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- Hey, welcome everybody to
Talking Donkey International
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and our new television
series, Country Wisdom.
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- Lets' set the tone
for this new series of ours.
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It's found in Proverbs four.
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Let your eyes
look directly forward
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and your gaze be
straight before you.
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Ponder the path of your feet
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and then all your
ways will be sure.
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- Join us now
for Country Wisdom.
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- I love people's stories.
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I think it was why I
was an English major,
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so I could read
stories and Taylor's is
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one of the most interesting
ones that I've heard.
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I love the way that God
was with him every step,
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even though he didn't see God,
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he didn't even think
he wanted God for a while.
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This second part of his
interview, you're not going
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to want to miss.
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- It is amazing,
when you look step by step
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at the things he did.
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It's like he's
running so far from God,
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but God continually pursues him,
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continually works, speaks to him
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in ways that we
would never think of.
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- And it's right there,
the moment Taylor turns.
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- Yeah, exactly, so
folks, join us right now
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for the second
half, the second part
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of another exciting
testimony of Taylor Cantrell.
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- I went sophomore
year, having done that
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and got a couple more
friends that I would smoke with
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or that I would
have a beer with,
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or they were
getting drunk on weekends
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and I would be around
and happen to get drunk too.
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Then junior year was when
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it became much more available
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to do anything and I
mean literally anything.
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We lived in the
central valley of California
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Bay area is an hour away.
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You can take an
hour drive and go see
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the worst drug dealer imaginable
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and get anything you imagine.
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But, what we were
doing in our junior year,
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was a ton of smoking weed.
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A ton, I mean
every day before school,
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skip a class to
smoke and then after school
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until we've decided we
didn't want to hang out
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with each other any more.
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And looking back at that,
it's like I cannot imagine
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quantifying the
number of hours I wasted
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on people that I
can't even either
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remember their names
anymore or wouldn't care to.
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- I used to, after
I got away from drugs,
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I used to call
grass the do nothing drug,
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because you don't care
to do anything in life,
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just chill.
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- Right, absolutely right.
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So, there is usually one moment
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that is going to be
the flip of the switch
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for somebody that's either
going to send them way further
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into the drugs or
be the catalyst to,
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okay, I need to stop.
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And thankfully, I decided
to stop when we had a moment
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of we had gone to San
Francisco for just a trip
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with five, six
friends and it happened to be
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on April 20th.
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If those of you who don't know,
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four-20 is the
date and everybody goes
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and smokes as much weed as
they possibly can on this day,
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just because.
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And we decided to celebrate
said holiday in San Francisco,
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so we drove out
to San Francisco,
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smoking while we're
driving the whole way out.
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We get there,
we smoke some more.
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We go to the place
where everybody's going
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to meet up and smoke
and it's called Hippy Hill.
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There's thousands of
people that meet on this hill
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to all smoke at
the same time, four-20.
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We went out for this trip and
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as I've explained
it, it's pretty intense.
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But we decided that
it wasn't quite enough,
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so we should try to find
som psychedelic mushrooms.
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My friend and I, we went
and decided it's San Francisco.
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How hard could it be to
find psychedelic mushrooms?
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And honestly, not.
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Not very hard at all.
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- You just stop passers by?
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On Haight and Ashbury, yeah.
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- That's where all the
big commuters used to be,
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all the big dealers.
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- I've heard of Haight Ashbury.
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- Yeah, so we were
literally on Haight Street
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when this happened.
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We were walking past, just
walking by bunches of people
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and my friend taps me
and he points at this person,
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who's probably homeless,
sitting on his cardboard thing
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with a sign.
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He's got neon
green dreads, mixed in
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with neon orange
dreads and he just looked
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like a road
reflector sitting there.
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And it it couldn't
have been more obvious to us
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that it's like, that's our guy.
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And we asked him
and he was our guy
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and so he said, "Yeah, sure,
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"just come along, come
down with me over here."
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And there's a group
of five or six of us,
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following this one guy.
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So fine, let's go
and where he leads us,
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is down to the
end of Haight Street.
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Those who might watch
this, may actually know
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what I'm talking about, but
at the end of Haight Street,
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there's a McDonald's.
