1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,919 Speaker 1: So there's a guy who gave fifty sermons in fifty 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,160 states in fifty days, and I think it was even 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,000 more than fifty. I think it ended up to sixty four. 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,080 He has spread the word of God around the globe 5 00:00:12,279 --> 00:00:16,879 twenty two hundred churches in North America more internationally, and 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,480 he's a colleague of mine at American Family Radio. And incidentally, 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:26,440 I learned that he knew Brian Wilson, the late genius 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,120 behind the Beach Boys and the music and the change 9 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,719 in music that he created. And I wanted to talk 10 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:36,560 to him about Brian's faith walk because I don't know 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,560 about Brian's faith walk and I want to hear about that. 12 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,119 So we're going to talk with doctor Alex mcfarlandes with 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,119 the help of Visible that's go bisible dot com and 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,000 of course, to the great graces of God Almighty. 15 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:50,679 Speaker 2: But Todd Harman shows one hundred percent disapproved by big 16 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:58,439 pharma technocrats in Tyron Sevran way from the hind Mountains 17 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:03,039 of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exime. 18 00:01:05,359 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: Todd to her Man, today is the day the Lord 19 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,120 has made, and these are the times to which God 20 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,239 has decided we shall live What a joy and an 21 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,959 honor to be joined by doctor Alex McFarland's. God has 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:21,840 worked through him in mighty ways to spread the word 23 00:01:21,879 --> 00:01:26,560 of God. He's been on every possible media network that exists. Alex, 24 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:27,840 Welcome to the Toddharama Show. 25 00:01:28,599 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, Todd. It's a great honor 26 00:01:30,879 --> 00:01:31,200 to be on. 27 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,439 Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. I appreciate you in these 28 00:01:34,719 --> 00:01:38,400 in your time as an evangelist, preaching fifty states in 29 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:42,239 fifty days, Tell me what you observe now in twenty 30 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,879 twenty five, all this time taking God's word out. I've 31 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,120 heard a lot of people say word a period of revival. 32 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,480 I've heard people suggest that we're nearing one. What's your 33 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,480 estimation of that in terms of the health of faith 34 00:01:56,519 --> 00:01:57,680 in the United States? 35 00:01:58,439 --> 00:02:01,959 Speaker 3: Wow? Well, thanks very much, Todd. I'm listening. You're doing 36 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,480 such great work yourself, and I'm really, I really do 37 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,639 care about the spiritual condition of our country as as 38 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,000 you know. I mean, we have a rich heritage of 39 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,680 Christianity and morality that was the foundation for our constitution. 40 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:21,800 Some stats current as of about a week ago, there 41 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:26,039 are one one hundred and twenty million adults that profess 42 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,719 to be followers of Jesus Christ. There are five hundred 43 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:33,879 thousand ordained clergy and three hundred and seventy thousand churches 44 00:02:33,879 --> 00:02:39,319 in America right now. Right now, people the media would say, 45 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,960 people of faith, you and I would know them as Christians, 46 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:50,080 regardless of what denomination or what strata. But America's Christians. 47 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:54,800 Of the one point three to one point five trillion 48 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,719 dollars of benevolent giving that will take place this year, 49 00:02:59,319 --> 00:03:02,120 eighty two two plus percent of that will come from 50 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:07,960 the pockets of professed evangelicals. Isn't that something? So? By 51 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,840 the way, in December of twenty twenty three, when James 52 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,080 Carvill was on the Bill Marshow, and I quote James 53 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,360 Carvill said that Christians are a bigger threat to America 54 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,599 than al Qaeda. I remember this, I mean, which is 55 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:25,319 not even a rational statement. But you know, one third 56 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,120 of the adults in America, one third plus claim to 57 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,919 be followers of Christ. And almost eighty five percent of 58 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:39,560 every benevolent dollar given comes from the pocket of this 59 00:03:39,879 --> 00:03:46,199 demographic that the left villifies. So it was Christianity that 60 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,319 built and birthed America. It's Christianity today that I think 61 00:03:50,479 --> 00:03:53,680 is the spiritual and social and moral fiber that holds 62 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,800 this nation together. Now to your question about is there 63 00:03:56,919 --> 00:04:02,120 a revival coming, Lord knows we need. I'm encouraged. I 64 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,039 will say I'm encouraged. Todd again some stats. I was 65 00:04:06,039 --> 00:04:08,120 in like three different conferences last week, so I was 66 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:12,159 doing a bunch of work, and of gen z and younger, 67 00:04:12,759 --> 00:04:17,920 they are much more inclined to believe in God and 68 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:24,120 at least God and maybe specifically Christianity than any demographic 69 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:29,160 over the last twenty five years. Back about February of 70 00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:32,480 this year, I was on Fox News with a representative 71 00:04:32,519 --> 00:04:37,040 from Barnes and Noble bookstore, and this individual was showing 72 00:04:37,079 --> 00:04:40,319 how bibles are selling like as fast as they can 73 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,680 get bibles in, and the most likely customer going to 74 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,519 buy a hard copy of God's Word is a young 75 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:54,800 adult male. That's very encouraging. So sure, you know, the 76 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,839 Church in every generation has called to live and proclaim 77 00:04:57,879 --> 00:05:00,959 the Gospel, make disciples of every nation, but in the 78 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,240 Western hemisphere and specifically America. I'm very encouraged, and I 79 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,480 think the spirit of God is moving in many many lives. 80 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: Praise God. We talk about on the program a lot. 81 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:13,480 I look at a lot of heretical preachers, and we 82 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,720 use woke preacher clips and protesting and some other sources 83 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,279 for this. So I would later in the program like 84 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,360 to talk about some of these false churches that I 85 00:05:22,399 --> 00:05:25,160 think the enemy's setting up, and in fact we've been 86 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,439 forced you know this or USAID to pay for sometimes 87 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,800 one hundred percent of these church's income. So I laugh 88 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,319 at people who call Port of Art to Mexico unsafe. 