Saving The Lost Sheep Sinners Inside Dive Bars..Saved Savages Ministries Fighting In The Trenches
Summary
➡ The speaker shares his past experiences as a professional wrestler, highlighting the party lifestyle, drug use, and physical toll it took on his body. He discusses his struggle with addiction, his eventual recovery, and how he turned to yoga for pain management. He also mentions his transition into acting and his current involvement in a ministry. The speaker emphasizes the high mortality rate among wrestlers and the challenges they face after retirement.
➡ A man feels called by God to hold informal church services in bars on Sunday afternoons. He visits these bars after his regular church service, with the full support of his pastor. His unique approach has been successful and well-received, even leading to the formation of small congregations within the bars. Despite potential challenges, he has not faced any significant opposition and plans to continue this ministry.
➡ The speaker discusses their experience of providing spiritual support to bar workers who can’t attend church due to their work schedules. They mention the gratitude of these workers and the high success rate of their efforts, which includes baptizing many people. The speaker also talks about people who have been hurt by the church and refuse to return, but some have started attending again due to their efforts. They also discuss their personal preference for quiet, solitary church visits and their issues with prosperity preachers. The speaker then shares their experience of baptizing people in various locations, including bars and beaches. They also mention encountering people in bars who are seriously ill due to alcoholism, and the importance of providing them with spiritual support.
➡ The speaker discusses his experiences with people who have struggled with alcoholism and other issues, and how they’ve found peace and transformation through faith and music. He also talks about his ministry’s approach to helping these individuals, which includes showing love and understanding. The speaker also mentions the possibility of expanding their outreach to different events and locations, like the Burning Man festival. Lastly, he shares about his upcoming projects in film and series production.
➡ The speaker discusses how the process of auditioning for films has changed over the years. Instead of in-person auditions, they now record themselves and send it in, sometimes even using Zoom for callbacks. This shift in process started in 2020, likely due to the pandemic. The conversation ends with plans to meet in person and stay in touch.
Transcript
Deadpool. Deadpool two. Deadpool and Wolverine. And is that Deadpool three right there? Deadpool and Wolverine, yeah. Yeah, that’s. That’s the one. That’s out in theaters. One of the biggest movies on the planet right now. So Sin City, 21 Jump street. And you know what, man? When. When Andy hicked hooked us up on over text, I was like, I recognize that guy. I’ve seen him in the movies. You know, you’re that faith. Recognize you. You know what I mean? That guy. I’m that guy, man. It’s like, hey, you’re that guy, right? From tv and you can’t miss you.
How big are you? I’m six foot seven, man. I. About six foot six and a half. You know, gravity or buoyancy and density, whatever. Yeah, you know, it’s a bitch because, yeah, I used to be six foot eight, standing flat footed, barefooted and, you know, just, you know, time. Where’s. Where’s the joints? Away, I guess. So I’m about six foot six and a half, maybe six foot seven now. So I’m going to show some of your highlights, if you don’t mind, because I think, of course, you play some epic roles, dude. Randall Reed, actor. Real folks.
Get a. Get a grip of this. This is awesome. Here we go. Okay, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine. You know what fine stands for, Wade? Fucked up, insecure, needy and emotional. We got more stick to shoot. Looks like you fixing a run. You better run better than you play pool. I say we go raghead. Cut this thing’s hand off. All right, hold up. What you want? Cheers. I did that. Buck. You best apologize before. Yeah, dad. Say the magic words, fat Gandalf. I am sorry. I don’t have a filter between my brain and my. Okay.
Hey. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Hakuna has taught us it’s. Sorry. Get out of here. Go. Go. Cast a spell for the buy in. That was a gift. I got a feeling that gifts from you come with strings, and I don’t keep what’s not mine. You know, stranger, you won a bit tonight. Why don’t you do us another favor? Cash out. Leave. You don’t want me leaving without my keys. Wrong. People see your nephew riding around on that bike, they’ll tear this town apart. These folks leave. Friends. Are they your enemies? Does it matter? Is this some sort of weird dream? I’m a giant rabbit playing hockey against a vacuum cleaner in your living room.
Don’t you think that would be impossible and insane if you weren’t having a weird and unsettling dream? I don’t know what that means. It means that you’ve got a heart made out of old snow tires. Because when the pirates of the Mississippi hit the course to feed Jake, dude, this is. This is just too much. This is just too much. I mean. Oh, wow. I mean, I get. I mean. And let me tell you folks, this guy. Let’s just start it with how you got started. So it says, are you a plumber? You still are. Third generation plumber.
My father, my grandfather plumbers, my brother’s a plumber. I don’t plumber. All my half, my cousins and everybody’s plumbers. Yeah, we kind of come from that business, but, yeah, 18, man, I. At night, I didn’t have to sleep because I was 18, and I was working concert security in Houston, Texas. And I worked at a wrestling match and. At the Coliseum. At the Houston Coliseum. And they. Sam, Houston Coliseum. And. And this guy walks up to me and says, hey, man, you should be a wrestler. I was working ringside, and he. I said, yes. What? Everybody says he’s.
