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S4 57. Tim Moon – Tomato Fields, and Mustard Seeds · Millennial Mustard Seed

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the kingdom of darkness. Welcome back to the millennial
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Mustard Seed, pod cast, thank you for being here.
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I have an excellent episode of store for you, guys.
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I have Tim Moon here. The author of tomato Fields,
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Tim's, a cryptozoologist with a passion for writing fiction
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mystery. He likes scary, monsters history
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and philosophy on this. Awesome conversation with Tim,
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we A little bit about his book. His testimony, everything that
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God has helped him overcome throughout this journey this
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process and where he's at in life.
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It's really, it's such a beautiful story.
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You guys in Tim's own words. He sent me a message and just
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Amanda was so much flow and connection in our conversation.
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He was really happy to have been here on the podcast just as
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happy as I was to have him. He's working on a part 2, a
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sequel to Tomato fields which has excellent Aunt reviews at
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this point in time is very well received among the community of
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people who are willing to think outside of the box a little bit
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and just take a different approach to what some of these
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Cryptids might be. Now in Tim's own words.
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He said to me when we got off air and this is what was really
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solid for me. He said, I felt so good about
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getting certain things off my chest.
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There's parts of his testimony and about the power of God and
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how Tim emptied himself. We just dive into his story and
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he was expressing to me, how rewarding, and how much better
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of fell for him to get everything off his chest.
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And to put it out there for me, hearing that it was so powerful
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because it just reminds me of the ripple effect, you know,
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having a podcast, capturing our own journey and then taking the
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time to hear other people out and see what they went through,
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see how God has worked in their life, it really is edifying as
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encouraging. And I hope you guys enjoyed this
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episode and go check out Tim's book.
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Go to Amazon is called tomato Fields very well written.
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I'll leave the suspense. If you guys haven't heard about
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tomato Fields yet, go check it out for yourself.
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episode. You guys ready?
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Welcome back to the show. Everybody, I have the one and
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only Tim Moon here, who is the author of a popular book, tomato
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Fields? Tim, welcome to the show.
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It's an honor to have you here. Well, thank you.
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It's an honor to be here. Here.
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Absolutely. So it's your first time here
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with us and I'm really excited for you to tell us your
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testimony and then we'll dive into a little bit of your book
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here. So do you want to start off just
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kind of jumping into telling us how you became the 10 Moon, you
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are today. I don't know, I don't really
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know how to answer that. I have gone through quite a bit
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in my life. I yeah.
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Are you talking more from my beliefs in Bigfoot and or you
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talking more from my maybe religious beliefs or so, I mean,
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I have heard you talk a little bit about, you know, kind of
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like growing up in a haunted house and like, just some
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different things that you've dealt with.
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Yeah. Do you want to kind of start
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off? Just telling us what you believe
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and what led you into writing the book and then a couple
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experiences that have happened over the course of your life.
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Oh yeah, easy enough. I've changed a lot over the
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years. I was what you would call born
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again in college. I'm long past college.
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And I went through several experiences and I'm consider
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myself kind of a Christian Mystic.
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Now, a lot of the stuff just didn't fit didn't work for me,
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and I have come to believe that we are in God.
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We are in Christ. it's not somewhere else or somewhere else
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we're all in him and all things are held together in him and I
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believe that that involves the entire known universe and
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unknown universe and it's it's Because I believe that and I
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know that all things are in Christ and all things, he uses
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all a lot in the Bible and that he is more powerful than any
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other force that exists and that he's holding us together.
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And I believe Redemption was for the entire universe, not just
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for earth-centered. Group of people on the Earth.
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And so I see it in a much more comprehensive.
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Big picture, mystical way in a Oneness in God in Christ, and
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that we can have that all the time.
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And not when I hear the reference getting close to God,
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I always think, well, how can you not be close to God?
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He's everywhere and you're somewhere, you have to be next
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to him coin is that they're not consciously close to God because
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in their mind there, Focusing, their security and attention on
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things that are, they're not separating them from God,
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they're just not allowing them to be conscious of God, they're
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not allowing them to focus on God, but when you, but that
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doesn't mean you're not close to God.
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You're always close to God. He's everywhere.
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And it's just so I see it more. As we just need to be
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consciously aware of his presence.
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And typically, we're not, when we're focusing on other things
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to get security or Because we're afraid or because we're angry
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and those things then draw our attention away from God and
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focus in on something else. But we're not separated from
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God. We're just our focus is
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separated from God. I believe, is most Christianity
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in the world is not Protestant. It's Catholic or Orthodox and of
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those I think Orthodox is probably closer to the truth at
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least they Tour. The mystery of the faith a
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little bit better than than Catholicism does not that I'm
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have anything against Catholicism.
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Some of the finest people, I know, are Catholic, and some of
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my best friends are Protestant, but I'm probably a little more
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leaning toward the Orthodox without accepting everything
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carte blanche because I don't do that anymore.
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Absolutely. Okay.
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I believe that Christ is a mystery that the Trinity is
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Mystery. If you think you can explain the
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Trinity. Yeah, good luck.
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Okay. And there's three and there's a
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there. There is a connection there that
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the East and the West, the East focuses on do a non Duality
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because the belief that all reality is is is connected and
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it's and it's in it and it has its source in some kind of
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universal. So divine power and the West
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breaks, everything up into this. And that and here and there and
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divides, everything logically and we Define everything.
