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Speaker 4: epic show. I promise you we have an epic show.

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Speaker 4: this story is going to be insane, I promise you one.

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Speaker 4: I have Tucker Mayo in studio. He's the Calvary Chapel

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Speaker 4: pastor of Boise in Idaho. And I've actually had you

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Speaker 4: on the show before, but we just did a rad uh.

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Speaker 3: It was just a really cool topical interview. But we

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Speaker 3: were supposed to do your testimony last year, but I'm.

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Speaker 1: Glad we we just ended up talking the whole time

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Speaker 1: we did and we could do that again, or we

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Speaker 1: could know.

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Speaker 3: We gotta definitely go through this story.

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Speaker 4: Your story is in saying yes, seriously, no, it's it's

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Speaker 4: really radical.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people I have on the show,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 4: We do questions and answers, sometimes we have testimonial Sometimes

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Speaker 4: I even get pastors or different people in to talk

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Speaker 4: about certain subjects. But this story is amazing because here

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Speaker 4: you are, you know, growing up in Idaho, but you

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Speaker 4: had such a radical testimony in your journey to find faith.

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Speaker 4: And I want to get into it because a lot

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Speaker 4: of people will relate to this because there's there's many

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Speaker 4: people that have grown up within the church and they've

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Speaker 4: they've seen their pathway to Christianity. And then there's other

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Speaker 4: people that have grown up without church and they have

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Speaker 4: their pathway to the world. But then there's many people

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Speaker 4: like myself that have had both pathways. You have the

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Speaker 4: option to follow God or the option to do whatever

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Speaker 4: you wanted. And that's the story today. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I want to just get into it. And so you

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Speaker 4: could just tell people about your journey in faith, how

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Speaker 4: you got to where you're at, because I personally, after

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Speaker 4: knowing your story, I think it's a miracle that you're

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Speaker 4: even doing.

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Speaker 3: What you can do.

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Speaker 1: I agree one hundred percent. I think you described it perfectly.

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Speaker 1: There's you know, we all have our own journeys to

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Speaker 1: the Lord, and for me, I really did have kind

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Speaker 1: of a parallel track. Grew up very loosely with you know,

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Speaker 1: a church upbringing. Right my family went to church. But

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Speaker 1: it was never like hey, if you don't make it

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Speaker 1: a family meeting. It was like, go if you want,

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Speaker 1: If you'd rather watch football, that's fine too.

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Speaker 3: Was that from both sides of the family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, yeah, I think. You know, growing

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Speaker 4: I was so, let's give people a little bit of

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Speaker 4: background on Idaho where you're at. So there there wasn't

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Speaker 1: You step out to do your own thing. And at

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Speaker 4: And so with that said, because this is kind of

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Speaker 4: an interesting way to be looking at things. Most people,

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Speaker 4: don't think i've ever heard this toy before. We have

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Speaker 4: Actually, now that I'm thinking about this, also a lot

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Speaker 4: If you don't do this, you're in trouble. That could

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Speaker 1: Well, and then it could have been like, well, I

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Speaker 1: I kind of went through my first year of college

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Speaker 3: Did you decide? Did I get major? Or so? I knew?

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Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, you grew up in Idaho.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what's out there? How am I going

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Speaker 1: telling me when the world was gonna end, but he

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Speaker 1: was telling me that my my days are numbered. There's

434
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Speaker 1: going to be a reckoning for my life. And what

435
00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,640
Speaker 1: if in my mind, I was like two thousand and six,

436
00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,000
Speaker 1: I have three years to know what I believe and

437
00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,320
Speaker 1: and so you know, I you know, I'm still in Amsterdam.

438
00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,639
Speaker 1: I'm still going through all the mental headspace of that.

439
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,960
Speaker 4: And we makes you very paranoid by this, yeah yeah, yeah,

440
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,360
Speaker 4: And it makes dude, it's this is but it's awesome.

441
00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:39,960
Speaker 3: How God's getting a hold of you.

442
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,959
Speaker 4: People think about this, You're you're literally, dude, You're I mean,

443
00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,160
Speaker 4: you're running, You're you're out of your your yea, your normal.

444
00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,720
Speaker 3: Zone, your weed, you're with girls, You're in this whole element.

445
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,719
Speaker 3: I mean he had to get to get him some smuggle.

446
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,840
Speaker 1: He had to smuggle himself in, you know what I mean,

447
00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,560
Speaker 1: and what he did. And you know that's not like

448
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,719
Speaker 1: it's not like I repented in that moment and and

449
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,640
Speaker 1: figured out how to seek God or even go to church.

450
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,359
Speaker 1: It was just like there was this giant seed that

451
00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,880
Speaker 1: was in my heart. And so I spent another six

452
00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:12,360
Speaker 1: months with Europe stories that are very similar to all

453
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 1: of these moments, and by God's grace, and never nothing

454
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,480
Speaker 1: tragic ever happens. And I get to the end of

455
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,760
Speaker 1: this time where I was just exploring, I thought, you

456
00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 1: know what, it's time to go back. And so I

457
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 1: get back to the States and I'm like, what do

458
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Speaker 1: I do with my life now? Because I really felt this, Okay,

459
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a different person now. I don't

460
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Speaker 1: feel like this and you've experienced, yeah, like the world

461
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 1: is a big, old place and there's so many things

462
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 1: you can do if you just step out and do it.

463
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Speaker 1: And you know, I figured out how to I think

464
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Speaker 1: I traveled to like sixteen countries and I slept on beaches.

465
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Speaker 1: I was living with a girl in Denmark.

466
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Speaker 3: For a while.

467
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Speaker 1: I made it all to Poland and hitch hiked and

468
00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,680
Speaker 1: it was just try all these things.

469
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Speaker 4: You see the world, and now you're back here. Would

470
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Speaker 4: you even feel like being back here in Idaho?

471
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Speaker 1: In some ways, I was like, dude, I can do

472
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Speaker 1: anything in my life. Yeah, Like not in the prideful sense.

473
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Speaker 3: No, I'm what you're saying.

