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From Wrestling Ring to Kingdom Calling: Redemption, Purpose, and a Life Surrendered with Nikita Koloff! · Anchored by the Sword

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  Thank you for joining me on this episode of the Anchor by the
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  Sword podcast. I pray that today's episode will
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  leave you encouraged and also challenged in your faith.
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  And I pray that you would take the stories that are talked
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  about here today and share them with other people.
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  Thank you so much for joining me and enjoy today's episode.
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  Hey guys, welcome to this episode, the Anchor by the Sword
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  podcast. I am really excited to introduce
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  you guys to Nikita Koloff. He and I met back in 2022 at the
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  NRV conference in Nashville and it was so cool to get a chance
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  to meet him. And I'm ready for you guys to
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  hear more about his testimony and just all of the things.
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  So thank you so much for joining me today.
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  Great to be with. I didn't realize it's been
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  almost four years already. That's amazing.
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  I know, isn't it insane? I can't believe it.
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  I have AI have a friend of mine, a good Jewish friend of mine who
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  says the days and weeks can drag on, but the years fly by.
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  So the fact it's been 4 years that we've met, Yeah, I'm just
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  like what you just said that I was like, wow, it's I feel like
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  yesterday that we met. But just an honor to be with
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  you, Gina. Thank you.
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  Can you tell my listeners a little bit about yourself?
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  I I can and, and by the way, just a side note.
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  I, I love it. Anchored by the sword.
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  I love that title. That's that's awesome.
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  Yeah, I can, I mean, there's, there's a lot there, but I know
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  at the end maybe we give a website where people can find
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  out a whole lot more. But so so grew up in Minnesota.
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  So we're, we're, so please pray for Minnesota, pray for
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  Minneapolis, my hometown where, where I was born and raised.
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  I'm sure you're aware of it's a mess.
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  So please pray for, for Minneapolis and Minnesota in
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  general. But that's why I was born and
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  raised there in Minneapolis. And my dad left when I was about
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  3:00. So I was raised by a single mom.
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  I was the youngest of four in elementary school.
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  She'd move us out to the suburbs.
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  And so I then grew up in a suburb called Robbinsdale, MN
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  and went to junior College in Golden Valley, MN and then
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  transferred up north to where they get a whole lot of snow as
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  well. Moorhead, MN where I went to
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  Moorhead State University, played football all through high
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  school, college, scouted by the NFL.
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  My my senior year, I had suffered some injuries in
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  football that that set me back graduated from college with
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  honors as a as a academic all American, which was amazing Gina
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  since I didn't even like high like education back in high
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  school, but I did embrace it in college and was training for a
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  Pro Football tryout when a bunch of my buddies, a lot of my
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  friends, we can get more into this if you want, got into that
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  wacky, crazy world of professional wrestling.
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  And then one of my friends who I recruited out of high school
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  became a best friend who played football with me was one of
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  those guys known as road warrior animal for the wrestling
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  aficionados out there. He in turn, you might say,
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  recruited me into pro wrestling. I became the quote the Russian
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  nightmare teamed. I teamed up with Uncle Ivan
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  Koloff, became Nikita Koloff and had what some consider a a
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  pretty famous career in pro wrestling and then retired at an
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  early age. Very unusual to retire at the
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  age of 33 and then eleven months later found myself at an altar
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  surrendering my life to Christ. And I'll just pause right there
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  for wherever you want to take it from there, Gina.
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  I love that and I love watching wrestling.
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  I've watched it since I was a kid.
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  I grew up in the Hulk Hogan days and all of those.
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  And, you know, stopped watching it for a little while during
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  some of the aggression era. That got a little bit too much
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  for me, but. They call it the the Attitude
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  Era. I think that's what they call it
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  really pushed the envelope and it kind of yeah, yeah, I know
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  what you're talking about. It was a little much for me for
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  a while and then I watch it with my dad and my nephews and so
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  it's something that we all watch together.
