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Know Anyone Struggling With Any Kind of Addiction? This Is For Them (You?) · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Hey friends, Good Morning, Second hour show five thousand, two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five of The Morning Show with Preston Scottbot.
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  Speaker 1: Who's County right, Jose over there in Studio one A.
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  Speaker 1: I am here in Studio one B, and it is Monday,
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  Speaker 1: September the sixteenth. If you're an FSU fan, it's okay
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  Speaker 1: to wear black. I get it. I understand. We'll we'll
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  Speaker 1: try to help with that next hour because Misery does
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  Speaker 1: a love company, and so Iris Chaffelle will join us
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  Speaker 1: next hour. Doctor Joe Cams later on this hour, but
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  Speaker 1: we will talk this half hour about team challenge, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to the specifics of why we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have that conversation a little later. But joining me in
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  Speaker 1: studio is Danny Francis. Danny is here with me. He
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  Speaker 1: works with ADDIE's Land and Tree Service. For those of
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  Speaker 1: you that may or may not know, they're a client
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  Speaker 1: of mine, I've worked with John Boseman. They personally have
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  Speaker 1: done work for me at my home multiple times over
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  Speaker 1: the years. And I love John. I love the work
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  Speaker 1: that he does, love how he does it, I love
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  Speaker 1: the type of person he is and and he works
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  Speaker 1: with John and we found out just I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: until just recently that you worked with John, but you
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  Speaker 1: and I go to the same church.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Good good? I appreciate you having me on.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's my pleasure. We were just talking in the
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  Speaker 1: break teen Challenge. A lot of people don't know about it.
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  Speaker 1: But let's before we kind of get to teen challenge,
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  Speaker 1: the purpose that it serves and its role in your life,
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  Speaker 1: a little snapshot just kind of where you're from and
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  Speaker 1: how you ended up in Tallahassee, Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm from Saint Petersburg, Florida.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up there my whole life, but I went
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  Speaker 3: to Florida State, so I also have family in Tallahassee.
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  Speaker 3: So Tallahassee's been a place I've been coming up to
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  Speaker 3: since I was a young kid.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what drew you to Tallahassee to go to
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  Speaker 1: Florida State? That you had some family up here or
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  Speaker 1: was there some other was what drew you here?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: So my parents went to Florida State as well, So
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  Speaker 3: I've been a Florida State fan watching football game doctrin.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. Yeah, So that's kind of part
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  Speaker 3: of it. And I had some family up here. Plus
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it was a great opportunity. So that's
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  Speaker 3: what brought me up here for college.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about kind of the the
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  Speaker 1: nuts and bolts of growing up, being in school and
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  Speaker 1: just sort of where your path began.
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  Speaker 2: To deviate just a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So I went to Catholic school kindergarten through eighth grade,
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  Speaker 3: and like we already kind of talked about, I knew.
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  Speaker 2: God and.
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  Speaker 3: I had a lot of the knowledge that you get
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  Speaker 3: in Catholic school, but I never really grasped the understanding
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  Speaker 3: of the relationship Jesus wants us to have with them.
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  Speaker 3: So in high school, I went to public school and
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  Speaker 3: I slowly kind of started to deviate away from him.