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And when you define something, you not only Amplify a little
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bit, you also limited. So I believe the to have to come
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together for people to have a spirituality and proper
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understanding of God and it's they don't they're not designed
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to be fighting and only religions fight over things.
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And it's typically ego-driven people are created in the image
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of God. Everybody is, these are precious
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people. They're created in His image,
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they are his Divine image and We need to love each other and
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that's not. That means everybody just needs
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to love each other and get over their power struggles.
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That's kind of where I'm coming from.
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I'm not one religion anymore, so and I just try to do my best to
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love my neighbor. I mean, I'm getting hit with the
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scripture where you're talking about, where could we go?
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That God's not. Okay, I think I want to say it's
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David and doesn't he say, where can I go?
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And not find your presence? He's like I can go all the way
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down to sheol or down to the underworld Are you are people
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need to hear this? I'm so happy.
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We're having this conversation when people say, oh, I'm growing
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closer with God. It's like no, you may be
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adjusting your focus. You may be trying to.
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Yeah, we have to be willing to accept what God has already
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done. He's the beginning the end, he's
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the right now. He's the future, right?
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And it's like a lot of the times we like to take these little
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Snippets and give some focus and then say Oh God is good or he's
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doing this or that or acknowledge him, but then 90% of
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the time. Just you know, my God, my belly.
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What I want, right. And we see that a lot of them in
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the culture as it appears, he goes and we decorate them and we
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put on it home for people and it isn't, it is not putting our
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focus on God, and when you, when they say you're separated from
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God, you're not separated from God, use your focus is separated
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from God because you are alienated and hostile in mind
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and You could be a born-again Christian and be alienated and
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hostile, because your focus is not on your need and dependency
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on him. It is on you.
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I didn't mean to. I don't mean to preach course,
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in a new side of Tim here, I'm going to kind of walk into from
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here. Let's talk a little bit about
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your book. Well, this about the book, you
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wrote tomato Fields, what? Well, I've been so I've been
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studying this in fascinated by this since I was a kid.
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And I saw the movie, The Legend of Boggy Creek and That's a
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classic now, but it's almost a cult film.
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But it's really, it was a low-budget movie that that just
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captivated my understanding of Bigfoot, or my awareness.
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And I, for some reason just always felt there probably is
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truth to this. This thing probably does exist
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and it just was in the back of my mind for much of my life.
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But in the last 20 years, I started really looking Into it
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and really doing the research more as a historian because I'm
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a historian by trade and listen to thousands of stories.
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And just I can't get enough list of the stories on it.
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And I started to think that maybe, if you could use fiction
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properly that you could have a bigger impact on drawing people
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to this mystery, then you can with facts because you can use
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nonfiction and All the facts and all the details.
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And I think people just turn that off sometimes but they're
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motivated by stories. Stories cell and facts tell and
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but stories go down a little deeper.
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If you can develop the right characters and you can you can
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have the right amount of of drama and tension.
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You can maybe draw people into characters who they might
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believe even though they may not have believed the book by By
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biologists to took took, you know pictures and had some hair
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samples, people just low that off.
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I found in my opinion, what I saw people were just blowing
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that up. And so I was just hoping that
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maybe someone could write a fiction that would Captivate
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people in catch them and draw them in.
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So, that's what I'm trying to do.
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I can't guarantee you that I've done it but I'm trying.
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I think that someone is you. I hope so.
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I like to write a couple more. I think it's really interesting
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that, you know, taking the approach to trying to get people
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emotionally. Yeah.
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Interested in the topic. Yeah.
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I mean I had Brian good dowel on a few years ago and just we
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talked about the power of Storytelling.
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Yes. Right.
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And we see how Hollywood will use these half-truths to
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entertain people and it's always from It's not a fully truthful
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perspective but yet they'll get people familiar with these
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ideas, almost to systematically desensitize them to what the
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truth is. But when we take the approach
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and get people emotionally involved and interested in these
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topics, very smart move, I must say very smart.
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Well, I'm hoping it'll work. I think that stories are
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important and we really made to tell stories.
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Most history has been passed on through telling stories.
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Now, I just want to undo this mention real quick as we are
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laughing about this. A few minutes ago off are your a
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crypto Zoo. Novelist.
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I made that up after listening to someone else funny played on
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Words With cryptozoology. So I thought, well, maybe so.
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I did that. I think it's kind of cool, but
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it sounds like you absolutely epic.
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Yeah. It's definitely an attention.
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Grabber, you look at the word and it's like, you think?
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Something that you may have seen before.
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So you get it, read it and try to pronounce it and you're like,
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whoa, s, so really works Rosie off that first.
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I have it on Instagram and Twitter and so you're a history
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buff. Yeah, now I teach history.
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So I do Administration to and so various types of jobs I do
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you're on the west coast Austin, Texas.
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Okay, in Austin Texas, I grew up in Washington and my brother
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lives in Washington and that's where he had his encounter.
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He still lived in that house house is their house in the
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book. Your childhood home was where
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what state was that in Seattle Magnolia area?
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Now, I've heard you talk a little bit about some strange
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things that happened. Growing up, fill me in the
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audience, and we were little kids from the time, I was in
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about fourth grade till I was in about seventh grade.
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We lived in a house, really nice house.
