my ride side, she was always being there. I've never seen my dad cry. Because what men don't cry, we tough, we, he's a military guy at the time. So I didn't see there was no compassion, but it took me becoming a man, having my own children, to know that it still hurt my dad as well. So a lot of the times when I tell my story, I never gave my dad his props and his credit for my mom being able to do what she did. You get what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03

So that's a big, that's a bad, that's a big point. Not only just to to say that, but but you to be able to recognize that even now, because there's some people don't even recognize the process now that, okay, yeah, my my mother might have been holding it down, but it was my father who was abling her to hold it down, which is which is embarrassing.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely, yeah. And we don't men don't get enough credit, right? So, but again. Uh oh, you better start some.

SPEAKER_00

I mean talk about it, preacher.

SPEAKER_01

Talk about it, but uh for real, like men don't get enough credit at all. But we are the unsung and unseen heroes. And with that, now that you be again, you become a father, you become a man, and you put away childish things that the good scripture says, as a good book says, you start to understand that man, like you said, this don't happen without that. Yeah. At all. Like, mom can go to the hospital. If mom got a worker job, then I'm there to defend for myself. So like you said, I thank God for parents. Right, right. The good combination of having a present father and a present mother. Who he took the role of responsibility and protector well. Right? Now, are there some things that we could have softened up along the way, like I am with my son? Of like, listen, I don't mind you crying, but there has to be a reason that you're crying. Because nine times out of ten, people are not moved by tears. No, no, no. What is he? What do you what are you doing? In this world, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

But if you know why you're crying and there's some validity to that, let me validate what it is that you feel. Because the world's not. Because I sit and cry with you.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. We could sit in it together if we know. And I and I, because I like, y'all gotta check his videos out. I watch a lot of your videos, man, and um powerful stuff, but you know what I mean. You could tell you're very thought-provoking and thoughtful in everything you do. So I kind of want to just hear from you for sure. Why do you think that is that men don't get enough credit? Is it is it currently? Has it been from Flintstone age? Like, has it always been that way? Why do you think because we're we're it's not like we're invisible. Everybody knows they need a man. If you see a construction work, it's a man, like we're not invisible, but why do you think men don't get the credit?

SPEAKER_01

It's programming. Like, think about it. Absolutely is there's a good scripture that says faith comes by hearing and hearing of the word of God. So what are you putting in your ears, right? So growing up, Tyler, shout out to Tyler Perry, right? I think we all have watched Medea at some point in life. But if you've watched Medea and unknowingly, you are being programmed and conditioned to think that men are not this or men are not that, or you can never be nothing. Men are gonna continue to be dogs and cheat on you. So we have been labeled everything that we are not. It's also in the music. Go back to the 90s, right? TLC, I don't want no scrub. Now we can go through a list and a genre of music on how men talk about women, and then let's put it in the streets.

SPEAKER_03

I remember being like, I remember being like, I think 11 years old or something like that. And I heard the song, and I'm feeling bad for sitting in the passenger seat. I can't even drive, and I'm like, dang, man, I'm sitting in the passenger seat.

SPEAKER_00

I'm a scrub, I'm a scrub. Like, just a program that is happens unconsciously, right?

SPEAKER_01

And you grow up with these stigmas of like, okay, cool, like I don't want to be on scrub. Like, bro, if you're in a you're a scrub, brother, you're a loser. You're you're you're a square. Even just like with this, this, this hustle, this hustle culture now, right? Of if a man ain't making six figures, you heard the song with Sweetie where rich, rich dude, that's my type, right? So six figures, all this good pipe now. You are being judged is like, man, if you ain't got this, if you ain't got that. So there are a lot of songs that are programming us. There's a lot of television that are programming movies. It's society, the entertainment energy industry is programming us unconsciously. That's why it's our program.

SPEAKER_02

So again. And we learn it and then reciprocate it in our home. Unknowingly.

SPEAKER_03

I think I think some of that is is starting to become a little more aware. And you know, I I hope as society grows, but I think like even with uh women having children and realizing like that wait a minute, these these are men, but your boy is also will one day become a man. And so he's listening to these things, and so this society that's that's looking at them a certain way will one day look at your little lion cub one way uh a certain way. Right. You know, you programming a sus uh a world for your man's life.

SPEAKER_02

For the hatred of the man, yeah. So let me ask you this. We was just at an event and I we gotta definitely get because there's a lot of stuff in your story, we gotta get. But we was just at an event, the crawl, a bunch of reality show, um, stars in the same building. We sit there talking to the easier time. We sit here talking to these beautiful black queens. And I propose a question. I got a lot of questions, right? I propose a question to these queens, because they're gonna come on the show. Um, but and and uh we'll probably play your clip and your answer was well, number one, why are you calling them queens? Because they're black women. I think I think even if they I don't think even if they don't know it. I don't think don't be mad at me, black queens.

SPEAKER_00

Don't be mad at me. Don't be mad at me, black queen. I'm sorry. I'm over here okay. I apologize.

SPEAKER_04

I love black women, but uh the black women are the most disrespectful.

SPEAKER_03

He about to get don't keep going on.

SPEAKER_04

Listen, I love black women, right? Our aunties is black, our mama black. Disrespectful, disloyal, attitude having just most, just crazy.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, okay, okay, but but does a black man who can come and say the same, the opposite is the same, and not a black woman who's the most loyal, who's the most say all.

SPEAKER_04

No, who's saying all? No, but never, I would I said I love them, but never would I say all of anything because that's not true of any race, any type of stigma, anything. But but a lot of we grew up in North Carolina where it's.

SPEAKER_02

Why are you calling them queens?