474
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the world is you can do anything that you

475
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Speaker 1: want to do. And so it's not like I had

476
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Speaker 1: the answer to the purpose of life, but I definitely

477
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Speaker 1: had confidence, like I can do whatever I want. And

478
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,439
Speaker 1: but in that time, I was like, I can't just

479
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Speaker 1: go back to school, especially if the world's gonna end,

480
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 1: you know, because still so I'm like I knew about

481
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 1: Calvary Chapel because I had grown up in and out

482
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Speaker 1: of it. So I was like, dude, they have a

483
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Speaker 1: Bible College. So I was a Bible College. It must

484
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Speaker 1: have been the worst Bible College applicant ever.

485
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Speaker 3: I remember filling it out.

486
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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, like I think they'll

487
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Speaker 1: take anybody. I literally drive down from Idaho to Bible

488
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Speaker 1: College and I was like, oh, so.

489
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Speaker 4: Okay, So so people that don't know, this is the

490
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,639
Speaker 4: Bible College that was created by Chuck Smith down in Marietta,

491
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Speaker 4: in California.

492
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Speaker 1: Yes, so you drove down there. Yes. And part of

493
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Speaker 1: that was like, I want to I want to live,

494
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Speaker 1: not in Idaho still, I want to write. And I've

495
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 1: always thought California was cool. Ocean, palm trees, beaches. Yeah,

496
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,880
Speaker 1: California seemed cool. And then also I was like, dude,

497
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Speaker 1: hopefully Bible College can tell me how to use the

498
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Speaker 1: next three years of my life, you know, because that's

499
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Speaker 1: what I was working with a three year time frame.

500
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Speaker 1: And I get down there a week early and I'm like, dude,

501
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Speaker 1: I'm let me check some stuff out down here. So

502
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Speaker 1: I was down to her. I was sleeping on couches

503
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Speaker 1: and hermosa.

504
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Speaker 3: Dude.

505
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I get down there. I met a bartender at

506
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Speaker 1: a at a one of those peer bars at Hermosa beach,

507
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Speaker 1: and I had a week and I started sleeping on

508
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Speaker 1: her couch, just hanging out in hermosa. Before I make

509
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 1: it to near Riette. I get there the day of registration.

510
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Speaker 4: I was like, dude, I'm ready for Bible College.

511
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like, I gotta figure this out.

512
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Speaker 3: But Hey, you know what I love about this story.

513
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,640
Speaker 4: This is literally like when you start when you read

514
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Speaker 4: about the Calvary guys from like the Hippie movement when

515
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 4: they got saved. You got the Lonnie Frisbee, he was struck,

516
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,719
Speaker 4: struggling homosexuality. And and then you got you know this

517
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 4: LSD guy running around naked found God on LSD.

518
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Speaker 3: You got Mike McIntosh. She took too much law and

519
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 3: he thought his head was blown off. He'd look at

520
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:02,919
Speaker 3: me and his face was gone.

521
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 4: Jeff Johnson was in Hawaii, left California. He was naked

522
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 4: in the mountains waiting for the UFO's abduct him. Skip

523
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 4: Isaac used to astro travel.

524
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Speaker 3: He was in a new age in witch Crad.

525
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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, so your story yeah, being a Calvary. Yeah,

526
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,120
Speaker 4: this is kind of like the DNA didn't.

527
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Speaker 1: I was trying to go through the Bible college route.

528
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Speaker 4: But you know this is very common within these guys

529
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Speaker 4: getting saved radically and then God uses them greatly.

530
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Speaker 3: So okay, so here you are. You sign up a

531
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Speaker 3: Bible college.

532
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Speaker 1: Sign up a Bible college. And I'm like, I'm ready, Yeah, dude,

533
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Speaker 1: I'm like and I was like, I got to figure

534
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Speaker 1: this out. So I was really everything in me was

535
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Speaker 1: like committed.

536
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, that and that's what's awesome.

537
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Speaker 1: The heart was like everything in me was incremitted. In fact,

538
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 1: like within the first two weeks, some people at Bible

539
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 1: College were like, hey, let's go drink some beers. And

540
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm telling you, guys, I'm telling I

541
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Speaker 1: was like, if I wanted to drink beer, I'd be

542
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Speaker 1: in Europe right now. Yeah, exactly, I'd be back in

543
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Speaker 1: her most of beach. So I was like, you guys,

544
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Speaker 1: this is I'm trying to not drink beer.

545
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Speaker 2: The man.

546
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Speaker 1: I was like, these guys drinking beers probably very hypocrite

547
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: to do that with, you know, like coming off a

548
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: run of ya, i know, stumbling into.

549
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 3: Bible God, you know, but God was doing something in

550
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 3: your heart though.

551
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 4: That's what's awesome is God was He's already starting to

552
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Speaker 4: prepare your heart.

553
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: Yea.

554
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Speaker 3: So how did Bible College get.

555
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: So Bible College? You know, I'm actually celebrating my twenty year. Actually,

556
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 1: there's a there's a Cabby Chapel, Canada pastor that was

557
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: just in town. I was like, dude, I have a

558
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Speaker 1: twenty years He's like, dude, or twenty years and two years.

559
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: You only made it one semester twenty year to our start.

560
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: He's like, that's not work. So what happened was, so

561
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Speaker 1: I'm there for a semester and dude, I actually this

562
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Speaker 1: is where I really get like such a love for

563
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: the Calvary Chapel vibe and the movement, and like, dude,

564
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 1: I I think it was. It was just God kind

565
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: of coming around me and and I felt so refreshed

566
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: by it. But at the same time, I was like,

567
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 1: I'm not a pastor these and I'm hanging out with

568
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: these guys and they're talking about becoming missionaries and becoming pastors.

569
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: I was like, I got it. I got God is real.

570
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: Jesus is definitely the best. I like all these Calvary

571
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: guys too. I remember seeing Chuck in the in the

572
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: golf cart riding around. I was like, dude, that guy's legend,

573
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: you know. I was like in But I was also like,

574
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 1: but I gotta figure out what I'm doing in my

575
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: life because I'm not a Calvary guy. I'm just I

576
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 1: just came here to kind of get my theology checklist.

