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In Disguise George Foreman November 22, 2009 Abstract George Foreman discusses how people can wear disguises and ultimately kill the ones they love. In his sermon, In Disguise, Foreman focuses on how even family members can wear disguises, pretending to love and care for you, while draining the life out of you. Foreman cautions his audience to learn how to recognize the disguise and how to cope with people who lie about their true intentions. His goal is to teach the audience how to be givers of life rather than killers, and most importantly, that real love will guide us through life. Foreman begins his sermon by explaining that when he preaches, he is never talking about anyone specific. He simply talks about ideas that he has received from the Lord or that he has come up with. To explain his process, he tells the story of his friend Johnny Nash, singer of “I Can See Clearly Now.” According to Foreman, he heard many rumors about Nash’s inspiration behind the iconic song. Nash didn’t understand the fascination about the song and eventually told a reporter that there was no real inspiration for the song. He simply wrote it. Foreman points out that this may be hard to believe, but sometimes ideas just come to people. Foreman also discusses his attempt to stay out of people’s business. He believes the less he knows about his neighbors, the easier it will be to preach. When those around him try to gossip, he changes the subject. Foreman contends, that the more he knows about someone, the more they will think he is talking about them in church. He emphasizes again that he is not talking about anyone during his sermons, but if someone finds a similarity to what he is saying, they should pay attention. He continues on by declaring that people are in disguise and some have worn disguises so long, they don’t realize they are wearing it any longer. He tells the story of a conversation he had with his daughter. He asked his daughter if she was crossing a river and realized that she was not a boat, but on the back of an alligator, what would she do? After talking it out for a while, Foreman tells her to save herself, she must sell the disguise to the alligator. She must make the alligator believe he is a boat to make it across the river. He goes on further to ask her if she had a fiancé who pretended to love her, but was actually trying to kill her, what would she do? He believes that the only way out would be to wear a disguise as well. His point is not to let the people who wear disguises harm you. Foreman believes that people do not die of heart attacks and strokes because of outside stresses, but from the stress of one’s own family. One of the main themes of the sermon is that idea that people in disguise are killers. They kill their loved ones by pretending to love and care for their family, when in reality they are only wearing them down with negativity. Foreman jokes that he would rather die because he eats too much unhealthy food, rather than dying from the stress caused by a family member in disguise. He gives examples about the types of people who wear disguises throughout the remainder of the sermon. Foreman talks extensively about how children can wear disguises. They try to get close to you, but really want to kill you. He cautions that there is always someone in disguise attempting to take your life away from you. He tells the story of a stallion he once own to explain the effect that children can have on a family. The stallion kicked and bit Foreman and then walked out of the barn to go breed with a female horse. He tells the audience how children can do they same thing. Children wear disguises by coming home and pretending to care about their families, but then staying out a contact, causing their families to worry. Foreman also speaks about how women and men can both wear their significant others down so far that they die. He warns the audience that they need to be good to their husbands and wives. They need to let love guide their relationships, rather than breaking each other down. In Foreman’s mind, we must all be productive and give life instead of breaking down and killing the ones we love. He believes we must be able to recognize the disguise and not allow those in disguise to take your life away. You must protect yourself from those that want to hurt you. He ends his sermon by encouraging love over the disguise. Subject Guide Track 1: Johnny Nash 00:00:01-00:01:35 This sermon is not about you 00:01:36-00:02:57 Disguises 00:02:58-00:05:44 Family in disguise 00:05:45-00:08:09 Children in disguise 00:08:10-00:12:09 Track 2: Pull your pants up 00:00:01-00:01:13 Family can kill you 00:01:14-00:04:27 Late night snack 00:04:28-00:05:28 Wives don’t kill your husbands 00:05:29-00:08:39 Don’t be a killer 00:08:40-00:09:32 Track 3: Don’t accuse your wife 00:00:01-00:01:53 Don’t tell me about my kids 00:01:54-00:03:37 Expose the disguise 00:03:38-00:05:08 Don’t read other’s text messages 00:05:09-00:06:00 [Track 1] I’ve been a preacher all these years and uh, when you’re preaching, I’ve lost more friends because people said I was talking about them. I was not even thinking about them. If you see me standing up here and preach, either the Lord has given it to me or it just jumped right in my mind sitting here. I met this guy, Johnny Nash.* He had a hit song. [sings] “I can see clearly now . . . dah dat dah. All of the . . .dah dat dah dah duh. Gonna . . . dah dah dah dat dah duh.” What a beautiful song. He wrote the song and it was indeed a hit. So we’re having lunch together, Michael* was with us. [Does not specify who Michael is.] We were sitting there chatting because when he did the song, people would come to me and say, way back in the 70s I guess, “Yeah. What he done, he’d gone into exile and left music and lived in Jamaica. While he was there some things were bothering him and he got his mind cleared.” Then I heard other rumors about why he had written that song. He wrote the song because this and he wrote the song because all kinds of things, but it was such a hit. [Johnny Nash is an American pop singer-song writer best known for his 1972 hit, “I Can See Clearly Now.”] We were sitting at the table talking. I guess he wanted me to know. He said, “I was doing this interview and this guy asked me, when you were writing this song, what was going through your mind?” He looked at the guy and said, “Nothing.” He went, “Nothing.” I mean what did you think he said? “Nothing. I just wrote the song.” It’s hard for someone to believe that. There was nothing on his mind, nothing that he was thinking about. He just wrote the song. “My mind gets empty so I write a song.” That’s the way it is when I’m preaching. The good Lord will every now and then wake me up and give me a little sermon or something to talk about. So, I’ll find books in the Bible and read and say, “Ah. That’s what He’s talking about.” And I’ll go from there, but never am I thinking about anyone. I don’t even and I try my best to stay out of people’s business so I can be free to really preach. Because if you go to everyone’s house and you telling their business and looking what kind of mail they got in and how many bills and all that, you’ll find out to much. A lot of people will say, “George come by.” I’ll say, “Naw.” Or say, “George let’s talk.” I’ll say, “Naw, because you may stop by church and think I’m talking about you.” And I try to close my ears a lot of times they say, “Man that guy act like he doesn’t want to sit and talk.” I just change the subject and start talking about something stupid or something that doesn’t make sense because I don’t know people’s business and I try my best to stay out of business. But, sometimes