Man, I’m not. Everybody hands me a card and says, you need to call my stepdad tomorrow. And his stepdad was Ivan Putzky, the polish power. And so I did the next day and went over and seen him. He said that. He said, well, yeah, anyway, I started. I started wrestling with him. So you started at 18? Yeah, yeah. I called him and he said, how’d you get my number? I said, oh, your son gave it to me. And he said, well, class started, you know, two weeks ago, so you have to wait till the next quarter or whatever.
And he says, who told you to call me? Who gave you this number? I said, your son. And he says, how big are you? I said, I’m six foot eight. He says, well, how much you weigh? I said, about 320. He goes, why don’t you come over and see me this afternoon. And so I did. And he said, well, you know, it’ll be brutal, but if you want to try to catch up, you know, and catch up with these guys, they’re two week. You’re two weeks ahead of you. You can start tomorrow. And, and I did, and I did.
And I was, I am, you know, I used to love wrestling when I was a kid. Obviously, every kid did. Right, right. I, you know, but I went to, I went the boxing route, obviously. Yeah, but how hard is it? Is that considered, like, starting late at 18 in wrestling and professional wrestling, or is that. That’s about right. I mean, that’s about when most people, other than the, the legacy kids start, you know, I mean, like, you know, the hearts or any of them guys, I mean, because they’re, they’re working, you know, it, because they’re, they’re fought their parents own the organizations or own the schools or whatever, I.
But, no, pretty much 18 is probably about the right time, you know, because, you know, towards the end of my career, like, you know, I was reaching about 30 at 29, and I was getting long in the tooth. I mean, they were just for WWE or somebody to sign me. They were like, I don’t know, we’re not gonna get much years out of him. He’s, you know, been in the bush leagues, beating the hell out of his body for all this time. And so, you know, I almost went a couple of times, but it was. Yeah, it’s crazy.
It’s crazy story, man. By the time you’re 28, 29, you really are. If you’ve not, if you’re not already at a certain level, that’s kind of your prime, but it’s also the time, the window of when you should be getting out. Right. 30 year old, you’re an old man in sports, man. I mean. Yeah. What is it the life of an NFL players? Like three to five years. Yeah. Fighters. I mean, you only have your prime for about two years, and that’s, I would imagine that’s the same in wrestling. Yeah, it’s similar. I mean, you know, once you got, you got to get out at that status, you know, again, like, you should be there by the time you’re 29.
Yeah. Ric flair can go forever, you know, whatever, because they’re legends and all that. But, yeah, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta get there. So I guess we both can agree that you gotta be at a certain level by the time you’re 27, 28, 29 to stay there. Otherwise, you are long on the tooth and it’s time. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah. It’s that way. And what happened with me is actually I was working for Shawn Michaels down in San Antonio and I was kind of groom as kids, you know, like, I would give them their first matches and all that, kind of go through the school with them in a way.
And, you know, I was kind of going to go to WWF or WCW with them to kind of protect them from the heat that they would have for being Shawn Michaels students. And, you know, and like, at that time, it was just right that when, when WCW closed down, Vince McMahon bought all the rights. He called in the note from, from ECW and absorbed them. And basically he took a monopoly. And I was like, only choice was to go to Japan. But Goldberg and all them were out of work because if you didn’t work for Vince McMahon, then you were flooded Japan.
It was just, it was crazy. And I was just like, you know what? God does not want me to be a wrestler. This is, this is multiple times that timing has happened. Yeah. Their lifestyles are insanity. Uh, there. It’s great. From El Paso was Eddie Guerrero. Yeah, yeah, I heard that guy, dude. I actually saw him when I was boxing. I went out one night with him and I think his wife is Veronica or something. I forgot his wife’s name, but from El Paso. And I remember I wouldn’t partied with him. And I was like, holy shit.
Yeah, yeah. I was doing everything, bro. Like, he be, I was hard to beat in the party scene. That guy was doing it all. Yeah, it was a debaucherous lifestyle. For real, man. Like, I, I quit several times over. Just the lifestyle. I mean, so I would kind of sabotage myself a few times over the careers because I just, you know, it’s like I knew, like, my early, my first marriage with my kids, you know, my mother, my children. I mean, I could have went to WWF early nineties and I was just like, there’s no way that my, there’s no way this woman staying married with me if I’m on the road for 320 days a year.
No way. And that’s what it was back then. It was crazy. There was no breaks, right? And you guys are not only just training hard and wrestling and doing that. Most of those guys party hard. Oh, party hard. I mean, it’s just your rock, your, your guys, you guys were rock stars. Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy. My first film that I ever did, like I directed and wrote, was called Wrestlers Cocktail. It’s a short film. I’ll put it in film festivals. And it’s, it’s a day in the life for a pro wrestler. And, yeah, it’s just because wrestlers cocktail, if you google it, is, you know, basically, you know, alcohol.
