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John's Encounter with an Angel · The Big Show Extra

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  Speaker 1: Country 99.1 WQIK, good morning. Thanks for listening. It's the
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  Speaker 1: big show. We're leading up to Halloween spooky season. And, John,
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  Speaker 1: this is such a great spooky story from you, so
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait for you to tell it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's all for all the good reasons. It
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  Speaker 2: was the coolest thing that's ever happened to me. Two
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  Speaker 2: years ago, my right hip was bothering me, and I
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  Speaker 2: went probably a year and a half longer than I
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  Speaker 2: should have before I got surgery. And so I'm limping
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. inside of a Publix, the Publix on Normandy Boulevard,
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  Speaker 2: the little one right there by 295. And I'm on
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  Speaker 2: aisle nine. I'll never forget this. I'm on aisle nine
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just kind of with my cart, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and kind of, it was extra, extra bad day for
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  Speaker 2: my hip. And so I'm kind of limping a little
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  Speaker 2: more than usual and I'm limping. And then this guy
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  Speaker 2: comes up and goes, Hey brother, you okay? And this
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  Speaker 2: younger guy looks like he's about 30 years old. And
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  Speaker 2: I'll never forget the way he looked. He had these
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  Speaker 2: beautiful blue eyes and had a little, Leather, some kind
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  Speaker 2: of something studs in his ears, earrings. And are you
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  Speaker 2: doing okay? And I'm like, oh, yeah, I got a
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  Speaker 2: bad hip, and I'm just a little extra hippie today.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, do you mind if I pray for you?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, dude, I'll accept prayer at all times, sure.
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  Speaker 2: And so I look up, and I'm looking, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're on Publix in the middle of the day, and
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  Speaker 2: there's never an empty aisle. And I was looking up
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  Speaker 2: to move my cart if he's going to pray for me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to stop people from, you know, getting
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  Speaker 2: around me. And so as I look up, I notice
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  Speaker 2: the aisle's like empty. And I'm like, wow, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm still trying to move my cart over a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. And he puts his hand on my back.
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  Speaker 2: And he asked my name. And he starts praying for me.
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  Speaker 2: And just prayed that, you know, take this pain away
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  Speaker 2: from him. And just, you know, healing him of his pain,
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  Speaker 2: if you would, you know. And in Jesus' name, amen.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, buddy, I appreciate that. Nice guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just sweet. Yeah, just a nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 2: I go, thank you. Thank you so much. And he said, well,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead. Like, test it out. And I was like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: don't make me do this in front of you. I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's a little weird. I start walking, and
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  Speaker 2: there's no pain.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: None.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I walked like four or five steps, and then
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  Speaker 2: I turned back around and looked at him, kind of
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  Speaker 2: like Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life when he's
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  Speaker 2: looking at Clarence. He goes, who are you? Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: That was me. I did look at him, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: who are you? And he said, I'm just a believer, bro.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, no, no, you're more than a believer.
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  Speaker 2: But then I turned my back and I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's just my mustard seed of faith.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I said that and kind of laughed and he
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  Speaker 2: patted me on the back. And I'm once again trying
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  Speaker 2: to get out of the way of nobody. There's nobody
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  Speaker 2: on this aisle yet. And I moved my way over
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  Speaker 2: and I'm turning to my cart and I was going
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  Speaker 2: to turn back and go, well, dude, where do you,
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  Speaker 2: what church do you go to or whatever, you know?
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  Speaker 2: I turned back to him and he's gone.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It was all of two seconds I had turned my back.
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  Speaker 2: And I go back, and he's gone.
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  Speaker 1: I remember you, and this was before I was working
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  Speaker 1: on the big show, just seeing you in the hall
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  Speaker 1: and you telling me this story. And I was blown away.
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  Speaker 1: And I just remember how moved you were by this story.
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  Speaker 1: And you were just talking about it and excited about it. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I remember this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And remember the two solid months that I walked
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  Speaker 2: without any pain.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. And then it came back, and then I had
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  Speaker 2: to have surgery. And here we are two years later.
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  Speaker 2: The other hip needs it. But that's a different story.
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  Speaker 2: I keep going down aisle nine hoping to see his name.
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  Speaker 2: He said his name was Joshua. I go up and
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  Speaker 2: see the manager at Publix. And I said, do you
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  Speaker 2: have cameras? I said, I don't know if I want
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  Speaker 2: to see them, but maybe you want to look at this.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, no, we don't have cameras down the aisles.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, well, I got my hip healed
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  Speaker 2: on aisle nine. And the manager goes, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: pray for everybody that walks into this place. And I said, Wow. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you got you a Miracle on Aisle 9 story to
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  Speaker 2: tell now. That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: You should write a book.
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  Speaker 2: I know. It could be... Yeah, Angels in Publix. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: right by the wool light.
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  Speaker 1: Miracle on Aisle 9.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. We continue nonstop. We would love to hear your
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  Speaker 2: ghost story, spooky or not.
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