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The Food for Thought Faithcast with Be Rob
A 2025 Blessing- A Testimony That Changed A Podcast
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We revisit the conversation that reshaped our show: Lindsay’s near-fatal skydive, a month lost in coma, and the long walk back to purpose through faith, service, and courage. From broken bones to bodywork, she shares how survival became a calling and why she now says Yahuwah.
• moving for land and homesteading in Texas
• Alaska light and dark affecting mood and rhythm
• choosing bodywork as a vocation to heal pain
• the jump in high winds and the crash details
• coma, severe injuries and the unexpected recovery
• anger, grief and rebuilding stamina and work
• leaving empty careers for purpose-led service
• media, food and pharma shaping mental health
• navigating narcissistic family and relationships
• meeting her husband and setting boundaries
• studying Scripture, Hebrew names and tradition
• calling God Yahuwah and honoring Yeshua
• community organizing and speaking up with grace
Hey guys, it's B Rob, and it is the Food for Thought Faith Cast, and it is Friday, February the 13th. It's Friday the 13th. And tomorrow is uh tomorrow is uh St. Valentine's Day, which uh used to be called uh which used to be called uh Lupercalia, I think it is. We're gonna we're gonna do that episode tomorrow on Valentine's Day. We're gonna air that tomorrow on Valentine's Day, but I got a special for you today. Um I like to call this a rebless show because the first time this show happened, it blessed me in ways that you can never imagine. It actually changed my podcast. This is when God hijacked my podcast. Um, I want you to listen to this. It's about an hour long, but it is a special, special treat. This first aired on February the 11th in 2025. So a year and two days ago, I had the pleasure of meeting someone on Facebook, and she called into the show. Her name is Lindsay Gents, and we were just supposed to talk about careers, but she gave her testimony and it changed my whole show, it changed my whole outlook. I like to say at that point in time, God hijacked my show, and it was simply amazing, and it has been the show it has been since. And I want to thank Lindsay for that. She was my first guest, and this is an amazing story. I hope you guys listen and I hope it blesses you as much as it blessed me. God bless you guys. If you don't have a relationship with Jesus, you better write. Enjoy the show.
SPEAKER_01:And we have Lindsay here on the line. How are you doing, Lindsay?
SPEAKER_03:I'm doing great. How are you? Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_01:I I can't complain. If I did, nobody listened. That's that's right. That's one of the lines in my song called All Gas, No Breaks. Um, tell me a little bit of tell us your name, and then tell us um a little bit about yourself and uh what you do and that sort of thing.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, I'm Lindsay Gentz. Um currently my husband and I live in Henderson, Texas, and we relocated here two years ago, this last November, from Aiken, South Carolina. Just wanted to do something different and have some land and do a little bit of homesteading, and so that's what we're doing now. Um, excuse me, growing up, my dad was in the Air Force, and so we moved around every three, four years, and um I was able to experience a lot of different areas of our awesome nation. And my favorite assignment was in Alaska. I was we lived there for three years from seventh through ninth grade, and it was my favorite. I had the best memories and experiences there, and uh we moved back to Texas.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, so you lived you lived in Alaska?
SPEAKER_03:Yes, sir, in Anchorage from 1994 to 1997.
SPEAKER_01:So do you have like 30 days of night there? I don't know much about that. I just know you know what I've seen in movies and that sort of thing. So that's why I asked.
SPEAKER_03:It's it's six months of light and six months of darkness, but during the dark the sun does come up, it just doesn't come up until later in the morning, and then it's only up for a few hours and then it goes back down. So you wake up and go to work and school in the dark, and you come home in the dark. Um, it's it is depressing. They do have a lot of people.
SPEAKER_01:I was gonna say that has to be. Yeah, that has to be depressing because even down here when when it gets starts getting dark around four, and it gets yeah, it's like, what the hell? No, I wish it'd stay light until nine o'clock all year, all year long. That'd be awesome.
SPEAKER_03:No, in the in the summertime is when it's light, and then through the fall, and uh it just looks like it's daytime all day long, and it really gets old because you can't go to sleep because your brain thinks that it's still daylight outside. Right. So it throws off your circadian rhythm.
SPEAKER_01:That's crazy. That's crazy. So Henderson's like what? How many miles from Tyler?
SPEAKER_03:Uh so it's about an hour drive.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and it's what three hours from Dallas or something? Am I right? There were two hours?
SPEAKER_03:Two, two and a half, yes, sir.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I uh my my biological father is from Dallas and I lived there in '95. It was kind of yeah, it was kind of a crazy experience. And uh it's funny because uh there's a band that came out like right around that time. It's called the Toadies. Have you ever heard of the band called the Toadies?
SPEAKER_03:Uh Possum Kingdom, yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so so um they have a song called Tyler. And uh the funny thing is, is when I went to live with my biological dad for the first time in '95, the first time I left Augusta in my life and um went there, and I went to this concert. It was a record-breaking ceremony for Possum Kingdom at a place called Trees in Deep Elm, Dallas, Texas. And um the funny story is in '99, no, in 2000, I think, they came out with another record, and I was living in Columbia, South Carolina, because I'm from Augusta, and I had just gotten married to my wife. And uh they came and played a small club. And um the uh the guy did like they did like two songs, and the guy lost his voice. His name was Todd Lewis. I guess Toadies, that's I guess that's where that came from. But his name was Todd Lewis, and I actually met the guy and knew the guy from living in Dallas, and um I was there that night, and he had they pulled me up on stage, and I ended up singing for them. Yeah, and I sang the song Tyler. That's what's that's what's crazy. That's why I'm I'm looking at the map, and I was like, Henderson has to be like me. So I'm looking at the map and I see you're like right next to Tyler, and yeah, I just wanted to share that crazy story. But tell tell us tell us a little bit more about your uh, yeah, all my friends were there and we didn't have cell phones, but I had a uh friend who became a professional photographer who was there who took pictures, and um I still have a picture, like a picture of a picture, and I'll have to send it to you. I'll send it to you after this show of me singing for the tapes.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but um tell us a little more about um what you do and uh and tell us, yeah. I'm sorry to interrupt, but uh I just had to tell that story.