89 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,040 I have never felt unsafe from part of Arta. Now 90 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,160 when we went to uh Poota and it's not that 91 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,399 nasty word, I just don't say it the right Puzza Demeta. Yeah, 92 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,319 I said on the show, I didn't feel safe there. 93 00:05:48,959 --> 00:05:50,759 And when I went back and talked to people at 94 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,279 the resort, they're like, yeah, don't go there. Yeah, the 95 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,839 resort Poosa Meta, that's cool, but don't go to Poota 96 00:05:55,879 --> 00:05:58,959 de Meta. What do you do it. Port of Arta, 97 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,360 on the other hand, has seven police forces guarding it, 98 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:03,879 two of them two of them attached to tourists. 99 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 3: Let's go. 100 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: Cartel has said you target tourists, You're done. And I 101 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,279 go there for stem cell treatment and I did a 102 00:06:12,399 --> 00:06:16,480 follow up with someone. Now this is new information. I'm 103 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:17,879 i gonna share names. I'll tell you one of my 104 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,199 closest friends hadn't been able to stay on her feet 105 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:27,160 without incredible back pain and just insane feelings of unwellness. 106 00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:29,959 She joined us in port of Arta at Renewed dot Healthcare. 107 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,120 She the other day spent about eleven hours on her feet. 108 00:06:37,079 --> 00:06:39,720 She didn't feel the least bit of a problem in 109 00:06:39,759 --> 00:06:45,879 her back. She didn't feel unwell. And this is maybe 110 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,160 a month and a half after renew the things I'm 111 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,879 doing now with my back and I'm posting a video little, 112 00:06:52,959 --> 00:06:55,360 just a quick little video of me chatting with the 113 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,759 CrossFit Games champ fitih Man on Earth from last year. 114 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,839 James Sprague did a personal training session with me yesterday. 115 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,079 I've been doing online training with him. He is a 116 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,920 great young Christian man, so filled with the Holy Spirit. 117 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,800 I'm doing things to my back that prior to my 118 00:07:08,879 --> 00:07:12,600 last treatment, I couldn't have done with my back. If 119 00:07:12,639 --> 00:07:15,879 it's a neurological issue, if it's things like arthritis you've 120 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,319 been told will never go away without pills or surgery, 121 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:20,959 that doesn't need to be the case. Please go contact 122 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:23,839 them that renew R E n U E dot Healthcare 123 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,680 please tell me a part of the Todd Hermannshaw family. 124 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,839 It's R E n U E dot healthcare. But let's 125 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:33,720 stick with good news for a second while we're talking 126 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,519 to this. I've learned from a listener. I did a 127 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,439 segment on American Family Radio and then on my podcast 128 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,519 about Brian Wilson and about this genius of music and 129 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:48,800 people really if people haven't studied the music, when you 130 00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:52,759 have music theorists arguing about what key a song is 131 00:07:52,759 --> 00:07:58,000 in that's a commercial hit, that is top I think 132 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,399 top three, and he had songs like this or to 133 00:08:00,399 --> 00:08:02,720 this day theorists don't know what key it was in 134 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:09,879 that it contains seven major movements, write songs within songs. 135 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,360 That's what Brian Wilson wrote. But he descended into just 136 00:08:16,399 --> 00:08:20,720 this madness. And I've told the story about him bumming 137 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,160 cigarettes outside the gates to Belle Air as a multi 138 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,079 multimillionaire in his bathrobe, then the strive doctor de gene 139 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,839 Landy taking his life over. But you met and got 140 00:08:29,839 --> 00:08:31,000 to know Wilson. 141 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 3: I really did, and Todd Man, we could do a 142 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,679 whole show on the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. I 143 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,879 would love to do that and if we let me 144 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,399 adequately set a little bit of context on this that 145 00:08:46,519 --> 00:08:48,440 I discovered the music of the Beach Boys when I 146 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,919 was probably about eight years old. I'm very blessed. I 147 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,360 have an older sister. She's a great Christian. I love 148 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,440 my sister. And so I was seven or eight years old. 149 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,679 My sister was probably like about thirteen or fourteen, and 150 00:09:00,759 --> 00:09:04,320 she was buying records, right, And so one day she 151 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:07,159 comes home with the Beach Boys' Greatest tips and I 152 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,480 hear the first Beach Boy song ever heard was Surfing 153 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,399 Safari and I'd never heard music like that. And I'm 154 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,519 like eight years old. I'm trying to learn to play 155 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,639 the guitar, and I had figured out a few Beatles songs, 156 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,399 GC and D some of you guitar people, that's one, 157 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:27,399 four and five chords. But when I heard don't Worry Baby, 158 00:09:27,639 --> 00:09:31,639 God only Knows. Here's the weird thing. I'm just a 159 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,440 farm boy in North Carolina. And I would play God 160 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:40,200 only Knows, like over and over and over, and it 161 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,159 would almost make me cry. And there was something. And 162 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,360 I was not a believer yet, Todd. I didn't really 163 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,279 get to save the last twenty one years old, but there 164 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:55,679 was something in my soul that was stirred by these harmonies. 165 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,080 And I remember I would get up my mother's record 166 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,960 player and put the needle down, and I have my 167 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,039 little Sear's acoustic guitar, and let me tell you, and 168 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,600 I love the Beatles, but figuring out the Beatles was 169 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:14,039 easy peasy. Transcripting and figuring out the Beach Boys stuff 170 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,080 that became my music education, all right. Now, the Beach 171 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,519 Boys in the seventies eighties, they would come to my 172 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,759 little hometown of Greensbury, North Carolina, and I would go 173 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:27,000 around to the loading dock and I would lie to 174 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,720 the security guard and I would say, Hey, I'm a relative. 175 00:10:31,759 --> 00:10:35,519 They're expecting me. Please let me in. And they would 176 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:38,960 always say, you know, beat it kid. All right. Twenty 177 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,200 one years old, I got saved through a Bible study. 