577
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 1: And and so I went back to Bois because I

578
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta go back to real school. If

579
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Speaker 1: I'm going to provide for a family or do whatever

580
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do with my life, I got to

581
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 1: make some money, you know what I mean.

582
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Speaker 3: And so.

583
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Speaker 1: I went back to to Boise and basically, you know,

584
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Speaker 1: it was like nice knowing you guys, you guys, that

585
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: was awesome, But I'm not what do I need a

586
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: college Bible college to be for? Yeah, I would never

587
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: I would never ever be a pastor. So I was like,

588
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,719
Speaker 1: thanks for the thanks for helping me understand, like end

589
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: of times, I'm honestly feeling good about my and then

590
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: so but I went back to Boys Sales. I don't know,

591
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: love my life, and so you know, I have these

592
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Speaker 1: moments kind of like the hotel moment where and maybe

593
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: we maybe we save kind of the shift from by

594
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Speaker 1: the college.

595
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Speaker 4: To yeah yeah to uh well okay, So before before

596
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 4: we go into that next half, when you're now back

597
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 4: in Bible college or back in boys I'm sorry, back

598
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 4: in Boise, going back to college, what's your perspective now

599
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 4: kind of looking at what you've been through. Then you

600
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 4: went down to California, you encountered God, and now you're

601
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 4: back here in college, like, how are you.

602
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 3: Looking, dude?

603
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: It was it was the Tug Awards just went right

604
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: back to it because it's so common. I was in

605
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 1: Bible College and I was like every one of these girls.

606
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: I looked at every girl and my time there, and

607
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: I was just like, I don't want to mess up anybody.

608
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: And that's one of the like even having a Bible

609
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: College girlfriend, I was like, I don't want to mess

610
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: up her life with me, you know. So I almost

611
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: had like imposter syndrome. They call it. Get back to boys,

612
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, dude, nobody knows me as a

613
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: Christian here, and nobody thinks of me as like anybody

614
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: like trying to pursue this.

615
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 4: What you're saying is the common like the common thing

616
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Speaker 4: with a lot of people.

617
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 3: This is the Tug Award.

618
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 4: Like I remember trying to get sober, and I'd get sober,

619
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 4: I'd plug into church for a little bit and I'd

620
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 4: be doing good and then and then I'd get out

621
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Speaker 4: of my groove and get right back to what. It's

622
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 4: so easy. This is the common in and out. And

623
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Speaker 4: even like you know Daniel with the Hoosoebers, he had

624
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 4: the same thing. He was in church and he was

625
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 4: started hooking up with girls back and forth, and just

626
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 4: like this common back and forth until there's a day yeah,

627
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 4: when finally because God will let you, uh, he'll let

628
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 4: you go do your thing back and forth. But there'll

629
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 4: be there's always a day of hopefully it's not a

630
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 4: day of reckoning where you're like in jail and you're like, okay,

631
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 4: I went too far or like me aodd in the point, yeah,

632
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 4: but or there's a day when finally when you just

633
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 4: encounter God and you go, Okay, you know what I'm

634
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 4: I'm sold out.

635
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,959
Speaker 3: I'm not perfect, I don't have figured out.

636
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make a lot of mistakes on along the

637
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 4: way like Peter and these other guys that we read

638
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 4: about in the Bible. But you're really like sold out

639
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 4: and then God starts truly doing something in your life.

640
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 4: And that's what we're gonna get to after the break,

641
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 4: is when we get to that moment in your life

642
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 4: and and it's still the journey's still on because right

643
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 4: now you're back in college and you look exactly get

644
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 4: going get you had an encounter with God at the

645
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 4: Bible college. But just like many people that are actually

646
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 4: listening to this right now. You had a moment with

647
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 4: God sometime in your life, but then for whatever reason,

648
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 4: you got back on the detail around.

649
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: It's like the Tuggle war just gets stronger.

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Speaker 4: It does, and I think the Bible even talks about

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Speaker 4: how like well, he just talks about how like you know,

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Speaker 4: people that are get possessed when they take the demon out.

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Speaker 4: If they don't clean the home and put the word

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Speaker 4: of God in, that demon comes back with seven more

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Speaker 4: homeboys exactly to take care of you. Not that your

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Speaker 4: demon possessor and thing, but it's the influence of Satan.

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Speaker 4: When you have an encounter with God and then you

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Speaker 4: walk back away from him, he influences you even more

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Speaker 4: and every time you go back, it's even gnarlier and gnarlier.

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Speaker 4: And I can attest to that one. So we're gonna

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Speaker 4: come back right after the break. But before we go

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Speaker 4: you up in the faith, to teach you. It's the

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Speaker 4: just like you're getting encouraged with this guy story. Tucker

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Speaker 4: from Calviy Chapel, Boise. We have many more online. I

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Speaker 4: All right, we are back and I'm with Chucker. He's

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Speaker 4: the Calvary Chapel pastor of Boise, Idaho. And your last name,

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Speaker 4: because you know people, you have a couple of different

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Speaker 4: last names.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Tucker, g Mail. Yes that's my middle initials G.

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Speaker 1: My last name is Mao Tucker Gil. And then I

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Speaker 1: long to someday live in Hawaii. So my Hawaiian last

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Speaker 1: name is my ele. So there it is.

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Speaker 3: It's true story last names.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Hey, if you guys have been listening to the first half,

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Speaker 4: you've heard this. This guy just has a crazy story

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Speaker 4: of you know, he had two different pathways. One he

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Speaker 4: said his mom said just follow God and everything will

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Speaker 4: work out. And then his dad just said, you know,

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Speaker 4: go see what the world has to offer. And now

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Speaker 4: here here he is after this journey of going after

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Speaker 4: the world end up backpacking through Europe.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a Tarantina movie about this called Hostel.

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Speaker 3: He lived it. And now you're back in You've seen

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Speaker 3: crazy stuff, Amsterdam everything. I mean, your mind's probably blown.