SPEAKER_03:No, that was great. I liked it, I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
SPEAKER_02:Not a problem.
SPEAKER_03:What I do now, I am a massage therapist. I I call myself a body worker because it's my pursuit of happiness, my right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and my pursuit of happiness is helping other people to heal their and you know, help relieve them of pain and you know, whatever that they're going through if they have limited mobility issues or anything like that that I can help with. That's that's what I love to do. And so that's my life's calling, that's my life's work. Um I I call him Yahoo. I don't call him God anymore, I I call him Yahoo. And he just he really placed that heavy on my heart in 2012 and 2013 for me to do massage therapy school, and I didn't know why. I was working at the Savannah Riverside at the time at the Mox project then, and um I was there 10, 11 hours every day, four days a week, and I thought, I don't know how I'm gonna do this. But he made a way and I got through and I finished, and then I sat and passed my board. So I've been doing it ever since. I've kept the license, and now I do it full-time, and I'm very thankful for that.
SPEAKER_01:Well, let me ask you a question. Do you uh believe in the term light worker or star seed?
SPEAKER_03:I I recently became aware of it, and yes, I do.
SPEAKER_01:That's amazing because I think uh well, I still say God, so um I think God has called a lot of people to uh to service at this point in time to help uh what I like to call the Great Awakening, which is a spiritual enlightenment of uh consciousness and um ascension of consciousness for humans.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you for saying that.
SPEAKER_01:No, I mean I just a lot of people might call it crazy, but I mean, like I do music for a living now. I quit putting people in fiat debt because I was a finance director for major car dealerships for 26 years.
SPEAKER_03:Good for you.
SPEAKER_01:And um that was something that really hurt my soul for a long time, but in the same sense, I was making sure my kids were comfortable and going through life without the stresses of because I mean kid I don't know. I mean, I'm 50 years old and I think I had it a lot easier than um my kids. And and the reason I say that, not physically, but I think mentally, because we didn't have the internet, we didn't have we had like three channels on the TV. We had uh, you know, uh if we wanted to hear about a star, and I call them stars because they're fallen stars, but yeah, uh a celebrity, it would be from a magazine that came out once a month that we would buy at a local magazine shop, and then we would learn that way. But now these kids learn in real time and have since about you know nine ninety nine, two thousand when when we started pulling computers into our houses and that sort of thing. And um it's just it's really hard for them mentally now, and that's why. But I mean it it all goes into uh a place with big pharma as well, because that that was designed to uh make them have to take antidepressants and make them have to take ADHD medicine and make them have to take that sort of thing. Same with the grocery stores. I mean, you walk in a grocery store and right after Christmas you see Valentine's Day candy as soon as you walk in. And now why do you have candy when you walk in and you got candy at the registers because you're gonna bring kids in there and their body their body is uh you know, you've been feeding them uh uh Twix and whatever cereal, Captain Crunch and all that stuff, which is nothing but sugar. And it's just it's a crazy cycle, man. And and we we don't, you know, it's God forgive them for the know not what they do. We we we we knew no better for years and years and years because it was the status quo. And like I always say, the status quo ain't quo. So but tell us more, like tell us more about um I hate to get all into that, but um tell us more about like your gift and um how you became how I became a massage service. Yeah, the light worker you are.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I honestly I've always enjoyed helping people when I was growing up. I wanted to be a teacher, and then I wanted to do nursing, and then I wanted that's how I be a doctor, you know, just something that would help other people because I liked to do that. And um my my mom was really encouraging, and she's very loving and giving, and my mom is just the most awesome woman that I know from my entire life, and um very, very thankful that she was chosen to be my mom.
SPEAKER_01:But uh that's an amazing thing, and it is.
SPEAKER_03:I just I enjoy helping, and so when uh I went to college, I started in nursing school, and I didn't have any self-esteem. My dad's a narcissist, so that was interesting growing up with that whole dynamic too, but um I had no self-esteem, I had no self-worth, you know, I just was living life day by day kind of thing, and no purpose, but now where'd you grow up all over because he was in the air?
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I was uh I have a sister and a brother, I'm the oldest, and I was the only one that was that came into the world outside of the military, the air force. So I call myself the only freeborn child. So um but uh yeah, we started in Georgia at Valdasta at Moody Air Force Base, and that's where my sister and brother came into the world, and then my dad was a JAG lawyer at the time, and he did that three or four years, and then decided that's not what he wanted to do. So he changed careers and went into the med group because he could use his legal knowledge and things and be successful, and he was very successful, he had a very successful career, very proud of him, very thankful for his service, and um so and then after Georgia it was Illinois and then San Antonio, Texas, and then Anchorage, Alaska, and then back to San Antonio, Texas, and then I graduated high school and I got off the bus and uh I went to UTSA my freshman year, and then my dad How was San Antonio?
SPEAKER_01:How'd you like it?
