Oct. 14, 2025
Saved from the Edge, Part 2
Send us a text A raw testimony of despair, doubt, and betrayal turns into a story of surrender, healing, and a simpler way to walk with God. We trace Tom’s spiral from cancer and rage to an unexpected breakthrough, unscripted worship, and a grounded vision of daily faith. • audible encounter with God during cancer and grief • brother’s LSD trip ending in instant sobriety • doubt, accusation, and the slow work of sanctification • father’s insurance betrayal and escalating self-destruction • s...
A raw testimony of despair, doubt, and betrayal turns into a story of surrender, healing, and a simpler way to walk with God. We trace Tom’s spiral from cancer and rage to an unexpected breakthrough, unscripted worship, and a grounded vision of daily faith.
• audible encounter with God during cancer and grief
• brother’s LSD trip ending in instant sobriety
• doubt, accusation, and the slow work of sanctification
• father’s insurance betrayal and escalating self-destruction
• suicide plan interrupted by providential “blockades”
• cheap wine conversation leading to sudden clarity and peace
• life in the early charismatic movement and spontaneous worship
• critique of hierarchy and the call to servant leadership
• a reported healing after quiet consent to Scripture’s promise
• practical counsel on yielding, hearing, and speaking wisely
• living without chasing “ministry” and letting love lead
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"The Flowers You Are Picking Today Come From the Seeds You Planted Yesterday. Don't Like Your Boquet Of Flowers? Then Change the Seeds You Are Planting Today." Chaplain Terry
00:03 - Picking Up at the Pinch Point
00:28 - Hearing God Amid Grief and Cancer
02:03 - Bruce’s Trip and a Sudden Sobering
04:24 - Doubt, Accusation, and Spiritual Warfare
06:10 - The Old Nature and Sanctification
08:10 - Spiraling: Drink, Rage, and a Chopper
12:29 - The Insurance Letter and Betrayal
16:41 - Suicide Plan and Divine Interference
21:05 - A Night of Cheap Wine and Breakthrough
23:11 - Transformation and the Charismatic Wave
26:12 - Worship Without Scripts, Gifts in Operation
29:19 - Unity, Leadership, and Broken Models
31:28 - Books, Links, and Resources
33:48 - The Healing: Tumor Gone in 24 Hours
36:29 - Walking With God Over Everything
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Good morning everyone.
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Captain Terry Warner here.
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We're gonna hit some more on our podcast with Tom Snow.
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We left off at a pinch point uh the other day.
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So we'll pick up part two, and without further ado, this is an interesting story, and I'm really impressed.
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So, Tom, it's all yours.
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Well, thank you.
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Glad to have it.
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Thanks for having me back.
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You're welcome.
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So uh last time we were had just talking about I had just heard the audible voice of God uh going through all this pain and trauma of dying of cancer and uh my mother dying, and he told me he loved me.
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He said, Someday I'll provide my perfect mate for me.
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Um the yes, the love was obvious.
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He filled the room with love when he said it.
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It was overwhelming.
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The someday I'll provide a perfect mate for you made no sense since I was doomed to be six feet under.
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I assume he hadn't got the memo.
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But uh, you know, he's only the almighty God that spoke the world into being, but he probably didn't get the memo.
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That was all I could think.
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So um at that point, now I'm crying out with all my being, how do I reach this true and living God?
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He's way out.
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I always thought he was way out there in the universe, but now he came close and was so close.
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Uh the Bible tells us he has every hair on our heads numbered.
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And he does.
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He's that close.
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He's more close than we are.
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When we comb our hair and we throw the the the hairs fall out and we throw them in the trash, he actually knows the number of each hair that fell in.
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We we can't imagine a God that great.
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So, but now my my whole being's crying out, how do I reach this this God, this loving God of the universe?
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And I didn't know how.
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About a month later, uh my brother Bruce, middle brother, was in college, and he came home to tell my father and I that he'd just been on an LSD trip.
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Now, 1970, upper middle class family.
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You don't joke about drugs, you don't talk about drugs.
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My father disciplined with the belt and the fist, and he would have beat my brother within an inch of his life if he thought he was doing drugs.
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Any kind of drug.
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So Bruce comes home to tell us about being on an LSD trip.
