The following program
discusses sensitive issues
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related to addictive behaviour.
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Parents are
cautioned that some material
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may be too candid
for younger children.
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Welcome back, you know,
we're talking about Aaron
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and his life in...
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You know, his family
owned a number of strip clubs,
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that was their business
and they did it very well.
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And all of the sudden,
God steps in and I love that.
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So, Aaron, God steps in.
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The club gets sold,
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it is now a
church and incredible.
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You're now a
Christian counselor,
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went to school,
got your degrees,
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all of that kind of stuff.
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And so I would like you
to say a little bit about,
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you know, the kind of
the bad guy in the story,
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looks like dad.
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All right, and say a
little bit about that.
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You know, Michel,
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actually it kind of
co-interphrase amongst us
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with my dad, where he was
just kind of a bigger than life
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kind of guy or
whatever and Michel just said,
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"Oh, he's just the
dark side of John Wayne."
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You know, and it was
something that really...
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When all of a
sudden done, you know,
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as he was dealing with cancer
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and like literally on his
deathbed and stuff like that
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or as you go
through it, yeah, there is.
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There almost has to be
a villain or something,
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you know, and the first...
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And at that point even
in his life at that point,
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he's left your mom, he
marries somebody half his age...
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Right, he married.
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It's just like a story somewhere
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that he married the
stripper half his age
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or whatever and he did.
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And there is so many
things with that, you know,
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a brand new will that
nobody had ever talked about
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or seen or whatever, literally
three weeks before he passes,
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this comes into play,
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which just created a
change of events and court
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and this and that,
I mean, it was just...
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It was easy to make
him a villain for sure.
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Because of the past,
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because of what we were
dealing with at that time
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and everything but, yeah.
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If... How did you...
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What do you
think about that now?
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You see the
villain. No, he's not.
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He's not, he isn't any different
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from the rest of us.
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I think getting...
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Going through
everything that I went through
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in getting my degree especially.
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Getting to know some
people that I could really trust
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outside of my family,
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that had some skills
like a clinician or whatever.
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It was very helpful
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because I was able to
look and go who is he?
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Who was he?
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How did, where did
this start? How did this go?
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And he had passed,
so I couldn't ask him
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but I could reflect
back to conversations
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that we had,
you know, and why...
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I guess one of the
biggest questions for me
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as I look back on
it was, why is he so...
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I mean, it's animated,
it's like a, almost a hatred
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where anything Christian
is concerned, you know.
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And through that
thought process I thought,
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I mean, he was a
Catholic Altar boy,
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he was, you know, like
where do these things come from?
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Where you start out on this path
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and end up or
handed up, you know.
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And nobody knows that
they've, less back ground,
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did he have any of that
kind of stuff you don't know?
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You really
don't, you really don't.
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I mean, my dad was a...
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He was unlike the smallest
guy in my family sort of thing
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and so it's
really hard to envision
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anybody taking
advantage of my father
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but he was a 10 year old
too at one point, you know.
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Did you ever forgive him,
were you able to forgive him?
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Yeah, absolutely,
for sure. For sure.
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I just want to
say, you know what?
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I welcome to the family.
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Thank you for coming
and sharing your story
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of how incredible grace
is, how incredible God is
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and there is nothing
outside of the reach of God.
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Sometimes we'll
say, you know what?
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That family is too
gone, that guy is too gone,
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she is too lost, they
are evil, that's not true.
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That is not true
and what God says is,
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"If you trust me,
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if you turn your life
around that I promise you,
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I will change everything."
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So if you're out
there watching this,
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remember, turn it
around, surrender it.
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And not just somewhere,
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it's only with a
very poor of who you are,
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surrender everything.
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Until next time, always remember
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that God is crazy
about you, me too.
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God bless.
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