SPEAKER_03:It was fun. There was always something going on, always something to do, but it was very busy, very uh Yeah, I've been I I've been there one time back in the back in the 90s.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's crazy. Like you go and you want to see the Alamo, but like if you ride by you miss it.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, if you blink, you will it's in the middle of a whole bunch of buildings and just gardening around. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It's crazy. It's nothing like the movies back in the day.
SPEAKER_03:No, not at all, not now.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, yep. All right, go back. So you were uh back to San Antonio, then um you graduated from there.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. Yep, I went to UTSA my freshman year of college, and um I had a boyfriend that was at Harden Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, which is about four hours north of San Antonio, and that's who I was gonna marry. And so I went my mom and dad PCS'd, or I'm sorry, they moved to a new duty station in Arkansas. So I was like, well, y'all are going. I'm gonna go here. And I finished college, I graduated in 2004, I changed my major four different times, um, ended up basically with a phys ed type degree and a minor in sociology, didn't know what I was gonna do with it. I thought I was gonna be a coach and a teacher, and I tried to do that, and um it didn't work out. Yahoo had some other plans for me, and I was uh I'd gone through a divorce in 2004 uh that I didn't want. He uh let me know in not so many words that he didn't want to be married anymore, so found somebody else and you know all that stuff. So it really affected me in a way that I was not expecting. And uh I had a friend at work and he was going to go parachuting, like skydiving, and with his wife. And he was talking about it and all this stuff, and I was like, Oh, that sounds sounds fun. I won't ever do anything like that. And he's like, Oh, you should go, and you know, you leave all your crap in the plane, and then when you jump out, you're gonna start over, everything's brand new, blah blah. I was like, No, and I'm good. And a couple days later, he uh was talking to me at work and he said, Oh, his wife, I forget her name, um, she has to do end a quarter, she was an accountant, and he said, You should go with me. We were talking, you should go and pay for her ticket and then just take her spot and then just go and like the whole thing. So he talked it up all day, and I was like, No, I'm not gonna do it, no, I'm not gonna do it. And at the end of the day, I was like, you know what? I really don't have anything to lose. I really don't, because I was I was at the bottom of the barrel and it was not a good time for me. So I was like, you know what, I'm gonna go.
SPEAKER_01:You're like, screw it, I'm going skydiving.
SPEAKER_03:Exactly. I was like, what's the shit? I could die. Well, hey, right now, I don't mind if that happens. So I mean it was it was bad after that divorce, it was bad. And so uh I went and the last memory I have was looking at my friend from work, and I said, I have a bad feeling something's gonna happen to me. And he said, Don't say that, you're gonna jinx yourself. And I I just was like, I just have a bad feeling. And then a month later I woke up in a uh neurological rehab center in Austin, and uh my mom was standing in the room, and I was like, Am I in the hospital? And she said, Yes. And I kind of looked at her and I said, Did I get hurt really bad? And she said, Yes.
SPEAKER_02:And she said, Do you know who I was like, what do you mean?
SPEAKER_03:Do I know who you are? Yes, I know who you are. She's like, Who am I? I said, You're my mom. She said, What's my name? And I just remember like, what is going on? Apparently, um the the day that we went to go to do this, the winds were 60 to 70 mile an hour gusts.
SPEAKER_01:Oh that ain't good.
SPEAKER_03:No.
SPEAKER_01:Let's let's do this. Let me um I need to I need to do a real quick sponsor thing, but keep keep that thought real quick. Um, guys, this this uh episode is brought to you by S4 Construction Services. They're from Lincoln and Georgia. They specialize in roof repairs, roof replacements, metal roofing, vinyl, and hard siding patio covers, pole barns, wood and chain link fences, and their motto is we'll even clean your house and wash your dishes. That's S4 Construction Services in Lincoln and Georgia. All right, back to Lindsay. Now, now you were sitting there with your mother in the hospital.
SPEAKER_03:Yes. And I just I was like, Why are you talking so weird? Like, what is the deal? What's going on? And she said, Well, I don't I don't know if you knew me. And I said, What are you talking about? And she's like, You don't really have a memory and we don't know what you know because you haven't been able to talk because you've been in a medicated Coma. Induced coma. And I was like, why? What happened? Did I have an accident? She said, Yes. Do you remember? And I said, no. And um, so she started to tell me that I had gone with a friend from work and I went skydiving. She was like, Why would you go skydiving? And I or I said, Why would I go skydiving? And she goes, That's what we wanted to know. Because that's not something that she would do because I had a fear of heights. I don't like heights.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, me, yeah, I'm the same way. I can't even like drive over a bridge.
SPEAKER_03:Why would you do that? But it makes me nervous. But uh yeah, it just I don't know. I was just that that down and hardened in my life, I guess, at that time, and I just I didn't care what happened to me. And so um lots of prayers, lots of prayers, and um, that was June 4th, 2008, that that happened, and then I woke up in the hospital, it was July 5th of 2008, a month and a day later. And uh yeah, I don't I don't remember anything, and it took over a year for me to remember that last part of the day is just right before we got on the plane. I don't remember getting on the plane, I don't remember the flight, I don't remember what the hell happened?
SPEAKER_01:I mean, what happened? What'd they say happened?