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  For quite. A while.
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  I started watching it again in 2015.
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  But you said you came to Christ after you retired.
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  So what events in your life are going on that led you to that
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  point? That's a great question.
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  So, so you know, for those who you know, probably not all of
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  your viewers, your listeners are, are wrestling fans, but
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  maybe they'll be inspired to to Google the name Nikita Koloff
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  and and learn more, more about me.
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  In fact, let me flash this why why I'm thinking of it.
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  So for those that so that's one, just one of many wrestling
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  titles that that I had won. This particular 1 is a replica
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  of the N.W.A world television title.
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  And so just want one of many accolades that I was able to
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  accomplish in a in a shorter career than than most.
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  And to directly answer that question, you know, I tell
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  people, you know, I, I jokingly say again, part of my character
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  was a Russian guy, right? That was a part of the storyline
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  was that I was going to become the nephew of Ivan Koloff, as I
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  mentioned, who is known as the Russian Bear, and that I became
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  the key to call off the Russian nightmare.
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  And part of that was was based on another character by the name
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  of Dusty Rhodes, the American Dream, and me saying me saying
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  I'm going to be your worst nightmare.
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  From that came the Russian nightmare.
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  And so it was a shorter career by choice, like I wasn't forced
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  out or, or injury didn't cost me to retire.
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  I did get injured in my final match, but that wasn't the
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  impetus of my my retiring. And it would really, Gina just
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  be through my retirement, looking to what the future held
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  for Nikita Koloff, realizing something was missing in my life
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  now. I didn't, you know, I didn't.
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  I didn't grow up in Russia, ha ha, ha.
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  But I also didn't grow up in church.
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  That's not to say I never went to church.
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  I knew the story. The man Jesus spikes through his
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  hands, spikes through his feet, a spear through his side.
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  But the story had never made the 18 strip from my head down to my
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  heart. And so I was on this quest in
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  1993 for what life held next for Nikita Koloff now that I had
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  this, quote, successful career in wrestling.
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  I had met this Christian couple through other business ventures
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  I was involved in, invited me to their church a few times.
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  And really it was just a divine appointment.
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  Gina. It was I called them up one one
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  day and said, I'm going to be there Sunday.
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  And they said, great, we'll meet you there.
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  And it was there on the 17th of October 1993 that I realized
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  what was missing in my life. I tell people I was successful,
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  but I was unfulfilled. Yeah.
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  I couldn't put my finger on it until that morning.
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  Kind of an aha moment. I know what's missing is a
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  personal relationship with Jesus.
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  And it was in that moment I went forward, went to an altar, got
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  on my knees, repented, gave my life to Christ and Gina.
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  Life's never just been the same since that encounter.
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  How have you seen God use you since following him?
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  So, yeah, and I, so I didn't launch immediately into
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  ministry. I actually wanted to just go get
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  my hands dirty, you might say. I wanted to learn, you know,
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  Jesus model servanthood when he washed the feet of the
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  disciples. So I wanted to learn what
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  serving others look like. So I went on overseas to
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  Trinidad and Tobago, the island of Curacao, over to Angola,
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  Africa, just to help build churches, a Bible school, just
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  construction get my hands dirty. I went on three trips with with
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  my my older daughters Tarantani on mission trips with them as
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  chaperone to Columbia, SC, South Carolina, Columbia, South
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  America, South Carolina. Although there is a Columbia,
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  SC, Singapore, Moldova, part of the former Soviet Union.
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  So I just went to serve for five years and and during that
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  discipleship, the way I view it now, looking back during that
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  period of being discipled and learning to serve in 1998, the
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  Lord gave me Cola for Christ Ministries.
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  We launched that ministry in 1998 and if you Fast forward to
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  2026, I now have been to a total of currently of 36 countries,
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  all 50 states. I've preached in over 1500
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  churches and I celebrate 20 years now of men's ministry.
