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hey there welcome welcome i’m so glad

that you’re joining us i want you to

pull up a chair and just lean into a

good conversation that we’re about to

have with some young people whose story

is going to completely inspire you and

challenge you to be your best self stay

tuned you’re not going to want to miss

this one

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this is really a special show a show

that i’ve been very very excited about i

kind of been sitting on the edge of my

seat uh to to get to this particular

episode because we’re going to talk to

some young people who’ve really made

some some decisions some choices walk

some pads already that many many adults

haven’t even chosen to make they’ve kind

of pushed past some fears they’ve done

extraordinary things and different

genres of life and and i’m inspired by

by each and every one of them so we’re

going to be interviewing and talking to

some young people who i think that your

young people are going to be blessed by

but i think you’re going to be blessed

by them as well and i thought what

better way to interview a whole group of

young people than to have a co-host

that’s a young person himself and i know

a few of those because i have three

little boys that i’m trying to raise to

be warrior men and they will be or i

will spank them

i’ve got one of them that is with me

today he is my youngest boy he’s going

to be my guest co-host tonight would you

please help me to welcome tonight mr

jude shire

how are you buddy good you’re doing okay

are you going to be my co-host tonight

yep okay we got to get your questions

ready you got to sit up straight

co-hosts kind of sit with their knees

together you gotta lean forward chin up

there you go oh too much i’m so glad

that you’re co-hosting with me tonight

jude i want you to know that we have

co-host

co-host mugs tonight you know how you

see see uh co-hosts on television and

they have mugs and it looks like they’re

really drinking something really

important

what is it

water yeah it’s just water but we’ll

look important while we’re drinking it

and it will give us an opportunity to

introduce our two guests for tonight so

our very first guest is a young lady who

we love very very much we’ve seen her

grow from a young child to become a

wonderful young lady who is not only a

sister not only a daughter not only a

cousin to somebody that i know but she’s

also a wonderful little actress who had

the privilege of starring in the movie

war room she played my daughter in the

film uh jude would you please introduce

this next guest elena pitts uh well you

need to say it more excited like a

co-host alina pitts try it elena pitts

oh come on everybody help me to welcome

molina pig

come on stand up

come on over here and have a seat elena

so glad

so glad that you’re here glad that

you’re joining us i i you know i think

you’re a delightful young lady and i

can’t wait to talk to you even more and

then also we have another young lady who

you who what you don’t remember

don’t remember i’ll introduce her since

you don’t remember okay she is a

wonderful young lady who has many

incredible things going on in her life

but most people know her because she

plays on this you know little small show

that’s really struggling nobody ever

watches it except they do it’s on the

disney channel kc undercover this is

trinity stoke

come on like a breeder buddy

how are you not going to remember my

shoju i know what is that what should i

show you

oh well it’s trinity stokes and it’s

trinity with a very special interesting

spelling scoot over close to me co-host

all righty tell me exactly how you spell

trinity because you’re real specific

about how people spell this name of

yours

t r

i n i t wait for

e

there’s no y there is no y and any

interesting spellings with your name

there elena no it’s just five letters

just five letters but how do you spell

it just for a record e

a l e n a well both of you are lovely

ladies aren’t they lovely ladies

beautiful ladies

and you’re so accomplished we’re so

inspired by you it’s easy to be inspired

by you because at a young age you’ve

both already accomplished such

incredible things so we want to know um

about the you know the highlight things

that really people when they when they

get a good look at you right off the bat

they remember you from war room or they

remember you from uh your television

show on the disney channel and we

casey undercover that’s right and we

want to ask you a question we’re going

to start with you trinity jude actually

has a question for you he wrote it down

earlier today i thought this was a

really good question ask this question

right here jude

trinity are there any parts of your job

that you don’t think are fun

any parts of your job

taping that that that that television

series that series that goes out all

over the world that honestly

isn’t quite fun for you

anything you can think of is it all fake

it’s all fun it’s all fun so what does

it look like to film a show like that

because everybody wants to know what

does it look like to be a part of a

program that’s so ongoing so our work

week is kind of like this it goes from

monday to friday so on monday we’ll have

a table read where we get the new script

and we’ll just read over it with

everybody and get a feel for how it’s