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We loved it. Great.
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Memories. But we we think there was a
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ghost in that house and different things would happen.
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Joe, my brother actually seen it.
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Once walking, following my dad into the bathroom.
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He could see it in close, but it was also see through it looked
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like a little boy, was the image of a little boy, but it was
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see-through. And then he followed my dad into
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the bathroom. And he so Joe ran in the
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bathroom to see who this was following his dad and there.
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Was nothing there. And there were many other
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experiences when my grandma experienced something scratching
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under her bed and she got really scared eventually and left the
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house, got a taxi and went to a hotel and there was a time when
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mantelpiece lived It Off The Mantel of the fireplace and
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lifted out into the ways and then drop to the ground and
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shattered. And then there was some time, I
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heard it doing things, and there's other times, other
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people heard it doing things. And my mom, seen enough things,
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they got out a Ouija board. And before I say this, I just
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want you to know. I do not endorse that, but I was
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only like a and I knew nothing about Ouija boards.
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Now, I do not endorse those. I would avoid them.
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If, if I was you, but she did it and she found out the, the
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initials that she thought of this, his spirit.
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I remember watching. It was pretty strange.
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And and then she apparently went downtown and checked it out, and
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found out that a little boy had died in the house.
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We just came to realize that it was their kind of part of the
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family and we just accepted it. Took it for granted and if we
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heard something kind of knew what it was but it never was
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malevolent aside from arguably scaring my grandma.
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And oh wow, and dropping that thing off The Mantel.
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But aside from that, I remember no instances of any kind of
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stick something to be afraid of. We'll just to reiterate what you
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were saying. And my audience, obviously knows
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this but highly recommend, never playing with the Ouija board
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trouble, and you can't, yeah, you can't mess with those
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things. You can invite trouble, since
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you can't go looking for. If it comes to you, I think we
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have the ability to deal with it.
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But if you're looking for it all the time, I That's another
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thing. Yeah, it's interesting how many
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people open doors and they don't know the doors even there to be
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opened in the first place. Like you said, when you're
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inviting these things in, there's plenty of stories out
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there of just crazy stuff happening because of that, but
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it reminds me of in the Bible. God says, don't speak with the
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dead. He doesn't say, you can't speak
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with the dead. He doesn't say it's not possible
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to, he's like saying, don't it's not good for you.
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I think a lot of time Christians will be like oh no, you can't or
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that's all fake. It's like know that stuff is
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real and there's you gotta you gotta realize some of that's
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protestantism and there is a there is probably some biblical
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reasons for believing that the saints that there's some
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interaction between us and the saints that have gone before us.
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But that said, there is spiritual Dimensions out there
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and they involve entities, Paul said it powers and
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principalities in the higher places and have absolutely huge.
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Don't, you've got to be Discerning and careful.
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I remember once we had a Catholic girl, he's one of the
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best kids and she was an employee for us in a business.
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We owed once and we argued all the time because I was staunchly
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Protestant and she was staunchly captive.
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I said, well, I wish I could talk to Paul because there's
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some things I don't understand. And she said to me, will you
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just ask me and I'll talk to him?
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Oh no, but Um so I think probably is a place to be
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inspired and get inspiration and and it does say that the cloud
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of witnesses there cheering people on and they're cheering.
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You know, they're praying for the Redemption of the entire
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planet in the entire universe. So anyway, I don't want to over
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do it. Possibly having your grandmother
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talk to you from the grave. It might not be demonic.
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So it's okay. But there could be times when
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stuff like That is so you just have to be Discerning.
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And in my opinion that's just my opinion, you know, it reminds me
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and I'm just going to say this based on the scriptures, we were
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talking about a few minutes ago, but the Apostle Paul says, I
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wish, the Saints knew the lengths, the depth, the breadth,
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and the height, there's just so much more going on the veils
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thinning. Tim the veil is thinning.
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So you got, you know, non-believers you got atheists,
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you got Christians, you got all these different groups of
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people. Whoever they are, they're all
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starting to really realize there's so much more to the
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picture here. I think it's amazing that he
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uses three dimensional groups dimensional reality.
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Yeah. And he uses that scripture or
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the height the depth and the width.
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Okay. And that's three dimensional
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reality, but Dimension. There it's very likely that
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we're living in the multi-dimensional reality, many
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meaning, more than for the Fourth one is time and what one
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is is using for their he says Lang a lot depth length, breadth
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and height and hives for those are.
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Yeah. But those are length and width
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and height and depth depth is part of the three, but the idea
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is he's using three dimension to our understanding of
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three-dimensional reality when he says that.
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And they didn't understand the dimension of time back.
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Then, because of Uncle mention is time.
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There's really multiple Dimensions that are if you if,
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if you You can you know if you trust some of the quantum
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physics that we're learning there's probably some guesses,
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many as 11 knock moderate. He's back and I think it was
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like the 12th century studied. The Book of Genesis and came to
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the reality that we lived in ten Dimensions.
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I think it was like Mark he was killed for it back then.
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Now modern science is like oh we live in 11 Dimensions, this is
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another real interesting thing. I didn't even plan on going this
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direction but sometimes these are the Conversations.
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Yeah it's so cool that think about this but anyway yes, the
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best conversation is really when it's not really playing.
