Latest / Voices for Voices® / My Mom Wrote Movies, Saved Kids, And Broke The Internet’s Brain (Episode 347)
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- 0:02Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
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- 0:31Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we have a jam-packed uh episode here.
- 0:36Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, so we are going to hop right in.
- 0:38Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, many of you, uh, because we have such a great following, uh tuned in to, and you still can't tune in to episode 336 of ours, which again uh you can watch, you can listen.
- 0:54Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can uh do that here in the United States or uh across the world, so wherever you're at.
- 1:01Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh Voices for Voices is at as well.
- 1:04Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But in episode 336, uh we uh dropped uh a little bit of information that the mainstream media uh wasn't and still I believe hasn't uh been addressing appropriately.
- 1:20Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and and that is uh the what looks to be uh in our estimation in good faith, uh a uh persecution, a genocide against Christian people in Nigeria.
- 1:40Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that is episode 336 where we we jump into that this episode here, uh that you're watching and listening to.
- 1:49Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We are gonna talk uh a little bit about that, but we are going to um we're gonna dedicate this particular uh episode uh to uh our guest, uh David Solomon, to his um his his late mom, uh Severa Solomon.
- 2:12Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we're going to uh talk a little bit about Nigeria.
- 2:17Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I think uh David has some uh additional information on uh just the world we're living in now that he may uh want to share with us.
- 2:32Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh we will uh uh David uh take the floor and uh just buckle your seat belts, everybody.
- 2:47David Solomon: So um, yeah, this this episode is gonna be mostly about my mom in Nigeria.
- 2:54David Solomon: Um because I've had a lot of hate on on my mom today, especially.
- 3:03David Solomon: And I kind of wanted to set the bars straight and and talk about Nigeria and why it hits home for me.
- 3:11David Solomon: So we're gonna we're gonna go back in time to uh to 1971, and then we're gonna move you forward to 2020 in a in a 30-minute period.
- 3:25David Solomon: Uh so like you said, buckle up.
- 3:28David Solomon: Um my mom was born Brenda Shireen Hall.
- 3:36David Solomon: Um, and she was a woman of faith from a very young age.
- 3:43David Solomon: She was raised by her uh grandparents, great-grandparents, uh, the Blick and Staffs, not her mother uh and father, who were alcoholics and also smokers and not nice people.
- 3:57David Solomon: At the age of 18, she uh ran away um and went missing for maybe about four months, and after those four months, um she joined the Olympics, and she was uh going to be on the Olympic United States swimming team in the 70s, the summer Olympics.
- 4:26David Solomon: Her mom uh hurt her.
- 4:30David Solomon: Um, I don't know all of the details because it wasn't a thing that she liked to talk about.
- 4:37David Solomon: She didn't like to go near a swimming pool because of it, but uh her mom broke her uh her leg so she couldn't go to the Olympics.
- 4:47David Solomon: So that was the end of my mom's Olympic career.
- 4:51David Solomon: From there, she married um a man named Barry.
- 4:59David Solomon: And Barry and her uh he was a pastor, and uh they went to found Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1975 with Paul and Jan Crouch in Santa Ana or Costa Mesa, California in Phoenix, Arizona.
- 5:22David Solomon: Um and she was the one that helped everybody uh with the communications and getting everything on air and uh managing some finances.
- 5:36David Solomon: She did all that behind the scenes stuff.
- 5:39David Solomon: Um she was an anchor after that for two news stations, and then she became a school teacher in Josephine County.
- 5:53David Solomon: From there, she enlisted herself in the military in Clemens Wells, Oregon.
- 6:00David Solomon: After that, she wanted to run for governor of Oregon and was going to successfully do that.
- 6:10David Solomon: Um, during that moment when she was gonna run for governor, she was helping run a church, a massive church.
- 6:22David Solomon: And she met my dad, who was a pastor at the time.
- 6:26David Solomon: And my dad um said, you know, I I wanna I want to marry you, and they fell in love and they married, and they had me.