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You cross the street
and go into the park.
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Buena Vista Park I
think, is what it's called.
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But, when you first walk through
that entrance to the park,
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he says, "Oh, okay,
now step into my office,"
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which was, let's go off
into the woods over here
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for like a little bit.
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And so all of us
walked over there
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and he said,
okay, now wait here.
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And we can still see the gate.
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We can still see people at
the McDonald's and every thing.
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- And the other buddies that
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are gonna show up with the guns.
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- Right that's what we
were kind of worried about.
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But what turned out, is
this guy that we had asked,
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knew who to ask.
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So he just took us to a
place that was fine enough
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to wait around
for five, ten minutes.
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And we see him
walk off to this spot
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where there's a bunch
of tents in the woods.
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And there's kind of questionable
characters walking around,
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including a guy
that's wearing football pads
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with nine inch nails
sticking through them,
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all the way out,
like it's a suit of armor.
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- Okay.
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- And this guy is
very much not here with us
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at the time.
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He's walking
around with a big knife,
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chucking it into this
stump, pulling it out.
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Chucking it into this
stump and pulling it out
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and he's repeatedly
screaming, "Why don't people
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"believe in magic anymore?"
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This guy is not here.
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Our guy goes and talks to him
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and they have a conversation.
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(cross talking)
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So, we get what we
came to get from him
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and we go to the hill
and we go and do our thing.
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When I took the magic mushrooms,
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it was about 20 minutes
before anything happened,
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but we're on top of the hill.
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- You saw what they
had done for the guy
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with the knife and
the nine inch nails
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and you still wanted to try it?
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- Because our
rationale is that's what happens
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when you do it too much.
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- Does the phrase
young and dumb come to mind?
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- Yeah, so we go and take part
in the Hippy Hill celebration
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and I would say there's at
least 2000 people on the hill.
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And this is 2009.
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This would be 2009 when
it happened and we celebrate.
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I eat the magic mushrooms.
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20 minutes go by and
I start to kind of feel
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the physical effects of them
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and the night just
devolved from there,
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where I don't remember
everything that happened.
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There's still the
story of what happened
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among everybody and
the story remains the same,
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so I believe the
accounts of four other people
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that were there with me.
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But what I was
told had happened was,
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we started to feel them
and then we left the hill
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and we were going up to-
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Oh no, so it wasn't Buena
Vista Park where Hippy Hill is,
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we were going up to
Buena Vista Park after this.
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And when you go up
to Buena Vista Park,
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it's a good uphill section
and when you get to the top,
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there's a nice
view of the whole city.
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We had stopped at
the bottom of the hill,
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going up to the
staircase and just sat down.
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And when you turn
around and you're sitting
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on the bench of this staircase,
you can see San Francisco.
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And what I was
experiencing, was a complete
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melt of my reality.
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I wasn't experiencing
things in three dimensions.
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I was experiencing
them in two dimensions.
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So everything literally looked
like it was just a drawing
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and I could just
basically reach out
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and pick things out of
the world if I wanted to.
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So I was not there.
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That's one
thing that I remember.
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And then the next
thing that I remember,
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is sprinting as fast as I can,
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and I must have been
doing it for a while,
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because I feel, like I'm tired.
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And I looked around
and I don't have my friends
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anywhere near me.
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So I must be running
from someone or something
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and I'm still
not entirely there.
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I'm still coming in
and out of completely aware
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and back in
mushrooms and completely aware
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and back in
mushrooms, because it's,
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the trip is not over.
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And I don't fully
have them out of my system.
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But I'm sprinting and
sprinting and sprinting
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and all I can
think is, I need to hide
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because I can't run anymore.
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And I jump into the bushes
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and I'm underneath the bushes.
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I mean like all the way in.
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30 seconds later,
three officers ran past.
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- So they were
what was chasing you?
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- Yeah.
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- So this is-
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we probably don't
have time to really
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continue the saga too far,
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but was this kind of one
of your last times in life
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to do this kinda stuff?
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- Oh of course.
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What had happened,
was officers had pulled up
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and seen us all
hanging out and smoking
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and they tried to stop us.