SPEAKER_03:So I had said that it was 60 to 70 mile an hour gusts that day of wind.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:They had so we had to go into this. I mean, it was in Lexington, Texas, in the middle of Podunk Nowhere. That's up by um Brian Collis Station.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And um it was a couple hours maybe from my my house at in San Antonio at the time. And uh we got there early, probably eight, nine o'clock in the morning, and then they had us sign some paperwork, and then we started the training, quote unquote. And it was we would just watch these videos and then took this true or false test afterward, and then if you passed, you got to jump. If you didn't, then they would either coach you or you just couldn't jump for that day. I don't remember exactly. Excuse me, because I passed and I paid my my money or whatever, and um I remember signing signing this paper, it's essentially signed my life away. It said that I wouldn't sue or wouldn't do anything, anything happened or whatever. So um, and then I remember going outside to get my parachute, get fitted with my parachute, and then my little altimeter, and then I had a one-way radio that was strapped on my right shoulder where the guy, the spotter on the ground, could talk to me, but I couldn't talk back because he probably couldn't hear me anyway. And uh and then I just remember saying what I said to my friend, and then I woke up a month later in the hospital. So apparently they said that the winds had died down enough within FAA regulation to let us go. Because there have been people jumping all day long, but they were professionals, they knew how to handle the winds and all that stuff. Right. Why they didn't cancel it, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:I it was I mean, did you did it blow you somewhere?
SPEAKER_03:It blew me a mile and a half away from the landing area where I was supposed to be. And I I snagged the parachute snagged a tree, and had that not happened, I would have hit power lines. Dang like right next to the tree.
SPEAKER_01:So it sounded like uh Satan or whatever was going on in your life, which was uh bad. I mean, you said you were in the lowest of lows, and oh yeah, just kind of walked you right to somewhere that he wanted you to go, and then God just like intervened at the last second, it sounds like he did.
SPEAKER_03:He did. There is no other explanation. Um my so this guy that was watching me told my dad, because my mom and dad, oh gosh, that that call, they got there the next day and um drove up to the the place and had them take them to where I was, and my dad took photos and stuff because he's a lawyer. And uh sure. Um we were kind of just looking and or they were looking around and asking you know all these questions and stuff, and um my dad I don't remember exactly, but he got a bunch of photos and he talked to the guy that was watching me through the binoculars, and he said that I did okay at first because what what I was what I had to do, I had to crawl out. It was a little Cessna with you know the little landing wheels and stuff, right? And bars under the wings, and you had to like crawl out of the door of the plane, shimmy across the little landing poles and stuff that's on the wing and the the landing gears on the wheels, and you had to stand and just let go because you I was static line, so I was attached to a thing that would pull my chute for me, and just had to let go of the plane, and I am shocked that I let go. I'm shocked that I went through with it. I don't know how I didn't chicken out, but um, I don't I don't remember. So, but I crawled out there and I let go, and the guy told my dad that I was doing okay at first, but unfortunately, while I was up there, the winds picked back up. And instead of canceling the jump, they went ahead and let us jump. So that's how and why I got carried a mile and a half away. And the guy told my dad that it was the because it was a rectangular parachute, and I believe the explanation was in the air like that to kind of I don't know if it's to balance it or what, but the parachutes designed it fills up with air on one side and then puffs it out, and then it fills up on the other side and puffs, and then it just goes back and forth. So I was getting slammed, not just rocked, but slammed from side to side violently in the air. And the guy said he thought that I was passed out because I quit responding, and then I was just kind of limp and just blowing with the air and not responding to what he was saying to me on the ground. And uh my parachute snagged a tree, and when it did that, it you know collapsed the parachute. So I was getting slammed side to side, and then I started spinning. So I was doing both of those actions at the same time, and I fell the equivalent of five stories, they said. And um when I hit the ground, I broke three ribs on my right side. Thank goodness I had a helmet on, because they said if I didn't, I would definitely be dead. Um, but three ribs on my right side punctured my right lung, I sheared my sacrum, which was in a diagonal break in your sacrum, and it's a very hard bone to break. And mine just went fractured my entire pelvic ring, and I had a traumatic brain injury, a diffused brain injury. It's the adult equivalent of shaken baby syndrome. So my parents arrived. They couldn't get on a plane that night, but they got one for the next morning and then arrived in Austin and um got to the hospital, and they told the doctors told my mom and dad that my injuries were so severe they did not expect me to survive the night just because the uh they did a CAT scan or MRI, whatever, my whole body, head to toe, and my brain injury. They said every they showed my mom and dad on the x-rays, they said, everywhere you see black, her brain is dead. And my dad said, Well, what are these three white spots? And my dad said they're about quarter-size white spots. And he said, That's the only part of her brain that's still alive. And you know, that was devastating to hear.
SPEAKER_01:And uh So when you came back, they were like seeing ghosts, basically.
SPEAKER_03:No, I was not expected to make any recovery. They uh they waited about a week to a week and a half, I think, to fix my sacrum because there was no point if I was going to die. So um after a week and I was getting better and I was showing signs of improvement, then they went ahead and put a screw through my sacrum, a titanium screw, and my whole pelvic ring was fractured, and they thought they were gonna have to go in and wire all of that together. But by the grace of Yahuwah, when they put that screw in, it aligned all of my bones perfectly. And so they put me in this straitjacket thing, so I had I couldn't roll on my side, it was so that my bones could set and heal and stuff. And right, right. It was very painful. Uh my mom said it looked very painful. So, but I was on heavy drugs, I don't remember any of it.
SPEAKER_01:Well, you're just you're just a walking testimony. Like, that's that's amazing.
SPEAKER_03:That's it took a while to get to that point where I was, I guess, my testimony, but yeah, I was I was pretty angry for a long time, for about three years, four years after my accident.
SPEAKER_01:Because I'm sure, I mean, I'm sure. I mean, were you mad at were you mad at God?