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It's not a joking matter, and he said that his friends had talked him into going on a trip.
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He'd been on an LSD trip a year prior, had flashbacks for nine months, said he'd never do it again.
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He was talked into it again.
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And while he's on this trip, he's totally his mind's getting freaked out.
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And while he's on the trip, he had heard the gospel.
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He had gone to some churches with his friends that talked about how to come to the Lord.
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He cried out to the Lord, he asked the Lord to save him.
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The Lord instantly sobered him, instantly took him down off this trip.
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He never had a flashback.
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And he came home to tell us this news.
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My father's jaw hits the ground, my jaw hits the ground.
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You know, if my father wasn't so stunned, he probably would have beat my brother.
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But he didn't.
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Too stunned.
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And um so for the next day and a half, I hound Bruce.
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I you know, I'm I'm connecting dots.
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God loves me, I felt that love.
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You know, the only possible way out of all the guilt and pain I feel for and hate for myself for killing my mother, in my belief, you know.
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And at this point, you know, it's like, how do I meet the Lord?
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So he tells me, leads me through the scriptures, he, you know, shows me how to, you know, repent and ask the Lord to come into my life.
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And I did.
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And I did it over and over and over again for a day and a half.
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Bruce had had the Star-Spangled Banner when the Lord saved him.
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He comes instantly down off a trip, he's sober, the glory of God's around him, he's got star-spangled banner, and I got nothing.
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And I'm like, you know, I don't understand.
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And all of a sudden, the devil's whispering my ear, you know what?
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This God stuff's a bunch of bull.
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You didn't get anything.
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No, I you didn't get anything, and and you know, Bruce got it, so what?
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You know, he's kind of off the wall anyway, crazy.
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And you know, I think it's all a bunch of bull.
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He's the devil's just wind and all the time, whispering my ear.
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And you know what?
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You thought about a month ago you heard the audible voice of God.
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You know what?
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That was all in your head.
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You made that up.
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You were probably just a dream, you were probably asleep.
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Now you think you were awake just sitting in your family room, but you know it was a dream.
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And and and this is all a bunch of lies, and and God's not real or close, and you're going to, you know, you're gonna die here shortly, and your life's hell.
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And and and nobody's gonna save you.
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And I bought into his lies.
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And all of a sudden, now at this point, now I only not just hate myself and full of guilt for thinking I killed my mother doing these experiments at asbestos, but now I now have a hate raging inside of me that the devil's lying, that God's not real.
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So now I'm just like mad at God.
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Okay, so the devil's winning big time, and he's just laughing his tail off, you know, spinning me in in circles.
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And so at this point, I start to go totally haywire.
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And for the next eight months, the devil was gonna win big time, and so I took and get a little sip of coffee.
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We have a tendency to think that God talks to us like he talks to everybody, but he talks to each person individually.
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Oh, he does, you know, and we can all hear the still small, quiet voice, yes, but we have to be careful because there's other voices we hear, and the biggest voice that has trained us is the devil.
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Yes, you know, he's the God of this world, and we were raised under his tutelage.
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So we were raised, you know, this is what's called the old man, the old nature, the flesh.
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We were raised under the tutelage of the God of this world, and he taught us to run the maze.
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He can poke us this way, we'll do something.
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He'll poke us another way, we'll do something else.
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He'll ring a bell, we'll do it again something.
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He'll put a piece of cheese, we'll run after it.
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He's been in control, and he taught us how to think.
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And so he we're actually so well taught, all he has to do is just throw a little word in our in our ears, and we go, oh yeah, yeah, and we just jump right on to that nature.
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Yeah, we have a tendency to not realize that it's the spirit that's saved.
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The soul is renewed with renewing in your mind, you will remove and the carnal is your body, and uh the the carnal and the soul have a tough time grasping righteousness and being born again.
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Sorry.
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No, you're you're right.
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We we weren't raised, we were raised totally opposite, right?
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By the God of this world who has full of pride and ego, thought he was equal to God, got kicked out of heaven.
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He's down here ruling over us.
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He's the sadists of sadists.
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If he had a choice, he would just torture us and destroy us instantly.
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Well, very shortly, he'd a lot of torture.