I’ll wake up with a vision and God will give me something. When he does I’ll just pray about it. If its something about you or me, I just pray about it. Hopefully, if you’re in something’s that wrong, if any of us are doing something wrong we will repent. That means top. Clean it up, change our minds, and go about your business because you can’t just go around your whole life doing things you know that are wrong in the first place. But, if I’m happening to preach and something hits you, don’t look at me funny. I don’t know nothing about you and nor has anyone told me anything about you. So many people wear disguises. I asked my daughter about it coming to church because I though about that I was going to preach about that. So many people wear disguises and after a while, they don’t even know that they are disguising themselves. So, I asked my daughter, I said, “If you were going across a river, hitchhike a ride, then a quarter of the way across you discover that you are on the back of an alligator that’s disguised himself as something else, what would you do?” She said, “I’d fall off, but then he’ll eat me. If I go half way he’s going to kill me.” She said, “There’s nothing . . .” I said, “Wait just a moment. There’s always a way out of something.” There’s all ways a way out of it. She said, “If you going half way . . .” I said, “He’s talking you half way so he can expose himself and eat you because if you jump in the water he’s got you.” And she sat up and though about it and finally I just made her talk about it. She said, “Well, maybe I should trick the alligator.” I said, “Now you’re getting there.” Disguise yourself. Make him think he really is what he disguises himself to be. A boat? Start praising the boat. “What a beautiful boat. There’s no other boat like this boat. I can’t wait to get to the other side to take pictures and tell the whole world about this wonderful boat.” And just start complimenting him and he is so serious and once you get to the other side you can say, “Bye.” But, there’s comes a time when you have to discuss and start selling. Sell the alligator on being something that he has disguised himself as. Sell him on it, “You know you’re the best I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen anything like you.” Sell. Anyway, we kept talking I said, “Well,” we’d done this thing and talked about it earlier, I said, “Suppose you had a fiancé. Then you found out just before you got married that he didn’t like you, didn’t love you at all. Just trying to find a way to kill you.” I said, “But you saw he was disguised as this person. He acted like he loved you but he had disguised himself just to get to kill you.” I said, “What do you do? Do you expose him or do you disguise yourself?” We talked about that. We went over and over and over. If someone was disguising themselves to kill you and you found out they were disguising them self, would you expose them or would you disguise yourself so that they don’t kill you, so you can get away? She answered all kinds of ways, but that’s one thing about disguises. There are many a people and I mean seriously and I get right down to the bottom. There are lots of people in the hospital right now. They suffer heart attacks, strokes, come to find out loads of stressful diseases are caused by stress and hurt. When I was younger I heard a song that said, “You’re enemies can’t do you no harm.” That’s right. You’re enemies cannot do you harm and that’s the way it is today. Enemies can’t do you any harm. There’s no one who suffered a stroke or a heart attack at the hand of an enemy. We all do this at the hand of our loved ones. They disguise themselves like they really love you. Some of them put on a parade and what they call it when they put them camouflage on where you can’t see them? They disguise them so much to get closer to you for one reason is to break you down and kill you, to break you down and kill you. And you say, “Who you?” That’s right. It could be your own son. A guy told me, he said, “You’ve got to be careful with your heart.” A friend of mind said that some people are sitting there watching the Dallas Cowboys* and look like they’re going to win. [Professional football team representing Dallas, Texas.] Then all of a sudden four points ahead. I’m using an example, and the other team catches the ball and runs down and scores and beat those poor Dallas Cowboys. And your heart gets spiked. He said, “Its those spikes that kill you.” I’m just using the Dallas Cowboys as a good spiker because they’ll break your heart every week. If you like the Dallas Cowboys, you’re going to get hurt. You mess with those ‘Boys, you’re going to get hurt. But, they don’t disguise themselves. All you’ve got to do is cut that television off and say, “No Cowboys today.” No Cowboys today. You can do that right? But, sometimes you spend five years; six years, ten years, twelve years, nineteen years and you raise your nice son. After a while you have to say, “You know what? You’re on your own because you’re going to kill me. I was watching wife, the mother, telling one her kids, “Put your shirt tail in son.” And he looked up, looked at me, and I looked down. She said, “Put your shirt tail in son.” He looked around and looked at me again. I looked down again. I said to myself, “You know what? I have a Mercedes at home, stuff at home I’m not supposed to eat. If I’m going to kill myself, I’m going in there to have some banana crème pie.” I’m not going to let this kid kill me. If I’m going to die, if I’m going to fall out, I’m going to overload with that cholesterol stuff. I’m going to have me a three egg white omelet. I mean egg omelet, no whites. I’m leaving the yellow in it. Then I’m gon’ have a steak. A grilled cheese sandwich and I’m going to put butter on both sides. If I’m going down, I’m not going down over . . . all I was thinking about was, “Man if I had a pecan pie.” We were in New Orleans the other day and I was thinking about, oh boy. Go to New Orleans. They have some food there. You can just order this, order that. If I’m going to go down, I’m going down that way. So, the kid just looked at me and just kept looking at me. I did not say . . . I purposely did not do it because I have a nephew. The other day . . . we text all the time. RW is about twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, something like that. We always talk about cars. He texted me, “Camaro.”* [Sports car first made by Chevolet in 1966.] I texted him back, “Man have you seen that Camaro?” That’s all we talk about. Camaro. Camaro. Camaro. That Chevy Camaro, that’s all we have to talk about. I am not talking about some kid who calls themselves grown. He’s not going to worry me because I will forget that I can actually go down and get a Camaro and drive that thing down the street and drive it back. We met the other day and I said, “Man, what color do you think?” He said, “Black, George.” But I said, “Yellow was the year of the Camaro. The yellow one.” He said, “Yeah, but something like this.” We argued and talked about this. “Mmm-hmmm” He said, “I’ll see you later. I’ll see you later.” We haven’t done anything, but it makes for the most interesting conversation. I could have been talking about that boy who did not want to put his shirt tail back in because that’s not a baby anymore. It’s not a baby anymore. What he has, he’s disguised himself. Not talking about him [inaudible]. But he’s disguised himself like he is my baby. He has disguised himself like he is a truthful loving baby and he’s a walking killer. He’s a walking, talking, big time killer with his shirttail out. I thought about it. I got home and I realized there’s no one that could have killed that mom more so then me. I was a mother