178 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,759 I was in college, and I began to pray because 179 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:48,960 I came across some thirty seven to four that said, 180 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,960 commit your way to the Lord and He'll give you 181 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,519 the desires of your heart. And I said, Dear Jesus, 182 00:10:56,039 --> 00:10:58,960 if you would let me meet Brian Wilson, I will 183 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,879 share the gospel. Forgive me. This is just like so 184 00:11:03,039 --> 00:11:08,639 special and so miraculous really, because and Todd, I know 185 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,480 God is not a respector of persons. Brian Wilson is 186 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:14,320 no better than anybody else. We're all sinners that need salvation. 187 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,480 But I begin to pray. And this was nineteen eighty five. 188 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:21,679 The Beach Boys came to Charlotte, North Carolina. 189 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:22,639 Speaker 1: I drove. 190 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 3: I was in college. I got my car and I 191 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:29,399 drive to this football stadium. Well, I had watched enough 192 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:33,519 TV that you know it takes about fifteen or sixteen 193 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,799 guys on stage to replicate their sound. Well, I noticed 194 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:41,799 there was a guy who played a rickenbacker twelve string 195 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:43,600 and I had I was in a band, I had 196 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,759 a Rickenbacker. Well, I later learned this guy's name was 197 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,240 Jeffrey Foskett. Now, some of you Beach Boys people will 198 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,320 know the name Jeffrey Foskett. So I'm in this crowd 199 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:59,679 on the football field at Charlotte's Memorial Stadium, shoulder to shoulder. Well, 200 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:03,279 pushing his way through the crowd is a guy with 201 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,919 two armloads of Kentucky Fried chicken boxes. And it was 202 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Jeffrey Foskin. And I said, hey, well, wait, wait, wait, 203 00:12:10,039 --> 00:12:14,720 wait hey, I said, aren't you Jeffrey, I have a 204 00:12:14,799 --> 00:12:17,759 Rickenbocker twelve string, just like yours. And he stopped and 205 00:12:17,759 --> 00:12:21,080 he turned super nice. He smiled, and he said, what's 206 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,559 your name? I said, Alex McFarlane. I said, I know 207 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,799 you play up there and you sing Carl Wilson's parts. 208 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,559 I've got a guitar just like yours. And everybody's suddenly 209 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,080 looking at us, and he leans and he whispers. He said, 210 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:38,960 you want to meet the guys, and I said yeah. 211 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:46,279 So five minutes later we're backstage and there's Al Jardine, 212 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,120 Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnson, Jeffrey Foskett, some of 213 00:12:50,159 --> 00:12:55,440 their touring guys, Mike mirros Ed, Carter, Billy Henchey, Bobby Figueroa, 214 00:12:56,159 --> 00:13:00,360 and now Brian was not at that first concert because he, 215 00:13:00,639 --> 00:13:03,440 you know, his touring was off and on. Long story short, 216 00:13:03,879 --> 00:13:08,240 and I'll be very brief from nineteen eighty five till 217 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:12,799 Jeffrey passed in December eleven, twenty twenty three. He had 218 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:17,399 antiplastic thyroid cancer. Jeff and I became like best friends. 219 00:13:18,039 --> 00:13:21,240 And you got to understand, if anybody doubts the existence 220 00:13:21,279 --> 00:13:25,320 of God. I had spent a decade of my life 221 00:13:25,399 --> 00:13:28,720 trying to get backstage at a Beach Boys concert as 222 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,879 a born again believer. I prayed about it, and within 223 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,960 the first month of my conversion, I'm face to face 224 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:42,120 with my musical heroes. Now. A couple of weeks after 225 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:46,919 the Charlotte concert, Jeffrey called me. There's no internet in 226 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,480 nineteen eighty five, there's no cell phones, and I live 227 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,279 with my mom and dad, and I'll never forget check 228 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,759 this out. You got to understand how big this is. 229 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,919 One day I get high. I'm just twenty one. I'm 230 00:14:01,919 --> 00:14:05,559 still living with my parents. And my mother she called 231 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:10,519 me and she said, Alex, Alex, there's somebody from Huntington Beach, 232 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,440 California on the phone. He says he's with the Beach Boys. 233 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,720 And I like, ran downstairs. I'm like, and it's Jeffrey 234 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:22,080 Foskett and we're talking. He said, Hey, I met you 235 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,039 at the Charlotte concert. In about a month, We're going 236 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,279 to be in Winston Salem at the Polo Grounds at Tanglewood. 237 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,360 Do you want to go? And I was like yeah, 238 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,440 And I said, hey, ma, I ask you a question. 239 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,120 He said, yeah. Now, I've only known this guy for 240 00:14:38,159 --> 00:14:40,720 a little bit. But we talked about Shelby Cobra's, talked 241 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:46,320 about Rickenbocker's, talked about Brian Wilson. I said, Jeffrey, you're 242 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,600 a Christian, aren't you? And he said, yes, I am 243 00:14:49,799 --> 00:14:54,000 first God. And I said at that football field at Charlotte, 244 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:57,240 I said, you kind of looked right through me. Why 245 00:14:57,279 --> 00:14:59,600 did you stop? And you were so nice to me? 246 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,120 And Jeffrey Foskett he's in heaven now. He said, the 247 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:08,399 Holy Spirit told me to befriend you. And he said 248 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,240 to me, he said, Alex, I met Brian in nineteen 249 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,480 seventy four. God put me in this band to be 250 00:15:14,559 --> 00:15:18,879 a witness. Now, Todd, there's a lot I'm going faster 251 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:24,720 and a long story short. From I first met Brian 252 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:29,840 in nineteen eighty seven, I had known Jeffrey we for 253 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,759 at least once a month from nineteen eighty five till 254 00:15:34,799 --> 00:15:37,480 he died in December of twenty three. In fact, was 255 00:15:38,159 --> 00:15:40,519 I had plane tickets. I was headed to M. D 256 00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:44,440 Anderson in Texas to visit with him when his wife 257 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,120 called me and said, Jeffrey has passed. Here's the thing. 258 00:15:47,919 --> 00:15:52,320 At least once a month from our meeting till the 259 00:15:52,399 --> 00:15:55,840 day he died, we prayed for Brian and the Beach Boys. 260 00:15:56,039 --> 00:15:59,480 It was two thousand and one in Florida, Ruth Eckert 261 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:04,039 Hall Sounds Tour that Brian and I prayed together. I 262 00:16:04,159 --> 00:16:08,360 shared the Gospel many times. What started out as fanboy 263 00:16:08,559 --> 00:16:12,919 visits became on his pastoral visits. In two thousand and five, 264 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,720 Brian had finished. In two thousand and four he finished Smile, 265 00:16:18,039 --> 00:16:23,440 which lay unfinished for thirty seven years. It's an amazing accomplishment. 