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S6 204. Adam Farris - Five Stones - David vs. Goliath Reimagined! · Millennial Mustard Seed

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body freedom. Then people start to get
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cities. They start to fortify their
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cities. Now God looks down and there's
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at, is not against each other. It's against these
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principalities and these rulers and these archons in the high
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places. It's really worthwhile to read
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None. Welcome back to the Millennium
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Mustard Seed. I'm your host, Rod, and thank
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you for being here with me for another awesome episode.
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And this is a really cool one, man.
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I have Adam Ferris join me for a fascinating conversation about a
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comic book that he wrote. And it's a dope comic book, you
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guys. It's a little bit graphic, so
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it's not quite recommended for the youngins, but listen, this
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is definitely for your 15, you know, and up, and it's based on
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the David and Goliath story. So Adam reached out to me a few
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months back and he's like man Gary Wayne and Blurry creatures
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and your show The Millennium Mustard Seed had ultimately
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inspired him during a critical time in his life to do a
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Christian comic book. And well, we he testifies on
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that. We get into what that story
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looks like. There was some tragedy, there
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was a lot of opposition. And he gets to this point where
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he literally follows God and the nudgings and just does something
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that's different. And there's a shift that took
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place in his life. And so it's a really cool,
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powerful episode in the sense where he testifies the hardship
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and deprivation leading up to this breakthrough moment
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creating what's called 5 Stones. And he sent me the a copy of it.
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And I read through it and looked at it and just really spent a
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little bit of time on it and was blown away by how necessary it
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is for us to have the correct worldview of what these biblical
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stories look like. It is not a cute little animated
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story. You know, it's it's true
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depictively to the scenario of David and Goliath, a stone being
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slung into the Dome of a giant and his head literally being
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Hacked Off in front of everybody.
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So this is something that might kind of look a little bit like
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Sin City or 300 movie, a little hack and slash, some gore to it.
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That's why it's for a mature audience, in my opinion.
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So that's the disclaimer. It is for a mature audience, not
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this episode, but the comic book itself because it's graphic, but
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it really does depict what happened in the story of David
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and Goliath when you know God's enemy gets defeated and
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decapitated. That can look graphic.
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But you know, there's some cool highlights during this interview
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where it's just heartfelt, encouraging, and the struggle
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gets depicted for us from Mr. Adam Ferris himself.
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You guys can find details in the show notes to get a copy of
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Adam's comic book 5 Stones, and you can also find in the details
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of the show notes a way to help us in our time of need.
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I think we may have gotten some breakthrough on the whole
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Spotify thing. It looks like subscriber has
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I don't. I'm hoping if one of you, 100 of
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in time of need. We really do need you guys to
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step up and bless us back right now.
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the help that we can get. You can find a copy in the
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details of the show notes to my book.
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That helps us reach one more person just like me and you.
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And I think it's about time to jump into this episode.
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I'm ready. Are you guys ready?
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Let's go. I am Adam Ferris and I'd like to
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welcome us to the Millennial Mustard Seed podcast.
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Adam, you're a first time guest. You have an interesting story
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and an interesting comic book that you created.
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Appreciate it, buddy. Appreciate you having me.
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It's an honor. Yeah.
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So you reached out, I want to say a few months ago and I got
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this e-mail from you and you sent me a couple pictures, a
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couple pages of this comic book. And, and I remember I just sent
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you an e-mail back and I'm like, call me.
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And so we got on the phone, I think within like a day or two
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of that original e-mail. No, I, I love how that worked
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out. Again, you know, you, you write
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something, you get a book out, you know, so how do you get it
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out? You got to market it.
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You got to send it out. So I'm just, you know, just
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trying to, to get it to people. That was the folks I had to, to
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make sure that that was the focus the entire time was just
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getting it to people. And, and then, yeah, it's so
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great to, you know, you got it and you were interested and so
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awesome for to, to, to start to see that and, you know, be able
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to share stories and whatnot. Yeah, so why don't you just
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start off with telling us a little bit about what you do,
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how you came to Christ, and then we'll get into this comic book
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thing. Absolutely.
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So again, Adam Ferris, long and short of it, I was led to write
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a, what I like to say is a really gritty version of David
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and Goliath and and really trying to capture what happened.
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If you were standing there beside David, what would it look
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like? Which is just, you know, it's a
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crazy endeavor. So to get back to 2022, I'd been
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a manager at this point 13 years.
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And specifically, I was a distribution center manager for
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a tire facility. And I had been there for six
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years and was getting burnt out. Was, was, was was, you know,
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I'm, I turned 40 years old. I was going through all that
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stuff. It was kind of getting burnt
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out. It was a union shop too.
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And you know, I was non union manager and it, and it was took
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a lot out of me, you know, point, point rest.
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I was pretty burnt out and I was just trying to figure out my
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next path. I felt like career wise, I kind
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of hit my goal. So I'm a goal oriented person.
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I I'm I'm very I accomplished driven.
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So I was just like in idle hands was listening to a lot of stoic
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stuff and Jordan Peterson and you know, trying to be a better
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me. I was born and raised
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Pentecostal Christian, but left when I was 17, kind of went
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through one of those worship in the pastor not God situation.
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And you know, it was, it was, it was really rough and, and as as
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a person with the way that my mind works it it not that I was
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burnt on, you know, my faith or anything, but just it was people
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and and you know, you don't want to get caught up in that, that
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kind of stuff. So anyway, so so you know,
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specifically around this time, I I hear this, this quote from
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Jordan Peterson. He was talking about, you know,
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men and being strong and he said, you know, you, you want to
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talk about strength, be the strongest person at your
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father's funeral. And and that just really, really
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stuck to me just quenchingly in that time.
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But Dad was Dad was alive. You know, everything was going
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fine. Just that was just hit me.
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So then, yeah, it's like about two, you know, two weeks things
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kind of culminating. And I ended up putting my
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resignation and I just needed a break.
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I needed a less stressful job. I got 4 kids, I got a big
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family, I got a bunch of animals, I got ducks.
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So, you know, I, I needed a break.
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So the Thursday before I'm going to start this, this new job,
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this, you know, in my mind, I'm going to take a little vacation,
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some me time and just, you know, less stress.
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Thursday before I'm supposed to start this job, my mom calls me.
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They're about two hours away and she's like, your dad's in the
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hospital. It's looking like a blood clot
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in his leg. You need to come up here.
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And, you know, but dad wasn't in horrible health, but he, we had
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some scares, but he's tough. I mean, my old man was tough.
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So it just kind of was like, oh, yeah, OK, you know, maybe I'll,
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I'll come up here in the morning or whatever.
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Told my wife, you know, she's like, no, this, this feels
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different. So I called back up and I talked
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to the nurse and she's like, yeah, you know, this is one of
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those things. Come on up.
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Hopped in the car, made my way up there.