Alcohol, painkillers, muscle actors, steroids and all that, and all that party drugs, and it just stops people’s hearts. I mean, people dive pills all the time. And that’s what almost happened to me when I overdosed in 2011. I was popping painkillers, Adderall. I just wanted to keep the party going, keep the high going, and I overdosed because I know that the lifespan of a wrestler, man is really short. Isn’t it? Like forties or it could be 30 mid forties, right? Yeah, the hard. In my. Yeah, in my, in my first, like, say, my film restless cocktail, at the beginning, it has, like, it has a statistic and it’s something I can’t remember, I have to look at, but it’s something like that.
The, like, there. So many wrestlers died, but by the age of 50, it’s like a high mortality rate by the age of 50, and it’s even higher than NFL players, which has a really high mortality rate as well, you know? Yeah, and, you know, like, from what I’ve seen in my sport, and I don’t know if this goes along with, with wrestlers as well. I would imagine it does. But, like, once these guys retire and they’re done, their body is so broken down and beat up, and then they’re in. They’re just, they’re now a hundred percent drug addicts.
Like, yeah, I’m talking. They’re doing it all. They’re. Because the pain in their body is so bad, it’s brutal. Fentanyl, they’re on painkillers. They’re on, they’re still doing coke. They don’t even care to die. A lot of these guys, they’re just like, dude, I’m on my way out. I had my glory years. I’m good. They have nothing else to live for. I literally, you know, being a wrestler, I kind of just, I mean, it sounds cliche people say at all. I didn’t expect to live this wrong longer. I would have taken care of, better care of myself.
But it’s kind of true. Like, I really didn’t, you know, I didn’t expect them to be moving around in my fifties, you know, and honestly, to be moving around. I mean, I was on pain management legit. No, no drug dealers, no nothing. I mean, just straight up, you know, 90, 1050s a month and just, you know, for, you know, for 15 years, bro. Like, and, and it was, it was so brutal. So I didn’t expect to be, you know, and see doing this now and being a big. I’m a big man. But you’re much bigger. You’re.
You said you’re 6667. Yeah. So just being that size and having to carry around that weight in your older years and then being put through the trenches like you were ahead in wrestling, I mean, your body is probably. Probably. It’s probably feels like you’ve been through 20 car accidents. Yeah, that. Well, you know, Shawn Michaels described it best on to one of his classes. I remember he was, you know, he said, your net, the rest of your life or your career is going to be like, having a car accident three or four times a week. And.
And that’s the true. I was like, damn, that is a great description. You know, and he was retired at the time. Like, he didn’t. He wasn’t up there anymore. He did eventually get to going back. He got, you know, saved and clean and, you know, worked hard at Diamond Dallas page. My boy DDP has saved so many people. Physically. I’m in Dallas page. Damn. Yeah, man. I’ve heard of that name. Yeah, yeah, he has, he has DDP, yoga, man. So he got me off of painkillers. Like, how long have you been off the paint? How have you been off the painkillers? Oh, like, um.
I mean, 15 years. Yeah. I mean, something like that. You do yoga? Ten years. Yeah. It’s. I mean, I don’t do it as much. Imagine you do yoga. Yeah, he does a DDP yoga, man. It’s. He. It’s just, you know, stretching, implied metrics and all that kind of stuff. So he, he actually told me. I bumped into him at the rainbow room and. Or the rainbow and on Sunset strip in LA, and he was just like, he saw me walking toward him. We’d never met, but I don’t think. And we do our wrestler handshake that knows, like, we knew that he knew.
And he says, oh, yeah, I knew you were a worker. He says, how many gimmicks you take a day? I was like, I don’t take them every day, but when I do, therefore, gimmicks being the painkillers, and, and he says, man, I can get you off of that. I said, oh, yeah? He says, yeah, man, come over and do yoga with me. And Mar Vista are, like, marina del Rey area. And I was like, really? Come on, man. Like, you ribbing me? He’s like, no, man, seriously. Come on. I still can’t picture you doing the OGa deal.
I know. Visualize this. It’s disturbing. Oh, it was in a park, too. So you’re out in the middle of. Oh, my God, I. Dude, is the rainbow room still, like, the go to spot for a lot of, like, I remember that when I went there, there was, like, a hard. A lot of hard rockers, man. Back in the day, old actors like, you kind of. You walk back into the eighties, man. Like, you walk in and everybody’s got the hair and. It’s cool, man. I always liked it. Yeah. I still go out there. My wife, we did a birthday, one of her birthdays there.
And, you know, I used to work there years ago, so I’m still kind of. Everybody kind of knows me. And then I kind of. I guess I’m one of the guys that, you know, got sort of famous or whatever and a lot of movies. And that’s what, you know, for me, like, man, acting would have been a lot. A hell of a lot easier than boxing, that’s for sure. How did you fall into acting? I mean, so you have. So, you know. You know, it’s funny. I actually accepted. I basically went into wrestling to become an actor.