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Speaker 3: I'm from la and I went to Amsterdam. My mind

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Speaker 3: was blown. Yeah, exactly the heck.

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Speaker 4: So here you are back in the country in Boise

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Speaker 4: and you're back at the university college.

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Speaker 3: What happens there?

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Speaker 4: Because I want to I want to go through a

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Speaker 4: highlight reel of different things, because there's many wake up calls,

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Speaker 4: very radical wake up calls that happened in your life.

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Speaker 3: Leading to the moment of really, truly, truly giving your

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Speaker 3: life time.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the perfect way to state it. You know,

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Speaker 1: we talked about going to Bible College, and I really

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Speaker 1: do think. At Bible College, I said, God is real.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to live for you, really, but

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Speaker 1: I do believe in you. And so I think God

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Speaker 1: honored that confession and said, Okay, even though the tug

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Speaker 1: of war is still there, do you live for God?

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Speaker 1: Do you live for the world?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: God is going to meet me at every stage of

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Speaker 1: the tug of war with a wake up call. And

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Speaker 1: so that's essentially what happened. I leave Bible College. I say,

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Speaker 1: if I'm ever going to have, you know, a way

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Speaker 1: to make money, I go to go to college. And

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Speaker 1: so but that turned into the college experience again. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: at Boise State, I might as well just get back

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Speaker 1: into partying and exploring, and and that turned into wake

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Speaker 1: up call kind of. Number one was one night, I'm

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Speaker 1: just out with a really good friend of mine. It's

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Speaker 1: a Saturday. He had missed his flight back back to

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Speaker 1: to get one last run in and hang out and

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Speaker 1: and we you know, we're just drinking, bar hopping downtown

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Speaker 1: and and that turned into a two am run to

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Speaker 1: grab him some orange juice and you know, do some

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Speaker 1: you know, liquids before we crash and try to curb

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Speaker 1: the the hangover. And unbeknownst to us, earlier that day

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Speaker 1: there had been an armed robbery of the US Bank

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Speaker 1: on Broadway downtown, and so there was an all points bulletin.

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Speaker 1: The guys went in there. There was two guys driving

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Speaker 1: a four door car. They go in there with guns,

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Speaker 1: they get all the money, they run and they're at large.

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Speaker 1: So the cops respond by sending an APB all points

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Speaker 1: bulletin to all of the you know, the night the

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Speaker 1: night life of Boise, say, just be watching out. So

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Speaker 1: we didn't know that we were just a couple of

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Speaker 1: knuckleheads rolling into a gas station, and by God's sovereignty,

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Speaker 1: I just fit the bill for what this nervous gas

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Speaker 1: station lady who had been looking for all night. So

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Speaker 1: me and my buddy were two guys, were driving a

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Speaker 1: four door car. As I'm walking in, I find aviator

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Speaker 1: sunglasses on the ground and I'm literally like slow motion

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Speaker 1: Tarantino walking in from reservoir dogs putting.

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Speaker 3: On at aviators.

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Speaker 1: And this girl's like, oh my goodness, this is it,

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Speaker 1: this is it. And I'm an idiot. My buddy's an idiot.

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Speaker 1: He's just staring at the orange juice options. I'm waiting

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Speaker 1: for him by the cash register, asking this lady why

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Speaker 1: she's so nervous, you know, I'm like, what's going on? Like,

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Speaker 1: why you're nervous? You're nervous about the night shift? Like

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Speaker 1: you get robbed here a lot? And she had already

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Speaker 1: picked up enough signals to dial nine one one and

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Speaker 1: leave it off the hook. She's like, I am bringing

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Speaker 1: in back up right now at the cops are on

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Speaker 1: their way. In her mind and she's just trying to

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Speaker 1: buy time. And uh, I asked her if she's nervous.

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Speaker 1: She's like yeah, and I was like, let me see

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Speaker 1: her hands. In her mind, she's asking me to stick

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Speaker 1: up her hands. I was like, you know, see if.

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Speaker 3: You're shaking, let's see you're buzzing. You're just yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm an idiot, and so she takes that.

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Speaker 1: She picks up her hands and then she grabs all

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Speaker 1: of the She grabs the tray out of the register

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Speaker 1: and said, please don't hurt me. Put some on the counter.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, so I'm not after your money. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm out of here. And so I'm like, hey, bro,

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Speaker 1: we got to get out of here. There's a huge misunderstanding.

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Speaker 1: And we take off down the road. A minute later,

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Speaker 1: cops show up and she's like they went that way.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm just driving the Red and Blues and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, we're getting a DUI. I'm drinking all

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Speaker 1: day and now I must have been swerving pull into

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Speaker 1: a parking lot and the cop doesn't do anything. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: this is weird, aren't we suppose isn't supposed to approach

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Speaker 1: the We wait five minutes, nothing's happening, and we're like, dude,

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Speaker 1: what is going on? Within five minutes, we were surrounded

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Speaker 1: by pretty much all of the Boise Police Department and

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Speaker 1: they're giving me directions through a bullhorn to crawl out

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Speaker 1: the window, get on my knees, hands on my head.

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Speaker 1: I look down and I see the red dots there, right,

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Speaker 1: dots shootout.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, this is not a normal DUI.

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Speaker 3: Dude.

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Speaker 1: They bag us and tag us and take us in.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't even get to walk the line.

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Speaker 1: What the heck is going on? So they take us

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Speaker 1: to the interrogation room. It looks like this little studio

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Speaker 1: and they're like, dude, where are the guns, where's the money?

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Speaker 1: Why did you guys?

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Speaker 3: What was your motive?

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Speaker 1: Why did you rob the bank? Have you robbed other banks?