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I mean we're not far off track. But what when the Apostle Paul
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talks about, he knew a man whether in the body or out of
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the body, he did not know who went up to the what the second
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or third heaven. Yeah, I mean, come on.
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I love when the smoking guns are all over the word of God about
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this. People actually have good
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questions. I mean I'm coming across more
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people in a daily weekly monthly cases that actually have good
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quite like detailed questions. About how does this stuff
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operate? Five years ago.
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They used to make fun of you for being a Christian or believing
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in. You know, anyone strange stuff,
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but I think that Paul story that's door.
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Paul was, I think Paul had a near-death experience.
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Have you ever heard of near-death experiences?
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Yeah, I had one at 19 years old. Well, he tied if you read, he
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died. He was stoned to death.
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And they knew when they killed him, they were, they were
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professionals. Stoners.
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Yeah, you're right. They need and and he and then
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wow. And he rose from the dead and he
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he was healed even after he'd been killed with a bunch of
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rocks, hitting them, I mean, they break your bones, they
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break your legs, they there they bruise.
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You and he walked back into town.
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He had a near-death experience and his description of that is
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what he's describing. That's my about, that's an
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interesting take. See, I never really thought of
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it like that, I've personally I've talked about this on, on
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the show on and off just little Snippets here and there, but I
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had a near-death encounter like 19 or 20 years old.
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I got jumped by a handful of guys, and I mean, not just like
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a black eye. They stopped me into the ground.
25:47
These guys were trying to kill him and I started setting up out
25:50
of my body. I'll never say I died.
25:54
Yeah. Because I don't believe I died
25:56
but as the me that is It's hard to explain but it was me coming
26:02
out of me, you know, whatever. He like almost physical body,
26:08
still here. But the thing from like your
26:10
forehead, all the way down to your solar plexus or your gut
26:14
that makes you, you can cut off your arm, your arm is going to
26:16
rot in the ground and you're still you, right?
26:20
You don't lose any personality because you're losing a limb,
26:22
but it is so strange, you know, my brain swelled up on this,
26:27
tapping the inside of my skull. I started setting up out of my
26:30
body. It felt strangely almost like
26:34
slight pressure all around, kind of, like, if you're in water,
26:38
you know, like the atmosphere is different.
26:40
It felt similar like that but it was very dark.
26:42
It was Eerie. It was, it was strange.
26:46
It was not not. I mean, obviously, I'm not saved
26:49
at the time. I didn't grow up in church.
26:51
I didn't even know to really call on the name of God.
26:53
Like, I mean, I knew of God, we were like Easter Christmas
26:56
Christians, but I'm not sure I'm not going to stand on my side.
26:59
Soap box with this, this story, the audience's heart and plenty
27:01
of times, but yeah, I had a near-death encounter and that's
27:05
what launched me into, you know, my whole journey of what I'm
27:08
doing today. So read, I've listened to so
27:10
many near-death experience accounts because I had an
27:13
experience. Please tell me I didn't have a
27:15
near-death experience, although I probably would have eventually
27:18
died. I went an addiction issue, an
27:22
alcohol issue and I had a and I had been a Christian in the past
27:31
and then I started having these problems as as an older adult
27:37
and it just got out of control and had another spiritual
27:44
experience in that recovery that really was life-changing and it
27:51
pletely, set me free. From the cravings.
27:56
And the can you tell us? Yeah, I can tell you all about
27:59
it. Well, I resisted for a long
28:02
time. The fact that you could drink,
28:05
you couldn't just drink moderately and that it was
28:07
completely under your control. And to say, you're powerless
28:12
over that, which is what the 12 Steps teaches is to say that you
28:17
can't just do the right thing. You're a victim.
28:21
And I resisted that victimization and because I
28:26
thought I had to be able to conduct my to a discipline
28:31
self-discipline life, be able to stop this and that didn't work.
28:37
I kept doing stupid things that you just wouldn't do.
28:41
If you were saying and drinking compulsion and craving got
28:47
worse, and worse and worse. And I kept saying, I just have
28:50
to be more responsible. And I have to stop doing it but
28:52
I would keep doing the things that I was ashamed of like Paul
28:55
said and I finally came to a place where I went to a
29:01
conference and some people gave me a book and I went back to the
29:05
room and started reading the book and these different
29:08
sections of the book were underlined by people who who
29:13
were trying to encourage people to stop drinking.
29:19
And to follow the program. So, I was reading these passages
29:25
and they were passages out of a book that were were written by
29:34
someone fifty years ago, and by people who didn't even know me,
29:40
but they were underlying passages that directly spoke to
29:43
me. And I thought, because of all
29:47
the things I had done that, I had disappointed, God so much
29:50
that he did not want. He wasn't going to help me.
29:54
If it was up to anything to get recover from alcohol, I was just
29:58
going to have to do figure it out.
30:00
I always heard that there's a miracle out there.
30:04
If you will, just let go and let God and admit you're powerless,
30:09
you'll have a miracle. And that's what I did.
30:12
I said, you know what, you must still love me to be able to
30:15
doing that to be doing this and showing me this and I, right,
30:20
right there. Just let go and said, I admit
30:22
that, I'm powerless over this drug.
30:24
I can't control it from that minute on.
30:29
I have not had a drink. And that was five and a half
30:33
years ago and then I learned and grown through the other steps.
