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Kim: What's going to be the next single for radio release?

Josh: What do you want it to be?

Vince: Let me fill you in here on this. Jonah33 is the last to find out what happens. You're going to find out that everything with Jonah33 is a huge story. Don't know why it is, but everything about us is. If you ask a question I guarantee you're going to get a 10 minute response. So here we go.

Kim: (laughs) Not a problem. I've got extra tapes.

Vince: (laughs) This whole single thing... we released All For You and there is this lady named Donna Delsisco and she has worked with a lot of people. I mean everybody all the way from no-name bands to P.O.D. She released their singles and we're in there somewhere. So she told us that she thought we should release All For You. So we're like "what"? I mean it's a good song, but it's not one of our best songs. We came to find out that the way it works is that you don't release your best song first. You kind of release a mediocre one and work your way up. So we released it and it absolutely took off. We had no idea! God just totally blessed us. People were calling up all over and we made it to number one on about 15 different sites and number five nationally. We were just like "what"? Like Josh said, we're just four morons from Arkansas that are just along for this ride. So the song did really, really well and the next thing you know Donna comes back to us and she tells us that we need to release a song called Shine. Have you heard Shine?

Kim: Yep

Vince: Well, she tells us that we should release Shine because it's a happy, summer song. So here's my predicament ...I trust Donna, I mean obviously, because she released All For You and it's exploded. So I trust Donna but at the same time, what is this, August the 9th, I mean fall is right around the corner. I don't know, I don't know if I want to release Shine.

Josh: What do you think? What do you like?

Pete: What would you choose?

Kim: That's a tough one. I like "Shine", but to be honest, I haven't heard a single song on the CD that I didn't like. I guess my favorites, aside from "All For You" are "Faith Like That," "Beautiful" and "Watching You Die".

Vince: Wow!

Kim: You know, every now and then, you find a CD where you like every single song. I can honestly say that I've only heard two in the past year that I can say that about and yours is one of them.

Josh: Just out of curiosity, who's was the other one?

Kim: An indie artist named Mary Lou O'Hern.

Vince: Mary Lou O'Hern huh? Cool. You know, I personally would like to release "Watching You Die." There's no "official" word as to what we're going to do though. I know it's going to be soon, because "All For You" is on its way down.

Josh: And yes, eventually we will release "Faith Like That."

Kim: I can tell you that one of my favorites is "Beautiful." I'm seeing a lot of requests for the lyrics on different lyrics site for it too, so it's not just me. Speaking of beautiful, Vince, on the site I read your testimony and how God has worked in your life is just that ... beautiful. It's also so real, so believable and so "today" - it's what plenty of people are facing today. People make bad choices and go down the wrong path and they get to be a little older and think that they're too far gone - too far away from Christ to ever go back. I think that your lyrics help remind people that God doesn't have an age limit where He says "you're too old to redeem". The fact that you were willing to share your testimony with the world speaks volumes. Some people see you guys as bigger than life because you're on stage with a top ten song, but you freely admit that you have made mistakes in your life.

Vince: Here's our stand on that. My wife and I just had this conversation about 20 minutes ago, so it's weird that you brought that up. She just reminded me that there are people out there that are going to put us on a pedestal and hold us up in higher regard than we actually are. To us it's important, to be real is important. To have the accountability basis, you know, I have my wife and the guys in the band. I've also got a couple of guys at home, so if I start slipping I've got somewhere to go and somebody to turn to. It seems to me that the attitude to have now is "we want to show kids that we're real, so we'll just admit that we're just as screwed up as they are". I heard an interviewer make a comment at GMA this past year and he said that that was all he heard, bands saying that. We agree with that. I don't want to get up on stage and have kids not be able to relate to me. That's the reason that I don't mind sharing my testimony. But at the same time, it's OK to admit that you make mistakes, but if God places you in that position, where you're on a pedestal for some kids, then it's your responsibility and your duty to as a son to a father and as a Christian to the Lord to give these kids hope. I mean it's one thing to admit that you've made mistakes and that you're as screwed up as they are, but like that interviewer told me that night, he said "you know, I got so sick of hearing that". He said that he finally just starting asking those that said that, "so when a kid comes to your show, and you admit that you're just as screwed up as they are, how's that helping them?". He started nailing people with that. Every time a band said that, he would ask them that question. Nobody had an answer. I think that all of us share that. I know we've said it before, but we really are just a bunch of morons. But even as screw-ups, God has given us favor and He's blessed us for some reason. So it's totally our responsibility to show kids, yeah, we screw up, but there's a point behind it all, a meaning, a purpose. Transparency is so important. I think that if you're going to lead a kid to Christ, you've got to be transparent. You can't fake it.

Josh: They see it and we do too.

Vince: It's not kids are this special breed with X-ray vision. Everybody sees through it. If you're going to make a career and your calling is to be on stage in front of a thousand kids a night, you've got to be transparent or you're not going anywhere.

Josh: Can we take an offering now? (laughs)