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I think this is a horrible, horrible mix up,

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Speaker 1: but I basically just go dark. They throw me in

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Speaker 1: jail and I call my mom and I'm like she's like,

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Speaker 1: you've got to click call from Naty County and I'm like, Mom,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. But I think there's

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Speaker 1: been a mix up. And she's like, your name and

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Speaker 1: your face is all over the news. It says you

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Speaker 1: robbed a bank earlier today, And I'm like, are you

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Speaker 1: kidding me, dude? This is this is big mix up,

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Speaker 1: a huge case of mistaken identity. And yet, as I

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Speaker 1: now know, God uses all of these things. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of like how he smuggled in the Bible code. It's

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Speaker 1: like it's not real, but it's going to be real

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Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, yeah, you know I this. So I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, Like if you get me at it

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Speaker 1: is like the classic like I don't want to go

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Speaker 1: to prison if you can get me out of this.

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Speaker 1: So I spent like six months basically in forced repentance.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm an idiot. I mean, I'm going through

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Speaker 1: all these court trials and trying to tell people I

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Speaker 1: don't own a gun and I never was at the

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Speaker 1: US bank and robbers are still at large, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the news is all over it, and the first time

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Speaker 1: I show up to court, there's like cameras in my

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Speaker 1: face because they they're like, who is this, who is

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Speaker 1: this young bank robber?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, no, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Took so long, and I had basically had any pride

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Speaker 1: that I've developed over you know, the fun run of

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Speaker 1: Europe is like, dude, now people think I'm a bank robber,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm just like, I don't know, dude, my

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Speaker 1: life you know what I mean? And so over time

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Speaker 1: it gets further and further reduced. Eventually I just have

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Speaker 1: to start picking up community service hours and so I

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Speaker 1: spent time just rehabbing my own identity.

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Speaker 4: This was so this was like a major major I mean,

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Speaker 4: I'd be freaking out if I went through this and

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Speaker 4: even just like going through this for like six months.

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Speaker 3: So then you go to God.

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Speaker 4: But then there's a because we I know, we have

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Speaker 4: like a little bit of time left. Yes, there was

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Speaker 4: a couple other crazy wake up calls. You ended up

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Speaker 4: like essentially, I go from wake up call.

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Speaker 1: Here's the pattern. You get a wake up yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then you get this little period where it's like the

865
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: like what am I doing with my life is forced

866
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: upon me?

867
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 3: I survive it, yep, and get out of.

868
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: It like wait a second, wait, go back, and so

869
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: I start. I get a sales job, and that sales

870
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: job that I got money in my pocket now and

871
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a second, Like I survived, not in jail.

872
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 1: I'm not in prison. I go right back. That sales job,

873
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: long story short, actually sends me to Panama City, Panama.

874
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: And now what was a little bit of money in Boise,

875
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: Idaho doing sales is like I'm the richest guy on

876
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: the street now and I'm taking my you know, broke

877
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: europe hitch hiking party habit and infusing it into a

878
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: party city with a bunch of money. You always take

879
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: your habits with you. I take my habits with me.

880
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: So it's like the worst case scenario. Yeah, But over time,

881
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: I'm like feeling this sense of emptiness. And eventually Panama.

882
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: This whole operation that I'd been working with, you know,

883
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: doing sales to set up people with offshore accounting, it

884
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: it all came to a head in the financial crisis,

885
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: and the head who started this operation, he actually got

886
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: upside down in his money and he started embezzling money

887
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: out and he started hatching a plan to flee with

888
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: a bunch of the investors' money. I'm holding the bag

889
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: like one of the guys. I'm like, what is going on?

890
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: The financial crisis just fell upon this company and there

891
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: wasn't enough money to pay everybody back, and this guy

892
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: ran off with the money. Long story where that call again,

893
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: and I'm the I'm the employee that'd been selling this

894
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: stuff right, and and recruiting investments and or investors and

895
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: taking them on trips in Panama and showing them the

896
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: how legit everything was. And so now I've got millions

897
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: of dollars that are now lost, and I'm wrestling with

898
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: what the heck am I doing with my life now?

899
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: So that wake up call came in the form of

900
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: a knock on my door to FBI agent show up,

901
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: They sit me down, They asked me questions for four

902
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: hours about everything I knew about my time in Panama

903
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: and where this where this guy may be living, and

904
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: my own involvement in it. And I'm just thinking, okay,

905
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: now I'm really going to prison now. And I was like,

906
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 1: I remember, dude, I remember telling those guys like, I

907
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: will do anything to help you guys. I I was

908
00:39:58,239 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: kind of pleaaning with him, like let's do a thing

909
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: like send me down to where I was like, I'll

910
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: work for the FBI bay, I will flip on this

911
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: guy so fast.

912
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 3: And yeah, he really Yeah, but put you in a

913
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 3: bad situation.

914
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 1: It turned into me just being in contact with these guys.

915
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: They'd call me and they'd ask me questions as they're

916
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: trying to crack the case. And it turned into that

917
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: new spell of forced repentance reflection.

918
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 3: Yep.

919
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: And every time this happened to my life, my identity

920
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: just gets stripped right down to the ground. You know.

921
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: My identity is like as a cool kid going to

922
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: Boise State. Now it's like, dude, you're actually a bankropper.

923
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: That's what everybody thinks about you. And now people are like,

924
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: what were you doing in Panama? Was what was going

925
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: on down there? And I'm like, dude, I can't even

926
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 1: talk about it. Legally, I can't even talk about it.

927
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: I've got zero thing to show. I've got nothing to

928
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: show for my life right now. I've got all the

929
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 1: money has been seized, everything is gone, and people ask

930
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: me what I'm doing with my life and I can't

931
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: even tell them I had no identity, and so, you know,

932
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:49,439
Speaker 1: so I'm like, what do I do in my life?

933
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: And it turns into another like well, I'm just gonna wait.

934
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: While I was in Panama, I remembered that one of

935
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: the places I used to hang out down there was

936
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: the Panama Yacht Club, and I love those guys. Dude.

937
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: It looked like they were in such a good time,

938
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: looked like they'd figure out the key to life because

939
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: they they worked on a yacht. They would come into

940
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: these little ports from Panama to Costa Rica, to the Mediterranean,

941
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: party for four days, get back on their yacht, go

942
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 1: to the next thing. I was like, dude, that I

943
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: always thought that sounds awesome. And so when I was

944
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: trying to think what do I even do with my life,

945
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: I reached out to a guy named Ruslan who had

946
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: been working as a mechanic on one of these out

947
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, how do I get into the Yaudi.