- 6:41David Solomon: After they had me, he found that he needed to be called to the war, and he became a special forces sniper, and he went overseas and came back, and my mom tried to get him counseling, he pulled a gun on her, um, and finally he lit our house on fire and exploded the thing, and um and it changed our lives forever.
- 7:21David Solomon: Me and my mom um legally we died according to the doctor reports and and uh and came back, and we had carbon dioxide poisoning.
- 7:33David Solomon: We went to Klamath Balls, where we uh received treatment and were flown to Troutdale, Virginia for hyperbaric oxygen um by Dr.
- 7:48David Solomon: Castro, and uh and uh we uh we were well after that.
- 7:56David Solomon: My mom went to live in uh in Medford, Oregon.
- 8:02David Solomon: Uh well back up.
- 8:04David Solomon: My mom came back to Klamath.
- 8:07David Solomon: I started writing uh at the age of six, my first novel in Troutdale, uh, which I will release with Voices for Voices.
- 8:17David Solomon: Actually, this coming month, you guys will get to see the first novel I wrote as a six-year-old.
- 8:24David Solomon: That is going to be something.
- 8:25David Solomon: Um that's when God called me to write.
- 8:29David Solomon: Um it was really hard to go through that.
- 8:43David Solomon: Um my grandparents um forgave my dad, and they allowed my dad to contact me after he did what he did in uh killing us, and uh they they allowed visitation behind my mom's back, and so my mom said no, no more, and she refused for me to ever see my grandparents again.
- 9:20David Solomon: Good reason.
- 9:22David Solomon: Um my mom became a uh founder of another church in Medford, and she started to help fund this idea for children that had autistic uh needs for horseback riding, and then she became a special needs coach on top of that, and um then she wanted to get into politics as she was running this ranch.
- 10:01David Solomon: She wanted to get into politics of being the mayor of Medford, Oregon.
- 10:07David Solomon: So I would go with her uh to meet campaigns and to meet different people in the political party.
- 10:14David Solomon: I met Barack Obama and different people that came through that were running in the Democratic Party at that time.
- 10:22David Solomon: He wasn't president, he was just a candidate running through the Rogue Valley.
- 10:27David Solomon: So it was a lot different meeting Barack Obama and his family uh at that moment.
- 10:33David Solomon: Um and even though he was a Democrat, my mom was for all sides.
- 10:42David Solomon: She believed that all sides needed to be heard, not just one.
- 10:46David Solomon: I love that about her.
- 10:49David Solomon: So uh my mom helped me uh find my voice at the age of 13.
- 11:00David Solomon: Um, one of my youth pastors, Jeremy Haskell, uh, offered me a beer bottle, and I said no, and he broke it on my back, and uh I ran to my mom, and she went to him and he threw her on the floor, and uh and then she got him fired from uh Ashton Christian Fellowship for it, and rightfully so.
- 11:35David Solomon: After that, um we tried another church, and my mom became the choir director and also uh worship leader and and uh cook and also the behind-the-scenes person for getting everything on screen and the bulletins and everything else, and then she started her own flower arrangements and started making a lot of money that way.
- 12:03David Solomon: Um, I was still writing, I was about 14 when she knew that I was destined for uh something big.
- 12:18David Solomon: Um Brian Davis, who trafficked me, took interest in me at uh around eleven, I believe.
- 12:30David Solomon: Um and she saw that, and uh and I started writing Christian fantasy novels for him and other people because I could write at an extreme speed, and she would edit them.
- 12:48David Solomon: Um at 14 I rebelled against my mom.
- 12:57David Solomon: There was this girl I liked, and she was a part of this gang in Phoenix, Oregon, and I joined the gang for about seven days, and then they cut the tires of a cop car, and I turned myself in.
- 13:16David Solomon: That's how long that lasted.
- 13:18David Solomon: Um at that point, my mom wanted to find why I was so angry, and it turns out that I needed to be more creative, and I was frustrated because people would judge me because I was super smart.