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You know, was was I'm a kind of a planer.
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I and I'll go into all that stuff, but like, I was kind of
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mentally preparing for things. So got up there, saw him, he was
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hooked up on everything was bad. Got to tell him I loved him.
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And, you know, stay strong. You can do it, man.
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Me and mom, you know, we leave, visited an hour's over, go get a
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burger, get back to the house, realize my phone's on.
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Still in silence. I got 3 missed calls from the
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hospital. Then they call me.
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Hey, can you guys please come back up?
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Oh, absolutely. You know, I know what's going
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on, Mom knows what's going on, but it's you don't want to, you
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know? So anyways, we head on up there
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pulling in the parking lot and they call and we're like, hey,
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very sorry to do this over the phone.
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We kind of have to. He didn't make it.
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It's on speakerphone. I'm right next to mom.
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Like mom lost her best friend for like 46 years ish.
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You know, they've been, you know, a long time.
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So that Jordan Peterson quote just immediately was like hit me
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in the head and I was like, all right, you know, I know what I,
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I know what I got to do. So I had to hold it tight, super
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tight. Got Mama into the hospital, saw
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him. He was there.
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You know, father had passed, you know, he was 63 years old again,
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wasn't horrible health was, was very unexpected.
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And and you know, you, what do you do?
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I just, I knew again, my dad was tough.
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I was raised by a tough man. So I just, I knew I had, I had
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to step up just, it just was there and, and you know, I, I
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said some prayers, you know, it wasn't at that point in my life,
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you know, I wasn't, you know, I was a believer.
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But again, so get back, take care of mom, do the weekend
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thing, folks, family, blah, blah, blah, pick everything out,
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which was incredibly, incredibly difficult to, you know, what are
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you going to do and how you going to do things?
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What does he want? What does the family want?
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You know, a lot of times when death comes, there's family
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fighting. So, you know, just again, I kept
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thinking about Jordan Peterson. That quote was like, I got to do
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this for Dad. I got to I got to keep this
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together. So did and then had to go start
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that new job that Monday, you know, smile on my face.
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Hey, how you doing? Da da, da da da 'cause you know,
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that's how I was raised, man, and did what I could do for my
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family. Got us through, you know,
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everybody was good. Got through the funeral, then I
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start to crack because again, I've been holding this all back,
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holding everybody strong and and you know, eventually it's, it's
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going to keep, you know, catch up with you.
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And then plus, you know, the reality of the fact of now I'm
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dead, you know, and that's what happens in men's lives is when
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you, you know, the old man's gone.
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You're, you're the old man, you know, and depending on how big
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your family is and you know, how, how everything's set up and
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that's, that's heavy, that's heavy to, to, to, you know, now
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I'm the guy people go to. So I ended up having to take,
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take some time off and just get my mind straight because it had
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been, you know, I'd, I'd say probably about two months.
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We ended up taking a little vacation and, and it hit me hard
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and was like, I don't know, I'll never be able to do this with,
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with, you know, the full family ever again.
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So while we're on this vacation, I, I just kept David and Goliath
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kept going through my head and, and one thing I forgot to
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mention, I got a backtrack is while I was going through this
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self help listening to all this stuff, I was getting a really
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strong urge to write. And I'm not a writer.
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It's not my thing by any stretch.
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It was just like, you know, cuz at this point I'm a, I'd say a
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businessman. I'm a career man.
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So that's just the way my mind had been working for at that .13
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years. So I'm just like, oh, you know,
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you write a book, you know, it's financial realities da da, da,
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da, da. So I just, I'm just thinking
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writing, writing, writing. Obviously, you know, we know
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what was going on now. But so anyway, so, so I'm going
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through my, my time. I've taken some time off and I'm
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spending a lot of time out in the yard with the ducks and, you
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know, just trying to, to get me better.
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Can't say enough for my best friend, my wife.
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She's she so I needed it and I'm not one of those people that
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puts me first. So she's, you know, like you
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need this, you need, you need take some time.
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So towards the end of it, I'm getting cabin fever and I want
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to get out and I'm feeling better and some job
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opportunities start, start coming through and I'm just not
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sure what to do. You know, I, I could do this, I
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could do that. I, you know, I'm, I don't have
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anybody I can go to anymore. I, you know, to, to say, hey,
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what do you think about this man?
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Well, you know, blah, blah. So a lot of things, a lot of
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thoughts, a lot of inspiration was hitting me.
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I was thinking about Dave and Goliath constantly and and I
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just something about this one particular job that was just an
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amazing, amazing opportunity for my family come through.
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And but just there was pieces of it, you know, and I'll go into
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the, you know, like the complexity of like breaking
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things down, but just there's a lot of details I could tell like
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this was given this was put here.
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It wasn't like, you know, Hey, somebody return my phone call
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like it just so I remember sitting I was in the shower one
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time. I'm one of those guys that, you
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know, one of the people all over the think in the shower and, and
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just everything's hitting me and I was like, you know, I need
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some help. I don't know what to do I'm I'm,
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I'm getting older. I'm feeling my age at this point
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because my my father had just passed.
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I don't know what to do. I feel like you're putting this
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job here in my, you know, in my, in my path.
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I feel like all these things like whatever you need, what
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I'm, I'm turning myself to you. I was like, I'm tapping out, you
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know, take me, give me, show me whatever.
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I don't, I don't know, you know, you know me.
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I don't know what words to say, but you know what I'm saying.
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Like I just was like, I'm God help me and whatever you show me
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is what I will do 100%. And, and then I started thinking
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about it, you know, just again, the way I, I, my head works.
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So I was like, all right, well, then what, what can I do?
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Then what, you know, I keep feeling like this Dave and
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Goliath thing is just here. So I'm going to do that.
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And, and you know, and at this point I'm just like talking, you
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know, I felt like that's the best way I could do to, you
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know, so I was like, if you, if that's wrong, just show me.
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Go ahead and show me. It's all good.
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But I feel like this is what it is.
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So let's do that. And I feel like, you know, I'm
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not a drawer, you know, I can't paint, you know, I have some
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artistic skill, but it's more of an like AI can build stuff.
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So I was like, I just I feel like you've been putting writing
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on my heart. So we're going to do this, you
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know, and and I'm a big comic book guy.
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I was, you know, that was my thing about a sports dude.
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So I was like, yeah, I think that's that's kind of the way
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we're going to go. That's the best way that I
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would, I would be approached, you know, as, as you know, if
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somebody was trying to reach me in that sense, you know,
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something a really crazy visual representation would do it.
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So I was like, all right, that would reach me.
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So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do my age
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demographic because I feel like, you know, yeah, this is not a
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you wouldn't be choosing me to do a Kitty story.
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So I was like, all right, let's let's just do this thing.