948
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna reset my life.

949
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 3: And it's so interesting this story. As I'm listening, it's

950
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 3: like you keep trying to reset it.

951
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: With you God, exactly, and it just keeps I keep

952
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: trying to reset. That's the common story with a lot

953
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: of and I did all the Ecclesiastes things. It was like,

954
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try pleasure, I'm gonna try making a bunch

955
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: of money. I'm gonna try see in the world because

956
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 1: yachting to me was like I'm just gonna go back

957
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: to the person that was just exploring and trying things.

958
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,479
Speaker 1: Now get paid to do it. And so he's like, dude,

959
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: just go to you know, a major yachting center, start

960
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: knocking doors and see if anybody to hire you. So

961
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: I booked a Greyhound ticket from See to Fort Lauderdale.

962
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: I've got no money, no plan, and I just knew

963
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: that I needed to do something. So get to Fort

964
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: Lauderdale and come to find out, the yachting world is

965
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 1: a huge party. Dude. It's like I had no idea. Again,

966
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm ready to I'm thinking, dude, I'm just

967
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: gonna be mopping and like helping serve. And it's like

968
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: the yachting world is like it's all party. It's work hard,

969
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: play hard. I've never heard that term. Yeah, and that's

970
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: all it is. It's like you work really hard and

971
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: you polish and you get a bunch of money and

972
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: you're in this tropical location with beautiful people and rich

973
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: people and then you just party. And so I was like, Okay,

974
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: I guess I'm doing this again.

975
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 3: It's like the Prodigal Sun. Dude. It was all the

976
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 3: money and then just blow it away. Yep.

977
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: And so I get a job at a on a

978
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: yacht called Diamond Girl, based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida,

979
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: and I was loving it and polishing, and I was

980
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: living in a little yacht house where people live when

981
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: they're on shore. And then Diamond Girl starts doing its

982
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: little tour. It's in season now and it goes from

983
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: Fort lauder to Bahamas and it's got all the Caribbean

984
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: mapped out, and they're like, you know, if you want to,

985
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: if you want to come with us, you're in. And

986
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: so I was like, sweet, I'm gonna I'm doing it.

987
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: I'm working on the yacht. I'm a deckhand, and now

988
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: I just get to go from you know, charter to

989
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,919
Speaker 1: charter where people come on and I'll serve them. And dude,

990
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 1: we get to the Bahamas and I'm like another wake

991
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: up call because the Bible College confession. God, you're real.

992
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how to live for you, but I

993
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: believe in you. Every time I had a new wake

994
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: up call, it was like this, ain't it. It's not

995
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: just partying at Boise State. It's not just making a

996
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: bunch of money and living in a party city. In Panama,

997
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: it's not exploring the world and just taking cool pictures.

998
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: And so when I got to the Bahamas, I'm feeling

999
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: that emptiness, that vanity of Ecclesiastes. And one night in

1000
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: the Bahamas, meet and another deckhand to go out. Hanging

1001
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: out is very common. Yachts pull up to like the

1002
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 1: nicest little part of the harbor usually have casinos and

1003
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: you know, little malls on a round. So we go

1004
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: into one of the casinos and we just a we

1005
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: have a layover in the Bahamas. We're gonna hang out,

1006
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: and we immediately get paired up with a bachelorette party,

1007
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: of course, and it's like fishing with dynamite. You're you're

1008
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: working on a yacht. These women are coming from the

1009
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: States to do a bachelorette party in the Bahamas. It's

1010
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: like that's there and a yacht party, and they're like,

1011
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: we just met some yachtis, yeah, Exactly're so excited. So

1012
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: I get one of them just cleaning.

1013
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 3: It's the perfect storm, yep, and so.

1014
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: So I go back the the bachelorette party. Eventually, you know,

1015
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: comes back to the boat, and in that mix up,

1016
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm in bed and and you know, there's

1017
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: all sorts of partying. Yeah, and uh, I get a

1018
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 1: I get a knock in the twilight hours of the

1019
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: morning and it's it's the Aks in my face, dude,

1020
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: Federal allies. Yes, it's the Bohemian federal guys. And they're like,

1021
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: get get out of your cabin. There's been a there's

1022
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: been a crime reporting on this.

1023
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, Tucker, dude, God's grace on life is like, yes, yes, God.

1024
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 3: And I had a huge plant in your life.

1025
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,479
Speaker 1: What the heck happened last night? I'm thinking it felt

1026
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: like it felt like I was on the movie Clue.

1027
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,240
Speaker 3: I was like, did somebody get murdered? Like what happened?

1028
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: Like?

1029
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 3: What are we doing here?

1030
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: And so we get up there it was like clue, dude,

1031
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: they pulled the Captain. We have on our on our

1032
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: little on our little eye. It was like Captain Chef,

1033
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: first mate, this is engineer that we're all sitting around,

1034
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: and we got the Bohemian police dude, and it was

1035
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: like it was I could tell it was makeshift because

1036
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: in one they're strapped with a KS and they had

1037
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: the classic Bohemian helmets, you know, the little warm helmet

1038
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: and then that the chief was was rolling around with

1039
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: neck pillow.

1040
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 3: I was like to get tired. Yeah, I was like,

1041
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 3: why is this guy got a girl? Is a girl?

1042
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: Why is this girl got a neck pillow? I was like,

1043
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: I don't trust this investigation, you know what I mean?

1044
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: And so so I'm just sitting there and I see them.

1045
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 1: They're they're pulling sheets from all the cabins in in

1046
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: the yacht and I'm like pulling my shoes. I was

1047
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: just sleeping and hanging out and uh so they just

1048
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: collect the evidence. They go back and then I'm I'm

1049
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: just polishing with the deckhand. I was like, dude, what happened?

1050
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: What did you do last night? Because this guy was

1051
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: wild yea, and uh He's like, dude, I got down,

1052
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: but you know it was totally cool, you know, like

1053
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: me and the girl got down, but it's totally cool.