killer. I was a mother killer because no one worried their mom like me. I tried to kill my mother. She wondered, “Is he coming in now?” Every time the police, “Uh,” nervous and everything, and scared. I did realize one day, because I was such an old drinker and smoker and all the things I did, I tried to hide them from my mother. She told someone, “I’d rather for someone to just go out and buy it and let him drink it at the house, rather than going outside and getting himself hurt.” Then I knew then that I had sunken to the most low level that I could sink to. I realized I was not anybody’s precious baby. I was a murderer. Sooner or later, if she was going to have a heart attack or a stroke, I was going to be the one to cause it. End of Track 1. [Track 2] I made up my mind one day. I really made up my mind one day. I must have been about sixteen years old. I really did. I put my shirttail in. Even now my wife laughs and calls me Captain High Pants. She does. “What are you doing Captain High Pants? I mean I could put them down like that [gestures to crowd.] I could do that, but I will only cause her a heart attack sooner or later. As long as I’m up here, she may laugh at me, but she’ll not have to go worry about any sickness. She will not have to worry. When she sees me drop them, more than the pants just went down. I’d drop my integrity along with them. That’s a sign that I got it. That’s why one thing you do when [tape skip, inaudible]. You can where whatever you want, but when you come in there you’re going to have to button them up, baby. Now that you’ve kept them up you can be Sergeant High Pants. You can be General High Pants, that right Mr. Johnson? You’ve got to get them up. Then when you’re out of there, everybody can be accounted for that you’re not going to let them down. When they see you sagging a little bit, they know right there that’s a bad one and we’re going to try and find a way to get him out of here. But some people disguise themselves. They get close to you. They write you letters, “I love you. [sings] I love you for sentimental reasons.”* They send you flowers, every thing to get close to you, but for one reason, to kill you. All they want to do is get close to you and kill you. Maybe you did something wrong to this baby. Guy asked me one time, said, “George, uh,” he was a doctor. I’m always checking on these doctors. I’m always checking another doctor because one thing about me, I want to live. If I go to the doctor and he tells me, “Man, you’ve got to take seventeen pills.” I’d say, “You sure it’s not eighteen?” He said, “You’re going to have to take this.” I want to live. I’m that one. I’m always at another doctor’s office checking, “What you got new doc,” because I want to be alive. All these times when you out there trying to get your life together, you’ve got to understand that there’s someone trying to disguise themselves to take your life from you. You lose your life and you lose your good health. You may be young today, but if you lose one arm where you can’t lift them or one leg that you can’t life them, that’s just your arm and your leg. No one else is worried about them, going on about their life. Children don’t even understand until they get old. Man, you’re killing your mother. They don’t even understand they do it. *[Lyrics refer to the song of the same name, written in 1945 and most famously recorded by Nat King Cole.] I was in the stall a couple times with my horses. I was breeding one once, a big stallion. He was my stud, man. Looking out for you. I came into a “Whoa. Get back, get straight.” I put the female out there for him. That horse put his ears back and I’d never seen a horse act like that, turning into a dog horse. And that stallion hit me, boom, in the chest. When he hit me, he bit me. [makes grunting noises] I’ve never had that kind of pain in my life. Crawling [makes grunting noises] and then knocked me down to the floor. My cousin was there. Old James Row, he’s passed on now. He was in shock. I said, “Why didn’t you hit him?” He said, “I didn’t know what to do.” I jumped up with that stick and me and that horse fought. I was fighting for my life. That horse could have just stepped on me and went on about his business. All he wanted to do was breed the horse, come back and get some hay later and hhhmm-hhhmmm-hhhmm. Well sometimes the loved ones you’re with, you call them your loved ones and you don’t know that the kid days are gone. They will walk over you, step on you, and bite you mean in your home and just go breed. That’s it and there you are. They way they do it. They just don’t care. They will call you at night. You ever sit there, [Fictional conversation between George and older woman] “Where is my son? He hasn’t called.” “Where’s your what? How old is he?” “Twenty-five.” “Where’s your what?” “I haven’t heard from my son in a week.” “You want to die?” “I haven’t heard from my daughter in a month.” “Do you really want to die?” It’s good to love everybody. I love everyone, but I do love to enjoy my life. When I’m sitting up thinking about what I am I going to do wrong. I’m thinking about, “Man, that cheese in that refrigerator. I got some things I could eat with that cheese.” Do you know they’ve got some mustard now, Dijon mustard? All I know is Di-good. And you just toast your bread real hot and wipe that mustard on it and put some cheese on there and you did it about two o’clock in the morning. Oh. So, I get up at night sometimes and I’ll walk to the refrigerator. I’ll go in there and say, “I’m just getting get a bottle of water and go back.” That’s the only trouble I have. I mean, that cheese and that mustard. If I go down dear brother and sisters, it’s going to be because of that cheese and that mustard. There’s so many women. All the time I meet people all over the world. I was sitting there at Monk’s* boxing match the other day in Louisiana. One lady standing by me said, “George, can I just have a hug?” I said, “Yes m’am.” I hugged her. Another one backed up and wanted a hug. She said, “For my husband.” I gave her a hug. Finally she said, “My husband sure loved you George.” I said, “Really?” And she told me about him. I make them talk, you know? Come to find out, her husband’s been dead and the one next to me, her husband’s been dead. And the next one [makes noises], dead. And their husbands loved me, but where are they? All the ones that loved me are dead. They wanted a hug and an autograph. I’m giving them a hug and telling them to take a picture. I said to myself, “You’re not going to show it to your husband.” And I realized that you good sisters, stop killing your husbands. You see you can flip the Dallas Cowboys off, but what about your wife? You can’t do it. You can’t do anything, but let her have her way. Oh yeah. You say, “Okay. Okay.” First you’ve got, “ [yells] You don’t talk to me like that.” After three years, “You don’t talk to me like that.” After four years, “I’m not going to take that.” After about six you’re like, “Meow.” *[Referring to his son, George Monk Foreman III, who is also a professional boxer.] But the stabbings still hurt. Sometimes you see people walking along, especially them women with their heels on. Some people say, “Man here comes a model.” Some people say, “Here come a killer.” Here comes a killer. Remember, I’m not talking about anyone. Didn’t I tell you that at first? I’m not talking about anyone. I’m trying to make certain that all of us are productive and we are not the ones who are killing, but we are the ones who give life. Because if you stick your husband, you stick George Foreman fan, you stick him. You stick him when you meet me and he won’t be there with you. He’s going to be dead. “I’m not going to open my mouth. I’m going to