SPEAKER_04

You don't even know who I'm talking about. You said black, you said black. Because they're black. So if I said Asian, would you question it? I will question any number of things. Okay, because you said that's number one, is it every is it was only one queen, so why are we misusing the term?

SPEAKER_03

I I actually I actually agree with I see what he's saying. We're misusing the term. I agree because because that is a valuable term that's deserving of a certain position.

SPEAKER_02

And so if we go biblically, I'm looking at even if a woman doesn't know that she's a queen, because that have you ever, I'm sure y'all are some good-looking brothers, y'all showed a woman the queen inside of her that she probably never recognized for sure, right? So even if a woman doesn't know, like there's some people who would tell you y'all Israelites. But if y'all don't know, you can live your whole life and don't know whether, you know, whether it is or isn't, but if you don't know your identity, like us as black people, like that's it, we go back a few generations, we don't really know where that, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04

Don't like misusing the word. Well, now that's some, but you, but but so are you saying you said fair?

SPEAKER_01

Fair. That's why you say that. That's why you say that. Because listen, listen, you can't, you can't give uh this universal language to everyone. It's like it's almost like the conversation goat. Like, you know how you just throw the word goat, right? Oh, that's the goat. You know, like that. Then it means nothing. It becomes watered down, right? And words will forever mean things.

SPEAKER_02

So y'all saying you gotta earn that. Yes, absolutely. So y'all, so alright? Absolutely. Do you believe that every little girl is born a future king, the way Simba was born future king?

SPEAKER_03

He wasn't even a king. He was a future king. Or maybe a future.

SPEAKER_02

So is every little girl innocent? Well, they're born innocent.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

There's potential queens in them, but they're not queens yet, what y'all saying?

SPEAKER_01

I'll say it this way, right? Because inside of every man, there's still that little boy, and inside of every woman, there's still that little girl. Everybody has to be cultivated, right? So we don't know everybody's background, we don't know their traumatic experiences, we don't know, we don't know the life lessons that they learned through life to make them a certain way, right? And so what I believe the beauty of a thing is a man's responsibility, because I don't want to say job, because we we view job as like this duty or something that you have to do. That you might end up hating. Yes. But a responsibility is something that you can take ownership in, right? A man's responsibility is to help his woman be cultivated. Just like a woman's responsibility is to help the man be cultivated. Because it's the two that becomes one, they will expose some things in you that you didn't even see in yourself. Right, right. If you got a good one. If you have a good one.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. It's almost like having kids. Like, there's certain things I feel like the father couldn't show me until I became a father. Absolutely. And he showed me, like, no, son, that's what you're seeing in him, that's you to me. Like, you know what I mean? That disobedience that's imagine how I feel about Joachim.

SPEAKER_00

God ain't saying that, but he speaks. That's his translation. God's translation. No, I don't think it was that's how he talked to you. That's how he's talking with me, man. You get me. That's how he talked to you. Hey, listen, God talk like those. I'm not gonna argue with that. He speaks all languages.

SPEAKER_01

Man, come on. He's the adventure of that. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04

But but but we love black women though. Don't don't don't see it. Please throw that one in there. Throw that one in the way. Clear it up, clear it up. But but but black women, we do have to do better. We have to do better.

SPEAKER_02

I'm thinking about the comments about to go crazy because they about to be like black men. Black men and women we have. That's all I heard about. Black men talking about us.

SPEAKER_04

They ain't talking about us. No, no, no, no, no, absolutely. Black men black men first. Black men first have to do better.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna say that. We gotta take responsibility and accountability for all that creeping and blood walking, y'all doing it. It's more than that.

SPEAKER_04

All that all that dog and all the dog and the women and the music, the women in real life cheat. They should number one, they get treated like trash. That's why they start to act like trash.

SPEAKER_02

I was gonna I was gonna say that because remember we're saying women are receptors, so it's like once we start calling women, ain't this? If you look at the music now, they just like the men. They saying the same thing. They're trying to taught me. So it's almost like we taught them how to disrespect.

SPEAKER_04

And they're tired, and they're tired, so they're just acting out on being treated differently. So you blaming the men then? Absolutely. I blame the men. I take responsibility.

SPEAKER_01

Responsibility lives and dies and breathes with the man.

SPEAKER_02

Why though? Because there's some people who y'all understand that why.

SPEAKER_01

Because I mean, if we go back through the course of history, right, the responsibility was given to man first. Absolutely. Adam was created first, right? Then Eve comes from the rib. That's why I said the woman is designed to help you become cultivated because she comes from you, right? So when we understand those things, it will foster relationships that, man, she's not nagging me, but it's like she just wants the best for me, right? So when we start to switch verbiage and when we start to change language, this is why words are important, because words are the way that we see the world. And so you need to expound your vocabulary because the more vocabulary that you have for the world, it now changes your thing. So the world was created with words. With words.

SPEAKER_03

So what do you what do you do when you speak in words and you saying some powerful stuff? And it's hitting a wall. Yeah, and it's hitting the wall. This was they ain't you ain't trying to hear nothing you saying. And and when that one person, and when that one person becomes a multitude of people, it becomes the society. And not all people, but it becomes it becomes the brainwashing of society, as you said, like it becomes the the the mass programming.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, what did what did what did Jesus do? Don't cash your pearls the swine. And he also said he he who has ears.

SPEAKER_01

Let him hear. And he who don't. Yeah. So I mean, you have to look at that. That's true, that's true, that's real. You have to look at it that way, is that everything under heaven has its timing, right? So there have been points and times in our life where we all have been hard-headed and didn't want to hear. For sure. Right. So, but what do we do? We continue to love from a distance. I ain't gotta diss you, I ain't gotta disrespect you, but I know that you're not the one for me because you don't have ears to hear. The woman for me will have ears to hear. The man for me will have ears to hear for those who are women out there, like, man, I can't find no good one. I can't find no good one. No, no, no, he just don't got ears to hear right now. Right, right.