266 00:16:24,679 --> 00:16:29,240 I was in Santa Ana, California in two thousand and five. 267 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:32,879 He had won a Grammy and we were there. Had 268 00:16:32,919 --> 00:16:35,639 been a lot of trust building and taught. Brian Wilson 269 00:16:35,639 --> 00:16:38,120 looked at me in a private meeting. I've never told 270 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,799 this till after he passed, but he said, I'd give 271 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,240 everything I ever did to know that my dad loved me. 272 00:16:45,399 --> 00:16:49,879 And you got to understand you're gonna laugh at this. 273 00:16:50,639 --> 00:16:53,639 Once we were at a show in Florida, and I 274 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:57,399 guess I was backstage and I actually went to Brian's 275 00:16:57,399 --> 00:17:01,279 house one time. He wasn't there. Jeffrey and I drove 276 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,200 to Brian and Melinda's house in Palm Desert and we 277 00:17:04,279 --> 00:17:08,640 ended up going to eat dinner at a Marie Callender's. 278 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,079 But anyway, one time we were at a show backstage 279 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,279 and Jeffrey, who was kind of Brian's helper and overseer, 280 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,359 the phone rang and we're standing there and Brian Wilson goes, 281 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,559 who is it. Jeffrey said, it's the Beg's. They really 282 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:23,680 want to meet you. And Brian Wilson said, I'm sorry, 283 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:30,039 I'm tired. Maybe another time, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Barry Gibb. He goes, 284 00:17:30,079 --> 00:17:33,079 I'm sorry, Brian's tired, and I was like, you know, 285 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,359 when you can blow off the Beg's, you're somebody. One 286 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,799 time at the Hollywood Bowl, there was like a receiving 287 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,920 line of people backstage and all these people just seriously 288 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,240 they're like, God, God, I mean, this is like Brian Wilson. 289 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Bob Dylan was there, and I love Boby, but stammering like, 290 00:17:54,279 --> 00:17:56,759 I really respect you as such an honor to meet you. 291 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,160 That's the level and the thing about it that Brian 292 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:03,839 was not arrogant, He was not an egotist. I mean, 293 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:09,720 he really was kind of flat in his affect, and 294 00:18:10,319 --> 00:18:14,119 people could be, you know, just stumbling over themselves in 295 00:18:14,279 --> 00:18:20,359 awe and humanly rightly so. But he was not full 296 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,000 of himself. He really wasn't. But here's the thing. When 297 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,039 he told me, he said, I'd give everything I've ever 298 00:18:25,079 --> 00:18:28,759 done to know that my father loved me. I talked 299 00:18:28,759 --> 00:18:31,400 about the love of the heavenly Father. We prayed together, 300 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:37,319 the bottom line, And there's there's at least two interviews 301 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:40,920 on YouTube where Brian talks about putting his faith in 302 00:18:41,039 --> 00:18:41,839 Jesus Christ. 303 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: Praise God. 304 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:48,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, we prayed together. Brian was a very complex person 305 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:54,039 with mental and emotional issues, and a season of drugs 306 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:57,559 and alcohol in the sixties didn't help. A lot of 307 00:18:57,559 --> 00:19:01,359 people think he fried his brain on LSD, and I 308 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,240 do not minimize the damage of drugs, not at all. 309 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:09,799 But really, the common psychological analysis was something called schizo 310 00:19:09,839 --> 00:19:14,680 effective disorder. I personally think that he had a touch 311 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:18,200 of adult on set as Burger's and I say that 312 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:23,440 having done a master's and developmental psych at Liberty University, 313 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,279 although I'm certainly no clinician that could DIAGNOSEE. But here's 314 00:19:28,319 --> 00:19:34,200 my point. We prayed together on at least a dozen occasions. 315 00:19:35,319 --> 00:19:38,599 I'm not saying he was ready to pastor a church Todd, 316 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:44,440 but he believed in Jesus, his wife Melinda. The first 317 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,559 time I ever had dinner with Brian and Melinda, she 318 00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:52,440 had a Bethmore Bible study under her arm. And again, 319 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,960 God is not a respector of persons. Just because this 320 00:19:56,039 --> 00:19:59,599 guy was super talented musically doesn't mean he was deserving 321 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,359 of heaving. None of us deserve heaven. But he understood 322 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:08,039 the Gospel. He put his faith in Jesus Christ accepts 323 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,960 the Lord and Savior. Absolutely, Yes, pray Scott, and I'm 324 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,440 one thousand percent based on things he personally said to me, 325 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,240 based on he and I prayed together, I completely believe 326 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:21,319 he is with Christ in heaven today. 327 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: Praise God. Praise God. 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Let's know your 356 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:59,319 riskpodcast dot com easy Enough Investment advisored services off through 357 00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:01,920 truck financially see an sec O Richard Investment Advisor and 358 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,400 Vincent was involved risk and not guaranteed past performances and 359 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,359 guarantee future results TRUK twenty five that'sh two five two 360 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,160 was And I have a dear friend. He's more of 361 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,880 a brother than a friend. He actually brought me to christ. 362 00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:16,920 I wouldn't be a believer without him and his family. 363 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,279 His family's mom and dad have honored me by calling 364 00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:24,559 me an adopted son. And he is a not a 365 00:22:26,519 --> 00:22:29,599 a academically trained music theorist, but he can sing anything 366 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,799 on key. Open his mouth and sing anything. He can 367 00:22:31,799 --> 00:22:35,279 play anything. He pitched perfect pitch. He never recording music. 368 00:22:35,319 --> 00:22:38,519 Wants some songs we wrote at a lake cabin and 369 00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:40,559 he decided that he needed to have french horn on 370 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:43,039 this song, but his synthesizer wouldn't do the trick, so 371 00:22:43,079 --> 00:22:45,119 we went in and rendered french horn. He taught himself 372 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,640 to play that. It's the first brass instrment he's ever played, 373 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,599 including the obiture. And he played a french horn solo 374 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,160 that he learned in a couple of hours. 375 00:22:52,799 --> 00:22:53,279 Speaker 3: Oh wow. 376 00:22:53,319 --> 00:22:55,799 Speaker 1: And he now his name is Matthew Bruno. In fact, 377 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,400 on my radio program on AFR, his music Open and 378 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,519 Close and closes my program. I'll get you a CD. 379 00:23:02,559 --> 00:23:07,240 You'd actually love it very He loved Brian and the Beatles, 380 00:23:07,279 --> 00:23:11,200 and I'll send you one of his CDs. But he 381 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,599 said he'd never heard the story of Brian being saved. 