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And I'm out of it
and I took off running.
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And so they're obviously like,
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we need to chase
him, but I made it out
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of that situation when
I probably shouldn't have.
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And that was a
little bit of like,
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you got lucky this time.
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And that was enough of a kicker
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where my brain says,
"You've had your fun.
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"Knock it off."
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- Don't do that again.
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- Just out of
curiosity, do you think
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it was your brain or God?
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- Absolutely God.
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It was absolutely God.
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Because, honestly
when I had that moment of
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"You've had your
fun, knock it off."
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It felt like something
my seventh grade teacher
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would have settled.
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(everybody laughs)
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- You know, and I absolutely
could see in that moment
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where I was
headed, what I was doing
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and thinking it is
absolutely possible
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for me to decide in my own head,
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there's nothing wrong with this
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and just keep going.
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Because I absolutely
felt that in my heart
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where I was like,
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I felt the devil
telling me, if you enjoy it,
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what's wrong with it?
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And that enough,
because of how I was raised
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and the people
that have kind of said,
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it's not always gonna
be "Hi, I'm the devil."
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You know.
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Because I heard that
red flag go off in my head,
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I was immediately
able to about face
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and it was like a
knee jerk reaction,
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where I was like,
no, that's the devil.
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No, absolutely not.
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- My grandmother was number
11 in a family of 13 girls
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and she sometimes
felt lost in the crowd.
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Do you ever feel that way?
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With nearly eight
billion people in the world,
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it's easy to wonder if anyone
even notices you're alive.
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But there is
someone who notices.
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The Bible says
God calls us by name.
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He knows you, knows your name.
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You're his child.
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If you'd like proof, go to
TalkingDonkeyInternational.org
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and request offer number
130 for this free pamphlet.
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There's not another you.
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- Now, you're definitely
a chip off the old block.
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Film and media,
everything are in your blood.
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You've become a
successful drone pilot
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and hopefully more so.
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We don't have time to go
into a lot of that today,
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but you were
helping your dad film
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a world-wide television,
I think live production.
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And kinda what happened there?
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I understand something happened.
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- What we were filming,
was a thirty day conference,
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where a pastor, Shawn
Boonstra, came to talk about
00:14:03.00\00:14:07.68
the book of Revelation.
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At length, in depth
month long of meetings.
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- Where were you filming?
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- In Minneapolis at the
Minneapolis Convention Center.
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His event is called
Revelation speaks peace,
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and we set up to
have 3000 people show up
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and most of the time,
that building was full.
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We had hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds
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of people that were
coming night upon night,
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saying that I want
to hear this story.
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And my job was to run a camera.
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And it's
something that I've done
00:14:38.77\00:14:39.94
since I was seven years old.
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Live broadcast video.
00:14:41.21\00:14:42.88
I've run a camera.
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It's second nature to me now.
00:14:44.11\00:14:46.38
So, running a
camera for Shawn is great,
00:14:46.38\00:14:50.22
because he's very active.
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He'll walk back and forth.
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It gives you something to do.
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You're not just sitting there,
00:14:53.56\00:14:55.72
you know, falling asleep.
00:14:55.72\00:14:57.33
But the cool
part is, being engaged
00:14:57.33\00:15:00.63
while running camera for him,
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was also keeping
me listening because -
00:15:02.60\00:15:04.93
- [Janice] You had
to pay attention to him.
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- Yeah, I could
hear when he was about
00:15:06.67\00:15:08.04
to change what he would
say or he would start to move
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somewhere else.
00:15:10.21\00:15:11.47
But I was paying
attention to the points too
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and I was hearing so
many things that had never-
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I'd heard the cursory terms,
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like the woman and the dragon
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and the multiple
headed beast and the horns
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and everything like that
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and then we
talked for a full night
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on just what the horns meant.
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And then the next night,
was we're gonna talk about
00:15:32.86\00:15:34.93
just what the dragon is.
00:15:34.93\00:15:36.90
So it was, let's
actually break this down
00:15:36.90\00:15:41.64
other that it just being
a story that sounds like it
00:15:41.64\00:15:43.84
might as well have come out
of Greek Mythology, you know.