I thought it would be right when I was offered that opportunity, like, well, you know, I know it’s bad. My dad knew the funks and the Von Eric’s and stuff when he was younger, so I knew how. And I’ve seen how all these old wrestlers crippled around. I was like, okay, but if I parlay this into an acting career. So I’d say. I like to say I did what Dwayne Johnson did way before Dwayne Johnson did, but, of course, way less successfully because he’s huge. I mean, he’s huge. Yeah, but you’re still going. Yeah, exactly. You got that look.
Do you get. I mean, obviously, you get typecasted, right? Yeah. Yeah, that’s what I. You know, definitely. But I have. My old saying is, is typecast me, miscast me, just freaking cast me. Right? Yeah. So do you ride motorcycles? I mean, that’s what you do, Harley. I do, man. Yeah, I do. I ride every day if I can, so. Sure. So let’s talk about what you’re doing now. And I think this is fascinating, folks, because everyone knows my story on my channel, that I’ve been sober now for coming up on five years. And that’s something I never thought I’d be able to do.
And also, I’m getting ready to get baptized this week, so. Wow. That’s something that I’ve. Yeah. I’m gonna I’m not gonna record it or put it out there. Anything, I don’t think. But I’m gonna do that. I’m gonna. I’m going to do that. But, um, what is saved? Savages ministries. Yeah, safe savage ministries, man. Um, you know, I was. It’s a. We call it a bar ministry with a motorcycle habit because a lot of us are bikers in it, but, um, it’s not really a biker ministry. What it is, is, um, you know, just one day.
Oh, no, I’m just going to show it. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. So what it is is I, uh. God told me to one day. I just kind of spoke to me in this weird way, you know, and that I was supposed to go down into, uh, into bars at 02:00 p.m. on Sundays and do an uncharted church service. So I. 02:00 p.m. or 02:00 a.m. 02:00 p.m. so, yeah. So you’re going during the day? Yep. I go to church, and then, uh, I go up and say hi to my pastor, and he goes, where you headed now? I’m, like, headed to the bar, and he’s totally in full support of it.
And. And it’s grown. There’s other tribes now. We come tribes instead of chapters, but, yeah, we go into these bars and we just do an unchurchy church service, and then they kind of becomes, like a little tribe or a little, you know, congregation, you know, of people, man. And some of them just a lot of people are church hurt. You know, they don’t want to ever go to church again. They’ll. They’ll say, you know, I’ll never go back to church. And they feel judged. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, we. We meet them where they’re at, you know? I mean, that’s what we’re supposed to do.
Go ye into all the world preach the gospel. So we go, ye. You know, we go into the world. So go into the lions, Dennisse. Yeah, man. So we go meet them where they are, and, yeah, it’s been crazy successful and just amazing. Blessing. Just changed my whole life. I can’t imagine never doing it again. I’ll do it to all dogs. You’re in the trenches, your boots on the ground. You go, actually, to the place where people actually need it the most, which is the bar scene. Do people, like. Do most people just brush you off? I mean, you’re a huge guy.
I would imagine they’d be like, well, let’s listen to this guy for a few. For a few moments before we make a decision. Do they just brush you off or do you have a lot. Do you have a lot of success going into the bars and talking to people? It is amazingly successful. Now, most of it has been in Texas. And so maybe that, like, I’m curious, I’m going to be doing it in Burbank, you know, or somewhere in California soon, and I’m curious to whether, how that’s gonna be. You know what I mean? But I think it’s gonna be the same.
I mean, because California is just, you know, LA is just full of a bunch of people that left middle America to go live in Los Angeles, you know, just like me or anyone else. So. So I expect it to go really well. Here’s the thing that I wonder about, because when I was drinking, the last thing I wanted was to be preached to, right? You don’t want to have. You don’t want to mirror the held up to you, at least you don’t want to be judged. Like, I’ve noticed, like, since I’ve quit drinking, my friends don’t call me anymore.
They don’t want me to be with them at the bars. I’ve lost a lot of friends because I’m kind of like the buzzkill. Why would they want me to go with them to the bar or anything like that? I mean, so I can imagine, especially when I was in my, my prime and when I was really drinking heavy, the last thing I wanted, it was someone to preach to me. So do you have people yelling at you or fights with you or anything like that? We’ve never had that. We’ve never had a bar fight at our service almost a couple times, but just between people that were there with us, you know, and, yeah, no, none of that happened so far, you know, now I will tell you, we go to bars normally that we’re invited to because they hear about it and they want us there.