- 13:37David Solomon: I already graduated high school, and you know, I was doing college-level stuff, and nobody really wanted to be around you because of that.
- 13:50David Solomon: Um, so I became a full-time writer for some famous TV shows that you know, and I got paid for it, and I ghostwrote them because I could speed write, still speed write.
- 14:11David Solomon: And my mom started to have fun with it, and she created several TV shows, several movies, several comics, several books, and we became the mean team lean machine, as we were called in the industry.
- 14:30David Solomon: About two thousand and ten.
- 14:36David Solomon: Um things were going good.
- 14:42David Solomon: And my mom my mom started to get a little sick and I went to a church that didn't believe in sickness.
- 15:08David Solomon: So we head butted and they brainwashed me into this cult, and um my mom brought me back from it, stuck by me.
- 15:28David Solomon: We moved to Oregon City and had a lovely life, started producing again.
- 15:41David Solomon: Um Thanksgiving.
- 15:47David Solomon: I found out that she had three months to live and um the church we were going to was not uh supportive of that.
- 16:12David Solomon: So I reached out for prayer to Brian Davis, out of all people who I hated when no one else is around, and your mom's your only friend, you reach out, and that is why I was taken because I asked for prayer.
- 16:44David Solomon: You know the rest of the story.
- 16:48David Solomon: You know I went to Canada, you know I was trafficked.
- 16:53David Solomon: If you don't, you can listen to it.
- 16:56David Solomon: Um when I made it back, my mom had filed about 12 missing persons reports in Clackamas County, and my name was legally changed by my trafficker, SOS, Solomon O.
- 17:16David Solomon: David Soldier.
- 17:17David Solomon: But I go by David Solomon because that's in the writing world, that's what I am.
- 17:23David Solomon: And my mom um was healed of that breast cancer.
- 17:34David Solomon: She never had to do chemo.
- 17:37David Solomon: Doctors couldn't explain it.
- 17:42David Solomon: I lost all my friends because I became the whore child.
- 17:50David Solomon: And my mom stu stood by me the whole way.
- 17:56David Solomon: Became paralyzed and blind.
- 17:59David Solomon: I had a lot of concussions, a lot of hit and runs and we left to start a new life.
- 18:13David Solomon: We uh we got to Virginia and uh my mom uh had a rental car.
- 18:31David Solomon: She was a day late and someone made a call and uh she went to prison.
- 18:40David Solomon: But it was a grand theft charge.
- 18:51David Solomon: It was horrifying for my mom to go through to get so scared.
- 18:58David Solomon: I was scared too.
- 19:02David Solomon: And so my mom would always be by my side no matter what when we got through that, we swore that we would fight this injustice.
- 19:30David Solomon: And we wrote the film Sound of Freedom because we helped rescue a kid that a mother sold in the United States to South America.
- 19:46David Solomon: And we brought that kid back.
- 19:50David Solomon: We worked with Operation Railroad and Underground Railroad and that's that's why that movie is there.
- 20:00David Solomon: My mom rescued one in four hundred children from being trafficked.
- 20:16David Solomon: She'll go out of a way to meet with people talk with them.
- 20:26David Solomon: Talk with the parents.
- 20:29David Solomon: She kind of became a private investigator of sorts.
- 20:39David Solomon: And then I became a assistant pastor at a Nigerian church in San Francisco.
- 20:58David Solomon: And uh it was so hard to see the Nigerian people be crucified because of race.
- 21:16David Solomon: They love God just like you do and me, and you have no idea until you see how much they love God.
- 21:25David Solomon: They're more extreme in how they worship because of how much they love God, because they don't have that freedom in their country.
- 21:35David Solomon: The reason it hits so hard is I was one of the assistant pastors, and my mom was the other.
- 21:41David Solomon: And we we did help pastor with a head lead pastor on Nigerian church successfully for a year and a half, and led a lot of people to Christ.
- 21:57David Solomon: And then my mom was stabbed in the breast with a syringe, and her breast exploded, and she ended up at the emergency room at Stanford Hospital at Stanford University, California in Palo Alto.