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And having him
break down this story
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that has always
been so unattainable,
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because it's so
not in our language.
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- A lot of people think you
can't understand Revelation.
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Why bother?
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- Right. And that's
exactly what prompted
00:16:02.16\00:16:05.13
that series, is why bother?
00:16:05.13\00:16:07.60
Because it's the
last book of the Bible.
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It's there for a reason.
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And going
through these meetings,
00:16:11.87\00:16:14.24
I mean, I've been
raised Seventh Day Adventists.
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I don't remember
what year this happened,
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I think it was 2014.
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So this is three, four years
after I graduated high school.
00:16:21.24\00:16:26.31
And I had done pretty
much every drug imaginable
00:16:27.65\00:16:31.15
that didn't involve a needle
00:16:31.15\00:16:32.62
up until that point.
00:16:33.39\00:16:34.96
And so, being
invited to come run camera
00:16:36.36\00:16:39.49
for a month long meetings,
00:16:39.49\00:16:41.30
it being church meetings,
00:16:42.70\00:16:44.27
that was not the draw.
00:16:44.27\00:16:45.97
It was hey, there's a
month straight of work for you.
00:16:45.97\00:16:48.97
Would you like to come out?
00:16:48.97\00:16:50.61
Yes, yes I would.
00:16:50.61\00:16:52.21
And so I came out
just looking to kind of
00:16:52.21\00:16:54.81
get myself
financially stable again.
00:16:54.81\00:16:56.54
Just to have this
chunk of money to put away
00:16:56.54\00:16:58.85
and be able to have
a little to live off.
00:16:58.85\00:17:01.05
- And it looks
good on your resume.
00:17:01.05\00:17:02.65
- Right, and so I
ended up coming out.
00:17:02.65\00:17:05.65
It's another video job with dad.
00:17:05.65\00:17:08.19
It's just, you
know, back to the normal.
00:17:08.19\00:17:09.52
I know how to do this, but
weeks go on into the meetings.
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Two weeks plus, and
then it's like every night
00:17:14.03\00:17:19.10
when you run
camera for a sermon,
00:17:20.30\00:17:24.04
you're not running on up to
the thing to run the camera,
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because most of the
time it's pretty drawl.
00:17:28.84\00:17:31.91
If I'm honest,
but there were times
00:17:31.91\00:17:35.58
that I felt myself like,
okay, is it time to go yet?
00:17:35.58\00:17:39.05
- You were wanting him
to get started on another...
00:17:39.05\00:17:41.99
- Yeah, because I
remembered the previous night,
00:17:41.99\00:17:44.93
having left off
with, "Okay. And?"
00:17:44.93\00:17:49.96
And so I-
00:17:50.50\00:17:51.30
- So you really were interested.
00:17:51.30\00:17:53.47
- Yeah, and the fact that
he took Revelation seriously
00:17:53.47\00:17:58.47
and made it
digestible, was so meaningful
00:17:58.47\00:18:03.55
when there's been so many people
00:18:05.45\00:18:07.98
that probably could have done
the exact same thing he did,
00:18:07.98\00:18:11.95
but didn't take the time to
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or didn't invest that knowledge
00:18:13.79\00:18:17.43
that they had into
me or into other people.
00:18:17.43\00:18:21.00
Because it's
like I'm 23 years old
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before I hear what
Revelation really means.
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And I was raised in the church.
00:18:30.21\00:18:32.34
That feels wrong.
00:18:33.17\00:18:34.48
And so, finally
getting that substance
00:18:35.51\00:18:40.32
that I was looking for
and I wasn't even in church.
00:18:41.68\00:18:45.82
It was like,
okay, God I kind of get
00:18:45.82\00:18:50.46
what you're
trying to tell me here
00:18:50.46\00:18:53.03
because I've spent so much
of my life in church buildings
00:18:53.03\00:18:57.13
thinking that
this is the only place
00:18:57.13\00:18:59.43
where you can sing the
songs and feel the feelings.
00:18:59.43\00:19:02.10
No, not at all,
because most of the time,
00:19:02.10\00:19:06.07
people have been my church
00:19:06.07\00:19:11.15
and way more so than
any building ever has.