So the owners and everybody wants us there. We don’t really go to packed out bars, you know, like biker bars that are, you know, really successful, that everybody rides to, to where there’s 200 people there, because that’s just going in. And I don’t know, we’re really. That we normally. We go into a bar that, you know, at 02:00 p.m. the people that are there at a bar at 02:00 p.m. dive bar, you know, are hurting something. Yeah, they’re hurting. They’re looking for some hurt. So. So I think probably the difference maybe, you know, I’m assuming that when you were talking about that you’re out of nightclubs and things like that.
Not really. At a. I was womanizing. I had friends with me, I was socializing. If I was at a bar drinking during the day, I’m probably going to be pretty miserable. Right. And that’s, and that’s kind of, you know, I mean, not to put, because sometimes we just go into, you know, places that pit stops where bikers roll in and all that. But they, they, man, everybody, I mean, we, it’s been amazing that we’ve had no problems. No, we’re, no one really, no one wants us gone. I mean, we always end up going back. I think we’ve only had 1 bar that we didn’t go back to.
And honestly we should have. We just, you know, it just, I don’t know, it just got, it just fell out of the wayside, you know. So. Yeah. What’s the difference between a minister and a pastor? I know you said you’re not a pastor, right? You’re a minister. What’s the difference? Well, I can only give my version of what it, of what the difference is. I might, to me is a pastor has a flock, you know, he has a church. He, you know that. So whereas, you know, I just call myself an evangelist, I guess, you know, because I’m taking the gospel out there.
I will say that, you know, like different tribes that we have more resemble the church. And we do have like one guy that runs the, that runs one of the tribes is, we call it Pastor dawn because he pastored a church for years, a couple of churches. So he’s, he’s there and he does the, he does that. So he’s a pastor and he behaves as a pastor and that, that particular tribe is really tight like a, like a church. So, you know, I just, I guess to me, I just, you know, I don’t want to be a pastor.
I mean, there’s such a responsibility on it. Not going to say it. God won’t make me do it one day, but he’ll have to make me do it. So, you know, bar owners, like, they accept you coming in there and preach. I love it. Really? Or do they, you’ve never been threatened or they try to kick you out? No, no, we don’t go in and ambush them. We, you know, we, you know, the first time, you know, I was like, oh, wow, I’m gonna do this. And I said, wow, I gotta find a bar now because it was all set up, but I had to find a bar.
So I’m like, who am I? How do I do this? And I, I, uh, I said, clint. My buddy Clint. He’s crazy. Maybe he’ll let me use his bar. I called him up and actually asked him to faceTime. I was like, hey, man, can I, trying to get him at the bar, and I couldn’t catch him. I said, hey, man, can I facetime you? He’s like, yeah, it’s weird, sure. But I wanted him to see, you know, I said, hey, man, can I borrow your bar at 02:00 p.m. on Sunday? He goes, yeah, sure, man. Like, nothing.
And I was like, and I was like, dude, I guess I could have used it for anything. You know? It’s like that. So anyway, he says, he said, what do you, what do you need to use it for? I said, I want to. That’s why I wanted to facetime you. I want to do a church service. He said, dude, you want to use Keema shot bar as a church service on Tuesday, on Sunday afternoon? I said, yeah. He goes, that’s awesome. I’ll cook chicken and waffles. I mean, and it’s kind of always been that way, you know? And from there, people started and, you know, like, inviting us out, you know, so, like, you know, people would come to us, say, hey, man, this bar over here wants you to.
Tipsy turtles on, on gal in Galveston wants us to do a service there. Really want you to do the service there. They just want you there because you’re the guy they recognize in movies and you’re a famous actor. I mean, I don’t think so, because a lot of them don’t even know that. I mean, some, it could, it could play something into that and praise God if it does, but no, I think it’s more they hurt. They hear about it, and they want to see what it’s about, but they can’t get there on a Sunday. And so we’ve had to.
It’s crazy. We’ve had bar managers, bartenders, bar backs just, like, crying and just, like, thanking me and hugging me and saying, thank you for coming out here. I work my schedule to where I make sure that I’m here. I mean, it’s, it’s, it is not these people, really? You’ve noticed that these people really are crying for help? Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, or even, like, like, some of the bartenders, you know, they just, they’re just, they work. Like, they have to work. So I can’t go to church because I have to open up and all that, and, you know, and they work at night and all that.
And. And so, I mean, to them, we’re just bringing it to them, and they love it. They love. How many people do you. Do you save every time you go? Is. It. Is a large number. Just a few. What’s a success rate? Oh, a big success rate, but I will tell you, you know, I mean, we baptize. I don’t even know how many people, but a lot. And, you know, but I will tell you that most of it is bringing. It’s. I feel more like I’m just hurt, like we’re hurting lost sheep, you know, it’s like, you know, because I can’t tell you how many people have told me from, hey, I used to be a pastor.
Yeah. And. Or, hey, I was associate pastor, and I’ll never step back in church again. Or, you know, all these stories of people that have just been church hurt and. And they’ll never really go back to church, although that being. What is church hurt? Oh, church. I mean, just people that had been to, I don’t know, they lost. Left because gossip or. Left. What? You know, whatever. I mean, you know, I mean, they got. They got hurt in church, you know, they got. They had their feelings hurt or whatever, and. And, you know, and. And that’s what.