going to go and then we’ll rehearse that

day and then on tuesday we’ll get

another new script and then we’ll

rehearse that day but today we have like

a producer run through with all the

producers that are there to give us some

critiques because we film on thursdays

and fridays but on wednesdays we get

another new script and then we have

another run through where we can invite

friends and family just on wednesdays

and then on thursdays and friday we film

and over the weekends we get our new

script

so we go through about like five scripts

a week you do so you’ve got a lot to

pile into your head but

i do but it’s kind of weird like my

brain just kind of

sucks it all in yeah

like if you read the things before you

go to bed it’ll lock in so i always do

my script before i go to bed and i guess

it

locks in well there you go science oh

alina your experience was a little bit

like that too because there you were you

found yourself on a movie set which by

the way it’s not like you had been

acting a whole long time before you got

to war room right no no okay so could

you just tell us just a little bit about

what the experience was about how you

even got to be a part of that film um it

was definitely a god thing but like

if i was like still a normal human being

there’s no way i would have gotten that

like at all if god wasn’t real so like i

guess it was just like

he uses like other people to like help

you i guess

and so it wasn’t that i knew you it was

that you knew me so that you could

introduce me to them and so i could do

something that i never ever thought

about doing

and so it was just really interesting so

just to give you a little backstory here

um i have many of you know that i was

able to play in the film war room and so

i was already a part of the cast they’d

already asked me to do it but we were

looking for somebody that could play my

daughter so they were auditioning a

whole lot of a whole lot of actresses

that were already in film and already in

theater but i said to them hey i have we

call each other aunt and niece actually

but but literally we’re actually cousins

and i said i have this young lady that i

know and i i think she might be able to

do a good job so she came and she

auditioned for the role and

i got it she got the role we were all

she did a great job didn’t she do a good

job

and so as you hear trinity talking about

table reads and scripts and all that

stuff what was that like for you when

you had to did you look at all your

lines in the film and go oh my goodness

how in the world am i going to retain

all this or was it easy for you um it

wasn’t i mean for us we have to memorize

it like they give you a little what do

they call those

sides yeah they give you a side it’s a

really weird name

when we heard that they were going to

give us sides i’d never heard of sides

except the ones that come beside some

fried chicken that’s the only only size

yes but sides are actually just the

script basically for the day what

they’re going to film for that day they

call it sides and they give it to you in

the morning yeah so you read that like

the night but i read it like the night

before because it’s like literally three

lines and so it’s just really simple and

then you say it the next day about ten

times and then it kind of just gets like

stuck in your brain yeah so if you do

have to go back like a month later and

like redo that part you kind of remember

it because you said it like 50 times so

it just gets like implanted in your

brain like i could still like remember

all of them well that’s not true at all

but i can remember some of them okay so

jude i think that exact same question

that you asked trinity that would be a

good question for you to ask alina why

don’t you read that one again juliana

yes that one to alina yes such a good

co-host this one right here yes

elena the same question i asked trinity

okay go ahead but ask it read it

are there any parts of your job that you

don’t think are fun so was there any

part of that summer that we filmed that

you that it just wasn’t fun for you um

oh

a lot of it was like

it wouldn’t be fun for another kid who

doesn’t like to like sit and like a lot

of it is just

you hurry up and then you just wait for

like five hours like they do your makeup

they’re like oh my gosh we’re on a tight

schedule and then you sit and you wait

for like 10 hours and so you just sit

there and so that was probably a little

bit hard because you want to like run

around and play with all the other kids

yeah that were there because there were

like a lot of kids on the set but you

want you want to play with the other

kids but you can’t because you can’t get

your hair messed up and stuff

and so you had to like sit there but i

mean i’m kind of chill and i like to

like sit there yeah and so it wasn’t

really hard for me to do that but i mean

i can imagine like other kids having a

hard time like sitting there and just

well what about you trinity is it hard

for you to sort of sit in between takes

or when you’re waiting on others to do

their parts well

not really because most times i have to

go to school so i have because i have to

get my four hours in for school so i

always

go to school in between sets or grab a

bite to eat a little snack and when you

say school what does that look like i

