Drug Addicted Pro Skateboarder Gets Filled with The Holy Spirit
I got hired to play the main character in a music video for a band we were supposed to show up in Downtown LA to film a scene for this video I didn’t go to sleep I’d been up all night I showed up super high on cocaine I’m sitting at home one night on a Saturday night by myself my wife and son they were going somewhere and all of a sudden this presence came into the room and it was evil it was dark and I literally felt it hover over me and the thought entered my mind why don’t you go score here’s how you can do it nobody will know you can
drive back home you can still go to church [Music] tomorrow so it’s kind of cool cuz th this is the first podcast here this is the number one so it all really worked out well you being here yep what do you think of the Texas weather Texas weather well when I walked outside my hotel this morning I was greeted by overwhelming sensation of humidity but it’s nice I thought you said humility so when you have hair like mine and it encounters humidity it creates humility there you go there’s a sermon somewhere preach you got to preach that
you know I’d love to actually know your background you came from Alabama mhm you know and skating how important was skating in your life at that time of your life this is pre-s salvation yeah skating was everything yeah I mean it wasn’t for me skating wasn’t a hobby it wasn’t a sport it was a lifestyle yeah so my mother gave me a skateboard for Christmas around 10 and that literally lit a fire in me everything about my identity was immersed in the skate culture like I went I carried a skateboard to school all every my pants
or my shirt my shoes skaters right carried Thrasher magazines that’s that was my life and that literally paved the pathway for everything I did and started getting sponsored and then when I moved to California all the guys I was looking at in the magazines they became my best friends wow and began to get sponsored by those people so yeah that’s my whole life I wouldn’t be here today without it gez I I have to know I have to know where did the nickname j Alabama Alabama Alabama that is an interesting nickname yeah so so I was born in
Alabama a lot of my friends especially in the Skate World they don’t even know my real last name oh they they just Alabam right people call me Jay Alabama Jay alabamy some people say Alabama J the but I was born in Alabama and I lived part part of my life there and went back and forth between Alabama and California I’ve lived more of my life now in California than in Alabama but that’s how just stuck I love so just for some context here you you were talking about the people you would look at in magazines are there any names that some of our
viewers might recognize well all those guys that were like in the the documentary and a movie called Lords of dog town right I love that movie yeah so all those guys are my friends right when I was 16 I moved my mom kicked me out of my house kicked me out of her house you and I got kicked out when I was 16 so I moved in with Tony ala oh that’s crazy I live with Tony his dad and his brother wow that’s and then Jay Adams uh you know Jay Adams he’s now in heaven but uh I’m his daughters or yeah his daughters uh god parent wow my wife and I um he
was part of our church in the last part of his life and so uh his wife you know um is is good friends with us so all those guys are my friends right and then of course my best friend is Christian hooy you know and he’s the best in the world or was for a long long time so so you’re in the skate scene walk me through now what begins to happen in terms of things that that got very dark yeah so my mother was 15 when I was born and and I love my mother she did the best best that she could with where she was at with what she knew and then when
I was somewhere around the age of five my cousins because of the hippie culture wasn’t a I didn’t grow up in a commune but probably one step away from that type of environment so my mother would take me into these environments where she would never herself give me alcohol or drugs but other people did so when I was five that was probably first time I ever remember getting drunk and I didn’t become an alcoholic overnight I didn’t start drinking all the time that was my first exposure and then by the time I was 12 I was carrying a bag of dope on
me all the time I would go to these parties right with my with my mother and I’m this kid and I would scope out the party and I remember going into a bedroom and there literally was a regularized trash can filled with drugs w and uh and so I’m just like take handfuls of drugs right I’m probably 12 and so there was that I grew up in that kind of environment then fast forward we’re living in California my mother moved out here so I could pursue skating I’m already sponsored and stuff like that I was living in Newport skating on