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  Hence the Shirt Man Camp alumni, one of my wrestling buddies by
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  the name of Lex Luger. Some might remember.
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  You probably remember that name, Gina Lex.
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  The. Total Package gave us a vision
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  for for a men's camp that we do called Man Camp in Georgia every
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  spring and fall. And, and so I've been involved
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  20 years now in men's ministry. So that's a kind of a snippet of
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  what I do. I love that and yes, I I watched
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  him get inducted. Yeah, yes, just recently,
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  finally got inducted to the WWE Hall of Fame.
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  We've done a lot of ministry over the years.
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  He's got an amazing book out there.
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  I would encourage people to get called Wrestling with the Devil.
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  I actually, I'll just flash this real quick.
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  That will tell people more. This one, let me pull that back
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  there. This one is a life's life story,
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  Ring and redemption. The key to ring and redemption,
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  That's my full life story. This one wrestling with success,
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  I tell people, is more motivational.
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  The other one's inspirational. So we've done a lot.
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  We've had in in fact him and I though I've ministered to an
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  audience of 1 and the largest audience to date where he was
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  with me was in Jamaica, an outdoor crusade Gina.
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  Where we were, we were sharing our stories with over 73,000
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  people in Jamaica. Wow, that's amazing.
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  Yeah. Yeah, we saw, we saw thousands
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  of people that night make a decision for Jesus.
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  Amen. Amen.
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  Well, you never know what he'll do when you say yes for the
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  first time. You.
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  You, you don't. And and for your viewers, your
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  listeners, yeah. And that's it.
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  That's the key. Just saying yes, just.
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  And then once you say yes, surrendering, giving your life
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  to Christ and then making yourself available, there's no
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  telling what what he'll do. I mean, the plans he has for
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  every one of us. I sometimes feel like I need to
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  pinch myself when I realize what I get to do, what I get to do to
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  to help build his Kingdom. And the fact, Gina, that he'd
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  allow me to be a part of it is is humbling.
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  Yeah. So I listened to one of the
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  interviews that you did. It was actually one of the
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  podcast episodes that you have out where you were talking about
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  part of your story and you talked about your relationship
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  with your dad, which you kind of hinted on a little bit ago.
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  Is that something you want to dive into a little bit as well?
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  Yeah, we can touch touch on that.
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  And what of course what you're alluding to is it's time to man
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  up the Man Up podcast. I do too.
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  I do the Man Up podcast. It's time to man up with the key
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  to Koloff and then Q&A with Koloff where where I actually
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  call other people and then give them the opportunity.
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  We flip the table. I'm usually asking all the
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  questions like you are today on the Man Up, Man Up show.
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  It's also a radio show on Truth Radio Network.
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  Stu Epperson, the founder approached me about 5 1/2 years
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  ago and he goes, you need a podcast, you need a radio show.
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  And I'm like, well, where can I squeeze that in?
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  But. God.
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  Made it crystal clear was what I was supposed to do.
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  So that show's been downloaded now in 109 countries.
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  But that said to your question. So my dad leaves when I was
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  three. He's really out of my life till
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  my college days when he started coming back into my life to
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  coming to my college football games, re establishing a
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  relationship. But it was very superficial.
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  You know what, It was pretty surface level, you know?
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  Thanks for coming to the game today, Dad.
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  You know, how's the weather? You know, boy, those Minnesota
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  Vikings are having a good season, right, Dad?
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  You know, that kind of thing. Fast forward into my 40s and
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  into his 80s and there was a point in there where he had, as
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  he used to say it grabbed the old rugged cross and became a
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  Christ follower fact that his own radio show up in Minneapolis
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  for many years was a part of the Billy Graham organization for
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  the Crusades. And and in my mid 40s, God put
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  it on my heart to start reaching out to him more, telling him
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  something I had never told him before.