think everybody’s kind of curious to

know if you’re filming and working all

those days what does school look like

okay so we have this big box not roblox

like a little square building with a

couple windows and a door and we have

boards in there and a desk a couple desk

in there and so i do school in there

with my teacher and it’s set up kind of

sort of like a real school room and we

have pencils and pens and all the books

in there

and is this for all the kids that are on

the cast

everybody that’s in that episode so when

zendaya and camille were doing school we

were all in there but now that’s just me

it’s just me in there and i have all the

extra space to do experiments and

everything

how did you do that neck thing just

there

it’s like a little you know if you had a

little personality it would just be a

little better better you know i get that

a lot yeah

both of you have such a beautiful

personality and what we love what we

love about you is that yes you have kind

of extraordinary jobs where you’ve made

a mark on people in a really broad way

but you’re still young ladies how old

are you i’m 10. you’re 10 years old and

how old are you 12 12. okay so jude has

a question for you specifically that he

wrote down for elena but we’re going to

write we’re going to ask both of you

this question

both you

what do you

what do you like to do in your free time

okay well

i like to listen to music i like to sew

and i like to read i’m currently reading

this peregrine song for peculiar

children so good anyway i and i also

like to color

you

coloring is so much fun

is there like are there particular

things that you like to color um i like

to color unicorns because they’re really

fun and you can just switch it up and

then i have this big giant coloring book

with just random things in it like

there’s an american apple pie in there

and they just have random things like

animals and flowers and you love

coloring them it’s really fun and what

about you elena

sports is like my top thing and then

probably like i started doing dance

which is really weird because i’m not

like in the dance but it’s actually

really fun so sports dance

i mean coloring yeah coloring is cool um

it’s not really my interest it’s like

relaxing yeah it’s cool just cools you

down i like when you like color it a

certain way because it’s just it matches

yeah

anyways so

yeah i mean

now

go ahead um

you had a lot of stuff in your free time

mine is yeah

so

well and tell us about your family life

okay you have siblings start with you

elaine tell us about your mom your dad

your siblings just regular family life

what does that look like for you um

so i have three sisters so it’s a lot of

girls and then i have my dad and my mom

and so

my dad is normally like he’ll play with

us and stuff but eventually he’ll go and

stay with the dog because he’s the only

other male and so

you know

so your dad goes and sits with the dog

because the only other boy in the house

the dog doesn’t really favor

i heard that him

dog just as soon as a dog hears you guys

sees you guys knows that you’re around

just runs to you he’s woken me up like

the past four mornings at like six in

the morning do you love it oh

what are you not a dog he’s a yorkie poo

but he looks like a poodle he just has

like the yorkie side black or white or

black oh

really cuddly huh okay cool

so you’ve got your dad and your siblings

and then you know i have my friends and

stuff and then i get sometimes you

forgot your mother your mother

that’s right um my mom’s really

important so you guys know yes she is

one day you will rise up and call her

blessed is what you’re going to do

so we’re writing a book together so we

like to write together sometimes we’re

going to get to that in just a few

minutes too and then

you know she kind of she’s just really

important she does a lot of stuff for us

she does yeah yeah that’s great you got

a cool family thank you you kind of

skimmed over the fact that you have

three sisters but tell us their names

and tell us how old they are cameron and

olivia are twins and they’re like total

opposites really like opposite how old

are they um they’re

seven seven yes that’s right and then

caitlyn is nine she turns ten in

december 20 on december 23rd and she’s

really excited about that she’s like

planned out her whole

birthday party trampoline park it’s in

her trampoline park are you going to the

party

what’s up with the faces today co-host

are they mustang

because you’re the co-host

you’re in front of everybody they’re

just supposed to be

next person

we need to know about your family so

it’s just me my mom and my dad

working on a dog here

working on it but it’s just me my mom

and my dad and we like to hang out and

spend family time together we we really

like to watch

movies on friday nights it’s like

family night and normally we’ll get like

pizza and wings what kind of pizza do

you prefer

well my mom likes margarita pizza it’s

really good but i don’t like the

tomatoes on it know i’m starting finally

getting to getting into tomatoes finally

finally well everybody comes to a point

in their life where they start getting

into tomatoes yeah yeah so mommy likes

margarita pizza and me and daddy we just

like sausage or

just anything just meat meat yes and

because if you what if you have to order

a pizza jude you and your brothers what