382 00:23:13,599 --> 00:23:15,480 And he and I actually got to go see Brian 383 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,920 on one of the last tours he did after Eugene 384 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,839 Landy kind of worked with him, and like you, Alex, 385 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,559 we were in Seattle. There were members of Soundgarden, former 386 00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:27,400 members of Nirvana there. Rim was there and Nancy Wilson 387 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,839 from Heart were there, and everybody acted as if this 388 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:33,359 was musical royalty on stage, and you could watch the 389 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:39,079 faces and people understood this. Did Brian understand the complexity 390 00:23:39,079 --> 00:23:43,400 of his music? And here's what I mean. Clearly he 391 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,759 knew what he was doing production wise, writing wise. But 392 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,519 to him, I'd heard him say that that he heard 393 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:51,400 these things that come out, that his struggle was just 394 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,079 to get them down and to teach him to the people. 395 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,200 Did it seem complex to him or had God give 396 00:23:56,319 --> 00:23:58,119 them in a way that this stuff was not complex 397 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,720 to him? 398 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 3: I think God gifted him in such a way that 399 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:07,119 it was not complex to him. Now, you know, he 400 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,839 definitely did his part in that he practiced and practiced. 401 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,440 And Carl Wilson his brother, and I bring up Carl 402 00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:18,640 because Carl had the greatest voice. Carl died of a 403 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,119 brain tumor in nineteen ninety eight and I prayed with 404 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,519 Carl in November of ninety seven before he passed away. 405 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,599 Did he accept Jesus? Yes, he did, He absolutely did. 406 00:24:31,079 --> 00:24:36,519 And you know the funny thing, Carl told stories, and 407 00:24:36,759 --> 00:24:39,480 he's told me this personally, how that when they were 408 00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:42,480 little and they wanted to go out and play, you know, 409 00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:46,559 Brian would come home from school and when Dennis and 410 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,880 Carl didn't want to practice harmonizing, Brian would go to Audrey, 411 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,440 their mom, and make them. And Carl said that he 412 00:24:55,559 --> 00:24:58,960 learned to see all these harmonies. Brian was thirteen fourteen 413 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:05,160 at the piano making like ten finger chords, and they 414 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,680 said if Brian had two or three more fingers, he 415 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,359 would have made thirteen note chords. But here's the thing. 416 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,640 There was a documentary about ninety two or ninety three 417 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,559 call I just wasn't made for these times. It's in 418 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:23,640 black and white, and Melinda and Brian was really getting 419 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,160 back into the public sphere about the early to mid 420 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,079 nineties he toured. I think it was March of ninety 421 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,079 nine that Jeffrey. It's funny, I was at my house. 422 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:39,000 Jeffrey Foskett called me, probably about Christmas of ninety eight, 423 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,640 and he said, hey, please pray Brian might go back 424 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,319 on tour and I would be the musical director. Now, 425 00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:48,920 Brian had been in the Beach Boys family, you know, 426 00:25:49,079 --> 00:25:54,039 since the seventies. Jeffrey was a great musician and a 427 00:25:54,319 --> 00:25:58,640 great Christian. Like I say, once a month for nearly 428 00:25:59,039 --> 00:26:02,000 thirty years, we would get on the phone and pray together. 429 00:26:02,319 --> 00:26:04,000 And I have a couple of funny stories. I've got 430 00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:05,720 to tell you a couple of funny stories. But anyway, 431 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,200 so Jeffrey called me and he said, Brian is going 432 00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:11,160 to go back on the road. He wants me to 433 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,519 be as MD as musical director. And we prayed about that. 434 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:20,680 But here's the wild thing. It had taken several years 435 00:26:20,759 --> 00:26:25,039 because Melinda helped get a court order and get Eugene 436 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,480 Landy out of the way and all this kind of stuff. 437 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,400 But there was this documentary made call I just Wasn't 438 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,640 made for these times. I remember it and Carl and 439 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,880 Brian are talking about how intimidated they were by the Beatles, 440 00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:42,640 and listen to the so that there's the Beach Boys 441 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,400 sixty three sixty four. They are on top of the 442 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:50,440 world surfing USA. I get around in my room surfer girl, 443 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,279 and Brian says, one day Dennis bursts in the room 444 00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:58,680 and says, oh no, and they're like, what's wrong, and 445 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,680 he goes turn on the TV and landing at JFK 446 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,119 are the Beatles in New York City, and they said. 447 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,319 Dennis Wilson is walking around going oh no, oh no, 448 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,240 and Brian is listening to I Want to Hold Your Hand, 449 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:18,119 which Brian instantly said, that's the same chord progression as 450 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:23,440 canon in d By, but it's in G and so listen. 451 00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:26,599 They're in the Wilson's living room, the Beatles are breaking 452 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,960 out on the world, and Brian says to Dennis, calm down, 453 00:27:31,799 --> 00:27:36,759 this isn't that complicated. We can beat this. Don't worry now. 454 00:27:36,799 --> 00:27:40,759 What's funny is Carl and Brian begin to pray, and 455 00:27:40,839 --> 00:27:45,079 in the documentary, I just Wasn't made for These times 456 00:27:45,319 --> 00:27:48,960 Brian Wilson said, Carl and I begin to pray. And 457 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,880 Carl Wilson said, we sought God's will about our music. 458 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,839 Speaker 1: No kidding, I don't remember. 459 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:03,039 Speaker 3: And so the interviewers said you to pray. Brian Wilson goes, yeah, 460 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,799 and they said to who. Brian said to Jesus. And 461 00:28:08,079 --> 00:28:11,680 the interviewer goes, and what did Jesus give you? And 462 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:17,240 Brian said, pet sounds and smile. Now to my super 463 00:28:17,279 --> 00:28:22,720 spiritual Christian friends listening, this might sound crazy, and I look, 464 00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:27,720 our heart belongs to Jesus. God's word is our roadmap 465 00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:34,039 for life and eternity. But God, I believe good art 466 00:28:34,799 --> 00:28:35,759 glorifies God. 467 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: I do too. 468 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,759 Speaker 3: And look and again, I ain't saying the Beach Boys 469 00:28:41,799 --> 00:28:46,640 were exemplary in a lot of ways, but Brian over 470 00:28:46,839 --> 00:28:52,559 and over would say that God gave him these these 471 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,559 chord changes that are unlike anything else. As much as 472 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:01,160 I respect the Beatles and folks, trust me here. The 473 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:07,400 Beatles are great, but there's nothing McCartney did the Long 474 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,519 a Winding Road yesterday. Even John. The only decent song 475 00:29:11,599 --> 00:29:14,200 John Lennon did in my life is an okay song. 476 00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:16,359 Speaker 1: Oh we're gonna have to do argue hare, I'm on London. 