30:38
Most of my recovery has been reconciling my first spiritual
30:43
experience with my second because they were both
30:46
legitimate. What was the first was a
30:49
born-again experience in a church and college, then
30:54
jellicle charismatic church. And actually, and it's so funny
30:59
because God told me, don't drink He told me to stop drinking.
31:04
And I said okay so I stopped I thought I don't know why I
31:09
didn't know anything about alcoholism.
31:11
Now I know why alcoholism is a disease that runs in many
31:14
families. Its genetic and you can't
31:17
control it. Some people and various people
31:21
have various levels of control but a real alcoholic if you
31:25
drink you are going to have trouble at some level
31:28
controlling that and some people goes to dying.
31:32
We're going insane. That's it.
31:34
I don't know why, but I'm going to stop.
31:36
So I start that in drink for 15 years.
31:38
I figured well, I'm an adult now, and I've learned moderate
31:43
myself. I can drink with moderation.
31:47
It started off being a glass of wine and then it became too.
31:51
And pretty soon I was polishing off the whole bottle and going
31:56
through multiple bottles and it just kept getting worse until I
32:02
change to part or out. Alcohol because there was less
32:05
calories and just your ability to consume it continues to rise
32:12
and it just becomes more and more of a craving more and more
32:15
of a craziness. And a drive, when compulsion to
32:19
do to fulfill, its you, that the restlessness in your heart.
32:25
And I fear and tension, and just get me out of here.
32:30
I can't take this anymore, but you have one drink.
32:32
And oh, man, you start. You start getting this crazy,
32:36
you know, and that happens to a lot of people.
32:38
Okay. So yeah, just helped expose me
32:40
because I couldn't do. I wasn't enough to fix this?
32:44
I couldn't follow enough laws. Yeah.
32:47
And anyway, I needed to be changed.
32:52
I needed to have some kind of experience, and that required me
32:55
to say, I can't do it. It's out of my control, so
33:01
powerful and if people are in addiction of any kind, It's
33:08
likely that you can't beat it yourself that you need help
33:13
from. From God.
33:15
I know it's gone. Some people say high power.
33:18
That's fine. If you want to say it's God and
33:21
God we need God. And there are several things
33:24
we're not ever going to be able to do we just have to let go of
33:28
them. Trust, God and move away.
33:30
If you tried to explain what water was to a fish.
33:33
They would think you're crazy because they just they don't
33:36
know what what what Otter is they just live in it?
33:41
And I think we live in God. The same way we live and breathe
33:44
and have our being we live and move and have our being in God,
33:49
just like a fish lives and breathes and has their being in
33:51
water. And when I started seeing God as
33:55
surrounding me, and him being my brother and being my father and
34:00
being by the presence of him being Supernatural and
34:06
unlimited. And full and complete and
34:10
everywhere started feeling that I was always in God, and that I
34:15
was all. That's when I started developing
34:17
the understanding of consciously focused on that presence that
34:21
all came to me, through the recovery from alcoholism, to me,
34:26
the Tendency to decorate egos instead of getting rid of them.
34:38
Dr. Laura was on which has been on quite a few times, but we
34:41
release an episode recently. And there's this climax during
34:44
the episode. For me, personally where she
34:47
talks about how David emptied himself before.
34:50
God, I've heard people use the term ego death, right?
34:54
Like I had an ego death, I've heard that term used and there's
34:57
something it's so peculiar because until it happens to you
35:02
or maybe you're in process, or it's coming down the pipeline
35:06
for some of us listeners. Has to this episode or maybe
35:09
we've already experienced it. But if we've ever come to that
35:14
place and we acknowledge who God is for what he says of himself,
35:21
but what he says in the word, The Great.
35:23
I Am, he's omnipotent, he's omnipotent, he's the beginning
35:26
and the end, right? Like everywhere, he's Spirit,
35:30
those who worship. God must Worship in here,
35:33
spirit, and truth, right? If we come to that kind of
35:36
conclusion a life, because The whole world is built to keep you
35:39
from coming to that conclusion, right?
35:41
Oh, entertainment, go go. Go right.
35:44
Make as much money as you can't write, the soul Society wants to
35:47
harness a plow to your back and make you produce right and keep
35:51
us distracted. So I hear you talking about
35:54
tuning in your focus and then you sharing this powerful
35:57
touching? No Letting Go.
35:59
Whoo because I'm telling you that I think the fall while an
36:03
took place when they said, when man said we got this.
36:06
Yeah, you don't need. Need you don't I know you.
36:09
Yeah, stay over there. We got this.
36:12
Thanks for the planet and we don't got this but and know and
36:18
I and and often times even the born-again message, they'll say,
36:23
Get born again. I was like is though.
36:25
Praying the prayers going to change your whole future but
36:30
then the born again is really reverencing.
36:35
Trusting God like a child trust God, Like an Eagle is Eagle is
36:39
child. Trust God And be dependent on
36:44
him letting go and trusting him to guide and live your life
36:49
through him. That is different than just
36:52
saying a prayer. There's so much truth and power
36:56
to what you're saying and this is when I know this was meant to
37:00
be talked about it is on this episode is the first time we've
37:03
ever told, I'm connecting with what you're saying.
37:05
There's power in our testimonies your testimony is powerful and
37:10
then you're giving God, all the praise and glory.
37:12
Before it so like moments like this, this is why I love it.
