There's a scripture in the Bible that says, in Christ, all things are a new creation, which I thought was interesting because it didn't talk about restoring the old. It says that in God, we are a completely new creation.

I was in this pod bragging about being 420 pounds because I'd lost 120 pounds. And I was in here excited about those 120, you know?

You know, and that's whenever I figured out that overeating for me wasn't a failure of discipline. I'm a pretty disciplined guy. It was just a biological thing.

But because 80 to 90% of compulsive eating happens between the ears, not the teeth.

So the average obese person that's that big, and I learned this from her, is that they're only eating 20% of what they're thinking about eating.

It was over 40, Joe. It was like insane.

My insulin two weeks ago it weighs to well with Dr. Denise was 4.6.

Raspberries and blueberries were a big one for me. They don't have zero calories. They have calories. But you could eat like a bucket of them before you get into the hundreds of calories.

Which, famously, him and Mike Doce, I think, are kind of both famously known for the guys who created the weight cutting protocol of today.

I was like, buddy, money can't make you run these six miles.

And I was like, I don't, I think that I was using it as another way not to connect. I have an avoidant personality. Like, I'll isolate or I can do it just right in a room full of people if I hop on the phone.

It doesn't give me 60-second bursts of shit I don't need. It gives me long form of good stuff.

I am up for a pardon this year.

But even if he gives me the pardon, unfortunately, Tennessee has a zero forgiveness policy for violent offenders.

Like, it's done a lot for my mental health, it's done a lot for my physical health.

And I've been, I forgot who wrote it, but it's a little book called Lying. Have you ever seen this book? No. It's like a, Jamie, it's like a little bitty book. It's just called Lying. But it's like some off, you got to check it. It's a really cool book, and it just talks about us lying. And it was the book that talked about me lying to myself.

And the rich, happy man looks at him and goes, good decisions. Two words, good decisions. You ever heard this story? No. He goes, good decisions. And the kid goes, well, how did you make good decisions? He goes, one word, experience. And the kid goes, well, how did you get experience? And the guy goes, two words, bad decisions.

I lost like 80 pounds as I got set for the bow.

I'm in like the 260s right now, 30-something pounds of skin on me.

The weight's lost whenever I sit down at the dinner table and I eat like a normal human. I don't eat seven plates and six desserts. You know what I mean? Like that's where it's at.

Dude, at 500 pounds, I couldn't walk a mile.

When I finally got down to like 300, he looked at me and said, dude, you're like, I just need you under 250. And I was like, what for? And he was like, because then if anything ever goes wrong, I know I can throw 250 pounds over my shoulder and I can fire him and carry you out of somewhere.

Like I would have nightmares that I was going to die. Stop breathing. And if I rolled the other way, I'd suffocate myself.

And a lot of those people that are missing that goes into these, the byproducts of lack of connection are addiction, isolation, loneliness. These are the side effects of not connecting with people.

And that phone has tricked us into thinking that we're connecting with thousands of people. Right. And we're actually not connecting with anybody.

Especially even long form like this, it's the ability to really get, you don't really know how somebody feels about something until you really get into a conversation, like a real conversation. And these kids aren't having those conversations with each other.

Just when I had the best vocal performance of my life, Jennifer Hudson comes out and takes them to church. It's a full praise and worship at that point. Wow. 200 choir members, hands up in the sky. We're in front of St. Peter's facility. They're worshiping out there, dude. Hands are in the sky, dude.

It was the first time they've ever done live music at the Vatican.

I'm the only one that's not singing with the two people that put this event together. Literally the only artist because Jennifer Hudson sang with him, Teddy slang with him.

In 2008, I was incarcerated in a local penitentiary.

I used to listen to Craig Morgan sing Almost Home in my jail cell and think, I'm going to change my life when I get home.