sit here.” [Fictional female character.] You’ve already done the harm. You might as well keep your mouth open now. Once you’ve said too much, then the next thing you do is you going to die. All you’re going to be is somewhere, and I started to say. Listen to me carefully now because once they put us away. After they put us old fellows away, then your children, killer number two come tell killer number one, “Mama don’t kill yourself running up and down there seeing daddy like that. It’s enough mommy. That’s enough mommy. Don’t go anymore mommy.” You know what they say, “Mother you need to take some time for yourself. You need the time to live for yourself, mother. Don’t keep running up there seeing him. He’s still mean anyway.” So after a while, you see lesser and lesser of him. And then him dies unless he’s a tough old booger like me. I’m a tough old booger. Dear brothers and sister, remember I’m not speaking to anyone, but all of us can be people who can save lives or we can be people who take lives. All you young men, all you young women in here as I look around the table. You can be givers of life or you can be killers. How many of you, if your mother told you to pick up your pants and you just looked? Killer. How many of your mothers tell you to come home and you just looked at her? Killer. How many of your mothers said, “Don’t do that.” And you said, “Naw.” Killer. It’s the same with these old fellows. It doesn’t take them but one, two, three years to run a beautiful woman down to the ground, a beautiful woman down to the ground. I read about it all the time. Well some of them [tape skip, inaudible] End of Track 2. [Track 3] Why would she be with you? You’re not rich. I could see if you were living in one of those big old mansions like in Hollywood. They’ve got an elevator up there. You get up there and then you come down. You go and visit someone, they say, “Honey take my private jet.” Then when you come back, “Book the yacht for me.” I can see that. You don’t have nothing and you accuse a woman of being unfaithful. What you got? Are you a lover? Are you a lover or are you a sleeper? I better stop that. Sometimes even I go in my bedroom and I don’t know when I came in there and when I left out. [Makes snoring noises] You know sometimes you’re wife be talking to you and you say, “Yeah. You were telling the truth there.” I’m so tired. I wake up and I’m gone again. It doesn’t even make any sense. What are you trying to do? Kill that woman? Are you trying to kill a woman? That’s all you’re trying to do is stick her. You murderer. You killer, because the only person getting hurt there is your wife. Jealous. I can’t even imagine going home to a jealous sucker. Some men to this day are still accusing their wives, been married ten, fifteen years, still accusing their wives. “Honey? What you doing out there? Why you coming back so later?” That lady’s feet are sore man. What are you talking about? “I know you’re messing with that man.” She said, “If I was, I sure wouldn’t be messing with you.” We can all be driving someone to their grave. First they’ll run out of pills and then they run out of medicine, then they die. They actually die all because they’re wearing a disguise. Sometimes you’ve got to snatch that thing off his head and say, “Caught you, Frankenstein.”* [Referring to Frankenstein’s Monster from Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein] You’ve got to do it. You listen to me careful. Sometimes snatch it off, “I got you Frankenstein!” But don’t put it back on his head and say, “I’m out of here.” First of all brothers and sisters, learn to get yourself, all of us, should learn to get ourselves a life. All of use should learn to get a life. If you got ten kids, get a life. Your kids are not your life. When you’re raising your kids, by the time you get them out of school, you better just let them jokers go because they will come back and smoke you down to the ground. You see what some of my kids have done? Don’t tell me. Tell them. Some people say, “Man I heard your child’s out.” “Tell them.” Don’t ever tell me anything about my children. I’m telling you. If you come up telling me something about my kids, I’m going to tell you something about you because I don’t even have any kids. All I want, “Well, what do you want me to tell you?” “Tell me about where I can get a discount Camaro. I’m looking for a Camaro and you’re talking about this stuff.” Man, I ain’t interested in that. Because kids, when they don’t love you they’ll disguise themselves. How do you know they love you? How do you know they love you? At a birthday party yesterday and I saw these sisters guarding they’re mama just like mama was the president, prime minister, commander-in-chief, or senator. They guided that lady and protected her and looked after her. I said, “That’s the way I want to be loved. If you can’t love me like that, don’t love me.” They took care of everything. Just everything. I said, “You know, its good that the good Lord let you live to see some good things because you know, I don’t want to die not see a whole lot good things.” But that lady did have a need to be rich and powerful. She had her children. All of a sudden, they probably got to watch her now. She may get them. Look and learn in life. If someone is disguising themselves, once you expose them, watch them carefully because they’ll kill you. They will lead you down the wrong path and before you know it, your life is gone all because they disguised themselves as loving you. You don’t to tell them they don’t love you. Just like if you catch a man cheating on you, don’t go telling him, “Man I caught you cheating.” You women, you caught a man, you see him running around on you. He come back in, “I saw you, you no good . . .” Shut your mouth. Keep your mouth shut. He got nothing else to hide, nothing else to lose. Now you know it, now try to find away. People will disguise themselves like they love you and will kill you. Once you find out there is a disguise, don’t let them kill you. Don’t let them kill you. Women, don’t let those men kill you with that old crazy jealous junk. Men, don’t let those women kill you by messing with you either. You’ve got to tell those women sometimes, your wives and everything, you tell them, “Look that’s enough. I don’t want you killing me now.” “If I come in here again and catch your feet on that table!” “Kill me, sugar. Come on, kill me baby.” That guy come in there talking about, “I’m tired of you. You always trying to look, look like you looking for a man. Kill me now. Come on; kill me because you’re not talking anything that will build me up. You’re trying to tear me down.” Can you believe somebody is with you for four or five years? They probably love you now. They probably love you and that’s enough. Love will guide them. A guy the other day, they found him. Poor fellow. Oh, poor fellow. They found him dead. A girl killed him and lay right on top of him. She was going through his text messages. There’s a new thing called a text. You look through yours and leave your husband’s alone. Husbands, you look through yours and leave your wife’s alone. Because you can’t read her messages nor can she read yours. It’s a new thing. They’re not going away. They said a guy was going down the street the other day and he did just mess up his life. The good thing is the girl look like she’s going to get famous. The girl went over his text, the next thing you know he’s fighting her like a dog. She did an interview saying, “He lost it. He lost it.” She said. Somebody told me about it and they were imitating her, “He lost it. He just lost it.” And he started beating her up with his ring and everything, trying to punch her out over a text message. End of Track 3.