- 22:26David Solomon: And they said that she had lost so much blood she wouldn't survive, but they they got her where she would.
- 22:34David Solomon: So she healed from it, and then me and my mom made the best of our life, and we produced and wrote more books and more movies, like Sound of Freedom, ones that I can't talk about, admitting that I wrote with her for legal purposes.
- 23:03David Solomon: Um and we made a difference in 2020.
- 23:09David Solomon: Um my mom had the the breast explosion caused cancer, so she needed chemo.
- 23:21David Solomon: And we were in California and couldn't get the chemo started because California was locking down medical.
- 23:30David Solomon: So we drove across country to Virginia to get chemo.
- 23:39David Solomon: And when we did that, my uh my mom went to the doctor, and you know, we were hopeful that we were gonna restart the chemo, and she would be good to go.
- 23:59David Solomon: We could knock it into remission quickly.
- 24:02David Solomon: Only he told my mom to go die because they weren't gonna restart her chemo because it wasn't priority because of COVID.
- 24:12David Solomon: So she had tears in her eyes.
- 24:18David Solomon: And I did too.
- 24:22David Solomon: So the man that um that cared for me and my mom, a man, uh he made fun of me for crying about my mom being sick, call me a ragdoll, and we left Virginia for treatment in uh South Carolina so we could restart it.
- 25:01David Solomon: And we couldn't get it done there, but we could get it done in Alabama, but we'd have to go through Florida because there were so many checkpoints for COVID.
- 25:15David Solomon: So we went to Florida and my mom got out at the gas station at Panama City.
- 25:26David Solomon: And she emptied her bank account and then she wrote me a note.
- 25:38David Solomon: And um the last word she said was I'm sorry, and we're gonna be okay.
- 25:56David Solomon: You get 'em.
- 25:58David Solomon: You finish it.
- 26:00David Solomon: You finish what we started.
- 26:03David Solomon: I rush to the ER at Bay Medical Center.
- 26:13David Solomon: I tell them my mom just lost some consciousness.
- 26:19David Solomon: I was followed by another vehicle.
- 26:23David Solomon: They got out.
- 26:24David Solomon: The next thing I know, police are surrounding me, knock me unconscious on the ground, and I'm incarcerated for the death of my mom.
- 26:36David Solomon: Seven days I spent.
- 26:44David Solomon: But my trafficker, Brian Davis, apparently, and someone else called them and said I did.
- 27:06David Solomon: They were gonna lock me up for a long time.
- 27:12David Solomon: And I made it out.
- 27:15David Solomon: But I was denied my mom's ashes.
- 27:22David Solomon: Through thick and thin.
- 27:54David Solomon: Even when no one wanted to.
- 27:59David Solomon: I had lost a fiance, I had lost my best friend, I had lost my youth pastor, I had lost my pastor, I had lost everyone that I ever called a friend because I was trafficked.
- 28:16David Solomon: And no one wanted to be friends with a whore child.
- 28:21David Solomon: I was on TikTok the other day on a live.
- 28:35David Solomon: And this this woman, I won't say names.
- 28:41David Solomon: She was really inspirational talking about these things that have to be exposed.
- 28:56David Solomon: Evil things like why my mom wrote Sound of Freedom, like why my mom died?
- 29:08David Solomon: Why people are saying my mom is a bad person?
- 29:16David Solomon: Why are children going missing?
- 29:20David Solomon: Why is Nigeria not being talked about in the mainstream media?
- 29:25David Solomon: Why am I being crucified for telling the truth?
- 29:33David Solomon: Her and her husband, for that matter.
- 29:40David Solomon: Credit to him too.
- 29:46Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Five minute warning, just FYI.
- 29:48Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What is it?
- 29:49Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Five minute warning, just F.
- 29:53David Solomon: So that was my mom.
- 29:55David Solomon: She was always hopeful, always caring.
