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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with
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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Today is Wednesday, July ninth,
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twenty twenty five. People are throwing away their La Boo
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boos after alleged paranormal activity. Consumers and people on social
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media think the viral Labooboo dolls are cursed by a
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demon named Puzuzu. Some have even started throwing the dolls
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away and burning them after finding scratches and reporting weird
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paranormal activity while in their presence. If you have a
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La Boo Boo doll, beware because it may be possessed.
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All right, I would like to point out that like
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thirty minutes ago, I didn't know what a Laboo boo
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doll was, but now I know I don't want one.
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Well, see now I was about to say, I'm gonna
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be the old guy here and go what's a La
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Boo boo doll?
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Trey, do not be afraid, just start over and just just.
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Ask the question, what's a La boo boo doll?
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According to the AI Overview, I just looked up la
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boo Boo is a fictional character and a brand primarily
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known as a collectible plush toy monster elf. It was
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created by Hong Kong born artist Kasein Lung and is
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part of a larger series called The Monsters. Le Boo
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Boo has a distinctive appearance with pointy ears, big eyes,
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and a mischievous grin showing nineteeth. The toys are popular,
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especially among younger generations, and are often sold in black
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boxes by the Chinese retailer pop Marked.
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Yeah, they'll go for like thousands of dollars.
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Oh are these? Are these like the Furbies or the
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Beanie Babies for gen Z? Yes, because I saw this
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story pop up a lot. I saw this story pop
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up during my research into demonic La Boo Boos. Wang Ning,
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CEO of PopMart and creator of the La Boo Boo doll,
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is now one of China's youngest top ten billionaires, with
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a net worth of twenty two point seven billion. La
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Boo Boos, M h, that's a lot of that's that's
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a lot of dolls he is. He is thirty eight.
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His success stems from La Boo Boo's global popularity and
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Pop Mart's blind box business model, which fuels anticipation and collectibility.
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The surprise element drives high demand and resell value among
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gen Z collectors. Celebrity endorsements, including Rhannas, have further boosted
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Laboo boos status as a must have cultural phenomenon.
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Oh yeah, there's clothing for it, accessories, little clippies that
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you can hang you to La booo from your bag.
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I had a Teddy rouxsbin.
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Yeah you did, Danny.
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You know why I had a Teddy rouxsban because my
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parents didn't read to me.
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Oh, I thought it was because your imaginary friends stopped
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talking to you.
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Also that Yeah, you need to tell someone to talk to.
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They look like tu telebug tubbies. Yes, yes, and I see.
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That the people on Instagram like, I know I'm loved
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because my fans, uh you know, sent me a La
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Boo boo or whatever. And they're very, very expensive. So
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when you have celebrity is taking two Instagram to thank
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people for sending them.
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Yeah all right, all right, so similar similar to beanie
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babies and and the furbies back in the day, if
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you come across a La Boo boo doll, should you
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hang on to it? And hopes that it increases in
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value and then you can cash in, uh come retirement time.
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I think you can do that now. If you were
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to just run across a box of La Boo boos,
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like you could sell them. Depending on their collectibility, you
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could send them, sell them for thousands of dollars apiece,
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so you could retire theoretically the next day.
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Oh so I wouldn't have to wait.
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That's right, because it's going it's going to crash.
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So so this is this is uh not so much
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a long term investment, more quick score type of thing.
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Yeah, it's like it's like Christian death metal, it's a fad,
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it'll go away.
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Did that ever go away? It did? Or is it
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just in the dark corners of the church.
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But yeah, I mean I think the retail legitimately like
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somewhere between eighteen bucks or thirty eight bucks, somewhere in
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that range. But depending on if you can get your
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hands on them when they come out, and if it's
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a limited edition, or if it has accessories that the
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other ones don't have, so on and so forth. From
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what I saw on Instagram, they just skyrocket and value.
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The closest I can recall from my youth that we
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had to compare to the Labooboo doll phenomenon was the
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cabbage Patch Kids CRW.
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Yes, Yes, yeah, I mean I think those are still
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kind of worth something pretty substantially.
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If you've got the original ones, I.
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Think they go they there's a cyclical nature that they
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get popular again and then yeah, they're worthwhile. But yeah,
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I would say Roger's right. If you have them now,
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I would sell.