SPEAKER_04

Right, sticking to the wrong ears.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. So you don't want to r you don't want to throw away people. I think that's the issue with society is we throw away people. We do. Because they're if they're not for us, they're they're no good to us. So it's trash to us, so that's why we use words any kind of way. We'll call women out of the names, or women will call men out of their names because we mean nothing to you.

SPEAKER_05

Right.

SPEAKER_03

So what do you what do you think in in this in this controversial time, what do you think the the answer to, you know, in bringing those two together?

SPEAKER_01

Man, it starts with better homes. Because sometimes, I'm gonna be real with you, the damage is already done. It seemed like it, like, the damage is already done. However, there's still hope for humanity. Yeah. Like I don't believe that anybody is just all hell is lost for you and there's no return for you. No, no, I believe that there's hope for humanity, but right now the damage is already done. And so there are a lot of things and a lot of people who have itching ears, right? So meaning there's so many social media platforms out there that you can go somewhere and your narrative can be backed. So if you think men are dogs, you think there's a whole page for men are not. If you think women are this, there's a whole page for women are. So it's all of these things that are supporting this narrative. But if we can have better homes, because homes are the first form of society. So if you see a broken society, it's because of broken homes. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03

So just so do then, do we do we because like you said, like, okay, it's it seems to be already broken. I think that that's on guys and girls. Because sometimes I speak to the girls and I I hear like, oh no, these men, I've never dated a man, so I have no idea. Yeah, I don't know. So I'm hitting it.

SPEAKER_02

Like, it seems that way. I hear I hear that. Wait, wait, wait, who said something? We got somebody, the lady, any lady in the back who wanna come up here and comment? So we back. So we back your house.

SPEAKER_03

We back, we back in the back, we back.

SPEAKER_02

We gotta get back to the show. We gotta get back to the show.

SPEAKER_04

Hold on, forget the show. Hold on, what you do? What you do? What you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_02

I ain't gonna get it.

SPEAKER_00

I heard it.

SPEAKER_04

Daniel, what my phone? Let me come on.

SPEAKER_03

I have the baddest.

SPEAKER_02

I had the baddest on the record.

SPEAKER_04

Put it on the record right now. I had the baddest. All right, man. Come on. Back to the cannon brothers podcast.

SPEAKER_02

Y'all make some noise for my brother. Thank you for putting up with my brothers.

SPEAKER_06

I love you.

SPEAKER_02

No, this is a public speaking brother, you know what I'm saying? So what I was gonna ask before he um threw that curveball at the uh soaster.

SPEAKER_01

I'm telling black clones, we love you. We love you. You need a whole piece of it. Let me sit on this side. Let me sit on whole pin.

SPEAKER_02

He loves you, black women.

SPEAKER_05

We love you.

SPEAKER_04

Go ahead. Black women, we love you.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, fair enough. He cleaned it up. Black women we love you.

SPEAKER_04

We do, because we do, we do, we love y'all very much. But the truth is, we love y'all very much. We're gonna get in that a little later. But we'll go back to what I was saying about a little bit. I was gonna ask you this.

SPEAKER_03

We're too fucking out of it.

SPEAKER_02

You see, we gotta deal with it.

SPEAKER_04

I'm just saying, they don't need to fix their attitude.

SPEAKER_00

We all need an attitude adjustment.

SPEAKER_04

Do they not need to fix their attitude?

SPEAKER_00

Round one.

SPEAKER_03

It's good.

SPEAKER_04

But they not need to fix their attitude.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, they need to fix their attitude, but that's not all of them. Of course it's not all of them.

SPEAKER_04

But realistically, that's a all white men can't jump.

SPEAKER_01

Oh Lord. He right all white men. Okay, no, no, no. That's nothing that's gonna be. He's talking about the same. He's talking about the same. Just put it right there. Just put it.

SPEAKER_02

Some of the big dudes can jump. Then you got a shot. Then you got a shot. Then you got a jump. Then he was jumping up. Then you might never touch no. Then you might never touch on.

SPEAKER_04

I think I remember something like that. Yeah, he has a jumper for sure. Let's get back to so this is what I was gonna ask. We love black women though. He's cleaning his case because he knows he lying.

SPEAKER_03

Now we gotta cut this crap. No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_04

Let the world see really. Let me see how this I'm saying forget him then. So I can say make you. Let's do it. You the only child siblings?

SPEAKER_01

How many siblings are you? No, no, no. It's just four of us in total. It's four of you? Where you fall at? So it's I'm the middle slash, you know, it's double middle child, because it's my older brother, myself, my baby sister, and my little brother. Okay, okay. So I'm the middle middle child.

SPEAKER_02

So what I was gonna ask you, and then we gotta get back into your story. I'm already fascinating. I think we only had eight. Yeah, yeah. So we was there with at the event, Black Queens, they said, if a man's not in therapy, it's a deal breaker. Y'all see that reaction? Close up on that. Close up on that. That was the reaction I had. I ain't even gonna look at it. What do you feel about that?

SPEAKER_04

You were standing right there? You wasn't standing right there and then. You were standing right there.

SPEAKER_02

I was like, They said if a man is not in therapy, that's something they seen on the city. That's a deal breaker. They was dancing.

SPEAKER_03

They almost walked away from the mic when they was just like, yo, you ain't asking me if I was a therapy.

SPEAKER_02

I'm like, nah. I was like, man, I had a good child with my own.