1054
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, like that was weird,

1055
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, another one of those like and they come back.

1056
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: They roll in their little police golf cart and uh,

1057
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: neck pillow lady comes back and she's like you two

1058
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: want to question you and uh they take me down

1059
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: to the little Bohemian police station and they're like, you

1060
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,919
Speaker 1: are being being placed under a rest still further notice

1061
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: while we investigate this crime. And I'm like, what me,

1062
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: you know, I'm checking in. They're like, take your shoelace

1063
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: off because the said they just want to interview me. Yeah,

1064
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: like no belt, no shoelaces. I was like, for an interview. Yeah,

1065
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, mindo, I trust everybody. Throw me in

1066
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: this jail and it was like, dude, it was like

1067
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: it reminded me. The laughter comes because they reminded me

1068
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: a pirate the Caribbean, like dirt jail, like a bunch

1069
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: of guys like laughing at me and yelling at me.

1070
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, dude, who knows, Maybe this is this

1071
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: might be the time that I just maybe I'm just

1072
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: going to get accused of a crime and have to

1073
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: admit that I mean, not that I did it, but

1074
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Speaker 1: just admit this is my fate.

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Speaker 4: Dude.

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Speaker 1: Eventually, I can't keep getting arrested and having all these

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Speaker 1: close calls.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very very close calls. Yeah what happened when you

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Speaker 3: were in jail?

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Speaker 1: What So while I'm in jail, I didn't my future

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00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: hangs over my head and I essentially this is what

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Speaker 1: you were describing as your point of no return. For

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Speaker 1: the first time in my life, it wasn't just I

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Speaker 1: believe in you, but I said, God, I don't actually

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Speaker 1: care anymore. I don't care if I get out of

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Speaker 1: jail or not. I don't care if I maybe I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to live in the Bahamas as a you know,

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Speaker 1: labor camp worker. I don't know how any of this works.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm off shore. I don't know how their

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Speaker 1: legal system works. So I just kind of said, God,

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Speaker 1: whatever your plan is, I'm actually going to live for you.

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Speaker 1: And it was the Ecclesiastes recap. It was like, I,

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Speaker 1: I know it's not just traveling the world. I know

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Speaker 1: it's not making a bunch of money. I know it's

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Speaker 1: not just partying. Whatever your plan is, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: live for you. And little did I know that I

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Speaker 1: was only gonna be sitting in that jail for like

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Speaker 1: a day and a half. And then the captain comes out,

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Speaker 1: He's like, you're coming with me. The other deckhand. They

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Speaker 1: I never know what happened, but they were like, actually,

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Speaker 1: you guys look so similar. We just arrested both of you,

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Speaker 1: and we needed that guy. We've talked to the people

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Speaker 1: on the yacht and they said it was this guy,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, but I needed that moment. I

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Speaker 1: needed a moment to have everything in my life completely

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Speaker 1: blacked out and say it no longer mattered my identity

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Speaker 1: and being a yacht guy or being a sales guy,

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Speaker 1: or being just a fun loving dude. It's all. I

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Speaker 1: don't want any of it. I'm just going to now

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Speaker 1: actually live for you for the rest of my life. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we have seven minutes left.

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Speaker 4: I know there's a couple other details, but you got

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Speaker 4: back to Boise. What what did that look like with

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Speaker 4: you surrounding your life to Christ. For those people that

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Speaker 4: are listening right now, and they're like, this guy's a

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00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 4: lot of crazy stories, but they're also like, why have

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Speaker 4: I a duy?

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Speaker 3: I went to jail. I got blamed for something.

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Speaker 4: There was some crooked, you know, crime stuff that you

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Speaker 4: know could happen that my name came up. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's so funny because like everyone can experience similar stuff,

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Speaker 4: maybe not as intensive going to jail, but there's always

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Speaker 4: when you're not walking with God and you're living just

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Speaker 4: a life for yourself, and you could just and you're

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Speaker 4: hanging out with kind of.

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Speaker 3: Like in the party scene. You could end up a

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Speaker 3: bad situation. Yes, on accident totally.

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Speaker 4: You can just be drinking, end up in a duy

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Speaker 4: and you could hit someone and you might be facing

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Speaker 4: life in prison just for a stupid knight of drink.

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Speaker 3: It's a beer or whatever. What would So what would

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Speaker 3: you do when you got back? What it fully committed?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to live my life for you look like

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Speaker 3: for me.

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Speaker 1: It was having because I think every moment of a

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Speaker 1: wake up call puts your identity into question. And for me,

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Speaker 1: for the very first time, I actually identify as a Christian,

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Speaker 1: so I actually knew, which answered all the other questions.

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Speaker 1: So before I'd come back to a new place, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing here. Now I didn't

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Speaker 1: care what people thought about me for the first time

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Speaker 1: in my life. Actually my identity is a Christian, So

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Speaker 1: now I can do anything now. I took a job

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Speaker 1: as a dishwasher at thirty years old or twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: At the time, I was like, I can actually just

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Speaker 1: be a dishwasher. I don't have to I don't have

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Speaker 1: to do anything other than follow Jesus, and I can serve.

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Speaker 1: I can volunteer at a church, I can go to

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Speaker 1: Bible studies and it doesn't matter who thinks anything different

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Speaker 1: of me. I can go into a church and no

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Speaker 1: one has to know me. I don't care what you

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Speaker 1: think about me anymore. My identity is solved. I finally

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Speaker 1: know that I believe in Jesus. I'm going to live

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Speaker 1: for him, and after that it doesn't matter. And so

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Speaker 1: for the first time of my life, I was able

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Speaker 1: to go to a new location or set up a

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Speaker 1: new thing and have no tugle war. I didn't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about anything. I was like, it's over. The

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Speaker 1: tug of war is over. I am going to follow

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Speaker 1: Jesus and I do not care. And I think it

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00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: was so fresh where I had basically said I'll live

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Speaker 1: in prison or I'll you know, live on a whatever

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Speaker 1: I need to do, that everything felt like gravy, dude.