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And I, I read the Dave and Glide story, I don't know, a million
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times. And, and that's when a lot of
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the, the stuff that we had talked about before, that's when
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all that stuff really kicked off all the signs and all the, you
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know, the things which obviously, you know, we're going
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to go into. But that was it.
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It just, it started rolling from there and and I had to kind of
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kind of get started basically. You were kind of brought to the
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bottom of the barrel and God wanted you to know this is what
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I'm asking you to do. You kind of had to make this
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decision, right? It sounds like a lots going on
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emotionally. You needed to reflect.
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You had kind of an ego death, right?
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There's all this stuff going on where it's like, man, what do
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you want me to do? And he starts to impress and
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lead you into this Goliath David and Goliath story, which is, you
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know. Everybody knows that story all
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the way from Sunday school all the way up like that.
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But, you know, I think there's some graphic that that hasn't
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been heavily applied to it. You know, this is one thing that
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I really love about seeing artists getting inspired
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through, you know, podcasting and through God nudging them
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and, and all these different avenues where it's like, OK, we
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have the broadcast, right? We have people we can listen to,
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to encourage us and to get us to think different about things.
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But you start putting a visual effect onto that.
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And I'm a big proponent of not having a flashing screen in
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front of you all the time. If we really knew, you know,
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like Nazi Germany, they wanted ATV in every single house.
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I mean, all you got to do is a little bit of research to
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understand what kind of behind the scenes subliminal
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subconscious things are going on and frequency things.
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So I really like the idea of getting a comic book out.
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So I mean, this is where God is leading you, right?
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And then there's some signs. Let's talk about a couple of the
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things that were happening that was like, this is undisputable.
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You're opening doors, you're nudging me and giving me
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confirmations about this process.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and to your point real
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quick, that's why I only in cover on the the front cover on
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the inside, the very top thing is Second Corinthians 12/9.
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And he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee, for my
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strength is made perfect in weakness.
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That's why that's the first thing that you see when you open
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this book is because that was, that was what happened.
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I was, I was, I'm a pretty tough dude, you know, I can handle
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some stuff. But it was like I gave up.
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I don't know what to do. And then and the end result was
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that. So, yeah.
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So science, man, it was a beautiful, wonderful, amazing
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thing. And it's still going like this.
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So anyway, so it's, it's like kind of, you know, I have a blog
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to really developed into just like really just structurally
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breaking things down about the Bible.
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But so I got started, read this, read the read the David and
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Goliath story a million times, started going over stuff,
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started time to to write some stuff.
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And, you know, looking at comic books to kind of get an idea of,
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of, you know, panels and, you know, they call it the flip
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page, you know, so you're going to hit somebody with something
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you do, you know, just the structure.
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I mean, and that's again, that's how I've been looking at things
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for 13 years is super structured.
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And, and, you know, we talked about the the the work
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environment. So I'm just breaking it down and
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I start shopping for artists. It's like, all right, well, I
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want somebody that's, you know, now it's going to do this just
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for the money that's going to get into it and hopefully get
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something from it. But but it needed to be more
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than just his book. Blah.
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You know, here's, you know, so I start having conversations, you
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know, just like I do in the work thing is just you start a
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conversation, see if it goes from there.
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And I talked to a few different people and, you know, it was hit
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and miss and miss and I talked to this one guy and it felt like
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a good conversation. So I sent him the script and,
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and it'd been a couple of days. And the main thing that I want
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to relay was how the, the point of this story was, was faith.
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And it, I dealt with that the entire time and, and everything,
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every aspect of this was, was faith.
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I, I send it two days immediately I'm self doubting.
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I've talked to a bunch of people.
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No one wants to do this. I'm a weirdo.
24:00
It's a niche and a niche, you know, what am I doing?
24:05
And I remember sitting on the couch beside my wife and my
24:09
phone was, you know, sitting on the thing.
24:11
And I was just in my head and it went through.
24:17
Check your e-mail. And I'm like, you know, but it
24:21
it, and this is what I was learning was, was, you know, a
24:24
lot. You know, a lot of times when
24:26
God talks to you, it's your head, it's your voice.
24:30
And if you're not listening, you think it's your voice, you know,
24:34
and I feel like, you know, I want to, I want to relay that to
24:36
anybody, listen to everybody. Listen, I shouldn't say anybody.
24:38
You know, sometimes he puts it puts you in your head.
24:45
And that's what I was dealing with.
24:47
So I'm like, OK, if I check my e-mail and there's an e-mail
24:54
from this dude, I'm a blow gasket.
24:57
Like what's going on here? I so I grabbed my phone, check
25:01
the e-mail and not only was it, yeah, hey, I'm down.
25:06
Was he was very, very interested, love the script and
25:12
complimented how, how this, this script was put together.
25:17
I've never done that before. That was the very, very first
25:20
thing, very first script I've ever put together from Google
25:25
and YouTube videos. And, you know, he's like, Oh,
25:28
yeah, yeah, I love the structure, blah, blah, blah.
25:31
So it was like, OK, all right, you know, sorry to doubt.
25:35
You know, I get it. So then it started rolling from
25:39
there. We put it together.
25:42
And then coincidentally. So one thing about this job was
25:46
was it was a traveling position. That was one of the things that
25:50
was really, really good about it was, you know, 4 hours made our
25:54
day. I'd be behind the wheel.
25:56
And that, you know, that's, you know, a lot of a lot of good
25:59
things you can do with that. So at this point, you know, I'm,
26:02
I'm reading the Bible every day and, and just kind of just
26:06
picking things apart and learning things.
26:08
And, you know, I threw a credit to one hour one book Doctor
26:14
Randall Smith. Incredible.
26:16
I just stumbled upon that while I'm doing my my driving.
26:20
And I know God put that in my path because that ended up being
26:24
he not only just breaks the Bible down, it's for
26:27
missionaries. I didn't know that.
26:29
So I'm just like getting this like super like this guy just
26:31
came from Israel. Like my wife one day says, you
26:37
know, just listen to some podcasts, check some podcasts
26:40
out. You know, you got 4 hours a day.
26:43
So, so this is crazy to say it now.
26:47
I said, you know, I used to read about Nephilim back in the day.
26:51
I wonder if there's anything about that out there.
26:54
You know, like I'm so naive, like soup just out of it, you
26:59
know, just, I'm a working man. That's where my head was at.
27:03
And little did I know, I mean, I found you found everybody
27:06
That's, you know, Gary Wayne. I gave Gary Wayne a shout out.
27:10
I, I ended up emailing him was like, hey, man, I'm super
27:13
inspired by your stuff. I'm writing a book, you know, I,
27:16
I'd like to share your stuff. Do you mind if I give you a
27:19
shout out? And he's like, yeah, absolutely
27:21
go for it. So I ended up reaching out to
27:25
the to the dude and I'm like, man, I got to make some edits.
27:27
This this story is super complex.
27:31
And that's when it clicked of why I'm doing Dave and Goliath.