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But the father doesn't let him read Job.
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You know, he puts a hedge, and this is the earth's a testing ground.
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We all think, oh, you get saved, life's gonna be a bowl of cherries.
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No, it's not, not at all.
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You be around for a while, you know that it's going to hell and back, but guess what?
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We get to walk with the true and living God as we walk through this hell and back.
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The earth's a testing ground.
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We arisen with him, right?
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And as you said, you know, what you're talking about is sanctification, right?
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Which is the process, it's a lifelong process of purifying, of us giving areas of our soul to the Lord and letting him take over.
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That's being renewed in the spirit, that's putting on the new man, the new mind in Christ.
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And so that's where it's a lifelong process.
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Anybody who says I'm saved and sanctified, salvation is we were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit the day we asked him to come in.
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I was sealed that day, I just didn't know it.
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You know, you don't have to feel it.
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You don't feel it all the time.
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If you go on feelings, it's ridiculous.
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Feelings is in our soul, where our heart and our mind is.
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And anybody who says they're saved and sanctified, yeah, we're saved.
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We got sealed with the Holy Spirit, but sanctified not at all.
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That's the process.
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It's a, and if anybody says they are, they're either dead or liars.
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Because the only time you're going to be sanctified is when you die, and then you come before the Lord, and he will evaluate, you know, our souls, how we did we yield to the true and living God.
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Not did we walk a perfect life.
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I I and I'm I'm energy, I'm a tangent guy, so I'll just throw this in.
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But I hate fake religiosity, I hate fake spirituality.
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We are not to act all religious.
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God doesn't respond isn't impressed with we put on a Sunday smile, but on the inside we're going, you know, live in hell.
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He wants to hold our hands like this, and holding our hands like this, and looking holding, yeah, I know.
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Yeah, we we don't impress God because he knows the heart, he knows the truth.
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And if we yield to him, we learn just to yield to him and let his righteousness come through.
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It's his righteousness that's in Christ, not us.
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So back to the story.
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So here I am.
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I'm now buying into well, God's abandoned you, so now you should just be mad at him.
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And I'm like listening to that voice going, yeah, I just should be mad, you know, because now I'm gonna die and I don't know where I'm going, and and and the salvation thing didn't work.
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And I probably was just, I no, I heard the audible voice of God.
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It shook the whole room I was in.
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I was wide awake.
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It was the middle of the afternoon.
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I just got home from school, but you know what?
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I believe the lie of the devil.
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I'll bet you what it was just something I made up.
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So I'm buying into his baloney sandwich.
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By the way, I have a 12-year-old daughter, and so in our house, when we talk about BS, we call it baloney sandwich.
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So you all know what a BS is, but you know in my house with a 12-year-old daughter, it's baloney sandwich.
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So he was feeding me baloney sandwiches, and I'm buying it all day long.
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And so uh at this point, I I had to, I just went crazy.
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I I started drinking, I became the second biggest drinker in my high school.
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Uh, I had talked my father into getting me a little motorcycle uh because I wanted the wind blowing in my face.
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Uh I knew that to get that, I would have to get a job.
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That's a rule in the family, and I believe in that anyway.
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I don't give kids, I don't give my kids anything.
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You know, you earn it, you work it for it.
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And so um I to do that though, I'd have to get a job in 1970.
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The only thing available to me was food handling.
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Uh, and to do that, I'd have to get a food handler's permit.
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That meant go to the county clinic, get an X-ray, and a blood test.
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I knew now that tumor that had started the size of a walnut was now probably the size of a softball, and I knew it's going to show up on the x-ray, and then the blood test, they could probably do a deeper dive into the blood test to find out what's going on.
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Cancer's not a communicable disease, but they would now know.
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Well, they granted me the food handler's permit.
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I got my job, I got my motorcycle.
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I came walking home one day uh from school, and as I come walking home, yeah, this is about a week after I got my permit, my father's car was home in the drive, unusual, middle of the day, April uh day.
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Come and as I came walking at the door, I knew because I knew because I knew, just like God can let us know, the Holy Spirit.
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And I knew my father'd gotten the letter talk telling about the cancer.
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So I knew my secret was going to be out.
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Now I figured my father's a hard rock.