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  And that was I love you dad. At first, Gina, he didn't know
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  how to respond to that it it actually took see January,
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  February, March, April, May actually took five months and on
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  his 84th birthday of me reaching out, talking, carrying out
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  building a relationship with him that for the first time in his
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  life said the words I love you, son.
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  On his 84th birthday. And then Gina, he became a part
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  of the ministry. He became a part of the prayer
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  team for Cola for Christ's ministries.
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  A few churches actually brought him in to share his story of
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  grabbing the old rugged cross. And then I would preach.
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  So I'd like to say we had the Father, son of the Holy Spirit
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  all present in those services. And and then I was fortunate to
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  be there. He passed at the age of 92 and I
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  was fortunate to be there, literally be there, spend the
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  night in his room, the night he literally went home to be with
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  the Lord. But the last words from his lips
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  the night before where I love you son.
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  Very last words that he spoke to me.
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  That's awesome. I love how God restores what's
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  broken. Exactly.
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  So hope for your listeners and viewers out there.
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  God is the God of restoration and reconciliation and he
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  totally restored a father son relationship with me that I
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  never had, you know, for those 40 plus years.
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  Yeah. So as you were starting your
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  journey with Jesus and as you go to today, what Bible verse or
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  verses keep you anchored? So my current kind of what I
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  call life verses is Colossians 110.
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  And one of the reasons I really like that just that one
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  scripture, it, it, it's broken down into four parts.
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  So it's it's it's really challenges us in several areas
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  of our life journey. People can go look it up.
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  Colossians 110 I'll just kind of give give your listeners how it
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  speaks to me. Part 1 is and how I pray that
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  Scripture, not necessarily every day, but a lot of days is Part 1
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  is Lord, I hope today that I can go out and just honor you today
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  that I can live a life that's worthy of you today to carry the
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  banner to carry your name and it come the end of the day that I
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  have left a mark for your Kingdom and not a stain.
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  So Part 1, living a life that's worthy of our Savior, right
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  honoring his name. Part 2 kind of ties into that,
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  that we can please him, that we would please him today.
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  And I break it down this way, Gina, please him in every way
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  through our actions, through our words and, and, and the the
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  hardest one through our thought life.
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  So a lot of times I'll say, Lord, I hope I can please you
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  today with my thought life, the words that come out of my mouth
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  and my actions. And if at any point in time I
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  say something, do something, think something that doesn't
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  honor you today, not worthy of you, then I, I, I hope that or I
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  want to be quick to repent and ask you for forgiveness.
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  Part 3 is bearing fruit. It says for every good work.
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  So I want to be AI want to be a fruit bearer, right?
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  I want to bear good fruit for God's Kingdom, right?
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  And we many know should know Galatians 52223.
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  If you're not familiar, go look that up.
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  The fruit of the Spirit and just being able to bear that fruit
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  for other people to other people.
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  And last but not least, part 4 is to grow in the knowledge of
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  God. Now, there's one thing about
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  reading the word, studying the Word, memorizing the Word, and
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  we should do all of that, but I emphasize moving the word from
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  our head down to our heart, allowing God to write His word
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  on the tablet of our hide it in our heart, write it on the
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  tablet of our heart, and that then in turn, Gina will help us
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  go out and live it. Absolutely.
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  So I want to jump back a little bit into kind of bringing
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  everything all together. So when you look back at your
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  life, your career, everything that you've done since, what are
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  some of the highlights that you would think would be on like a
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  reel if you could build your own reel of your life?
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  That's a great story. I'm convinced.
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  Perhaps one day, you know, I mentioned, you know, the book
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  form of my life story. It is an Audible form as well.
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  People go on Amazon and they can download Nikita, A Tale of the
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  Ring redemption and hear my full story, right?
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  So the full thing highlights to my story.
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  You know, looking back, I feel like there's been a number of
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  what I call defining moments that have made me into who I
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  currently AM. Now.
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  I'm not complete, I've not arrived.
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  We're all a work in progress and so it's just trusting that
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  process of progress. However, that said, when I think
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  back, you know, I mentioned like not growing up in church, right?