37:16
That's something you. I love this stuff.
37:18
I loves Revelation and power that comes from really knowing
37:24
your place in God, his all-encompassing existence and
37:31
presence in the world. So, everywhere fact, I was
37:34
thinking their downs. Always been disappointed because
37:36
I can't go to another galaxy and another planet and Looking at a
37:42
tree and I thought the same God that created that other planet
37:48
is made that other galaxies is in that tree, you created that
37:52
tree. The power is holding that tree
37:54
together, just like it's holding me together.
37:57
If I can experience that tree, I'm already experiencing the
38:01
same power created, the other things on other planets.
38:05
So why should I be disappointed that I can't go there.
38:09
I can always experienced the power.
38:13
I don't know if that meanwhile to you but I loved it.
38:15
All right, dude, immediately I was getting hit with the The
38:18
Chronicles of Narnia, right? When the kids go through the
38:21
Wardrobe and it's like there's this reality.
38:25
That's right here, we have access to it.
38:28
That the scripture says taste and see that the Lord is good.
38:32
And it's all the God is beyond our wildest imagination.
38:39
He is beyond our wildest imagination, man.
38:41
I'm loving this. Isn't it?
38:44
That's what it reminded me of when you're talking about, you
38:46
know, I'm looking at this tree if, and see, I believe
38:48
repentance it also means a change of mind.
38:51
Yeah. Like, like, we change our minds
38:54
to be a danger of dependence, because you can't.
38:58
And then guidance still think. Oh man, I'm look what God's done
39:01
to me, man. I'm all this, you're nothing,
39:06
you are everything and nothing at the same time.
39:10
So, interesting show important because you work.
39:12
Created in the image of God, you are Divine creation, and you are
39:18
without that same, God, without being in that Divinity that
39:21
created you, you are not. You are like a drop of water on
39:25
a dry Rock and we are caught up in his story.
39:30
This is like you, this is his story.
39:32
This is his creation. He had us in mind and that's the
39:36
kind of Revelation that can change Generations.
39:40
The reality, when we're adjusting the way, Who we are
39:44
what is really going on in accordance with what God is
39:47
already did. And what his plans are moving
39:49
forward. It's a, it's a good thing, it's
39:51
a good thing to see. You came up with the name tomato
39:56
fields, for example, epic. I told my wife and she's like,
40:00
what tomato feels like. She thought she didn't
40:03
understand what was happening because we're big into
40:05
gardening. So she thought maybe I was like,
40:07
interviewing somebody, you know, like this gardening Channel or
40:10
something. I'm like, no, no, no.
40:11
And I explained to her. She's a call.
40:12
That's really cool. You felt confident about that
40:15
name. Uh-huh.
40:17
Was there a moment. We were like, that's it.
40:19
This is the name on choosing for the book.
40:21
This book has had one thing after another.
40:24
Other or I just felt like, that's what I should do and
40:28
they're and or someone would come and help me out of nowhere.
40:31
And I couldn't have done it without them, just here and
40:34
there. And then so in this case, my
40:37
brother saw the Bigfoot he was out working on his car and he
40:42
smelled something funny and he was living in Mason County,
40:48
Washington just above the Hood Canal, and he was there on the
40:53
weekends. He just bought the Opportunity
40:55
worked in Seattle. So he's there on the weekends.
40:56
It was in the 90s and he was working on the backfist trailer
41:01
at dusk and he smelled something really bad.
41:04
He started looking around and about 70 yards up the hill on
41:10
the wood line, by one of the big light poles, there was no houses
41:14
at that time. It was all.
41:16
It was all rural area and forests.
41:20
This thing walked out and stood by the pole and saw him, and
41:23
they saw each other. ER and JoJo's freaked.
41:26
It was eight, it was probably nine eight and a half nine feet
41:29
tall and just really wide and dark colored like dark brown or
41:33
black, and it starts screaming at him.
41:36
It was pissed off. I think it was going to get
41:39
water and Joe got in the way. And it screamed at him, you know
41:44
how they scream where it starts high, and then turns into a Roar
41:47
and it's just penetrates you, he it happened to him and he ran
41:54
for his house which was right there.
41:56
He was close to it because of the driveway and he grabbed his
42:00
shotgun and close the door and looked out a little window by
42:05
the door and he's saw it stop screaming and then he thought it
42:10
was coming after me. He thought he would start and it
42:14
turned around and walked back into the woods and that was the
42:17
only time he ever saw it. And he thinks he heard it, and
42:22
the whole idea about tomato Fields, was that just up above
42:26
beyond that a little higher up, the hill and then down, there's
42:30
this area that they used to dump sewage in and they dumped
42:36
sewage, they just dump the sewage out in and instead of
42:40
putting it through sewage treatment plants back then they
42:44
just dumped it on the ground. And I wrote this in the 70s.
42:48
I used the 70s as a starting place.
42:50
Age for the book and they dump sewage.
42:55
So the sewage had human waste and human waste has seeds from
43:00
vegetables and because that a lot of vegetables grew and there
43:03
was a lot of tomatoes. So Joe just thought well we
43:07
could call it tomato fields and Joe thinks that thing was headed
43:11
in the direction of what we call the Tomato Fields.