SPEAKER_03:So, but the uh the the true miracle with that whole thing, I was supposed to be dead, I was not supposed to survive, and then the prognosis was about three to five years before I could do anything for myself or you know, do much of anything really.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
SPEAKER_03:And then three or four weeks after that, they were like, well, maybe she's got a year to two years before because she's really doing good, she's coming along. And I was on 90-day FMLA leave from work, and on day like 87, 88, something like that, I was discharged from all of my therapies, and I was discharged from my orthopedic surgeon, and I cause I was cleared to go back to to life, to work and stuff, and so um I was living my life. I was 25, 26 at the time, and um I was not about to go home and live with my mom and dad again, and so I I sucked it up and I should have. In hindsight, I probably should have to let myself heal, but in my mind, I had no memory of any of it, so I was like, let's go. Like, let's I just want to get back to to life, and it was it was a struggle. It physically I was beat by the time I got home from work after working all day. I would not even eat dinner most nights, I would just go straight to sleep because I was so tired. My body was exhausted, it was healing.
SPEAKER_01:That's but that's a crazy transition. I mean, you just told me a story about how like you didn't care if you lived or you died, and then you went from that in three to four short years to like wanting life, wanting to die. That's a that's an amazing testimony. It really is. I mean, that's oh that's good stuff, girl. I mean, there's there's like there's a reason we met today on Facebook. There's a reason you're talking to me right now. You're telling your story. That's man, I don't I don't believe in coincidences. That that there's no such thing.
SPEAKER_03:I said I don't either anymore, not after the last five years.
SPEAKER_01:Isn't it crazy? Isn't it crazy? I don't even know how to explain that. But um man, this is great. So how did you meet your current husband?
SPEAKER_03:So uh I worked at the Savannah Riverside at the Mox Project, as I said earlier, and he did too. He was in a different area than I was, and his dad and give us a timeline.
SPEAKER_01:How long has it been since you oh so this was 2016?
SPEAKER_03:Okay, at the end of 2014, I had dated a guy for about three years and it it didn't work out, and I just took 2015 to just be by myself. I didn't want to date anybody, I didn't want because the last guy was a narcissist, and that's when I it clicked into my head. I was like, oh my gosh, this is how my dad is to me, and then I made that connection, and then there was a name to put to his his way that he is, right? And um, so I started doing as much research and learning about that as I could, and um my ex-husband is a narcissist, and then I dated two other ones, and I thought, gosh, it was just I guess that was the time that my brain just kind of, oh well, if this is true, then this has to be it. So I kind of made that connection and I took off I didn't want to date anybody, and in uh November of 2015, I needed to get my hair cut, and the gal that I'd been going to had moved, and so I asked a friend of mine for a referral, and she referred me to this gal named Dory. And I sat down in Dory's chair, and I was there maybe 10 minutes, and I felt like I'd known her my whole life. She was awesome, and she told me about this guy named Sam.
SPEAKER_01:Something about them South Carolina hairdressers.
SPEAKER_03:I you're not kidding.
SPEAKER_01:They are just my brother was married, my brother married once.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. Yeah, they're just wonderful individuals, wonderful men or women that do that.
SPEAKER_01:Because there's some men that do hair, but shout out to my South Carolina hair hairdressers. We love you, we know you. All right, keep going, keep going.
SPEAKER_03:So uh she she said, I have someone in mind that I think that you would really get along well with, and I really think that he would get along well with you. And I was like, no, I don't want to date any. I'm done. I'm done. I don't want any more crap. I have not enough of my own stuff with my brain injury and my own stuff that I have going on. I was like, I don't want anybody else.
SPEAKER_01:Then God said, God.
SPEAKER_03:So, but uh that was in November of 2015, and then fast forward to January, like mid-January 13th or 12th or something of 2016, and my best friend at the site messaged me on the Savannah Riverside has this little messenger system, like Yahoo!
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And he popped up on my messenger and he said, I know who your future husband is. And I was like, uh no, you do not, because I already told you, don't even try to set me up. Because he tried to set me up with some guy several months before, and I was like, No, I am not interested. So I told him, I said, I'm still not interested. And he goes, No, no, you you have to meet him. And he's a he's a god person like you. And I was like, What's a god person, Jacob? And you know, he's like, Oh, you know, y'all go to church and all that stuff. I was like, Oh my gosh. He's my friend was a heathen, it still is a heathen, unfortunately. I'm still praying for him. But uh but uh if you if you saw him, the last thing that you would think would be a matchmaker. Like that is not, and if you you know know if you knew him, that's definitely not, but he it was it was Yahoo through and through, and um we met at the oh, what is that park? Not Citizens Park.
SPEAKER_01:In Aiken?
SPEAKER_03:Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know what it's called, but I know what you're talking about. Okay, I'm bad with names and that sort of thing. But I've lived here my whole life, so I know exactly what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. I I'll think of it here in a minute.
SPEAKER_01:It's like right downtown Aiken.
SPEAKER_03:Not downtown. It's down Whiskey Road, it's in front of the Zaxby's there.
SPEAKER_01:Um I'm thinking of something, yeah, I'm thinking of something different then. But it's all good, keep going.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so the whatever that park is there, it has a mile track, and so he had a blue titcoon hound and I had a boxer, and so he messaged me on Facebook. And I I told my friend Jacob, I said if he wants to meet me and like be friends, have him contact me, do not give him my phone number, have him contact me on Facebook. So that's what he did. And he contacted me a couple days later and said, Will you get together and walk the dogs or something? And I was like, Yeah, sure. So we met and he showed up with like casual clothes on and you know, not walking shoes, and I had on workout gear because I ran with my dog. I was a big into running then, and you know, I was there to exercise. So yeah, I mean your dad's yeah, uh absolutely fucking and he was having a hard time keeping up, and um we had a really good conversation, and he was hilarious. Uh he told me that he served five years in the Navy, and so we had you know that in common, at least, and uh commonality. And he told me he was from Clinton, Iowa, which is not far from Chicago, about three hours south of Chicago, right there on the Mississippi River. Right. And and I said, Well, I was born in Des Moines, Iowa when my dad was in law school, and I was like, Well, coincidence there. So yeah, and but we just we had the best conversation, and he made it three miles, or I'm sorry, two miles. I was about to hit the third mile, and he was like, I think I'm gonna go home. He wasn't he wasn't intending to walk like exercise.