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  But I knew the story and I can see and I feel like and even my
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  dad had said to me. It's kind of interesting.
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  Part of his testimony was when he heard I was getting into
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  professional wrestling, he thought, oh Lord, we, we've lost
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  him now forever. You know, we'll never get him
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  back. He's going into that crazy,
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  wacky world that we're just never going to get him back.
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  And he was a prayer warrior man. He prayed for me, prayed for me,
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  prayed for me. That said, he had said that once
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  that our relationship was reestablished, that he could see
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  how the hand of God was still on my life even though I wasn't
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  serving God. And I look back at that and see
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  these defining moments where, for example, I'm in high school
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  and our I'm, I'm a sophomore, the senior captain, his name was
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  Greg Sutton. Funny how you remember things.
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  His name was Greg Sutton and he used to host during the week
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  these meetings at his house called FCA, which stands for
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  Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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  Now, I'm not a Christian, but I I went to those meetings every
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  week. But here's the thing, I didn't
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  go to learn about Jesus truthfully.
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  Full transparency, I went because I thought it would build
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  some brownie points with Greg and he put in a good word with
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  the head coach so I could play on the varsity as a sophomore,
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  right? So wrong motive.
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  But that said, I'm still hearing about Jesus when I went, right?
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  Because that's what the meetings were about.
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  They were about Jesus. Fast forward to junior college.
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  I mentioned I went to junior College in Golden Valley.
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  Well, Gina, it was a Bible college, but I didn't.
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  Again, I didn't go to learn about Jesus.
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  I went because my first male mentor, Bill Burke, my 7th grade
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  football coach, was now the defensive coordinator at that
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  Bible college. I knew the head coach from my
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  high school as well as several of the other coaches who were
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  all from Robbinsdale. And so Bill Burke convinced me
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  to come to junior college. So I didn't go to learn about
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  Jesus. But guess what we had to do?
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  We had, we had to take a Bible class every quarter.
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  For the record, I tried to sleep through every one of those
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  classes. I didn't.
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  I did full transparency. But guess what?
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  I still had to learn about Jesus, right?
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  You know, I dated a girl whose parents were Christians.
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  I would go to their church sometimes not to learn about
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  Jesus, but thinking I could impress the parents, right?
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  So just a few examples of how I look back, how God I I believe
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  was kind of steering and directing my life.
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  I'll give you one more example I I think your audience will
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  appreciate. Let me give you 2 quick
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  examples. Mickey Buseon.
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  Who's Mickey Buseon? He was the fullback for our
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  football team at Morehead State University.
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  It was well known Mickey was a Christian.
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  It's funny, I don't remember a whole lot of guys from names
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  from those college football days or my high school football days,
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  but I remember Greg Sutton and I remember Mickey Bewson.
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  Mickey was a sold out, well known Christ follow a Christian
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  and he modeled that. Fast forward to my wrestling
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  days. I went out and I was one of the
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  finalists for the role in Rocky 4, the Russian boxer Evan Drago.
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  I didn't get the role. Dolph Lundgren got the role.
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  Gina, I can look back and in fact, it's funny, we're having
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  this conversation. I was just literally thinking
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  this morning in my prayer time, my quiet time with the Lord, how
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  I was actually listening to a sermon.
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  If I've gotten that role, Ivan Drago in Rocky 4, I feel
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  convinced you and I wouldn't even be having this conversation
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  right now, Gina, that that role would have taken me in a whole
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  different direction out to Hollywood.
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  And I don't even know that that I would right now currently be
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  surrendered to Christ and you and I have this conversation.
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  So a few of the highlights of how I feel like God had his hand
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  on my life leading me to that decision October 17th, 1993 to
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  surrender my life to Christ. I love that and I did see how
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  you said that you were a finalist for that role.
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  Side note, that's one of my favorite Rocky movies.
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  Yeah, yeah. Pretty, pretty amazing.