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Title | In Disguise |
Speaker | Foreman, George, 1949- |
Biographical Information | George Foreman, born in Marshall, Texas, is perhaps best known for his career and success as a professional boxer, but his accomplishments have also extended beyond sports. During his career, Foreman became an ordained minister and delivered many sermons on a variety of topics. He is also an entrepreneur, seeing success most notably with the George Foreman Grill. |
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Religion Preaching Spiritual Life Philosophy |
Description | "George Foreman discusses how people can wear disguises and ultimately kill the ones they love. In his sermon, In Disguise, Foreman focuses on how even family members can wear disguises, pretending to love and care for you, while draining the life out of you." |
Audio Length | 27:44 |
Date.Original | 2009-11-22 |
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Transcript | In Disguise George Foreman November 22, 2009 Abstract George Foreman discusses how people can wear disguises and ultimately kill the ones they love. In his sermon, In Disguise, Foreman focuses on how even family members can wear disguises, pretending to love and care for you, while draining the life out of you. Foreman cautions his audience to learn how to recognize the disguise and how to cope with people who lie about their true intentions. His goal is to teach the audience how to be givers of life rather than killers, and most importantly, that real love will guide us through life. Foreman begins his sermon by explaining that when he preaches, he is never talking about anyone specific. He simply talks about ideas that he has received from the Lord or that he has come up with. To explain his process, he tells the story of his friend Johnny Nash, singer of “I Can See Clearly Now.” According to Foreman, he heard many rumors about Nash’s inspiration behind the iconic song. Nash didn’t understand the fascination about the song and eventually told a reporter that there was no real inspiration for the song. He simply wrote it. Foreman points out that this may be hard to believe, but sometimes ideas just come to people. Foreman also discusses his attempt to stay out of people’s business. He believes the less he knows about his neighbors, the easier it will be to preach. When those around him try to gossip, he changes the subject. Foreman contends, that the more he knows about someone, the more they will think he is talking about them in church. He emphasizes again that he is not talking about anyone during his sermons, but if someone finds a similarity to what he is saying, they should pay attention. He continues on by declaring that people are in disguise and some have worn disguises so long, they don’t realize they are wearing it any longer. He tells the story of a conversation he had with his daughter. He asked his daughter if she was crossing a river and realized that she was not a boat, but on the back of an alligator, what would she do? After talking it out for a while, Foreman tells her to save herself, she must sell the disguise to the alligator. She must make the alligator believe he is a boat to make it across the river. He goes on further to ask her if she had a fiancé who pretended to love her, but was actually trying to kill her, what would she do? He believes that the only way out would be to wear a disguise as well. His point is not to let the people who wear disguises harm you. Foreman believes that people do not die of heart attacks and strokes because of outside stresses, but from the stress of one’s own family. One of the main themes of the sermon is that idea that people in disguise are killers. They kill their loved ones by pretending to love and care for their family, when in reality they are only wearing them down with negativity. Foreman jokes that he would rather die because he eats too much unhealthy food, rather than dying from the stress caused by a family member in disguise. He gives examples about the types of people who wear disguises throughout the remainder of the sermon. Foreman talks extensively about how children can wear disguises. They try to get close to you, but really want to kill you. He cautions that there is always someone in disguise attempting to take your life away from you. He tells the story of a stallion he once own to explain the effect that children can have on a family. The stallion kicked and bit Foreman and then walked out of the barn to go breed with a female horse. He tells the audience how children can do they same thing. Children wear disguises by coming home and pretending to care about their families, but then staying out a contact, causing their families to worry. Foreman also speaks about how women and men can both wear their significant others down so far that they die. He warns the audience that they need to be good to their husbands and wives. They need to let love guide their relationships, rather than breaking each other down. In Foreman’s mind, we must all be productive and give life instead of breaking down and killing the ones we love. He believes we must be able to recognize the disguise and not allow those in disguise to take your life away. You must protect yourself from those that want to hurt you. He ends his sermon by encouraging love over the disguise. Subject Guide Track 1: Johnny Nash 00:00:01-00:01:35 This sermon is not about you 00:01:36-00:02:57 Disguises 00:02:58-00:05:44 Family in disguise 00:05:45-00:08:09 Children in disguise 00:08:10-00:12:09 Track 2: Pull your pants up 00:00:01-00:01:13 Family can kill you 00:01:14-00:04:27 Late night snack 00:04:28-00:05:28 Wives don’t kill your husbands 00:05:29-00:08:39 Don’t be a killer 00:08:40-00:09:32 Track 3: Don’t accuse your wife 00:00:01-00:01:53 Don’t tell me about my kids 00:01:54-00:03:37 Expose the disguise 00:03:38-00:05:08 Don’t read other’s text messages 00:05:09-00:06:00 [Track 1] I’ve been a preacher all these years and uh, when you’re preaching, I’ve lost more friends because people said I was talking about them. I was not even thinking about them. If you see me standing up here and preach, either the Lord has given it to me or it just jumped right in my mind sitting here. I met this guy, Johnny Nash.* He had a hit song. [sings] “I can see clearly now . . . dah dat dah. All of the . . .dah dat dah dah duh. Gonna . . . dah dah dah dat dah duh.” What a beautiful song. He wrote the song and it was indeed a hit. So we’re having lunch together, Michael* was with us. [Does not specify who Michael is.] We were sitting there chatting because when he did the song, people would come to me and say, way back in the 70s I guess, “Yeah. What he done, he’d gone into exile and left music and lived in Jamaica. While he was there some things were bothering him and he got his mind cleared.” Then I heard other rumors about why he had written that song. He wrote the song because this and he wrote the song because all kinds of things, but it was such a hit. [Johnny Nash is an American pop singer-song writer best known for his 1972 hit, “I Can See Clearly Now.”] We were sitting at the table talking. I guess he wanted me to know. He said, “I was doing this interview and this guy asked me, when you were writing this song, what was going through your mind?” He looked at the guy and said, “Nothing.” He went, “Nothing.” I mean what did you think he said? “Nothing. I just wrote the song.” It’s hard for someone to believe that. There was nothing on his mind, nothing that he was thinking about. He just wrote the song. “My mind gets empty so I write a song.” That’s the way it is when I’m preaching. The good Lord will every now and then wake me up and give me a little sermon or something to talk about. So, I’ll find books in the Bible and read and say, “Ah. That’s what He’s talking about.” And I’ll go from there, but never am I thinking about anyone. I don’t even and I try my best to stay out