kind of pizza would you like to have

sausage yeah sausage any kind of meat is

what they want so that’s what you like

too so it’s you and your dad and my mom

and your mom on friday nights we’ll get

like pizza and wings or nachos and then

we’ll sit on the couch and watch a

really good movie and then sometimes we

just sit there and we binge watch on

cupcake wars or

food network just period you know the

common thread and everything you’ve said

is food that that’s that’s why i know

you’re my kind of girl right there

that’s awesome

that’s awesome i really like to oh just

hang out

that’s great hanging out is good it’s

fun it is fun to hang out especially

when you’ve been working hard okay jude

this is a really good question i love

that you have this one

trinity and lolina do you have good

friends around you yes

i have really good friends around party

that’s something that um

my mom is really um particular about

particular that i have really good

friends around me and people that are

really positive so that way they can

influence me in a good godly way but i

have really good friends and we’re

really close and we have sleepovers

sometimes but it’s really important that

i have good friends what about you lina

um i have great friends a lot of my

friends i kind of pour into and it’s

like because i like to be able to like

reach out to some of my friends who like

aren’t as strong in their relationship

with god and then i do have some friends

who like i’m really strong with but she

just moved sadly she did yeah she moved

well not just at all but she moved to

missouri but now i do have like some

really close like christian friends who

like give me a positive impact well

that’s good because do you guys ever

worry that there are some people who

might be trying to be your friend just

either because they’ve seen you do the

job that you do or they’re impressed by

something about you but you don’t know

if they really like you for who you are

is that ever happened um yes that’s why

i like my friends a lot because they’re

like i’ve known them since forever yeah

so they’re not like oh my gosh you for

real like they’re still like really

normal and i like that about people and

they’re like

normal is good yeah that’s the one thing

that i’m really happy about that i found

all the friends that i hang out with

before

i book the show so that way you know i

know they’re my true friends and they’re

not just with me just so they can you

know say yeah my friends on the show but

it’s good to know that they’re actually

really my friend and they’ve been there

with me through it all but a lot of

people some people have tried to but

it’s good that we’re able to kind of

spot it out

spot it out yeah

can you tell me what you think are some

of the major issues that you see young

ladies you’re your age dealing with um

that are really a struggle for them at

sixth grade fifth grade seventh grade

level what are some of the major

struggles that you find them having a

hard time dealing with so this one is

like where you about to go

oh nevermind um i thought you were about

to talk um so this one is more like

middle school like when you reach that

point in life where you like get social

media and stuff and you see like all

these people who are like have this

image that they want to like be like so

self-image is one of them like a lot of

my friends have a hard time like some of

them have a hard time they’re like oh my

gosh i wish i was skinny or whatever and

so it’s just like you’re perfect the way

you are and there’s no need to try to be

someone else to look like

so and so like you’re who do you think

that social media really is

more harmful than good or do you think

that it’s a good thing that just sort of

has some harmful threads if you’re not

careful and protective of it how do you

think i think that can be great because

you get to pour out like god’s love on

it and stuff but i do know that there

are like harmful threads but i think

people get the wrong conception on like

social media is that the right word

oh on social media so they like they

point out like the bad stuff but if you

have boundaries and like

you know

that you’re not gonna like go on that

stuff i mean it can be really great

because that’s how you reach out to like

people who you would like never really

reach out to yeah good good what about

you what do you think are some of the

major things you’ve seen young ladies

your age dealing with a lot of things

are like bullying and peer pressure

a lot of girls around my age and older

they get a lot of

bullying and peer pressure because

they’re always trying to

change and try to be like somebody else

but they really just have to kind of

find themselves

and be their own self

yeah that’s good

thank you you guys are really wise you

sound really why don’t they sound really

wise to be the age that they are

oh you have another question

um okay

um elena wait you haven’t said this one

yet you can say that one if you’d like

to

elena do you think it is fun to do your

job is did i already say that well it’s

okay for you to say it again because

elena actually both of you are not just

actors you’re not just actors you have a

lot of other things going on in your

life one of them i know for you elena is

that right this minute you’re in the in

the middle of