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Uh, you know, he doesn't show love.
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My mother's the only one who showed love.
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But I thought, well, maybe he could figuratively put his arm around me.
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I I know I don't deserve medical attention.
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He could maybe do that.
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It might be a nice gesture.
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I don't deserve it.
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You know, because I have the guilt of the world that I doing these experiments had killed my mother and caused the cancer to me.
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So I don't deserve it.
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But I came walking in and I knew because I knew, and as I came walking in the door, he's got a fire in the fireplace.
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80-some degree April day.
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You don't need a fire, he loves fires, but you know, that's a nighttime thing, and it wasn't cold.
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And he came walking in, and as soon as I walk in the door, he looks like the cat that swallowed the canary.
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And he flips this letter into the fire.
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And I got really sarcastic.
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And I said, What you doing?
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Nothing, nothing.
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Well, no, no, why why why are you doing a fire in the middle of the day?
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I'm just burning trash.
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We have trash pickup, you don't need that.
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Uh, yeah, I'm just burning trash.
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Well, why are you doing that?
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And that looked like a letter you threw in there.
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Was that a letter you threw in the fire?
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Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Also, I'm realizing, okay, I've known about this for about six or seven months.
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He's just found out that his son, youngest of three, is going to die, just like his wife, my mother, six or seven months prior.
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I'm sure it's a little bit of too much information.
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Let me just give him a break, you know, and give him a little time to assimilate what he's just learned.
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Well, I come home about a week later, and I come walking in the door, my father's home again early, and there's another car in the drive, unusual, but I thought maybe it's business.
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Come walking in and he calls me into the living room.
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He says, Tommy, come in.
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And he has these two insurance agents sitting in the living room.
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And I'm what?
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And so, long story short, he takes out a multi-million dollar life insurance policy on me.
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And I'm going, what in the sorry if I cuss, what in the hell?
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What in the hell are you doing?
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You know, it's like no, I know you're a hard rock.
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I didn't think you were that callous.
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You want to cash in on my death?
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He didn't take an insurance policy out on my two older brothers, just me.
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Golly gee, wonder why.
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He hadn't told anybody about you know me dying.
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He hadn't told me.
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And I'm thinking the back of my mind, I've known for six months, and you just found out now you think you know it all, and you're gonna do this to me.
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And now hate and anger and rage and unforgiveness are welling up in me against him, and the devil's having a heyday, and I'm just full of hate and wrath and unforgiveness.
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And so now I'm gonna go.
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You think I'm gonna spire out before?
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Now I'm spiraling out of control.
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And I sold everything I owned and everything he owned that I could get my hands on, and I bought an old chopper in box, in boxes, an old I'm chopper, old Hartley in boxes, old 49 Hartley, and I built it into a chopper.
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And I started writing with the Hell's Angels, and now I'm not only the second biggest drinker in school, but now I'm a scuzzball that nobody would want to meet.
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My people in my high school are like backing off from this long-haired, hippie biker gang, crazy.
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They don't like stay away from this person, and I don't care because my life is hell, and I'm going to hell, and I'm dying, and I know I'm dying.
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And so, why do I care what people think?
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And so I, as I say, I just I'm spiraling.
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I would drink a fifth of whiskey in two hours and then ride home on my motorcycle, and I was proud that I could do that.
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And then I would be riding along on a four-lane highway, and I would be starting in the rightmost lane, all of a sudden wake up.
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I was past the left, the fourth lane to the left and ready to go in the ditch.
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And then all of a sudden, I'd just feel like I was shoved back over to the right lane, and then I'd wake up later and I was cross four lanes, about ready to go in the ditch, and get shoved back.
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There's a lot of badly bruised angels that I appreciate that were looking out for me.
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It's wonderful to have a praying mother and have a praying relative, and it's wonderful to have a God who loves us.
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Yes, and and he was giving me a lot of chances.
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So I'm I'm spiring, I've you know, believed every lie the devil told me.
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He's winning, and I'm just I'm angry.
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And I I formulated a plan, and my plan was this as soon as I got that motorcycle running good enough, where it would leave the city, Columbus, Ohio.
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And by the way, it wouldn't.
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Every time I got near the city's edge, it'd break.
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