of people’s business so I can be free to really preach. Because if you go to everyone’s house and you telling their business and looking what kind of mail they got in and how many bills and all that, you’ll find out to much. A lot of people will say, “George come by.” I’ll say, “Naw.” Or say, “George let’s talk.” I’ll say, “Naw, because you may stop by church and think I’m talking about you.” And I try to close my ears a lot of times they say, “Man that guy act like he doesn’t want to sit and talk.” I just change the subject and start talking about something stupid or something that doesn’t make sense because I don’t know people’s business and I try my best to stay out of business. But, sometimes I’ll wake up with a vision and God will give me something. When he does I’ll just pray about it. If its something about you or me, I just pray about it. Hopefully, if you’re in something’s that wrong, if any of us are doing something wrong we will repent. That means top. Clean it up, change our minds, and go about your business because you can’t just go around your whole life doing things you know that are wrong in the first place. But, if I’m happening to preach and something hits you, don’t look at me funny. I don’t know nothing about you and nor has anyone told me anything about you. So many people wear disguises. I asked my daughter about it coming to church because I though about that I was going to preach about that. So many people wear disguises and after a while, they don’t even know that they are disguising themselves. So, I asked my daughter, I said, “If you were going across a river, hitchhike a ride, then a quarter of the way across you discover that you are on the back of an alligator that’s disguised himself as something else, what would you do?” She said, “I’d fall off, but then he’ll eat me. If I go half way he’s going to kill me.” She said, “There’s nothing . . .” I said, “Wait just a moment. There’s always a way out of something.” There’s all ways a way out of it. She said, “If you going half way . . .” I said, “He’s talking you half way so he can expose himself and eat you because if you jump in the water he’s got you.” And she sat up and though about it and finally I just made her talk about it. She said, “Well, maybe I should trick the alligator.” I said, “Now you’re getting there.” Disguise yourself. Make him think he really is what he disguises himself to be. A boat? Start praising the boat. “What a beautiful boat. There’s no other boat like this boat. I can’t wait to get to the other side to take pictures and tell the whole world about this wonderful boat.” And just start complimenting him and he is so serious and once you get to the other side you can say, “Bye.” But, there’s comes a time when you have to discuss and start selling. Sell the alligator on being something that he has disguised himself as. Sell him on it, “You know you’re the best I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen anything like you.” Sell. Anyway, we kept talking I said, “Well,” we’d done this thing and talked about it earlier, I said, “Suppose you had a fiancé. Then you found out just before you got married that he didn’t like you, didn’t love you at all. Just trying to find a way to kill you.” I said, “But you saw he was disguised as this person. He acted like he loved you but he had disguised himself just to get to kill you.” I said, “What do you do? Do you expose him or do you disguise yourself?” We talked about that. We went over and over and over. If someone was disguising themselves to kill you and you found out they were disguising them self, would you expose them or would you disguise yourself so that they don’t kill you, so you can get away? She answered all kinds of ways, but that’s one thing about disguises. There are many a people and I mean seriously and I get right down to the bottom. There are lots of people in the hospital right now. They suffer heart attacks, strokes, come to find out loads of stressful diseases are caused by stress and hurt. When I was younger I heard a song that said, “You’re enemies can’t do you no harm.” That’s right. You’re enemies cannot do you harm and that’s the way it is today. Enemies can’t do you any harm. There’s no one who suffered a stroke or a heart attack at the hand of an enemy. We all do this at the hand of our loved ones. They disguise themselves like they really love you. Some of them put on a parade and what they call it when they put them camouflage on where you can’t see them? They disguise them so much to get closer to you for one reason is to break you down and kill you, to break you down and kill you. And you say, “Who you?” That’s right. It could be your own son. A guy told me, he said, “You’ve got to be careful with your heart.” A friend of mind said that some people are sitting there watching the Dallas Cowboys* and look like they’re going to win. [Professional football team representing Dallas, Texas.] Then all of a sudden four points ahead. I’m using an example, and the other team catches the ball and runs down and scores and beat those poor Dallas Cowboys. And your heart gets spiked. He said, “Its those spikes that kill you.” I’m just using the Dallas Cowboys as a good spiker because they’ll break your heart every week. If you like the Dallas Cowboys, you’re going to get hurt. You mess with those ‘Boys, you’re going to get hurt. But, they don’t disguise themselves. All you’ve got to do is cut that television off and say, “No Cowboys today.” No Cowboys today. You can do that right? But, sometimes you spend five years; six years, ten years, twelve years, nineteen years and you raise your nice son. After a while you have to say, “You know what? You’re on your own because you’re going to kill me. I was watching wife, the mother, telling one her kids, “Put your shirt tail in son.” And he looked up, looked at me, and I looked down. She said, “Put your shirt tail in son.” He looked around and looked at me again. I looked down again. I said to myself, “You know what? I have a Mercedes at home, stuff at home I’m not supposed to eat. If I’m going to kill myself, I’m going in there to have some banana crème pie.” I’m not going to let this kid kill me. If I’m going to die, if I’m going to fall out, I’m going to overload with that cholesterol stuff. I’m going to have me a three egg white omelet. I mean egg omelet, no whites. I’m leaving the yellow in it. Then I’m gon’ have a steak. A grilled cheese sandwich and I’m going to put butter on both sides. If I’m going down, I’m not going down over . . . all I was thinking about was, “Man if I had a pecan pie.” We were in New Orleans the other day and I was thinking about, oh boy. Go to New Orleans. They have some food there. You can just order this, order that. If I’m going to go down, I’m going down that way. So, the kid just looked at me and just kept looking at me. I did not say . . . I purposely did not do it because I have a nephew. The other day . . . we text all the time. RW is about twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, something like that. We always talk about cars. He texted me, “Camaro.”