00:19:13.25\00:19:16.38
It's, you know, there's
probably a handful of people
00:19:17.72\00:19:21.16
that I can name, that
it's like I could never once
00:19:21.16\00:19:25.29
have ever
entered a church building
00:19:25.29\00:19:27.76
and have those
five people in my life
00:19:27.76\00:19:29.46
and I would still be the
same belief that I am today.
00:19:29.46\00:19:33.17
Because seeing what
belief does to somebody
00:19:33.17\00:19:38.24
when they are true about
it and intentional about it,
00:19:39.61\00:19:41.48
is incredibly powerful.
00:19:41.48\00:19:45.15
It's not the, you know,
00:19:45.15\00:19:46.51
have you heard about our
Lord and Savior, you know
00:19:46.51\00:19:49.72
- It's what you
see in their lives
00:19:49.72\00:19:52.52
and seeing how
much they care about you
00:19:52.52\00:19:54.52
and about other people.
00:19:54.52\00:19:56.49
- And so they'll-
00:19:56.49\00:19:57.86
It's not, "Have you heard
about our Lord and Savior?"
00:19:57.86\00:20:01.76
It's them coming
directly into my life,
00:20:01.76\00:20:04.33
looking into my eyes
and saying, "Have you heard
00:20:04.33\00:20:05.93
"about my Lord and Savior?"
00:20:05.93\00:20:08.94
Because,
00:20:10.31\00:20:11.21
feeling the
personal touch, made it real.
00:20:15.38\00:20:20.28
It's not just,
come sit in the pew
00:20:22.08\00:20:25.42
and read page 47 of the hymnal
00:20:25.42\00:20:27.69
and then Jesus
is gonna love you.
00:20:27.69\00:20:29.42
It's right now, where you are,
00:20:31.66\00:20:36.36
Jesus loves you.
00:20:36.36\00:20:37.50
And I spent so much of my
life never experiencing that
00:20:39.37\00:20:44.17
and Shawn's meetings,
the Revelation speaks peace,
00:20:46.61\00:20:51.58
taking something that
where, if I asked the questions
00:20:53.15\00:20:57.79
that he was
answering to other people,
00:20:57.79\00:21:00.26
would have been
like, leave me alone.
00:21:00.26\00:21:01.96
I don't have time to
talk about that right now.
00:21:01.96\00:21:04.76
Somebody
intentionally taking that time
00:21:04.76\00:21:07.36
and laying it all out
like it's a buffet menu,
00:21:07.36\00:21:11.90
it was like thank
you for allowing me into
00:21:11.90\00:21:16.97
the depth of
faith that you have.
00:21:18.04\00:21:20.41
Because how am I suppose
to ever get where you are
00:21:21.91\00:21:24.48
if I don't
understand what you understand.
00:21:24.48\00:21:26.75
- So at that
moment, at those meetings,
00:21:28.18\00:21:30.52
God became very real to you.
00:21:30.52\00:21:33.79
- Absolutely.
00:21:33.79\00:21:35.09
- Tonight, before
I get into my topic,
00:21:35.09\00:21:37.23
I've got something
pretty special planned.
00:21:37.23\00:21:40.20
Tonight, before I speak,
00:21:41.63\00:21:44.33
we've got somebody in
the waters of baptism.
00:21:44.33\00:21:46.74
There it is.
00:21:46.74\00:21:49.04
This is Taylor.
00:21:49.04\00:21:50.84
You might recognize Taylor,
because Taylor is usually
00:21:50.84\00:21:53.11
operating one of the TV cameras.
00:21:53.11\00:21:54.84
Now he's been on the other
end of the camera every night
00:21:57.85\00:22:00.18
and he and I have been
studying and praying together
00:22:00.18\00:22:02.78
and he has been away for
a while and he's coming home
00:22:04.19\00:22:07.19
to Jesus Christ.
00:22:08.12\00:22:09.02
We love you, Taylor.
00:22:10.06\00:22:10.96
Welcome home.
00:22:10.96\00:22:12.56
Because you love
Jesus, it's our privileged now
00:22:12.56\00:22:15.90
to baptize you in
the name of the Father,
00:22:15.90\00:22:18.27
and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit, amen.