SPEAKER_01

I had a good child. I don't mind, but I I'm like, I'm never, I'm never, I'm never opposed to to therapy. So therapy, therapy is definitely needed for people who need that outlet. Who I think self-awareness is one of the qualities that most human beings lack is the ability to be self-aware. And then I I truly believe that some people are blessed with self-awareness, like, no, I know exactly what this is. I've gone to therapy. And I kid you not, my therapist has said to me, he's like, bro, I don't even know how to help you. He said, I was 24 years old when I went to therapy. And and then I'm articulating my point, and he's like, yo, I just don't know how to help you. He's like, it's few and far between where you see people come in and they're self-aware. Like I knew exactly where I was in life, why I was there in life. So I don't want to use therapy, like you said, because now it's just a universal blanket based off of these social media programs. Oh, if your man ain't therapy, he ain't yet. Right, right. Well, that's why you ain't got no man. Right. I'm sorry, I apologize. No, no, no, no. Message.

SPEAKER_04

Keep it all the way a thousand. They need to hear it. Mainly them black ones. He's from What was you about to say? You was about to say something about being personal. No, no, no, no, I forget why I was gonna say it. It might be, it might be off, but I'm not sure. We probably didn't need to tell you. No, no, but no, but I no, but I what I was saying was I did the same thing because we had it, we had a pretty good um upbringing too as well. So I went into a a therapy, whatever. Um, and yeah, I started telling her about her life. She was young too. So I'm like, I'm just kind of like, I'm telling you about the I was like, I was like giving her thing to be. I'm not therapist with the thing. You need to quit. No, no, no, for written, I'm not even joking. I was not even joking. And she was just like, okay, well, thank you. She ended up saying thank you. Did she pay you?

SPEAKER_01

I knew.

SPEAKER_04

No, no, no, no. I was going in there just from some evaluation or whatever. She ended up shaking my hand saying, thank you.

SPEAKER_03

I was like, this is great. Like, who hoped? When you really realize it, it's like it's human beings who have read a book, who have developed a you know, in their profession. But truthfully, some people have that thing naturally. Before there was a course to take psychology, before there was a test to grow in that field, there were some people who was, you know, mentally ahead or could they compete, like you said, they were socially aware, and so they had that understanding to share with others. And so not everybody has that, and we all can grow as individuals, but I think that is a uh, like you said, like a good point as far as being self-aware.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, because I think it's it's they it's dangerous. Therapy can be dangerous, right? And here's what I mean by mean by that is you go to school to be a therapist, right? And they're teaching you how to diagnose people. A diagnosis is just another synonymous term for a label. And so some people take on the labels and the persona of that label based off of what their therapist said. Well, my therapist. That's probably that's probably a little body. My therapist. Absolutely. So then you go get a pill for it. Come on, mess them up even more. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

So I mean, I knew it, I knew it uh uh different therapy, they was on cocaine and different stuff. They was telling me, I'm like, wait a minute, you like, and uh uh losing all they stuff, and I'm like, yo, what is what wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_04

You teaching people about life, like hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Because no, no, no, for real, because hold on.

SPEAKER_01

Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_04

Cause, cause I ain't gonna say anything, but her homegirls, you know, her homegirl, her one of her homegirls is a therapist. When I say it's one of the worst people that could possibly possibly be a therapist, I mean she's the she don't listen to nobody, but she, like you say, well, I forget who who said it. Um just basically, you you you pass this test, you you take this schooling, and then you just start telling people about their life, and you're the worst person to tell somebody.

SPEAKER_02

So who where is the qualification to line that up, what you're teaching or what you're you know, I mean, to wear what you're living.

SPEAKER_01

Like, is there a is there a psych evaluation for a therapist? That's a good question. I mean, put it in the college. Like legitimate, like there should be like a psych evaluation of where is your thought process? Right. Because have you dealt with your trauma first before you try to label my. You know what that is? You you probably were abused younger. Like, no, I wasn't her.

SPEAKER_04

She's shaking because she's taking pictures. Yeah, you're like, What? True story. I know one that does that. So it's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_01

So you gotta be careful you gotta be careful with the labels that you accept from people, because again, words are everything. Life and death exist in the power of the tongue. So if you accept the words of a stranger who you've never met, because you feel that they are unbiased because they hear you. And ladies, all a man wants, I promise you, it's very simple. All a man wants. Here we go, y'all listening. This this is the secret. If you want a man, all a man wants is the ability to be heard and not what he is saying used to weaponize against him later. Absolutely. Absolutely. So hear him to hear him, not hear him to weaponize what he was transparent and vulnerable enough with you in the moment and an argument later. Absolutely. Hear him to help. Don't you think?

SPEAKER_03

Where do you get that as far, you know, even in the journey as we're walking through your life and learning the different things? Was that poured into you the because I would say that that's the level of of sight and intellect and wisdom, even more so. Is that something that was poured into you, shared into you, and baked you to who sit before us today, the cake that we see? Like, did did did life, your parents, or is that something that's innate, that just was inside of you.

SPEAKER_01

I think it's just a duality of just everything. Like, I've always been an observant person. Like, even when I came here on set and just talking to, you know, the beautiful people that are around, is I am about other people. Meaning I want to understand how you work, how you think, how you function. You get what I'm saying? What makes you tick, not to manipulate what makes you tick, but it's like, okay, cool, how can we develop, how can we grow for that? So I'm about the betterment of humanity. I truly believe I live by this saying, and I say it all the time, is that we were created for the benefit of each other. And then once you understand that, you'll leave places and people better than the way that you found them. So that's what I live by. So it's just a cultivation of just parents, upbringing, and then life myself as a man. It took me becoming a man to like, yo, all I wanted to do was be heard. Because again, let's go back to the statement that we made earlier. Inside of every grown man, there's still that little boy. Absolutely. Inside of every grown woman, there's still that little girl who desires to be heard. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

So it's definitely want to be seen. Is that is that is that the the the you know the uh the thing, the major, you know, thing that you said would have happened with your head and and and all that whole process going on in life. Is do you think that that pushed you on the journey to be, you know, a motivational specialist?