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  Speaker 1: Can you look back and kind of pinpoint what that
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  Speaker 1: was that maybe just started to pull you. Was it
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  Speaker 1: kind of the peer groups in the frames or what
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  Speaker 1: was it? Partly that and uh, partly I just I
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  Speaker 1: never really got it. I Uh, I thought the Christian
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  Speaker 1: life was about, you know, living this life where you
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  Speaker 1: have to follow all these rules, and I never really
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  Speaker 1: understood the love, the grace and the mercy God has
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  Speaker 1: for us and how much we need that in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: So I kind of deviated away from him in high school,
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  Speaker 1: and at that time I started to start to look
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  Speaker 1: for happiness and gratify, gratification and some of the some
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  Speaker 1: of the wrong areas of life. And it takes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going through those experiences and not being gratified right time
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  Speaker 1: after time. You know. I've had conversations like this over
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  Speaker 1: the years, because I was a vacational pastor for about
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  Speaker 1: twenty years and with a lot of those years spent
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  Speaker 1: with young people high school, college age. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I remember in a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 1: with people that struggled with different kinds of addictions, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's substance or something online. At the time, it wasn't online,
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  Speaker 1: it was in magazines or in movies. That kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing is you always start out feeling like you've got
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  Speaker 1: control of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Is that is that sort of where it starts for you? You
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  Speaker 1: you've got this.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, And I wouldn't say that like I was a
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  Speaker 3: person that just failed immediately right away. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 3: kind of feel like, you know, I was, I was
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  Speaker 3: good at things, I was good at sports, and I
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  Speaker 3: relied on myself for all that, and it took a lot,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times of of messing stuff up over
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  Speaker 3: over my high school and college years and then furthermore
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  Speaker 3: even even more and when I started to experiment, experiment
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  Speaker 3: with all the wrong things, sure to learn that I
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  Speaker 3: needed something more.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more with Danny about that. That that
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  Speaker 1: road that you travel, it's kind of funny. I've described
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  Speaker 1: it to people as a crack in the windshield that
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  Speaker 1: you get this little tiny little chip or c and
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  Speaker 1: you think, ah, it's no big deal. I got this,
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  Speaker 1: and then just life the running through the road, it
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  Speaker 1: just becomes a bigger crack, and a bigger crack, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's spider veins out. Next thing you know, you
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  Speaker 1: winshield caves in. And you thought you had it under
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  Speaker 1: control from the very beginning, but it's not the way
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  Speaker 1: it works. More to come here on the Morning Show
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  Speaker 1: with Preston Scott, Danny Francis with me in studio. He
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  Speaker 1: works with ADDIE's Tree Service. But more importantly, we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about his story, and that's the thing. Everybody's story. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of it's and you've been around this now enough
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  Speaker 1: and we were just talking about you just you're sharing
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  Speaker 1: your testimony with different groups of people in different parts
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  Speaker 1: of the world, even and it's interesting. Everyone has a
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  Speaker 1: unique story, but there are some real finite commonalities between
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  Speaker 1: those stories.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, for you, You're you're in high school, You're starting
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  Speaker 1: to make questionable choices, and then you end up at
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  Speaker 1: Florida State University. Tell us about what happened there.
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  Speaker 3: So when I got here to Florida State and Telassie,
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  Speaker 3: it started off as a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I joined a fraternity.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a good or bad decision? Looking back?
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  Speaker 3: It could have been a good decision, Okay, But it
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  Speaker 3: turned out to maybe not be a good decision for me. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: it just exposed me to more more time to kind
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  Speaker 3: of party. You can use it as a great opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for networking and getting to know people, but it just
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  Speaker 3: allowed me to party a little more. Okay at the time,
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  Speaker 3: I guess I didn't need that all right, So I started,
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  Speaker 3: you know, drinking and partying a lot in college and
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  Speaker 3: I ended up not graduating. I left Florida State after
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  Speaker 3: three years. What was your major business administration?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So were your parents aware of the struggles you
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  Speaker 1: were having or I mean kind of give me a
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  Speaker 1: snapshot of what was going on with common dad.
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  Speaker 3: They were aware. I don't think it was. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: in college, the the partying's kind of normal. I think
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  Speaker 3: I kind of hit a little bit the extremity of
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  Speaker 3: it at times. But it wasn't always like that, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of went back and forth, like I were you.
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  Speaker 1: Putting Were you putting on a front for mom and Dad?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, definitely, because that's part of the deal here,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, That's right.
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  Speaker 3: And as I got older and I moved back home
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  Speaker 3: to Saint Pete, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean I held jobs for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't It took me many years before it got
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  Speaker 3: out of control.
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  Speaker 2: But like you.