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Yeah, you don't want to hang on to those because
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you know, and while Roger's analogy was correct, you know,
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Striper is still.
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Touring, Oh my god. But I don't think they're selling
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out any arenas.
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They're selling up Dickies, not the arena, just an actual dickies.
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When you said Christian death metal, I thought you were
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just coming up with a random combination of things that
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have never gone together. But then Trey, you actually know
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of a band.
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I wouldn't death metal, but it was Christian heavy metal. Yeah, Striper.
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They were probably the only Christian metal band that achieved
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some mainstream success. Well.
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Sometimes you know they say that sometimes to get big,
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you gotta go small. You gotta narrow your focus, find
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your niche, and Christian metal sounds pretty niche to me.
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I had, I had the I had the album. Uh huh,
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I had the album. It was Stripper's.
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It was very controversial because the title of the album
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was to Hell with the Devil.
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That they at high school, just handing that out during
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lunch or.
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I met them in wood shop. No, but they had
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like the black and yellow like striped gear, like the
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very metal, the big hair, the drummers. I believe high
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hat symbol was behind him, so that was cool. I
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played drums, so that was kind of cool to see,
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like a new way to play drums. And I think
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they're actually on a reunion tour right now. But they
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did go as they call it secular for the longest time,
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and then they're popular Waned and now that I think
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Creed made a comeback, Striper is like, hey, can you
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all get off of work at Wiener Stencil and let's
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get the band back together.
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And so, uh, they're actually.
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Touring again on that album I believe were their Collection
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of Albums fortieth Anniversary.
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Tour fortieth Anniversary Striper.
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So that should be the Hell with the Devil album.
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Christian heavy metal mm hmm.
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It is a thing.
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And here I was just knowing about DC talk.
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Yeah, people don't realize man evan essence Christian band. It
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went second. Amy Lee decided she called it a I love.
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I loved her response from They're like, I thought you
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were Christian band.
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That was a phase.
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That was our poor face. Then we realized that we
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could have bugattis and stuff and uh huh. We we
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can still be Christians at heart. We just don't have
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to think about it.
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It's just it's hard to guys that have addiction problems
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and being Christian and writing torrid love songs about call
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Me when You're sober.
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Yeah, Like, I for one to appreciate when the Christian
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musical artists make it obvious that it's Christian music, because
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I've been tricked before years and years and years ago.
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I was driving home middle of the night and I
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was hitting scan on my radio, and that's for one
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tells you how long ago it was. Because I was
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hitting the scan button and I ended up on a
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little station in Dallas, eighty nine point seven. I had
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never heard of it before. I didn't typically go anywhere
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south of ninety two to five, but eighty nine point
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seven started playing it and it was like, Hey, this
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song's kind of catchy. So I hit the scan button
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so it would stay on this station. I had this
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song's catchy de deep Deep Deep to do, and then,
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like you know, I don't know, two or three minutes
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into the song, I was like, that's not bad. And
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then the next song came on, also kind of catchy.
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And then after about a minute more, I'm like, wait,
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did he just say Jesus? H? So I listened even
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more intently. I leaned into the radio like you do,
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and you're really trying to hear something. Is he talk
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about Jesus? And then very soon it was Jesus, Like oh, okay,
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this is I've been tricked. I've been bamboozled. I've been
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hoodwinked by the Christian music station. They never said they were.
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They were just playing catchy music and sliding the Jesus
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in there thinking I wouldn't notice.
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Did you run home and rip your Amy Grant poster.
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Off the wall.
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And you're just shouting like, defile her? Vince Gill, I
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have to bring Me to life. Bring Me to Life
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by Evan Essence is a song about being saved.
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People don't realize that.
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And that's the thing that therein lights the difference. You
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can sing about Jesus without saying his name, and that
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opens you up to all these other audiences. And that's
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why they that's why the artists will do that, because
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eventually they'll get roped into to a music producer and
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a music label that says, all right, we love your work,
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we love your message. Do you want to be rich?
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And then eventually they'll say yes, and they say, okay,
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take everything you're currently doing and just take out the
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very specific names of things. You can still sing about salvation,
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you can still sing about love, just don't say that
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Jesus is gonna be the one that saves you. And