SPEAKER_02

Eight? Like what you was at.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so six years old is when when it started. So back and forth. I'm talking about having seizures, convulsion, all of those things. And you a faithful six-year-old. Like, I know what this is for. I know what this is for. Oh, 100%. So when we were we were in the hospital, right? It was me and my mom. And at the time, during this duration, they wanted to keep me in the hospital anywhere from three weeks to three months. Long Belinda Hospital, I love it. My kids were born there as well. So that's a full circle moment. But again, I knew very early on who Jesus was. Like I knew, like I knew the Bible. Now, of course, as you get older, you start to mature a little bit, like, okay, that was a little childish. I didn't really know that. But now in this process, but as far as adversity, very early on, I experienced that. So the doctors, they were like, yes, we want to keep you in here, run some tests three weeks to three months. Uh, you could be in the hospital. I said, man, look, Jesus froze in three days, I'll be out of here in three days. Doctors who practice medicine for 25 plus years. You get what I'm saying? And so they were like, Look, I've been practicing medicine for 25 plus years. Legally, you can't say, hey, yeah, you'll be out of here in three days. That is a liability lawsuit and everything for professionals who are practicing this profession. And so, long story short, within me being there, you could physically tell that I was sick by my appearance, but not by the way that I carried myself. So there, my mom was to the right of me all day long. Like we talked about, again, my father allowing her to do that with him protecting, providing, and stepping up. The nurses would go back to my room and talk with my mom, and they're like, Mrs. Warren, listen, we don't mean to be lewd or offend you and rude. But are you sure Alex is sick? Yeah, what am I exactly? That that would be anybody's reaction, like, we wouldn't be here if he wasn't. Come on, like, what do we want to be? We don't mean to offend you. She said, But your son, who at the time now I'm nine years old, this is the when I'm in the hospital, I'm nine years old. And she's like, Your son is down there asking parents, children, what's their sickness, what's the disease, because he wants to pray for them. That way they can be healed. So we have never seen nothing like this. So you couldn't tell by my demeanor that I was sick, right? But by my appearance, you could. So that that was a part of shaping that up uh upbringing. So I've always looked different.

SPEAKER_03

Is that is that when you the the start of the journey of you know motivating others, or was it, you know, like a made uh another major point along the process that's okay, this is what I'm I'm going to do?

SPEAKER_01

Man, so I'm a I'm a history junkie. And so that this started like on the playground. I was doing stuff like this on the playground well before I was sick. Like I always enjoyed speaking, I've always enjoyed history. So M OK is one of my unsung heroes. Like I am an enthusiast when it comes to that. So I love the way that he can transform the world with worlds. With words, yeah. So you get what I'm saying? So Malcolm Max is no different. So when you see some of the great orators in black culture, in other cultures as well, it's like, man, the person can move someone with words. Right. We're not talking about action of different entertainment words. Right. Speaking. And so, like I said, speaking from very early on, out the womb, you already knew that you were gonna be something. It's just something that happens involuntarily. Like this was who I was created to be. So who are some of the speakers you looked up to like now? So now today's world. So in today's world, I'll give everybody the flowers. And it's something that you mentioned. Like when it came to speaking as a profession, like how many black people that you saw as like motivational, inspirational speakers? Les Brown. Les Brown was the one who paved the way for a lot of people. So now the people that I follow.

SPEAKER_03

What's his name? Inky Inky Johnson.

SPEAKER_01

So but he's like later, he's later after the fact. So growing up, the only person that you really saw was uh T. D. Jakes. Oh, but yeah, yeah, yeah. T.D. Yeah, T.D. Jakes was prominent back then. But as far as that's in the church world. Right. But we're talking about corporate America influencing. How to get better success keys. Yes. Les Brown. So then Les Brown, then you you turn it over, you have the Jim Bones of the world, but now it's people like Ingie Johnson, E.T. the hip hop preacher, CJ. It's like a bunch of people who are doing it. Jeremy Anderson, one of my mentors. So it's just a lot of people in the space who are doing something that is like that's another reason why I got into day training. Is when you think of Wall Street, you don't think of nobody black.

SPEAKER_03

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_01

You're like, what? What are you talking? What are you talking about? Until you get exposed to that. And that's why I love the law of exposure. Once you've been exposed to something, you can't be unexposed. So once I got exposed to that very early on, it was rap. It's crazy. It was rap, man. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine, bro. That's fine.

SPEAKER_02

Let's do this before we get out of real life. We're gonna play this segment because it's supposed to be called Batteries Not Included. You remember that movie? You're too young for that movie. You're too young for battery. You remember batteries not included? I'm only 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_03

I was like a robot or something.

SPEAKER_02

Something crazy. But this thing we're gonna call it batteries not included. Our last episode was called Terms and Conditions, right? So no matter where you are, you're following somebody's terms, conditions, no matter what cell phone provider you got. It's somebody's terms, condition in every relationship. You following somebody's terms and conditions. So with batteries not included, we know we come in this world, and there's some things like almost this is a video game. You gotta go get that. You gotta go get your spouse, you gotta go get over. What are some things that wasn't included in men when we came here, but we have to leave with? I know I threw you on the spot. I know that what's some things that you you know we we ain't gonna, we come in here, they say sinful babies. I think you told me some pastor said if a baby, this was crazy. You know, it's like the babies is born innocent and all that. It was like, man, if a baby, how you if a baby, the way a baby act, if you take a sucker from it, if a baby was my size, a baby would tear you apart over a sucker. Like that's a selfish ass look. Like you know what I'm saying? Like, so this mentality, so um, with that, because they don't have the tools, you have to train a child up in a way to go. Right? So batteries are not included. But to make this machine work, you gotta go find these batteries. What batteries do men need?

