Josh Gad

So years after we had created it, it became sort of this odd game of telephone where people would come into the show and they were told, well, we just do this and we just say this, and they were never given the context.

So rightly so, people had questions and people wanted answers about why are we doing this and why did anyone think this was funny?

And

So some of it was specifically, I can't tell you what exactly was changed, but I think that the larger conversation that was started was about how it was created and where it came from.

The context of the song, I mean, Bobby Lopez has been very open about.

It was very much inspired by the song, I Have Confidence.

From The Sound of Music, that it is it's Elder Price sort of building your character of my character, Elder Price sort of building himself himself up to go back out and sort of reaffirm his faith.

And he's going to double down on this and he's going to go and try to convert these people in Uganda after he arrives and nothing is going the way he wants it to or the way he hoped it would.

And he feels very beaten down.

But then he has this moment where he decides, I can do this.

I can do this.

And I'm going to start with the village warlord.

That's going to be my guy.

And I'm going to start with that guy.

And if I can convert him, then everybody else will fall into place.

And so most of the song is him building himself up to do this.

I've always longed to help the needy, to do the things I never dared.

This was the time for me to step up, so then why was I so scared?

A warlord who shoots people in the face, what's so scary about that?

I must trust that my Lord is mightier and always has my back.