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  Speaker 3: Said, putting on that front to my parents, it turned into,
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  Speaker 3: you know, ten years down the road where I didn't
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  Speaker 3: have a great relationship with them because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: times I didn't want to be around them because then
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're you're having to hide things. Once it
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  Speaker 3: got into the drugs, then that so there was two
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  Speaker 3: versions of you pretty much, yes, kind of the the
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  Speaker 3: Danny and the Daniel or the Dan and the Dan Danny,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Yeah, Yes, Okay, So when
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  Speaker 3: I was in my early thirties, I got into a
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  Speaker 3: car accident and I was prescribed pain pills and that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of where things really took a bad path, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what eventually brought me to teen.
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  Speaker 2: Challenge was trying to get get help with that.
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  Speaker 1: Was it oxy codone?
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  Speaker 2: What was it? It was?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it was oxy codone from a doctor, and then
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  Speaker 3: not from a doctor, you know, then.
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  Speaker 1: You find your sources.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, And uh, I just I just went down
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  Speaker 2: a bad path.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have this feeling as you when was there
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  Speaker 1: an awareness that you were addicted to these pain pills.
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  Speaker 2: Within months? Really? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: So it's a great feeling to be honest with you
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  Speaker 3: at first, but then when you don't have them and
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  Speaker 3: you need them, I mean, talk about misery. That's one
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  Speaker 3: of the most painful. You know, needing something that you
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  Speaker 3: either don't have or and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: you're relying on it. It's weird and you're chasing it. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: of course, because that's what you need to but you
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  Speaker 3: need to feel better, right at least that's what you
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  Speaker 3: tell yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a little bit of a smile on
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  Speaker 1: his face because he's looking back. I can see it
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  Speaker 1: on his face. But we're going to talk about that
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  Speaker 1: turning point, because the turning point is a really good one.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to tell you about the role that
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  Speaker 1: a group called Team Challenge played in all of this,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're going to talk about how you can
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  Speaker 1: play a role in that group Team Challenge fun, how
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  Speaker 1: that works, isn't it sixteen passed the hour Danny Francis
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  Speaker 1: with me in studio here in the Morning Show with
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  Speaker 1: Preston Scott. All right, we're back Danny Francis with me
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  Speaker 1: from ADDIE's Land in Tree Service. But we're really talking
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  Speaker 1: about his life, journey and his testimony. That's a very
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  Speaker 1: direct way of putting it. And you know, those of
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  Speaker 1: you that know anything about God know, you know you
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  Speaker 1: overcome in life by the blood of Jesus and the
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  Speaker 1: word of our testimony. And that's the good and the bad.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we sometimes think that the bad stuff is oh,
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  Speaker 1: don't talk about no, no, no, no. That stuff is
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  Speaker 1: important because it shows the power of God in your life.
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  Speaker 1: You're still here, no matter what you've gone through, You're
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  Speaker 1: still here, and no matter what you're going through, you're
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  Speaker 1: still here. You've got a chance to change that with
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  Speaker 1: the help of God and Danny. What was the point
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  Speaker 1: for you that you realized you needed to do something?
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  Speaker 3: So I believe God had to step been in my life.
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  Speaker 3: I went to teen Challenge for six months in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of a.
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  Speaker 3: I was in a bad spot and my parents went
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  Speaker 3: I kind of did it to appease them.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't finish the program. I did about six months.
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  Speaker 3: And I went back home and I had a job
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  Speaker 3: waiting for me, and I did really well for about
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  Speaker 3: a year or two. But that time I spent in
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  Speaker 3: teen Challenge the first time I didn't actually get why
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  Speaker 3: I was there. So in twenty twenty one, I got
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  Speaker 3: arrested and teen Challenge was my option.
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  Speaker 1: Was it part of a diversion program? Basically pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It was a way to not have to spend a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of time in prison. I did do some time
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  Speaker 3: in jail, and I believe God allowed me to lose
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  Speaker 3: my freedom so I could have some time away from
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  Speaker 3: what I was doing out in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the irony of ironies. Lose your freedom to gain
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  Speaker 1: your freedom.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: So in in jail, I Uh, I started reading my
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  Speaker 3: Bible again. I was really, uh seeking something.