43:15
He thought that was a catchy title, I thought it was a catchy
43:18
title. When I got closer to publishing
43:22
the book I tested it with some people in every I just got good
43:28
results from that title. So I kept it and I get people
43:35
who like, it really like it and so I'm just hoping there's a lot
43:38
of them. And wow, and the whole idea the
43:43
connection between the recovery from alcoholism in the book is I
43:47
started this 10 years ago but I never could do it because I was
43:52
struggling with this addiction and I could focus but I couldn't
43:56
focus enough to but once I recovered from this I felt like
44:03
I needed to finish this because I put my hand to it.
44:06
Now I need to finish it as part of my Covery to prove.
44:10
I cannot just start something I can finish something.
44:13
And so, in a way, it's a testimony to my recovery.
44:18
So it's a multiple, there's a lot of things going on that
44:21
brought all this together for what that's worth.
44:23
But there's a lot involved and it's not a perfect book and I've
44:29
made, I've had, I still have to do a little bit editing.
44:33
Can I tell you a story about my editor?
44:35
Yes, please. She quit like, Chapters in
44:40
because she got mad because my characters were using gun,
44:44
unsafely and here. And I so I had to do a lot of
44:50
editing at the end torque by myself in order to meet
44:54
deadlines. And so there's still a few
44:57
little editing things that I'm cleaning up and so It's not a
45:02
perfect book but I think for the like it generally they like it.
45:07
Yeah. And that will be cleaned up here
45:09
shortly. As far as a part to goes, do you
45:14
have something napped out? Yo, yeah, it's not outlined yet.
45:18
It's just percolating right now. Yeah, but I'm probably in the
45:22
fall. It's a sequel.
45:24
I wanted to be sequel. I'm going to do another one on
45:26
recovery that I'm also working on.
45:29
So that'll be different more like we've covered both of them.
45:35
It'll be. Yeah, I love how this episode.
45:38
It's just your first time here. I feel like You just laid so
45:43
much out for us and you're just, you're humble, you're just
45:46
unashamed. You're like, listen, God's Got
45:49
The Power, this is the journey. I just, these are my favorite
45:51
kind of stories, because I really feel like I'm just
45:53
connecting with you and we never understand the ripple effect.
45:57
That's one of my big things I talked about.
45:59
We don't understand the ripple effect like God sees it, and he
46:03
knows to us, it just maybe, oh, we had this conversation.
46:06
Oh, I was on this podcast, but there could be somebody out
46:09
there to go. Absolutely.
46:12
Here's this interview and it's Sparks them to change their life
46:16
and then the domino effect from there.
46:18
And I think that's that's a wonderful mystery just to
46:21
consider. I'll ponder on that a lot of the
46:24
times now. Go ahead, you're getting good
46:27
reviews on the book. I think on Amazon, you're at
46:31
like to say close to 70 70, 70 plus reviews in this point in
46:35
time, are you getting like feedback from from any of the
46:38
readers on your social media site or do you?
46:41
You have like a hub where people reach out to you like your own
46:43
website. For example, most of the time
46:46
I've had two or three people comment on on Instagram I've had
46:52
people comment on Facebook. I've had friends, and people, I
46:56
don't know, just call from out of the blue and I had one just
47:02
yesterday who has a podcast and wants me to be on his podcast.
47:06
But he started telling me about the book.
47:08
He's an English major and he just likes it so much and he
47:12
likes what it's telling us about Bigfoot and the thinks it's
47:15
going to contribute a lot. So things like that, I could
47:18
never make. I could never Make those six
47:21
happened. They just are kind of
47:22
spontaneously happening to me. So I hope that it's also why I
47:27
think you got the right mentality for all this to keep
47:30
happening. And I got says, if we humble
47:32
ourselves, you know, who exalt Us in due time.
47:35
And just so cool. And humble ourselves is Letting
47:39
Go and not taking ourselves. So seriously when we need it and
47:43
not trying to be perfect because none of us are perfect.
47:46
I'm on that Journey where it's just like not, it's not trying
47:50
to Take myself too seriously. Like I got interviewed for the
47:52
first time like truly interviewed I've been on other
47:55
shows I've been on other radio programs and stuff but I had on
47:58
the guys over at days of Noah podcast, reach out a month or so
48:02
ago and they wanted to do just an exclusive interview on my
48:05
testimony. I'm like I'm thinking about it
48:07
I'm like I've never told my Testament like I've told
48:10
Snippets just in reciprocating people in the podcast or just
48:13
things that come to mind or really feel like if I tell this
48:16
person this snippet, they're going to have a good response
48:19
for me or maybe Rebuke or maybe they're going to, you know, just
48:22
something, you know, we kind of give these little pieces of of
48:26
ourselves, we don't want to set our gems in front of swine,
48:30
right? We want to set him in front of
48:31
people that we feel like are going to give back value or see
48:35
it somehow to help us possibly make sense of it.
48:38
But that was that was interesting for me.
48:41
And the more I go about this and just learning, really, the idea
48:46
this show Tim is, I'm capturing the growth Journey, personally
48:49
while promoting noting, all these other people that I find
48:53
something like powerful or beautiful in their story, So I'm
48:56
just kind of capturing how I'm growing and learning the
48:59
information. I'm hearing my reactions, you
49:01
name it and then at the same time just making friends.
49:04
Just you just documenting the process.