- 29:59David Solomon: And the Nigeria people, she would always be there.
- 30:03David Solomon: She was always in contact with missionaries.
- 30:07David Solomon: She was always rescuing kids out of those areas, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya.
- 30:15David Solomon: Australia, New Zealand.
- 30:21David Solomon: She was always rescuing kids.
- 30:24David Solomon: She was an incredible woman of faith.
- 30:37David Solomon: For people that mock her.
- 30:42David Solomon: Like Mindy Joy Davis from Illinois.
- 30:50David Solomon: Or Brian Allen Davis from Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- 30:59David Solomon: Or James Artville from Grants Pass.
- 31:04David Solomon: Or Tim Long from Oregon City.
- 31:10David Solomon: Or other people who have made blatant statements saying that my mom was a whore or a pathological liar.
- 31:23David Solomon: She would never lie a day in her life.
- 31:28David Solomon: She would always tell the truth.
- 31:31David Solomon: And she would always do anything for me.
- 31:34David Solomon: She showed me the true love of Christ.
- 31:42David Solomon: Because Christ sacrificed his life just as she sacrificed hers blood and sweat so that I could have a life again.
- 31:52David Solomon: Because after I was trafficked, I was broken and I had no hope.
- 31:57David Solomon: I sat in our home and I wouldn't leave the home for like six to eight months.
- 32:07David Solomon: I was horrified.
- 32:08David Solomon: On the Nigeria people, and watching this happen and no one covering it, it reminds me all of the time when I pastored in San Francisco.
- 32:47David Solomon: What we saw.
- 32:50David Solomon: The lesser.
- 32:52David Solomon: So I'll continue with part two, but this is part one.
- 32:58David Solomon: And thank you for listening.
- 33:01Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, thanks for share.
- 33:02Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, thanks for sharing.
- 33:04Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's uh uh you know transparency and talking about things that happened that are so personal in nature, uh, kind of takes us back to those points of trauma.
- 33:25Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and and so just to be able to talk and share um that much detail uh about what uh kind of in like the past all the way up to kind of the current current state.
- 33:44Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh that's what we're that's what we're trying to do with Voices for Voices uh is to hopefully be a light to talk about tough subjects, things that we're going through, the we need so we've been through uh to help people, and whether we're helping one person or a hundred thousand, or we hit that three billion people mark over the course of my lifetime and beyond the fact of the matter is uh you know, we're we're we're doing this for others.
- 34:28Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh yeah, it does it does help us to share um information, but we're we're we're doing this so the mom, the dad, the uh child, the adult, uh that they're able to see what's going on, hear what's going on from uh another source since uh mainstream media uh for whatever reason or reasons isn't covering it.
- 35:00Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um both the Nigerian uh persecution, genocide called uh in the country of Nigeria, um, as well as you know, hurtful words and thoughts and uh all the all the like you name it, uh there's just been just incredible things that I don't know that people would really say if they were face to face.
- 35:34Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh you know, they're keyboard warriors and uh and and so a lot of that's what is happening today, but then there's also uh from what you know David was sharing, there's individuals who uh uh what seems to be uh involved in quite a few things that don't seem right in the past.
- 36:00Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and it and it sounds like to this day that those are still occurring, that those individuals are are still operating in the in the shadows.
- 36:14Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's what we wanted to share with here uh with part one.
- 36:19Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we welcome you back uh for the following episode.
- 36:25Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh you'll you'll check out the uh the episode right after this, and that will be part two.
- 36:32Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we want to thank David for uh for joining us, and we want to thank you, uh Plusha 90 countries, 900 cities, governments, intelligence agencies, uh just incredible things that we we we we hear about, we we see, but we're not able to uh share.
- 36:59Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh just leave it at that.
- 37:03Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but the the Lord is our savior, and uh like I said at a podium at church when I was I don't even know, maybe three, four, five years old.
- 37:18Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, come Lord Jesus, we need you.
- 37:21Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Not just David and I, but we all do.
- 37:24Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we'll see you on the next episode.
- 37:27Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Take care.