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  Speaker 2: Better for my life. I was unhealthy.
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  Speaker 3: I started working out again in there, and uh, it
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  Speaker 3: actually didn't look like they were going to allow me
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  Speaker 3: to get teen Challenge two to kind of avoid my
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  Speaker 3: all the time I was gonna have to do. But
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  Speaker 3: with five months into jail, I was ready to take
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  Speaker 3: like a two or three year sentence, and my lawyer
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  Speaker 3: came to me and said that, you know, out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna they're going to allow you to do a
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  Speaker 3: year and teen challenge. I mean, I had a first
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  Speaker 3: and second degree felony. They were gonna have hold.
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  Speaker 1: With withhold of adjudication on my charges.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be a felon if I did everything. And
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  Speaker 3: actually I just got off probation three months ago.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations, yes sir.
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  Speaker 3: But again the teen challenge, Uh, it was tough at first.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's so you you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't have a because you've been there before. No, just
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  Speaker 1: having to go there and admit you've got this issue.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Noen, I got a year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you you don't have a lot of freedom,
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  Speaker 3: but you actually are learning how to use your Freedom
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  Speaker 3: teen Challenge will give you some of those tools that
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  Speaker 3: will allow you to live your life in a more
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  Speaker 3: in an actually free way once you once you're out
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  Speaker 3: in no way, if you complete a year, are you good.
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  Speaker 2: But it gives you those tools.
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  Speaker 3: So the work, the school work where you're you're learning
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  Speaker 3: more about God and Jesus and the and and why
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  Speaker 3: he has this wants us to have this relationship with him.
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  Speaker 3: It's for us, you know, it's uh, it's to set
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  Speaker 3: us free. It's to show that he loves us and
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  Speaker 3: he has grace for us. And and you know, for me,
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  Speaker 3: even though I messed up that I still have an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity in life. And took me a month or two
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  Speaker 3: to really get settled in there because it's just it's
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  Speaker 3: different than being out. But once I did, I really
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  Speaker 3: took advantage of my time in there.
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  Speaker 2: I ended up.
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  Speaker 3: Actually doing an internship for seven months so I could
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  Speaker 3: help guys coming in behind me get the same experience
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  Speaker 3: I had.
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  Speaker 1: Folks, here's what we're gonna do. There's a golf tournament
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  Speaker 1: coming up the end of the month. It is the
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh Eddie's Land and Tree Service has done an
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  Speaker 1: event for the last three years and the event benefits
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  Speaker 1: the Tallahassee Team Challenge. I'm gonna put all the information
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  Speaker 1: on our TwixT page, sorry, Twitter and next that's just
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  Speaker 1: my stupid way Twix. And we're gonna put it out
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  Speaker 1: on my blog page as well, because honestly, the sign
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  Speaker 1: up is it's more just kind of showing up and
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  Speaker 1: registering and and being part of the event where the
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  Speaker 1: proceeds go to the Tallasse Team Challenge to help get
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  Speaker 1: them a new HVAC system, which is really needed. I've
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  Speaker 1: been involved with Team Challenge over the years. I was
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  Speaker 1: telling Danny before I go back with Team Challenge to
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three or eighty four in Phoenix, and by
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  Speaker 1: being involved with just having a heart for what they
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  Speaker 1: do and how they do it. And I guess the
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  Speaker 1: final thing I want to share is if you're struggling
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  Speaker 1: out there, there's a Team Challenge somewhere in your area.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care where you're listening to the show on
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio across the country, there's a Team Challenge nearby. And Danny,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for coming in and telling everybody your story
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  Speaker 1: does a pleasure. It's made a difference in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I can see it in your face, but you'd recommend
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  Speaker 1: I would. Thanks for having me, Yeah, thank you.