co-writing along with your incredible

mom you’re co-writing some fiction books

for young girls your age and so it’s a

trilogy series that will be coming out

and so we do want to know a little bit

about whether or not it’s kind of fun to

do that job of writing but tell us a

little bit about this series that you’re

writing so this series is about a girl

named lena daniel

daniels one of those and so she um

she’s like she’s sort of like me she

looks like me on the cover and stuff so

it’s like kind of my story and she’s

like trying to control her life sort of

like she has her whole life planned out

and then all of a sudden she gets this

like movie opportunity with this really

cool celebrity that she loves and so it

like really just changes like her

perspective on life and stuff yeah and

so god she just has to learn to trust

god and i hope that girls like really

realize like the importance of trusting

god because if you don’t trust god he

can’t really do anything in your life

that you want yep go ahead that you

really want him like that he wants to do

because you don’t like fully put all of

your trust in him that’s really great

and so you’re writing these novels in

the hopes that young women will pick

them up and get more than a good story

that’s not your main goal what’s your

main goal with these books oh well like

i said um yeah just like really

understand like god’s purpose for their

lives and that it doesn’t have to be

like exactly the way they want it

because god created them so he knows

what’s best for them so like if you’re

like trying to be an actress but it

doesn’t work out like just know that god

like has it under control and that he

like he told you like not to do that for

a certain reason because he has

something else for you or like vice

versa and so

to jude’s question that he asked is it

dude’s question that he just yawned out

how we boring you

yes

such a co-host

this co-hosting gig is going a little

differently than i had planned

all righty

okay

okay last question but hold on you

already asked a question you were asking

her is it fun did you to do her job so

tell me is it fun to write this book

alongside your mom yes

what do you think yes um it’s a lot of

fun because it’s like this is really

kind of a bonding moment for me and my

mom and so we’re learning to like to

work together and like really because we

have like different ideas and stuff so

we have to be patient with one another

and like really like

learn like

i guess the way our minds work sort of

and like really like teamwork you know

like that yeah

yeah

and so

some of it isn’t fun though because like

you have to like stop you can’t go to a

friend’s house because you have to write

or something but for the most part it’s

really fun that’s great well that’s

great we’re excited about that series

aren’t we we’re excited about

one more question hang on let’s let’s

get trinity’s response to that because

you’ve got other things going on as well

other than acting tell us what else

you’re doing so i’m working on my music

and my fashion line are you serious i am

serious what

so first music what does that look like

so you’re a singer too i’m a singer too

oh my gosh so it’s like

my style of music uh-huh like an

inspirational

gospel

pop

country

thing something something something yes

it’s a whole lot it’s like a mixture

isn’t it yeah

could you give us just like a line can

you just sing a couple lines of

something anything whatever you got well

see then they wouldn’t want to buy a cd

just a couple lines it’s just a couple

of fine anything anything you want to

sing

i mean you could sing amazing grace you

could take a couple lines of amazing

grace okay okay why not okay

amazing

grace how sweet

the sound

that

saves a wretch

like me

i once

was lost

but now

i’m found was blind

but

now

i see

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oh stop it

stop it

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that’s awesome

multi-talented ladies that we have here

on this platform i don’t know how we do

well that’s how you do it that’s right

the sky’s the limit for you guys really

i think that that um there’s incredible

plans that god has in store for you and

the thing that i’m impressed about most

about you and my co-host here

is that you have not allowed

fear or intimidation to keep you from

just launching out into stuff that’s new

ground for you acting was not something

you were doing on some other you know

three or four other huge shows before

this one this is my first show yeah it’s

your first show but you just went out

there and you just did it and you’re

doing it well same for you your first

film and it wasn’t like some small

no-name film i mean it’s a film that

that millions of people saw but you just

launched out into this new ground and do

you know sometimes we lose what we have

as children and that is a child-like

faith that wherever god calls me i’m

gonna go out there and i’m gonna do it

and i’m gonna believe that if he’s

called me to it he’s gonna equip me for

it and seeing you guys act in that way

respond in that way to the stuff of life

the acting the singing the the um the

writing all that stuff that inspires us

to do the same would you guys please

help me to thank them for being on our

program

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my co-host