27:36
And you know, again, since then I've learned more.
27:41
It also God wanted me to, you know, God loves David and he
27:44
wanted me to talk about David, which is that's super inspiring
27:47
too, of just a, a human, you know, for that, to God's honest
27:53
truth, for that to be put in my path and be put on my heart is
27:56
just incredible. But yeah, so I started going
27:59
down these rabbit holes of, of the story and listening to all
28:04
these and I'm like, Oh my gosh, This is why.
28:09
This is why 'cause I know just as a, as a person, I've heard
28:13
people quote the Amalekites of like why God is so bad and
28:17
stuff. So I came across that I'm like,
28:20
hold up, hold up. And I, you know, I start going
28:25
down these roads. But anyway, so the next crazy
28:30
sign was got the, you know, got the, the panels put together and
28:35
all this stuff. And then I wanted to do like a
28:39
Sin City black and white, like in your face.
28:44
But I'm also, you know, I don't want to call myself artist by no
28:50
means, but I like things to just kind of flow to like when I'm
28:53
building something, I don't I like to have an idea, but I like
28:55
to to be to to be organic, I guess.
29:01
So I'm, I'm seeing the panel something like no, black and
29:03
White's not working. It's not it doesn't have the
29:05
punch, doesn't have the punch. And you know, the financials
29:10
wasn't a part of it. You know, I don't want to focus
29:12
on the financials. No, by no means.
29:15
But it's like it's just another cog in the scrote, my lamps
29:20
going out, another cog in the spoke.
29:22
So just wait. There it is.
29:28
Edit so color. So yeah, sorry.
29:35
I'm sorry man, the light messed me up.
29:41
Take a little intermission. I got to edit here anyway, so
29:43
let's take a little stretch and just a reset.
29:47
Yeah, I know goofy lamp just sort of flicking around.
29:51
Alright, so looking at the black and white, I'm not feeling it.
29:57
And then it goes through my head of like you do it, you color and
30:05
again it just like the the the phone thing.
30:07
I'm like, OK, OK, you know, because I had been kind of
30:13
getting an idea of the, the, the direction I wanted to go and I
30:16
was looking at some watercolor and stuff.
30:17
And I like, I like that aspect because it gives it more
30:22
complexity and just more, you know, atmosphere.
30:26
So like, OK, all right, I guess I'm good at watercolor paint.
30:32
And I, I took my wife. I, you know, she's, she's my
30:37
best friend. I bounce everything off her and
30:40
it's kind of well, you know, OK, you know, do what you got to do.
30:44
So I'm laying in bed and it's just hit me, man.
30:47
I'm like, what am I? What am I doing?
30:49
I'm writing a book, doing comic book now I'm going to watercolor
30:53
paint it like, what am I doing? What are you doing, Adam?
30:58
You know, and I I just closed my eyes and I was like, I was like,
31:04
please just make a sound. Just show me something.
31:07
Do you know, let me know I'm in the right direction And man,
31:14
immediately like there I heard, you know, like a a little faint
31:20
sound out in the I live in the neighborhood.
31:22
So it's like somebody hitting the door or whatever, closing
31:25
their door. Then there was this this crazy.
31:30
It was like a trumpet. The only thing reference point I
31:33
can use it sound like a trumpet, but it was like a like a war
31:36
horn like A1 tone deep powerful. It was it was I felt it like it
31:44
was over top of me. I felt I want to really break
31:48
down the complexity of that like I I I felt like it was
31:52
commanding me like it was it it. It made me like it knew me.
31:58
It was in the room like it hurt it just when you read in the
32:01
Bible, when people anytime somebody meets an Angel or
32:07
thinks they see God, whatever case, they all say the same
32:10
thing that they drop to their feet hid their face and it
32:15
sounds like just words, but it's not it's it it is a it's a
32:19
reactive thing. I can as a God's honest truth
32:23
tell you right now. I heard it.
32:25
I heard this powerful trumpet because I said make a sound, but
32:29
I said show me something. Let me smell something.
32:32
You know, he would have whatever it was and and he did and and I
32:38
hunkered down and and it just it took it took everything it was.
32:43
And I remember just literally I was like, yes, Sir, 10 four
32:49
understood, you know, absolutely.
32:53
And and and man, I just got to rolling from there.
32:57
I really, really dove into the the the fringe part of
33:00
everything and and broke down how and what and through
33:06
genealogy and atavism what happened.
33:10
And that's again like to to throw about the the blog was a
33:14
lot of stuff. I'm focusing on two of of these
33:16
fringe things. So, yeah, yeah, I got the
33:21
trumpet got, got the watercolor going and put it out.
33:25
And well, there was a lot, I'd say he, he, that was another
33:31
thing that that he, he did for me was bring me a lot closer
33:35
with my kids. Not, not to say that I wasn't
33:37
real close, but you know, I never watercolored.
33:41
So what I did, you know, I got, I got to thinking about it when
33:45
I got the watercolor paper and I've told my kids, I said, hey,
33:48
draw some crazy stuff, fill it up.
33:50
The wildest things you can think of, flying dinosaurs, you know,
33:54
everything. And I would just practice
33:56
watercolor and that stuff. And they, you know, I'm going to
33:59
love it and put it up on the wall.
34:01
But it's like, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out how to do
34:02
this so I don't look like a dummy.
34:09
Yeah. And and he just kept putting
34:11
things in my in my way. The job that I had, I managed
34:17
different facilities in between a facility, there was a printer,
34:23
literally a printer company right in the middle of nowhere.
34:26
You know, you know how country towns are right in the middle of
34:30
nowhere at this intersection was a printer.
34:32
So every day I pass this printer.
34:34
So it was perfect. I would, I would do whatever I
34:37
would need. I would e-mail him.
34:38
I'd stop by and get my stuff, come back, you know, bring it to
34:41
them, have them scan it in, put it together.
34:45
Yeah. Kept kept pushing me, kept
34:48
pushing me. There was lots of times where,
34:51
you know, I'd get to get the feeling down and like, I can't
34:55
do this. This is, you know, I want to
34:57
make you proud, but I don't, you know, and then we'd go to church
35:02
and then because we, we ended up finding a, a nice church up the
35:05
street. And that was another thing that,
35:08
that, you know, again, I, I, I jumped in, I told him you got
35:12
me. So we got the family back in the
35:14
church. He found a nice church up the
35:15
street. So we, I'd go to church on a
35:17
Sunday and I would hear exactly what I would need.
35:20
Like he would. I mean, there was one time and
35:24
you talked about gifts during the prayer.
35:29
You know, I was, I was kind of conveying to my wife having
35:32
some, you know, again, going through some doubts.
35:35
And then he starts talking about Romans 12 and gifts and my wife
35:39
just, like hits me on the leg was like, there you go.
35:43
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it.
35:44
I get it. So yeah, yeah.