That’s what we deal with a lot. A lot of people that just say, I’ll never go back to the brick and mortar, you know, and then, of course, some of them do. Like, they. Some of those that said that now go to church again because of safe savage, you know, for me. And some of them never will. Right? And I’ve always. I’ve always. And it’s just. I’m just speaking for myself. Like I told you, I’m going to be getting baptized. I really like going to church when it’s quiet, when no one’s there and praying and just sitting in silence.
That’s just me. That’s how I like to do it. I know it’s better to be in a gathering and listen to the word, but I don’t know, man. Sometimes I go to church and I just feel like it’s a who’s who and it’s a missing contest. And it’s like, you know, people are dressed in suits and I don’t know, man. I. Especially with today’s prosperity preachers, man, I have a real problem with it, you know? What do you have to say about that? I mean, when I see someone like which. You’re in Houston. Sure. Joel Holstein, you know, I can’t do this.
I had to leave. But I don’t know, I, you know my views. I don’t go there. I don’t, it’s not my thing, but I don’t, I don’t know, man. I kind of, I let them do their thing. I mean, you know, within reason. I mean, if there’s some kind of heresy being, you know, done. But I mean, to me there’s, I figure there’s just a church for everybody, you know, I mean, I don’t expect other people do it the way I do it. I don’t judge them for doing it the way they do it. You know, I actually, the biggest revelation I think God has ever given me, he gave me this last year and I handled a situation and I was like, lord, how could I have, in the ministry, I was like, how could I, how could that I’ve been wrong? But it was, I was, how could I have been right and this still happened? And he was just like, at best, son.
I mean, I could just, it was like, again, how God talks to you just, it’s so bizarre unless it happens. But he says, at best, you can only be less wrong than the other guy. That’s the best you can ever achieve. And so to me, I just look at it like that. It’s like, yeah, I mean, there are people. Can you believe they do that? You believe they do that? I’m like, yeah, it’s pretty messed up, but I don’t know. What am I wrong about? I don’t know if, because you don’t usually know it until you figure it out or somebody points it out.
So I don’t know. I just kind of, you know, I just let it go. I mean, what, what, where do you go to church? What kind of, what kind of, where do you go to church? Well, I was, I was going a lot to a catholic mass. I’ve kind of switched over now. I’m gonna go. I was obviously, as a Catholic, you’re baptized as a baby. Right, right. I felt in my heart that I’m like, you know what? I want to do this with my own free will. Sure. I want to get back. That’s what held me back from getting baptized for so long, is because everyone always told me, uh, catholic friends and family, well, you don’t have to.
You’re baptized as a baby. And I go, I get that. I understand it. But I, I kind of feel like it should be something that’s done with my own free will. I agree. Just like quitting it was like, that was my first step in the right direction, was to quit drinking and all the other vices that came with it. Now I feel like it’s up to me. I want to show God that I’m going to make that next step that makes. Yeah, I think it’s great, man. I agree with that. You know, I do. So, yeah, let me.
Let me ask you this. When you go to these bars and you’re there, do you. How do you save someone that’s there? Do you have a baby pool of water? I mean, do you baptize them there? We have water. No, no. We have. We have done baptism. We’ve used swimming pools that people had. We’ve, we’ve used churches, you know, that. You know, like, we work in conjunction with some churches sometimes, like, up in Nacogdoches area, there’s a cowboy church that. That one of the tribes works with. So a lot of times, people just want to go that get baptized there.
Some people want baptized in the bar. So we, we use a kind of. One of those water troughs, like the horse troughs or cow troughs. So we’ll bring it to the bar, and we’ve got one that says safe savage on it and everything. We. And we’ll fill it up with water and baptize them there at the bar. You know, our lake, you know, or the. The first one we ever did was, was at tipsy turtles on Galveston island. And we had people that wanted baptizing. We had that bar that wanted us to come out, and it was on the beach.
Like, you know, the bar is actually right there on the beach. So we just walked down into the ocean and baptized the people. So, yeah, I mean, we keep it. There’s no routine on that. You know, we submerge, you know, complete submerging. But at the same time, somebody got saved other night, one of our guys let somebody, the Lord had a, like, a street preaching thing that we went to in some other town just to visit. And. And I was, you know, I was just like, well, it’s raining, and there’s puddles of water right there, so we can do, like, the ethiopian.
And, you know, it’s like, that’s, you know, and he said, well, what’s wrong with that puddle? You know, we’d have done that if they. If you had wanted to. So that’s amazing. Yeah. My sister. I lost my sister to alcoholism. Um, and that was about 14 years ago. And I remember in her last years, um, you know, she was one of those people that was going to the bars during the day, and she was polishing off a bottle of vodka in the morning. And she died at 44. But I remember in her last days, she was, uh, finally listening to one of my friends.