00:22:18.27\00:22:23.20
(applause)
00:22:23.20\00:22:25.11
Buried with Jesus and
rising to new life in Him.
00:22:25.11\00:22:27.91
(applause)
00:22:29.18\00:22:31.51
Welcome home, man.
00:22:34.45\00:22:35.42
Welcome home.
00:22:36.95\00:22:38.25
- Has He stayed real since then?
00:22:42.86\00:22:44.93
- I've felt God
moving in my life
00:22:46.03\00:22:49.70
so many times since then,
00:22:49.70\00:22:53.40
where, you know,
I'm working for Tesla
00:22:53.40\00:22:58.37
and I'm a forklift driver
and I'm making $18 and hour
00:22:59.84\00:23:01.48
and I work 70 hours a week,
00:23:01.48\00:23:03.35
but I still can't afford to
live in the town that I live in.
00:23:03.35\00:23:06.48
And we scramble and
we do everything we can
00:23:06.48\00:23:09.65
and it just doesn't work
00:23:09.65\00:23:11.49
ad we finally say God,
where do you want us to go?
00:23:11.49\00:23:14.89
What do you want me to do?
00:23:14.89\00:23:16.49
Hey, there's a
job offer in Eugene.
00:23:19.39\00:23:22.26
Hey, your wife got
a job offer in Eugene.
00:23:23.60\00:23:25.73
We go up there, we get the jobs
00:23:26.97\00:23:29.60
and as we're
leaving, I get a call
00:23:30.57\00:23:32.64
and get offered a better job.
00:23:32.64\00:23:34.18
We move up there, our
daughter is born there.
00:23:36.64\00:23:40.25
Like, there's been
so many little moments
00:23:42.08\00:23:46.72
where I feel the, you
can go one of two ways
00:23:46.72\00:23:51.79
and this is God saying,
"This is the fork in the path
00:23:53.09\00:23:55.76
"and you are the
one that's deciding
00:23:55.76\00:23:57.43
"where you're gonna walk."
00:23:57.43\00:23:59.50
And thankfully,
for the past few years,
00:23:59.50\00:24:03.84
I've felt myself
intentionally saying,
00:24:03.84\00:24:06.81
"This is that moment.
00:24:06.81\00:24:07.84
"What are you gonna do?"
00:24:07.84\00:24:09.84
And trying my hardest
to make the best decision.
00:24:09.84\00:24:13.31
- Taylor, we've only
got a second or two left,
00:24:14.52\00:24:16.82
but I wanted to bring out,
because God has been leading you
00:24:16.82\00:24:19.65
to start your own drone company
00:24:19.65\00:24:21.89
and you're an incredible pilot,
00:24:21.89\00:24:24.23
because like I
say on first hand,
00:24:24.23\00:24:25.63
you've flown for us
on various film projects
00:24:25.63\00:24:28.53
and I've never
seen anybody as good.
00:24:28.53\00:24:31.27
What's the name of your company
00:24:31.27\00:24:32.73
and how can people
get in touch with you?
00:24:32.73\00:24:34.87
- My drone company
is called Archer Aero
00:24:36.10\00:24:38.51
because my son's name is Archer.
00:24:38.51\00:24:40.68
I came into his life when
he was a year and a half old
00:24:42.24\00:24:44.75
and he showed me
what it means to be a dad
00:24:44.75\00:24:48.05
and he opened up my
life in a whole new way,
00:24:48.05\00:24:50.89
which is kind of what I
want to do with drone video.
00:24:50.89\00:24:54.92
So I want to open up
people's eyes to something
00:24:54.92\00:24:56.83
entirely new that
you will never ever ever
00:24:56.83\00:24:59.73
have the chance to see
unless I give it to you.
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.13
And that's how I
feel about my son,
00:25:03.13\00:25:05.97
I would never ever, ever,
ever have had the chance to see
00:25:05.97\00:25:09.17
what kind of life
is possible without
00:25:09.17\00:25:11.77
that part of my life.