35:48
In a nutshell, that's kind of how things went down, man.
35:51
I know that there's like a lot of emotion behind it.
35:54
Like I can feel that. And like when we originally
35:57
talked, hearing how all of this stuff unfolded and the nudgings
36:03
are what's so important because what I experienced also, Adam,
36:07
is everything everybody else experiences, right?
36:10
Doubt. It's a challenge.
36:12
You know, I've been doing this show five years.
36:13
We're coming up on six years, man, just the investment of time
36:17
and prayer and research and editing, postproduct all this
36:20
stuff. There's times where I doubt and
36:21
I'm like, God, is it working? Is it reaching people?
36:23
And and then I'll get the e-mail or I'll get in touch with
36:25
somebody and be like, how did the podcast end up in that
36:28
person's ear? Like what is going on?
36:30
And it's like this encouragement.
36:31
It's like a little fresh breath of air because sometimes, you
36:34
know, we get caught in this rhythm of the enemies shooting
36:37
arrows at us. We have a calling and a door to
36:40
walk through. Like each one of us has a
36:42
heavenly scroll with duties written on it about what we're
36:46
supposed to do. You know, God ordained things
36:49
for us to do beforehand. We've been sent in and he moves
36:53
in and through us to complete his will, right.
36:55
And when we have a generation of people that really need to get a
36:58
book back in their hands and to have a good healthy rotation of
37:02
books. Now that's a huge deal for me
37:04
because I want to get readers reading again.
37:07
More importantly, the Bible first and foremost.
37:08
But there's all this other material that the ancient Near
37:11
Eastern mindset, the men who were writing the word of God,
37:14
moved by the power of the Holy Spirit to write the Bible.
37:17
We're aware of this this this world set.
37:20
Doctor Michael Heizer talks about that.
37:22
So when I look at your comic book, you know, and I have a
37:25
couple others I got like the Kingston series, right?
37:29
It's like megalithic series, man.
37:31
They're just boom, boom, boom huge.
37:33
My wife ordered them for me a couple years ago and I love
37:36
going through that. And even your book here, 5
37:38
stones, man, I have it right here with me and just getting a
37:42
visual for what God's doing. So I'm reading the Bible all the
37:46
time. I'm studying through the word
37:47
all the time when I get a visual aid.
37:49
Not saying that this is like verbatim scripture, but I but I
37:52
know the story. My son's favorite story is whose
37:55
name is Adam also, and mine is the story of David and Goliath.
37:59
So to be able to have this visual aid and this is a little
38:02
bit gruesome. You said Sin City.
38:04
I think it's like the 300 movie in a comp, Like it's, you know,
38:08
it's gory, right? You can't just hand this to
38:11
anybody, but it kind of is for everybody, to be honest with
38:15
you. It is, it doesn't overdo it.
38:17
There's nothing like sexually illicit or nothing like that.
38:20
It's just it's showing this is a real battle taking place.
38:24
You know, it's not a metaphorical story.
38:26
I believe that David was actually who the Bible records
38:29
him as a young man in this story after God's heart.
38:32
And Goliath is 24 digits. And we're talking Nephilim here.
38:37
We're talking cannibalistic monsters.
38:39
He had a war reputation. I mean, this is echoing out
38:43
through the land. He's tormenting the children of
38:46
God. And young David stumbles in and
38:48
he's like, Yo, who is this Philistine that is speaking this
38:51
way about God's people? And you really do pull that
38:54
together through the comic book, man.
38:55
You know, as I look more and more through it and I got to
38:58
spend a little more time sitting, sitting with it, but
39:00
just just flipping through and I spent a couple minutes on each
39:03
page just kind of really trying to understand, you know, the
39:06
color's phenomenal, dude. I, I don't even know if I would
39:09
tell anybody except for like podcast testimonials that that
39:12
you just autodidactic like just self-taught, man.
39:16
I just learned my way through this because it actually looks
39:19
like there's a style to it where it's simple, like some frames
39:23
are like red, it looks like color painted.
39:25
There's different fades, you know, tints of the red through,
39:28
but then others are like really complete, like it's full
39:31
picture. It looks really complex and
39:32
beautiful. And the way that you break that
39:34
up with these little, like windows or screens within the
39:36
comic page itself, it looks super professional.
39:41
I'm going to ask you, you know, you share the trumpet thing,
39:43
right? This horn or whatever's going
39:45
off. And this is like the spiritual
39:46
thing that happens with you. But I need to ask, have you ever
39:50
had another supernatural encounter that you want to talk
39:52
about? Honestly, I would have to say
39:56
the entire thing from beginning to end.
39:59
Well, I can't, I'm sorry, can't even say end.
40:01
He's been showing me so much this entire thing.
40:07
He showed me what it meant to to go on a walk.
40:10
He showed me Job kept standing out.
40:14
Job kept standing out when I was reading the Bible.
40:18
And then I kept hearing I like to do a lot of random stuff
40:24
with, with one hour 1 books. I've gone through most of them.
40:28
And so I'll just randomly pick something.
40:29
I know he's putting something in my way and he he talks a lot
40:34
about what that means. What if you dedicate yourself to
40:41
God? Can God use you 100% use you for
40:46
everything for anything, change your entire life?
40:49
Can he? Obviously the answer is yes,
40:53
because it's for the better good.
40:55
You know of the story and you know, I, I put this book out.
40:59
I go through all that I go through and you know, I don't
41:03
mind admitting this. Come and find myself a stay at
41:06
home father. Now he emptied my hands
41:10
completely to focus on him and sharing the story.
41:19
So I, I, to answer your question, I would have to say
41:21
that's probably the most powerful thing is that he's,
41:26
he's completely taking care of me and my family and putting
41:32
this here to 1000% to learn to share, to learn to share.
41:37
The hardest part for me as a kid was, you know, and I keep
41:41
talking about the way my mind works was, you know, 13 years,
41:45
I'm breaking down systems trying to figure out what's happened
41:48
and how to be more efficient. I, I eventually found out that
41:53
he gave me discernment. Discernment, you know, I'm
41:56
really good at picking things apart and figuring out, you
41:59
know, why was there a mispick? Why was there a mis ship?
42:01
You know, I can dive, I'm an overthinker.
42:04
I can super, super, super dive into stuff.
42:07
And when this first started, I was like, hey, you know, this is
42:11
going to be kind of cool that I can use this, this skill that I
42:14
have, you know, still looking at it like a human was like, let me
42:19
use this skill that I, I have to just kind of, you know, answer
42:22
some things 'cause it was so many, you know, as a kid.
42:27
We, you know, we all talk about this is how modern Christianity,
42:30
they don't talk about the fringe stuff.
42:33
And man, oh man, man, oh man. I've been on a 2 year journey
42:39
now of that needs to be focused on that needs, we need all the
42:44
details. We need all the details.