His name was Freddie. He passed away as well, two years later. But he was preaching to her and ministering to her in her last, in her last couple months. And that’s when she really started absorbing the Bible, was when she was really sick and hurting, and we knew she was on her way out. I wish you would have listened earlier, but do you ever come across people like that, that are in the bar that are sick and, you know, that they have cirrhosis or they’re getting ready, they’re on their way out, and we’ve lost life to the Lord.
We’ve lost savesdem, you know, over the last four years that, you know, died of cirrhosis or cancer, liver and things like that. And. But, you know, I mean, man, like that, I’m going to tell you to speak as vague as I can, but like that a particular story, you know, as a guy that, you know, you, you know, drank a lot at the bars and all that kind of stuff, you know, ex musician, you know, rock guy, and, and, but Mandev, like, I watched him just go from, from, you know, that to over the couple of years to writing christian songs that people are still singing right now, you know, just.
And then, you know, having such a, such peace with, with where he was going, you know. So, yeah, we’ve had it happen. We’ve had it happen quite a few times, you know. Yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s wild, and it’s, um. It’s, yeah, it’s the most moving. I mean, I can’t even believe I’m a part of it. I feel like a participating spectator, you know, because I can’t even believe I’m witnessing all this stuff that I’m involved in so heavily. So it’s pretty wild, man. It’s a wild experience. I’ll never not do it. I can’t see me ever not doing it.
God will have to really shove me into another lane, or I move me some, you know, some into something else for me not to be doing. Safe. Savage. All I can say, randall, is it’s awesome to talk to such a powerful man of God and using your success for this. It’s, it’s, it’s an amazing thing for me and for my audience. I had, I had a friend that just passed away last year, my buddy Sammy, who was an alcoholic. And he, uh, in his last years, man, I would talk to him a little bit about God.
And in church, I probably could have done a lot more, but I was still in the. In the midst of trying to save my own life. And I just remember a lot of these people, what they have in common. They don’t want to hear anything. They’re just upset. They’re angry at God. They’re feel. They feel like, how can I drink just as much as anybody else, just as much as David? Why am I sick? And they’re mad and they’re mad. And rightfully so. How do you get across to someone like that? Like, let’s say my buddy Sammy could have used this.
How could you have got to him? How could you have struck a nerve? Because he just did not want to listen to anybody in his life. I mean, ultimately, like, we can’t really do any of it. It’s the Holy Spirit, you know, like, they have to be ripe and ready and all that. You know, what Jesus said, you know, none come to the father or none come to me, except not let, you know, like brought to by the father. You know what I mean? Like, like the father calls them to him, you know, so, you know, it’s.
It’s the Holy Spirit has to lead us to that. That being said, I mean, I don’t know. I mean, when we go in, we just. We come in in love, you know? I mean, we’re not teetotalers, so I still drink. You know, we don’t go. We have a real strict no drink drunk, get drunk policy, you know, and. But, you know, I mean, that, that helps, you know, I think that, you know, people, you know, 2030, 40, 60 of us roll in and, you know, it’s the best Sunday that bars ever had. Because there’s bars, there’s still, you know, some beers being had, and so do you guys being had.
You guys go to different towns, different cities? Yeah. Yeah. Are they far or just in the vicinity of each other? If it’s too far, we kind of start a new tribe, you know, that’s kind of like, you know, if we’re. If we’re going too far, you know, we’re going 40 miles, then, you know, or something then, because it’s hard to get everyone to roll over there, and it just kind of breaks off into a new tribe. And that’s kind of what I mean, that’s early church, man. I mean, you’re talking about these mega churches and all that kind of stuff.
I mean, that’s not really? I mean, I’m not against mega churches personally. I’m not against those pastors doing, you know, secret churches, all that. I mean, there’s something be said for that, just like there’s something be said for what we do. But to me, you know, I can’t imagine me ever doing it. If I had, if I, if my church just got so big, I would just be like, well, why don’t we just have six different churches, you know, why don’t we just buy a building over there where these guys can just go and then raise up a pastor there? I mean, that’s, that’s what I think I would do.
But again, you know, I’m not, you know, I’m not God. And I think I have an idea. Close. I have an idea for you. I was just talking to my buddy Brad Olson, who’s a. He goes to the burning man festivals, the art festivals. And I was like, you know, and I, and I just did a podcast with him yesterday. I’m gonna put that up tomorrow. And it’s. When you go to these burning man festivals, man, it’s like a lot of lost youth and a lot of the. And it’s like a. This burning man festival has turned into a new age religion.
Oh, yeah. Every time, see, I was asking him that. I was just gonna get to that with you. So I, so they welcome everybody, right? And I was like, well, where’s the, where’s the christians? Where’s the evangelist? I go, could. Why aren’t there ten set up where they could preach? He’s like, he was. They just, he goes, everyone’s there. He goes, I just, I’ve never seen that. I’m. Have you tried to reach out to that? Nope, but I might next year, bro. I mean, why not, dude? I mean, let me tell you, that’s filled with youth, that they’re all on drugs, they’re all not.