* [Sports car first made by Chevolet in 1966.] I texted him back, “Man have you seen that Camaro?” That’s all we talk about. Camaro. Camaro. Camaro. That Chevy Camaro, that’s all we have to talk about. I am not talking about some kid who calls themselves grown. He’s not going to worry me because I will forget that I can actually go down and get a Camaro and drive that thing down the street and drive it back. We met the other day and I said, “Man, what color do you think?” He said, “Black, George.” But I said, “Yellow was the year of the Camaro. The yellow one.” He said, “Yeah, but something like this.” We argued and talked about this. “Mmm-hmmm” He said, “I’ll see you later. I’ll see you later.” We haven’t done anything, but it makes for the most interesting conversation. I could have been talking about that boy who did not want to put his shirt tail back in because that’s not a baby anymore. It’s not a baby anymore. What he has, he’s disguised himself. Not talking about him [inaudible]. But he’s disguised himself like he is my baby. He has disguised himself like he is a truthful loving baby and he’s a walking killer. He’s a walking, talking, big time killer with his shirttail out. I thought about it. I got home and I realized there’s no one that could have killed that mom more so then me. I was a mother killer. I was a mother killer because no one worried their mom like me. I tried to kill my mother. She wondered, “Is he coming in now?” Every time the police, “Uh,” nervous and everything, and scared. I did realize one day, because I was such an old drinker and smoker and all the things I did, I tried to hide them from my mother. She told someone, “I’d rather for someone to just go out and buy it and let him drink it at the house, rather than going outside and getting himself hurt.” Then I knew then that I had sunken to the most low level that I could sink to. I realized I was not anybody’s precious baby. I was a murderer. Sooner or later, if she was going to have a heart attack or a stroke, I was going to be the one to cause it. End of Track 1. [Track 2] I made up my mind one day. I really made up my mind one day. I must have been about sixteen years old. I really did. I put my shirttail in. Even now my wife laughs and calls me Captain High Pants. She does. “What are you doing Captain High Pants? I mean I could put them down like that [gestures to crowd.] I could do that, but I will only cause her a heart attack sooner or later. As long as I’m up here, she may laugh at me, but she’ll not have to go worry about any sickness. She will not have to worry. When she sees me drop them, more than the pants just went down. I’d drop my integrity along with them. That’s a sign that I got it. That’s why one thing you do when [tape skip, inaudible]. You can where whatever you want, but when you come in there you’re going to have to button them up, baby. Now that you’ve kept them up you can be Sergeant High Pants. You can be General High Pants, that right Mr. Johnson? You’ve got to get them up. Then when you’re out of there, everybody can be accounted for that you’re not going to let them down. When they see you sagging a little bit, they know right there that’s a bad one and we’re going to try and find a way to get him out of here. But some people disguise themselves. They get close to you. They write you letters, “I love you. [sings] I love you for sentimental reasons.”* They send you flowers, every thing to get close to you, but for one reason, to kill you. All they want to do is get close to you and kill you. Maybe you did something wrong to this baby. Guy asked me one time, said, “George, uh,” he was a doctor. I’m always checking on these doctors. I’m always checking another doctor because one thing about me, I want to live. If I go to the doctor and he tells me, “Man, you’ve got to take seventeen pills.” I’d say, “You sure it’s not eighteen?” He said, “You’re going to have to take this.” I want to live. I’m that one. I’m always at another doctor’s office checking, “What you got new doc,” because I want to be alive. All these times when you out there trying to get your life together, you’ve got to understand that there’s someone trying to disguise themselves to take your life from you. You lose your life and you lose your good health. You may be young today, but if you lose one arm where you can’t lift them or one leg that you can’t life them, that’s just your arm and your leg. No one else is worried about them, going on about their life. Children don’t even understand until they get old. Man, you’re killing your mother. They don’t even understand they do it. *[Lyrics refer to the song of the same name, written in 1945 and most famously recorded by Nat King Cole.] I was in the stall a couple times with my horses. I was breeding one once, a big stallion. He was my stud, man. Looking out for you. I came into a “Whoa. Get back, get straight.” I put the female out there for him. That horse put his ears back and I’d never seen a horse act like that, turning into a dog horse. And that stallion hit me, boom, in the chest. When he hit me, he bit me. [makes grunting noises] I’ve never had that kind of pain in my life. Crawling [makes grunting noises] and then knocked me down to the floor. My cousin was there. Old James Row, he’s passed on now. He was in shock. I said, “Why didn’t you hit him?” He said, “I didn’t know what to do.” I jumped up with that stick and me and that horse fought. I was fighting for my life. That horse could have just stepped on me and went on about his business. All he wanted to do was breed the horse, come back and get some hay later and hhhmm-hhhmmm-hhhmm. Well sometimes the loved ones you’re with, you call them your loved ones and you don’t know that the kid days are gone. They will walk over you, step on you, and bite you mean in your home and just go breed. That’s it and there you are. They way they do it. They just don’t care. They will call you at night. You ever sit there, [Fictional conversation between George and older woman] “Where is my son? He hasn’t called.” “Where’s your what? How old is he?” “Twenty-five.” “Where’s your what?” “I haven’t heard from my son in a week.” “You want to die?” “I haven’t heard from my daughter in a month.” “Do you really want to die?” It’s good to love everybody. I love everyone, but I do love to enjoy my life. When I’m sitting up thinking about what I am I going to do wrong. I’m thinking about, “Man, that cheese in that refrigerator. I got some things I could eat with that cheese.” Do you know they’ve got some mustard now, Dijon mustard? All I know is Di-good. And you just toast your bread real hot and wipe that mustard on it and put some cheese on there and you did it about two o’clock in the morning. Oh. So, I get up at night sometimes and I’ll walk to the refrigerator. I’ll go in there and say, “I’m just getting get a bottle of water and go back.” That’s the only trouble I have. I mean, that cheese and that mustard. If I go down dear brother and sisters, it’s going to be because of that cheese and that mustard. There’s so many women. All the time I meet people all over the world. I was sitting there at Monk’s* boxing match the other day in Louisiana. One lady standing by me said, “George, can I just have a hug?” I said, “Yes m’am.” I hugged her. Another one backed up and wanted a hug. She said, “For my husband.” I gave her a hug. Finally she said, “My husband sure loved you George.” I said, “Really?” And she told me about him. I make them talk, you know? Come to find out, her husband’s been dead and the one next to me, her husband’s been dead. And the next one [makes noises], dead. And their husbands loved me, but where are they? All the ones that loved me are dead. They wanted a hug and an autograph. I’m giving them a hug and telling them to take a picture. I said to myself, “You’re not going to show it to your husband.” And I realized that you good sisters, stop killing your husbands. You see you can flip the Dallas Cowboys off, but what about your wife? You can’t do it. You can’t do anything, but let her have her way. Oh yeah. You say, “Okay. Okay.” First you’ve got, “ [yells] You don’t talk to me like that.” After three years, “You don’t talk to me like that.” After four years, “I’m not going to take that.” After about six you’re like, “Meow.” *[Referring to his son, George Monk Foreman III, who is also a professional boxer.] But the stabbings still hurt. Sometimes you see people walking along, especially them women with their heels on. Some people say, “Man here comes a model.” Some people say, “Here come a killer.” Here comes a killer. Remember, I’m not talking about anyone. Didn’t I tell you that at first? I’m not talking about anyone. I’m trying to make certain that all of us are productive and we are not the ones who are killing, but we are the ones who give life. Because if you