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  It's funny. A lot of my buddies who knew
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  that, like when they watch that movie or they think they're
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  like, dude, that could have been you.
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  That could have been you. And I'm like, yeah, could have
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  been. But it was not meant to be.
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  God had a different plan for my life.
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  He had a bigger plan than me playing Ivan Drago.
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  So I, I've loved getting a chance to talk to me, talk to
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  you again because our meeting at, we actually met at the Truth
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  Network booth and I just actually, I can't remember if I
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  had just done it or if I was coming back to do it.
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  My very first podcast interview. OK.
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  Was with Sue. That was my very first one that
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  I ever did of getting interviewed.
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  Awesome. So, yeah.
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  So where can people connect with you?
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  You already talked about the books and you've talked about
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  the other stuff, but let's go ahead and bring it all together
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  where people can follow you and all the things.
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  Yeah. And, and, and thank you again
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  for having having me out again. I love it.
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  Anchored by the sword. What's the sword?
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  The word of God, the sword of the spirit, right, The word of
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  God. So I'm, I'm trying to make it
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  pretty easy. He like if people, if they want
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  to link to my podcast radio show, if they want to find out
• 26:37
  more about man camp, which, you know, I haven't talked a lot
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  about that. Yeah, I mentioned that God gave
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  Lex Luger and I have vision for it.
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  But I'll just briefly quickly mention what he and I do is
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  bring small groups of men into a little town called Royston, GA.
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  And over a five day period, we sow into, pour into challenge
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  men to be men of God, godly husbands, godly fathers, godly
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  grandfathers, of which I am now I.
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  I have 14 grandchildren, Gina 14 and #15 on the way.
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  And my youngest daughter, Colby and her husband Andrew are
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  adopting their third child. That'll be #15 but if people
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  want to learn more about Man Camp, have an interest in going,
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  We like to bless military, law enforcement, first responders,
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  pastors of churches with with scholarships.
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  Or if you're none of those, we still have scholarship money to
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  be able to. If money's a financial need, you
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  can link to that that website, the Man Camp website, link to
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  the podcast and to the radio show.
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  Find out more how to get get books for me autographed
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  personally by me all of that link to my social media
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  kolof.net K0L 0F as in Frank F as in frank.net is a one stop
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  shop to connect with me and learn more about me.
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  Thank you SO. Much again for talking with me
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  today was so encouraging to me and I know it will be for other
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  people and especially the men too, because there's a lot of
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  women's conferences and a lot of women's this, which is awesome,
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  I love it. But there is also such a need
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  for men conferences for men. There haven't been a lot in the
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  last however many years. There's only been one that I
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  knew of, but there's not a whole lot.
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  So I think that's a huge need. It it we've we've seen that in
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  the I believe, of course, God knows that need and, and taking
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  the wrestling platform as it as a platform to reach out to men.
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  You know, many of the churches I've gone and preached in the
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  pastors grew up watching me wrestle like you watching me
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  wrestle. That's in fact, I'll just say
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  that too. If you're a pastor out there and
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  would ever be interested, you know, bringing me in for a
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  weekend and I do men's breakfast, men's conferences.
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  I do men's men's dinners in addition to man camp and stay
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  over preach on Sunday. There's ever as an interest in
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  that. They can also direct message me
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  through that website, koloff.net, put a request in and
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  be glad to have a conversation with pastors.
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  So thank you for having me on today, Gina.
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  Absolutely. And you guys go have a great
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  rest of the day and I'll talk to you in the next episode.
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  Thank you so much for joining me for this episode, the Anchor by
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  the Sore podcast. I pray that the story that you
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  heard today will encourage your faith, challenge your faith, and
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  also help you as you walk in your daily life.
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  If this episode has done that, please feel free to leave a five
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  star rating and review wherever you listen to this podcast so
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  that others can find it and grow as well.
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  Have a blessed week and I'll talk to you next episode.