I mean, everyone does what they want there, right? I mean, it’s a sir, it’s a supposedly a place for everybody. But I didn’t see anything that had it. I saw a lot of demonic symbology in the pictures. I saw a lot of that. I did not see anything that represented Christ there at all. So I think that would be an awesome, great idea. Go to burning man, dude. I’ll go with you. That’s a great idea. Well, I was going to be there next year. I was just about to say, man, so, yeah, let’s just, you know, I will.
I will look into. Look into a space. And that’s an interesting thing. I’ve never been, I’ve worked a bunch of parties for people that were, you know, like burners, you know, that we’re going there, but I’ve never, never been, never really wanted to, but, yeah, I’ll go. We’ll do that, man. I’d be so, I want to come, I want to come to, I want to come to do one in o. You’re in El Paso? Yeah, yeah. Come on down here, man. What’s a biker gang from El Paso? Is it the Banditos or whatever? I mean, they kind of run.
They’re the big, they’re the big dogs. All right, so they’re not like the El Paso I know. They’re, yeah. Oh, yeah. They got, yeah, they got chapters there. They run. Yeah. Texas is full of them. Well, Randall, man, I appreciate you coming on. Randall Reed, thanks for having me, dude. Yeah, this has been awesome, man. The Savage saved Savages ministries. Save Savage ministries. Yeah. What’s your, what’s your YouTube? It’s, it’s Randall reader. Is it safe Savage min. Yeah, Randall Reader. We’ve got save Savage ministries, YouTube, we’ve got all over facebook. Most any safe savage is going to pop up with being us, you know, from safe savage to safe Savage ministry.
Safe Savage Sunday service, bay areas and tiny woods and all these tribes. So, yeah, it should be easy to find save Savage ministries or save Savage could pop up. What other movies are you working on right now? Safe Savage films is trying to put together, um, a movie, a movie called the Baptist. And I’m really excited about it. I believe God told me to do it. And it’s, I’ve been sitting on the script for years. I didn’t write it. Somebody wrote it. And, um, for me, years ago, and it’s just been, it’s just been sitting there and it’s time to do it.
It’s, you know, it’s just God’s timing. And then, uh, do another series. I did. I did that one, sons of thunder, for pure flicks, and doesn’t look like I’m ever going to do another sons of thunder with them that I’ve gone through changes and all that. So, you know, got one called Nomad that we’re, we’re gonna, that we’re gonna, we’re developing and probably, possibly going to pre production in the next month or so. So let me ask you one last question before I let you go. And I’ve always been curious about this, so now that you have that look, you have that look, and you’ve been in quite a few films.
Do they just call you now, or do you still have to go out for additions? I do tape. Like, I’ve never. I haven’t done auditions in years. I mean, I do auditions, but it’s more. I just have to record it, you know? So I’ll have somebody record me on my phone and have somebody read with me and I send it in. So. But that. Some of that is because it changed after. You know, they really never bet you you can do it over zoom now, too. Yeah, that’s it. I’ve done zooms. I’ve done. I’ve done callbacks on zoom, so.
Yeah. Or, you know, network stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It’s crazy. So changed, man. Changed everything, bro. I mean, look at this. Like, we’re in the same room, and it’s all really started in 2020. Dude, I didn’t even know how to work a zoom until 2020. I mean, seriously. Yeah, I didn’t either. I didn’t either. I didn’t either. This is crazy. It’s just evolved, man. Yeah. Well, Randall, thank you for joining me, brother. Thanks for having me, brother. Yeah, I’m seriously a fan of. Like, I’m a fan of. Seriously, when he told me about you, I’m like, dude, don’t wait, the boxer? Like, yes, I’ll do his show.
Oh, yeah, no, that’s awesome. Plus, you know, the boxer. Just so I can watch you. You know that, right? I said the boxer. That’s a conspiracy theorist. I know. I’m glad. Glad that we avoid that. Dude. We dodged a bullet on. On 911. We didn’t get into conspiracy springs. Thank you, lord. Yeah, yeah. No, I wanted this to go on YouTube, and I think that the SA. The saved savage ministries is all we needed to talk about, and that’s where God led us, and I think that was enough. All right, brother. Well, I’ll see you in person sometime soon, man.
I got it. Let’s stay in touch, man. I. That I’ve been telling you, man, I usually stay right there in Las Cruces or whatever when I drive. I like to drive a lot. You ever go to Mesilla? Old Mesilla? No. Halfway. That’s my halfway point. Either there or Albuquerque, depending on if I’m going. Hit me up, and I’ll take it, and we’ll have a good steak. All right, brother. Take it easy. All right, man. Later. God blessed. I.
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