477 00:29:16,359 --> 00:29:20,720 I'm sorry I didn't like his views, but yeah. 478 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:25,359 Speaker 3: But Brian did all this stuff that is just It 479 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,799 is a master class in music theory to this day. 480 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: Indeed, it really is those movies that do horribly, but 481 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,519 Hollywood continues to make them. There's a formula that Hollywood 482 00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:42,279 knows does not work, and they continue to produce them. 483 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,359 Hollywood understands that when stars in Hollywood get up and 484 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,640 give politically leftist speeches at award shows, it does not work. 485 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,440 It does not in dear audiences, it does not grow 486 00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:57,000 the footprint of a movie. It does not help with distribution, 487 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,799 it does not help with uptaker views. They know this 488 00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:04,440 this there are fact that they continue to do it. 489 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,559 They know and have felt for years that they have 490 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,559 a lock on which movies get made. Now, sure there's 491 00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:14,240 some independent the independent production companies, and eventually they get 492 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,519 bought up. Mirr Max was once independent, Sun Dances once independent. 493 00:30:18,559 --> 00:30:20,880 These things get all bought up and gobbled up. I 494 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,920 don't think that's where Angel Studios is headed. In fact, 495 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,440 they don't need to get gobbled up. They become so 496 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,200 successful with movies like Sound of Freedom, their connection with 497 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,279 the chosen the King of King's movie that destroyed snow 498 00:30:35,279 --> 00:30:37,839 White at the box office because it's about the life 499 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,839 of the Lord Jesus Christ in an animated feature. So 500 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:46,240 they're doing something that's a different incentive. Angel Studios is 501 00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:49,799 bringing us on the inside. The incentive changes. We now 502 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,799 vote on which movies they accept for production, they make, 503 00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:56,720 they release, and they promote. We are a deciding factor 504 00:30:56,759 --> 00:30:59,799 in this. That's a massive change. So if you pay 505 00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:02,839 for any media subscriptions at all, you should pay for 506 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,400 becoming an Angel Studio Premium Guild member much more than 507 00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:10,400 Stake and Netflix. Are you kidding me? So go join up. 508 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,640 It's angel dot com slash todd. You will get to 509 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,359 vote on the movies that they release and promote and distribute. 510 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,920 You will get two free tickets to every Angel Studios 511 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,279 theatrical release. You will be able to stream all their 512 00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:24,240 fan curative programs immediately, including King of Kings. It's Angel 513 00:31:24,279 --> 00:31:27,480 dot com slash todd. They've created this incentive for us, 514 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,240 So let's go do it. Angel dot Com slash todd. 515 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,680 So you mentioned Dennis Wilson Carl. It sounds like Carl 516 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,839 Wilson was saved. Praise God. Brian was saved. You praise God. Dennis. 517 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,640 Of course you know this, and a few people unless 518 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,039 you're a huge Beach Boice fan, know this. He fell 519 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:48,920 in with Charles Manson, Yes, Dennis Wilson, and actually helped 520 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:55,359 him get a song published. The song Manson had named it. 521 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 3: Ceased to Was it ceased to exist? Okay? 522 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: I thought it was ceased to resist because he was 523 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:02,839 changed that lyric. Okay. And he was wanting. 524 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 3: He was on the twenty album. 525 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,279 Speaker 1: He was wanting. It's a song about him wanting a 526 00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:09,440 girl to allow him to unalive her. We have to 527 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,720 say that because off YouTube to stay un alive. It's 528 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,599 so silly. Did Dennis come back from that? Because I 529 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,799 don't know that. It gets closer to pure satanic evil 530 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:26,519 than Manson and Helter Skelter. Did Dennis get saved? 531 00:32:26,599 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I never met Dennis. He died 532 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,799 in nineteen eighty three. Hey, I got how much time 533 00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:33,359 do we have, Todd? Do we have plenty of time? 534 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got another fifteen minutes. 535 00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:37,519 Speaker 3: Okay, you got to hear this, folks, listen to this. 536 00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:44,079 I don't know anything. Dennis Wilson lived a pretty rough life. 537 00:32:44,599 --> 00:32:49,000 I never met him, you know, And sadly he was 538 00:32:49,039 --> 00:32:51,880 scuba diving drunk and he drowned. That's not a good 539 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,119 way to leave this world. But here's the thing, Dennis 540 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,759 Matt Charles Manson. Although the Tate LaBianca murders had not 541 00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:02,799 taken can place, this is the late sixties around La 542 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:10,400 and yeah, yeah, so the bottom line, the word is 543 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,680 that Dennis saddled up alongside the Manson family because here's 544 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:23,240 all these young girls and Charles Manson was an aspiring musician. Now, 545 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,200 the Beach Boys had started Brother Records. This is even 546 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,319 before the Beatles had Apple Records, and so they were 547 00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:34,720 looking for new talent. So Doris Day's son, Terry Melcher, 548 00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:37,839 was a record producer and a friend of the Beach Boys. Yes, 549 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:43,359 so check it out, Terry Melcher. They bring in Charles 550 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:48,160 Manson and they said Brian was so afraid of him 551 00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:54,000 that he left the building. And everybody, one person said, 552 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,319 sparks flew off of this guy. That's how revolted everybody was. 553 00:33:58,359 --> 00:34:01,240 And again, nobody yet knew who Charles Mance would be. 554 00:34:01,759 --> 00:34:06,079 But the song was called Ceased to Exist. Now on 555 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,800 the album twenty twenty, it's called never learned not to love, 556 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,920 and it opens with the lyric ceased to Resist. But 557 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,079 here's the thing. Terry Melcher comes out of the control 558 00:34:18,119 --> 00:34:22,400 booth and says, to Manson's face, you're a no talent bomb. 559 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,920 You're wasting our time. Get out of here. And Dennis 560 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,440 basically had brought Charles into the studio to placate him 561 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,480 because Dennis was getting to go and have relations with 562 00:34:37,559 --> 00:34:40,480 all of these little girls, right Lord God. So anyway, 563 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:47,599 Dennis eventually check this out. The Mansons would not leave 564 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:52,679 his house. So Dennis vacated his house, got a realtor 565 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:59,360 to sell it, and Charles Manson sent word to Dennis, Hey, 566 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,440 I don't like what you did. You vacated your house 567 00:35:02,599 --> 00:35:04,920 just and never have to see me again. So Terry 568 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:10,519 Melcher's house, the furniture began to get rearranged, and so 569 00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:15,360 Terry Melcher got very paranoid, sold his house to a 570 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,840 young Roman Polanski and his wife, Sharon Tate. Here's the thing. 