SPEAKER_01:He was probably doing it for you. He didn't probably like, oh my god. He probably next day was like, Oh, I'm so sore. Yes, yeah, but if you I'm not a physical guy either, I'm more of a computer nerd. Music.
SPEAKER_03:Well, the Navy ruined him, I think. The Navy PT'd him too much. Ped him.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, well, I'm sure. I'm sure.
SPEAKER_03:I'll I'll pick on him now. Like, let's go do some PT and he'll just look at me. Well, anyway, but uh so yeah, that's how we met, and we were pretty much inseparable after that.
SPEAKER_01:And how long did it take for you to get married?
SPEAKER_03:Let's see, we got married in October 13th, 2017. We got married on a Friday the 13th.
SPEAKER_01:And and when did you meet? The 16th?
SPEAKER_03:January of 16th, yep.
SPEAKER_01:Oh nice, nice. So not not about a year, no much two years later.
SPEAKER_03:Close to, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I married my wife like five months after I met her.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:In 1999.
SPEAKER_03:Oh wow.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we were kids.
SPEAKER_03:Yes. I was crazy. It is crazy. Hard to believe. I don't like looking back that far. I don't like that.
SPEAKER_01:So um, so tell me what you call God against. Tell me that.
SPEAKER_03:Yahuwah.
SPEAKER_01:Yahuwah. Now tell me why do you call him Yahuwah? Now I've seen that I don't know how to pronounce. See, I'm just a dumb old country boyfriend. From Georgia, so you know. I mean, I'm not really dumb, but no, I don't you know what I'm saying. But I I like to I like I like to hear other people's uh interpretations and analogies and that. I mean I'm Southern Bab well, I don't go to church, but that's the way I was raised.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
SPEAKER_01:I'm a very spiritual person, but I don't go to church. I believe that church is me and you talking about God right now.
SPEAKER_03:That's exactly okay.
SPEAKER_01:So that can tell me a little bit about why you say that you don't call him God no more. If you if you're comfortable doing that.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I'm an open book. I have no I've got no I'm a talker. I have no problem talking.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, no problem.
SPEAKER_03:So I started calling him Yahoo about a year ago, and it was after much research. I've been doing nothing but research since March of 2020 when the whole COVID scandemic stuff happened.
SPEAKER_01:So you opened your book then, yeah. I mine was uh late 2007. Well, it was early 2007. Actually, it was about 2016, but that's good. Yeah, it was it's kind of a wild story. I I found 4chan from a doctor friend of mine, actually. Yeah, so and he told me all about annons and the crazy things they post and that sort of thing. And um then I just happened to be on there and started finding these crazy drops that were labeled Q. And it's been it's been crazy ever since, but we're not gonna talk about that. Let's uh get back to tell me why you so you were why you call it yeah. So it's we can have another conversation about that.
SPEAKER_03:That's right. Uh in my research, I was learning about the Bible because everything with our nation is biblical, it was based, biblically based, everything was.
SPEAKER_02:Right, right.
SPEAKER_03:And so um I was like, What why are they talking about this? So I I've known that God is not his name, but growing up in church is I'm sure you can attest to this, they just called him God, and we didn't learn really anything. It was the same stories, same sermons, pretty much, over and over again. And um there wasn't I didn't have it was more of an agenda.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, like a fancy with a few scriptures thrown in to satisfy the agenda that they were trying to push. Yes, I get that.
SPEAKER_03:100% So I was I was baptized when I was ten years old. I accepted I accepted Jesus as my savior, and after that, you know, life happens, you become an adult, you live some life, and I had made some really bad choices, and having a narcissist for a father, um, you are you're pretty much beaten to nothing when you do something wrong, or you do something that is a poor reflection, or that he perceived as a poor reflection on himself.
SPEAKER_01:Well, they're never they're never wrong.
SPEAKER_03:Right. He would come absolutely. I don't am I allowed to say a a not great word?
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. Say what you want.
SPEAKER_03:He would come down like a shit brickhouse when he was not happy about something, or if we did something wrong, the slightest little thing we would get screamed at by him. I mean, he was under so much stress and he had child wounds and things that he didn't deal with from his his childhood and stuff, and so it just carried on.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I was gonna say a lot of that's programming.
SPEAKER_03:Oh gosh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So a lot of our parents, yeah, definitely. Absolutely, I get it.
SPEAKER_03:Right. They didn't know any better. Their mom and dads didn't teach them anything. Not that it's an excuse, but you know, it is what it is.
SPEAKER_01:It falls under that category, that verse where forgive them, father, would for they know not what they did. Yes, I absolutely there's there's gonna be a lot of that, but yes, yo, yes, very much. You ever felt like uh COVID was designed to kill off a certain generation of people because of that?
SPEAKER_03:It yes, I do.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I do too. I do I hate to I hate to say that, but I just wanted to throw that out there and I hope that don't piss my listeners off, but I don't care. I think that's a uh I think that's absolutely 100% correct. I mean, why they start moving people into nursing homes?