SPEAKER_01

I think a big battery that needs to be inserted is the ability to empathize. I think empathy is something that we as men lack for each other because of the stigma of real men, don't cry, you need to be tough. It's this thug-like culture, especially when the hip hop epidemic came into the scene, black men were seen as like, yeah, we ain't nobody gonna try me, ain't nobody finna hold me. Like I promise you, you can get it, and we are the number one detriment to each other. So if we had the ability to empathize, meaning put ourselves in the shoes of another man, not just a black man, but another man, to really hear what it is that we're going through. It's crazy how you know how they say when you older hurt people, hurt people, or the bullies were the ones who got bullied. So the men who don't empathize were the men that didn't get empathy. So if we have the ability to empathize with each other, there would be a lot less crab in the barrel mentality. Meaning when we finally come up, you no longer empathize with the person who's in the struggle that you once were in. And so from there, it's just like, nah, hey. Yeah, we good? You're like, you were once here before. But I I can see the I see I see the brain turning.

SPEAKER_04

So would you well just a question? So so would you say that a big key in like starting that chain reaction starts from like some of the gatekeepers or some of the people at the top? Or or how would how would that be spread even more? Um well, how would that spread further? I mean, I I know the people at the top can has has a lot more influence. So how how do you think in your mind to spread that empathy? Sometimes you gotta get it out the mud.

SPEAKER_01

Sometimes you have to be the one that gets it out the mud, and when you get there, don't allow the mud to harden. And I think that's why a lot of people are gatekeepers. Don't allow the mud to harden. Yeah, because every don't don't get it wrong. A lot of people have gotten out the mud, and that's what hardens them. Like, no, no, no, no. I got it out the mud, so you got it, you gotta get it out too. Be like, dude, like you started with the it doesn't make no sense. Right, right, right. You didn't start with a leg up, why not extend the hand that you wanted? So, my my quote in life, it's original. My quote in life is be the thing in someone else's life that you were missing in your own. So that's that's where it starts. So again, if we could empathize that I had to get it off the mud too, but don't allow the mud to harden when you get to the top. Right. Where it now it causes resentment, it caused, it causes, there's a scripture that states it says, Woe to the land when a slave becomes king. Meaning the slave mentality did not change when you became king. And that's what gatekeeping is all about is it was people who had slave mentalities when they finally became key pins on the throne, they never left the slave mentality. And so that's why we have a lot of gatekeeping, because the lack of empathy of identifying with a person who was you were once in that same struggle. You were once in those same shoes. So that's my my big push is not only identity, but it's inspiring people to look. You can make it, and I can be the hand up, and you can have the leg up. It's cool. Like, why would you want to start? If you look at the the Rockefellers, if you look at some of the wealthiest people in the world, they don't ever go to their kids like, yeah, I need you to start from the struggle. Get it out of the money. Get it off the mind. It's ridiculous. If I worked and I paved the way for you, I need you to do better.

SPEAKER_04

So why do you think that's such a big thing in like the black community?

SPEAKER_01

Gatekeeping?

SPEAKER_04

Gatekeeping and not lending a hand up. Because of the-cause you see it in the Hispanic community.

SPEAKER_02

Like, even if like they'll all bend together. Go live in one house, everybody get a job, they're gonna pay that, and then you know, you see it. You see them putting their resources together. Like, but you don't really see that in our community.

SPEAKER_01

Really, you know, yeah. So think about it. It's uh it's a scarcity mindset that we have been taught. So not only just a crab in the barrel mentality, but what's mine is mine. Like you just said it with kids. You don't have to tell your children mine. Because the moment that they get it, they're like, it's not yours. You'd be like, you need to share. No, no, no. It's a scarcity mindset. Like, listen, there are plenty of toys. You try to go pick up another. No, that's mine too. Right. You're like, brother, you wouldn't even use it. It's just the natural rebellion in us, right? So we all need to be transformed by the renewing of our thinking. So I believe that it really starts mentally. It starts in in the minds. So if you can change your mind, you can change, you can change your life. But a lot of people, again, their environment changes, but their mind never changed. So when they got to the top, they were the same people that they were at the bottom.

SPEAKER_05

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_01

Just with a bit a little bit more influence and power, right? So and that's what that scripture means. Woe to the land when a slave becomes king.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, I I I I think you got some I think you got some powerful stuff. Some power. I mean, just from that, I think it's it's a lot of Jews, but if somebody can hear, they can hear it's a lot of things. That's just on one thing that you share with us. So I know it's a lot of things that's beneficial that they'll be able to mine from from you. And so where where if you know some people have questions, they want to see some other information, where can they find you guys?

SPEAKER_02

We gotta. I knew this was gonna be good, but it's like I know your homies like they like be on you all the time because it's like you a well, bro. It's like it's deep, bro.

SPEAKER_01

Like, yeah, man. I didn't even tell the best part of my story. That's come on, come on. That's the problem.

SPEAKER_00

I told you it's wrapping up, but you can find me on this. We can just get interested.