stick your husband, you stick George Foreman fan, you stick him. You stick him when you meet me and he won’t be there with you. He’s going to be dead. “I’m not going to open my mouth. I’m going to sit here.” [Fictional female character.] You’ve already done the harm. You might as well keep your mouth open now. Once you’ve said too much, then the next thing you do is you going to die. All you’re going to be is somewhere, and I started to say. Listen to me carefully now because once they put us away. After they put us old fellows away, then your children, killer number two come tell killer number one, “Mama don’t kill yourself running up and down there seeing daddy like that. It’s enough mommy. That’s enough mommy. Don’t go anymore mommy.” You know what they say, “Mother you need to take some time for yourself. You need the time to live for yourself, mother. Don’t keep running up there seeing him. He’s still mean anyway.” So after a while, you see lesser and lesser of him. And then him dies unless he’s a tough old booger like me. I’m a tough old booger. Dear brothers and sister, remember I’m not speaking to anyone, but all of us can be people who can save lives or we can be people who take lives. All you young men, all you young women in here as I look around the table. You can be givers of life or you can be killers. How many of you, if your mother told you to pick up your pants and you just looked? Killer. How many of your mothers tell you to come home and you just looked at her? Killer. How many of your mothers said, “Don’t do that.” And you said, “Naw.” Killer. It’s the same with these old fellows. It doesn’t take them but one, two, three years to run a beautiful woman down to the ground, a beautiful woman down to the ground. I read about it all the time. Well some of them [tape skip, inaudible] End of Track 2. [Track 3] Why would she be with you? You’re not rich. I could see if you were living in one of those big old mansions like in Hollywood. They’ve got an elevator up there. You get up there and then you come down. You go and visit someone, they say, “Honey take my private jet.” Then when you come back, “Book the yacht for me.” I can see that. You don’t have nothing and you accuse a woman of being unfaithful. What you got? Are you a lover? Are you a lover or are you a sleeper? I better stop that. Sometimes even I go in my bedroom and I don’t know when I came in there and when I left out. [Makes snoring noises] You know sometimes you’re wife be talking to you and you say, “Yeah. You were telling the truth there.” I’m so tired. I wake up and I’m gone again. It doesn’t even make any sense. What are you trying to do? Kill that woman? Are you trying to kill a woman? That’s all you’re trying to do is stick her. You murderer. You killer, because the only person getting hurt there is your wife. Jealous. I can’t even imagine going home to a jealous sucker. Some men to this day are still accusing their wives, been married ten, fifteen years, still accusing their wives. “Honey? What you doing out there? Why you coming back so later?” That lady’s feet are sore man. What are you talking about? “I know you’re messing with that man.” She said, “If I was, I sure wouldn’t be messing with you.” We can all be driving someone to their grave. First they’ll run out of pills and then they run out of medicine, then they die. They actually die all because they’re wearing a disguise. Sometimes you’ve got to snatch that thing off his head and say, “Caught you, Frankenstein.”* [Referring to Frankenstein’s Monster from Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein] You’ve got to do it. You listen to me careful. Sometimes snatch it off, “I got you Frankenstein!” But don’t put it back on his head and say, “I’m out of here.” First of all brothers and sisters, learn to get yourself, all of us, should learn to get ourselves a life. All of use should learn to get a life. If you got ten kids, get a life. Your kids are not your life. When you’re raising your kids, by the time you get them out of school, you better just let them jokers go because they will come back and smoke you down to the ground. You see what some of my kids have done? Don’t tell me. Tell them. Some people say, “Man I heard your child’s out.” “Tell them.” Don’t ever tell me anything about my children. I’m telling you. If you come up telling me something about my kids, I’m going to tell you something about you because I don’t even have any kids. All I want, “Well, what do you want me to tell you?” “Tell me about where I can get a discount Camaro. I’m looking for a Camaro and you’re talking about this stuff.” Man, I ain’t interested in that. Because kids, when they don’t love you they’ll disguise themselves. How do you know they love you? How do you know they love you? At a birthday party yesterday and I saw these sisters guarding they’re mama just like mama was the president, prime minister, commander-in-chief, or senator. They guided that lady and protected her and looked after her. I said, “That’s the way I want to be loved. If you can’t love me like that, don’t love me.” They took care of everything. Just everything. I said, “You know, its good that the good Lord let you live to see some good things because you know, I don’t want to die not see a whole lot good things.” But that lady did have a need to be rich and powerful. She had her children. All of a sudden, they probably got to watch her now. She may get them. Look and learn in life. If someone is disguising themselves, once you expose them, watch them carefully because they’ll kill you. They will lead you down the wrong path and before you know it, your life is gone all because they disguised themselves as loving you. You don’t to tell them they don’t love you. Just like if you catch a man cheating on you, don’t go telling him, “Man I caught you cheating.” You women, you caught a man, you see him running around on you. He come back in, “I saw you, you no good . . .” Shut your mouth. Keep your mouth shut. He got nothing else to hide, nothing else to lose. Now you know it, now try to find away. People will disguise themselves like they love you and will kill you. Once you find out there is a disguise, don’t let them kill you. Don’t let them kill you. Women, don’t let those men kill you with that old crazy jealous junk. Men, don’t let those women kill you by messing with you either. You’ve got to tell those women sometimes, your wives and everything, you tell them, “Look that’s enough. I don’t want you killing me now.” “If I come in here again and catch your feet on that table!” “Kill me, sugar. Come on, kill me baby.” That guy come in there talking about, “I’m tired of you. You always trying to look, look like you looking for a man. Kill me now. Come on; kill me because you’re not talking anything that will build me up. You’re trying to tear me down.” Can you believe somebody is with you for four or five years? They probably love you now. They probably love you and that’s enough. Love will guide them. A guy the other day, they found him. Poor fellow. Oh, poor fellow. They found him dead. A girl killed him and lay right on top of him. She was going through his text messages. There’s a new thing called a text. You look through yours and leave your husband’s alone. Husbands, you look through yours and leave your wife’s alone. Because you can’t read her messages nor can she read yours. It’s a new thing. They’re not going away. They said a guy was going down the street the other day and he did just mess up his life. The good thing is the girl look like she’s going to get famous. The girl went over his text, the next thing you know he’s fighting her like a dog. She did an interview saying, “He lost it. He lost it.” She said. Somebody told me about it and they were imitating her, “He lost it. He just lost it.” And he started beating her up with his ring and everything, trying to punch her out over a text message. End of Track 3. |
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