42:48
We established that the, the Five Stones book is, is a little
42:53
brutal, It's a little bloody. Because it had to be I, it had
42:56
to be, I had to show, I had to answer the questions that I
43:01
have. You know, why, why I go to
43:04
church and I hear about all this and this, but then I go to
43:07
school and I hear that we were Cavemen.
43:10
Why is it that the most archaic societies that we find have
43:16
extremely complex language, you know, like what's up here?
43:22
So. So yeah.
43:27
So I'm breaking things down and then I find out, you know, he
43:30
start with David, then you go down to his cousin, I mean his
43:37
nephew killed Goliath son. Then you go on down to first
43:46
Kings 920 and Solomon transcripted the remaining
43:51
Canaanites, the Amorites, Hittites, parasites, Hivites and
43:55
Jebusites to build his cities. What isn't Solomon known for
43:58
these these huge buildings and these treasured temples.
44:04
Then you go on down to Jeremiah 5220 and they make reference the
44:08
weight of the two enormous pillars.
44:10
The the labor of the 12 bulls were tremendous.
44:14
They had no way of estimating it.
44:16
And then it's parentheses. They had been made in the days
44:19
of King Solomon. So through this journey, he
44:25
showed me the little keys to like what was really going down
44:29
and and we this is so too deep that it, it couldn't be any more
44:39
black and white. God made everything six days,
44:43
7th day he rested. He's still in his resting
44:45
period. There was an attack on human
44:50
civilization because God loved us so much.
44:54
He gave us this earth and you know he gave us this world. 3rd
44:58
of the angels were jealous and they've been trying to kill us
45:01
and take over ever since then. And this is it's it's still
45:06
happening. We know this.
45:08
But specifically why is there a bull at Wall Street right?
45:17
Why back in the day, the two most heathenic who heathenistic
45:24
things was sexual morality and child sacrifice.
45:29
That was like the thing. Well, we still had it's still
45:32
happening, still happening. You know what I mean?
45:35
It's it's called abortion now. And I'm not going to comment on
45:40
on the the good versus the bad. It's not my place.
45:43
I'm just pointing things out. And then, hey, man, you got only
45:48
fans. So all that's still here.
45:51
It's all still happening. And again, that's the amazing
45:55
things that he's shown me. Reality is not me and you
45:59
sitting here talking right now. We're a blip.
46:02
If we get 807090 years out of it, awesome.
46:07
But that's not it. Like even at this point now,
46:10
man, like not that I thought time travel was a thing, but now
46:16
I don't see how it's possible because you couldn't go forward,
46:20
right? Because you know, you, the
46:23
rapture is going to come like I was going to, you know, we all
46:26
know what's going to happen. So if you went forward, how you
46:29
can't make that happen. So you couldn't go forward.
46:31
You can only go back. That doesn't make sense.
46:34
You can't do one or the other. So it's like he showed me we are
46:38
right here in the middle of a spiritual battle that's been
46:42
going on for centuries. The same people that have been
46:45
doing it are getting behind new people and the heavy details in
46:53
the Bible have unfortunately gotten glossed over many
46:58
different reasons. Some of them are because it's
47:01
brutal. And, you know, there's a place
47:06
for the the there's a place for everything.
47:09
And I don't want to sound, you know, disrespectful, but there's
47:13
a place for the love part. There's a place for the, the
47:16
reaching for people stuff. You know, you, you got to take
47:22
everything in. We talk about Ogg Bashan, right?
47:27
Everyone knows about Ogg and it's like, what was he a giant
47:31
was, you know, Psalms 2212, Psalms 2212 and they, they
47:38
reference the giant bulls of Bashan.
47:43
It's there. So so again, that's what this is
47:47
really kind of developed to was, you know, I've got some some
47:52
awesome stories that I'm, you know, I'm a self-publishing
47:55
person, you know, obviously we clear, we cover that.
47:58
So, you know, it's not as easy for me to just put a book out.
48:02
That's again, why I keep talking about the blog because it's not
48:05
as labor intensive, but I can still get the message out to
48:07
people, you know, and I just the Super quick reads of just like
48:12
connecting dots and whatnot. But yeah, I got a couple other
48:16
stories that I want to do that that the we're going to get
48:19
through the holidays. And then I've got a a nasty
48:24
story on Daniel 3:00 and 4:00 because just the visual of
48:31
Nebuchadnezzar turn into a man beast.
48:33
It just beyond the fact of that happened, just the visual of
48:37
that. I think it's going to be insane.
48:40
So yeah, I'm just letting this thing go.
48:43
I'm, I'm all day, you know, good and good out right fundamentals.
48:49
So all day I just listen to to him.
48:54
I listen to stories of the, you know, just let it come in and,
48:56
and just let it change me and help me understand and how I can
49:00
explain and how I can share stuff.
49:03
So yeah, yeah, it's, there's a whole lot more on the way, you
49:07
know, fingers crossed. And even friend Christian Fringe
49:11
Christian podcast like this one help a little bit along the way.
49:14
Huh. Oh my gosh, I can't thank you
49:17
enough. I can't thank you enough.
49:19
I'm just a, a guy that got led to do something and I, I, I did
49:24
it, I followed directions and you know, I've loved every
49:27
second of it. You know, even my doubts of is,
49:29
it's just, it's an honor. It's so humbling that you know,
49:34
why me? Who am I, you know why, why
49:36
choose me? But and for you to give me an
49:40
opportunity to, to share this is, is just incredible and to,
49:43
to like it. I'm going to tell you the, the,
49:45
the best compliments that I've been getting were just that it
49:50
did it. It helps, helps a visual that
49:54
it, it helps somebody. I, I sent it to somebody and,
49:57
and it was basically like this clears up what it looked like
50:02
for me. I've always had, you know, the,
50:04
the cartoon image of what it happens and you captured it,
50:09
which I cannot believe. And and it wasn't me.
50:12
It was God, you know, he just, I'm just a vessel.
50:17
Everybody has this little kid coloring book version of David
50:21
and Goliath and it's gently and I don't disagree with that.
50:25
Like I think that the Bible says raise the child in the way that
50:28
they should go when they grow old, they won't depart from it.
50:32
I didn't get raised that way, but but God, you know, will save
50:35
that for another time, right? Like supernaturally drew me in.
50:38
But when you really do plant these seeds, you got to be able
50:41
to plant them in a way that it's resonating with the people that
50:47
you're planning them with. So when you're you're talking to
50:49
five to seven-year olds, you know, and they're going to
50:51
Sunday school and they're looking at these, you know, big
50:54
bubbly balloon characters of David and Goliath and it kind of
50:57
looks, you know, cute that that's for them.
51:01
But when you start getting, you know, late teens and, and young
51:04
adults who are like, and I've, I've never had a visual
51:07
reference for what did the battle David and Goliath looks
51:11
like. So what happens when you have a
51:13
17 year old who's like, loves the Marvel stuff, They love DC.