SPEAKER_01

Listen, listen, how we how we find you. I didn't even tell you the best part of my story. So I'll tell you, I'll tell you the best part of my story, and then we can wrap it up with you know where to find me and all of these things. There's the best part of my story that I left out because I talked about I could have died and I couldn't have been here. So life and death was given to a power of a nine-year-old. So meaning I didn't have no chemo, no radiation, no steroid shots, no nothing. So the doctors came to my mom, she was to the right of me, and they were like, hey, listen, we want to see if we can shrink and break up this tumor. We we can do radiation, we can do the chemo, we can do steroid shots, we can do all of these things. My mom turns to me and she said, You're talking to the wrong one. It's him. He's he's nine years old, he can make the decision. They said, ma'am, I don't think you understand. I don't think you understand us. Like, this this is your mama knew this is this is a serious issue. But but but she knew. No, I'm saying what was in you. Oh, yeah, no, 100%. She knew. That's what I'm saying. Off the rip, she said, No, no, no, it's his decision. Wow. She said, So, son, what do you want to do? Wow. So life and death was given. Into a nine-year-old. And I said, We're not doing chemo, no steroids, no radiation, no nothing. So, okay, well, how does the tumor go away? Well, I'm glad you asked. Is they did a spinal tap. And so for a spinal tap, it's a needle this long, you have to be very still. So they gave me anesthesia, my body was fighting the anesthesia. So they would take me out of the room five minutes later, I'm back in the room. My mom's like, that's fast. They said, ma'am, his body is fighting the anesthesia. Mind you, like I'm about four foot two, nine-year-old, little, little thing, right? And so they said, we have to give him another dose. I'm out, they wheel me back down. Five minutes later, I'm back in the room. This man, we've never seen this before. His body is fighting the anesthesia. We have to you have to sign a waiver because now we have to give him more. This can put you in an anesthetic coma, right? Because my body is so little in the amount of dosage that they're giving you, you can be sleek for a cool little minute. So they did it, they're in there. Mind you, I got out of the hospital in three days. Not three weeks, not three months, three months, but that's not even the best part. Is inside of this, this was the second night into the third, the third morning. Now I'm in there. You know what uh sleep paralysis is, where you feel like you be yelling for help. Your eyes open. So I I equate that experience to that because the anesthesia was so so so strong that I was out. I'm talking, my body was stiff as the board. So they tried everything humanly possible to wake me up. I'm talking about cold water, ice, needles, tickling my feet, my body didn't move, but I heard everything. They said, ma'am, if Alex doesn't wake up and eat something, he can't go home. So then I jump up. They're like, oh my God, what is going on? Who is this kid? Who is this little kid, man? This is weird. The moment that we say if he don't eat something, he can't go home. And the first thing that I said when I woke up, I said, he says I'm healed. Now everybody looking around the room like, who is he? Who is he? Okay, who is he? And they said, no, son, repeat that. What did you say? I said, he says I'm healed. That's crazy. And they turned to my mom. They said, ma'am, did the chaplain come into the room? Did the chaplain say something? Again, that's a liability. Did the chaplain say that to you all? Because if he did, we're gonna have to see going to that. You got some paperwork to file. They said, son, who told you that? So what people don't know is when I'm in that anesthetic sleep, I had an encounter with God. Glory, hallelujah. Encounter with God. Didn't see his face, but you saw glory. He says, When you wake up, tell him what I said. Wait, come on, man, don't skip. Come on, don't skip. What happened? So he said, tell me what. You just heard it. You did you see anything? You just see glory. But you're having a meaning. What do you mean you see glory? Think of the brightest light. Think of the brightest light possible. White light. Looking in the sun. Just think of the brightest, looking into the sun, and then think of a light even brighter than that. Like almost white as possible. It's impossible to fathom, but it's so but it's so much peace in that moment. But you can audibly hear a voice, and he says, when you wake up, you tell them what I said. So I woke up, I was out of there in three days, but here's the best part. Two weeks go by after they do all of this. And my mom's phone rings. This is back when we had landlines, the house phone, I still remember my house phone number. Yeah, the long core 7602-5667. If you call it, it's not gonna be us answering. Back in the day when we had that. And so the phone rings, and it's a doctor on the. I remember like I was sitting to my mom's right side, and she was like, Yeah, Ms. Warren, um, you know, this is Dr. Such and Such. We, you know, at La Mont in the hospital. Um, ma'am, is Alex around? She's like oh yeah, he's he's right here. And this is the doctor that told a nine-year-old boy at the beginning he's been practicing medicine for 25 plus years, right? He got to give his credentials and his resume. And he said, ma'am, I've been practicing medicine for 25 plus years. He said, Are you sitting down? She said, Well, do I need to? He said, I have done this for a while, 25 plus years. And he said, ma'am, there was a brain mass growing on the left of your son's brain, the size of a grapefruit. He said, ma'am, it's gone. In three days. Three days is gone. It's it's gone. That's crazy. Right? So I said, can you come back to the hospital? We want to run some tests just to be sure. So we get back into the hospital, nurses are crying, doctors are crying. They said, we don't know what God you guys believe in, but we believe. Whoa, whoa. So that that is my story. So when you hear the wisdom, when you hear some of the things that I have gone through, that's because I've experienced life very early on. Very early on, right? And so it was never a woe-ist me. And with that decision to not do the chemo, the radiation, I look my mom dead in her eye and said, Mom, whether I live or die, it will be okay. That's why that's Yeah!

SPEAKER_02

What else do you go after that man?

SPEAKER_04

I mean, I I that's amazing. But I got a qu I got a question that I don't even know if you have an answer for it. Not not that, you know, but anybody can answer it. So even in that, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's amazing. But why do you think you, out of all the cases and kids, anecdotes and stuff like that, why do you think God allowed certain things like that to happen? Because it happens to other people, but it don't happen. But most people get out of here. Chemo or not. But why do you think he allowed you? Why, why, why do you why do you why do you think I mean not just saying there's no real I don't think there's no reality?