571 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:28,760 Sharon Tate was brutally murdered. She was pregnant. It is 572 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:35,000 believed that the Sharon Tate murder and I forget it 573 00:35:35,039 --> 00:35:38,280 wasn't Belagia way, I forget whatever street that was on. 574 00:35:38,599 --> 00:35:43,880 But Manson thought his people were going to execute Terry 575 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:49,159 Melcher because Terry Melcher had so brutally insulted him in 576 00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:52,440 front of people, and Terry Melcher had spread the word around, 577 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,639 Hey there's this hack Charles Manson. He's got zero talent. 578 00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:00,599 Dennis brought him into the studio very possibly and take 579 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,960 massacre was really meant for Terry Melcher and his wife. 580 00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:06,320 Good God, do you see what I'm saying? 581 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 1: I do? But now I don't know that my friend 582 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,079 Tim Krukshank knows what it is to be unwilfare. I've 583 00:36:10,079 --> 00:36:13,039 never asked him that. I know he did not grow 584 00:36:13,119 --> 00:36:15,920 up with the silver foon, spoon, fork and a knife 585 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,519 in his mouth. I know that, I know he earned 586 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,280 I know it was a sacrifice for him to work 587 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,039 hard to get into the Navy Seals, and he successfully 588 00:36:24,079 --> 00:36:26,079 did that on his first attempt, by the way through buds, 589 00:36:26,119 --> 00:36:28,840 which is pretty pretty cool. I know that then he 590 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,400 chose to go out and be willing to lay his 591 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,440 life down for his brother, and no girder love has 592 00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:34,239 man than to lay his life down for his friend 593 00:36:34,519 --> 00:36:37,800 or be willing to. Tim went on three separate deployments 594 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,119 in combat for US and over there. He said that 595 00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:42,559 one of the things that helped him live through the 596 00:36:42,599 --> 00:36:46,440 teams and the fights and the battles and watching having 597 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,000 to be there as people died. He was a medic. 598 00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:51,639 He saved lives and sometimes didn't succeed in saving them. 599 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,639 One of the things that helped him survive was coffee. 600 00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:56,239 He became a coffee addict. And one day, I don't 601 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,719 know where he was. Maybe it was when he was 602 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:01,119 fighting that Warren Babylon. Maybe they got a little bit 603 00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:03,360 of sleep that night, and maybe as he's going to sleep, 604 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,000 he thought, I love coffee. I want to start a 605 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,039 coffee company when I go back to the United States. 606 00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:09,559 If you know anything about seal culture, when they decide 607 00:37:09,599 --> 00:37:13,639 to do a thing, they go through hardcore visualization on 608 00:37:13,679 --> 00:37:15,440 how this isn't going to get done. It occurred to Tim, 609 00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:17,800 I don't know stink and think about coffee. I just 610 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,320 like the way it tastes, what it makes me do 611 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,360 in my body, it makes me feel. So he did 612 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,079 some research. He found a guy named Dave Stewart's. Dave 613 00:37:24,199 --> 00:37:26,880 was a coffee legend. Tim went to him and said, hey, 614 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,400 I have an idea. It's a company called bone Frog Coffee. 615 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,760 Ten percent of proceeds go to the Navy Seal Foundation. 616 00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:34,320 Here's the design of the bags. They say God Country 617 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,239 team on him. Here's this insignia means it insicates a 618 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,519 fallen Navy Seal. That's what this means. And Dave Stewart said, 619 00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:45,599 I am in and Dave created many of the roasts. 620 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,760 Still does he mentors the team. Then Tim made himself 621 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,760 a promise. I'm hiring Vets. I'm gonna work with Bets 622 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,039 whenever I can, and lo and behold. This year, Tim 623 00:37:54,119 --> 00:37:56,840 sent two of his key employees. He let them leave 624 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,519 the company. Why because they are now becoming Navy Seals. 625 00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:03,719 You can join with this coffee company, but I make 626 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,559 one request. When you go to Bonefrog Coffee dot com 627 00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:09,480 slash Todd and you use promo code Todd at checkout, 628 00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:11,800 you'll save ten percent on your first purchase. This is 629 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,440 what I ask you to promise me. Just do that, Okay, 630 00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:20,039 just that. Try the coffee and if it is not 631 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:26,000 to your taste, never go back, delete it, block the emails. 632 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,320 If you love it, make a decision to support this 633 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,480 company by going back to Bonefrog Coffee dot com slash Todd. 634 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,679 Use promo code TOAD at checkout and subscribe. You'll save 635 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,880 fifteen percent. You present this duality too, because Dennis, you 636 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,840 know one would hope he was saved, sounds like he 637 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,960 Wasn't you present this too? I got no idea, Right, 638 00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:52,199 there's this is duality. And we started talking about your 639 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,000 work as an evangelist. Fifty states in fifty days, sixty 640 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,639 four sermons, twenty two hundred churches in America. More internationally, 641 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,239 we've talked about America and in terms of state of revival. 642 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,840 I wanted to ask you, as an evangelist and someone 643 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,760 who's done this for a very long time, you presented 644 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,719 the duality. The beach Boys, Heaven, Hell, people made their choices. 