51:17
But you know, we have this gap, right?
51:20
And the Bible's very clear when you read through David, he's
51:24
sending a stone into the Dome of his enemy, right?
51:28
It's he's cutting off his head with his own sword.
51:32
And then later, I mean, it just goes on and on and on, you know,
51:35
that this idea of crushing the head of the enemy, it's just
51:39
repetitive through the prophecies and through how it
51:41
unfolds. It doesn't happen one time.
51:44
You know, we just see it over and over again.
51:46
And I think it's does dis justice to plant seeds to the
51:52
young kids with bubbly comet, you know, cartoons of David and
51:57
Goliath, but not introduce respectable material for the the
52:02
mature mindset as people get older.
52:04
You know, that's why, like conversations I have here, I
52:06
tell people I don't believe everything I've ever heard on my
52:08
podcast. I try to highlight what people
52:10
do right, not what people are doing wrong, although an open
52:13
rebuke is better than in love, right?
52:15
But but I'm learning as I go too.
52:17
And I've made mistakes and I know that the word of God has
52:20
the final say when I read the details, man, second Samuel, you
52:23
start going through and David almost gets exhausted and killed
52:26
by one of these giants who has a new sword.
52:30
And it's like, what would that look like?
52:32
You know, I've seen somebody die.
52:34
You know what I mean? Like there's plenty of the I
52:37
mean, I was just talking with a brother who's who's boots on the
52:40
ground right now. I'm give Aaron a shout out.
52:43
He he's been on he, he's helps behind the scenes with the
52:45
podcast. He's down at Hurricane Helene
52:48
right now and the he's like, bro, I've seen some gruesome
52:50
stuff, but we're praying. There's a faith in the
52:53
atmosphere. And so like, reality is life is
52:56
hard. Death happens.
52:58
It's not God's plan, but God's plan is to move our hearts to
53:01
understand these things. And and when we're creating
53:04
content that leads back to get people excited about the Bible
53:08
again. When you go through and you
53:09
start reading the Bible yourself, what does it look like
53:13
to cut the head off of a a gigantic enemy who's
53:17
cannibalistic, who's into blood sacrifice, who's into defiling
53:20
all the things that got in the land?
53:22
That's not going to be cute. We're talking about dismembered
53:25
cut. You know, Gary Wayne would say
53:27
cutting off the head. I did this episode with him.
53:29
I don't know if he's been on like 9 Times Now, but it's just
53:31
maybe six months ago. And you know, we're talking
53:34
about removing of the head. The importance of that.
53:36
Well, I think we do need a graphic for that.
53:38
I think introducing this through comics, through cartoons, you
53:42
know, and I'm just excited to see what kind of wave of
53:46
creativity is going to come out of this.
53:47
You know, you worked as a corporate manager, dispatcher,
53:53
You know, you have this big corporate background, and now
53:55
God has flipped the script on you.
53:57
He's got you staying at home, focusing on your household #1
54:01
getting your household in order #2 your, that's your ministry.
54:05
It's your wife, your relationship, your marriage is
54:07
highest honored, right? We honor God above everything
54:10
before everything else. And then it's our kids and then
54:12
our ministry flows, right? And so to see what you, you're
54:16
producing, what God is leading you to do, how many other men
54:19
that's going to resonate with? Well, I'm excited to hear about
54:21
that, you know, and I'm excited for future projects.
54:24
You have, I tell people all the time, I am a visionary.
54:27
I'm big in ideas, but but I have 100 things going on behind the
54:32
scenes, you know what I mean? And I'm like, I would love to do
54:34
collaborations. I'd love to see this thing blow
54:36
up and you to do, you know, different collaborations with
54:39
different people and even represents some work that I do
54:41
here someday, you know, I I'm expecting some big things for
54:44
you, man. So I just want to honor you and
54:46
thank you for sharing this journey, for sending me a copy.
54:50
The only thing I would have, I would have asked different is
54:53
that you would have signed it. But it's all good, man.
54:55
You know, maybe on the next one I'll order and you can do a
54:59
custom signature for me. And I know what it's like to be
55:02
self published. I released my book early this
55:04
year. You know, I know what this
55:06
entails, the discipline, how thorough you have to be, how,
55:10
how you really have to take it before God.
55:11
But then you have to walk it out and make it happen, man.
55:15
So I'm going to ask you one final question as we kind of
55:18
wind down a little bit. I want you to share what you
55:21
believe is the most important message for the millennial
55:24
generation today. Man, that's awesome.
55:29
Again, this entire thing was faith.
55:33
That was I feel like that's that's what what he wants me to
55:37
do with each book is to focus on something specific.
55:44
This one was faith. It was, it hit me at the at my,
55:51
at my hardest point, my most most down time.
55:56
It took everything that I have to do it, you know, yeah,
56:02
everything I had to sit there and talk to my wife and and and
56:08
be humble and be like, hey, I got this thing going on.
56:11
Then it's like what? Like I got a calling the other
56:15
day, you know, Faith, David, I, I, again, there's liberties
56:25
taken in the in the in the book to focus on specific parts of
56:30
the, the story. He showed me what to focus on.
56:35
He showed me how to tell a story, showed me the story to
56:38
tell. You see, I skipped over the
56:43
armor part with David on purpose.
56:48
Not that that's not important, because that is an extremely
56:50
important and that has a whole nother point behind it and it's
56:55
beautiful part of the story. Everybody that hasn't read that
56:58
story, if nothing else, believe it or not, you got to read David
57:04
and Goliath. That's in it's incredible story.
57:08
But anyways, the faith behind it, the enemy's not holding
57:17
back. The enemy does not care.
57:19
And if the enemy knocks you down, this is something I've
57:22
been learning. The enemy knocks you down.
57:25
It doesn't matter to the enemy. He just keeps on going.
57:29
It's not like God, Adam, they don't even care what my name is.
57:32
He just keeps on rolling. He's wants to get people down.
57:36
So and that's just how dirty that that side is.
57:42
So you just, you got to, you got to put forth and I can tell you
57:48
100% two years into this, God is through faith has taken care of
57:55
me. He he's taking care of my
57:57
family. He that's that's what this is
57:59
about man. Believe in him, believe in the,
58:03
the, the, the reality of this story.
58:06
Man, when I read that part about because I wasn't super familiar
58:09
and when I read the part about Samuel killing agog, not to
58:15
mention I saw the colors you you mentioned the colors in the
58:18
story. A lot of the colors were
58:19
emphasis on points and that's awesome.
58:22
You saw that 'cause I'm I was died just a punch.
58:26
You think about Samuel was like God told you to do something,
58:32
you didn't do it, so now I gotta do it and he did it.