49:07
You know what and you're saying. Stuff here tonight I'll have
49:10
your podcasts. Yeah, that's a little bit
49:14
coolest. You know, man.
49:18
That's a funny one. Because I had a podcast before
49:22
this not of this world. Hmm.
49:24
And I remember when God gave me the millennial Mustard Seed.
49:28
It's a mouthful man, people have trouble saying it.
49:31
I'm like in the beginning, I'm laughing my God.
49:35
I don't want to name it something else, you know and
49:37
he's just I just was feeling his gut.
49:39
Yeah, pulling just absolutely not.
49:43
Don't even consider a kid. Almost like something like, like
49:46
Stern old man, is over my shoulder.
49:48
Just like it, don't erase that off the paper.
49:50
That's just a feeling I got. It was so strange, but like I
49:54
also knew God had a sense of humor, and I just went with it
49:57
and it's funny. Now, it kind of fits in.
50:00
In this weird, it's a very Niche audience, I'm a small fry, don't
50:03
have a huge audience, Audience. Some of these guys out there,
50:07
they're getting hundreds of thousands downloads.
50:08
I just I'm like listen and a small Niche audience who
50:12
believes in God who's willing to Journey with me is more
50:15
important than just the masses. You know, that was my what God
50:19
kept me in that reality check. So you got to start somewhere,
50:22
right? Yeah, absolutely.
50:25
So this is always encouraging hearing hearing all these these
50:30
awesome stories but Tim, I really want to have you back in
50:34
the Teacher, I feel like I've talked a little too much on this
50:37
episode personally, but I connected with you.
50:39
A lot of fun and I'm happy to come back whenever you want to.
50:43
Okay, I'll keep you posted on what's going on.
50:46
Let the people know where they can find you Tim.
50:49
I will send you everything to put in the end notes.
50:52
Okay, okay. And I'm on Instagram and it's
50:56
just real simple tomato under underscore fields And you can
51:02
get me on Instagram right there. You can get me on Twitter, it's
51:05
a little different. It's a at, TS Moon 10 at cool,
51:13
70s, moon Titan. And my email is easy.
51:16
It's a Tim S. As in Sam Moon, all one word at
51:21
Gmail, and its Moon. Just like the moon in the sky.
51:25
Awesome. Can I say one thing?
51:28
Absolutely. If If someone's listening, he's
51:32
having issues with addiction and they just feel like they're,
51:37
they just, they have no hope, there's no way out.
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There's a way out and you do have hope and you're welcome to
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contact me. And I'll be glad to share my
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experience with you and help you any way I can.
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Okay. So anyway, I hope that that
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might benefit somebody that might be the whole purpose of
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This episode right here to maybe may not be also if you like
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Bigfoot shit. I like Bigfoot you do you just
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have this passion for these mysterious creatures.
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History philosophy just there's so many topics.
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I feel like I could just dive into with into with you down the
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road man. Before And and I'll have to tell
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you next time we talk just to kind of plant the seed on this I
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grew up in an old historic it was a famous Philadelphia
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Farmhouse where Peter Rod thermal painted the depiction of
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the Battle of Gettysburg in the house.
52:43
I grew up. Well that's awesome.
52:45
I love Civil War history. It was definitely haunted house,
52:49
there's some interesting history there so I'd like to just even
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off are just share some stories with you sometimes.
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I just I just can't get enough of that stuff.
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Tough. So dude I got some stories.
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Woo-ha got quite a few of them. Yeah.
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I got quite a few of those. Awesome.
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So it was honestly an honor to have you here on this episode
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with me. Thank you.
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Any last words before we wind down thank you for going to show
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and thank you for listening if you're listening and appreciate
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your time. I know it's valuable and I'm
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thankful. I could be a small part of it.
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Keep looking for a mysterious creatures in the woods also Be
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careful words, very well said. And you guys just remember
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emptying, ourselves can be exactly what is necessary order
53:39
for us to grow and get that answer that.
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We've been looking for share this episode with your friends,
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your family members, share with your pastor coming to you from
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Southeastern Pennsylvania, goodbye.
54:01
Linda Dee stood with his gone with a low voice that sound like
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thunder. Walking on the street of goes,
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here's a peek. He's like like me City high upon
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his throne has 10,000 pounds. 10,000 saying We Found Glory,
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Glory, Christ.
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Jesus blister. He in that's easy D.
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There's a river flowing from God's holy Throne.
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Where the tree of life is blue me where the hell has not been
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no more lives in that. Write CD date will have to flee
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away. No more sin sickness, no more
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heartaches here that lame the perfect day, Glory Glory we have
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crazy. Praise the name of Jesus
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blessed. There's at a cable in that
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country City, we the site of old with a truck, Who's for me handy
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today, never see anymore. I'm going home in the morning to
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the lake. So bright to walk the streets of
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Jesus. Glory Glory?
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We have praised forever. Praise the Holy Name of Jesus.
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We have praised. Forever.
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Praise the Holy Name of Jesus. Bless the Lord O my soul.
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There's at a cable in that country city with the site of
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old with their troubles farming handy to never see you anymore.
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I'm going home. To them.
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So bright. I walk the streets of Jesus.
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Bill Foursquare, Glory Glory, praise the Lord forever praised.
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The Holy Name of Jesus place the Moon.
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Is bless the Lord. Yeah.
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This is boy bread and thank you for tuning into the millennial,
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