This is past the mic.

Greetings and God bless. Welcome to another episode of past the mic. Dynamic voices for

a diverse church power by the witness. A black Christian collective. I am your host

Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at BurnsClam. Please follow

at your own risk. And join me as always is the founder of the witness. Very extensive

bio. The man, the myth, the legend, the two-time best-selling author, Mr. Bluecheck verified

himself. Dr. Jamar, Tisby was going on, but always a pleasure to be in the same room.

No, don't, don't do it. No, no, no. No, no. I ran you up. All bling down. Yeah, I'm

looking good. Looking good. I refuse. Cut his mic off. I refuse. Cut his mic off.

He's already taken. Listen, shout out to everybody who is watching us online. Thank you

so much for tuning in to the video version so you can see us. And if you are listening

on podcast, you can find out how to view us on the video version by simply clicking the

show notes and you can watch and see us. Jay, you know it's so funny. We always talk

about how we're friends off mic. We always laugh and joke and people like, is that real?

I'm like, yes, it's real. But we never really got into our friendship.

We're laughing and joking even before. Right. That might make it onto the episode episode.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's real. So we always talk about this. And I found it interesting

because especially in a time of a global pandemic, I think everyone has underestimated how

hard it is to maintain friendships. Yes. And I think everyone's underestimated how hard

it is to maintain any sort of physical connection with people, being distance, being separated,

not being able to do the things that we normally do. And I felt like it was helpful for us to

talk about friendships specifically from the perspective and standpoint of black men.

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