00:25:11.77\00:25:13.71
So Archer Arrow, and it's
almost like a triple entendre
00:25:13.71\00:25:17.78
because it's my son's
name, it's the archer's arrow,
00:25:17.78\00:25:22.22
as like, we are
gonna shoot our shot.
00:25:22.22\00:25:26.12
We are going to be
intentional about what
00:25:26.12\00:25:29.12
we want to hit and
we're gonna hit it.
00:25:29.12\00:25:31.83
And then the aero
is spelled A-E-R-O,
00:25:31.83\00:25:35.53
so Archer Aeronautics,
00:25:35.53\00:25:37.50
so that's the triple entendre.
00:25:37.50\00:25:40.30
It's my son, it's
the archer's arrow
00:25:40.30\00:25:42.10
and it's aeronautical.
00:25:42.10\00:25:43.41
- We're gonna
put your contact info
00:25:43.41\00:25:44.94
at the end of this video,
00:25:44.94\00:25:46.27
because I believe
people, if they want anything
00:25:46.27\00:25:47.38
done with drones,
they need to contact you.
00:25:47.38\00:25:50.55
They'll be happy with it.
00:25:50.55\00:25:51.88
- My grandmother was number
11 in a family of 13 girls
00:25:54.38\00:25:59.45
and she sometimes
felt lost in the crowd.
00:26:00.59\00:26:02.49
Do you ever feel that way?
00:26:02.49\00:26:05.13
With nearly eight
billion people in the world,
00:26:05.13\00:26:07.86
it's easy to wonder if anyone
even notices you're alive.
00:26:07.86\00:26:12.00
But there is
someone who notices.
00:26:12.00\00:26:15.17
The Bible says
God calls us by name.
00:26:15.17\00:26:18.67
He knows you, knows your name.
00:26:18.67\00:26:22.51
You're his child.
00:26:22.51\00:26:24.38
If you'd like proof, go to
TalkingDonkeyInternational.org
00:26:24.38\00:26:29.12
and request offer number
130 for this free pamphlet.
00:26:29.12\00:26:34.19
There's not another you.
00:26:34.86\00:26:36.09
- What an exciting testimony.
00:26:38.16\00:26:40.36
- Oh, I could have stayed
up there for hours longer,
00:26:40.36\00:26:42.56
just listening to him.
00:26:42.56\00:26:43.53
I'm suer he's got more stories.
00:26:43.53\00:26:44.93
- Oh, I know he does.
00:26:44.93\00:26:46.27
You know, it is exciting,
00:26:46.27\00:26:47.77
everything that God did
to bring him to himself.
00:26:47.77\00:26:51.07
- You know, what was
that phrase, that saying
00:26:52.14\00:26:54.58
you told me earlier
about no matter how far
00:26:54.58\00:26:57.41
you've gone away form God.
00:26:57.41\00:26:58.78
- Oh yeah, no matter how
far you've gone from God,
00:26:58.78\00:27:00.72
it's only one step
to get back to God.
00:27:00.72\00:27:03.42
- That was it,
because I remember thinking,
00:27:03.42\00:27:05.82
I've never
thought of myself as ever
00:27:05.82\00:27:07.82
getting that far off the path,
00:27:07.82\00:27:09.52
but I had to make that same
decision at some point, to turn.
00:27:09.52\00:27:14.36
- Yeah, folks, I
urge you today to turn.
00:27:14.36\00:27:16.60
Take that one
single step back to God.
00:27:16.60\00:27:19.33
It's just that
simple and He's that close.
00:27:19.33\00:27:21.57
I urge you right now choose Him.
00:27:21.57\00:27:24.27
Whatever's
going on in your life.
00:27:24.27\00:27:26.27
You might feel like
Janice, oh I'm pretty good.
00:27:26.27\00:27:30.35
Or like Taylor,
it doesn't matter.
00:27:30.35\00:27:32.71
You're just one
single step from God.
00:27:32.71\00:27:34.68
Get on your
knees right now and say
00:27:34.68\00:27:35.82
God, help me.
00:27:35.82\00:27:37.65
I want to serve you
today an guess what,
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God will make that move to you
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and save you and
change your life.
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Please, do it right now.
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Thanks for joining
us for Country Wisdom.
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- See you next time.
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