58:37
And that's faith. It's just like so and then you
58:39
see the next page is he it's just a calm color and he's just
58:43
talking, listening to God. Yeah, there was a conversation,
58:47
but I focused it on him listening because again, it's
58:49
faith. Something happened.
58:52
So he went to God and like, man, what do I got to do here?
58:55
And, and just like me and just like everyone else in in the
58:58
world, I can't say enough for you, man, for having a voice and
59:04
getting this stuff out here. If it wasn't for you and people
59:08
like you taking your, you know, your journey and taking and, and
59:13
having the faith that you had to do what you had to, I wouldn't
59:16
have stumbled upon, and I believe this 1000%.
59:19
I wouldn't have stumbled upon what I did had I gone down
59:23
y'all's roads. I wouldn't have.
59:25
I know that first fact. My David and Goliath story would
59:30
have been, it would have been visually cool, but it wouldn't
59:33
have been what it was. And it's because what, you know,
59:37
faith, man, what do you put on your heart?
59:40
You know, the blurry dudes and you know everybody in this, in
59:43
this, you know, shout out for y'all doing what y'all did
59:49
every, you know, people like me, people are listening that that
59:52
haven't done what they're about to do.
59:55
They're getting it. And and and can't thank you
59:58
enough for trusting and being the vessel man, because again,
1:00:04
that's when they clicked. Was like listening to this
1:00:08
stuff, putting Gary Wayne, LA Marzulli, you know, hearing this
1:00:15
stuff was like, wow, This is why I'm doing this and it, and it
1:00:19
really sparked a flame. So faith, man, faith, faith,
1:00:22
God's awesome. He's powerful.
1:00:27
It's all his, you know, and and I, he's incredible.
1:00:32
That's all I can say, man. John 812 I am the light of the
1:00:38
world. He that followed with me shall
1:00:40
not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
1:00:47
John 1/5 And the light shineth in the darkness, and the
1:00:51
darkness comprehended it not. Ephesians 5/8 through 11 For at
1:00:58
one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord
1:01:05
walk as children of light. You know, I'm really hoping that
1:01:10
this message goes out and stirs up the rest of the body who are
1:01:14
listening to say, you know what, maybe I'm going to take that
1:01:17
step of faith now. Never underestimate the power of
1:01:22
love. I'm going to take this step of
1:01:24
faith. I'm going to do the uncommon.
1:01:26
I'm going to be a forerunner for the voice of God versus this,
1:01:30
this world that just seems to just grip you up and get you
1:01:35
focused on all the temporary things that are just doomed to
1:01:39
fade away at some point in time. But when we focus on his word,
1:01:44
it never returns void. It never fades away.
1:01:48
So Adam Ferris, man, your book, 5 Stones, I'm going to have you
1:01:52
send me a link to your blog and to where people can get a copy
1:01:55
of this and I'll put that into details of the show notes.
1:01:58
We'll, we'll do a future collaboration, you know,
1:02:00
sometime next year I'd like to have you back and we'll talk
1:02:02
about some other projects you're working on.
1:02:04
And Lord willing, there'll be some opportunities coming up
1:02:08
where I'm going to have you maybe do some cover stuff or a
1:02:12
little bit of screen writing for some projects we're working on.
1:02:14
All in God's timing and planning.
1:02:16
There's a lot of big things happening behind the scenes, but
1:02:18
not to spoil it, the the bigger the network of people who are
1:02:22
following Christ that we have that we can trust to say passion
1:02:25
1st and pay later. That's kind of where we're at
1:02:28
right now. It's the army of volunteers,
1:02:30
Adam. It's been an honor.
1:02:32
Oh. Man, I appreciate it.
1:02:34
I appreciate it so much. Thank you very much.
1:02:37
Well, that's it, that's the show you guys.
1:02:39
I'm going to ask you to share this with friends, family
1:02:41
members, Co workers. Share this one with your
1:02:42
teenager or your young adult, child, grandchild, whatever that
1:02:47
may be. Get them interested in comics
1:02:49
and the Bible coming to you from Southeastern Pennsylvania.
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God bless and goodbye. I came from the sun, but one of
1:03:09
the only straight from the heavens.
1:03:13
He really owed me all of my life.
1:03:16
I was beating up all of my life. Life I didn't handle.
1:03:20
All in my life I was stuck in on track.
1:03:22
All in my life I didn't handle. I didn't know why my life was so
1:03:26
wet. I didn't know why my life was a
1:03:28
rat. I didn't know why I couldn't get
1:03:31
up. I was so stuck.
1:03:32
And the monkey was stuck till I found out.
1:03:34
And I broke everything till I found out.
1:03:36
And they took everything until I was hurting.
1:03:39
My heart was strained. Yeah, I was broke.
1:03:41
And I had all this pain held on the to the side in this mode.
1:03:47
I had no truth but to look to my guy.
1:03:49
He gave me to me. You're open my eyes.
1:03:51
He gave me earrings and he told me I'm blessed.
1:03:53
He told me he just believe in this guy.
1:03:56
I told him I can't change all of my ways.
1:03:58
He said I got you to look to this.
1:04:00
I looked at him and he showed me his ways.
1:04:03
Then he just told me how I am this time.
1:04:05
Then he just told me I'm not in this world.
1:04:07
He told me I come from the heavens above.
1:04:09
I'm a new creature. I come from the sun, from the
1:04:12
one and only straight from the heavens.
1:04:14
You really owe me. I came from the sun I was really
1:04:16
with them. The heavenly places I'm sealing,
1:04:20
y'all can't even go that way. Y'all don't even know that way.
1:04:24
Y'all want to play like Patty Kay, but this ain't no game.
1:04:27
But it's that way, right? You wipe this on fake when you
1:04:31
walk under me and I know you're a snake.
1:04:34
You think you can beat me but you got no power.
1:04:36
You all in a way. I take out that chopper I'll put
1:04:40
on your top and I'll frake on your face.
1:04:43
I see you laughing. You think that you got me, but
1:04:46
you got no way. The evil you said for my life is
1:04:49
OK 'cause it's made for my good. My God that created he created
1:04:54
you so you really is cooked. I said all these things 'cause I
1:04:58
know what is true and you know you is cooked.
1:05:01
But like I did Cage, when you're done winning games you can never
1:05:04
win. I know the things that's gonna
1:05:05
happen to you when you die. You didn't say living your life
1:05:10
'cause you know you can never go and get you know his great day,
1:05:14
his mercy was too from you. When you're my son at the plot.
1:05:18
Thought you could take on my God spots now, but you can die hot.
1:05:22
You was really tweaking. I come from the sun, from the
1:05:24
one and only straight from the heavens.
1:05:26
You really owe me. I came from the sun, I was
1:05:29
really with them. The heavenly places I'm gonna
1:05:31
see the living. Y'all can't even go that way.
1:05:34
Y'all don't even know that way. Y'all want to play like Patty
1:05:38
Cay but this ain't no game. But it's that way.