SPEAKER_01

I'll answer it this way. Because it's there's no politically correct answer, right? On like or because there's no right or wrong.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

My room, my roommate in the hospital who had colon cancer, is I think his name was Gary. He died. Gary was a good kid. Gary didn't do anything to anybody. So it's like, wow, okay. What is what does God this don't make no sense? Why him am I him? I think sometimes it does boil down to your level of strength and belief. Because again, it goes back to demeanor. A lot of people, they give up when they accept the label. A lot of people accept. That's why I said it's it goes back to the therapy. They accept what the doctor diagnosed. What the doctor diagnosed. How do you hear that?

SPEAKER_03

I I I I know a girl who she had told me that her grandfather was he strong, he was healthy, he was happy, he was joyful, and he just went to the hospital for some reason, and he said sh she said that the uh doctor told him, I believe, that he had cancer. He said, she said from the moment he left that place, he he was different. He changed. And I know that's some heavy information, but she said it was she said she said that she believed it like even those words just shook him down. Well, you accepted him. Yeah, and I think he that's what I think she was saying, that he almost accepted him and walked in that, and he just she was like, I think he had more fight in him. You know, she was speaking about her grandfather, and she was just like, I think he he accepted what they said instead of just even tried, or let me look, or let me, you know, and some people even if you do it.

SPEAKER_01

But it's natural though, because I even looked at the young man that was rooming with me, his parents weren't believers. So there was no hope for you. Right? And this is why I say there's your hope is only the doctor. So exactly. So when you have exhausted all hope in some of the best physicians, then where do you turn to? Yeah. But if there's nowhere to turn to, then there is no hope for you.

SPEAKER_02

That's why he says, dare to believe. Like even in your situation, like just hearing you. I don't know if I was in your situation personally, if I could dare to believe that's the way you believe. Not even to that to profess it, to say, I mean, I was on the ABC show. I was uh I was uh down and it was like I God was like say, I'm gonna fight for you. I'm in the middle of argument, say I'm gonna fight for you. I'm on TV, it's like God go fight for me. And it's like I had to dare to say it because the doubt of if you say guys anything, you lose in front of national, you know what I mean? But the fact that I you this is a old commission song. Dare to believe, you dare to believe the in the face of the impossible, in the face of the belly.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. And I believe that God is selective, right? Because my my baby boy, who he's five. So that's just that. Now that like I am a father, and I see my baby boy who's five years old. And at five years old, I was just starting to lose my hair. So now I I am, I just take another level of gratefulness for life. I'm like, man, gosh.

SPEAKER_03

You see the magnitude.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, like God, man, I don't know if I could watch my baby go through that. That's what gave me the paradigm shift for my father. Watching my baby. Like, oh no, I know this hurt my dad. Because it is what a this would be this hurt anybody. This would hurt. This would hurt me. But if you accept the words, and this is why men and women be mindful of what you accept. Absolutely. Be mindful of what you accept. So if you say, Oh, she's just saying, All I am is a dog, well, cool, you're gonna be a dog. Right. Because that's what you've accepted. Yeah. So the words, words are are are powerful. They're the way that we see the world. And so that's the the reason that I'm an inspirational speaker, motivational speaker, is I want to change the way that people see the world and the way that people see themselves. And sometimes you may be the thing that causes someone to believe.

SPEAKER_02

Fire, man. Such an inspirational dude. Look, before we get up out of here, before we close the show, man, if you could, because we want to do it different. Yeah, you know, all guess is different, man. Tell us where to find you, but man, leave us and the audience with a word of prayer, bro, just for strength this year. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We're at the top of the year, man. There's so many distractions. We just watched an assassination together, a whole world. Well, you know what I mean? Last year, and it's like we don't know what 2026 got in store for us. So if you could just for the audience, for everybody listening, for men, for women, just put that blanket. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01

Heavenly Father, we just thank you. We praise you, we honor you. We glorify your name for truly you're an awesome God, and there's none like you. Lord, we thank you for this platform. We thank you for the encounter of people. We thank you that the people that will hear this, it's changing their hearts. It's changing their mind, it's changing their paradigm, it's changing the way that they see the see the world. We pray that it changes the way that they even use words. Lord, we pray that you expand their vocabulary, that you enlarge their territory, and that we understand that suffering is a part of this life, Lord. But all roads of suffering lead back to one place. And that is simply you. And as long as you are on the throne, which we know that you are, there will always be hope for humanity. Lord, we're praying that anybody who's dealing with depression, anybody who's dealing with anxiety, any anybody who's dealing with suicide or mental health in general, we pray that your peace of pastors also understanding comforts them in their season, Lord, that they don't take permanent solutions to temporary seasons in their life, to temporary storms in their life, Lord. Lord, we thank you for the Canon Brothers. We thank you for the audience. We thank you that you are drawing them back unto yourself, Lord. We thank you that you are so gracious, that you're so kind, that you're so merciful, that you're not throwing us away, that you don't recycle us, but you renew us, you restore us, you redeem us, you transform us. And Lord, we thank you that this 2026 will be the best years of our life, Lord. That everything will be for your glory and your glory alone. And these things that we ask in your son Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_02

Amen. Everybody ain't doing that. Canon Brothers Show, man.

SPEAKER_03

Hey, we ought to let us know where we where we can find you. Oh, yeah. You know where we can check you out at. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

You can follow me, follow me on Instagram at Iam AlexWarren, and you can book me at www.alexwarn junior.com. We thank you so much for being a pleasure of your presence, my brother. Canon Brothers Podcast, baby.

SPEAKER_02

Y'all tune in.