SPEAKER_03:Exactly. Because they steal their Sasuke Trust accounts.
SPEAKER_01:I mean it's oh there you go.
SPEAKER_03:When you follow the white rabbit, you learn all kinds of things.
SPEAKER_01:I tell you, you say too much truth. I'm just saying. Okay, get back and tell me why. I I keep throwing us off the path, but I I do want to hear the story about the uh why you call him that versus God, and then uh I think we're gonna have to have another podcast about that. Other stuff.
SPEAKER_03:That's awesome.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, this is great.
SPEAKER_03:I just I found in my studies that his Hebrew name, he has many names. Right. Many names in Hebrew.
SPEAKER_01:And us dumb country people don't know half that shit. So that's why I've been that's where I'm interested.
SPEAKER_03:Right, because they don't they don't educate us on anything.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly.
SPEAKER_03:And um during the 2020, 21, I think it was 2021 time frame when they started doing the shots and all of that garbage.
SPEAKER_01:I joined a group of local when they started the booster clubs.
SPEAKER_03:Well, yeah, we were Aiken Citizens for Freedom was our was our name. And we organized a whole bunch of people. We organized these huge meetings out at the the big red barn out there in Aiken County, and um people from the site to try to you know let them know what was going on and just band together so that we had numbers and information, and here's the factual information, this is what they're saying, but that's not factual or it's not correct, or you know, we just were talking, trying to band together because nobody wanted to be forced to take that shot to have to go to work, you know, all of that stuff. It was wrong, it was huge government overreach. And so me being the the little child that wasn't allowed to speak up or you know, couldn't defend myself, and it was it I was like, okay, this is this is not right. And if anything is not right, I am not afraid to get my hands dirty and get stuff done. Like my dad, to his credit, he did raise he did a good job raising us to be good, good hearted folks and to do things that you don't want to do. And you know, he's oh yeah, definitely absolutely but uh so I was I was ready to get active and big get loud because I'm a loud individual. I always have been, I don't know. And uh so I was like, you are not I you're not gonna bully me. Nobody's gonna bully me and tell me what I have to do and that kind of thing. So I was fortunate. Um 2019, in December of 2019, I left my job at Tritium. I was a uh industrial hygienist, was my job title at the time. I had never done that before. I was learning as I go, OJT. That's how they like to do me too.
SPEAKER_01:I'm the same way. I don't I'm not a I'm not a school person. So uh I'm a I'm a trenches guy.
SPEAKER_03:There you go. And so I was trying to learn that new job, and I wasn't being given what I needed to be successful, and it was turning into an issue, apparently, that I was asking for help and asking for guidance and all this other stuff. And so I had a partial hysterectomy hysterectomy surgery in October of 2019. And right before I went in for this surgery, I went to um Herbal Solutions there in Aiken, and that's where I would get a bunch of medicine. I was holistic for a long time, like medicine-wise. I learned the accident that I had, it the medicine all just would mess me up big time, and I thought I did something else, and so that's when I started looking at natural alternatives, is around that time.
SPEAKER_01:I'm the same exact way. I cannot take like anything, it just trashes me.
SPEAKER_03:I don't I had a uh I had a scar revision surgery. I found out after that accident, I it's I don't keloid scar. It's I think the doctor called it hypotrophic scarring. So are you familiar with keloids?
SPEAKER_01:No, not really.
SPEAKER_03:It primarily affects the black community because of their genetics and and things, but it's where your body overproduces collagen and it doesn't know when to stop. Like there's not a cutoff for telling that's enough. So it just produces a lot of collagen. And so if you've ever noticed um some some black folks have like really big scarring on them in like different yeah, like in the back of their the head and stuff like that, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like if they cut themselves, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. So I scar like that, except mine stays within the perimeter of the incision line or the the damage or whatever. I got you.
SPEAKER_01:I gotcha.
SPEAKER_03:But they can grow internally and they just can go wild. And so um I forgot why I was telling you that story.
SPEAKER_01:No, we were talking about the why you call God.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, Yahoo.
SPEAKER_01:So it's all good. I do the same thing. I like have to circle back a lot.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I've got traumatic brain injury, so I I have short-term memory loss, and so I I can get off track and then I'll forget. I'll eventually come back around to it sometimes, but no, it's great.
SPEAKER_01:It's been a great podcast. Um like I said, there's a reason we met today on Facebook.
SPEAKER_03:I agree. I agree.
SPEAKER_01:Really is. And it we're coming up on like close to an hour, so um, let me do uh let me do this and then um let me do the little uh jingle here. This this show tonight is brought is sponsored by S4 Construction Services, and they're out of Lincoln, Georgia. They specialize in roof repairs, roof replacements, metal roofing, vinyl and hard siding, patio covers, pole barns, wooden chain link fences, etc. etc. etc. Their motto is we'll even clean your house and wash your dishes. That's S4 Construction Services, and they're from Lincoln and Georgia. All right, back to Lindsay and um uh why you call God Yahuwah. I like that.
SPEAKER_03:So in my research, I was learning about the Bible and learning about all the names. Like what what parts of the Bible were used for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and all of that. Like I wanted to I wanted to understand that better. Right. And um in my research, I uh I just started seeing in like the older books and the older Bibles and and things, it was Yahuwah or Yes. You know, all of his other different names.