645 00:39:12,679 --> 00:39:16,800 So there is in America. We've talked about the good news. 646 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,360 We see this on YouTube with young men seeking videos 647 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,679 about Jesus praise God. That's been really really neat for 648 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,559 us to see God work through us in that way. 649 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,719 But there are these fake churches that keep popping up 650 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:34,119 and they speak the gospel of pride, they speak the 651 00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:38,760 gospel of worshiping humanity, they speak the gospel of God 652 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,440 is whoever you want him to be. It's not just universalism. 653 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,440 It's nothingism. So what do we as a culture do 654 00:39:45,519 --> 00:39:50,599 as Christians to I guess warn people to label these churches. 655 00:39:50,639 --> 00:39:52,159 I mean, I know, we spread the word, we rely 656 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:53,800 on God's word, We stand on the solid work of 657 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,199 the foundation. We make sure that young people are educated. 658 00:39:56,199 --> 00:39:58,639 What does the Bible actually say? What is the context? 659 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,559 We armed them with the of God. We do these things. 660 00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:05,719 But since these things keep popping up these churches, what 661 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,880 do you think the response should be of the Christian 662 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,039 Church together to churches that are plainly heretical. 663 00:40:13,679 --> 00:40:20,320 Speaker 3: Well, that's a great question. And you know churches are gathering. 664 00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:25,039 The Greek word is ecclesia, the called out assembly those 665 00:40:25,079 --> 00:40:28,280 of us that have found salvation in Jesus. We are 666 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,360 part of the church worldwide, but we're also we are 667 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,760 to be a part of a local assembly of believers. 668 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,519 And the bottom line, church must be based on the 669 00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:43,199 Word of God, the Bible, that is the word of God. 670 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,119 Jesus said in John ten thirty five regarding the Bible, 671 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:52,119 Jesus of the scripture cannot be broken. Okay, now I 672 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:57,239 realize that there are cultural nuances. Church in South America, 673 00:40:57,679 --> 00:41:02,519 church in Africa, church in your is different. Than church, 674 00:41:02,639 --> 00:41:07,559 maybe in Middle America, but some of the commonalities should be. 675 00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:12,400 Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, is the one and only way 676 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:17,360 of salvation. Jesus alone shed his blood on the cross, 677 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,840 rose from the dead. That's called the atonement, and we 678 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:26,039 receive his forgiveness by turning to Christ, repenting of our 679 00:41:26,079 --> 00:41:30,119 sin and putting our faith in Jesus. Now, then, as 680 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,920 born again Christians, we are to grow. And in Matthew 681 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,199 twenty eight eighteen through twenty Jesus he gave this thing 682 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,800 called the Great Commission, and he said it's very key. 683 00:41:40,639 --> 00:41:44,039 Go into all the world and make disciples. Now, a 684 00:41:44,119 --> 00:41:48,960 disciple is a follower, and we are to follow the 685 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,599 son of God based on the word of God. Now, 686 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:58,039 what said Todd is that in America and a little 687 00:41:58,039 --> 00:42:02,199 bit in Europe, but really America excelled at this. We 688 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:08,000 made a big lucrative business out of cherry picking things 689 00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:13,119 from God's word that sound good and maybe conveniently glossing 690 00:42:13,159 --> 00:42:17,559 over or omitting things. You know, does God love me? Yes, 691 00:42:17,679 --> 00:42:21,400 God loves you. God loves everybody. But Jesus said in 692 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,960 Luke thirteen three, if you don't repent, you will perish. 693 00:42:25,519 --> 00:42:28,000 Regarding the deity of Christ. In John eight twenty four, 694 00:42:28,159 --> 00:42:30,920 Christ said, if you do not believe that I am He, 695 00:42:31,639 --> 00:42:37,039 you will die in your sins. And these pop heretical 696 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,800 you know, smoke machines, subwol for churches, They don't include 697 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:47,199 the hard sayings of scripture very often. And I think 698 00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:52,360 that we have a fiduciary responsibility to say the world, 699 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,400 you know, read Matthew seven twenty four. There's gonna be 700 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,199 a whole lot of people who say, Lord Lord, I 701 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,239 was religious. Jesus is going to say, hey, I never 702 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,320 knew you. So it's what we need is a revival 703 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,159 of the authority of God's Holy Word. The Bible agreed. 704 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:10,800 Speaker 1: And I think that we need to make sure that 705 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,199 we speak this at all times to young people so 706 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,559 that they have a measure. I almost want them to 707 00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:18,400 have cards they take with them. Am I observing at 708 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,760 Churtch This truly truly Christian? Because the enemy has been very, 709 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,719 very clever in setting it up. Hey, we have a 710 00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,880 link to Alex's work as websites thirty one days Pray 711 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,360 for America equip retreats. We've got a speaking events linked 712 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,880 in the show notes and Alex, what a pleasure to 713 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,679 talk with you. I would just love to have you 714 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,360 back just to talk about the state of things, and 715 00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:40,679 thank you for what you do. Thank you for sharing 716 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,559 the good news with us that Brian Wilson, as you 717 00:43:43,599 --> 00:43:45,679 see it is in heaven with Lord Jesus Christ as 718 00:43:45,679 --> 00:43:48,760 his carl and again no respector of man. But maybe 719 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,119 this can inspire other people from Hollywood too, So thank 720 00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:52,960 you very much, Alex Well. 721 00:43:53,079 --> 00:43:55,719 Speaker 3: God is good. I just I had such a passion. 722 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,639 I just wanted to share the gospel of these guys 723 00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,159 and the Lord allowed that to happen through my friend Jeffrey. 724 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,840 And God is good. Hey to everybody out there, there's 725 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,119 somebody waiting on the other side of your obedience. And 726 00:44:09,199 --> 00:44:12,159 by that I mean we know Christ were to make 727 00:44:12,199 --> 00:44:14,920 him known. And first Grintan's fifteen fifty eight says our 728 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,960 labor in the Lord is not in vain. 729 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,320 Speaker 1: Praise God. What a beautiful way to say that. Show 730 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,320 the gospel today with someone this is the Todd Herman Shaw. 731 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,880 Please go be well, be strong, be kind, and walk 732 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,480 in the light of Christ. And I haven't made that 733 00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:31,000 decision yet. Make that decision today. Ask Jesus to be 734 00:44:31,039 --> 00:44:33,079 your Lord and savior, to forgive you of your sins, 735 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,639 and then make a habit of abiding with him.