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Speaker 1: Everything felt like the free gift of a new day,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm actually just here at a church meeting new

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00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: people and learning about Jesus for the first time. I

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Speaker 1: was like, this is great. I don't anything else.

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Speaker 4: You know, when you're saying that, I think. I think

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Speaker 4: that last section was just so awesome the way you

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00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 4: said about the identity. And I think when you look

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00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 4: at life and people with mental health and just like

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00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 4: you know, with the LGBTQ plus whatever and just email

1173
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 4: or like people or how people what music they listen,

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00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 4: everything's find identity. So that people are finding their identity

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00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 4: through life situations, their music, or they identify who they're

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Speaker 4: sleeping with or whatever.

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Speaker 3: But the peace comes.

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Speaker 4: Everyone's looking for Jesus, a relationship with God, because when

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Speaker 4: you have your identity in Christ, that's where you have

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Speaker 4: your peace and nothing else matters because all the different

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Speaker 4: situations that you put yourself into this because you're trying

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Speaker 4: to find your identity, Like, am I gonna find myself

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Speaker 4: by traveling the world? Am I gonna Maybe that's my identity.

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Speaker 4: I'm just I just travel and I that's that's how

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Speaker 4: I found myself or whatever it is. But you've found

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Speaker 4: it when you just finally said, I don't care anymore.

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Speaker 4: I don't care, And dude, I could personally relate to

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00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 4: that that when I when I when I was also

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Speaker 4: in Panama City and I gave my life to Christ

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Speaker 4: and and I at that point I just I didn't

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Speaker 4: care anymore about nothing, and that's when the peace came.

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Speaker 4: And it didn't matter who I was, what people thought

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Speaker 4: about me, and that's where the peace comes.

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Speaker 3: So encourage the people. We got two minutes left. People

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Speaker 3: that are listening right now, Well, actually, let me ended

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Speaker 3: with this, what do you do now?

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Speaker 1: So now Christ, I know there was.

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Speaker 4: A big process between giving your life to Christ to

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Speaker 4: where you're at now now another.

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Speaker 1: Show and yeah, the whole other show. But in one minute,

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Speaker 1: just going back to the very beginning of the story,

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Speaker 1: I had a mom who said, trust God and everything

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Speaker 1: work out. I had a dad who said, try the world.

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Speaker 1: During this whole story, my mom had peace. God's gonna

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Speaker 1: take care of him. My dad was nervous, like this

1206
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: guy could die, end up in prison. What's he doing

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Speaker 1: his life? My mom had peace because when I was

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Speaker 1: a young child being dedicated in a church, a pastor,

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Speaker 1: straight laced suit and tie, non charismatic but just holy

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Speaker 1: spirit guy said this, this guy's gonna be a pastor someday.

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Speaker 1: So my mom held that little prophetic word in her

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Speaker 1: heart and all through the ups and down she said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I still trust that someday God is going

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Speaker 1: to work this out, and he's gonna become a pastor,

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Speaker 1: and to end the story me just getting involved. The

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Speaker 1: Lord did have a plan that was somehow he used

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Speaker 1: all of the chaos to get me exactly where he

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Speaker 1: wanted me. And so now I am a pastor at

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Speaker 1: the church that I came just to serve in. And

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Speaker 1: I've been here now for seven years as the lead pastor,

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Speaker 1: but I've been in ministry since twenty eleven, so twelve years.

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Speaker 3: People that don't know.

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Speaker 4: You from the show is you know you were You

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00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 4: didn't come here to be a pastor, but God, through

1225
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 4: a series events that happened, you were placed there. So

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Speaker 4: it wasn't like you're like, I'm gonna be a pastor. No,

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Speaker 4: you just basically found your identity Christ and you followed

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Speaker 4: him and ever since then you've been following them. God

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Speaker 4: has been opening the doors for you and he's taking

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Speaker 4: you on this journey. Obviously, you're married, you got kids,

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Speaker 4: you're there. You're here at cap Chapel Boise, which is

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Speaker 4: actually it's a mega church of Idaho here right here

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Speaker 4: in the city, and God is continuing to use you

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Speaker 4: to do great things. I personally think, dude, this story

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Speaker 4: is amazing. Man, I mean, I mean just evangelistically, I mean,

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Speaker 4: this story can relate. You're a kid from Idaho, right,

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Speaker 4: I mean you're adult now, but you're you're just you

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00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 4: grew up here in Idaho. But this story can relate

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Speaker 4: to literally, I mean, as we're sitting here, I'm like,

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Speaker 4: this story can relate to so many people from like

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Speaker 4: New York City. Lay, I mean, you're just like I

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00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 4: grew up in Idahoa. This story is seriously global. So

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Speaker 4: do they thank you for being on the show. Check

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Speaker 4: out Calviy Chapel Boise when you're here. It's an idol.

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Speaker 4: It's the main city down here. And don't forget to

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Speaker 4: go to Ryan Reese's official on YouTube, subscribe, share the videos.

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Speaker 3: I actually have a.

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Speaker 4: Really awesome another show with you, just talking about faith

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Speaker 4: stuff that's also on my channel as well. Go to

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Speaker 4: the whosoevers dot com book us if you want to

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Speaker 4: donate to our mission.

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Speaker 3: Our mission is the Great Commission.

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Speaker 4: We invade schools publicly, high schools, colleges, university.

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Speaker 3: We do church events as well.

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Speaker 4: Our whole thing is we want to get in front

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Speaker 4: of people and let them know that God loves them

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Speaker 4: and he has a plan for them so we could

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Speaker 4: hopefully save them from making so many crazy mistakes. Like

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Speaker 4: this guy, and like me, you know my story. I

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Speaker 4: have many stories of running from God and God showing up.

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Speaker 4: I've woke up in jail, ended up in dy a

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Speaker 4: lot of different things, and yet it wasn't until I

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Speaker 4: fully surrendered and said I don't care, I want you, And.

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Speaker 3: That's when my whole life changed.

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