SPEAKER_01:And always said Yahshua, or I didn't I don't know how to really pronounce um you know, I'm from Jowji, you know what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03:Right. And um then I saw Elohim and I looked up Elohim, and Elohim is plural, like God the plural, and I was like, whoa, what is it?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that can be paganistic because that's really you know a lot of our a lot of our uh um what am I holidays? Yes, we worship pagans.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_01:Different gods.
SPEAKER_03:Yes. And um during during the Aiken Citizens for Freedom movement that I was a part of, I met um one of my best friends, Wanda Barr. And she's she's my mom and dad's age, a little bit younger, and uh, but she is the strongest woman of faith I've ever known in my life. And there is nothing that I would not do for this woman. And um, same her with me, and we are still very, very close, very good friends, and we call we talk to each other every day, either through sending each other different news articles or you know, whatever's and or texting and just saying, Hey, hope you're having a good day, kind of thing. But right she went to Jerusalem, she and her youngest son went together. I think they were there about a year, maybe nine months, something like that, several years ago, and uh it just changed her life, and she uh learned about messianic Jews that believe in Yeshua and are and uh you know he's you know, God Yahuwah's son and all this other stuff. And so um, but his name in Hebrew was Yeshua because they didn't have the letter J in those times. The letter J is only like a few few thousand years old or something. It's not it's not very it it wasn't his name. So then you s I started learning about you know the name of God, and we call him God, and I came across this article, I don't remember it was more than six months ago, but uh it was this article, just random article, and I clicked on it, and it was talking about Satan, Lucifer, his his name. It was not Lucifer, it was I read it was Godriel G-O-D for short. And so it the article was saying when we call in the name of God, we're calling on Lucifer, who is the light bearer. Yeah, now we get yeah, okay, and the light bearer, you know, and then it was showing things, different things in the Bible, and how the story of Yeshua coming and you know, dying on the cross and sacrificing and then rising again, and every religion has a Yeshua, allegedly, except they did not come back to life. And that's you know what we learned growing up in church and all of that stuff, and that's why Christianity is a superior religion or whatever. But I really I really had to do a lot of praying and a lot of soul searching within myself, and um, because that was that was a punch to the gut, you know, that's not something that I was prepared to read. And of course, I immediately like rejected in my mind, like, no, that that can't be true. And after a couple of days, I was like, oh, let me let me look at this. And so I started to dig on the God's real thing, and sure enough, I found supporting stuff, and uh my friend Wanda that I told you about, she calls him Yahuwah and Yeshua because she studies the Judaism, the Torah. And uh so she was a huge influence, I guess, if you will, and me kind of getting into a little bit of curiosity about all of that, because that is something that has always I don't know, I guess something that I've always pondered on, I guess, is how can there be so many different religions when there is a lot of people?
SPEAKER_01:I feel I'm the same way, even though I mean I f I just know that whoever it is takes care of me because I try to do right by other people and he takes care of me. And I I don't know like if I'm doing a disservice by calling him God because I don't know that. But I mean, you're teaching me things I don't know. So I'm gonna look into this and this is a great podcast, it really is.
SPEAKER_03:Well, it's just everybody's on their own path. That's something I've I've had to learn to really give a lot of grace because I've been given a lot of grace.
SPEAKER_01:And well, let me it's funny because you say that. My youngest daughter, let me she posted last night. Let me tell you what she posted. And I thought this was amazing for a 22-year-old. Um just a second, let me pull this up. I even shared it. That's why I thought it was amazing. Um but she's a lot like me. Um I wish I had me one of them guys like Joe Rogan. Hey dude, pull this up.
SPEAKER_02:Boom.
SPEAKER_01:It's right there. So this is my youngest daughter. Um, her name is Tori. She said, biggest lesson I've learned this past year is that people pleasing, insecurity is way more selfish than confidence and self-love, in my opinion, at least. People pleasing so harmful, you really only have yourself and God at the end of the day.
SPEAKER_03:That's true.
SPEAKER_01:That's a 22-year-old.
SPEAKER_03:That's very insightful.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I taught her pretty good.
SPEAKER_03:I would say so. That's great.
SPEAKER_01:But um, yeah, we're gonna talk more about this, but we're going on like uh a little bit over an hour and two minutes. So we're gonna I might even cut this into two. We might have to do like a five-part mini-series or something because this has been really, really good. And I appreciate, man, it's awesome to meet you and talk to you and um likewise. And people with like minds. I mean, that's what this is about, and people you know, people too busy fighting and screaming at each other, and people don't understand that's not what life's about. And um I want to thank you for this, and um I want to thank everybody for listening. And if you got anything else to say before we uh end this up, I'm gonna let you do it now. And we're gonna get back together and and do another episode for sure.
SPEAKER_03:Awesome. I would really like that. I really appreciate you having me. Thanks for listening and giving me a a uh voice to have, and to be able to share my testimony because I haven't even finished yet. I have a lot more to tell you, but uh it's it's it's apparent to me that this is exactly where I am supposed to be right now. And even the things that are currently happening right now that are really chaotic and um that I was not expecting that happened last week, um, it's all part of his plan. It's all part of his perfect plan, and I am not going to worry. So I mean, if he got me out of death, right. I mean, you know. He will.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, I actually enjoyed this.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:Not a problem. Well, God bless you, Lindsay. And um I I said that again. Here we go.
SPEAKER_02:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:I say Yahuwah bless you. I don't want to give you no bad vibes.
SPEAKER_03:That's right. You you research it and look into it and do your own praying about it and thinking about it because I had to, and that's just the conclusion. Everybody's different, everyone's on their own path.
SPEAKER_01:So right, right. That's amazing. And I appreciate you. Love you. God bless. And um, we will talk to you uh soon. All right, all right, guys.
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